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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Here’s one of Haley’s solicitations for contributions to her 2024 presidential run, She writes:

We’ve got a country to save! With you by my side, that’s exactly what we’ll do.
My end-of-quarter deadline is coming up on 6/30 and I need all hands on deck!
Pitch in ANY AMOUNT today to get me closer to my goal and win the White House.

And here are the three most recent comments it received on Facebook:

Andy James:  Trump 2024. Make America Great Again! Your (sic) polling at 4.1%.
Steven Breault: Please help support Donald Trump. We can only beat the Teams (sic – Dems?) if we work together.
David Hayes:  Not interested in another of Nimratas (sic – Nimarata is her real first name, so maybe “Nimarata’s?”) grifts.  Ask any of us in SC what a great job she did as Gov.

Strangely, I have to agree.  Looking forward to the Republican convention in 2024, I hope these people go full traitor. They need a criminal who came within a gnat’s ass of overthrowing American democracy. Trump it is.

Fortunately for this country, as monumentally stupid as we are, we haven’t yet reached that point.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Fossil Fuels

These folks say: Butane-Propane News (BPN) is a leading business publication for propane distributors, marketers, suppliers, and other leaders allied to the industry.

I don’t doubt that, but I would also suggest that selling hydrocarbons might not be the place to be as we move through the 21st Century.  Concerns about climate change and the electrification of everything may pose a serious impediment to your success.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Those who remember Ayn Rand from her mid-Century novels will recall that she popularized, for a short period of time, the idea that altruism was intrinsically evil, claiming it to be incompatible with human rights, freedom, and capitalism.

That thinking all but disappeared from the face of the Earth until a few years ago, when Trumpism rose to prominence, with its racism, hatred of immigrants, and the gross indifference to human suffering that marks our society today.

The notion that democratic nations’ coast guards could watch hundreds of refugees drown in the Mediterranean Sea couldn’t have existed until recently.

Decent people cringe when they hear Fox News acolytes parrot the phrase: United States is crumbling under “wokeism.”  We can only hope this is a short-lived fad, like Rand’s philosophy was 60 years ago.

The only problem with this hope is that it’s based on an environment of well-educated people who are capable of critical thinking, which has all but vanished over the intervening decades.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

If I were designing a shirt that promotes Trump’s virtues, I’m not sure I’d use this “prison” theme, but I have to say that I love the foreshadowing.

In any case, I was on a call earlier today with a guy I grew up with who became the dean of Columbia Law School and later the president of Rice University.  He said, when asked about the Trump documents case, “The first thing one needs to understand about him is that he has no relationship with the truth.  The truth has no meaning to him, which is why he can go on television and defend himself by inventing laws that do not exist.”

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

There is not a germ of truth in the meme here at all.

It’s impossible to believe that there is an iota of moral goodness in this man, or that anything he does is for an ethical purpose.

If Chris Christie really wanted to damage the former president’s chances of reelection, he would be laying bare the facts associated with Trump’s acts of treason in his multi-pronged attempts to overthrow the United States federal government.

We either want, or do not want, a traitor in the White House; it’s really just that simple. We don’t need the blubbering of some clown blurring the distinction.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

I like the point this guy’s making.

Alternatively, we can ban books that enable our kids to think critically, and remove our best and brightest teachers, resulting in the United States’ drifting down into deeper levels of ignorance and illiteracy, so as to enable a whole new generation of Donald Trumps to hold the highest office in the land.

Again, I like this fellow’s idea as an alternative.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

Here’s Steve Bannon promoting the Birch Gold Group:

We’re in uncharted territory. 2023 is going to be absolutely incredible as far as what is happening to the American economy. Now is the time to shift your IRA or 401k into precious metals and gold.

And the best way to do that today is through something called a Birch Gold Group IRA. This account allows you to keep PHYSICAL GOLD inside of a tax-deferred account… without paying a DIME in penalties or taxes when you transfer the funds into gold.
When I first came across this, I thought it was a joke.  Do people really take financial advice from criminals who were convicted of fraud?
But no, it’s dead serious.  Wow.
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Electric Vehicles

Not sure where you’re going to sell this.

Can’t go on freeways.

Driver’s cramped and terrified.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The answer at left is a good one.

But, if Donald Trump beats his criminal cases against him, his “Big Lie” will have successfully set a precedent that any future U.S. president can attempt to overthrow the federal government and walk away a free man.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

In an uncountable number of cases that happen around the world, on a daily basis, we treat our dogs and cats with far more concern and compassion than we do human beings.

Here at home in the U.S., we have the Republican’s unflagging support for the fetus, and their complete dismissal of the child’s well-being the moment it’s born.

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