Sep 042013
 

I’m writing for tomorrow, day 82.  Yesterday I got up early, finished my research and writing early, arranged my food in the refrigerator and freezer for temporary storage , ordered the pizza, and almost turned the refrigerator off.  It’s a good thing I didn’t, because the woman I hired to help me defrost never showed up.  So my plans for the week are up in the air, but at least, once the building bleeds off the heat, it should be cooler until the weekend.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:55 (average 4:22).  To do it, click here.  How did you do.

Fantasy Football Reminder:

The opening game is Thursday evening, so be sure to have your lineup set before that.

Short Takes:

From NY Times: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York and the billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad have each donated hundreds of thousands of dollars. The National Rifle Association is buying political advertisements. New York’s junior senator sent a fund-raising e-mail. And the election has attracted news coverage from as far away as Sweden.

All this over a homegrown campaign to oust two Democratic state senators who provided crucial support for a package of strict new state gun control laws. As the recall elections — the first of their kind in Colorado’s history — draw closer, the race has swelled from a local scuffle into a proxy battle in the nation’s wrenching fight over gun control.

Over all, both sides have dedicated about $2 million to the campaigns, most of it in support of the two senators: John Morse, the president of the Colorado Senate, and Angela Giron, who represents the Southern Colorado city of Pueblo. That might not seem large compared with the multimillion-dollar governors’ races that can be commonplace across the country these days. But the money and the attention have transformed an off-year campaign that started with homemade signs and volunteers collecting signatures in grocery store parking lots.

Needless to say, I fully support the two state Senators, who voted the will of their constituents, against the NRA and their Republican lackeys.

From Alternet: The conference in Ontario is billed as "Fatima: The Path to Peace" but it features New World Order conspiracy theorists, holocaust deniers, racists, and an openly fascist speaker. (Video below.)   Former U.S Congressman Ron Paul will keynote the week-long international summit to be held in September at Niagara Falls, Ontario. Paul is  accustomed to sharing the stage with conspiracy theorists – John Birchers,  Christian Reconstructionists, and Neoconfederates – but this time it’s the international summit of a radical Catholic traditionalist organization. The Fatima Crusaders not only reject the reforms of Vatican II, but also teach that the Vatican is in collusion with the United Nations to form a one-world government.  This article includes short bios of some of the scheduled speakers and video of one of them rallying a crowd in Europe against homosexuals and Jews.

Click through for an interesting read on how Canada is importing Republicans from all over the world. I watched the video, and the speaker was quite mild, in comparison to our home grown Republican lunatics. The only thing that surprises me is that Idiot, Son of Idiot, Named after Idiot, aka Rand Paul, will not be standing beside his misanthropic father.

From Common Dreams:

Spreading radiation and suspected new leaks are plaguing the ongoing disaster site of the Fukushima nuclear power plant on Monday, while the head of Japan’s nuclear regulatory body warned that there may be no other option than to dump radioactive waste water into the Pacific.

A picture taken by Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority on August 23, 2013 shows nuclear watchdog members inspecting contaminated water tanks at the Fukushima plant. The new warnings come after a weekend in which plant operator TEPCO revealed that the radiation levels around the plant were 18 times higher than it previously reported, and that it had patched a leaking pipe with plastic tape.

In July, TEPCO admitted that contaminated groundwater was leaking into the ocean, up to 300 tonnes a day, and may have been doing so ever since the disaster began in March 2011.

This is what Republicans call, safe nuclear power. I better start importing East Coast gravel, before my cat box starts glowing in the dark. 🙁

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  30 Responses to “Open Thread–9/4/2013”

  1. "From Common Dreams:

    "Spreading radiation and suspected new leaks are plaguing the ongoing disaster site of the Fukushima nuclear power plant on Monday, while the head of Japan’s nuclear regulatory body warned that there may be no other option than to dump radioactive waste water into the Pacific.

    "A picture taken by Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority on August 23, 2013 shows nuclear watchdog members inspecting contaminated water tanks at the Fukushima plant. The new warnings come after a weekend in which plant operator TEPCO revealed that the radiation levels around the plant were 18 times higher than it previously reported, and that it had patched a leaking pipe with plastic tape.

    "In July, TEPCO admitted that contaminated groundwater was leaking into the ocean, up to 300 tonnes a day, and may have been doing so ever since the disaster began in March 2011."

    This is one of the things that really REALLY worries me at the moment – thanks for the update TC.  Many congratulations on day 82 – you are doing amazingly!  (Sorry you were let down by that woman who was supposed to help though..).

    Congrats also to the two Democratic Senators in Colorado who supported the new gun laws – and the lives of their constituents!  May they be overwhelmingly re-elected!

     

     

  2. You can just "bet" that John McCain is taking the Congressional hearings on bombing Syria very seriously:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/03/john-mccain-poker_n_3862592.html

    • John McCain Plays Poker While Colleagues Discuss Whether We Need To Bomb Syria http://huff.to/1dEgo1D via @HuffPostPol

      Retired yet?

    • I heard about that on the news this afternoon.  The all American hero?

      Is this how seriously Republicanus/Teabaggers take the actions of their government?  I wonder if the chips were actually representations of Syrian civilian lives? . . . or were they representations of war profiteering? Either way, this guy MUST retire NOW! . . . and he can take a whole bunch with him.

