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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Readers in countries outside the U.S. may not know that our states and our federal government have different criminal codes, but they all have one thing in common: the way they criminalize taking the life on another human being depends greatly on the circumstances.  Though our president appears not to understand this, we have killing in self-defense, which is not a crime at all, then all types of accidental killing which occur during the commission of a lesser crime, which is normally some form of manslaughter, on up to premeditated murder, which carries the most severe punishment.

In 23 of our 50 states, there is no death penalty at all, regardless of the severity of the crime.

There are also a variety of domestic and international laws that prohibit harsher treatment for some groups of people than others.

It’s weird how no one expects the President of the United States to know as much about criminal law as the typical high school kid.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

This isn’t exactly “breaking.” It’s from 2012.

People are entitled to their own opinions and are also entitled to accepting the opinion of an actor with a history of making racially insensitive comments.

Personally, I’m inclined to refer to people who study this stuff professionally.  Historians rate Obama’s presidency in the top 10. He’s the highest-ranking U.S. president since Harry Truman.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

If readers skip this post because they think they’ve heard plenty of crap about the Republicans’ claim re: Obamacare, I won’t blame them.  In fact, I could scarcely believe my own eyes when I saw the meme here and realized we’ve been talking about this for almost 16 years.

Yes, for close to 16 trips around the sun, the GOP has been making the exact same noise. Eventually, even the very least intelligent voter out there is going to realize something very important, albeit completely obvious: the Republicans have nothing to offer here.

Baby boys who were born in March of 2010 are now shaving, learning to drive, and thinking about college.

We wonder how Donald Trump was elected.  Twice.  This level of stupidity is the reason.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

In this speech, Trump explains that the radical left is “invading” our country, and that he and his administration are going to “take them out very quickly.”

He seems to be talking about civil war.  If so, this will be much different than the Union vs. the Confederacy, where the enemies lived in different parts of the country and the soldiers wore different colored uniforms.

Here, to take an example, we have high school faculties that are a blend of both liberals and conservatives. If you’re stupid enough to believe that the liberals are invading the United States and need to be removed, you have a real challenge on your hands, not only legally, but logistically as well.

Now, I suppose he could simply have the military deploy machine guns and wipe out each one of the seven million men, women, and children in protests like “No Kings”.  Or maybe just round them up and deport them. He has no regard for the Constitution and rule of law anyway, so maybe this isn’t as far-fetched as it seems.

One thing that Trump doesn’t seem to be considering, though, is that “the military” is run by generals and admirals who are sane and intelligent people, who have sworn an oath that would prevent them to committing atrocities at the behest of a psychotic in the White House.

Wow.  Life in America gets more absurd with each passing day.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

In case you’re wondering about it, it won’t be Trump or JD Vance, or any of the congressional Republicans who carts you away.  As suggested at left, it will be some rando who used to pump your gas or weigh your broccoli at the grocery store.

As we have seen in all fascist regimes, it’s not the schoolteachers or veterinarians or philosophers or cardiologists who round up “undesirables” and send them away to their deaths.

Not a bad reason to support public education.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

We progressives have our favorite states.

Sure, anyone can like New York or Massachusetts, or the entire rest of New England, but they have an advantage: incredible levels of education, which make electing Donald Trump or some other sociopath completely impossible. Then you have the Pacific Coast, with its focus on technology and entertainment.  Lots of smart people with lots of money are also, not about to fall for an obvious conman whose goal seems to be crippling America.

But, subtracting out those advantages, you have places like New Mexico.  Ahhhh.  Breathe a sigh of relief.  Can you image a neighbor of Texas with any level of gentility?  It’s not easy.

Pleased (but not at all surprised) to see New Mexico in the news here.

And of course they’re right.  Relieving the stress from young parents will help everyone (directly or indirectly) involved.  Does anyone benefit from young people who can’t go back to work because they can’t afford childcare?

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

There are people living around you and me who believe that George Soros, a 95-year-old liberal philanthropist, orchestrated things like the seven-million person “No Kings” march, and all the other anti-Trump sentiment that most of us feel here in the United States.

The author of the meme at left apparently believes that and wants to do an end-run around due process (charging him with a crime, trying him in a court of law, and convicting him), and simply throw him in prison.

I defy anyone to name another country on Earth that is home to people as stupid as this.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

As shown here, rightwing extremism, at least certain components of it, are completely dead in the Unites States.

We have no appetite for turning our schools into facilities that promote Christianity, reject LGBTQs and non-whites, and remove the truth about the cruel history of our nation.

This whole experiment in suppression, thank goodness, failed miserably.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Let’s not take this out of perspective.

Personally, I kind of liked the slum lords with the no hot water and rats the size of house cats. I was particularly enamored of those who refused to rent to blacks, like Trump and his father. It’s as American as Mom and apple pie.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

Here’s an article in which billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel expresses his concern about the coming generation, i.e., that they are prone to become communists.

In all honesty, I haven’t been following Thiel too closely.  At one point perhaps 25 years ago, he was offering to pay young people handsomely ($20K?) if they would do anything else in their lives but go to college.

What to make of that?  I always thought it meant that, as a prototypical capitalist, he thought that ours would be a better nation if our children were not exposed to liberal thinking, and that they went headlong into the workplace.

Here, however, he seems to be saying the opposite.  “If you proletarianize the young people, you shouldn’t be surprised if they eventually become communists,” he explained.  I suppose it’s possible that he doesn’t know what a “proletariat” is, i.e., a member of the working class, as described under Marxism.

What do you expect uneducated young people to become?  Doctors? Astronomers? Pulitzer Prize-winning authors?  No, sorry, that won’t work.  They can’t do algebra, let alone advanced biochemistry or physics.  They can barely read.  They can, on the other hand, mow lawns, flip burgers, pick crops, bus tables, or attend (the ever-diminishing supply of) cash registers.

You don’t want communists, and you don’t want affluence.  What do you want?

 

 

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