1 Joe Bastardi and Piers Corbyn predicting big storm and extreme cold from plains to the northeast next week through the 20.   Freezing down to Texas.

Hit the grocery this weekend and avoid the crowds!

2 Posted by: Miss Marple at January 06, 2011 07:41 AM (Fo83G)

Beanervt and I were discussing this Winter on the ONT. They are once again predicting more snow here.  The last three Winters have set new records in the U.S. and Europe.

This one looks like it is gearing up to be even worse. As we were saying, it looks like it is time to stock up and be prepared to hunker down. It looks like a real barn-burner cold is on the way. 

3

Best picture of Pelosi yet at Weasel Zippers

4

More junk science fraud revealed

5 Snow in Philly tonight as a prelude to the main event. And good morning, M&Ms. I know the first week after the new year is tough but you're almost there.

6

Columbia to host conference concerning the construction of new mini-modular nuclear reactors

Before you ask, I donÂ’t know a whole lot about the design and operation of these things. Perhaps I will do some research today and see what I can find out and provide a preliminary evaluation.

7 Vic, it would be cool to give certain installations autonomous power. And nice to be able to cut away from big reactors, which are easier to stop with protests and lawsuits. Make nukes ubiquitous!

8 Fox is now talking about Obama's illegal signing statement to override an actual congressional prohibition on GITMO trials.

Yeah, Bush had some signing statements but NEVER and outright "screw you" to congress on a plain prohibition. So screw you idiots on panel.

As I recall they tried to get up an impeachment against Reagan over Nicaragua and congressional prohibitions.

9 And nice to be able to cut away from big reactors, which are easier to stop with protests and lawsuits. Make nukes ubiquitous!

Posted by: joncelli at January 06, 2011 07:48 AM (MLQL2)

Oh don't worry, the eco-idiot tards are already in Aiken now erecting signs and getting ready to protest. There was an article in the same paper that I didn't link.

To the anarchists and communists size makes no difference.

10

Nikki Haley continues to do good shit.

11

Monty if you are following these threads you may be interested in this music festival in Savannah in the Spring.

12 Whatever it is you're doing, pretty soon someone is going to tell you to stop it.

Quite true.  This is usually how things go with the wife around bedtime.

13 To the anarchists and communists size makes no difference.

The guys all have small peckers and the women are lesbians. It would seem logical for them to demote size.

14 Jazzed so see Majority Leader under Eric Cantor's name

15 to

16 14 Jazzed so see Majority Leader under Eric Cantor's name

It's not Morning in America, but I'll take any sign of the dawn in these dark times.

17 "Act like a lady! STFU!" will pave Specter's Penn Law teaching success, no doubt.

18 Andrea Tantaros on Fox & Friends. Whoa, what a body!!!

19 So ef, I think I see a possible research paper in your comment. If your thesis is libs have small Penises, it stands to reason we could develope a meter that does not use standard rules of measurement. Instead we could just use names on a lined sheet of paper. I don't know what the first name would be. Che is a good name for a tiny penis. I do however know what the last name would be. Reagan. If you have a Reagan, well now, that's conservative.

20

So, if I understand this right, we can expose radical muslims by demanding bacon?

"Bacon, bacon, bacon!"

21
12 children studied

As if 12 would suffice for any study of merit.

22

What unmitigated gall from Harry asshole

He has activated a Senate rule to make the day longer than 24 hours so he can try to ram through his nuclear option. GD the union asskissing voters in NV.

On the opening day of the 112th Congress on Wednesday, Senate Democratic leaders used a rare procedural rule that will keep the legislative day open for several days Â— a move that would allow for rule changes with the approval of a simple majority of the 100-member chamber instead of the usual two-thirds vote.

23 the women are lesbians. It would seem logical for them to demote size.

Logic?

24

Media Biased article guaranteed to make you puke up your breakfast

So if you are on a diet click here.

25

So, if I understand this right, we can expose radical muslims by demanding bacon?

"Bacon, bacon, bacon!"

Posted by: that dog in the commercial at January 06, 2011 08:07 AM (FSdiI)

Does anyone have the transcript to that video? The only thing I understood was the f-bombs. Gee, ya think he got fired??//

Morn' all.

 

26 used a rare procedural rule that will keep the legislative day open for several days Â—

Get that Senate out of the authoritarian majority -- steep a little mustard seed Tea and recall the rare long procedural rule day to negate the former.

Meanwhile: Obstruction? Authoritarians get a lesson on obstruction.

