Environmental Groups Must Address Both Sides of Climate Change

Can 350.org, UCS, FOE, Greenpeace, etc... walk and chew gum?

Fossil fuels are, and always have been, key to the Industrial and the Information Ages. We aren't anywhere near being able to provide renewable energy to power the world we live in, so (like it or, preferably, not) fossil fuel production continues!

We must be able to provide the HVAC we are all accustom to, light for buildings, streets, etc... Then we must add all the renewable energy and infrastructure needed to power transportation...

That's an extremely tall, almost unbelievably so, order that we aren't, yet, taking seriously.

I started a company to take transportation over half way to reducing fuel consumption, and associated tailpipe emissions. It isn't being done by the established transportation industry players, because there are wealthy and powerful influences against anything that reduces hydrocarbon profits.

I recently testified about the aforementioned transportation issues to both the EPA and USDOT, but that, too, is an attempt to register a tortoise for a marathon.

It is well past time that 350.org, and all the other responsible environmental boosters, worked both sides of the problem. We owe that to the future generations from whom we lease the Earth.

 

Bill Maher Jumps the Shark

Bill Maher is a Qpublican talking point, and misleading his audience (of which I am still one) in a number of ways:

Bill Maher owes James Carville and Bill Clinton an apology.  Bill Clinton stated (at the Democratic National Convention), and James repeated (on Maher's TV show), the statistic (that could have easily been confirmed by Bill M., or his staff, at the Bureau of Labor Statistics website) that since the fall of the Soviet Union (the end of the Cold War; 1989) the US economy has added 51 million jobs; 50 million during Democratic administrations, and 1 million during Republican administrations.  Sounds, and is, fantastic...  Bill Maher called it, "Bullshit," and for that he owes Bill Clinton and James Carville an apology.  

I'm waiting!

 

Section 3 of the 14^th Amendment is real and applicable to many in the US Congress, SCOTUS and state election administrators (all who took an oath of office to the US Constitution, and broke it by having anything to do with election denial and January 6th, 2021;

Real investigations take a frustratingly long time, especially when it involves thousands of people and incredibly, enormous quantities of evidence;

Government is flawed because it is done by people. Our government has been hampered by decades of, “trying to shrink government till it can be drowned in a bathtub,” and, “Supply Side economics,” promoted by Republicans/Qpublicans (after January 6^th 2021) and Neo-liberal (confused) Democrats;

The vast majority of things you depend upon everyday are here because of government: roads, bridges, airports, seaports, public education, Post Office, electricity (Rural Electrification Act, etc...), technology (Federally Funded Research and Development Centers), etc;

Don't want to live in an authoritarian, dictatorship you have to vote and for only one (Democrat), of two (find an independent party with a governing presence, anywhere in these United States), political parties;

Find out what medical research believes was the actual count of the dead, the real consequence, of Covid;

What masks and isolation did for the Flu;

If Bill's prediction for the midterm elections are correct he can look in the mirror, as a part of the, “conservative media,” for the reason.

 

President Biden, the US, EU and NATO Against the Napoleon Complex...

President Biden has done well reasserting our strong connection with NATO and the EU, and thereby building the united opposition to Russia's attempt at a new empire.

Russia's attempt at empire is created largely in the vacant space, where a brain might exist, of Putin's head. However, Putin needs the support of the kleptocrats (Russian, aristocrat wannabes)...

President Biden has worked with NATO and the EU to begin cutting off Putin, and the kleptocrats, from the money they'd stolen from Soviet industry and people during the USSR's collapse. Money kept in foreign currencies (largely US dollars, outside of Russia) because the Ruble is barely worth the paper it's printed on.

Putin's largest problem in waging his war is losing the support of the kleptocrats.

If Putin proceeds with a war against Ukraine, Russia will suffer the kind of annihilation Iraq incurred during the liberation of Kuwait. The war will injure and kill many Russian and Ukrainian people (military and civilian)...

Hurting the purses of the kleptocrats sufficiently to give the megalomaniacal sociopath, that is Putin, large problems at home is the only, nearly, bloodless way to end this empire building folly.

Here Comes Da Judge

Judgment day, no not that one, approaches and Qpublicans seek cover for their exposed backsides.

Patterns of speech seem rushed and some are talking with the House Committee investigating the events that happened on, and the approach to, January 6^th 2021.

Former AG Bill Barr and former VP Mike Pence are realizing their activities and responses to events prior to the campaign for, election of, and activities during the 45^th administration have qualified them for Section 3 of the 14^th Amendment.

Members of the US Congress who would not allow witnesses to be subpoenaed, would not insist on an unredacted copy of the Mueller Report, for the first impeachment of the orange menace are complicit in all the events of the entire 45^th administration; are also subject to Section 3 of the 14^th Amendment.

