Oh Dear God. They Are Giving Rick Perry Nukes.
Okay, okay, I am trying to get a grip but I just can’t. There’s no grip here. I’ve looked everywhere.
Forbes Magazine posted an opinion piece about Rick Perry being the best thing ever to grab ahold of the Department of Energy.
The column praises Rick Perry for letting the oil industry run amuck in Texas, where we have the worst pollution in America and there are times when unregulated dangerous chemicals are allowed to blow up a whole damn town and kill 15 people. Because …. liberty!
Here’s how Rick does it.
Texas is indeed blessed with oil and natural gas, but it takes well-devised policy to turn those resources into economic results. New York, for example, has tremendous natural gas resources but will not allow the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) processes to extract them. Other states allow fracking but have impeded a constructive business environment to allow energy production to reach its full potential.
Oh hell yeah, you can frack in downtown Dallas plus not pay any taxes. We’re last in education and children are dying because they don’t have health insurance but, by gawd, we can drive a gas guzzler.
But here’s when I lost my grip.
Perry has consistently advocated removing obstacles to all-of-the-above energy sources. Beyond fracking, Perry supported removing obstacles to building new nuclear power plants.
Nukes. He’s going to oversee damn nukes. He’s gonna let Bubba Hank’s Nuclear Power and Fishing Bait build a nuke in your backyard. Bubba Hank don’t need no damn obstacles. Bubba Hank don’t need no damn paperwork or oversight. You can just trust him because he gave Rick Perry a campaign donation.
I can’t get a grip, y’all.
Thanks to Steve for the heads up.
What an interesting choice. Governor “Oops!” in charge of the USAnian nuclear stockpile.
What could possibly go wrong?
“Oops! Sorry ’bout that. Didn’t really mean to let that nuke drop on ya! But I promise it’ll be OK if you just pray to Jesus instead of Allah!”
Those of us out here in the imperial colonies (Costa Rica in my case) are already cringing in fear and horror…
1There is some very faint comfort in the fact that the actual oversight of nuclear power plants is under the purview of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. By law, it must have at least 2 members on its 5-person board.
This should give us a little time. Especially for local organizers to fight the construction of any new proposed plant sites. And for alternative renewable energy advocates to push against the most toxic and dangerous energy source on earth.
Unfortunately, it’s all on a downhill slide, because the industries and governments involved aren’t concerned with producing energy, but money. If they could control and monetize wind and solar, they’d drop the old 19th and 20th century technologies in a heartbeat.
2To clarify: as far as I can tell, the DOE doesn’t have any control over the nukes that are used to attack other countries. That’s the military’s job.
So don’t think Perry and Hiroshima; think Perry and Chernobyl.
See? All better.
3OH,gawd! Lunargent! Thanks a lot!
Basically anything that can even be loosely determined as energy is under DOE. Hel, that could even include spit!
4Wait until pRick and the rest of the Trump posse run into paperwork like environmental impact this and that! I can already hear the weeping and wailing!
Ya know if this nitwit actually believes nuclear emissions from power plants are harmless, I have a tour of a reactor core in Japan in mind. He’ll never notice that his guide is robotic. The robot however might suspect that his ward is a few volts short of functioning.
5He’ll never get that nuclear power plant idea out of the planning stages. Most likely, the only person he’s familiar with in the industry is Homer Simpson, and he’ll use up his time in the department waiting for assistants and interns to reach him on the phone.
“He’s in Springfield! No, I don’t know which state. Keep trying!”
6Aw, Rick! You are so right!
7We are replacing a
Director with a PhD. in Physics with an A&M cheerleader. Just think of all the Aggie jokes you’ve heard and cut and paste right here.
Will he wear one of those cute little outfits?
8Maybe Little pRicky will keep forgetting the name of the department so he can’t get in. The smart civil employees can continue running it well. We’ll call it “Oops’ Opus.”
9Because of Harold Simmons’ generous campaign contributions to Rick Perry when he was governor, we have a Nuclear Waste Dump in West Texas. He is not harmless in this arena.
And the most disturbing utterance I’ve heard from Trump is that we should do everything we can to keep our aging nuclear power plants online. They were built for only so long and they already leak into the air, soil and water. In Texas, we are already fighting relicensing a couple of nuclear power plants whose licenses are set to expire in a few years.
Because Fukushima. We relicense those plants and we could easily have a meltdown on US soil with these aging debilitated nuclear power plants.
10Nuclear electricity is the bridge to the removal of fossil fuels. It’s also the fault line where progressives tend to get anti science. Look at the actual figures. The one you want is this one: deaths per terawatt-hour.
11http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html
12“Mein Führer, I can walk!”…Ooops”…”We’ll Meet Again”
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Like some of you other ‘senior’ TWMDBS denizens, I got started shortly after the first (and so far last) use of nuclear weapons that ended WWII.
Then grew up with their Cold War threat hanging over everything (not that those were particularly bad times). Even lived near to the Fermi I fast breeder partial core meltdown nuke site, when it happened; which perhaps could have killed a few million people in the US and Canada. No BFD (riiiiiiight, it wasn’t hardly covered in the news, much later; not to worry the proles)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi_Nuclear_Generating_Station#Fermi_1
Hey, we coped with all that stuff, background level worry, eh? Muddle through it, right…geiger that.
BUT NOW…now this Cheeto chit is going to drive everybody into stark raving lunacy.
These bastards are evil incarnate, and they’re going to be the only ones playing with the marbles, our marbles. Cheeto, Mikey, McTurtle, Lyin’ Ryan, Rancid, the whole panoply of disaster looming over Amerikkka.
Rick ‘Merkwürdige Liebe/Strangelove’ Kong is just the most farcical of them all (hey, Pantex didn’t turn into a smoking hole in the ground next to Amarillo when he was Guv, although West, TX did). Or maybe Dr. Ben is…
13WASF’ed…
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I’ve been rendered fairly speechless lately, but can recommend two movies though (seen recently), George Orwell’s “1984” and Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove
Why should NY risk endangering its citizens with polluted drinking water and skies when, instead, the gullibles in TX, OK, etc. are willing to put their own states at risk for the quick dollar?
14With the race-baiting deadbeat soon to occupy 1600 and his cabel of Putin’s Pawns taking on the Cabinet seats it makes sense that Tom Lehrer’s songs are more timely than ever. “Who’s Next”, “Polution”, and “We’ll all go together, when we go” come to mind.
15As a resident of Pennsylvania, just having seen the movie “China Syndrome” about a nuclear plant meltdown which “…wiped an area the size of Pennsylvania off the map…” when the nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island happened in March of 1979, I was pregnant, took my 3 yr old son and jumped on a plane to AZ to visit my folks. Since that time, much has been discovered about the nuclear cloud which drifted over the area for weeks. Odd that so many of my friends in the area have had thyroid cancer or other problems. With Prick and the nutjobs in charge, there will be nowhere safe to go. God help us and save us from the morons.
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