    • Thanks Nameless.  McCain has no interest, befcause of the universal McConJob  solution: Bomb bomb __________.

  3. REAGAN AMNESTY ACT

    Ed Meese said Reagan regretted it.

    He gave Amnesty to 3,000,000 illegal immigrants

    The Quota in 1986 was 500,000.

    It was 500,000 in 1990.

    Yet! 1,500,000 were allowed to enter the United States.

    Those who got Amnesty soon became citizens after which they were entitled to bring in their immediate family thus the 1,500,000.

    Today, we have 11,000,000 illegal immigrants.

    What happens if we give them Amnesty?

    In five years will we allow 5,500,00 more to enter as immediate family members?

    President Bush, Sr. increased the quota to 700,000.

    Where are the jobs for them?

    • They would be doing most of the same jons they are already doing.  The differences is that they would be paying more taxes, because so many are paid inder the table to better exploit them.

  4. Clarence – your concerns are understandable – however, I suggest you watch Robert Reich talk about immigration – you may get a totally different viewpoint….

  5. Forgot to give you the link:    http://robertreich.org/post/54109256571

    • Robert was wise to take your advice on that! 😉

      If you click the replty link right inder a comment, it nests the reply with the comment.

  6. 4:01 I was lucky to have beaten the average time. Great time, Tom!

    • 3:05  Now days, kids don't even know what it is or how to use it.  A couple of years ago I asked my then 5 year old granddaughter to "hang up the phone", and she asked me where the off button was.  She had no idea what I was talking about.

    • 3:02  I remember a telephone just like this one in my grandfather's house.  But even better and I suspect older, was the telephone in my hotel room in Nice, France.  It hung on the wall and looked more like a "spoon" hanging on a hook on the telephone box.

      • On the farm, we had a large desk top phone with a crank handle on the side, no numbers to dial. Our ring was 2 shorts an a long. We had a 7 party line. You can imagine the fun we had as kids listening in to the local gossip. You knew when siomeone was using the phone because the telephone wires buzzed.

    • Wooo Hooo!  I do nest on puzzles that are built arounf a geometric feature, as that one was.

  7. NY Times ~ The NRA must really be afraid their lackeys won't oust the good Democrats.

    Alternet~ One of the Annual Clown Conferences is moving North to Canada. Watch out, Lynn!

    Common Dreams ~ There is no such thing as "safe" nuclear energy.

    Cartoon ~ And, the Indians would not have sold it.

  8. Regarding the cat box … if it does start glowing and you get one of the cats with jellyfish genes, they will match…. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/09/12/jellyfish-genes-make-glow-in-the-dark-cats/

  9. TomCat,  You must have a very old refrigerator if you have to defrost it yourself.

  10. How did you do.4:55

    plant operator TEPCO revealed that the radiation levels around the plant were 18 times higher than it previously reported, and that it had patched a leaking pipe with plastic tape.

    What could go wrong here? Duct Tape is the universal fix… 🙂

  11. And for our Jewish friends celebrating Rosh Hashanah tonight:

    L'Shanah Tovah [Happy New Year!]

    Shana tovah u'metukah [Have a good and sweet new year]

     

  12. NY Times, I hope those two senators win, Colorado is worth watching.

    Alternet, Rand seems to be missing in a lot of Ron's activities, Presidential hopeful discards failure father

    Common dreams,  Come on, this is a surprise?  They have known all along that it was not contained,now we will be all eating phosphorescent fish. I m opposed to all nuclear reactors. 

  13. Puzzle — 3:02  I remember a telephone just like this one in my grandfather's house.  But even better and I suspect older, was the telephone in my hotel room in Nice, France.  It hung on the wall and looked more like a "spoon" hanging on a hook on the telephone box.

    NY Times — Good on the 2 senators in Colorado who stood up for reasonable gun regulations.  May the NRA find itself in hell! . . . and may the 2 Democrat senators stand tall and win in the recall!!

    Alternet — Are they kidding?  The US descent into Marxism?  More people that have no idea what Marxism is.

    "…the United States is being punished for its disobedience to God and descent into Marxism. "

    I must say that I am truly ashamed that this Fatima Centre is in Canada.. . . and even more ashamed that their programme is so anti human rights, anti people.  I hope people like Paul and others are denied entry to Canada!

    Common Dreams — Pure incompetence!  Two years later and the damn thing is still an issue.  Dumping in the Pacific will only kill and maim sea life.  Sounds like the Japanese have been listening to that American idiot who thinks that adding nuclear waste to building foundations or putting it in the ocean is a reasonable way to get rid of it.

    TC, you'd better get your water elsewhere too because you'll be glowing in  the dark, as well as the cat box!

    Cartoon — Good old Henry Hudson!  In a later voyage (1611) he discovered Hudson's Bay in Canada's north.  All for a north-west passage.  Too bad they didn't know the enormity of what became Canada because they were going in the right direction, just not far enough.

    • I had one of the old, old ones for answering the front door in my last apartment.

      Thanks!

      I would not be surprised, if Harper and his harlots did not bribe them to come.  They're his kind of people.

      They must have hired BP to clean it up.

      See my reply to Joanne.

      After what we've done, he would have found the northwest passage.

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