If all the members of the US Congress had voted to impeach, convict, remove and had applied the previously referenced Constitutional Amendment, the events of January 6^th 2021 (the insurrection at the US Capital) would have been moot. The legislators would have upheld their oath of office and defended the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic... The vast majority of Republicans abandoned their oath of office thus becoming the Qpublican party, all subject to Section 3 of the 14^th Amendment.

If the current AG and DOJ do not act in time to protect the elections of 2022, ad infinitum, they too may be in violation of the oath they also took before assuming office.

Missed Messaging...

 Submitted to the Op-Ed at the Washington Post, was rejected (for reasons that will be obvious) for publication.

Consistently missing the mark is a tradition that current, “news,” media are apparently trying to perfect...

For instance: A largely problematic Biden administration.

Really?

Large and essential programs were passed into law early in the Biden administration: American Rescue Plan, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Done with a simple, filibuster susceptible, majority, oft hamstrung by two DINOs (Senators Manchin and Sinema), in the Senate.

Inflation was caused by vendors realizing increased profits via raised prices. Middle class customers found themselves with money in their pockets (often because of the aforementioned legislative success) still needed to purchase the higher priced goods and services.

Scarcity of goods because, starting decades ago, manufacturing moved to the far east; largely to mainland, communist China. This allowed a global pandemic to wreak havoc on supply lines. “Just in time,” business practices added to the lack of inventory on hand. These are the choices made by American, business management that eliminated their own ability to handle exceptions/extenuating circumstances.

Restoring the Voting Rights Act, stripped of effective core elements by the SCOTUS, has not been successful because of the aforementioned DINOs and the Jim Crow, filibuster in the US Senate.

Covid is not controlled because of, mostly, vaccinated killers abusing their access to exceptionally powerful, bully pulpits to preach against caution, science and vaccinations to their gullible audiences.

Considering the obstacles the Biden administration has had to deal with, while fixing the chaos created in government bureaucracies by the previous administration, the first year of said Biden administration has been quite reasonably successful.

To Restore Democracy, or Not...

A democratic republic only exists when eligible voters vote.

The USA is an oligarchy because a majority, barely, of eligible voters only vote on presidential elections.

A minority, of about 25%, of eligible voters show up, without fail, for nearly every election. That allows them to dictate who governs from the local school board to the state capitol and on to Washington, DC. That 25%, that always votes, were accurately described as, “deplorables,” by Hillary Clinton.

Some of the oft altogether too silent majority are complaining that government isn't meeting their needs. That complaint rings hollow when too many of us are not doing our requisite duty of voting in as close to every election as is possible.

Our local, state and federal government can't do what we want because, by and in large, we don't show up!

The US Senate can't deliver, for our silent majority, till we vote for a majority of Senators that is sufficient, at a minimum, to eliminate the Jim Crow filibuster.

If our majority doesn't show up in 2022, and beyond, there are elements of the Qpublican party being positioned to rig elections that they don't win so that that no longer matters... If that is allowed to happen the USA will switch from oligarchy to authoritarian and what you wanted from the Democratic party will never, can no longer, happen.

Don't believe it? Watch the US House's investigation of the January 6^th, 2021 insurrection, and the DOJ investigations into the Republican/Qpublican party. It ain't gonna be pretty! It will document how we lost our democratic republic.

Get the message out:

VOTE!

Vote Democrat, because at this time in US history they alone represent the idea of keeping a democratic republic.

Remember that 74% (99% - 25% = 74%) of the votes wins no matter how much money is thrown into the elections. That equation becomes history, unworkable, if we don't win by a large margin in 2022; and beyond.

 

Covid's Challenge

We, on Earth, have another global crisis, as if climate change just wasn't sufficient, known as a global pandemic.

After the discovery of Covid19's emergence into the world people sprang into action and put over fifty years of scientific and medical research into high gear.

Then, in these United States, politics kicked in and tried, with too much success, to impede the fight against Covid induced sickness and death.

From high and mighty, bully pulpits, vaccinated, self-anointed, killers preached anti-science to MAGA sheeple, who followed diligently.

Vaccs-holes and Covidiots emerged from the gullible audience and, as instructed, dissed all that science and medicine that would be used to help them. Then came that fateful day when they would be transported to a hospital where all, who worked within, would try to cure their largely self-inflicted maladies.

Despite the best efforts of science, and the support of many folks who provide life's essential services, nearly 1,000,000 people, in the US alone, have died; continue to die.

I have not, yet, joined the ranks of the, ”just die!” crowd, but sympathy for the self-inflicted misery and death, that challenges/threatens essential people at their jobs and works hospital staffs to well beyond weary grief and despair, wains.

I will avoid Covidiots for the plague they've chosen to become and will help, in whatever meager ways possible, to get those, who are aiding us in enduring this needlessly overwhelming tragedy, what they need.

Persevere!