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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics — No Comments ↓

If I had been born without a conscience, I would have fashioned a career focused on ripping off idiots, which wouldn’t have been at all difficult, and I would have developed rhetoric like what we have here.  I have to admit, however, that I never could have surpassed the skill of Ted Nugent.

Yes, there are people who can’t or won’t understand that foreign aid helps Americans lead relatively safe lives in the world via promoting peace and democracy around the globe.

With U.S. education going into the toilet, this is not likely to turn itself around.

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The data points that former Labor Secretary Robert Reich lays out here show how Elon Musk completely fleeced the United States.

Not sure how even the very bottom of the educational barrel could think that Trump’s blend of stupidity and criminality is making America great again.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business — No Comments ↓

We’ve all seen the many covert ways that merchants employ to take advantage of their customers.

The other day, I was talking to the recently retired VP Marketing at the roast beef sandwich chain Arby’s, and I asked him if he has something like McDonald’s “Filet of Fish.” He asked when was the last time I had the McDonald’s product, and I said, “Oh, I’ll guess 8 – 10 years ago.”  He laughed and challenged me to try again.  “Ever hear of shrinkflation?” he asked.  “That Filet of Fish is now a tiny fraction of the size it was a decade ago.”

Note the 16% “fee” on the menu above.  What’s the problem (outside of clarity) with simply raising your prices by 16% and skipping the weird and obscure language?  “The fee is revenue that is not segmented or designated in any way?” Are you serious?

The $3.00 item at the top actually costs the customer $3.48.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science — No Comments ↓

When we look at the map at left, showing cardiac related deaths during 2013 compared to Waffle House locations, our immediate thought is that the fast food chain is causing cardiac arrest.  And, given that they serve up mass quantities of low-grade, highly processed breakfast foods, that’s certainly possible.

But what if there is something about the people of that part of the country and their lifestyles that is more responsible for heart disease? Obesity, poor healthcare, poverty, poor education that leads to little access to important health-related information.

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Certainly the poem here by John Roedel speaks to many of us, in particular the lost art of kindness.

This from Aldous Huxley:  It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘Try to be a little kinder.”
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Fossil Fuels — No Comments ↓

Chevron is trying to convince us that the problem with high gasoline prices is the taxes we pay to keep our roads from falling apart.  If we feel we’re paying too much at the pump, they want us to call our representatives and demand lower per-gallon taxes.

Well, could it be that Chevron earned over $18 billion in 2024, and that corporate greed may be the culprit here?

Americans may be stupid, but this is not going to pass muster.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics — No Comments ↓

I hope so, but I wouldn’t bet my (after)life on it.

It’s entirely possible that Trump’s appointing an alcoholic Fox News anchor with minimal military experience to manage the world’s largest war apparatus could turn into a global catastrophe in any of dozens of different ways, changing the course of humankind forever.

We will all breathe a sigh of relief when/if the United States regains some level of sanity.

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What Roger Penrose says here strikes me as credible.  But keep in mind what the philosophers of science say: If there is no possible experiment that could disprove a theory, it’s not science at all, but rather religion.

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The meme here made me laugh, mainly because of the absurd notion that any of Trump’s sociopathic characteristics could possibly “haunt” him for a fraction of a second, let alone the rest of his life.

The man is a predator–in the worst sense.  He consumes the well-being of Americans’ lives for the sole purpose of his own wealth and power.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics — No Comments ↓

Regarding the pathetic story at left, I have two responses:

1) Bulls***.  If this woman legitimately believed that Trump’s clearly articulated plan for mass deportation would somehow show mercy to honest, non-violent mothers and their tiny children, she’s an idiot.

2) These are the same fools who don’t understand that the U.S. Constitution guarantees due process prior to such deportations and generally favors waiving this right to undocumented people.  What they don’t seem to be able to comprehend is that this means that the government can claim that you, or I, or she, could be swept up, accused of a crime we didn’t commit, and sent away to a prison notorious for its use of torture.

This is not the United States that Americans fought and died to defend.

 

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