Trump’s First Hundred Days
There are some people who think that this country has just experienced “100 days of greatness,” but there sure as hell aren’t many of them.
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What Does It Mean to Say that America Is a “Free” Country?
I think we’re a better country than North Korea, but it may be worth a few minutes to understand why.
For one, and this is made explicit in our Constitution, we’re a country whose people are guaranteed a free exchange of ideas, and are not forced to be swallow state propaganda.
Some of think that’s a pretty solid concept. That’s especially true of those who risked their lives for their country, and the families that lost loved ones in the process of defending it.
It would interesting to know how many loyal Americans would like to knock Steven Miller’s teeth out.
How Our Representatives Get Rich
The reader who submitted the idea at left writes: Let’s go back to this!
My response:
It isn’t a bad idea, but it’s a fairly inconsequential one. Our representatives’ (legal) compensation structure is nothing compared to what they take home thanks to raw corruption: bribery, insider trading, and accepting massive campaign contributions from obscenely wealthy donors in exchange for favorable legislation.
All this creates huge incentive to hold onto those seats, which, in today’s climate means going along with Trump and his lunatic criminality.
Canadians Have Seen the Light — Now It’s Our Turn
Bernie Sanders makes a good point at left, but it would be great if we in the States could rid ourselves of this whole Trump – Musk – DOGE garbage long before the next election.
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Franklin: Ignorance Is Expensive
What Ben Franklin says here makes sense. In particular:
We don’t want to live among hateful morons, not only because they’re repulsive, but because such people, when given the right to vote, tend to elect demagogues, aka criminal sociopaths. If you look around America in the year 2025, you’ll see what I mean.
Ignorance is more explicitly expensive when it comes to the costs imposed on a society of under- and unemployable people, associated with the damage they do to others, and then the prosecution and warehousing of criminals in prison.
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Is This a Good Clean Energy Investment?
Well, first let’s answer a vitally important question: What is it? What exactly do these people do?
To find the answer requires some work; it’s not revealed anywhere close to the top of their website.
It turns out, it’s solar PV on the roof and a battery in the garage. Yes, like Tesla’s Powerwall and dozens upon dozens of competitors.
If you’re convinced that there is something–anything–unique about this approach, jump on in. I won’t be following you.
Btw, I don’t think it was an accident that it took me a good 5 – 10 minutes to find what these people actually do, and I resent efforts to deceive me.
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What Makes the U.S. SO Different than Mexico and Canada?
The answer to the question above seems to reside in the things that do and do not impress us.
We’re not impressed with intelligence, intellectual accomplishment, science, truth or the maintenance of good relationships with our allies.
We are impressed with riches (regardless of how immorally the wealth was acquired), the strength of bullies and cruelty to people who are too weak to defend themselves, the wanton destruction of international relationships, lavish promises that are impossible to keep and easily debunked, and bald-faced lies.
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President Trump To Order Truckers to Speak English as a Matter of Safety
If you’re look for examples of the pure stupidity of Americans to discuss with your friends, you may have hit pay-dirt here.
Think for a moment about truck drivers in Europe, who travel across 44 countries and 24 languages. Are Europeans unsafe because their drivers can’t speak all these languages?
They don’t seem to think so, and they don’t need a sociopathic conman in the United States to protect them from the way they’ve been conducting commerce forever.
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Can’t Blame Everything on Trump
Well, let’s be fair and honest here.
Yes, Trump and his vice president ranted about the Haitians’ eating Ohioans’ dogs and cats, but the reason they did wasn’t because they were insane; it was a) their understanding that truth is irrelevant today, and b) that their supporters are stupid enough to believe anything that comes out of their mouths.
It’s disgusting, but it’s not entirely Trump’s fault.
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Electricity from Rain? Can’t Believe It?
Well, it’s real. It’s call piezoelectricity.
It’s the phenomenon where certain materials generate an electric charge when subjected to mechanical stress. Now, of course, the stress caused by falling raindrops is extremely small, so we’re talking about amounts of electrical energy that are of very little practical consequence when significant amounts of power are required.
But consider the microphone, whose duty is to turn sound vibrations into a few milliwatts. That’s where this excels, and it’s been in use for many decades.
So, is the claim here a lie? No. Is it misleading? Of course.
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