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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

If you Google “Can Biden Unite America?” and read what comes up you’ll be at it for a very long time, as this is a very popular subject.

While it’s clear that Biden is completely sincere in his attempt in this direction, he faces a thorny problem: America doesn’t want to be united. 

Trump supporters do not want to unite around values like environmental  responsibility, compassion, quality education, aggressive pandemic response, acceptance of a so-called “stolen election,” common sense gun laws, the possibility of criminal justice for their leader, and what they incorrectly believe to be socialism.

Democrats do not want to unite around anti-science/intellectualism, evangelical Christianity, racism, the acceptance of political violence, conspiracy theories, and the adoration of the ex-president.

The toothpaste is out of the tube, there isn’t much that Biden, despite his best intentions, can do about that.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Here’s an email I just wrote to a conservative reader that I thought I’d share.

This article in Bloomberg presents what I was saying last night about the GOP, i.e., that it’s becoming two parties.

One is the traditional conservatives, who believe in small government, personal responsibility, low taxes, little regulation, free markets, etc.  This is the party of you and the George Wills of the world. These people do not admire Donald Trump in the least, though some, like you, believe he is the least of two evils. Others, like Will himself, perceive Trump, through his lawlessness, to be a grave threat to our democracy, which is why he urged all Americans to vote for Biden. (more…)

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

These flags fly less than a mile from 2GreenEnergy “headquarters.”

When my wife and I walk by them during our morning walk, we wonder: how long?

It’s 25 days after the Biden inauguration.  Outside of “I am a seditionist and damn proud of it,” what message is this guy sending?

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

A reader sent me this meme here.  I respond:

FDR was responsible for Pearl Harbor.

Can you see how asinine that sounds?

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

As suggested here by Trump’s attorney, the impeachment may be over, but his client’s travails aren’t.

I burst into hysterics when this came out of the idiot’s mouth.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

The Atlantic was founded in 1857, primarily to forward the abolition of slavery, by a team of intellectuals that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf Whittier, and now features articles on a variety of subjects by leading writers.  I encourage readers to make the investment of time I just did to read an article on paleoclimatology in this month’s edition, whose title is above.

Yes, “the Earth’s climate is always changing,” as those ignorant of the basic science like to say, in defense of the incorrect notion that rising temperatures are independent of human activity.  Yet there is so much more to this, as laid out by award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen, whose work has also appeared in the Guardian, Wired, New York Times, Washington Post and Slate.

Learn about the driving factors that have meant the difference between sweltering Arctic rainforests (replete with gigantic camels) and places like modern-day Boston, which was once covered by a half mile of ice. Human civilization is about 9,000 years old, the blink of an eye in geological history, but even this brief moment has seen incredible climatic instability, which has wrought terrible destruction to the things we’ve created over these few millennia.

It’s a wild ride.

 

Photo Illustrations, including the one above, by Brendan Pattengale

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

I’m always sad to see memes like this.

No one who was over four years old in 2001 will ever forget 9/11, and thus it’s clear that remembering the tragedy isn’t what this is about at all; it’s simply an expression of Islamophobia.  It’s the staggeringly ignorant and malicious statement that somehow 1.8 billion people (23% of the world’s population) are now the enemies of the United States.

Those of us who work towards the goal of a sustainable civilization understand that rank bigotry has no place in it; in fact, prejudice against whole groups of people works directly against the aim of coming together as a species to achieve common goals.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Trump’s acquittal today in the U.S. Senate was a disappointment for those of us who care about justice and rule of law in what once was a reasonably healthy democracy.  As disheartening as this decision was, it has little bearing on Trump’s ultimate fate.

If he’s going to wind up in prison, as the majority of Americans hope, he’s going to have to be charged and convicted.  And, as implied in the meme here, he’s out of “get out of jail free cards.”  Henceforth, the results of his trials will come from the consensus of a jury of his peers, not one composed of his toadies and co-conspirators.

Another excellent point, his criminal lawyers are as worthless as boobs on a boar hog.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability
Tweets from Al Schmidt, City Commissioner, responsible for elections and voter registration in Philadelphia: “@LeaderMcConnell. The former POTUS incited supporters to threaten to kill my children and put their “heads on spikes” because we counted votes cast by eligible voters. They named my children and included my home address in the threats. Please consider when voting your conscience.”
This presumes that McConnell has a conscience, which is something of a joke.
The level of savagery in this country right now is horrifying.  To call this “vile” or “repugnant” doesn’t get the job done; there are no words in the English language that are sufficient to condemn this behavior.
We can only hope that Trump goes to prison, and that this marks the day on which our nation returns to an understanding of right and wrong, good and evil.
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

At left is what you can expect when you tune to Fox “News.”

Donald Trump incited a deadly armed insurrection in an effort to overturn the 2020 election, and you’re blaming the current President of the United States for exercising caution so as to protect the health of the nation’s schoolchildren?

These people’s ratings are in the toilet, perhaps because people want some level of honest journalism rather than deflecting the truth and defending the most egregious criminal in our nation’s history.

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