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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

At left is the topic of conversation that I have constantly with my mom, whether we’re talking about climate change, the Big Lie, the handling of COVID, or any of a dozen other “controversial” subjects.

She sees televised interviews with people (on Fox News) who say that climate change is a hoax, that the election was stolen, and that Dr. Fauci is a criminal.  I reply:  You are aware, I’m sure, that if you look hard enough, you can find someone who will tell you that the Earth is flat. The existence of people like this has no bearing on the shape of our planet.

This, FWIW, is how we wound up with Trump in the first place: the news media was making so much advertising money from sponsors of their shows presenting Trump as a colorful, viable character, that they refused to do what was right, i.e., explain that he is a vulgar career criminal and a pathological liar.

The president of CBS said, during the presidential campaign leading up to the 2016 election, “Oh, I understand that he (Trump) is terrible for the country; there is no doubt about that.  But I can tell you that he is wonderful for CBS News.”

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

From Fred Wellman, West Point and Harvard graduate, Army aviator and public affairs officer for 22 years:

LIES EXPOSED: The FBI didn’t ask them to “put a better lock” on the closet. They literally had video of people going in and out of a room with our most classified secrets laying around. They said to “secure” the room. This affidavit is damning. They’ve been lying the whole time.

These people’s lies are so numerous and blatant that they can’t keep them straight.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Shown here: Oyster shuckers from South Carolina in 1912. Josie (6 years old), Bertha (6 years old) and Sophie (10 years old) would start work at 4 AM at the Maggioni Canning Co.

Here’s a question: How do you think child labor laws came into being? (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

It turns out that many perps in our routine mass shootings are on antidepressants or other psychiatric drugs.

There are people who believe that these drugs take sane people and turn them into mass murderers.

It seems more probable that many shooters were previously diagnosed with mental illnesses and put on drugs.

To think otherwise is the equivalent of believing that the visitors’ center was there before the crater.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

From this:

Kurt Gottfried, physicist, professor emeritus at Cornell University, advocate for peace, and co-founder of the Union of Concerned Scientists, has passed away at age 93. Throughout his career, Kurt Gottfried encouraged fellow scientists to become involved, to speak out on issues, and to hold their leaders accountable on topics ranging from nuclear arms control to human rights and scientific integrity. He was an iconic and inspirational example of an engaged scientist, and will be sorely missed by his colleagues and friends. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Dude, I love what you’ve done with the front steps.  But at least you’re on the right side of this issue (“No On Oz”).

Pennsylvania isn’t all golf courses, squash courts, and top-notch universities, but even folks of lesser means are going to make it impossible for this career criminal conman to win a seat in the U.S. Senate.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Whether it’s called a “sin against the human mind” or a “path toward the certain destruction of a society,” the United States sure is walking down that road. As a matter of fact, we’re galloping down it.

Isaac Asimov refers to America’s “cult of ignorance.” Yes, it’s a cult, one with more adherents every year.

Stolen election?  Climate change hoax?  Government planned pandemic?  Nothing is off-limits.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

It seems that all our concern about China’s military expansion is simply needless worry.

The Chinese are on a path toward world domination, but it doesn’t involve violence; it’s being accomplished by harnessing the stupidity of the United States and using it to drive America into irrelevance on the global economic stage.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

I was a fairly avid camper in my youth, but it sounds pretty unappealing at age 67.

Having said that, the author of the meme makes an excellent point.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Here’s one of those claims that seem so absurd that it needs to be confirmed.  But yes, Marjorie Taylor Greene actually did say this.

As Rep. Adam Schiff of the Select Committee pointed out, “Most of these people (in Congress) are intelligent, and couldn’t possibly believe the Big Lie.”  He immediately qualified his remark, naming Greene by name as a notable exception.

 

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