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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

I’m sure this subject has been studied countless times by sociologists and economists.  If I were asked to explain it, I would suggest the following:

Certain states place less value on education, and therefore their people ultimately become less productive in the workplace, thus poor relative to the rest of the country.

Poor and uneducated people are naturally afraid that their lives might get even worse, and are thus easy targets for a political party that sells fear, i.e., the fear that migrants are flooding across the southern border, stealing white people’s jobs and voting for Democrats.  When a Republican president refers to immigrants as “animals” and “vermin,” he has an attentive audience and a solid voter base.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The message on this guy’s truck tells us a great deal about him: his level of intelligence, compassion for others, and understanding of the world around him.

He seems unaware that virtually every American supports our troops (though we may question the validity of the situations we send them into).

Now, is it possible that this guy is not a Trump supporter?  Of course.  And I might be a bald eagle, too.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics
Here we have former Kansas U.S. Senator Nancy Kassenbaum (retired in 1996), a Republican, whose smile may derive from the fact that she just endorsed Kamala Harris for President.
It’s interesting to see that there is very little correlation between well educated, true conservatives and Trump supporters.  As a state, Kansas is about as red as it gets, going for Trump over Biden by more than 13 points in 2020.  Yet people like Kassenbaum (master’s degree in diplomatic history from the University of Michigan) understand the need to keep Trump as far from the White House as possible in 2024.
In other words, she’s a conservative, not a traitor.
Fortunately, there are a great number of them out there.
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

A reader asked for my position on his question at left.

Of course.  And often, it’s not just “in my head”; I shout it aloud.

On CNN just now: “Someone with whom they’re speaking to,” should have been, “Someone to whom they’re speaking.”

Other things that get my attention on a routine basis:

Disagreement between subject and verb, e.g., “There’s so many changes in our tastes in music.”

Disregarding the subjunctive mood, e.g., “If I was president, I’d …”

Sure, there are newscasters who make second- or third-grade-level grammatical mistakes, like “Those off-course bombs could have went anywhere.”  But these truly horrific errors are rare, as (I suspect) producers of these shows immediately ban the offenders from the airwaves.

 

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

I often say, “It hasn’t been a good last hundred years-or-so for philosophy.”  And as shown at left, this sentiment is shared by minds far brighter than my own, in this case, German-British physicist and mathematician Max Born.

Until fairly recently, if you wanted to learn what humankind knew about:

The ultimate building blocks of the universe, you asked a metaphysician, especially one focused on ontology, the study of being.  Now you ask a particle physicist.

The origins of the universe, you asked a theologian.  Now you ask an astrophysicist.

The limits of human knowledge, you asked an epistemologist.  Now you ask a neurologist, or perhaps an extremely specialized psychologist.

I don’t regret have reading Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, and the like, but the relevance of these folks’ thoughts on the summits of human knowledge has taken a significant tumble since they were in their heyday.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

If Republicans take control of the U.S. government and implement Project 2025, one of the casualties will be FEMA.  Americans affected by natural disasters like hurricanes will be on their own to repair their damaged property, and many of those who are underinsured will join the rest of the homeless population.

Are government programs that help the common American actually “socialism?” It depends on whom you ask.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Russia wants Ukraine back.  (And I’m sure, England wants the 13 colonies back.)

Neither is going to happen, but that doesn’t prevent the Republican party from backing Putin and standing against the free world.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

The ad here reads: “Jeremy’s Razors isn’t for liberal white women. It’s for men. Conservative men.”

I would change “conservative men” to “extremely stupid, gullible, easily manipulated men.”

Seriously, I’m a marketing guy too, and I understand the need to position my client’s product according to the unmet needs of the target market.  I just find it hard to believe that, unless the average member of that target market has the IQ of a head of lettuce, he’s actually looking for a razor that has some sort of ultra-right-wing political standing.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

From the article: The D.C. Court of Appeals agreed with a disciplinary committee that found Giuliani’s challenges to the 2020 election results “utterly false” and “recklessly so.”

Now an interesting question arises.  Suppose you’re a Fox News viewer and you’ve been convinced that the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump.  Do you now believe that the entire justice system, along with the District of Columbia Bar Association, is corrupt?

Or maybe it’s time to give up on the most obvious of the lies, and turn your attention to something real.  Perhaps Kamala Harris is a Marxist and an asset of the Chinese Communist Party.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Over the past couple of months, we’ve seen hundreds of top Republicans come forward and say essentially what Mesa, Arizona mayor John Giles said here: it would be a huge mistake to re-elect Donald Trump, given his moral failings and mental health issues.

The question, of course, is what this means to the MAGA base.  Mesa is the third most populous city in the state, and its people are generally well educated, thus it’s going to go for Harris anyway.  But suppose you live in a rural part of the state and the nearest college graduate is 50 miles away.  Are you going to change your position based on what some sissified city liberal says?

 

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