It’s Rick Perry Day!
Okay, I’m pretty damn certain that you already know that Rick Perry thought he was going to be a “global ambassador for the oil and gas industry,” which he also thought included a sash and a small but tasteful and exquisite tiara.
The damn fool did not know what the Department of Energy does. And that is only one of the long and continuing list of things Rick Perry does not know.
Two-thirds of the agency’s annual $30 billion budget is devoted to maintaining, refurbishing and keeping safe the nation’s nuclear stockpile; thwarting nuclear proliferation; cleaning up and rebuilding an aging constellation of nuclear production facilities; and overseeing national laboratories that are considered the crown jewels of government science.
Government science? Honey, Rick Perry doesn’t believe in either one of those things.
And if the thought of Rick Perry overseeing our nuclear stockpile doesn’t cause sweat to break out on your neck so heavy that it rolls down your back and forms little sweat bead things on your butt, then you don’t understand nuclear. Hell, Rick Perry can’t even pronounce nuclear.
But I am certain this job doesn’t require much brain matter so Ole Rick will be fine. It’s not like he’s stepping into big boots or anything.
If approved by the Senate, he will take over from Ernest J. Moniz, who was chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics department and directed the linear accelerator at MIT’s Laboratory for Nuclear Science. Before Moniz, the job belonged to Steven Chu, a physicist who won a Nobel Prize.
Hell’s Bells, give Rick one of those Physics Made Real Easy books and he’ll be up to speed in a couple of hours.
Y’all, I’m gonna enjoy this hearing so much.
If there’s ever been a more appropriate call for “Physics for Dummies”, I can’t imagine it. (If that’s not a real book, it really SHOULD be.)
1All I’ve seen from his confirmation hearings is oil-and-gas stuff. I’d like to hear about the revolving door operation ran through his office, where his Chief-of-Staff would shepherd some billion dollar public/private project through the Lege and be rewarded with a big payday when he left government ‘to spend more time with family,’ ‘seek opportunities in the private sector’ or merely try to avoid indictment.
2I dunno, Mrs. B. There could be a place for Rick in the DOE. I can “see” him with a wire brush cleaning up the aging nuclear stockpile. Pity the person given the job of supervising him.
3In fairness to Perry (ack!), the people who appointed him to this position probably thought the same thing, which is why they appointed him.
4Glen Seaborg, who died in 1999, would be a far far better choice.
5I don’t see the problem. Perry and his boss don’t see any need for environmental safety (or any other kind of safety for what Obama called “ordinary Americans”), anyway, so he can comfortably ignore all the issues with nuclear power. And he doesn’t need national laboratories because clearly we don’t need science.
So that just leaves oil and gas, and DT sells [snake] oil and RP is full of gas, so that’s a pretty good job fit, isn’t it?
6Taking bets now that if he really does get the job, he won’t last long cuz “its hard”!
7Scary chit, especially since pRick grew up not that far from
Prohibited Area P-47, AKA: the huge Pantex Plant, near Amarillo. It handles most of the US’s nuclear weapons assembly and maintenance (almost all of our ~4500 nuclear weapons pass through it multiple times (nukes degrade, etc., w/time)).
Maj Kong…errm…Perry was an USAF transport pilot so he should know a little about such things, if he can remember them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renovation_of_the_nuclear_weapon_arsenal_of_the_United_States
8https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_States
nuclear stuff? The first and grandest disposal site in Tejas? Ricky knows about stuff.
9If the Senate panel hasn’t read Matt Taibbi’s 2011 Rolling Stone article “The Best Little Whore in Texas” I would urge its reading… just sayin’.
Sandridge, Area P-47 really? We need to see pRick’s birth certificate. The more likely story is that he was spawned in Roswell, NM or Area 51, NV. There’s something alien and not quite right about that boy.
And no, pRick you need not come to Yucca Mountain for a decent burial for yourself or your nuclear waste, as tempting as burying you might be.
Daniel, there’s too much coincidence for us not to notice a triad of similarity between little Ricky, Donnie, Vlad and their relationships with each other and their ‘ladies.’ Greed Or Prostitutes, that’s the GOP.
10DOE is responsible for thwarting nuclear proliferation so naturally the Blaze Orange Combover wants a moron to be in charge.
11What kind of idiot calls to end an agency and then, when invited to run it, admits without shame that he didn’t know what it does when he called to end it? I know, another reckless, ignorant blowhard, like Drumpf.
12Last night I thought Rachel had gotten this wrong. I really, really, really did. I said to myself . . . . .Even Rick Perry can’t be this clueless. But then I remembered the man who offered him the cabinet position in the first place (Trump probably didn’t know what the Dept of Energy did either.)
We are sooooooooooooo in trouble everybody.
I’m going to make a warm bowl of mashed potatoes and go back to bed.
13I woke up this morning and thought, “One more day before it all goes to s**t.”
14Department of Energy?
15Don’t they do like three things?
Let’s see, like gas stations? Maybe?
Electrical outlets to charge my iPhone? Right?
And, oh, come one brain, oops…
Could someone ask Perry what changed in the DoE to now earn his support? Is it possible that any answer he gives will require his college major’s emphasis on management of bovine excrement?
16Rick really needs a physic, more popularly known as a laxative. He is so full of it.
17Ya really wanna know how stoopid he us? Here it is:
U.S. Department of Energy wiki
Type that into your web browser. Read to your heart’s delight. (Read any references, too.)
Rick Perry can’t do that. Or won’t do that. Or doesn’t know how to do that. That right there is why this “man” can never have a place in ANY government body. Never.
18What a bunch of winners so far among the cabinet nominees! A woman for Ed/Sec who has no idea there are education laws; a guy with a past of wife beating, now dumb squat Perry! Unfortunately this kind of “team” throws bad shade on anyone even slightly better and certainly on the guy who elected them!
19The biggest undisclosed aspect of Rick taking this position, and aren’t we the lucky ones to have such an intellect in charge, is that he is now Homer Simpson’s boss. Talk about two peas in a pod!
20Jan, I have to paraphrase Christopher Hitchens on Jerry Falwell: “If you give Rick an enema, you could bury him in a matchbox.”
21@djw#6-At least we don’t have to worry about ricky-baby troubling his little good- hair-covered- head about nuclear proliferation except maybe for how to follow his bosses inclination and implement it. The Mango-colored Mussolini has already said he thought it would be a good idea if Japan developed their own nuclear arsenal and who knows who else he might include in that?
22With luck Rich will leave the sbrainy people at their desks and get a smart executive secretary to tell him where to sign and vet his speeches fore excess stupid.
23God, this appointment makes miss Molly Irvin’s! I first learned about Gov. Good hair from her columns. Let’s all take up her mantle.
24Watch Doctor strange the movie in streaming DVDRip
25streaming link here http://bit.ly/2jRfLuy