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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

From this piece:

Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed, with his purchase of Twitter, that he would turn it into a “digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated.” Yet here are headlines about Musk banning the accounts of journalists for daring to report on some of the shadier moves of the self-appointed champion of “free speech.” 

Anyone who expects any level of honesty and consistency from a Trump supporter, whether he be a billionaire or a factory worker, is an idiot.

And that’s especially true when it comes to free speech.  When “the old Twitter” banned Trump from the platform for inciting an insurrection, the former president’s base lost its mind, because they somehow didn’t understand that the First Amendment applies to government entities and not to private enterprises.

Now, what they’re thinking about Elon Musk banning his critics is anyone’s guess.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Will DeSantis’ war on vaccines have consequences?  Of course.  Many thousands of people will die needlessly, and countless others will become horrifically ill, and will never fully recover.

But think of the upside.  Consider how all this will inspire the voters in a state with a population of 22 million, many of whom have profound distrust, if not a seething hatred of science.

Earlier in the pandemic, DeSantis was a huge advocate of vaccinations, declaring that those who were inoculated had a far better chance of getting through the pandemic with their health fully intact, and were doing their fellow citizens a huge favor by not becoming carriers and clogging up hospitals.  That, however, was before he realized how much political mileage he could gain, simply by making make an abrupt U-turn and sending people to their graves.

If you think this country is out of the woods because Trump is going away, keep in mind that this bastard is the leading candidate to win the 2024 presidency.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

As some Americans know, we live in a land whose federal government is composed of three co-equal branches. The fact that none of these has any power over the other two means that our legislative branch’s (Congress) decision to refer criminal prosecution against someone, in this case a former president, forms no imperative for the executive branch, in which the Department of Justice resides, to take action.

Having said that, the majority of Americans are happy to see our House of Representatives making the right move here.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Keep in mind that Mike Lindell claims to have “ironclad proof” that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump, an assertion he’s been making for almost two solid years.

Of course, he hasn’t seen fit to release any of this to the courts, and thus all 65 judges who reviewed the subject found no evidence of voter fraud.

Sadly, Lindell will receive no consequences, because it’s not a crime for some loud-mouth clown to make up total bullshit and broadcast it on television.

Fortunately, this is not the case with Rudy Giuliani, who, because he is an attorney, will be disbarred for filing lawsuits based on information he knew to be false.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The answer to the question here: The present-day Republican platform is a cobbled-together blend of hate and stupidity.  Don’t expect any consistency other than that.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Proponents of banning abortion stand on some set of nebulous religious principles, but those who have a sincere concern about human life would do well to consider what Colorado has accomplished with free birth control.

People of intelligence who honestly want fewer abortions understand that putting a legal prohibition on the practice has the opposite effect.

In other news on the subject, the world population just crossed 8 billion, on its way to 10.4 billion.  Unwanted babies only contribute to mass suffering on an already overcrowded planet.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Even though I’m not a Christian, I’m happy to celebrate the holiday season with the hope that I (and all of us) can be a bit more Christ-like in the coming year: more compassionate, supportive of the weak, and dedicated to a just and verdant world.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

A reader sent me this and adds, “…but the global warming?”

I’m not sure cherry-picking one anomalous temperature reading at one point on the globe at one moment in time undermines a theory.

Maybe you see science differently than the rest of us.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

At left, we see the way the conservative website “The Dispatch” describes itself.

All this shows is that they don’t know what the word “partisan” means, which is “a committed member of a political party or army.”

If you’re a conservative in the United States, that means you’re a Republican, or perhaps Libertarian.

But they know their audience can’t distinguish “partisan” from “slanted” or “biased.”

If I didn’t have a conscience and were starting over in business, I wouldn’t offer business consulting services to sophisticated clients in Fortune 100 tech giants like IBM and H-P; I’d target idiots.

Look at Donald Trump, extracting $99 from as many morons as possible, numbering in the tens of millions.  He’ll make more money next week than I made in my entire lifetime.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

Here’s a brief article explaining why CO2 emissions actually rose in 2022, and what’s being done to turn this around, based on taking more precise measurements.

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