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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

In the county of Maricopa, the largest in Arizona, County Recorder Stephen Richer is one of the Republican officials tasked with maintaining files on 2.6 million registered voters, and he’s completely done with Trump’s false accusations about the 2020 presidential election.

With respect to Trump’s statement at left, i.e., that the entire voter registration database has been deleted, he wrote, “Wow. This is unhinged. I’m literally looking at our voter registration database on my other screen. Right now. We can’t indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country. This is as readily falsifiable as 2+2=5.” He continued, “Here’s a great example of a plain-as-day lie that will lead our Arizona residents to think the Maricopa County database has been entirely deleted. Help me call out this lie.” (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Ever since Trump came on the political scene in 2015, we’ve been saying that we live in a “post-truth world” in which “facts no longer matter.”

Now, it seems, we’ve taken all this one step further.

For what could be called the “Trump wing” of the Republican party, the belief in at least something that is completely absurd is de rigueur, i.e. demanded by current custom.  Rock bands of the 20th Century had to have long hair, and GOP politicians who side with Trump, like Andrew Clyde (pictured), need to believe that things like the insurrection at the Capitol was a “normal tourist event.”

Like the rest of the world, Clyde has seen footage of hundreds of seditionists scaling the building’s walls, massive objects breaking windows and knocking down doors, Capitol policemen being beaten senseless, and human feces smeared on floors and walls.

But the kicker is this:  none of that matters.  In fact, quite the opposite.  Clyde has just earned his stripes by proving that he’s at least as insane as his followers.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

eighth largest agricultural county in the country

Here’s a well thought-through piece called “Five great things Biden did for the climate in 100 days — and 4 things he should do next.”

The author mentions Biden’s work in undoing the damage caused by his predecessor.  Trump was a wrecking ball for everything pertaining to the environment, climate being an important piece of this. At the very least, the world knows that the United States is back in the game, rejoining the development of solutions that will help turn the planet around from its race to destruction. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

Here’s a piece from ExxonMobil explaining how it intends to reduce emissions. A couple of observations:

Let’s begin by noticing the irony here.  This is a company that spent 25 years and countless millions of dollars hiding what it knew about the effects of its emissions on the Earth’s atmosphere and spreading what it knew to be lies about it, making it impossible for the world scientific community to develop technology that could have nipped global warming in the bud.  Now, it wants us to believe that this culture of deception and treachery has been replaced by one of kinship and a spirit of kum-ba-yah.  (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

This seems true to me.

Another factor at work here is the success of the Biden presidency so far, with its 63% approval rating.  That’s an awful lot of people in support of what’s happening in pandemic control, the infrastructure jobs bill, consumer optimism, environmental responsibility, as well as the relief that comes from having a basically honest human being in the White House and the concomitant hike in the respect accorded to the U.S. from foreign allies.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

I wanted to offer another observation on the moron pictured at left, one of at least 600 thus far who committed a federal crime while believing that Trump would be there for him in the end, and issue his sorry ass a pardon.

Yes, it’s pathetic indeed, but at least it’s stupid and evil people who are getting hurt here, and it makes us feel good to know that justice is being served, and that innocent people aren’t being injured. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

The guy who posted this writes: Imagine being this guy, who committed a federal crime while thinking all the while that Trump would be there for him in the end. 

Yes.  How pathetic.

And how sad that we live in a nation with tens of millions of morons like this.

Fortunately, a few hundred of them won’t be interacting with civilized society for the next few years.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The people who write for Stephen Colbert are brilliant.

I hope you’ll check out their take on Rep. Andrew Clyde’s statement that he didn’t see an insurrection at the Capitol, and likened the event to a “normal tourist visit.”

Wow.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

From this:  Donald Trump was merely the trial run intended to show far more intelligent and capable wanna-be fascists how to do it, Tucker Carlson certainly being among them. Given his recent antics on his television show, it seems safe to assume that Carlson is indeed aiming for bigger things, and the left needs to prepare for what his potential run would look like.

Until 2015 when Trump came on the political scene, there was an unwritten rule that a candidate for U.S. President had to be a decent human being, and needed credentials that would at least suggest some capability in handling foreign and domestic affairs.  Of course, all that’s gone now, but are we really ready for a Fox News anchor?

Fox News frequently finds itself on the wrong end of defamation law suits, which it combats with a single and historically effective response: We are not news; the material we present is not factual, and any reasonable person knows that.

Tucker Carlson is to journalism what professional wrestling is to sports. His job is to entertain, each evening, with an hour-long segment of hateful lies.

Have we fallen as a nation?  Obviously.  Have we sunk to this?  Sorry, Tucker, you are a spoiled, detestable turd, no we haven’t.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

The illustration here comes from “The Story of Stuff” project, whose efforts in environmental and social justice are legendary.

This civilization is having the devil’s own time dealing with waste plastic.  There are now 4 trillion pieces of plastic in our oceans, soon to outnumber the entire population of fish.

The issue is a blend of corporate greed and consumer indifference.

Americans used about 50 billion plastic water bottles last year. However, the U.S.’s recycling rate for plastic is only 9 percent (and declining), which means over 40 billion water bottles – more than $1 billion worth of plastic – are wasted each year.

Bottled water companies keep pumping them out, and consumers keep buying them.  One side or the other, preferably both, need to back off.  Unfortunately, that’s not part of the American zeitgeist right now.

 

 

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