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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

Here’s a reminder of the determination our country was able to muster going into World War II.  Striking, isn’t it?  Yet the differences between then and now are many.

• This is not a war against an aggressive set of people, which, if left unchecked, will take over the world, completely transforming our lives for the worse.

• Most of the consequences of losing the war will not be experienced for a number of years/decades.

• The consequences of losing the war affect mostly the poor. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability
Kyle Rittenhouse admitted to a misdemeanor weapons possession and the judge dropped the charge.

When my mom asked me if I thought that was incorrect, I made two points:

a) Wisconsin state law 948.60(2)(a) states: “Any person under 18 years of age who possesses or goes armed with a dangerous weapon is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.”  The kid’s under 18, and he’s photographed in the streets of Wisconsin in possession of a dangerous weapon (not to mention that he’s killing people with it).  It doesn’t get any more cut and dried than that.  Given all of our society’s consternation about white privilege, this was a horrendous thing to do.

b) The avuncular relationship that the judge has with the defendant is beyond disgusting.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

The folks in Florida are getting what they’re asking for, but these are some strange requests indeed.

Most people don’t want high COVID case rates and environmental ruin.

Floridians don’t seem to care, as long as their governor and representatives in Washington are owning the liberals.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Electric Vehicles

I was rather hoping that this was a joke, that it didn’t actually happen.  What does Elon Musk gain by acting so badly?  But no such luck.

Yes, the electrification of transportation is a big deal, but the planet is burning, and the people with the big fire extinguishers should be using them.  In any case, being rotten to people who are trying to help is despicable.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Hope this makes you smile, as it did me.

I know I’m not alone in saying that I’m so glad I’m not in the dating scene at this point in U.S. history.  There are simply too many people walking around who are some combination of crazy, dishonest, gullible, fanatical, mean, stupid, addicted, racist, dirt poor/in debt, and in failing health.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Not all ignorant people are racists, but all racists are ignorant.

That in and of itself is a good reason to fund public education.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

America was blessed to have one of the best human beings the world has ever produced as its president in the late 1970s.

Carter’s aspirations for his country, shown here, may never be achieved, but it won’t be because he didn’t do everything in his power to bring them about.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

It’s both perplexing and terrifying that the Republican Party has shifted so far to the ultra-right in just the last five years.

Think of how unlikely January 6th would have been in Nixon’s day.  No Kyle Rittenhouse, Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump, anti-vaxxers, science deniers, white nationalists driving cars into peaceful protesters, death threats to school board members and election officials.

Nixon resigned because he had committed a crime and no one was above the law.

Twas in another lifetime.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Here’s something from a lifelong Republican, asking, in all sincerity, what it means to be a member of the GOP.

I never shared conservatives’ values, even when I was a small boy and both my parents were Republicans.  Yet at least I didn’t consider them criminally insane.  Sure can’t say that any more.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Alex Jones, who claimed the Sandy Hook shooting was a “giant hoax,” was found liable for damages in lawsuits brought by parents of children killed in the shooting.

A reader, apparently someone from abroad, asks: I don’t understand why he would say that was a hoax. What was his rationale? I mean a mentally insane young man did something unspeakable. I don’t understand why someone would say that it was a hoax.

Believe it or not, in the United States, there are many millions of mentally defective people who firmly believe that our government is actively trying to enslave us, removing our rights, destroying our traditions, our moral norms, and above all, nullifying our Constitution.  Alex Jones capitalizes (soon to be past tense, capitalized) on them, feeding them lies that fit into that delusion, and then selling them overpriced products designed to protect them from these imaginary government attacks.
Among these lies is that the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School never took place; it was hoax designed to increase public support for gun control, which, if implemented, would establish boundaries on our Second Amendment.

This was a severe miscalculation on the conman’s part, which, it appears, will drive him into bankruptcy.

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