I’m not sure what lesson we’re learning here in today’s America. Clearly, most people are good, and act kindly and respectfully toward others; incidents of racial hate or violence associated with COVID restrictions are rare, though, since they’re sensation, they tend to make the news.
In any case, what Gandalf says here is compelling, though one has to admit that it’s kind of ironic that he’s a fictional character.
There is not a father on Earth who would say that he never made a mistake in dealing with his kids. Speaking for myself, there were several decisions I made when my kids were young about which I wish I could simply hit control-Z.
Having said that, neither Jake nor Valerie is under investigation for fraud, so I suppose things could have gone worse.
My wife and I take walks in the morning, around the neighborhoods in which 2GreenEnergy makes its home.
The photos here are from next-door neighbors to one another. Wow, I thought to myself. A tree full of turkey buzzards, large, carnivorous, and vaguely frightening birds, perhaps because of their penchant for eating dead/rotting animals. They like open spaces, including pastures, of which we have a great number, but one seldom sees carrion, so why are there so many? Is there some sort of strange meaning? (more…)
In the neighborhood surrounding 2GreenEnergy “headquarters,” we have numerous signs that identify homeowners as supporters of the insurrection. The guy with the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag waving in his front yard is a good example.
Until I saw this photo, I was unaware that there was an option for people to announce their ignorance on the license plates of their cars.
The caption here reads:
The guy on the left has a bachelor’s & law degree. He owes over $250,000 in student loans. He works for a law firm where he earns $130,000 annually. The guy on the right is a high school graduate. He has no college education. He works as an electric lineman. He owes zero in student loans, and he earns $160,000 annually.
Teach your kids about skilled trades and alternative options to make a good income and have low debt.
People who look down their noses at those without college degrees are repulsive. We all understand that.
Yet those who believe that money is the most important thing in life, and that education has no value outside of income, are arguably even more pathetic.
Here’s a conversation on what Morgan Freeman says here:
I don’t know what poll this guy’s talking about, but Pew Research has the fraction of Democrat voters age 18 – 29 at almost exactly half (49%). In my mind, that’s a sad thought, not a happy one.
For me, born in 1955, that range was from 1973 – 1984. Trust me, the number of young people who voted against Jimmy Carter in 1976 or voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 was minuscule. There was such a thing as the “Young Republicans,” but they were a fringe bunch of angry and repulsive people.
At that point in time, very few 25-year-olds wanted to cut taxes on the rich and remove programs in the federal government that benefited the common American.
Here we are, 42 years later, and half of our young people are Trump supporters?? And you think that’s something to celebrate? A future whose voters support cruelty, racism, indifference to the well-being of others, and environmental irresponsibility?
I grant that this is true, at least in the main. In fact, the American revolutionary from Vermont, Ethan Allen, said, “In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in such parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.”
Having said that, it is a bizarre assertion for a modern-day church to make. What’s the message here? Drop out of school?
Comparing the level of atrocity of the heinous acts of Trump and his followers is apples-to-oranges, at best. Certain of these felons helped in Trump’s attempt to overthrow the U.S. government. That has to be at the top of the list.
But let’s look at Steve Bannon, who systematically ripped off Trump’s core base, most of whom, one must suppose, sacrificed money they really needed, in order to help Trump fight against the “stolen election.” OK, that’s not treason, but it’s thousands of counts of fraud and larceny.
Watching Mark Meadows and the other traitors go to prison will certainly be satisfying, but the idea of Bannon’s escaping justice is horrifying. Perhaps one of the 50 states’ attorneys general will go after him on the same felony charge for which he was convicted and pardoned at the federal level.
That’s a good question, and I have a theory. Evil people are under the extreme stress they impose upon themselves, because they have at least a subconscious understanding that what they’re doing is wrong. (more…)
