Lets go nuke - and I've got an answer for the spent fuel!

I found a new blog, via Machias Privateer, she was talking about a mini nuke plant- seems as if I'd heard about it before, probably in Popular Mechanics?

It's a self contained safe nucleARrrr(Zippo) battery. Toshiba calls it a battery because there are no moving parts.

This new blog gives alot more information about it.

It seems alot safer than our old ones, and even my technically illiterate butt knows it'll be ALOT safer than the Russians'.
It's self contained and about as big as a water tower.
It would be a great thing for Cali, but the enviro wacos would rather see an entire mountain range full of ugly white windmills (that KILL birds) than neighborhood discrete powerplants.

Toshiba offered it to a small town in the Arctic Circle. All this small town of Galena, Alaska has to do is get the DoE to approve it- about 2 years of paperwork and fighting anti-everything envromentalists. Yes I know nothing's 'free" it's to show off the technology, ok.

The thing has an anticipated life of 30 years, and basically no maintenance, since it uses a non-pressurized liquid sodium cooling system, and a "mirror" array to keep the reaction going- something goes wrong, move a "mirror", it'll stop.

Oh, as for the nuclear waste, why not send it into the sun?
-Gets it to a place safe for us.
- The sun won't even feel it- since it'll vaporize long before it hits the surface.
-As an additional plus, since it'll be so comparativly mild, it(ANYTHING we shoot at the sun)will cool it down a little, and help reduce "Global Warming".

Gawd am I brilliant?

Dear Time-Warner,

I know your company is a bunch of Liberal sycophants- but your channel 07 is SUPPOSED to be a TV GUIDE channel. When I go there I want to see what's on your line-up- NOT the Rivers' kissing ass on the Hollywood elete.

I went there SPECIFICALLY so see where the OSCARS were NOT.

I sure am glad the girl I talked to when I moved in here convinced me that not only was I NOT watching Time-Warner, they didn't WANT me to sign up.

Does anybody remember the
shoot-out in Tyler this week?

Anyone? I'm sure my two loyal readrs do- they're from here (Texas).

It had all the ingredients the MSM wants for an anti-gun story (Angry male, AK-47 *ASSAULT* rifle, dead Ex-wife, dead by-stander, wounded Cops)- EXEPT that it didn't end with the slaughter of any more innocent people.

And it was interrupted by (legally) ARMED citizens.

Via Boortz

I didn't know E-Bay had this , , ,

But The pet Jawa wants you to help out Jeff Gannon , somehow- don't know what E-BayPorn has to do with him. But if Jawa sez it'll help, then, , , ?

The Ward Churchill experience- part,,,ummm -whatever

I was just checking out the $10 Mil payoff to Chief Forked-tongue (not true-yet), when I ran accross references to his military experiences.

I "AskedJeeves" about it, and he gave me this from Free Republic .

I haven't been paying alot of attention to it- he's a loudmouth lib who's chickens are finally comming home to roost. I hadn't heard about his 'Nam heroism, tho. Bill Clinton could have used him to buff HIS military record.

The "smartest" thing Cliff EVER said on Cheers!

One afternoon at Cheers, Cliff Clavin was explaining
the buffalo Theory to his buddy Norm. And here's how
it went:
"Well ya see Norm, it's like this....A herd
of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest
buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the
slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed
first. This natural selection is good for the herd as
a whole, because the general speed and health of the
whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of
the weakest members."

"In much the same way, the human brain can only
operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive
intake of alcohol, as we all know, kills brain cells,
but naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest
brain
cells first. In this way, regular consumption of
beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the
brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why
you always feel smarter after a few beers."

Dean Esmay has a challenge, , ,

He wants you to name any Democratic (a real democracy, not one with Democratic in it's name) that's been in a deep, prolonged famine.

He also says that freedom loving people don't war against each other, or if they do it's not a "bad" war.

If you disageree with those two ideas- name them.

Easy, huh?