27 If that takes off, the romance novel market could turn to comedy gold.

"She marveled at the emergence of the engorged christie"

28 More junk science fraud revealed

Vic, the Eddiebear link I put in the sidebar expresses my feelings on this topic well.

In addition to the obvious health issues that arise from people choosing to forego vaccines, as the dad of an autistic child, the millions upon millions of dollars wasted in continuing studies of this non-issue pisses me off to no end.

29 Those mini and micro nuclear reactors are the wave of the future, Vic.

They get buried and need no cooling water and go for 30 years or more... and produce electricity for about 5 cents a kilowatt hour.

No need for massive infrastructure upgrades either!  Just plug-in to the grid as needed.  Charge your electric car all night for pennies.

Some of them are even designed to use existing nuclear plant waste.

30 Logic?

None.  None at all.  I wasn't really aiming for any.

31 Good morning!

Hey, I got a reminder from the Yahoo Pick 'em league thing.  Obviously, regular season is over but there's a way to continue to the playoffs if the commissioner sets it up. 

The other NFL playoffs thingy is from NFL network or some such.  I'd rather not sign up for that.  Any interest in continuing the already set up Yahoo leagues? 

32 They get buried and need no cooling water and go for 30 years or more... and produce electricity for about 5 cents a kilowatt hour.

Little premature eh? Right now they produce nothing because they are on paper only.

33 Vic, the Eddiebear link I put in the sidebar expresses my feelings on this topic well.

My major heartache on this kind of shit is reserved for the MFM, including Fox. I realize that from time to time there will ne charlatans and crooks pushing some kind of an agenda.

The charlatans are usually in it to harm evil "big business" and the crooks are in it to make a buck. The media takes their bogus study and prints it like it was smoking hot gospel come down from on high engraved in stone. They generate hysterical headlines and phony sob stories for days and demand that the "politicians" do something.

None of these assholes know the first thing about any kind of science and they make no effort to find someone to interview who knows anything about the issue at all.

After all, if it is anti-business it must be true right?

What is doubly shitty is those lying assholes are protected by the liberal courts even when their lies cause people to go bankrupt as in the phony alar scare.

Just more evidence that the "free press" and the judicial system in this country are epic fail.

34 Y-not, I think they've already set up the playoff thingy.

35 34 Y-not, I think they've already set up the playoff thingy

When I followed the link they put up a couple of days ago, it went to a non-yahoo league.  (I think it was NFL network or something.)  I was looking to avoid that and just continue the yahoo one.

36 Ahhh. Got it.

37 Sometimes not is all as is seems:

Meet The Felon With The Golden Voice

38

The Dmeocrats keeps saying that their new health care law will bring down costs?

 

How so?  just by saying it? LOL - We all kknow that democrats are pure liars.

Meanwhile-- Health Care costs go up because of new law

"San Francisco-based Blue Shield said the increases were the result of fast-rising healthcare costs and other expenses resulting from the new healthcare laws passed last year..."

39 37 Sometimes not is all as is seems:

Meet The Felon With The Golden Voice

Well, based on the Mike Vick debaucle, I don't see why he doesn't deserve a second chance.  His talent is at least as good in his field as Vick's is in his. 

And, I don't see a violent crime. 

40

37 - Our wonderful mainstream media at work  asleep at the wheel.

 

41 Autism: Don Imus should have a lead pipe administered to his wrinkled face for perpetuating the hoax. What a fucking reprehensible prick he has, yet again, proven to be. He deserved getting pimp-slapped by Sharpton.

42 My major heartache on this kind of shit is reserved for the MFM, including Fox.

I'm with you on that. The Lancet should have zero credibility anymore over this one as well.

Both this issue and AGW really highlight an anti-technology, anti-progress vulnerability in human nature that's provides an opening to prey on the gullible.

It shouldn't be left unstated, though, that Brian Deer, the author of the piece referred to in the links, is an investigative reporter in the UK. He's the one primarily responsible for bringing down Wakefield and has been on this target for years. Every rule has an exception, I guess.

43 So, if I understand this right, we can expose radical muslims by demanding bacon? "Bacon, bacon, bacon!" Posted by: that dog in the commercial at January 06, 2011 08:07 AM (FSdiI) Can we blitz every Muslim website with the Beggin' Strips dog treat commercial, where the dog goes into a bacon induced orgasm when he smelss it (Bacon! Bacon! Bacon! Yum, Yum, Yum!). Bacon, dogs and Joooz! Heh.

44 Don Imus should have a lead pipe administered to his wrinkled face for perpetuating the hoax.

Jenny McCarthy too. Line 'em up and pass out blindfolds and cigarettes.

