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Guest Contributor – Chemist – 24JAN2025 – Nuclear Power

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“Now the real problem is managing the wastes and breeding more fuel.”
Interesting choice of words.
If only there were a way of capturing all those extra neutrons and making fuel grade Uranium from more common ore. We could call it a “Breeder reactor”.
Nah. It will probably be decades until we could do that.
Like negative 7 decades.

There is no scientific reason not to use nuclear power. As you pointed out, the French have been doing it for 70 years. (They sell power to Germany.)
And if the French can do it….
The roadblocks are 90% political and 10% engineering.
Nuclear waste can be dealt with if we give American engineers a chance to attack the problem. But with no new activity going on, we can’t solve the problems.

Spending billions on a waste storage project in Nevada and then letting a corrupt politician kill the project was clearly the wrong way to go.
BTW, Nevada, I’d like that money back.

Guest Contributor – Chemist – 01JUL2024 – Hive of Infamy

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San Fran Nan is not used to answering tough questions from the press. She is used to softballs like: “How do you deal with the stress and isolation of the pandemic?” To which she can reply by showing off a $20,000 refrigerator stuffed with high end ice cream. And the press just oooos like trained seals.
Actually answering questions is beneath her. How dare you!

And yes, any biological male in the military wearing a dress is fired.
Anyone wearing bondage gear or puppy play garb is fired.
IMHO – shut the FBI down. The rot is too deep. Save the crime lab and pink slip everyone else.
Take a page out of Clinton’s book and fire every lawyer in the DOJ. He did it. The press loved it. When the press gets upset at Trump, he just reminds them that they were OK when Bubba did it.

Guest Contributor – Chemist – 27JUN2024 – At a Theater Near You

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A very good movie that somehow made it to the theaters is “Sound of freedom” – a bit heavy for kids though.
My local theater (which is often begging for viewers) was sold out almost every show.
The same theater now has:
“A quiet place: Day one” which is a remake of a terrible horror movie only this time with a POC in the lead. (Pass.)
“The Garfield movie” (Might be OK for kids, but I’ll pass).
“Inside out 2” (A sequel to a movie I did not see. Looks like Disney/Pixar – best to avoid.)
“Bad Boys Ride or Die” (Pass, I thought this property was paid out a decade ago. Pass.)
“The Bikeriders” (Looks like a throwback to 60s troubled teens on motorcycles. Pass.)
Horizon Chapter 1 (A Kevin Costner western – Maybe)
“If” A Ryan Reynolds comedy. I like RR. Free Guy was great! But I can wait for this to hit cable.

Guest Contributor – Chemist – 19JUN2024 – Primarily Cornyn

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I get it.
On a smaller scale in Texas we have the RINO John Cornyn to deal with.
John gave Biden his one and only gun control win and, in so doing, gave the Biden administration the legal standing to decide that anyone who sold a firearm was now a gun dealer and ad to register with the feds or face prison.
Yeah. John did that.

So in another 2 years John Cornyn is up for re-election.
He will be primaried.
If he wins his primary, We will not vote for him in the general.
Better a real democrat we can get rid of in another 6 years than 6 more years of a traitor.

 

Guest Contributor – Chemist – 07MAR2024 – International Women’s Day

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Friday is International Women’s Day.

My company has asked us all to:
1) Be Inclusive.
2) Wear Purple. (Apparently the color of IWD. It is said to signify justice, dignity and honor.)
3) Write appreciation cards to our female coworkers.
4) Post “Heart hands pictures”

Now, I am all for recognizing people who do good work, but why limit it to women?
In fact, point three seems to be in direct conflict with point one above.

As for point 4, I am not a teenaged girl.

Update

(Editorial Comment)

Chemist, thank you bringing this important cultural occasion to our attention.  But some of these suggestions are problematic.  Purple is a problem for me.  Since I’m never sure if something is purple or blue I just call it “other blue.”  So maybe they can allow me to wear blue?  Of course sometimes something that looks red to me turns out to be purple which is why I sometimes call it “other red”  Would it be alright if I could also wear red?

I don’t think I should write appreciation cards to women.  I don’t think Camera Girl would like that very much.  Also I’m afraid if I got too specific about what I appreciate about them it could be taken the wrong way.  In fact I’m pretty sure there wouldn’t be a right way to take it.

As far as being inclusive can I include men in the International Women’s Day?  I’d like to appreciate Charlton Heston and Dwight D Eisenhower.  I don’t think either of them get enough appreciation for their understated efforts.  Heston’s work in Planet of the Apes and Soylent Green is somewhat underrated.  And Eisenhower did get things going on the whole interstate highway thing which I really appreciate when I cross state lines.  So can I include these two men?

Ah, heart hands!  You really shouldn’t miss out on that.  That really looks like fun.

