Reasons for Optimism Require Creativity, But They Still Exist
Americans who have good attitudes at this point in time deserve our respect. I ran across this masterpiece this morning, written by the son of an Air Force brigadier general who himself rose to the rank of colonel. Here’s the beginning of a fairly lengthy essay that explains the author’s optimism as follows:
Of my 57 years drawing breath, I’ve spent 51 of them directly or indirectly serving this once great nation. So, as you might imagine, I found myself on Nov. 8, 2016, more than a little dismayed at the news we had elevated Donald J. Trump to the nation’s highest office – a man so clearly unfit to lead America. (more…)
From TerraScale: Even in the absence of state mandates, Arizona utilities are pushing to shift to clean energy by replacing coal plants with renewable energy backed batteries. Arizona’s biggest utility, Arizona Public Service announced its plan to achieve clean energy by 2050, despite a lack of state mandates requiring such a transition. 
I don’t want to “spread her shame.” I want her arrested, charged with brandishing a firearm, convicted, and sentenced to 3 – 6 months for the misdemeanor, as prescribed by law.
As Trump’s poll numbers continue to plummet and the odds against a second term continue to grow, the president will soon face the fact that he’ll no longer be in office as of January 20, 2021. What happens when that idea settles in and he contemplates the onslaught of indictments he’ll receive from both federal and state criminal courts? 
Subsidiaries of both Talanx and Munich Re were named on Trans Mountain’s certificate of insurance – they are among 11 companies offering $508 million of liability insurance for the 12-month period up to August 31, 2020. However, emails suggest that Talanx actually pulled out of the project in 2019 (and it appears Munich Re has done the same). 
Shouldn’t this be enough?
There are lots of cool, win-win combinations of renewable energy and environmentally friendly uses of land. Here’s a short podcast on sheep and 
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Apparently, there are groups of Americans that have real trouble with adhering to the exhortations of our scientific community, specially to our epidemiologists and other public health experts when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s a conversation I just ran across:
