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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I wonder how many American parents, even those who still support Trump, would like to see their children grow up to have the same character as the president.

My mother, who left us recently, was a life-long Republican who lived on a steady diet of Fox News and voted for Trump three times. Even she detested him as a person for his dishonesty, criminality, and lack of concern for anybody but himself.

I’d guess people who agree with this woman represent perhaps 10-15% of the U.S. population.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

To the reader who sent me this:

Holy smokes, how disappointing; I didn’t know there were people stupid and mean enough to post something like this.

1) If you’re a Caucasian, your ancestors settled here and then murdered the indigenous people.

2) Illegal immigrants are not eligible for welfare.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I have to say that I’m a sucker for a good analogy, and I love what Tony Rush has done at left.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Apparently, what Cardinal Mueller said at left is factual, and, for some perverse reason, it makes me laugh.

This guy is so far out of step with the Catholic church and the changes it’s made over the last decade or so that it’s funny.  The last pope, Francis, said about LGBTQ people, “Who am I to judge them?”

This guy didn’t get the memo about putting Christ back in Christianity, feeding the hungry, treating immigrants kindly, healing the sick, and so forth.  He seems like the voice of Roman Catholicism from some prior period, perhaps that of the Spanish Inquisition, or Europe in the 1930s.

Also, not to judge a book by its cover, but he looks the part of the bad old days.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The danger posed by Trump’s bombing of the boats off the coast of Venezuela is that it’s blatantly lawless.  It’s a clear violation of an entire array of domestic and international legislation, and just another indication that Trump believes he’s above the law.

And let’s be honest: at this point, he is above the law.  Defying court orders, dropping 50+ felony charges against himself, having his name affixed to government buildings without congressional approval — it’s just standard operating procedure.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

It’s both surprising and disappointing to see our country’s greatest minds, like Mark Twain and Robert Frost, make comments like this about education.

Would our children be better off illiterate? Unable to find Russia on a globe? Believing that the world is flat, or that vaccinations cause disease?

If you’re one of the world’s most gifted artists, poets, or musicians, or perhaps the most intuitive scientists like Einstein or Schrodinger, it’s possible that you may regard learning algebra or the history of the Second World War or the Louisiana Purchase as a bore.

For the rest of us, it’s a gift.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Electric Vehicles

Ford just took a $19.5 billion write-down, given what they spent, all for nought, into its foray into electric transportation.  That’s about twice its annual earnings.

Worse, it means that Ford will become essentially irrelevant in about 10 years, according to the speaker in the video below, who is referring to the trend toward autonomous vehicles.

 

by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The tragic story of what has happened to the United States in general and the Kennedy Center in particular reminds me of a conversation I had with a lady on a plane years ago, headed for Las Vegas. She said that she had an offer to speak at a conference, which she had preliminarily accepted, until she learned that the venue was at the Trump Resort and Casino.  She had other reasons to be in Nevada, here we were, seated next to one another.

She looked me in the eye and told me, “I would rather cut my right arm off than step foot into a building associated with Donald Trump.”

Unsurprisingly, ticket sales for The Kennedy Center have fallen off a cliff.  Apparently, there are plenty of our country’s most sophisticated people who’d rather stay home and watch “Wheel of Fortune” than go to a national treasure that’s been co-opted by Trump.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Trump supporters come in two types: those who are well educated and financially strong but morally feeble, and the uneducated MAGA folks.

What Aldous Huxley said at left doesn’t apply whatsoever to the former group.  They’re well aware that Trump is a terrible person who couldn’t care less about the common American, or even about the country as a whole, but their taxes are nice and low.

However, Huxley’s observation applies nicely to the latter group. They’re desperate for information that supports their belief that God sent us Trump to rid us of the vermin (immigrants), just like St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Quite possibly the single most offensive part of the Trump presidency is that the White House has gone to a great deal of effort to find the very most incompetent people to fill the government’s most important positions.

We have an anti-science crackpot in change of our healthcare, a climate denier heading up the EPA, and an alcoholic Fox News commentator running the most powerful military in human history.

 

 

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