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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

It’s a good thing that the United States has a military that is strong enough to deter foreign aggression, because we really are a divided nation.

And, in terms of division, it’s likely to get worse before it gets better.  That’s because Trump, who still commands the loyalty of tens of millions of hateful American morons, is about to get indicted, probably for an array of felonies he committed before, during, and after his term as U.S. president.

Trump himself is calling for his followers to “protest,” and we can only wait and see what form that takes.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

One of the most universal characteristics of American society is its divisiveness.   Half of us are rooting for Ukraine, but the other is hoping that the Russian invasion will prevail.

Another issue that divides us is guns.  There are approximately equal numbers of us who think that we need to follow along with what other advanced nations have done in implementing gun control to save lives, and we have folks who believe they have God-given rights to own weapons of war.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

At this point it appears that General McCaffrey’s concern as expressed here, that Trump could make this “once-great country as twisted, hateful, and small as he is,” will not be realized.

Few Americans believe that we’re on the right track, but even fewer are so pessimistic as to think that Trumpism will be regarded by history as anything but a serious but short-lived stain on who we are as a nation.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

The image here conjures thoughts about cosmic justice, karma, call it what you will.  Unfortunately, it’s just as likely that a progressive could have wound up in that same position.

Well, not entirely.  Florida has more of these issues than any other state, and most decent people have already left that part of the country in favor of a less racist and authoritarian environment.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Re: the meme here, George Boje writes: How can we stop them? Idiots still watch Tucker and vote for McCarthy.

You have a point. We can only hope that, as the facts come out, that most Americans will come to understand that Trump committed a wide array of felonies, including the attempted overthrow of the U.S. government.

At that point, there will be widespread agreement that he must be punished, because the only alternative is admitting to ourselves and the world that the United States has abandoned rule of law as its guiding principle and has become an authoritarian state.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Re: the meme here, I have to say that I have trouble believing this actually happened, i.e., at a doctor’s office.

On the other hand, it’s not an uncommon sight in places like auto repair shops, hardware stores, and the like.  I recall telling my local pipe supply shop that I’d drive halfway around the state, if that’s what it took to deal with a company that didn’t assault its customers like this.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Where this will go is anyone’s guess.  Arresting and convicting one of the world’s most powerful people, further complicated by the fact that neither Russia nor Ukraine are among the 123 members of the ICC.

The ICC accuses Putin of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine, but also at issue are instances of rape, torture, and the execution of innocent civilians.

On the other side of the globe, there is an entire political party that is rooting for Russia in its invasion.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

Over the years at 2GreenEnergy, I’m sure I’ve evaluated, at least at a cursory level, more than 500 business plans whose authors proposed concepts that would invoke some area within the realm of clean tech and create a profit stream from it.

One I’ll never forget was “Fertile Grounds,” a plan to collect used coffee grounds from the local Starbucks (et al.) coffee shops and process them into fertilizer.  While I thought the name was extremely clever, that’s where my respect for the idea ended.  I was very close to 100% confident that the cost of a driver, a car, fuel to collect the grounds, and then the energy used to dry, process, and bag the grounds, followed by sales and distribution was going to turn out to be a losing proposition.

I feel the same way about the concept expressed in the meme here.  Gathering and processing avocado pits does not seem to be a scalable way to manufacture disposable cutlery.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The meme here came from a (semiliterate) reader.  But independent of his use of the language, I can’t believe he’s right.

DeSantis is a terrible human being, but he doesn’t strike me as an idiot.  He can see what’s happened to every single person who’s ever gotten involved with Trump.

And that was before a torrent of criminal indictments rained down on this professional conman. Does it seem likely that DeSantis wants to be vice president in an administration where the president is hauled away in handcuffs and tried for treason?

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

The meme here reminds us that swastikas and other racist symbology were once uniformly despised in the United States, and that many members of the Greatest Generation gave their lives to prevent the spread of fascism in World War II.

 

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