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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Below is linked a piece on Swanson dinners, which were most definitely a part of my brother’s and my life as children.  When my parents were going out on a “date night,” this is what we would have for dinner, and it was actually pretty good.  The point: there would be no post-meal clean up and the babysitter could mind us with no distractions.

My guess is that Tucker Swanson Carlson would be selling time-shares or chasing ambulances had he not been born a trust-fund baby into this amazing empire of wealth.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Ann Blyth, one of the last living legends of Hollywood’s Golden Age, celebrates her 95th birthday today.  The former promoter of Hostess Twinkies is still with us. Further proof that there is no God.

Her most memorable commercial: “When my children come home from school and want a snack, I say, ‘Fine, but it has to be Hostess.'”

The implication is that Hostess foods were more nutritious than other snacks on the market at the time, but can anyone possibly name one?  The Twinkie is almost as close to pure sugar as you’re going to get without opening a few packets and pouring them directly down your kids’ throats.

We’re looking at the power of a celebrity endorsement, regardless of how insincere it may be.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

The implication here is that the sane response to COVID-19 was to ignore what our scientists were telling us about it.

COVID is gone (at least for now) because enough people acquired a sufficient degree of immunity to the disease, either through vaccinations or through contracting it and living through it, rendering it incapable of spreading any further.

The fictional hardhat in the cartoon here both a) dodged a bullet, and b) prolonged the disease and its impact on our civilization.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

Don’t miss this opportunity to cash in on the future of transportation.

Imagine, if you can, hundreds of millions of untrained pilots flooding our skies, flying cheap, shoddy junk.  Imagine further that the FAA has no issue with bits of drone pieces and body parts falling like rain onto the ground.

My advice: Jump on in. These are obviously intelligent and honest people, right?

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Here we have a photo of the economy seating section of a Pan Am Boeing 747 in 1970. The flight attendant is serving free drinks and a three course meal.

That was before corporate greed took over virtually every aspect of our daily lives.

Today, corporate profits are at an all-time high, and what are these behemoths doing?  Lowering costs, especially that of human capital, while raising prices.

 

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Given that the whole world is about to find out what this grand juror is referring to, there is hope that a substantial number of Trump supporters are going to bail, and that the sociopathic former president will no longer play a factor in American politics.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Much has been said about how horrible things happen to apparently sane and just societies.  Now, for instance, we’re scratching our heads about the rise of Donald Trump in the United States.

Brilliant chemist Primo Levi takes the view of many holocaust survivors, i.e., that the danger lies more in the enablers than the “monster” himself.

In Trump’s case, the “enablers” include not only his inner circle and supporters in Congress, but the right-wing news media.  If Fox News, for instance, only had a shred of decency, and refused to promote this sociopath, the entirety of American society wouldn’t gone down this deadly path.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability
2GreenEnergy supporter Gary Tulie writes as follows:
Regarding the Maui fires I thought I would share with you a few thoughts.
Firstly, the fires and associated deaths are a major tragedy, and anything I say is forward looking as to how similar might be prevented or mitigated in the future.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

From the New York Times: How Trump Uses Supporters’ Donations to Pay His Legal Bills–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.

So, are his actions here unethical?  Believe it or not, I wouldn’t say so.

Trump’s base understands that the former president uses their donations to forward his political career and return to the White House as quickly as possible.  In my estimation, he’s keeping his end of the agreement, since he knows that serving a life term in prison will make it quite difficult for him to fulfill the duties of the 46th U.S. president.

Now, if you’re Steven Bannon and you solicited donations to complete the wall on the southern border, only to put those funds into your pocket, you’ve crossed a big fat line from potentially “unethical” to “blatantly criminally fraudulent.”

Going back to Trump, we’re really wasting our breath if we’re talking about borderline unethical acts when we’re talking about a man charged with 91 felonies, including his attempt to overthrow the United States government.  Discussion on this issue is equivalent to calling him out on his makeup or his hiring a prostitute.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

Billionaires are under no legal imperative to use their wealth for the good of anyone but themselves. And it’s refreshing to see a person like Dolly Parton come along and make a huge difference in millions of young people’s lives.

The net worth of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are two orders of magnitude larger.  Either of them could end world hunger, or greatly reduce the impact of climate change.  That they are building vanity rockets doesn’t speak too highly of their moral character.

 

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