The Pope and Environmental Responsibility
For the first time in 1600 years, the Catholic Church is led by a pontiff with abiding and deep-seated humanistic views. Now, the Pope calls for divestment from companies not committed to environmental stewardship. Truly great stuff.
FWIW, this is not hard to do, even if you’re in mutual funds and ETFs that have diverse portfolios. One way to do this is simply to follow the investment advice of Tom Konrad, PhD, at AltEnergyStocks.com. He’s a magician. The other is to pick a mutual fund that doesn’t invest in things of which you disapprove. Personally, if it hurts people or comes out of the ground, I don’t want to own it.
It’s becoming clearer to Americans by the day that Trump is, in fact, a danger to the United States. That’s what these 70 Republican national security officers are saying, and it’s the message 9.855 million Americans received in last night’s “60 Minutes,” where Leslie Stahl presented a segment on the 
Part of the damage that our president has done to this country is creating the illusion that everybody is as selfish and mean as he is himself. As indicated at left and below, this is simply not true. 
This is funny, but let’s take a serious look at where we are and where we need to be. In particular, where would we be right now if Trump were not president?
The rank and file Trump supporter doesn’t understand the ridicule with which the United States is now regarded abroad, and wouldn’t care even if he did.
We’ve seen our top military people, our scientists and doctors, our journalists and public intellectuals all endorsing Biden. Trump, on the other hand, is endorsed by every single white supremacy group, and now, wait for it, the 
According to the American Energy Society, here’s what’s happening in Africa with respect to oil exploration and extraction:
Even when my kids were young, I didn’t knock myself out with Halloween decorations, but I certainly admire this guy’s creativity and sense of gallows humor.
Are Democrats categorically against any future president like Donald Trump? Isn’t that a bit closed-minded? Rigid? Doctrinaire?
If all the actions Trump’s taking weren’t right out of the wanna-be dictator’s playbook, we’d all be much more comfortable. But that’s not the case, as we’re seeing: playing to people’s strongest fears and points of anger, discrediting the media as “the enemy of the people,” remaking the party that brought him into power, calling for the unjust arrest of this opponents, and removing traditional institutions’ ability to rein him in.
