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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

From the article: The D.C. Court of Appeals agreed with a disciplinary committee that found Giuliani’s challenges to the 2020 election results “utterly false” and “recklessly so.”

Now an interesting question arises.  Suppose you’re a Fox News viewer and you’ve been convinced that the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump.  Do you now believe that the entire justice system, along with the District of Columbia Bar Association, is corrupt?

Or maybe it’s time to give up on the most obvious of the lies, and turn your attention to something real.  Perhaps Kamala Harris is a Marxist and an asset of the Chinese Communist Party.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Over the past couple of months, we’ve seen hundreds of top Republicans come forward and say essentially what Mesa, Arizona mayor John Giles said here: it would be a huge mistake to re-elect Donald Trump, given his moral failings and mental health issues.

The question, of course, is what this means to the MAGA base.  Mesa is the third most populous city in the state, and its people are generally well educated, thus it’s going to go for Harris anyway.  But suppose you live in a rural part of the state and the nearest college graduate is 50 miles away.  Are you going to change your position based on what some sissified city liberal says?

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

I actually didn’t need another good reason to stay out of Chick-Fil-A, but it looks like I got one nonetheless.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

One of the many casualties of Project 2025 will be NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its subsidiary, the National Hurricane Center.  The motive for dismantling NOAA?  It’s “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.”

However, as one might suspect, all this comes at a huge cost.  There are somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 million people who live in hurricane-prone areas of the southeastern part of the United States whose property–and very lives–are endangered by these storms each year.   Project 2025 will shut them off from the information that could keep them safe.

What we’re seeing here is quite typical of Trump: a reckless disregard for Americans’ well-being and a disdain for science itself.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen probably wrote the content of the meme here as it applies to the Russian people under Putin.

Americans need to hope that it has no real applicability to their lives here in the United States.

In truth, this could go in either direction.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The meme here is from a reader (who misspelled “tantrums.”)

If I were a Democratic political strategist, I wouldn’t be trying to pin the concept of “weirdness” on Donald Trump and JD Vance.

That’s because, if we’re being honest with ourselves, we’re all weird in some way. To be weird is to be nonconforming.  Are men who cry weird?  Are people who don’t have televisions weird?

The problem with Trump and Vance is that they are profoundly hateful and dishonest people.  They have no regard for basic moral principles, and they’re aware that most of what they claim is patently untrue.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Electric Vehicles

The author of the meme here seems to be suggesting that driving an EV while the world is still transitioning away from gasoline is hypocritical.

That doesn’t show much insight or intelligence.

Yes, maybe his house has a gas generator for backup power (or perhaps he’s getting gas for his tractor). Is there something wrong with that?

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The former chairman of the Maine Republican party understands the profound and tragic changes that the GOP has undergone, and its current status as a cult of dishonesty.

Fortunately, a great many other Republicans have had that precise realization.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

If this were correct, the ship would sink if it was stationary.

The ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes discovered that the net upward force on an object immersed in water is equal to the weight of the water displaced by the object.

The ship floats because the weight of the water it displaces is equal to apparent weight loss of the ship.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Apparently, French surgeon and biologist Alexis Carrel fashioned his quote here from the great Friedrich Nietzsche and his masterpiece “Beyond Good and Evil,” which contains this, IMO the definitive explanation of existentialism, and the most beautiful single sentence ever written in Western philosophy:

In man, creature and creator are united: in man there is matter, fragment, excess, clay, mud, madness, chaos; but in man there is also creator, sculptor, the hardness of the hammer, the divine spectator and the seventh day.

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