Poor Dok. There are times when his enthusiasm for good climate news interferes with his expertise at rhetorical analysis.
That's okay, that's what friends are for. I got your back, Dok! Anyway, one might note that Fox's tactical deployment of scare quotes around the term "diverse generation" betrays the only part Fox thinks their old, white and resentful audience would despise about this measure: the goodies aren't going to old white bigots.
"Apparently it was supposed to be outrageous that a jobs training program didn’t require young people to already have work experience in a field where they’d, um, gain that work experience."
Idiots. That's like complaining about people joining the army with no military experience, ridiculous.
This is a good time to remember that thanks to the traitors on the United States Supreme Court, PRESIDENT Biden can do any damn thing he wants, and no one can do jack about it. And by "any damn thing" I mean ANY DAMN THING.
This is good time to remember that the final arbiter of whether or not ANY DAMN THING Biden does is an official act will be the United States Supreme Court.
I feel the same way about the crew who built "Going to the Sun Mountain" road in Glacier. Scary to consider it now, let alone with the equipment they had available.
Yosemite was wild to me, the super gravelly switchbacks w rarely any guardrails & people all driving but gaping at the views, & also too the tiny guard rails if at all at scenic areas w massive drops… & the inevitable idiots tryna take selfies and clown at the edges 😅 I had look away sometimes it was stomach lurching watching these mostly dudes clowning right on the edge of life/death literal abyss, no safety gear usually in flipflops 😜
It’s stunning too obviously, just yikes people 😂… except the bad asssses hanging / climbing El Capitan w lights at night… whoa 🤩
I recall the mural in the post office in the small town I lived in while young, late 1950s and early 1960s. With a library in the basement. My mother would take me there when she went shopping and I would lay in the back of the station wagon and read. Those were good old days, at least for me.
I am grateful that the science-denying deplorables are otherwise engaged. In late September here in eastern Washington where the leaves SHOULD be turning and falling while temperatures swiftly decline to more chilly lows it is unseasonably warm and not at all autumnal. It still feels like late July around here, and at this moment in time there are communities in Florida being inundated with rising water as several tornado warnings continue in surrounding areas.
Our confounded weather patterns are now killing people. This is NOT anything remotely acceptable and it's all OUR fault.
I've worked on funding for a lot of highway and road projects, and EJ is a huge component of these things, more because it's trying to undo literal decades of damage that previous projects have done. Granted, it's a hell of a lot of work, but it's also trying to rebuild communities that have been decimated by awful and almost exclusively racist past practices.
When Interstate 81 was built right through downtown Syracuse, NY it split the city into haves and have nots. Now that the viaduct that was built is too decrepit to repair, the state plans to remove it, redirect the highway onto its spur around the city, and build downtown parks and trails in the soon-to-be open areas. Whether those old neighborhoods (why of course they were Black neighborhoods, why would you ask?) return to any previous glory remains to be seen.
In the Twin Cities, the interstates managed uncannily to split up formerly prosperous Black neighborhoods and turn them into slums where all of a sudden you have to go 12 blocks to get to the grocery store 3 blocks away.
I live in one such. It's returning to prosperity only just now; after about 60 years.
"'Biden's climate corps will hire a "diverse generation" of 20,000 Americans to "tackle climate change"; no work experience required.' Apparently it was supposed to be outrageous that a jobs training program didn’t require young people to already have work experience in a field where they’d, um, gain that work experience."
I read the derision quotes as something like "stealing from you to give more free stuff to the darkies." Essentially, Welfare Cadillacs version one billion dot oh.
Good News for today. Thanks Doc.
Are we all being issued ginger raccoons to battle climate change? If so, do we get a bamboo starter pack as well?
The Red Panda likes
to play in the snow
and she goes out to play at night
when the light is low
Poor Dok. There are times when his enthusiasm for good climate news interferes with his expertise at rhetorical analysis.
That's okay, that's what friends are for. I got your back, Dok! Anyway, one might note that Fox's tactical deployment of scare quotes around the term "diverse generation" betrays the only part Fox thinks their old, white and resentful audience would despise about this measure: the goodies aren't going to old white bigots.
That's a lot of new people to rake the forest.
I'll say it again: Biden is underrated.
Maybe in time he'll get the credit he deserves.
But but but inflation! 2 dozen eggs cost 2.99!
“the combination of left-wing social justice ideology and environmentalism.”
Yes please.
That oughtta go on a plaque somewhere.
"Apparently it was supposed to be outrageous that a jobs training program didn’t require young people to already have work experience in a field where they’d, um, gain that work experience."
Idiots. That's like complaining about people joining the army with no military experience, ridiculous.
I would love to see the right wing rage machine unplugged, dismantled and disposed of in an environmentally safe manner.
This is a good time to remember that thanks to the traitors on the United States Supreme Court, PRESIDENT Biden can do any damn thing he wants, and no one can do jack about it. And by "any damn thing" I mean ANY DAMN THING.
