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The American right, especially the Tea Party, is just as angry as the left ever was in their frothing and immature rages against the machine.  The difference is that the right knows when to shut up, for the most part, and the time for talking is past.  We have seen who will listen and who will not, and it has become perilously clear that the GOP leadership is not listening.  The time for voting comes next, and it comes with a warning.  If the GOP leadership does not manage to get untangled from Washington motivations long enough to defeat Obama and destroy or damage his anti-American program, they will leave their support out in the cold.  America is not a country where any sizeable section of the population … Continue reading

Fuku cooling storage

Here’s a bit more about the concept as I see it now.

In this scenario, the heavily contaminated water (W1) would be drawn (hot and contaminated) from the reactor to an evap unit where it can be flashed and quenched in a perverted sort of vacuum distillation. A critical point is that our input water is very hot, whereas in most evaps it is cold, requiring significant energy to maintain the process. It should be very easy to flash W1 directly into steam, and even more critically, the steam is mostly clean. A portion of W1 will flash to steam, and a portion of that will be drawn off for separate condensation as W2, and we have reduced the volume of W1 while increasing its concentration of contamination. … Continue reading

Little Green Footballs (2 of 2)

For those who do not know, Little Green Footballs (LGF) is a forum blog run by Charles Johnson, and which was influential and well-respected.  I discovered it in the wake of that blog and Powerline Blog taking down Dan Rather for his flaming dishonesty in the Bush memo thing.  (MemoGate, RatherGate, FontGate, etc).   The Throbbing Memo is still an icon of web citizenry, and possibly the single most meaningful turning point in the shift in the media center of gravity from print and broadcast.  The MSM is still the dominant force, but they are no longer alone in the universe, and LGF was instrumental in making that a new reality.

LGF has changed from being mostly inhabited by center-to-rabid right-wingers (speaking!) to mostly inhabited by center-to-rabid left-wingers. … Continue reading

Obama: At the End, Bad for Government

Tea Party Phase II, coming to a Democratic Party near you.

Obama’s policies have been bad for business, bad for the economy, bad for allies, bad for America.   Interestingly, the one thing he cares about, government, is ultimately the most wounded by his combination of calculated malice and incalculable incompetence.  From NASA to the Federal Reserve (not technically a part of government, but might as well be), not one institution will be viewed in as positive a light at Obama’s departure as it was when he arrived.  He will take with him the notion that American government is competent or benevolent.

Small-government conservatives are not anarchists, and this is why we loathe Ron Paul’s kooky cult.  So it does not align…

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Also, he is likely to … Continue reading

We Are Already Losing

China should be nowhere near as powerful as they are.  China remains a brutal, oppressive regime with hopelessly flawed economic system which is only made to work through force and the grace of foreigners.  We have been foremost among nations allowing China to escape the consequences of market forces, while harming ourselves.

America’s sound finances and secure future have been recklessly hazarded by a series of leaders who believed or did not sufficiently refute goofy Marxist and Keynesian economic theories.