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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Whatever we were doing with our libraries for the last 2500 years seemed to work fine before the religious zealots arrived and created a problem where none had previously existed.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

To be a Trump supporter at this stage means actively dismissing the many voices of reason, like that of former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley (see left).

I’m having a hard time understanding how a significant number of Americans who think of themselves as patriots can find a way around what Milley is saying here.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics
As shown here, one of the problems in discussing abortion is the lies surrounding the statistics.  A significant majority (61%) of Americans support a woman’s right to choose abortion in all or most cases.
The promoter of this pro-life “Susan B. Anthony” group claims that 77% of Americans are on her side, which is completely untrue.
Some comments from social media:
 • The biggest lie from this group: the real life Susan B. Anthony showed little interest in the issue of abortion and never expressed opposition to it.
 • Trump has just admitted his intention to sell-out pro-life to the Democrats. He’s pandered all along and isn’t trustworthy. Governor DeSantis is the real deal.
 • Doctors aren’t evil. They know how perilous pregnancy care is, and how limiting options puts women, their families and other children at risk of losing their mother. For god’s sake listen to the doctors.
Listen to doctors?  Why do that, when there are religious fanatics everywhere you turn?
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

These is no denying the truth here.

I’m reminded of a story about the child prodigy Frederic Chopin. By the time he was eight, he’d been a pupil of every piano teacher in Warsaw, Poland, the closest city to his birthplace. When the teachers had the occasion to gather, they would often talk about young Chopin, many remarking that he had “bad habits” and that they considered it their duty to “break him” of them.

Fortunately, one brave and candid voice rose among them, and offered the following: “If we’re going to be honest here, we all need to admit that he plays far better than any of us.  Perhaps it’s best to leave him alone.”

Yes, it’s true that our schools are stultifying for perhaps one in a few million kids.  For the rest of us, however, a solid education is a very good thing.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

The word “civilized,” used as an attribute of a society,” is a gray one indeed.

It’s true that there are international laws that prohibit slavery, torture, and a wide variety of war crimes.

It’s also true that we have veterans, right here in the United States, living on the streets and dying of treatable diseases.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics
Reader A: Unfortunately he will not be incarcerated.
Reader B: We’ll see.
Me: We’ll see indeed. It remains mysterious in the extreme that he still resides in the United States, watching the criminal justice system tightening the noose around his neck.
His financial empire is being methodically picked apart by the courts that are finding him guilty of fraud.
Next come the criminal prosecutions that will, if he stays in the U.S., ensure that he’s sentenced to prison. Whether he winds up there or not is a different matter.
Yes, he has about a third of the popular vote, but that is far less than that required to regain the presidency and use that office once more to keep him a free man.
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

“Nothing in the world more dangerous than an idiot who thinks he’s genius?”  Gimme a break.

There are idiots all over this planet who believe they are geniuses. I know several of them personally.

But they don’t have tens of millions of  American voters who believe that a sociopath is the singular way to make our nation great again. Therein lies the difficulty here.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

It’s hard to believe that Eisenhower’s vision for the United States, as expressed here, ever existed, let alone that it was fairly recent–and came from a Republican.

Try to imagine someone on the GOP debate stage expressing an honest concern for the people of the world.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

This from senior legal analyst Andrew Weissmann.

About 35% of Americans who voted are completely fine with the fact that their leader is a career criminal.

Sure, Trump’s a despicable human being , but he’s not even rare, let alone unique, in that regard.  What makes him special is that more than one-third of Americans see him as the path to our country’s greatness.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

What an extraordinary man was Buckminster Fuller.

Obviously, his vision for humankind never came to fruition, nor does it appear it ever will.

Sure, war and greed are “unnecessary,” but they are a product of our darkest underlying modalities of being; we’re no more capable of eliminating them than we are our fear of heights.

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