Supt. Ryan Walters Convinced He Knows Things

I was simply reading this, then saw a bit about Supt. Walters. The news, as humorously presented as Wonkette does, is still sickening as to RWNJ logic, and none of us needs that. However. I did promise to update regarding Walters. So, here’s the link to the article, with the snippet about Walters. -A.

If We Can’t Blame Teachers Unions For Terrorism (Yes, Really!), Then The Terrorists Will Win by Rebecca Schoenkopf

It’s all a game of gotcha. With bodycounts. Read on Substack

(snip) “For his part, Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma schools chief who has been trying to Jesusify the state’s entire public school system, was pretty sure that these men committed these acts because the US school system taught them to hate America — to hate America so much that, again, they both joined the Army. Like big America-haters often do.

“Walters said:”

‘What a terrible day when we see terrorist attacks on American soil. It’s absolutely tragic and we’ve got to look as a country on how these things happen. We absolutely have to shut down the border, we can’t allow terrorists to come across the border. We also have to take a look at how are these terrorists coming from people that live in America?

‘You have schools that are teaching kids to hate their country, that this country is evil, you have the teachers unions pushing this on our kids, the radical Left wants people to hate this country. They’ve completely destroyed the integrity of the FBI by making them more concerned about DEI than about protecting Americans. It’s a major part of this.

‘And look, this is a real uncomfortable truth, and I know the Left is going to lose their mind, but listen: We cannot allow our schools to be terrorist training camps. We cannot allow our schools to teach our kids to hate this country. We cannot allow our kids to be taught that this is an evil country.

‘That’s why we’re getting back to the basics in Oklahoma, to make sure that our kids love this country, understand American values, understand the role that the Constitution, the Bible, the Declaration of Independence played in American history. Because we want patriots, and that’s going to be the focus of our schools.

“I suppose it’s possible that these men simply forgot that they hated America for several decades and then went on to commit terrorist attacks against the United States after remembering that they learned that Columbus committed genocide and that many of the Founding Fathers owned slaves in school — but it does seem a tad unlikely.” (snip)

I didn’t understand

It’s as sad of a thing to realize about myself as anything, a real disappointment, but I really didn’t care about that CEO of the Insurance Company that got murdered. I mean, I did – but wow!, we have been so benumbed by things happening, I just couldn’t be all that shocked. According to Fox News, I am to be ashamed for that. I know, go figure…

These same people who sent thoughts and prayers, yes both!, to the parents of the children in Ulvade, Texas and other places where guns were used to kill the innocent, tell me I’ve got to feel great compassion and be sad as someone who has profited off the death and destruction of so many lives and the fleecing of the willing and unwilling for billions of dollars. These people who have demanded the rights of gun owners everywhere and have told me so many times that the gun is not the problem, it is the user – but we can’t limit those users – now shed those crocodile tears when one of their patron saints to avarice is shot. Add to that, I’ve recently read that these C-level white shirts are increasing their personal protection bodyguards and, of course, that is a business expense that will be passed on to the customer. Of course.

Like most people, I carry various insurance – health, home, car, life. Not because I want to, but because I feel like I have to. And, that cost goes up, constantly. Unlike almost every other First and Second World Country, we in America – especially for the lower and middle income people, spend a horrible percentage of our money on the hope that we never have to use it, because if we did need to use it and it wasn’t there, it would financially ruin us. But, to actually use the health care insurance we pay so much for incurs costs in copays and deductibles that are difficult to afford. The irony of modern health care is that we are still using parasitic leaches and blood letting, they just wear suits now.

The second irony of America is that although this information is nothing new, we are still forced to use this model. Why? Because it is in the interest of the rich and powerful to maintain a status quo where they use the deck they’ve already marked to control the game. It is in the financial interest of the rich and powerful to not allow growth in this country. But, no worries, come to find out it is all to be blamed on the immigrant and the homosexual.

Hugs and good luck.

MSNBC: Trump’s reaction to the New Orleans attack went from bad to worse

Trump’s reaction to the New Orleans attack went from bad to worse
The president-elect’s initial response to the attack was cringeworthy — and then the Republican decided to double down on discredited misinformation.

Read in MSNBC: https://apple.news/A5Yx63MD0RnSniq3vPxFbzA

Shared from Apple News

Best Wishes and Hugs,Scottie

Florida GOP Rep Files Third Attempt To Ban Pride Flags – Joe.My.God.

https://www.joemygod.com/2025/01/florida-gop-rep-files-third-attempt-to-ban-pride-flags/

Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie

Fort Lauderdale Gay Man Killed By New Year’s Eve “Stray Bullet” While Hugging His Partner At Midnight – Joe.My.God.

https://www.joemygod.com/2025/01/fort-lauderdale-gay-man-killed-by-new-years-eve-stray-bullet-while-hugging-his-partner-at-midnight/

Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie

MAGA Host: We Need “Blanket Crackdown On Mosques” – Joe.My.God.

https://www.joemygod.com/2025/01/maga-host-we-need-blanket-mosque-crackdown/

Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie

WSJ: Trump Plans To Knowingly Defy Immigration Laws – Joe.My.God.

https://www.joemygod.com/2025/01/wsj-trump-plans-to-knowingly-break-immigration-laws/

Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie

It’s a new day, think I’ll get breakfast.

