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May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will leave the world a little better for your having been here. -- Ronald Reagan
Sunday, July 21, 2013
The Racist Leftist Lynching of George Zimmerman
This is another brilliant Bill Whittle analysis, this time of the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman event.
Saturday, July 20, 2013
The State of Nuclear Power and Reactors. US Stuck in Past, Rest of World Moves Ahead
Once again the Luddite "progressives" are keeping America from
being first at something. That would be nuclear energy plants. Back in the mid
1970's we were scheduled to build 100 nuclear rectors in 20 years. Well, there
were a couple accidents at a couple plants, Jane Fonda's "The China
Syndrome" propaganda movie against nuclear energy development, and that's
where we stopped. I bought into the whole anti nuke power thing back then.
Unlike Leftists/Progressives/Socialist/Democrats, I don't stay stuck in the
past, I change as things evolve, as do Conservatives. Those guys, Leftists, by the way,
only believe in evolution when they want to bash uninformed Christians; those
Christians that stay stuck in the past and don't change like
"progressives" falsely claim to do.
They're against fracking, which does not pollute ground
water as they claim, they just want to stop energy production, hurting the poor
the most, the people they claim they care the most about. Federal Government finally comes out with study showing fracking does not contaminate ground water here. How fracking works here. Note that the most
effective KwH per hour is nuclear production, after coal, which Obama is shutting down. All the other "green energy" stuff like wind and
solar that the neo-Luddites proclaim are best, are far and anyway the most expensive. Drilling
new oil wells, especially on Alaska 's North Shore ,
they were\are against, claiming the pollution and potential for accidents for
causing
spills and such were too great. The kind of drilling technology and
problems they are talking about was dated when I worked on rigs in the 1970's.
Again they just want to stop energy production. Same with the Keystone
Pipeline. There are no emissions, no pollution issues, no safety issues. They
just want to stop energy production. Just take a look too at Obama and his
various energy and pollution departments just illegally closing down
production; offshore and on Federal land. Of course there's been a huge boost
in energy production from gas and oil, but it's all on private land; Obama of
course takes credit for the increased production.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world has moved ahead with nuclear
reactors with great success and close to zero problems. Here's some examples of
what's being done in the rest of the world. Westinghouse has a reactor, the
AP-1000, and has built six of them in China ; they are online. (The
Chinese of course reverse engineered them and build their own now.)
Another reactor is the Areva 1,700 megawatt European Pressurized
Reactor (EPR) which is a new (oh no! cry the Democrats, something new!) design,
also coming online in China .
The Russians are building reactors in India , Vietnam ,
Bangladesh , Turkey , Belarus
and Iran .
We could be building them there, making gazillions of dollars, employing
Americans, saving the environment and stopping the bleeding the of poor of money
they don't have to spend on energy.
There's even little reactors, Small Modular Reactors (SMR)
that can be manufactured in plants and put together on site. It's 125
megawatts, about the size of a back porch; each one could provide energy to about
70,000 people. I'm reminded of a sci-fi series where even watches were nuclear
powered. By the way, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission refuses to even
recognize SMR's.
Nuclear waste...that canard. Uranium was used in the 1950's
for awhile beyond. It's not needed, modern reactors mostly use thorium, which
produces about one tenth of the waste, and is less dangerous, than uranium
waste. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission refuses to recognize thorium just like
they refuse to recognize SMR's. We have the multi $billion Yucca Mountain
here in Nevada ,
which has way more capacity than necessary to safely store the thorium waste.
The issue here is more the transportation. Government knuckleheads want it
brought though Clark County , the most densely populated part of Nevada , by truck mostly
and some by rail. Geeeze, here's a novel idea, build a road or rail to Yucca
Mountain not passing though heavily populated areas. Of course the Nuclear bureaucrats
have lame excuses why they can't, but they're knuckleheads, and it's another
red herring to block the use of nuclear power.
There's a breeder reactor called an Integral Fast Reactor.
It doesn't have much waste, it mostly generates reusable fuel. There was one
that had been running in Idaho
for about thirty years until Bill Clinton shut it down. Russia has one, been
building it and selling since the 1980's all over the world, Heard of any
accident's?
Even Leftist Bill Gates recognizes the safe use of nuclear
energy. There's a kind of design call Traveling Wave that runs on depleted
uranium. Hey, we can use traditional waste and create energy. How 'bout that? Well,
he and his group tried getting those started up here, and of course the Nuclear
Energy Commission said no. The Chinese are building them now. They could be being
built here, creating jobs and providing clean low cost energy, but noooooo.
Another canard is terrorists can get the uranium waste and
make bombs. There are more efficient and cheaper ways to make nuclear bombs. That's
how they did stuff a couple decades ago.
Using the right processing, waste is not a problem, and can
be safely stored in small rooms really. But we've built Yucca Mountain
so we may as well use it. All we need is a small room in it.
One of the things totalitarian governments have to do to get
and maintain power is to create shortages of what citizens need. We have
ObamaCare and Medicare to make health care limited and expensive, making citizens
dependent on the State for it. We have
the stopping of energy production through putting the kibosh on pipelines,
drilling, fracking, coal and nuclear energy.
