Kind of a drag that we’re just hearing about this now, wouldn’t ya say?
It would have been nice if the mainstream media had given General Mattis all the airtime he needed to tell his story to the American people.
Had that been the case, we would probably not be in danger of re-electing a criminal sociopath to lead the United States.
The “Fund for American Studies” asks:
Are you concerned about the Left’s push for more government control? Do you want to know what life looks like under socialism?
Re: the meme here, a reader notes: The important thing is that we survive future disasters, not do nothing because we don’t all agree that climate change exists or if it is a natural cycle or caused by humans. I have my opinions and so do you. But I think if we can avoid planetary catastrophe we should do that. Doing effective things about it now is more important. There is a lot that can be done.
Now we have a new way to differentiate our products from those of our competitors: wokeness. Regardless of what we’re selling: beer, razors, cars, workout facilities, or scientific theories, we can always claim that our products are for men who aren’t woke.
Note: this would have have been laughed out of the room until the Trump/MAGA days of the last ten years. We didn’t hold our nation’s morons in esteem until just that recently.
NPR’s special series, “The Undercount: The invisible death toll from climate change,” aims to answer this question. When climate and health reporter Alejandra Borunda asked doctors what important topics she should focus on, she heard the same thing over and over: Climate change is hurting a lot of people, but we aren’t doing a good job of keeping track of how many. “We’re undercounting the damage by an enormous amount,” Borunda says.
The answer to the basic question here is no; it’s impossible to provide even a good guess as to this figure, if only because there is no way to ascribe any particular catastrophic event, say a hurricane or a wildfire, to climate change. It’s really not a matter of doing a good or a bad job at keeping track.
Consider what appears to be a far more black-and-white situation, deaths from COVID-19. As discussed in this paper, it’s not a straightforward task to say that a certain victim died “with” COVID or “of” COVID.
As unsatisfying as it may be, I’m afraid that the community of climate scientists will eventually give up on the task of counting the deaths due to global warming.
Question: Anti-vaxxers say that the COVID-19 is dangerous and, in particular, that it causes more fatalities than it prevents. They base this (false) claim on the (groundless) idea that the vaccine has been tested on too few individuals. In fact, how many doses of the vaccine have been administered worldwide since the onset of the disease in 2020?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
A reader notes: LOUISIANA REQUIRES ‘TEN COMMANDMENTS’ BE DISPLAYED IN CLASSROOMS! (Leftists break several to fight them.)
This reader, whose name I’ll keep to myself, is normally more on point. In particular, I’m wondering what “leftists” actually did in breaking the 10 Commandments. Blogging on Sunday?
Obviously, our government has a long way to go in dealing with price-gouging and monopolies, but Biden really is on a roll (despite a Congress that is essentially owned by Big Money).
Moreover, as the author of the meme here mentions, this explains that huge influx of cash from the billionaires to the Trump campaign.
I wouldn’t say that I’m offended, per se. In fact, I’m more amused.
In either case, rodeos don’t do it for me.
As anyone could have predicted, the nation’s wealthiest individuals are opening up their checkbooks in an effort to get Donald Trump back in the White House, doing exactly what he promised: lowering their taxes.
The irony here, of course, is that the vast majority of the Trump base does far worse under Trump, insofar as they have been left behind economically.
