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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The sign here is funny, but it reminds me that, in most business endeavors, it may be a good idea to keep our political viewpoints to ourselves.

There are certain exceptions, to be sure.  If you sell guns or survival gear or Confederate flags, there is very little downside to displaying a Trump banner or wearing a MAGA hat, since progressives buy few items like these anyway.  But barbecue sandwiches?

My car has a small “Amnesty International” bumper sticker, and my license plate holder promotes our local NPR affiliate, so anyone who’s looking closely might infer that I’m probably not a Trump supporter, but that’s about as far as I’m willing to go.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Those of us demanding justice following Trump’s attempted overthrow of the U.S. government following his election loss in 2020 are starting to feel a sense that good news may be in the offing.

Of course, we’re not privy to all the goings on, but it’s heartening to see that the grand jury in Fulton County, GA has recommended numerous indictments, and that Special Counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed Trump’s daughter and son-in-law.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

When I came across this t-shirt ad, I asked myself why the model didn’t want his face shown.

Maybe it’s because he doesn’t want to be associated with a concept befitting a true asshole.

I’m not worried about my feelings; I’m worried about the bodies of our schoolchildren being riddled with bullets because you think God gave you the right to carry weapons of war.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

If you share my love of these dynamic bar charts that display statistics as they change over time, you’ll love this one on the number of speakers of the world’s most common languages from 1900 – 2022.

English does very well here, which is largely due to America’s economic expansion post World War II, as well as the proliferation of scientific papers around the globe, and the need to standardize on one language in which all such matters are written and spoken.

This is very good news, when you think about it.  If religion (vs. science) were proliferating around the globe, perhaps it would be Arabic rather than English that had breakthrough numbers.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Here’s Kevin Cramer, one of the two incumbent Republican senator from North Dakota asking, actually begging, for your generous campaign so that he can “stop the woke Democrats.”

A couple of thoughts:

The GOP is fractured between the Big Lie sociopath Trumpers and the slightly-less deranged ultra-right conservatives like Ron DeSantis.  We don’t see any proposals for anything that might improve our lives emerging from either of these two factions, but they are tightly united in their rabid hatred of wokeness.

Cramer beat his Democrat opponent in 2018 by 11 points; that’s not exactly close.  In 2020, Trump won North Dakota 65.1% to 31.7%, a margin of 33.4%, about three points down from his 36-point victory in 2016. North Dakota is one of the most reliably Republican states in the nation.

This greedy, insincere pig doesn’t need your donation.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

The content of the meme here is sad, but the conmen who extract huge sums of money from the idiots they prey on are as permanent a part of our world as compass needles that point north.

There is nothing that you nor I can do to change that.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

The meme here proves nothing to the Fox News audience base.

If you believe there is a planetwide campaign to discredit Fox News, its executives and on-camera actors, it’s going to come as no surprise that they don’t win awards for journalistic excellence.

Shortly before he died, I interviewed Martin Perl, Nobel laureate in physics for his discovery of the tau lepton (kind of like an electron, only different, and totally unlike a boson–comment if you’d like to know more). Now, in the numerous conversations I’ve had with people about this prestigious acknowledgement, I’ve come to know that there are some people who believe that Nobel prizes are handed out for political purposes.  Maybe I’m gullible, but think most of the world’s great awards are based on merit.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

What Trump actually did vis-a-vis train safety regulations is actually not as black and white as the meme here represents, but it’s close.

We all know that, in the United States, the greatest levels of poverty and the poorest levels of education and healthcare are found in states like West Virginia and the Deep South, where Republicans win by huge margins over candidates who offer to makes voters’ lives longer, healthier, and less pathetic.

The problem seems to be that profoundly stupid people simply want leaders who hate liberals and immigrants.

Stories like the train derailment and toxic contamination in Ohio play out in our news cycles with ever-growing frequency.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

A few days ago, when District 73 Texas House Representative (R) Carrie Isaac introduced a bill to ban polling places from college and university campuses, very few people took notice.

That’s because voter suppression in Texas is as common as potatoes in Idaho and corn in Iowa.  Making it difficult for educated people and racial minorities to cast their ballots is an artform in the Lone Star state.

For its retrogression and wanton political corruption, our country is an object of world pity.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

If you want to “fight back” against the “radical left,” Stephen Miller would appreciate your generous donation.

Steve Bannon had a similar organization that also focused on bilking hateful morons; its ostensible purpose was completing the wall of on the U.S. southern border.  He now faces fraud charges for pilfering those funds.

Again, open your wallets and let that cash flow freely to people who prey on idiots.

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