THIS goes to show just how good we have it here.

Ok, Lets look at some things logically. If we (the USA, Canada & Europe) had anywhere near as much to worry about as the second, or third world, we wouldn't be up in arms about what GUMMI BEARS look like, or alot of the hysterics from the left. If we didn't have it so good, we'd be worried about

• a reliable supply of clean water,
• steady electricity (sorry Cali. you made that problem- doesn't count),
  
• mothers dying trying to deliver healthy childrem- not their right to kill them,
  
• healthy children being born and living to adulthood.
• being able to heat our hovel in sub-zero winter.
• having reliable transportation- not gassing up a HUMMER.

Ok am I wrong? Have we as a First World country got it so good that we've forgotten that life can actually suck so bad that we don't worry about smelling second-hand smoke from a block away?

Update on the letters I sent Feb 08

I sent copies of a Letter I wrote to my elected officials.

UMmmmmm, nothing yet.
But I'm not giving up hope on those caring people in DC, they're busy protecting me from myself.

Thank you Wedge Donovan (new pic)

Now I have about 2 weeks to find a renter here, and then an affordable house near Castroville. The 16yr-old took it ok, we haven't told the 14 yr-old yet; she's being- well, a teenager.

But I DID get about $9,000 in wage change for the better.


Now I need a new blog name, since this is fixed in location.

Now, a tail of two trials

Elliot tells about his adventures in a Texas coutroom.

And then you have this circus.

I don't know if he's guilty or not, but he's not right.

I'm kinda late on this weeks EUrowienie bashing
But here's my contribution, from last Fridays edition of The National Review Online.

Denis Boyles Has a piece on How to Euro Speak.

In it he gives this advice:
Europeans hate the way Americans talk. They think we're loud and uncouth and they don't like our jokes, except for
Michael Moore. Plus, they resent the fact that they’ve had to learn our language because if they didn’t we wouldn’t buy their stupid metric widgets or visit their overpriced ruins.

So when the president goes to Europe to give his speech to all the EU-niks in Brussels on Tuesday, it’s important that he speak clearly — or at least clearfully. Because there are a few things he needs to say, and they can all be summed up in seven handy, easy-to-utter phrases:

1. Get a Job <, , ,>
2. Clean up your own mess<, , ,>
   
3. Stop taking bribes<, , ,>
   
4. Since you can't defend yourselves, get out of our way<, , ,>
   
5. Knock-off the EUro-hypocracy<, , ,>
   
6. Start a "No european left behind" program<, , ,>
   
7. Jaques, Gerhard, get a better campaign issue<, , ,>
   

He ends this with:
"This kind of knee-jerk hatred colors the judgments of both men and their fellow citizens. If Germany and France hadn’t already demonstrated their ability to market brutal hatred during World War II, this might not matter. But to fan the flames of grotesque intolerance during a war on terror just to keep two political hacks out of their own growing unemployment lines is a bit much. If that’s worth deep-sixing the Atlantic “alliance,” that’s jake. Or maybe we could give Germany our Security Council seat (and our share of the bills) on our way out of the U.N. Let Europe pay its own way for a decade or two. If Bush makes nothing else clear when he arrives in Brussels Monday night for a “working dinner” with Chirac it should be that ultimately European anti-Americanism isn’t our problem. It’s Europe’s problem, and Euro-leaders should take the lead in solving it."

I just wish someone would listen.

Todays history lesson


I was going to say something a bout the quote by C.C.Pickering, 'Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.' , but found out it wasn't a direct reference to our FIRST unilateral foray into the mideast.

My bad--oops

Here's a Knot for Zippo

They call it a "Sailors Knot" but actually it's a Carrick Bend.


It's REALLY thundering bad here, even the dogs are scared- well the white, fat, gay thing is anyway.

I guess if I do get that job, I'll have to remember transformer connections

Guess I'll start on the easy ones.

OK, the disability thing's taken care of- kinda.

, , , Still feel like I bought a bill of goods, though.

