Planting trees as a means of sequestering CO2 so as to mitigate climate change is a good concept, but in the real world it’s a lot harder than it looks.
The reason can be summed up in the phase unintended consequences, as discussed in the article linked above.
The New York Times reports, “The designation could see bank accounts linked to the group frozen and assets seized, while also expanding police investigative powers.” In any case, it’s nice to be reminded that our neighbor to the north is a nation of compassion and decency.
Why the United States can’t make the same declaration? A full 47% of Americans voted for four more years of an openly racist regime, meaning that there is a great amount of sympathy for the Proud Boys and the rest of these groups of murderous idiots.
I have to think she’s going to be removed, and soon.
What an embarrassment. Of course, we’re a country that knows what embarrassment looks like, as we just concluded a four-year stint of it.
It may appear that the myth of a stolen election will linger forever, but here’s evidence to the contrary, a 27-page post-election “autopsy” that points to the real reason Trump lost. An exhaustive poll of voters revealed that a blend of untrustworthiness/dishonesty and incompetence in handling the pandemic cost Trump the election.
Doesn’t that ring true? Trump’s disapproval rating at the time of the election was 58%, and I would wage that every single person in that group harbored those opinions.
The idea that Trump won an election with an approval rating in the 30s is laughable. His core base of supporters may not be the sharpest tools in the shed, but over time, as more evidence surfaces corroborating the results of the election, most of them will admit, if only privately, that they were bamboozled.
It’s a little more complicated than this, as it starts with $1.3 billion and moves on from there, but this is illustrative of what’s happening in the Biden administration.
Trump felt “dissed” by the Puerto Rican authorities, in particular the mayor of San Juan, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017, and, with his characteristically childlike vengeance, punished all 3.2 million starving and desperate people.
The most recent “Take a Cool Guess” called for readers to take a stab at the number of scientists who left the EPA during the Trump administration. Below is a breakdown of their fields of specialization.
Will these folks be returning now that Trump has left the building? One can only hope. (more…)
An old friend sent me the meme here, to which I responded:
Thanks. I’ve seen this. The fallacy in it is that most of the cost factors in milk production are not employee salaries, but rather things like procuring, feeding, housing, and providing veterinary care for cows, milking, pasteurization, energy, bottling, distribution, sales, marketing, debt service on the capital equipment, and G&A (general and administrative). (more…)
I wonder what’s the point of demarcation between Trump’s 31K run-of-the-mill lies and these so-called “looney lies.” Where does one draw the line?
Seriously, this lunatic’s presence in Congress may be serving a purpose, as people are dropping out of the Republican party in droves. If the GOP is going to have any relevance going forward it will need to refashion itself, to whatever degree possible, around principles of honesty and sanity.
On top of that, it needs to figure out how to add real value to voters’ lives. People want healthcare, quality education, a clean environment, a single-tiered justice system, living wages, and the rest. What precisely does the GOP offer along these lines?
On a good day, this is going to take an enormous amount of work.
At left and below is 20th Century American artist/illustrator Maxfield Parrish’s iconic work “Daybreak.” No one knows the story behind it, and perhaps that’s a good thing. To call it “suggestive” is to put it mildly.
We can hope that a new day is dawning for the people of the United States, as our country takes its first tentative steps to rejoin the rest of the world in terms of decency and justice for all, for which it was formerly known.
This is one of the most disgusting examples of greenwashing I’ve ever come across.
You call your water in plastic bottles that will be polluting our lands and oceans “sustainable” because it comes from a huge aquafer?
I’m a man of peace, but I have to admit that a part of me desperately wants to slap whoever wrote and approved this bulls***.
