Why Donald Trump Should Not Become President

Democrats have shown repeatedly that Donald Trump has great disdain for Americans of many kinds. He openly shown dislike or disdain for people of color, women, immigrants, and pretty much anyone but his own family. He has curiously had his clothing line made overseas and married an immigrant, so it is most confusing. We have shown clearly that he doesn't have the self-control we need in a leader. He has tried repeatedly to follow a script to give better speeches and he fails repeatedly. He is easily provoked by Tweets and seems to have a hair-trigger opinion on everything and everyone. He has regularly picked people he calls "the best" and yet they repeatedly lie or have been found to be doing business with Russians. It might even be possible that Trump himself is in debt to Russians or Chinese or others, but he refuses to release his tax records to let us see. So, aside from being divisive he is personally not up to the important job of national leader.

I can argue many of his policies are bad for America, but just as importantly they have been declared by experts (military or foreign policy) to be infeasible. He would separate America from its allies and make new enemies. He can't be trusted to keep us safe. His apparent fascination with nuclear weapons is just startling and horrifying. Then there is the question of whether he has policies he truly would execute. He has changed his stand on several policies overnight. It's really not clear what he stands for, except perhaps for the fantasmagorical Wall to keep out the invaders from the South.

His intelligence, his character, his truthfulness, his worldliness, his sincerity, are all in doubt. We have never elected such a person to be president and we shouldn't start now.

Solid Energy and other Tech News

I don't usually suggest investment in companies, but if this one "goes public" soon it could be a big investment win.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/solidenergy-systems-to-release-lithium-metal-battery/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bAY5195YHs

Another web site article on Solid Energy



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Microsoft Intrusiveness

At school we could potentially use any computer in the school.. We might use a computer in one classroom and another in another classroom or another in the library. We logged on with one network account and password rather than a local account for each computer. After using 15 accounts and passwords for the computer system, e-mail, Blackboard, MySchool, etc,. it occurred to me that I might want to use a password on my home computer. So, I added a familiar password. Then, after some weeks had gone by, I went to logon and I noticed the account was labeled Administrator. That surprised me because I specifically have an Administrator account aside from the local Standard account I use daily.

So, I investigated it. Why was my local Standard account now labeled Administrator?

I went to System Settings and there the account was shown as an Administrator AND that it now had the network logon account I have been using for school access to Microsoft Outlook (Microsoft's e-mail system). How could that have happened? Am I just forgetting something I have done? That's certainly a possibility these days.

Was this an accident I created or was this something Microsoft was doing to insinuate itself into my computer? Do they want everyone to login to Microsoft to use their home personal computer?

I had to cut off that tentacle immediately. I created another account and changed my personal computer's login to that local Standard account.

At school I used an Outlook account for e-mail and a regular Microsoft account to get access to some free software I could download for my school work. Had these followed me home? Then I noticed something else curious. When you 'manage' one of these "not my local Standard account"s it doesn't give you the option to simply delete the listing of it. It loads a browser and goes to the Outlook (Microsoft's e-mail system) login. Why would I want to login to Microsoft just to delete the listing of that account as a way to logon to my home computer. I'm not a Microsoft employee. If I want to use the Microsoft service I'll go to their webpage and logon there. I don't need to logon to my personal computer via that siter. At that moment the word "personal" seemed to be losing some of its meaning.

I decided to go through Control Panel to User Accounts and see if anything different appeared. It did. The old Windows 7 way showed the account as Standard. Clearly windows 10 was doing something new and different. The old Windows 7 User Accounts also didn't associate an e-mail address or corporate logon account with a home personal computer logon.

So, I now use the new standard user account to login at home, but I still have the Microsoft account listed as a way to logon to my own home computer. Strange.

QUESTION: Is Microsoft trying to further entangle itself with our home computers? What can be done to prevent it?

Healthy Eating

I finally finished my school work July 21st, so now my exercise and eating may return to normal healthier ways.

A couple of days ago I bought a rotisserie chicken and have been hacking away at it. Today was its last day. I also happened to have a can of chicken noodle soup. Inspiration hit and I decided to get the best chicken meat, chop it up and add it to the soup. Add the right amount of water, cook it for 5 minutes and great chicken soup.

This isn't amazing or hugely inspiring, but it is a step toward more cooking and less "out of the box" dinners.

I may also have time and reasons to blog a bit more now.

Hope you're all having a great summer. It's been pretty hot and humid here.

TRUMP REPUBLICAN PLATFORM TO OVERTHROW U.S. CONSTITUTION

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/07/19/3799596/single-radical-line-republican-party-platform/

Energy

This is a short post about a big topic and a couple of web posts/articles which explain it very well. Progress is being made and very quickly.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/05/12/3776728/climate-change-solutions/


In the thinkprogress post there is a link. I give it here for simplicity. It's got a ton of graphs and charts and you can browse it without reading a lot.

http://about.bnef.com/content/uploads/sites/4/2016/04/BNEF-Summit-Keynote-2016.pdf

If you had any doubt that electing Democrats, or any politicians, who believe in pushing for a more compitititive and "green" energy world could make a change, just look at these. It matters.

Update:  Already, better sunlight to electricity:

http://www.gizmag.com/solar-cell-electricity-efficiency-world-record-unsw/43384/

Elections Bring Hope for Change

I don't agree a lot with Bernie Sanders, but he, and most Democrats, recognize the dangers America faces because our economic system isn't working correctly. We would all like the economy to be growing at a faster rate, but as long as the benefits of that aren't distributed to everyone's benefit it's a worthless exercise -- or worse. Today America's corporations are hoarding money overseas and they're paying an already very low federal tax rate and they're not feeling any pressure to be especially entrepreneurial or patriotic. The effects of this are that the wealth being produced by Americans is being taken off-shore and used to the benefit of other peoples, that the federal government is (to a degree) bought and paid for, so it can't raise the minimum wage rate or the tax rate. One secondary effect is that the slow economy means it's hard for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates or to reduce supports to corporations. Another is that the debt problems means we can't really afford to waste money on military excursions around the world. That leads to other consequences we don't want. We need to pressure the fat and happy lazy rich corporations to pay their taxes, so we can pay down our debts, raise money to build infrastructure and help pay more for education. They should pay their workers more, so those people can put money back into the economy to begin a cycle upward instead of lazy circles in the sky. They should pay the profits they're holding to their stockholders, so it can be taxed. The rich corporations and their lackeys are killing us.

But, elections bring hope for change.

On the Republican side they are committed to not raising taxes, but indeed to lowering them on the rich and corporations. That would only exacerbate the problems.

On the Democratic side there is a radical, a Democratic Socialist, who has no supporters in Congress, and a more centrist pragmatic incrementalist who would happily work with anyone to solve these and other problems.

America has to choose. Let's hope they choose to make progress of some kind. We can't afford to fiddle while Rome burns.