Trump Rejects Pride Month Spending???
Responding to the reader who sent me this, two questions:
Is anyone asking the federal government to fund Pride Month?
Has Trump done a single thing to help homeless veterans?
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Legislating the Planet’s Collapse
Every word at left is true, but it’s also correct that passing planet-killing legislation is the only route for congressional Republicans to maintain their seats.
If you think these people give a damn about you or your descendants, you’re a fool.
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Bruce Springsteen
Someone asked my opinion of Bruce Springsteen.
I don’t know why this is so controversial. Considering that Trump’s approval rating is grossly negative on all key issues, and he’s widely regarded as a criminal, does it come as a surprise that all sorts of people are expressing their displeasure?
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Trump: One Atrocity after Another
As suggested at left, Trump’s second term has been a steady steam of moral atrocities.
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Synthetic Fuels
The claim made at left is total BS. It’s not that synthetic fuels aren’t possible, rather that:
1) The concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere is about 400 PPM, or about 0.04%, meaning that the other 99.96% is something else (mostly nitrogen). For this idea to have any merit, it needs point sources of CO2, e.g., coal plants or concrete manufacturing facilities, where concentrations are north of 30%.
2) The chemical reactions required for this concept are hugely endothermic, meaning that they need enormous quantities of energy; a solar panel is a million miles away from getting the job done.
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Moral Shame
The words of David Brooks at left certainly ring true.
Keep in mind, however, that our nation’s moral turpitude didn’t start with Trump and the hateful morons who support him. Think slavery, Jim Crow, the butchering of the Native Americans, war crimes, and other atrocities through the ages.
Big, Beautiful Bill
All the while, it adds $2 – $4 trillion to the national debt.
I don’t understand how this exercise in human cruelty, greed, and stupidity appeals to anyone.
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Who Deserves Restitution?
Do our law enforcement officers who suffer casualties associated with defending our safety deserve compensation when they are injured? I’m not sure.
OK, let’s look at the other side–the criminal. But what about violent criminals, like Ashli Babbitt who was shot by police when she stormed the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6th, 2021, broke down a door, and ignored orders to stop?
The situation seems to be equivalent to a bank robber who tries to shoot a teller through a thick pane of plexiglass, whose bullet ricochets back and kills the criminal. Now, his family wants to sue the bank for the damages he’s received. Does that seem right?
If you think so, you have what it takes to be a modern-day Trump supporter.
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Could Hydrogen End the Reign of Fossil Fuels?
Of course it could. In fact, that’s precisely what we’ve been hearing since the early 1970s.
The problem is that we’re further from achieving this than we were half a century ago. That’s because, in the interim:
• Battery technology has made great progress in terms of cost in both energy and power density.
• The hydrogen delivery infrastructure has gone essentially nowhere., while the transmission and distribution of electricity in general, and EV charging stations in particular continues to widen.
• The modes of hydrogen generation (electrolysis and methane reformation) remain grossly inefficient.
• Fuel cells that convert hydrogen into electrical energy are expensive and fragile.
Obviously, there are con artists (see above) who prey on those who don’t understand this.
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Russia Investing in World-Class Highspeed Rail?
This sounds a bit improbable, doesn’t it? Russia’s GDP is 1/13th the size of ours. It’s less than our state of Texas. Their GDP per capita ($14K) ranks #68 in the world.
The country consists of 144 million poor people led by a handful of billionaires and a war criminal butcher.
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