Whacko Politics
Another Titanic Disaster
This is what we get for letting the inmates run the asylum . . .
Find Global Warming and Climate Change resources HERE.
Especially read how the Sun works and about how sunspots affect global temperatures.
Have a Nice Nuke
The Democrats and the Obamadministration think it’s OK for Iran to enrich nuclear fuel for that country’s energy needs, yet the moratorium on new nuclear facilities for the US continues. Why is it OK for them and not OK for us?
At least some members of the U.S. House and Senate are trying to get some traction for nuclear energy by leveraging the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) myth.
Via Planet Gore
We Need 100 Nukes by 2030 [Carl Shockley]
After fumbling over the Waxman-Markey initiative for several months, Republicans have finally hit their stride. Both House and Senate members are quickly falling behind the rallying cry, “100 New Reactors by 2030.”
“I think global warming is a real problem but I don’t think the solutions the Democrats are coming up with are going to accomplish anything,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.), head of the Senate GOP caucus. “The only thing that’s going to allow us to cut carbon emissions is clean nuclear energy. We built 100 reactors between 1970 and 1990. We can do the same thing now. If global warming is the inconvenient problem, then nuclear power is the inconvenient answer.”
Alexander and three other Tennessee legislators were on hand Wednesday morning as Babcock & Wilcox introduced its new “mPower” 125-megawatt modular reactor that it will submit to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2011. The $750 million reactor will be built in a factor and shipped to the site by rail, where it would be completely buried underground and refuel only once every five years. “Everything in this reactor would be made in America,” said Republican Bob Corker, Tennessee’s other senator.
Congressman Zach Wamp (R., Tenn.) warned that the United States is falling behind other countries in nuclear technology. “What we’re talking about here isn’t just a revival of the nuclear industry,” he said. “We’re talking about an American industrial renaissance.
Power generation using conventional coal technology has been mathematically proven to have little effect on AGW. We should continue to use coal powerplants. In addition, we should resume nuclear generation, as it is clearly a better and more efficient method of producing the energy our nation needs, regardless of whether it actually does anything to improve the environment.
L.A. Failure
A while back in a post about bad mayors (think Ray Nagin) we called out Antonio Villaraigosa for what he is – a failure.
So much promise, so much disappointment:
In preparing for this month’s cover story, an open letter to Antonio Villaraigosa, writer-at-large Ed Leibowitz spoke to a range of civic figures to plumb their views. Whether from critics or supporters, the opinions were near unanimous: The mayor, who started his first term with such promise, has been a terrible disappointment. With a couple of exceptions, all the conversations were off the record—Ed was free to quote the person but not identify them. Which is to say, these civic figures were willing to say things about the mayor in private that they wouldn’t say in public. One can easily imagine some of their reasons. They didn’t want to alienate a powerful elected official whose help for a project or a campaign they might need in the future. This isn’t unusual.
It would be impossible, for example, to report on Washington, D.C., and Hollywood—two cultures where everyone is worried about offending the person they just knifed in the back—without having off-the-record conversations.
Speaking of Ray Nagin, read this.
Taxes and Tea
The taxes are finally done. I procrastinated as long as I reasonably could, but dove into the depths of the IRS and Franchise Tax Board murk last weekend. The results are that both the FTB and IRS vacuumed the funds from my account early today, even before I had a chance to tell my money goodbye.
If anything could turn a mild-mannered nice guy, like me, into a ‘radicalized right-wing extremist,’ it would be tax season. I had a notion to head over to one of those ‘tea parties’ with my fellow extremists, but now that the taxes are done, I’m feeling better. I have to get back to regular life mode and attend to making my living, and the living of numerous deadbeats and financial bailouts that steal need my money.
As for my fellow extremists going to the tea parties, I wish them well. Don’t let ACORN and other communist organizers upset the teacarts. Hang in there and get plenty of media coverage (besides FOX, that is).
Smokescreen
With the passage of the Porkulus and Omnibus, a provision to levy a new tax on tobacco products will soon go into effect. Folks out there will be paying almost double for a pack of cigarettes.
Now, during the campaign, Obama made sure to tell low-income voters that they would benefit from the taxes he would enact on the ‘rich.’ What he failed to tell the smokers among those low-income folks, was that they would be paying ‘sin taxes.’
I hope all you smokers out there that voted for this disaster of a president enjoy paying your eighty dollars a carton.
Obama? He don’t care – he can afford the tax on his butts.