Whether or not it turns out that Trump has been a Russian asset all along, it’s 100% clear that he hasn’t stood up to Putin’s brazen aggression against the United States once in the entirety of his four-year tenure in office. Interference in elections, putting bounties on American soldiers, and now allowing the cyber attacks on several different parts of the federal government, Trump is as passive as a lamb, and seems to somehow enjoy playing the role of Putin’s doormat.
His fellow Republican Mitt Romney found this last incident “stunning.” Funny, wouldn’t it have been more stunning had he actually done something to protect the country, per his oath of office?
Am I the only one who has no clue what the rancor with Jill Biden’s PhD is about? We had a science teacher in high school whose doctorate (I’m guessing) wasn’t in medicine. He was Dr. Katman. Had any of us referred to him as “Mr. Katman,” we would have been instantly corrected, we would have felt foolish, and we wouldn’t make that mistake again.
Western culture has a long tradition of respecting people with doctoral degrees in this manner; is there something about this woman that makes it necessary for us to turn this custom on its head?
Moreover, it’s what guides entire societies in Europe and Scandinavia. Those folks don’t want to live among the homeless, the hungry, not to mention people who can’t afford an education and those dying of treatable diseases. They’d rather pay a bit more taxation in order to establish a community that takes care of its people, rather than ignores their suffering. (more…)
Is the United States on the brink of civil war, or at least a significant outbreak of violence, as Trump supporters refuse to accept defeat? There are good arguments to be made both pro and con.
The fellow at the left scares me. Of course, anyone who presumes to know what “God’s work” is (and then fails to specify what that might entail) should frighten us all. It’s a good guess he’s not talking about the beatitudes (see below).
People who are armed to the teeth and believe that Trump was cheated out of the opportunity to “save Western civilization” can be counted on to erupt at some level.
I have to believe that the video here is BS, and that this plastic compound doesn’t degrade in water in five minutes. And even if I’m wrong, how useful is the product?
Yes, we dohave a problem with the slow degradation of plastics in our environment and the horrible effects this is causing our ecosystems. The person who introduced me to his work in the space pointed out that, considering that milk loses its freshness in perhaps two weeks, our milk cartons shouldn’t require 500 years to degrade in our landfills (or streams, or wherever they wind up).
Yet the plastic container certainly has to outlast its contents, or we have a real mess. If a certain plastic dissolved completely and nearly immediately in water, the moisture content in humid air would definitely cause it to fall apart.
One of our reading books in second grade featured a drama about a little boy, our age, and the ups and downs he was experiencing in his young life. At one point, he couldn’t go the circus with his grandfather because at the last minute he came down with chicken pox. The next chapter brought rain on his birthday. After what seemed like an eternity of sadness came the chapter titled “Luck Turns.”
This piece in Ecowatch truly is good news. Maybe this is the part of U.S. history where things turn for the better, whether due to luck, or, more likely, persistence on the part of a huge number of fantastic and hard-working people.
The number of Americans who believe the 2020 presidential election was rigged will continue to fall every day, as the people at Fox News and the hard right-wing congressmen like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledge, one by one, that Trump lost the vote in a free and fair manner, and that the courts were honest and correct in their findings that there was no evidence of significant fraud. (more…)