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Hello, my name is Frau Merkel; I'm an hysteric.

Germany Shuts Down Seven Nuclear Reactors

Guten tag, Frau Merkel.

I know just how you feel... radiation was detected yesterday at DFW--the nearest major airport to my city and I'm petrified.

What if the radiation from passengers on a plane from Tokyo get on the Greyhound and come here and spread that killer rays at me and my dogs? I'm thinking of moving to Oklahoma... as far as I know, no Japanese people have ever gone to Oklahoma.

In the meantime I am taking precautionary measures with Sparky and my other two dogs, if it will only save one life we should shut down all nuclear power plants including all those dangerous submarines, and return to the 1950s... it would be worth it. 

I thought that we as a populace, had finally matured... at least to the point where we no longer burn witches at the stake, but I gave most American far too much credit, if the polls are to be believed: ".... 70 percent of those surveyed in a new USA Today/Gallup Poll say they’ve grown more concerned about the industry’s safety based on the crisis unfolding at reactors in Japan. Americans now oppose building more nuclear plants by a margin of 47 percent to 44 percent...".

This is or was a great nation driving a $14 trillion economy, the envy of every other country in the world, and millions of people just dying to come here... in many cases, I wish they would.

But what remains of the Greatest Generation must look at us and shake their heads sadly and with great bewilderment.... is this what Americans are now made of? Turn tail at the first shot fired... a president who finds even the word "victory" unsettling, but finds the raghead prayer “.... one of the prettiest sounds on Earth....”

I haven't seen this kind of irrational group-think "assaninediness" since Y2K.

Yeah the "swine flu" last year was amusing, but for getting its own reality show--"America's Biggest Dumbasses Running in the Streets and Caught on Tape"--you have to go with all the computers in the world ticking down to 2...0...0...0... followed by Mad Max Part Deux.

I grew so irritated with people (whom I assumed were normal) storing water and food in their basements that I stopped trying to appeal to reason and went straight to mocking-- for which I am told, I have an innate talent.

When asked if I was hoarding MREs and H20, it usually went something like this:

GA:  Nope. Don't need to.

Hysteric #1: Why's that?

GA: 'Cause I have guns and ammo and I know where you live. I've never seen anybody win a gunfight by bringing refreshments.

If people want to talk disaster, then let's damned well talk disaster.

The hysteria about Japan's nukes is of what I like to call the uber-liberal variety.... only highly educated folks with time on their hands, degrees and crap, who drink chardonnay and whose kids play soccer worry about things they can't comprehend. There's not a plumber or an Odessa oil man who don't understand what's happening now in these reactors and thus, sleep soundly.

I used to pray, "God save me from mine enemies."

Now it's just, "Dear Baby Jesus, please save me from mine idiots; I have guns and ammo and I know where my enemies live"

So in the interest of restful sleep and the right to laugh my ass off repeatedly while saying "I tole you so" for the foreseeable future... I'll not write about this pifffle again unless it's laced with copious amounts of derision.  

Nuke Fallout Reaches US…And Radiation Levels are a ‘Billion Times’ Below ‘Health Threatening’

Obama to finally support no fly zone?

Heh-heh: Barack Obama Elementary School Going Out of Business…

And now for some grounded reality and sanity about real disaster and how man's best friend has more than a leg up when it come to courage, devotion and what humanity should really mean:

                                    Watch video here.

In numbers too loud to ignore.... yeah, I get that--heard it all my damned life

At The Pie this a.m. the regulars held forth on many topics including a local shooting and Barry, still unsure about that pesky Gaddafi, going on ESPN to make his picks in the NCAA tourney before heading on vaca to Brazil.

But most of our time was spent wondering what iodine has to do with radiation and where you can get some… the former, not the latter.

And of course Women's History Month.

I was surprised; has it really been a year since the last National History Month, which comes on the heels of the National Black History Month? I remain surprised that National Black Women's History Month isn't in there somewhere.

Here's the official blather for this year's gala celebration:     

The theme of this Women’s History Month is “Our History is Our Strength.”

"The achievements of women range from inventing the windshield wiper to writing Harry Potter, to discovering radiation (good… it’s their fault). Throughout the past couple of centuries, they have also included countless 'firsts,' from voting to entering various high-power positions, to flying across the Atlantic."

I know how choked up I become when I think of windshield wipers and how they pulled us from the the primordial bog to stand upright; and Harry Potter... I've never been able to adequately described the impact J.K. Rowling her mind-numbing books about English gay boys have had on the great thinkers of our time. 

Thank God for the comic relief of these so-called "firsts" that the so-called minorities claim for themselves, accomplished by first stacking the deck to exclude everyone else.

• First Puerto Rican Jewess to roll at 300 game in sanctioned bowling!

Does anyone really care? Even Puerto Rican Female Jews?      

Liberals and other minorities are the most insecure, self-involved, narcissistic people on the planet. They live in the past and spend most of their time trying to find someone or something on which to blame their failures, confusion and poor decisions; and most of the time that reason is the same one: white males.

Yes, throughout history we've been so busy keeping everyone down that it's been very difficult to find the time to invent everything, fight all the wars, make the peace, invent, build and run everything, and control the entire world and all its people.