I’ve been staring at this damn screen for so long this morning that my coffee has gone cold, my eyes are scratchy, and I’ve become all too aware that I’ve not showered yet. My problem is I am really susceptible to depression, and it hits me hard in the winters.

As a result, I’ve been watching a lot of youtube crap. Scottie asked me to do these “Daily Thoughts”, but my problem is that I’ve had zero daily thoughts! I’m just restlessly flipping from video short to video short, then finally I find something interesting to write about and I’m stuck on telling you that I’ve got nothing to tell you.

For anyone out there who is like me, strangling on the crap this world forces me to take in, I say fuckitall. I’m scrapping this dang staring contest I’m having with my computer. I’m going to go wash my stinky butt, put on some grown up clothes and go eat something I didn’t have to make myself, something my doctor would most surely disapprove of.

Sorry Arteries. I’ve got some bad news coming to you…

Good Morning, Everyone! Let’s make today a good one. I’ll work on a real post later, Scottie. Or not. 🙂

Hugs.

Randy

Let’s talk about Trump, Musk, and a well-known historian….

Billions of people to benefit from technology breakthrough that ensures freshwater for the world

https://www.unisa.edu.au/media-centre/Releases/2024/billions-of-people-to-benefit-from-technology-breakthrough-that-ensures-freshwater-for-the-world/

The news below is grand news for the planet and the people everywhere.  Water is going to be a desperately needed highly valuable necessity.  Also I have another doctor’s appointment this morning.  Hugs

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04 December 2024

freshwater streaming into cupped hands.jpgA novel approach to make seawater evaporate faster than freshwater has been hailed as a significant breakthrough in desalination technology that will benefit billions of people worldwide.

Up to 36% of the world’s eight billion people currently suffer from severe freshwater shortages for at least four months of the year, and this could potentially increase to 75% by 2050, threatening the survival of humans.

Seawater desalination is one of the most effective strategies to alleviate the impending scarcity, but existing processes consume massive amounts of energy, leaving a large carbon footprint.

Researchers from the University of South Australia (UniSA) have already demonstrated the potential of interfacial solar-powered evaporation as an energy-efficient, sustainable alternative to current desalination methods, but they are still limited by a lower evaporation rate for seawater compared to pure water due to the negative effect of salt ions on water evaporation.

UniSA materials science researcher Professor Haolan Xu has now collaborated with researchers from China on a project to develop a simple yet effective strategy to reverse this limitation.

By introducing inexpensive and common clay minerals into a floating photothermal hydrogel evaporator, the team achieved seawater evaporation rates that were 18.8% higher than pure water. This is a significant breakthrough since previous studies all found seawater evaporation rates were around 8% lower than pure water.

“The key to this breakthrough lies in the ion exchange process at the air-water interface,” Prof Xu says.

“The minerals selectively enrich magnesium and calcium ions from seawater to the evaporation surfaces, which boosts the evaporation rate of seawater. This ion exchange process occurs spontaneously during solar evaporation, making it highly convenient and cost-effective.”

Considering the global desalination market – which numbers around 17,000 operational plants worldwide – even small declines in desalination performance can result in the loss of tens of millions of tons of clean water.

“This new strategy, which could be easily integrated into existing evaporation-based desalination systems, will provide additional access to massive amounts of clean water, benefitting billions of people worldwide,” Prof Xu says.

The researchers say the hydrogel evaporator maintained its performance even after months of immersion in seawater.

The next steps will involve exploring more strategies that can make seawater evaporation faster pure water evaporation and apply them into practical seawater desalination.

The findings have been published in the journal Advanced Materials.

Notes for editors

Making Interfacial Solar Evaporation of Seawater Faster than Freshwater” is authored by researchers from the University of South Australia, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Jinan University, Tianjin University, University of New South Wales, University of Adelaide, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Nanjing Forestry University. DOI: 10.1002/adma.202414045

The mineral materials used in the process included halloysite nanotubes (HNTs), bentonite (BN), zeolite (ZL), and montmorillonite (MN) in combination with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and sodium alginate (SA) to form a photothermal hydrogel.

 

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Media contact: Candy Gibson M: +61 434 605 142 E: candy.gibson@unisa.edu.au
Research contacts: Professor Haolan Xu E: haolan.xu@unisa.edu.au; Dr Gary Owens
E: gary.owens@unisa.edu.au