This is good time to remember that the final arbiter of whether or not ANY DAMN THING Biden does is an official act will be the United States Supreme Court.
I remember as a kid seeing plaques on many buildings built by the WPA.
Libraries, post offices, city halls, fire stations, all kinds of public buildings.
And the national parks were made useable by the CCC.
The trail to the top of Emerald Lake in Yosemite is steps carved out of the stone
mountain. It has ONE guard rail. ONE. It is at 10,000 ft above sea level, but the valley
floor is at 4,000 ft. So be safe.
Now imagine the crew working to hack out that trail and install the guardrail.... (shudder)...
I feel the same way about the crew who built "Going to the Sun Mountain" road in Glacier. Scary to consider it now, let alone with the equipment they had available.
Yosemite was wild to me, the super gravelly switchbacks w rarely any guardrails & people all driving but gaping at the views, & also too the tiny guard rails if at all at scenic areas w massive drops… & the inevitable idiots tryna take selfies and clown at the edges 😅 I had look away sometimes it was stomach lurching watching these mostly dudes clowning right on the edge of life/death literal abyss, no safety gear usually in flipflops 😜
It’s stunning too obviously, just yikes people 😂… except the bad asssses hanging / climbing El Capitan w lights at night… whoa 🤩
I recall the mural in the post office in the small town I lived in while young, late 1950s and early 1960s. With a library in the basement. My mother would take me there when she went shopping and I would lay in the back of the station wagon and read. Those were good old days, at least for me.
Sounds wonderful.
WPA built all sorts of stuff in California, especially post offices and country road bridges. Those bridges were built to last.
Coit Tower!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coit_Tower
Yep. During the Depression everybody and their dog came here.
So we had the people. Grapes of Wrath type stuff.
My grandparents came from Oklahoma and Missouri during the dust bowl.
Up until 10 years ago, US Route 1 here was still the concrete roadway poured by the WPA back in the 1930s.
I am grateful that the science-denying deplorables are otherwise engaged. In late September here in eastern Washington where the leaves SHOULD be turning and falling while temperatures swiftly decline to more chilly lows it is unseasonably warm and not at all autumnal. It still feels like late July around here, and at this moment in time there are communities in Florida being inundated with rising water as several tornado warnings continue in surrounding areas.
Our confounded weather patterns are now killing people. This is NOT anything remotely acceptable and it's all OUR fault.
It's always amazing how so-called conservatives want nothing to do with conserving a climate that allows human civilization.
Republicans are not and really never have been conservative. It's just a term they co-opted but do not live up to.
it's that whole dominionist bullshit plus what Georgiaburning said below. Religion will destroy the earth
We start a war in the Middle East that makes Jesus come back; he fixes everything.
Film at 11.
Don't we all have to be goatherders after that?
Yes, but goats are cool. I learned that on TikTok.
Baby goats are amazingly cute.
Indeed. I think that's in the Old Testament, even.
There's an "except for the piebald ones" clause, but yes.
I've told people I'm actually a conservative and I despise the GOP because for many reasons it's true.
Yeah, today's GOP is about conserving the wealth and power of the wealthy and powerful.
A government strong enough to oppress but too weak to help the people.
I've worked on funding for a lot of highway and road projects, and EJ is a huge component of these things, more because it's trying to undo literal decades of damage that previous projects have done. Granted, it's a hell of a lot of work, but it's also trying to rebuild communities that have been decimated by awful and almost exclusively racist past practices.
Good. The interstate highway system sliced and diced the San Francisco Bay Area, especially Oakland and Hayward.
When Interstate 81 was built right through downtown Syracuse, NY it split the city into haves and have nots. Now that the viaduct that was built is too decrepit to repair, the state plans to remove it, redirect the highway onto its spur around the city, and build downtown parks and trails in the soon-to-be open areas. Whether those old neighborhoods (why of course they were Black neighborhoods, why would you ask?) return to any previous glory remains to be seen.
In the Twin Cities, the interstates managed uncannily to split up formerly prosperous Black neighborhoods and turn them into slums where all of a sudden you have to go 12 blocks to get to the grocery store 3 blocks away.
I live in one such. It's returning to prosperity only just now; after about 60 years.
"'Biden's climate corps will hire a "diverse generation" of 20,000 Americans to "tackle climate change"; no work experience required.' Apparently it was supposed to be outrageous that a jobs training program didn’t require young people to already have work experience in a field where they’d, um, gain that work experience."
I read the derision quotes as something like "stealing from you to give more free stuff to the darkies." Essentially, Welfare Cadillacs version one billion dot oh.
A generation prepared to contend with the future is something that intimidates the hell out of conserfaturds.
They are incapable of responsible aforethought. ALL of their energies are focused upon what they perceive to be the current primary threat.
Indeed. Most are incapable of finding their own asses using both hands.
Wow. If I were a job-age American I would prolly JUMP at one of these opportunities.