I guess I'm going to have to start remembering how to tie Knots again

If I'm going to be up on a pole, again.

This one's a bowline.

BUBBLE WRAP

Got frustrations at work?
Go pop some BUBBLEWRAP.

Via Ace

Light Blogging tonite

Got some "interesting" news from a former employer who I thought was paying me disability. Seems they 'misplaced my letter of resignation, and didn't send me any information saying that the DR released me to return to work. He didn't tell me, and my nerve damage in my right elbow is still as bad as when I walked away from the truck.

I'm kinda pissed- they want me to pay it back.

Haifa-adai (that's a Gauammanian Aloha)

Happy Birthday George

Anyone remember Elian?

Ok, I see your eyes rolling, so I know you do.

Val over at Babalu Blog has a 'behind the scenes' post about Elian.

Like about 279 million Americans I was only interested because of the spokes-babe.
I ->know<- I should be interested, because Cuba is a fully functioning Communist enclave 90 miles to the south of us-the US. It just- somehow- seems - so- remote- from- anything, that it's hard to get our back up anymore, , , I guess.

For Val and the rest of the Cuban refugees, it's PERSONAL.
It made me realize/ remember they're freedom loving Cubans- not 'Mexicans from the islands'.

Go read his posts, it makes it more personal.

Ok, I'm surfing the web with the TV on for background noise

Listening to Monster Garage, as they "modify" a Model A (sob).
As that Pepto-Bismo commercial came on (stomachupset-heartburn-constipation-diarehah), I started thinking of other annoying/bad commercials.

• That Mcdonalds rap radio commercial while I'm listening to country or talk radio, I always think of that as I go into their competition.

• the SWBC/ SBC commercial- one is a telephone co. the other is a business services co. their phone numbers CAN't be that close. How can you OVERLOOK the "W" they're not even close in the phone book.

• SBC again with their two dorks selling their cell phones.

Ok, they're arguing about upside-down intake gaskets, looks like it's getting interesting.

Have you got any favorite bad commercials?
Can't think of the rest

Over in the UK, they have a new TV show called Demolition

In it they ask for nominations for a building to be bulldozed to the ground.
(and rebuild in a new show next season-aren't Brit shows great?)
Well the townsfolk of Cumbernauld (Scotland?) heard about it and wanted the entire town demolished. (Registration required)
Here are the basics:

Town so ugly, residents want it demolished

JIM MCBETH

Key points
• Cumbernauld locals nominate entire town to be razed as part TV series
• Despite being location of Scottish film Gregory’s Girl, town has few fans
• Response to suggestion mixed on town's streets; Channel 4 politely declined

Key quote
"It’s a bit further than we want to go for a programme" - Channel 4 spokesman

Story in full: POOR old Cumbernauld. The town with all the popular appeal of a Moscow suburb is under fire again but this time from within, according to Channel 4.

The station is making a four-part series Demolition, in which viewers nominate an "eyesore" building they want bulldozed.

Some residents of Cumbernauld have apparently demanded Channel 4 help raze their entire town to the ground.
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`Criticism of Cumbernauld, created in 1956 for the Glasgow "overspill", usually comes from outsiders.

Its stark architecture has few fans and it was described as one of the worst places to live in the UK. The Idler’s Book of Crap Towns said "town-planning students visit Cumbernauld to learn what not to do".

Before that, a business magazine awarded Cumbernauld the Carbuncle Award, bestowed annually on a town deemed to be a blot on the landscape.

The town centre was described as "a rabbit warren on stilts, a sprawling, angular concrete complex that is soulless, inaccessible, like something from Eastern Europe".
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But on the other hand-"It has not all been bad news for Cumbernauld. It was recently named as an official treasure of late 20th-century architecture by a United Nations heritage body. "

I know it's been blogged already, but who gives a cr*p about

Paris Hiltons phone info?
Everyone already knows she's a complete Ditz- if I can be that charitable.
I know this blog doesn't make alot of sense sometimes, but I'm an Einstein compared to her.

