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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Well, here we are.  Echoing what Sen. Lindsey Graham said a few days ago about “riots in the streets,” the former president is pledging to incite yet another insurrection if the U.S. criminal code is applied to him.

And this one won’t feature a few thousand supporters, but a couple of orders of magnitude more.  Armed to the teeth, taking to the streets.  Each one completely convinced that Trump is the victim (rather than the perpetrator) of the “most egregious assault on democracy in the history of our country.”

Will the DoJ back down, knowing that it would be authorizing all future presidents to steal classified, highly sensitive documents that endanger our intelligence community and national security more generally?

We’re about to find out.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Below we see the logos of the agencies that are investigating Trump’s criminality with an eye towards bringing charges against the former president.

As former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner says, it seem no one wants to be first (to indict Trump), but everyone wants to be second.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

This seems like a reaction to the Marjorie Taylor Greene syndrome, aka, morons in Washington.

Republicans don’t like smart (read: “woke”) people, but now it appears that they don’t like idiots either.

That’s a positive development, IMO.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Here’s a pic I took of the rear bumper of a car parked in our “God-and-country” little town, where the politics is distinctly pro-Trump.

Had I been able to speak with the owner, I would have liked to ask how he would define the word “socialism.”  For most of these people, it’s essentially “Stalinism” or “totalitarianism”: the removal of all personal rights and freedom, total government control of our lives, Draconian punishments for dissidents, and the abolition of private property.

In our tiny burg, there seems to be little recognition of the fact that the happiest nations on Earth, those in Northern Europe, are, every one, social democracies, where the country’s citizens look to government to provide valuable services that benefit all the people.

There is also little understanding of the fact that all Americans receive an extensive list of government services in exchange for their tax dollars.  If I were to read them that list (see below), and asked them to name those that were socialistic, I’m sure I would be looking into a blank stare.

 

 

Infrastructure, police, fire fighting, criminal justice, national defense, public education, labor laws, auto and food safety standards, air traffic control, TSA, libraries, emergency medical care, environmental regulation, social security, Medicare, the National Archives, national parks, bank regulations and deposit insurance, copyright and patent laws, federal dams to provide electrical power, flood control, the Weather Service, the Federal Housing Authority, consulates and embassies, FEMA, veterans affairs, public water systems, monitoring of all international cargo, NASA, border protection, and the National Institutes of Health.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Good on you.

My father was Antifa, class of 1942 – 45, a bomber pilot in the 487th Squadron.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

I know this feeling well.

I often physically flinch when I scroll through my Facebook feed.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Nuclear

As shown here, nuclear energy receives very little government assistance, which, considering the importance of decarbonizing our grid, is a horrible mistake.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

As discussed in this article from Science Magazine, our food systems and climate change have profound effects on each other.

In particular, climate-driven desertification and droughts are destroying our arable land, and our abominable misuse of land and the systems by which we grow our food is fueling global warming.

I hope you’ll check out the suggestions that a few of our top scientists are making in this critically important arena.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

The illustration here depicts a great many important changes that have taken place in America since 1960, among them our religious observances, formality of dress, and use of technology.

The author of the meme makes an even more important point, though: the rich have finally succeeded in exerting sufficient power on our country’s law-making processes so as to keep their tax rates extremely low, while putting extreme economic pressure on everyone else.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Electric Vehicles

A reader sent me this, noting: Hey let me get off next exit, & charge my batteries for 4 hours, by then we will have another 6 inches of snow.

Indeed, it would be a very poor decision to push your EV’s range and take a chance on running out of charge in these conditions.  Thus, if you want to drive nonstop from Buffalo, NY to Green Bay, WI in the middle of a snowy February, an EV isn’t a good choice.

As I’m sure you know, this scenario is not the case for 99.9% of driving in America.

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