Only the hopelessly shallow would come up with something like "Women's Studies" or "Black Studies".... which is essentially requires a minority to study how wonderful and special they are. Yet somehow they are still not wonderful and special enough to keep from being constantly thwarted, undermined and discriminated against by men... white men... old, white, men.

In a truly marvelous little cottage industry approach to higher ed... women can now study women to get a degrees in women’s studies, and then learn to teach women about women.... their folks must be so proud and impressed by such a B.A., especially with its $60,000 price tag.... and especially by the old, white, male idiot who paid for it.

Yes, nothing says "take me seriously" like a masters degree in Women's Studies from Smith, unless it's an M.A. in W.S. from South Western Idaho State. Why, here's two Women's Studies profs now:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And even after all this man-hating, lesbian-approved propaganda these chicks still believe the ole "women make only 80, 70 , 60 cents of each $1.00 a man makes." Yes, every year their plight deepens, despite all the education and gender bias on their behalf and all their innate superior intelligence and ability, they still cannot get ahead.

This particular argument is crudely pathetic because it's not even original; they stole it from black whiners... "jest anotha brotha bein kep down by the Man."

If you want to have a good laugh... sit in on a city council meeting where a minority-biased contract is sought by  three firms... Black, Hispanic and Woman-owned; talk about hilarity in the public square.

The "winner" is the most helpless, downtrodden, hopeless and patch-worked company in town... that makes your town or your school or your street the same... think about it.

It's like we used to say in 'Nam... "remember your equipment was made by the lowest bidder"; only in Minority World, the job goes to the most competent whiner.

We've gone from Rosie the Riveter to Rosie O'Donnell, Betty Crocker to ex-con Martha Stewart, and Women's Professional Basketball ... bwwwahhaaa.

Report: Military leadership is too white, too male

And of course the ultimate payoff.... the one-way ticket to a body bag for little girls in our diversity military--powered by a politically-correct operating system.

Yes, females been held down for so long by white men in a nation so unfair... the only remedy is being good and dead--just like the men.

Boy, there's a lot of firsts there.

“Never let a crisis go to waste…”

General Electric-designed reactors in Fukushima have 23 sisters in U.S.

Steel yourselves Real America… the propaganda onslaught to destroy the nuclear power industry is now in it’s first phase as Japan moves to stabilize six reactors after last weeks’ earthquake and tsunami.

To his credit Limbaugh is hitting this hard today… fighting back against the left’s continuing onslaught to stop this nation dead in its tracks.

Japan's proclivity for seismic disorders and tsunamis is exactly why they are probably the safest on the planet as far as acts of God are concerned; the fact they haven't gone mushroom proves the technology is doing exactly what it was designed to do in this disaster scenario.

The built-in safeguards worked to perfection... and the rest is a simple cost:benefit trade-off for Western civilization. Japan, one of the most technologically advanced, smallest and population dense nations in the world, needs the cheap, clean power that only nuclear reactors provide.

Not building and or locating nuke plants in Japan is akin to not building a house/town because of the possibility of a 500-year flood. Nawl’ins? Amsterdam?

Hundreds of test pilots with the right stuff died perfecting the jet aircraft simply so that you can sit next to a 400-pounder in coach and arrive in LAX in two hours for $350. 

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Ted Kennedy’s car killed more people than Three Mile Island

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The analogies and object lessons are legion; fortune favors the bold so close yer pie hole… we’ll let you know when it’s time to come out.  

The concept is not a lot different from the Gulf Oil "Disaster"  which was going to kill all life on the planet in a week, according to Obama who intentionally did nothing for as long as possible in order to help that happen. And the result…. we're still not back to drilling in the Gulf and it cost me $75 to fill up yesterday.

The secondary gain here is that 24-7 news of The Japan Syndrome will kill all coverage of the union thug melt-down and the continuing epic failure of the Do-Nothing-in-Chief.

I didn’t get a lot of nuclear physics, or any physics, come to think of it, in my meager schooling but I pride myself on my reasoning and my complete distrust of Western media (which brought you Global Warming and the horror of the Alar Apple Tragedy) reporting on any kind of science, from birth control pills to asthma and Alar. Add to that sound reasoning that virtually all the dinosaur news media is a wholly owned subsidiary of the democrat party.  

So I’m passing along the following via The Ninja from Brave New Planet’s article, Fukushima Nuclear Accident – a simple and accurate explanation « BraveNewClimate  which strikes me as a very sound observation of the situation in Japan.

I am writing this… to give you some peace of mind regarding the safety of Japan’s nuclear reactor. Up front, the situation is serious, but under control. And this text is long! But you will know more about nuclear power plants after reading it than all journalists on this planet put together.

There was and will not be any significant release of radioactivity.

By “significant” I mean a level of radiation of more than what you would receive on – say – a long distance flight.

When the earthquake hit with 8.9, the nuclear reactors all went into automatic shutdown. Within seconds after the earthquake started, the control rods had been inserted into the core and nuclear chain reaction of the uranium stopped.

The earthquake destroyed the external power supply of the nuclear reactor.

The reactor operators switched to emergency battery power. The batteries were designed as one of the backups to the backups, to provide power for cooling the core for 8 hours. And they did.

It was at this stage that people started to talk about core meltdown. Because at the end of the day, if cooling cannot be restored, the core will eventually melt (after hours or days), and the last line of defense, the core catcher and third containment, would come into play.