Have you read what she's messaged?
My dog could do as well- the dumb one.

She has no talent, or looks, or anything -exept- daddys money. I guess that's what it takes to be "someone" on the Left coast.

What do you call an intelligent blonde?



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A Golden Retiever

Captains Quarters Blog has a post on the new DNC chairman.

And I have My own slant.

He's saying Dean is revving up the base (moonbats). Ok, Bush isn't making his base all that happy with his "compassionat conservatism".

If a third party came out with a REAL conservative, the Republicans would have a real problem. Off hand, all I know is that Ron Paul is the only one that's voted as a conservative- with any consistancy.

Get a Zell Miller party and I'll give it a good hard look.

According to this article over at Deans World

whales are having a hard time with their love life.

"But Clark and other scientists are concerned that the growing "acoustic smog" in the world's oceans, and particularly the waters near popular migration and feeding routes, is interfering with whales' ability to communicate with songs.

"A blue whale, which lives 100 years, that was born in 1940, today has had his acoustic bubble shrunken from 1,000 miles to 100 miles because of noise pollution," said Clark. "The noise pollution is estimated to be at the industrial noise level where OSHA would require us to wear headphones."

Noise pollution is doubling every decade in an urbanized marine environment, Clark claims, mostly due to shipping traffic."

OK, I'm sure some marine engineer can explain this- since about WWII we've gone from diesal engines to turbines (much quieter) and we haven't been doing a massive amount of depth charging lately, either(besides if a Blue Whale was born in the '40s he'd be deaf, wouldn't he?). So there are more ships, they're larger, move faster, and are quieter than their forebears.

Why is this a problem now? Can't the great whales cope with change ( their brains are bigger than a passenger van)? Isn't evolution what Liberals celibrate in school?

Machias Privateer has a good sounding idea

About the proposed retirement of the aircraft carrier, John F. Kennedy CV-67.
Instead of decommisioning her, turn her into a disater recovery ship.

Sounds like a workable idea. There'd be plenty of room for humanitarian equipment.

And the tsnunami showed that it would be definetly appreciated.

Coyote Blog has an interesting post up today.

He's talking about the Robber Barons of the 19th century. El Coyote is giving an alternative (realistic) history ofCornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt and John D. Rockefeller.

He shows how instead of villifying them, the Left should be praising them- but when has reality been used as a basis of judgement by the Left?

I was learning things from his post, and it occurred to me how much things change- and how much they stay the same, just under different names.

We went looking at houses yesterday

And I can't say I'm really impresses with what we looked at.
There's not really alot for sale on the west/ southwest side of San Antonio. If you wanted to live in what would easily be described as either the "projects" or the barrio, you'd have more choices.

I don't want to live there.
We basically have it narrowed down to 3 places. Two are between Castroville and Hondo, and the other one is just north of Devine.
Bandera and Pipe Creek are too far north for both of us to drive daily.

The one at Devine is a Gov't forclosure, and basically needs to be rebuilt, but it's on almost 7 acres in good hog country- and we'd be able to shoot out in the back yard.

The two west of Castroville are in built-up areas, better for the girls; but so much for rifles- one I know is in a HOA and the other looks like its across the street from a golf course.

If we wanted to throw our money away we could get a house in Bexar Co.- but I don't want ANY of my money helping out those clowns on the S.A. city council. You step accross the Medina/ Bexar Co. line and the taxes double for the same house.

Looks like 2 out of 3 ain't bad

Two out of three of the original axis of evil are on our side in Iraq. Then there's Germany.

The Italian Parliment voted to extend funding for it's 3,000 troups in Iraq- making it #4 in the unilateral US imposition of Iraqi freedom fiasco.
I can't find any links exept this kind, where that is mentioned as an afterthought to the plight of a communist pro terrorist.

Hat-tip to Confederate Yankee for the info.

We won't even mention our ahem- freedom loving allies.