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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Those of us who were paying attention to the 2016 Republican debates that winnowed the field of GOP hopefuls will remember John Kasich, then governor of Ohio.  He’s not unlike Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney in that he really doesn’t have a progressive bone in his body, but fairness demands that liberals regard him as essentially a sane and decent human being.

Having said that, I think Kasich is being diplomatic in what he said here.  I believe the unvarnished truth is not that he has a problem with Trump’s fueling grievances, but rather that he can’t endorse a candidate who’s criminally insane.

Whatever the truth may be, here’s just one more Republican whose words serve to block a second term for the former president.  Things are going downhill, and fast.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

This lady brings up a good point here, but the answer to the question she poses is obvious:  everyone is so wrapped up around the concept that Donald Trump may be re-elected that we have no mental bandwidth for anything else, and that vice presidents are generally inconsequential to the country’s well-being.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

A reader asks: My wife just said about some left over green veggies “ Don’t worry about those, I will salad them.” Grounds for divorce?

Ha!

My interpretation here is that your wife regards the English language the same way I do, i.e., as a tool for us to use to communicate, rather than a set of hard and fast rules.  She’s probably also aware that the way we use the language changes naturally over time, and that nobody living today knows exactly how we’ll be speaking and writing 50 years hence. I respect people who are so familiar with the language that they can make their own charming little contributions to it. In this case, introducing the use of the word “salad” as a verb.

I would point out, however, that there is a difference between this and simple, substandard grammar.  Someone asked the other day if the sentence, “My father taught my brother and I how to play poker” was acceptable.  The answer, of course, is that it’s acceptable only to people who don’t understand English grammar, and you don’t want to be among them.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

I was on a Zoom call the other day on which someone was trying to explain the hostility between two sects somewhere in Central  or Eastern Europe.   (Was it Hungary?  I can’t recall.)  The caller explained, “These people just don’t along with each other.”

As if that actually explains anything.

My thought:

How about we knock off this silly childish bullshit right now, while humankind still has a chance of having an organized civilization here in 50 years. 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

With each passing day it appears that Trump is losing a few more voters.  Take the story of the Haitians in Ohio as an example.

Who’s on Trump’s side in this discussion with the state’s governor?  Only the most hateful racists conceivable.

Don’t get me wrong: this country is home to one hell of a lot of hateful racists, but that number, whatever it actually is, is certainly not going to get the job done in November.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

Trump is revered by two groups:

The uneducated, whose ignorance on subjects like climate change prevents them from seeing that they are being lied to, and educated people of horrific character, who are thrilled that there are enough of these uneducated people to make Trump a viable candidate in yet a third consecutive presidential election cycle.

Is this a perfect storm of greed and stupidity that will take us on course to bake this planet?

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Are you telling me that the “Patriots Network” creates and promotes memes based on quotes that they themselves acknowledge to be fake? I’m struggling to think of anything more stupid.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

As shown at left, key public figures in red states are slamming Trump for his selfish and traitorous behavior.

Is it even possible that Texas will go with Harris in 2024?  Dems lost the Lone Star state by only 5.6% in 2020.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Energy/financial guru Robert Rapier writes:

JD Vance was the smoother speaker, and I thought if you didn’t consider the substance of what was being said, you might conclude that he won the debate. I thought Walz played too nice with him and didn’t call him out for many things. The thing about Vance is that he lies with absolute confidence. There were many questions Vance just didn’t answer, pivoting instead to his talking points.
What amazes me is that what’s at stake here in another four years in which the Unites States could be led by a criminal sociopath.  The situation, taken as a whole, couldn’t be any more dire.  Yet no one’s even mentioning the elephant in the room.
I guess everyone wants our candidates to behave respectfully and not to use the “C” word (criminal).   I don’t think I could refrain myself from saying something like, “Next month, some voters, and we’ll see how many, will go to the polls and cast their ballots for a man whom four separate grand juries, each manned by impartial Americans, handed down indictments including 91 felony counts, including Trump’s attempt to overthrow the U.S. government.
“Did Trump, as Mr. Vance asserts, ‘rescue Obamacare?’  Of course not.  That couldn’t be a more obvious lie.  In fact, he tried to kill it, with nothing to replace it with other than ‘a concept of a plan.’  But who cares, when we’re talking about electing a man who will soon go on trial for sedition and treason.”
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

The meme here reminds me of the late, great George Carlin, and his masterpiece explaining why he worships the sun, and not the traditional Judeo-Christian God:

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