@unk-p. Thank you for posting that solution to saving birds from wind turbines by just painting a blade. Birds are very visual creatures, so I can see how that would help, and I love it!
@dannyboy hmmmmm, a party split might help marginalize the cult and help the dems move forward. ?
100% with you! But I'll believe it when they actually go forth and do it. I mean, we're still waiting on charges on the former guy. ?. Feeling a little saltier today, particularly because the Republican Party has sunk so low that I now empathize with a Cheney. This would have been unthinkable in 2020.
@dannyboy found myself in the same situation sympathizing with Cheney and wondering when hell froze over.
I just don't understand why Cheney has not announced that she actually won today's vote, but widespread fraud made it seem otherwise.
Is anyone checking for bamboo? Wait!
How about traces of vodka?
@dannyboy found myself in the same situation sympathizing with Cheney and wondering when hell froze over.
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@coyote Thank you Coyote! Today I was pondering that exact question and now here is the answer. Light working! :)
On an uplifting note, below is an interesting article in today's NY Times which proposes a "Kinder, Gentler Capitalism" by one of the most elite: Lynn Forester de Rothschild...certainly one of the 1% of the 1% ...yet she maintains a clear moral compass and speaks out beautifully on the potential transformation of our conception of Capitalism and the responsibility Corporate America must acknowledge and take on.
May this be a harbinger of things to come.
The Mogul in Search of a Kinder, Gentler Capitalism - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
@lovendures I still laugh every time I read your comment.
Part of the Great Turning will be shift in how we define economic well-being. For years I have been bothered by the media's use of the Dow Jones Industrial Average as an indicator of our country's economic well being, which is it not. As the divide between the wealthy and everyone else has widened, using the DJIA as an economic indicator reflects a callousness insensitivity to the plight of working people. Recently the Boston Globe has written about this issue:
The Tyranny of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Re “All the news that’s fit for wealth” (Social Studies, May 9): A synopsis in last Sunday’s Ideas section discussed recent political science findings that newspaper reporting on the economy “was correlated with gains and losses for the rich but largely disconnected from [those] for the working class.” The researchers concluded that this was “because aggregate economic performance, which gets most of the coverage, had increasingly aligned with gains and losses for the rich.”
I would say, rather, that what we have been accustomed to think of as measures of “economic performance” have never been more than measures of returns to investors. We hear news reports daily, if not hourly, on the indices of the stock market. There is no analogous index for how working people fare from day to day or year to year — no Dick and Jane Average to compare with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, no index of living Standards of the Poor 500 to measure alongside the Standard & Poor’s 500.
Some enterprising economics or political science student should take on the project of constructing measures of the economic lives of ordinary people. As the saying goes, if you can’t count it, it doesn’t count.
Deborah Roher