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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

At left we have the words of 18th Century British philosopher John Locke, who made this timeless observation.  Sadly, United States is knocking on the door of the horrific outcome.

Fortunately, the majority of Americans support the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump for his attempt to overthrow the U.S. government following his loss of the 2020 election.  Yet about 30% of voters believe that the former president is the victim of political oppression from Democrats, the Deep State, the Hollywood Elites, or whomever.  What they don’t seem to understand is that the indictments came down from grand juries, whose members are most certainly not acting out some sort of vendetta against the defendant.

Be this as it may, it really doesn’t matter what the American people think about Trump; at this point, the wheels of justice are in motion.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The NYT writes:  “Facing a wide array of criminal charges, the former president is using money from small donors to defend himself legally — a practice that raises ethical questions.”

There are so many different horrific impacts that Donald Trump has had on the common American.  This is just one more: middle-aged people all over the nation are thinking, “Yikes. Dad’s a Trump supporter. I wonder how much of my inheritance I’ve lost to this criminal conman?”

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Wind Energy

From SkyWind: Energy from wind, generated right where you need it – that’s our SkyWind NG. The first independently tested micro wind turbine is efficient, quiet and made in Germany.

This is a fabulous example of the saying, “If you don’t care how much you pay for power, I’ll find you all the low-carbon electricity you could possibly use.”

I once considered small wind for a farm I owned. By my calculations, it would pay for itself in 240 years.  This looks even worse, because of the installation (four poles) and the tiny blades.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Since right-wing news personality Tucker Carlson was mysteriously fired by Fox News, he’s struggled to find a new home for his views.

The author of the meme here is suggesting that he’s a has-been, but I’m not sure of the reasoning.  I think he was badly advised in writing a biography.  How interesting is the life of a trust fund baby who grew up to be another opponent of all things woke?

I seriously doubt that we’ve heard the last of Tucker Carlson, Carlson has great appeal to the better-educated sector of the Republican party.

My mother, to take an example, misses him terribly in  her nightly television experience.  Now it’s true that for every Pat Shields, there are probably 100 MAGA idiots, but again, I expect him to return.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

It appears that a Texas woman (shown here) will be spending some jail time for her threat to kill the judge overseeing the case involving Trump’s attempt to overthrow the U.S. government.

According to this:

A Texas woman was arrested and has been charged with threatening to kill the federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump in Washington.

Abigail Jo Shry of Alvin, Texas, called the federal courthouse in Washington and left the threatening message — using a racist term for U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan — on Aug. 5, court records show. Investigators traced her phone number and she later admitted to making the threatening call, according to a criminal complaint.

In the call, Shry told the judge, who is overseeing the election conspiracy case against Trump, “You are in our sights, we want to kill you,” the documents said (sic). Prosecutors allege Shry also said, “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you.”

When my son was 14, I co-coached his soccer team with a homicide detective in the Los Angeles police department. When I asked him about his career, he told me that he tends not to get too aggressive with prosecuting gang members who kill one another on the basis that they are simply “thinning the herd.”

I suppose we could use the same metaphor here; now we have one fewer hateful moron on our streets.

Here’s another point of view.  This woman is 20 years old, born in 2003.  She looks like she could be 35.  She’s obviously lived a hard life, perhaps one of drug addiction.  Maybe it’s incumbent on us to keep our people away from such horrific levels of ignorance.

Are there 20-year-old women living in the Germany or Norway who are desperate to kill a federal judge? Everyone living in a developed nation outside the U.S. who wants a good education gets one.

It’s just so sad.

by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

There is a nasty game of “chicken” being played in the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump in Georgia just now.  The former president has consistently violated the “conditions of release,” whereby he is not remanded into custody pending his trial on multiple felony counts surrounding his attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election.  (See video below.)

Trump seems to believe, and it looks like he’s correct, that his continued efforts to obstruct justice and coerce witnesses will be ignored, and that district attorney Fani Willis will not call his bluff and incarcerate him, regardless of how egregiously he violates the terms by which he remains free.

We say that there is one set of laws that applies to every single American, regardless of wealth and social status.  Essentially no one believes that, but we like the way these words sound when we pronounce them aloud or in our minds.  Maybe today is the right time to turn this ridiculous platitude into reality and put Trump’s criminal ass in jail.

We have a choice: be held hostage to a career criminal or make an honest effort to uphold our system of justice.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

If what Clarke said here is correct, we’re in hot water as a species, because it’s fairly plain that our morals are in a steep decline, at least in the United States.

About 30% of American voters support Donald Trump as the next president.  Yes, about one-third of us are garden-variety racist morons.

Another 10% or so are categorically against government programs designed to improve the lives of common people and mitigate climate change.

Doesn’t bode well.

Btw, why can’t we elect someone like Arthur C. Clarke?  He was an intellectual of towering proportions with a pure heart.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Thanks, Mike, though this comment might have been more useful had it come two and a half years ago.

It’s now completely clear, as if it wasn’t before, that Trump asked his vice president to commit a felony, and that this itself is a violation of the law. Asking Georgia’s secretary of state to “find 11,790 votes” violates the equivalent state statute.

There’s really no way Trump can escape justice unless he flees the United States to a country that will not extradite him.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Texas senator Cruz actually is under attack–by everyone in his state with a conscience who uses reason to guide his behavior.

Come election time, we’ll get to see exactly how many voters fit that description.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Energy Storage

From this: With 13,000 watts of peak power, HXT series (of electrical generators) runs on gas, propane, or natural gas – the largest Tri Fuel Portable Generator on the market! Find where to buy.

It runs on three different fuels. OK, let’s examine this from the perspective of advantage to the customer.

In the case of an electrical power outage, suppose your gasoline stations shut down and our gas utilities do the same.  Just go get yourself some propane! What a benefit! If this makes sense to you, you may be just stupid enough to buy this fraudulent product.

Maybe these folks need to broaden the fuel spectrum even further.  Would it be more appealing if this device could power itself off of methanol, butane or acetylene?  Whatever.  Jump on board now.  Buy three or four, before “supplies run out.”

The under-educated have always been at an economic disadvantage; now they’re hunted down like vermin.

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