So let’s all try to embrace International Women’s Day.  Although be careful embracing women.  I know Camera Girl frowns on me embracing many women either international or domestic.  She’s made this very clear.

Guest Contributor – Chemist – 25JAN2024 – Another Texan’s View

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As a Texan, the same question came to my mind: “What took you so long?” This has been going on for 3 years!
But I think one or more of your suggested reasons is the answer. Abbott needed to make the northern blue cities feel the pain before he could act. (Full credit to DeSantis who bussed illegals first.) Now that the invasion is recognized as the number 1 problem facing the US, Abbott’s actions are winning in the public arena.
Does PINO Joe want to go toe to toe with Texas in an election year?
Maybe. Maybe that’s the plan. And maybe after a bloody encounter his puppet masters will pull Joe out at the last minute and put Big Mike on the ballot in his place.
Then Michelle can distance herself from the “Recent Unpleasantness” during the election (No clue what they will do with Kamala) and the regime has another object lesson for the rest of the country.

One thing is for sure. We are living in interesting times. (See ancient Chinese curse.)

Guest Contributor – Chemist – 21JAN2024 – My Version of 2024

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Or, the normies realize that rule of law is dead. After watching rioters get away with Burn, Loot, Murder while it is called peaceful protest and real peaceful protestors get decades long sentences for years – coupled with blatant election fraud for 2 national elections in a row they will have to realize that.
Now what?
Now the normies can no longer ignore what has been true for years and they stop obeying the laws.
Nothing overt – they don’t want to be jailed for decades on the charge of parading – but small stuff. Little things that add up. This is how a society falls apart.

Guest Contributor – Chemist – 01DEC2023 – Biden’s Voters

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Here is the person who will vote for Biden:
This is an old friend. A person who has worked union jobs their entire life.
They asked if I planned to retire anytime soon.
I replied that, had they asked me that in 2019 I would have told them I’d be retired now.
But since the last presidential election, my 401K is in the shitter and everything is a hell of a lot more expensive so retirement is not an option.
(I phrased it this way because I knew they were liberal.)
“Well, the market goes up and the market goes down.” was the reply.
I pointed out that this was the first time the market was down while inflation was skyrocketing.
They gave the standard talking point that inflation was down now.
I explained that the rate of inflation was down, but the prices had not come down and were substantially higher than they were 4 years ago.

They will still pull the lever for straight democrat, even though they live in a crime ridden shithole city that has been run by the democrats for over 50 years.
There are many of them.

 

 

Guest Contributor – Chemist – 17NOV2023 – Thoughts on Initiating the Draft

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“And military service will be mandatory.”
Oh that will be a hoot! Will the military try to make real soldiers out of the soy boys, the morbidly obese and the gender confused?
Or will boot camp start off as 90 days of fat camp?
Somehow, I don’t see the pink and purple haired androgynous types putting it on the line for a country they’ve been taught to hate.

If I may: It won’t be “mandatory military service” but just “Mandatory service”.
Someone will need to clean up the $h!t in the streets and take care of the addicts before the euthanasia kicks in and then process the remains as War Pig suggests.

If the US goes the way of Germany, young folks will be given a choice: Military or civil service. The afore mentioned Soy Boys and their friends will go into civil service.
Who does that leave for military?
18 – 30 year old middle eastern men?
Yikes!

In reply to Chemist by ArthurinCali

Good piece on the futility of an upcoming Draft.

A draft would be Imperial Suicide
https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/a-draft-would-be-imperial-suicide?r=1a1alz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

 

 

 

 

Guest Contributor – Chemist – 09NOV2023 – Woke Hierarchy

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That dopey girl was as pale as milk. Where exactly is she indigenous to? I think that cop showed admirable restraint. I doubt I could have done as well. Bottom line, if you drive drunk, regardless whether you’re non-binary or a scarlet-bottomed baboon you have to be pulled off the road.

 

In reply to photog –

Well, yes. She is pasty white. She’s also obese, unattractive and not too bright. So how does she get ahead? By claiming to be part of an oppressed minority.
To quote Bari Weiss:
“People were to be given authority in this new order not in recognition of their gifts, hard work, accomplishments, or contributions to society, but in inverse proportion to the disadvantages their group had suffered, as defined by radical ideologues. According to them, as James Kirchick concisely put it: ‘Muslim > gay, black > female, and everybody > the Jews.’”
She is never going to be successful based on looks or intellect so the only thing left is race pandering. What’s a pasty white girl to do when she is not a minority?
Just claim to be one!
Hey! It worked for a Elizabeth Warren. She is a pasty white female of below average intelligence who turned her claim of Native American lineage (Verified by her high cheek bones!) into a Harvard professorship and a seat in the senate.