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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Keep in mind that Mike Lindell claims to have “ironclad proof” that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump, an assertion he’s been making for almost two solid years.

Of course, he hasn’t seen fit to release any of this to the courts, and thus all 65 judges who reviewed the subject found no evidence of voter fraud.

Sadly, Lindell will receive no consequences, because it’s not a crime for some loud-mouth clown to make up total bullshit and broadcast it on television.

Fortunately, this is not the case with Rudy Giuliani, who, because he is an attorney, will be disbarred for filing lawsuits based on information he knew to be false.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The answer to the question here: The present-day Republican platform is a cobbled-together blend of hate and stupidity.  Don’t expect any consistency other than that.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Proponents of banning abortion stand on some set of nebulous religious principles, but those who have a sincere concern about human life would do well to consider what Colorado has accomplished with free birth control.

People of intelligence who honestly want fewer abortions understand that putting a legal prohibition on the practice has the opposite effect.

In other news on the subject, the world population just crossed 8 billion, on its way to 10.4 billion.  Unwanted babies only contribute to mass suffering on an already overcrowded planet.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Even though I’m not a Christian, I’m happy to celebrate the holiday season with the hope that I (and all of us) can be a bit more Christ-like in the coming year: more compassionate, supportive of the weak, and dedicated to a just and verdant world.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

A reader sent me this and adds, “…but the global warming?”

I’m not sure cherry-picking one anomalous temperature reading at one point on the globe at one moment in time undermines a theory.

Maybe you see science differently than the rest of us.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

At left, we see the way the conservative website “The Dispatch” describes itself.

All this shows is that they don’t know what the word “partisan” means, which is “a committed member of a political party or army.”

If you’re a conservative in the United States, that means you’re a Republican, or perhaps Libertarian.

But they know their audience can’t distinguish “partisan” from “slanted” or “biased.”

If I didn’t have a conscience and were starting over in business, I wouldn’t offer business consulting services to sophisticated clients in Fortune 100 tech giants like IBM and H-P; I’d target idiots.

Look at Donald Trump, extracting $99 from as many morons as possible, numbering in the tens of millions.  He’ll make more money next week than I made in my entire lifetime.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

Here’s a brief article explaining why CO2 emissions actually rose in 2022, and what’s being done to turn this around, based on taking more precise measurements.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

From this:

A group of 40 House Democrats, led by Rep. David Cicilline (R.I.), introduced legislation on Thursday to bar former President Trump from holding future federal office under the 14th Amendment.

Section 3 of the amendment states that no one who previously took an oath to support the Constitution and engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” shall “hold any office, civil or military, under the United States.”

Cicilline said in a release announcing the legislation that Trump “very clearly” engaged in an insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, with the intention of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election. 

“You don’t get to lead a government you tried to destroy,” he said. 

This is a truly terrible idea, for a broad number of reasons:

It won’t work, because it’s unconstitutional.  Trump has not been convicted of participating in an insurrection.  What’s “very clear” to someone may not be at all clear to a jury.  The Constitution, in both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, commands that no one shall be “deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.”

This will (rightfully) be perceived as a political attack, and a supremely stupid one at that. It sounds more like something that would come from a Ron DeSantis or a Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Trump is already completely unelectable.  His base is evaporating on its own. When an enemy is committing suicide, wisdom suggests shutting up and getting out of the way.

If we want to help move the process along, just arrest the bastard, and charge him with a full array of felonies.  There is no way to be certain of this, but it appears that Special Counsel Jack Smith is fairly close to bringing this whole thing to a crashing finale.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The second richest man in the world has the same intellectual capacity and political sensibilities as Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Not sure this is what our troubled world needed just now.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Trump’s behavior is becoming even more erratic and unhinged than ever before, and his legal woes continue to intensify.  At the same time, congresspeople who support the Big Lie have lost their election races, and the GOP mainstream wants nothing more to do with him.

This could be the end of this pathetic moment in U.S. history.

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