Trump’s Felonies Are Not Forgotten
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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The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record
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
Remembering 9/11
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.
What’s Next for Trump?
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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City Commissioner’s Children Threatened
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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Explaining the Abysmal Ratings of Fox News
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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Bill Gates Wants To Block the Sun? Uhhh…..No.
Here’s a great illustration of the horrific effects social media can have on ignorant minds.Reader A: This is downright frightening…. and of the utmost arrogance. Bill Gates has no right to make this kind of plan or decision for our Cosmic Commons.
Reader B: He’s a dangerous moron that (sic) doesn’t even understand that we are actually heading towards an ice age.
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Solar PV Arrays Face Challenges
My wife and I walk about three miles each morning, far enough for us to pass at least a dozen houses in our neighborhood with solar installations. I sometimes comment: “That guy’s roof doesn’t have the right exposure,” or “During winter, those trees in the south part of his yard are going to cast shadows on the array.”
Yes, shadows are a real pain in the neck, and need to be considered before the final decision is made.
As shown above, ground-mount installations face an additional challenge in this arena, one that could be called the “dog effect,” or its scientific equivalent, the “canis effectus.”
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In Trump’s Defense, …….
Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump gather
Apparently, Trump’s attorneys are going to present last summer’s violence in Portland, Oregon as defense in the Senate Impeachment trial. What could possibly be the relevance, given that:
• Rioting in the streets and breaking into the U.S. Capitol building seem quite different. (more…)
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NPR Reports: “A ‘Scary’ Survey Finding: 4 In 10 Republicans Say Political Violence May Be Necessary”
Robert Reich comments on a late-January 2021 survey of 2016 American adults as follows:
A new survey reveals disturbing beliefs in major portions of the electorate, particularly Republican voters:
— Over 60 percent of Republicans do not believe Joe Biden was legitimately elected.
— 39 percent of Republicans agreed that “If elected leaders will not protect America, the people must do it themselves, even if it requires violent actions.”
— 27 percent of white evangelicals said it was mostly or completely accurate to say Trump “has been secretly fighting a group of child sex traffickers that include prominent Democrats and Hollywood elites” (i.e. the QAnon conspiracy).
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