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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I would have my car towed to a different state as required to avoid having it repaired by people like this.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

I’m not entirely sure what to make of this.

Is Alan Dershowitz saying that AT&T, a private company, doesn’t have the right to choose what programming to offer its customers?  That seems an odd position for anyone to take, let alone an attorney.

Of course, what’s really at stake here is legitimacy (or lack thereof) of Newsmax as a trustworthy source of information.  I’m not privy to the discussions that take place in the AT&T board room, but it’s pretty clear that its participants decided that they didn’t want to be a party to sedition and treason.

A voice of reason must have said, “Look, Donald Trump obviously committed numerous felonies, including an attempt to overthrow the U.S. federal government. We can either continue to disseminate what we know goddamn well to be lies, or we can cut ties here, and put this behind us right f***ing now.”  (Pounds table.)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

I read somewhere that the train derailment that covered a town in southeast Ohio with toxic smoke could be good for Republicans, but I’m struggling to understand how that could possibly be.

I get that people in the rural parts of the country are not known for their analytical skills, but I would think that anyone who wants to avoid a similar catastrophe in the future would realize that a) preventative measures are not coming about from unregulated activity on the part of for-profit corporations, and that means b) some level of government involvement is required to force corporate entities to adopt certain restrictions that ensure the public safety.

How these concepts jibe with the GOP is beyond me.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

One of the many things we admire about Albert Einstein is his deep humanitarianism.

When we think of other quotable people, perhaps Voltaire or Emerson, what we remember them for is their quotes, not their profound contribution in some other discipline, in this case theoretical physics.

Yes, we have the duty to act, to save the U.S. government from fascism, to prevent environmental collapse, and so much more.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Electric Vehicles

The world is changing in so many different ways, and several of these are in our response to COVID.  Commute into an office?  Why, when you can work from home and remain socially distanced?

Even post-COVID, we’re faced with a dilemma re: commuting. Should we get back on the freeways again and fight ourselves through horrific traffic conditions?

Here’s an alternative: fly your own drone to and from the office.  No pilot license required.  What could go wrong?

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics
“Fox News is far more powerful, far more devious, far more pernicious and has created far more damage than Alex Jones ever will.” – Jon Stewart
The point here is that most Fox News viewers don’t believe, as conspiracy theorist Alex Jones assets, that the mass shootings of our schoolchildren never happened, that the so-called “bereaved” parents of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School were paid actors.  But this same audience is eager to accept that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, and that the democratic processes of the United States are no longer valid.
Spot on.
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Yes, if by “fix it,” you mean standing behind Trump’s Big Lie that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, which compels you to resort to violence in a criminal attempt to reinstate your sociopathic leader into the presidency, you will, more than likely, find your silly ass in prison. That’s part of what living in country in which rule of law actually means.

Sane, law-abiding people will be thrilled to be sheltered from you for a period of years, if not a decade or more.  We say, if you’re that hateful and stupid: Go for it. Sadly, you’re not fit to live in civilized society, and we can’t wait to have you removed from it.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Here, Bill Clinton seems to have nailed the transition that the Republicans have undergone in the past few years.  They want voters angry, and my goodness, how successful they’ve been.

Whether it’s guns, vaccinations, environmental regulations, wokeness, transgenders in our bathrooms, socialism, immigration, inflation, wage stagnation, support of Ukraine, or the criminal prosecution of a former president on charges of sedition, lots of people are seething.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The real problem here isn’t lying to the public.  Turn on your television or scroll through your social media feed, and see how long it takes you to find an assertion that’s provably false.

The problem is that this country’s interpretation of its First Amendment doesn’t preclude an organization from calling itself “news” while deliberately peddling lies that are calculated to incite violence and destroy our democracy.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Trust me, if there were a way to move to a “national divorce” that was feasible even in the least, I think most progressives would favor a Constitutional amendment to make it legal.

Imagine two countries:

One consists of what are currently the blue states.  It features quality education, universal healthcare, full rights for women, LGBTQs, and other minorities, and a huge GDP per capita.  It leads the world in terms of environmental sustainability.

The other consists of the red states.  It’s largely impoverished, and abortion, vaccinations, controversial books are banned, and there are more AR-15s than there are people.  It features disease and environmental filth.  It’s awash in interracial hatred and violence, and it’s regarded as a pariah by the rest of the world.

Had Lincoln let the South secede from the Union in 1860, the Confederacy would have dried up and blown away in a decade or two.  Now, of course, there is no path to make this happen.

One issue is national defense.  The “Confederacy” (or whatever it would be called) would soon become so weak that it could be invaded by Cuba or some banditos from the City of Juarez.

Another is passport control.  A drive across the country would take you into and out of a foreign country.

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