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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

At left is a post from “Real Texas Conservatives.”

When I first came across it, I wasn’t going to dignify it with a response.

But then it occurred to me to remind readers that, over the last 30 years, 78% of the planet’s mass shootings took place in the United States, and the remaining 22% were divided among the other 200+ countries around the world.

I understand that “real Texas conservatives” don’t give a shit about our children’s capacity to come home from school alive.  Fortunately, these people, tragically born without a conscience, are in the minority.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Two corrections here:

1) Until he entered politics, Trump was essentially unknown outside of New York City, where he was reviled as a business cheat and a fraud.  Finding a few photos of people smiling around him doesn’t prove otherwise.

2) No one was “told to hate him.”  If there is anything remarkable about the mainstream media, it’s its lack of willingness to call for his ouster.

He earned the country’s (and the world’s) contempt, starting with his attempt to overthrow the U.S. federal government following his loss in the 2020 election.

This enmity grew like a weed since Trump retook the White House in January of 2025, based on:

∙ His aggression in dismantling all elements of the federal government that had any potential to help the common person, including human health, disaster relief, public education, environmental protection, nutritional support for the poor, human rights, and economic stability.

∙ Transferring the resulting money to his billionaire supporters.

∙ Misusing his presidential powers to pardon or commute the sentences of more than a thousand convicted felons who happen to support him politically and financially.

He’s a man completely devoid of a single shred of honor and integrity.  That doesn’t sit well with decent people, and America hasn’t run out of them.  Yet.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

From the reports we see all around us, it appears that even the most hateful and ignorant people in the United States are finally losing their appetite for Donald Trump.

Some of these folks base their growing distaste for the president on the unaffordable price of groceries.  That’s fine.  Whatever gets the job done.

Of course, it would be far better for our country and the world if we would get him removed from office on the basis that he’s among the most vile and disgusting human beings ever to walk the Earth.

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We need “experts” to tell us that we have no right to steal oil from another country?

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

At left we have a good example of sanity.  What we have in the real world is lunacy.

It’s true that selfishness is unnecessary.  But it’s one of few things that human beings living in capitalist societies do well.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

This translates as:

There are no gods.

There are no devils.

There is no heaven.

There is no hell.

Only the marvelous universe that surrounds us.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

I’m not a dietician, but I’m willing to take a stab at something here. Living on fat, sugar, salt, and low-grade meat is not a recipe for good health.

As disastrous as McDonald’s is for personal health, it’s even worse for the environment, killing somewhere between 1.2 million and 7 million cows per year.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

Having decimated NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Trump administration is now targeting NCAR, the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

If it has anything to do with applying science to helping the American public, it’s a goner.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

We often hear meat-eaters say things like, “If beef isn’t good, why do the manufacturers of plant-based burgers try so hard to make their burgers taste like real meat?”

There is no doubt that cow and pig meat tastes and smells great; every vegan on Earth will tell you that.

The problem lies elsewhere, in a) the environmental impact of clearing the rainforests to make room for more cows, and b) the cruelty inherent in factory farming and the slaughtering of the animals.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

“I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all, in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country,” Trump told reporters.

When you’ve lived your entire life ripping off other people and making a life’s work out of accusing others of your own shortcomings and the crimes you’ve committed, does this come as a surprise?

Now, the American people are being shoved even further into a corner, with their president forcing them to decide whether he or Rob Reiner is “bad for our country.”

I see a bad ending for the sociopath in the White House.

 

 

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