Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation Hearing: What we know- He is surrounded by multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and a rape accusation for which he paid off a woman as part of a non-disclosure agreement, and various other mysogynistic conduct that even his own mother condemned, has a long history of alcohol abuse, has made blatant anti-Islamic comments, and was forced to step down from leadership of two veterans organizations, racking up over a 400K debt at one of them. The man’s only job qualification seems to be emplyment with Fox News where he holds down the couch on the week end version of Fox and Friends, but is the man Trump has chosen to lead the storming the beaches of …
Greenland. This country has lots of cool stuff- offshore oil, and under the frozen surface a dreamscape of rare earth elements and prescious metals. And ice, lots and lots of ice. Ice that is melting at an alarming rate, which creates all sorts of problems related to …
Climate change. It’s in the news lately for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which are rising sea levels, altered ocean currents and weather patterns due to ice melt, but most prominently because of the California wild fires. Apopalyptic destruction seems to always spur the best GOP climate deniers into action, but do all the finger pointing and pontificating you want, lush vegetation growth spurred by floodwaters rapidly drying out under historically hot weather conditions creates enough fuel for an uncrontrollable inferno. Throw in record breaking winds picking up speed blowing through canyons and downhill and you better get out of the way of what is forthcoming. It is so Republican to politicize tragedy and threated to restrict emergency funding, but that’s what they do. What’s to stop Democrats from threatening to do the same to Louisiana or Florida or Iowa every time homes are rebuilt below sea level, in an historic hurricaine corridore, or a flood plain? Common sense and compassion more than likely. But the incoming administration is poised to implement as much of their cruel Project 2025 as possible, and it includes reversing any regulations intended to protect the environment. That has to resonate alarmingly to people living in …
Greenland. Besides the abundance of natural assets already mentioned, that territory has strict regulations that protect wildlife and the environment and stopped oil and gas exploration last year. Greenlanders have free healthcare and a generous social security system. With rumors of a government takeover by a country presided over by a convicted felon, sex offender and racist and with a legislative body that withholds disaster funding from its citizens unless they do exactly as they wish simply to score political points, I doubt if the people of Greenland will be standing around the office water cooler saying “Oh ya, give me some of that.”