Drama Update
Today, Sam Clovis, Trump’s nominee for chief scientist at the USDA who has no science training whatsoever, withdrew his nomination today because he’s tied to the Russian investigation. Who the fool tarnation isn’t tied to Russia in the Trump administration?
Oh, probably Rick Perry. UnRussian Rick is just too damn dumb and weird to be tied to anything. Like, you know, common sense.
Perry — the former Republican governor of Texas and erstwhile presidential candidate — told Todd and VandeHei that a young girl he met in a remote African village uses a fire that emanates toxic smoke to read by.
“But also from the standpoint of sexual assault,” Perry said. “When the lights are on, when you have light that shines the righteousness, if you will, on those types of acts.”
He went on, “So, from the standpoint of how you really affect people’s lives, fossil fuels is going to play a role in that. I happen to think it’s going to be a positive role.”
Yeah, support Rick Perry because his energy can positively glow and shine righteousness on those types of acts.
It was also stunning to learn that only fossil fuels can emit light. Thanks, Rick.
I’m not going to let Rick off the hook for just being dumb. He’s also crooked. He’s tied to the Whitefish Energy Company.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
I’m surprised Perry didn’t tell the girl she should use unshielded nuclear energy for light. That way, if she did get assaulted most likely she’d be sterile and wouldn’t need an unrighteous abortion. Two dodos with one stone.
Admittedly, that’s something Trump is more likely to say, so maybe Perry saved it for his boss should he ever attempt a trip to Africa.
1Rick Perry: An idiot studying to be an imbecile and flunking the course.
2He may be tied to White Fish Energy, but he is surely not a net contributor.
3A prime example of “The Fall of the American Empire” (apologies to E. Gibbon). It really is happening, and that Fall will be far faster than Rome’s.
While these utterly corrupt fools fock around, the effen Red Chinese are making huge economic and political inroads in not only Africa but So. America and elsewhere.
One of the ways the Chinese are doing this is by bringing modern (alternative) distributed energy generation resources, such as solar PV arrays and wind generators, to these areas; at relatively low cost, and endlessly sustainable. Let alone all the other tech advances the Chinese are making available.
China is also rapidly moving itself to as much alternative power sourcing as their economy will allow, including EV vehicles of every type and class.
Meanwhile, here in Texas (and nationally), we have politicians screaming about removing a piddly limited tax credit on the purchase of an EV (Electric Vehicle), the federal EV purchase credit.
As far as I know there are few TX state incentives for alt-energy of any kind.
And the very sale of EV’s in TX is seriously discouraged, EG: the hamstringing of Tesla dealerships by purposely enacted TX state laws.
These backward idiots are also conveniently ignoring the massive oil, gas, and coal subsidies that have existed since the 1800’s, amounting to many Trillions of dollars.
Even my own public, municipally-owned power company (in the heart of one of the many TX RWNJ areas) makes using alt-energy generation a basically do-it-yourself deal, with almost no chance of selling your excess power generation back to them.
4Will that goofy bastard ever go away?
5From the git-go that contract smelled like a mess of whitefish that had been left out in the sun too long. Now we know that little Ricky is involved. Did he help write it? As head of DOE, he may well have been looking over the shoulder of the person(s) who did.
6So, Rick, if fossil fuels bring light, why are coal mines so dark? Ponder that, Skeeter.
7Rock and Roll Psychoanalysis:
Jerry Byrne “Lights Out” Specialty Records 635, 1958
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EOW8lFaBK4U
http://www.rockabilly.nl/lyrics2/l0041
pRick was thinking about the Devil’s Music and resultant Hoochie Cootchie.
8“why are coal mines so dark?”
Excellent point JAKvirginia!
Here’s another idea. How about if turn political fossil FOOLS into electricity? The list would long, and the resulting energy no doubt too cheap to meter.
9Oops! http://www.rockabilly.nl/lyrics2/l0041.htm
10I agree with Sandridge.
11By golly, if reading by the light of a fire was good enough for Abe Lincoln, it’s good enough for me. Even if he was a Republican.
12What are rethuglicans in Texas drinking/smoking/shooting up? I have never seen or heard so many politicians sound like escapees from the nearest hospital for the rabidly nutty. Not one sentence of sanity among them. And the comic relief is quickly becoming stale. These guys are stuck in the mid-twentyith century in a time warp. And our country loses hugely. The United States has sadly given its leadership position to China. And while the sanctimous rethugs endlessly debate nonsense, Chinese engineers will pull ever further ahead. While morons like DeVos destroy our childrens’ futures by “making schools the recruiting ground for God’s army” other nations pull ahead in math and science leaving our children in the far bottom of the list. No wonder the Russians chose a traitorous moron and his monstrous cadre to destroy the United States from within. They couldn’t do that much destruction from the outside. May the gop burn in the hell of its own making.
13It should also be “interesting” to note that over time China has been quietly buying up land in South America and elsewhere ostensibly to plant more crops to feed the masses inasmuch as truly arable land – like in the Plains States in the U.S – has just about completely shrunk. Terracing mountainsides to plant crops takes longer than traveling abroad, buying land, planting an dharvestig crops and then shipping them homeward.
14So the take away is: If a little girl is getting raped, Rick Perry wants it light enough to see.
15No, Rick, honey! Really! You put the jam on the toast. Not the toast not he jam!
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