I’m surprised to see this; I thought Rand Paul was smarter than that.
No one, literally no one, wants “equality” in the sense of equal ownership of all wealth.
What decent people want is equal opportunity, fairness, and equal justice for all.
He can’t see that these are two different things? Yikes.
To answer the question posed here, it’s because the United States has never had a climate policy. And it’s not like we don’t have policies in general; we have policies on top of our policies.
Obama did what he could to make this nation a leader in clean energy, and, though he made a great deal of progress over all, he ran into a buzzsaw in the form of Big Oil when it came to phasing out fossil fuel.
This, btw, “We’re replacing fossil fuel with low-carbon energy sources at the maximum feasible rate, and we’re doing what we can to help the rest of the world go in this direction as well” is precisely how that policy should read.
It wasn’t too long ago that we frequently came across the bumper sticker that read “Visualize World Peace.”
Shown on the left is the sad reminder that our goals today are far less lofty. All most of us want is a return of basic sanity.
Will we get it? We’ll find out on November 3rd.
Here’s a video that got me a bit choked up; I’m sure it will have an effect on you too.
I would have shed tears of joy had I been in that crowd.
If we could have a bit more of this, this whole catastrophe would be behind us.
We see a great number of “studies” that purport to show that COVID-19 is far more benign than we’re told, in an apparent attempt to prove that the government is lying to us about the actual stats related to the disease for some nefarious reason.
Let’s do the math associated with the supposed study whose results are shown at left. (more…)
This is getting a HUGE amount of coverage, and corroboration of the original story is now coming forth.
There are 18.2 million veterans, every one of voting age. Aren’t they infuriated?
This is so like Trump, i.e., another proof point that he’s incapable of understanding why anyone would make a sacrifice for a greater cause.
We all need to hope that this despicable person doesn’t get another four years to ruin this country even further.
Here we have a police officer kicking a handcuffed girl in her face. On a good day, that’s some sort of assault and/or battery; the terms vary according to jurisdiction; both can mean the intentional and offensive or harmful contact with another person.
It’s interesting to note that words by themselves can’t be considered assault; this is probably important in this case, as one has to think that the woman said something offensive to the cop which resulted in that kick in the teeth. (more…)
The black man shown here was running naked through the streets in the freezing winter of upstate New York. When his brother called 911 and asked for help, a team of policemen showed up, knocked him to the ground, handcuffed him, and put a hood over his head. One of the officers proceeded to step on his neck, using his boot to press it against the frozen pavement for two minutes, suffocating him into unconsciousness. He was eventually taken to a hospital, where he died seven days later when he was taken off life support. (more…)
We all knew, if we approach the November presidential election with Trump failing in the polls, that we’d see some heavy-duty histrionics. As shown in the video below, it turns out to be (thus far anyway) essentially a civil war. (more…)
Trump’s “Military Are Losers and Suckers” Comment: This Could Be the End
Oh My God. (more…)