An Object of Pride
It’s never been clear to me why anyone should be proud of an accident of birth.
Now, imagine having pride in your hatred of those born less fortunate.
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Alabama Republican Introduces Bill to Make the AR-15 America’s ‘National Gun’
There are no limits on what Congressional Republicans will do to show voters that there are pro-gun. That’s the only conclusion that can be drawn from Alabama’s Rep Barry Moore’s proposed legislation.
Moore made this announcement at a local gun shop (rather than at an elementary school), so I suppose that shows some restraint. From the event: “One rule to remember: any government that would take away one right would take away them all.”
How Trump Will Be Remembered
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been seeing this meme for over a year now, and every time I happen upon it I become less sure that it’s going to happen.
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What We Do and Do Not Want to Achieve in Our Lives
When we look at the corporate world around us, we see precious little effort being made to make this planet a safer, healthier, and happier place to live.
From investopedia: Those looking to launch a new McDonald’s franchise can expect to shell out between $1,314,500 and $2,306,500. Existing franchise operations can cost upwards of $1 million.
This may be not be a bad investment decision, especially considering that robotics will soon replace all those nasty employees. But decent people don’t want to spend their careers making our children fat and sick.
Republicans Won’t Back Off on Extremism
There are times that I think we’ll go into the 2024 primary season with the Republicans taking a less extreme and retrogressive platform.
Then I see something like the meme here, and come immediately to my senses.
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Ocean Wave Energy: An Exercise in Futility
When I entered the renewable energy beat 15 years ago, devices like the one shown here, that extract some of the kinetic energy out of ocean waves, were considered potentially feasible.
Over the years, however, we’ve both a) seen the price of energy from solar and wind plummet, and b) learned what we should have known all along, that salt water and lots of moving metal parts are not friends.
In addition, it’s become clear that, without nuclear energy to complement renewables in replacing fossil fuels, we will bake our planet.
Of course, none of this will cause purveyors of grossly unworkable energy concepts to cease their efforts to bilk investors.
Taking Investment Advice from Tucker Carlson
Here’s something that’s mildly amusing.
There are people who believe that Tucker Carlson has the insight into the economy required to inform their investment decision. This would have been ridiculous even before he was exposed at as professional liar; now it’s completely absurd.
The current inflation rate is 6.5% in the U.S., far under the OECD average, at 9.6%. “Inflation is proof that the people in charge are reckless?”
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Fox News in the Waiting Room
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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Can We Force AT&T to Disseminate Treasonous Lies?
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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Will Republicans Benefit from Ohio’s Train Disaster?
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.
