He pled guilty to a pair of tax-related misdemeanors. The felony gun charge was subject to a pretrial diversion, whatever that actually means. I think what it means is he won't be charged with a felony weapons count, but what he still has to do to avoid said charge isn't all that clear.

The sad thing is a lot of poor people plead guilty for stuff they didn't do just to avoid the timed money needed to deal with courts.

There were about a zillion witnesses who said otherwise.

Most of the "affidavits" weren't worth the paper they were written on, and all the lawsuits were merrily laughed out of court for lack of evidence. 

The reason they're going after Trump is they have very solid evidence that he committed some fairly serious crimes.

Still, he is a citizen and deserves the assumption of innocence until proven guilty just like any other citizen.  I just hope that someone as famous (or perhaps infamous) as him can get a fair trial. Celebrities have been in and out of courtrooms for many years, and jurors seem to be very sober about their responsibilities, at least in my experience.

I don't think anyone will ever be able to answer that to everyone's satisfaction.
But it's enough for me to realize that man contributes to some extent, and we should try to diminish that amount.

I love the outdoors.  I love swimming in the river and the ocean.  I love mountain hiking.  But everywhere I go I see litter and pollution.  I was hiking a remote trail in Alaska three years ago and I saw plastic water bottles and plastic shopping bags thrown around.
When the Intracoastal waterway has a particularly high tide, I pick up all kinds of plastic from the banks when it recedes.

Why can't people do something about that?

When I was a kid living in South Philly (around 60 years ago) we would go over the Penrose and the Walt Whitman bridges to and from New Jersey.  Even as a kid I watched all of those smoke stack along the river belching black smoke and I wondered how long it would take to fill the whole sky with that shit.

When I was in my '20s living in South Georgia I worked at the Pulp & Paper mill.  Boy that job stunk.  Literally.  We had a new director of operations come in began a drive to clean up our smoke stacks.  One of the processes involved filtering the smoke and recovering chemicals that had been being pumped into the air.  I don't have details but I do remember a headline in the local paper saying that the Pulp Mill was saving thousands of dollars by recovering those chemicals, and the stink improved and our cars didn't need washing every day any more.  More like that could be done.

I know it's true that the climate has been changing for as long as there has been a climate.  Change isn't the real problem.  It is rapid change that kills.  And I have no doubt that man is speeding up that change, even though I have no idea how much.

How much poison would you take knowing that enough will kill you, but you don't know how much that is?  Would you keep taking that poison until someone could tell you exactly? (Bacon fat doesn't count).

Why are we not concerned with slaves in our current societies?   African nations have slaves, so do middle eastern countries.  China has slaves, as well as other Asian countries.  Same in South America. 

The US has none, and hasn’t had any since the mid 1800’s, but yet we seemed obsessed with ancient slavery by those who are trying to profit from it.

C’mon democrats!   Call the Chinese out!   Start massive protest at Chinese embassies!