Staggering Incompetence

In fact, it speaks to a level of incompetence that is rivaled only by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who, in a stunning admission of deadly ignorance, says he only just learned that asymptomatic people can transmit COVID-19.
You’re the governor of a state in which you make policy aimed at preventing 11 million people from joining the 4,638 cases of COVID-19, 139 of whom have died, and you don’t know the most fundamental and most frequently discussed facet of the disease that has been the subject of a continuous torrent of news for two solid months. Hmmmm.

Those looking for a few seconds of entertainment (?) can watch this
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Regular readers know that big oil companies, ExxonMobil in particular, are facing enormous legal liability associated with lying to the public, especially shareholders, about what they knew as early as 1980 concerning the danger that climate change represents and the damage that their product would ultimately wreak onto humankind.
Stephen King is one of the most intelligent and astute observers of our culture and its flaws, and I agree with 99% of what he says about Donald Trump’s sociopathic nature, and the grave danger he represents to our country and to the world.
From the Los Angeles Times:
2GreenEnergy supporter and public intellectual Stephen Lacey writes, This is the defining moment of our hyperpartisanship. If Trump can convince Americans that 100,000 deaths is a triumph (it’s very possible), I have absolutely no hope that the tribalist rot in our system can be healed.
It’s the birthday of French mathematician, scientist and philosopher, a true badass of Western thought, Rene Descartes, most famous for his line, “I think therefore I am.”
These people claim, “A US start-up has created vodka quite literally from thin air – using solar power to convert carbon from the air and convert it into alcohol. It’s now working with NASA to look at other opportunities for capturing carbon.”
Those who think my posts have a negative tone to them certainly have a point, which is why I hesitated before republishing this graphic.