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Jun 20 2011
Yada Yada Yada!
Yada Yada Yada!
Jerry Seinfeld contributed less than nothing to American culture, not to mention the rest of the world, except for one jewel:
Yada Yada Yada!
This koan is more or less universally appropriate as a response to anything you hear on American TV or read in American newspapers, so I made a banner for it, and there it is!
Obama makes a speech!
Yada Yada Yada!
The talking heads talk about it!
Yada Yada Yada!
HuffPo and Kos post blogs about it!
Yada Yada Yada!
Yada Yada Yada!
Yada Yada Yada!
Jun 19 2011
Live Video-Feed from Netroots Nation 11
Check it out! It’s all the same clowns that sucked Obama’s ass in 2008!
And in the background you can hear Kos squealing…
“Fuck America, Barry!”
“Please!”
Jun 19 2011
Live Video-Feed from Netroots Nation 11
Check it out! The same clowns that sucked ass for Obama in 2008!
And Kos is still squealing “Please Barry! Fuck America up the ass, Barry! Please!”
Jun 11 2011
Happy Birthday Today, Richard Wukich!
This is one of the first filters we made in Iraq. We are working on an US base south of Baghdad and it can be dangerous to be associated with the military. I gave these men the press, kiln and all the equipment they need to start up a shop. They are skilled potters and the one in charge is studying for his masters degree in engineering at the University of Babylonia. It took almost 3 years and 5 trips to Iraq to get the filter production started but we are finally underway. The men were so thankful for the opportunity. There is a great need for the filter in this area and the army has already ordered 2000 filters for distribution and the word is that the project is being studied at the highest levels. I realize that some of you have serious reservations about my work with the military but my goal was to help the people get access to clean water. The soldiers have a very tough job in a near impossible situation in Iraq and this effort seemed to do a lot to reinforce a commitment to help the people.
This is work that saves lives in Iraq every day, from God-forsaken little villages in the middle of nowhere all the way to Baghdad and the slums of Sadr City. Happy birthday, Richard Wukich! You made the world a better place for hundreds of thousands of people!
Jun 01 2011
Fukushima Could Kill 920 Million People
Just in case you ever wonder about the worst-case scenario at Fukushima…
If all the plutonium at Fukushima burns and disperses into the atmosphere, a LOW ESTIMATE of the death-toll adds up to about 920,000,000 people, and that’s applying the nuclear industry’s own “myth-busting” refutation of Ralph Nader’s “alarmist” arithmetic.
A commonly cited quote by Ralph Nader, states that a pound of plutonium dust spread into the atmosphere would be enough to kill 8 billion people. However, the math shows that one pound of plutonium could kill no more than 2 million people by inhalation. This makes the toxicity of plutonium roughly equivalent with that of nerve gas.
And isn’t that soothing!
Plutonium is almost the same as oatmeal!
It’s only as toxic as nerve gas!
But there’s a heck of a lot of that plutonium-oatmeal stored at Fukushima!
The 1,458 tons of plutonium held as “Unirradiated new fuel at reactor sites etc.” includes 210 kg at Fukushima I-3 (TEPCO).
210 kilograms is about 460 pounds, and even if we accept the low-ball estimate of 2,000,000 fatalities per pound, that’s still an awful lot of people!
460 X 2000000 = 920,000,000 people.
May 31 2011
Today on Daily Kos
Today, May 31, 2011, on Daily Kos…
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Yesterday, May 30, 2011, on Daily Kos…
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
The day before yesterday, May 29, 2011, on Daily Kos…
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
And the day before the day before the day before the day before the day before…
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!Hurrah for Obama and the shit-head Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!Hurrah for Obama and the shit-rag Daily Kos!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
Hurrah for Obama and the Democrats!
May 30 2011
Ralph Lauren, Shirt-Maker for the Mob
Three varsity polo players from Princeton, Harvard, and Yale have been detained by Mexican police on obviously bogus drug charges!
Edgar Valdés Villarreal (“La Barbie,” Princeton ’92), José Jorge Balderas Garza (“El JJ,” Yale ’98), and Marcos Carmona Hernández (“El Cabrito,” Harvard ’02) appear in this image from a video of their arraignment, and you can almost hear Ralph Lauren screaming in the background.
“Let my people go!”
May 28 2011
Taluqan, Takhar, Afghanistan
Taluqan, Takhar, Afghanistan
Somebody blew up the police chief of Takhar Province yesterday. Nobody has a fucking clue who or why.
May 27 2011
Eric Cantor Blocks Tornado Relief
This story is usually attributed to HuffPo around the internet, as if Arianna’s cash-cow featured actual reporting, but the real source is the ultra-right Washington Times…
http://www.washingtontimes.com…
And for those weasels it was really all about a “learning experience.”
“Cantor learns DeLay’s lesson on disaster spending”
“House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Monday that if Congress passes an emergency spending bill to help Missouri’s tornado victims, the extra money will have to be cut from somewhere else.
“If there is support for a supplemental, it would be accompanied by support for having pay-fors to that supplemental,” Mr. Cantor, Virginia Republican, told reporters at the Capitol. The term “pay-fors” is used by lawmakers to signal cuts or tax increases used to pay for new spending.
That stands in stark contrast to then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who six years ago stumbled when, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he said emergency spending would be tacked on to the deficit.
At the time, Mr. DeLay said the GOP, which had controlled Congress for most of the preceding decade, had whittled the federal budget down so well that there wasn’t room to cut enough to pay for the billions in hurricane-related spending.
“It is right to borrow to pay for it,” he said, adding that cuts could “attack the very economy” that Republicans were trying to bolster.
He took flak from conservatives who said after years of expanding budgets under President George W. Bush, Republicans in Congress should have turned to cuts before deficit-spending.”
May 27 2011
“Fukushima is leaking like a sieve!”
“Fukushima nuclear plant is leaking like a sieve,” says Nature, a journal which isn’t exactly prone to hyperbole, and this screaming headline is actually an understatement, because…
Fukushuima is really leaking like five sieves!
1. The pressure vessels around the reactor cores are leaking!
2. The primary containment vessels are leaking!
3. Pipes between the buildings are leaking!
4. The storage pools which were supposed to contain 100,000 tons of radioactive water are leaking!
And…
5. There are leaks in the basements of the buildings which contain the containment vessels!
Everything is leaking, and outside the tight little circle of TEPCO and Japanese government nobody knows how much radiation has already leaked into the air and soil and ocean, because…
Tepco and Japan’s nuclear regulators haven’t updated the total radiation leakage from the plant in northern Japan since April 12.
And of course April 12 was the day Fukushima was declared a Level 7 Nuclear Event, the same as Chernobyl.