Watching half a nation full of people whipped into a frenzy of hate and ignorance, one’s initial reaction is a mixture of pity and amusement. As David Bowie said, “Oh man, look at those cavemen go!”

The problem, of course, is all the damage that’s being done along the way and how much time and effort will be required to repair it:  racial distrust, antagonism, and violence; international embarrassment; environmental collapse; a pandemic with no end in sight; the breakdown of rule of law; and a terrible blow to the rights of women, LGBTQ, and people of color.

The sooner he goes, the sooner we can start to rebuild.

 

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Here’s a development that’s been a long time in the making: windows that, as they receive heat from the hot, undergo chemical/physical changes and become solar panels.

Glass that changes color when light is incident on it has been around for probably half a century; oldsters recall the “photogray” eyeglasses of the early 1970s. More recent developments have made it electronic and switchable on demand, and scaled it up to window size, largely for the purpose of protecting secret operations from prying eyes. (more…)

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From this:

James Murdoch quit media empire (that includes Fox News) because it was ‘legitimizing disinformation’ and slams ‘crazy’ Trump for ‘infecting the US with cruelty’ and downplaying COVID

The youngest son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch told the New York Times about his decision to break free from the family business

James Murdoch, 47, said he ‘pulled the rip cord’ from the family empire because he was ‘increasingly uncomfortable’ with News Corp and Fox  (more…)

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Removing Big Money from politics is a challenge that seems to be growing year by year.  In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in “Citizens United” that unlimited campaign donations from corporations were protected under the First Amendment as free speech.  When Antonin Scalia died, it appeared that the high court may overturn that decision, and now, the nomination of Amy Barrett, a devotee of Scalia’s, it appears that this opportunity has, at least for the foreseeable future, passed us by.

Most corruption on the part of billionaires and politicians is difficult to track.  In the case of Sheldon Adelson, however, it’s right there in plain view.

 

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Barack Obama delivers a statement to the media

I was speaking with an old friend I hadn’t seen in….too long.  She’s voting for Biden, but she’s concerned about his position on the environment.

I explained that I have to assume that Biden will be a carbon copy of Obama vis-à-vis the environment, and, from what I wrote here, I gave him (Obama) high marks. (more…)

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2GreenEnergy super-supporter Gary Tulie writes:

Hi Craig,  Re something like this, I have to ask what’s the point?  The hydrogen energy store is 3 times the price of a Tesla Power wall to store 3 times the energy, so about the same price per kWh of capacity.  (more…)

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Hospitals, clinics, diagnostic laboratories, and other healthcare institutions produce specialized kinds of medical wastes that need to be treated and managed correctly. The increase in the volume of medical waste has become a growing concern as more healthcare institutions are established; more people seek healthcare services; and more medical devices, materials, and technologies are used to diagnose and treat ailments. (more…)

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Whoever posted this video asks, “How would you have handled this situation?”

Maybe a better question is: How did we create an environment in which a grossly underpaid teacher was forced to handle this situation?

We’re one election away from a point at which the normalization of situations like this pushes this formerly civilized country into a place from which it will never completely return.

My heart is broken.

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Whoever created the meme here nailed it.  Shouldn’t that be enough?

Sure, we can talk about all the lies, the cruelty, the environmental irresponsibility, obstruction, extortion, the dictators, our allies, tax fraud, bank fraud, campaign finance violations, and negligent homicide.

But, when we simply reread the meme here, don’t we have enough to understand that he’s totally unfit to be president?

 

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The judicial and legislative branches have had a tough time reining in Trump, and certainly that’s partially because he has been so effective in stacking the courts and terrorizing the Republican-led Senate.  Yet every once in a while, someone stands up and blocks something he desperately wanted to do.

In this case, that something is denying supplemental nutrition from 700,000 people who are out of work due to the pandemic. What good is impoverishment if you can’t inflict hunger on top of it? (more…)

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