Progressives, neo Luddites. Hate progress, hate clean air, hate poor people.
Malala Yousafzai- UN Speech by 16 Year Old Girl Shot in Face by Taliban
When this girl was 11 or 12 years old she began speaking out
against the Taliban and others that keep girls out of school. That was in 2009.
She continued to speak out for education and against the atrocities visited
upon women. In 2012 she was shot in the face, twice, by Taliban. She survived
and is now living in England
and is back in school.
The Taliban are still trying to kill her and her father.
Recently they've published a letter condemning Malala and justifying their
attempt to kill her, and their continued desire to carry out her murder. Adnan
Rasheed, a Taliban leader, is the author of the letter condemning Malala, and
it has gained traction in the Islamic world, mostly condemning her for being a
tool of the West, that she should be condemning the West, drone strikes, that
she's pushing UN propaganda and the education she advocates is against the
teachings of Islam. It's not clear how many, but apparently millions of
Islamists agree with him. More in a article here.
Unfortunately, the UN is not for Western education, liberty
and human rights. They pay lip service to it only. The UN is anti West, anti
American, anti Christian, anti democracy. They want a top down world government
and obedience to a world State.
This young woman is brave beyond words, and though speaking
to people that don't buy into her message, she's gotten her message out. We
love her and support her for that.
Labels:
Adnan Rasheed,
Islam,
Malala Yousafzai,
Taliban,
UN,
United Nations
Thursday, July 18, 2013
In the Name of Security- Ignoring the Fourth Amendment
True of any totalitarian state, using the reason of security
to control citizens has reached epic proportions. Like much else the Obama
Regime and the Democrat Party does, there's a lot of anti-Constitutional,
serious violations of that and legislated law.
We have of course the NSA and it's massive spying on US
citizens. Spying on journalists and News organizations (even Leftist ones that
support the totalitarian Obama regime), IRS spying on and trying to financially
cripple organizations that oppose Obama and his Leftist oligarchy, and TSA
harassment of ordinary law abiding citizens traveling within the US. We have
Homeland Security buying up ten of millions of rounds of ammunition, reportedly
as much or more per person than what's allocated to military personal. That
sounds suspiciously like a domestic military force.
Just a reminder of what the Fourth Amendment requires of the
government. "The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States
Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights that guards against unreasonable
searches and seizures, along with requiring any warrant to be judicially
sanctioned and supported by probable cause. It was adopted as a response to the
abuse of the writ of assistance, which is a type of general search warrant, in
the American Revolution. Search and seizure (including arrest) should be
limited in scope according to specific information supplied to the issuing
court, usually by a law enforcement officer, who has sworn by it. The Fourth
Amendment applies to the states by way of the Due Process Clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment." [Wikipedia]
I'll say the usual and obvious here. If a Republican president
and his political party were violating the Forth Amendment this openly and
outrageously, Democrats/Leftists/Socialists would be screaming bloody murder.
Remember the big kerfuffle with Bush II and the Patriot Act allowing Feds to
check what people checked out of the library? Or tracking terrorist
organizations financials. Or listening to known terrorist phone conversations?
Oh my God, Bush is a dictator! All our rights have been violated!
And yet, here we have a president and his political party
clearly ignoring the Constitution and openly spying on citizens. The Federal Government's
[anti] law enforcement agencies focus on the law abiding. A couple of recent
examples that have just emerged that is even more blatant violations of
citizens' rights are searching cars in airports without a search warrant, and
police cars that record license plates on tens of thousands of cars, and those
go into a national tracking database.
Here's the report of searching cars at the airport without a
search warrant or notifying the owner of the car. Full article here.
Here's what being done by the government monitoring cars.
They justify it by saying there's no expectation of privacy, this is done in
public domain, and there's no intent of using the information to track or
monitor the public. Seriously? Of course it is.
" WASHINGTON (AP) — Chances are, your local or state
police departments have photographs of your car in their files, noting where
you were driving on a particular day, even if you never did anything wrong.
Using automated scanners, law enforcement agencies across
the country have amassed millions of digital records on the location and
movement of every vehicle with a license plate, according to a study published
Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union. Affixed to police cars,
bridges or buildings, the scanners capture images of passing or parked vehicles
and note their location, uploading that information into police databases.
Departments keep the records for weeks or years, sometimes indefinitely."
Full article here.
It amazes me that so many Americans are willing to submit to
being spied on, harassed, inconvenienced, and have all their private movements,
their health issues, their communications and everything else in their lives
monitored by the government in violation of the Constitution and all laws that
flow from it.
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Obama Supporters Sign Petition to Repeal the BILL OF RIGHTS
Low Information Voters. Just frightening, and explains much about how we're in a situation socio-economically that indicates severe decline and the rise of totalitarianism.
Labels:
Bill of Rights,
Mark Dice,
Obama,
US Constitution
"Austerity" Is Actually Government Growth and a Bunch of BS
Base line budgeting, only reduces the rate of growth. If last year the government increased spending by 10% and this year they only increase spending 8%, we are told that government spending is being cut cut cut, killing old people, causing starvation, poverty, babies are dying, pollution is getting worse, employment is being forced up....on and on it goes. Then we are told "austerity" measures are being used. What a bunch of BS.
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