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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Silly me.

I keep thinking that convicting and incarcerating right-wing lunatics will eventually leave us with fewer right-wing lunatics, yet that never seems to happen.

And why is it always Florida?

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

As I wrote here on Political Correctness. I define PC differently: Acting with courtesy and respect toward others.

OK, so the reader who sent me this is a boor.  My wife and I were talking about my earlier post, and she asked, “How do we change people like this?” to which I replied, “We don’t.  If we can’t get used to the fact that you’re surrounded by people like this, we’re going to have uncomfortable lives.”

Another point I would make about the meme here, and the reader may be too young to remember this, but Andy Griffith (the TV sheriff, not the actor) was one of the most refined and decent characters ever to grace American television screens in the 1960s.  He would no more have said something like this than he’d call To Kill a Mockingbird protagonist Atticus Finch a “n*****-lover.”

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

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.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

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.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

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…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

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.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

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.

 

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science
Here’s a conversation on what Morgan Freeman says here:
Craig: We weren’t taking tests before COVID?  That’s not true, and it’s hard to imagine a person of his intelligence actually saying that.
The reason we’re living longer and healthier lives than ever in history is because of early detection and treatment of cancer, heart disease, and dozens of other diseases.
Women who don’t get mammograms and pap smears are extremely foolish.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

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?

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

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?

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