45

More union goodness from NYC.

http://tinyurl.com/27fo3nl

notice how clean the sidewalk is as well.

 

46 Every rule has an exception, I guess.

Posted by: Andy at January 06, 2011 08:52 AM (veZ9n)

Obviously not a member of the MFM though or we would have heard about it long ago.

47 @More union goodness from NYC.

Old, but did you see the story yesterday about them dumping snow on the Jewish cemetery, destroying headstones and parked vehicles in the process?

And the rats.  Don't forget the lovely rats enjoying all the unpicked up garbage. 

You'd have to be insane to willingly live in NYC.  At least California is pretty. 

48 Via the JawaReport:  Uncle Ted takes on Roseanne

49 @43 J.J., did you notice they dropped the original version, where the dog says "What's in the bag? I can't read!"? It's been replaced by "opposable thumbs." It's, like, a ROP PC redefinition of humanity's fine points.

Aristotle liked the genus/species form of definition. He called Man a "rational animal." Plato insisted that his earlier version, "featherless biped," was sufficient. So one day, a couple of A's students went to the wall of Plato's grove, the Academy, plucked a chicken, and threw it over, letting the res, as it were, loquitur.  Nobody does philosophy like that any more.

50

Does anyone have the transcript to that video?

I think the man-child is saying "Don't fucking record me, bitch."

51

"San Francisco-based Blue Shield said the increases were the result of fast-rising healthcare costs and other expenses resulting from the new healthcare laws passed last year..."

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at January 06, 2011 08:44 AM (0fzsA)

 

I'm sure that story will get little to no play in the MFM unless they distort the facts

52 about autism/vaccine link (or no link):

I think autism is a gene (or something in the brain) that is triggered by high levels of stress in the baby.

When I was pregnant I read everything about it, and the one repeating fact was the autistic child threw a fit, screamed, had to be held down for the shot.  I don't think the vaccine triggers it.  I think the stress from the shot does. 

Like most problems that occur in the brain, I think it is caused by stress.  That would explain why some kids have autism without ever being vaccinated.

53 You'd have to be insane to willingly live in NYC.  At least California is pretty. 

Posted by: Y-not at January 06, 2011 09:02 AM (IDL9N)

I live a 1/2 hour outside NYC, haven't crossed the hudson into the boros in 8yrs since swearing off Yankee stadium for 10.00 beer and 30.00 parking.

 

54 Don Imus should have a lead pipe administered to his wrinkled face for perpetuating the hoax. What a fucking reprehensible prick he has, yet again, proven to be. He deserved getting pimp-slapped by Sharpton. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 06, 2011 08:50 AM (9Cooa) Agreed. Imus was actually funny about 30 years ago when he was still on booze and cocaine. Then he sobered up and became just another whining rich liberal media elite. Proving once again teh merits of the AoS Lifestyle.

55

WASHINGTON – Republicans have already violated some of the vows they made in taking stewardship of the House

Their pledge to cut $100 billion from the budget in one year won't be kept.

And for a coming vote seeking to repeal the health care overhaul, the first major initiative of the new Congress, lawmakers won't be allowed to propose changes to the legislation despite Republican promises to end such heavy-handed tactics from the days of Democratic control.

 

The good old AP once again passing off a liberal opinion piece as a news story

56 Since there's supposed to be another whopping snowfall in NYC this weekend, how long until the heaps of garbage lining the streets are finally hauled away by New York's Strongest?

57 Much of California is pretty, but parts of L.A. are as squalid as any 3rd world hellhole.....

58 57 Much of California is pretty, but parts of L.A. are as squalid as any 3rd world hellhole...

Well, that's certainly true. 

59 @48

Damn, Roseanne is one nasty b*tch.  What a friggin' hag.

60 Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood site has a post about the bowdlerization of Huck Finn to remove the n-word. They quite correctly see it as stupid, philistine and absurdly PC.

However...

If you post a comment to it that quotes the book exactly, and explain why substituting the word would eviscerate the power of the passage, your comment gets deleted.

Nice work there, Big Hollywood. Way to complete undermine your point.

61

Both this issue and AGW really highlight an anti-technology, anti-progress vulnerability in human nature that's provides an opening to prey on the gullible.

I wonder when the people who listen to this garbage are going to realize that the so-called "progressives" who preach this kind of bullshit have no interest in actual progress.  They should be "REgressives," because that's where they want to take us; back in time.  None of that agribusiness produced meat and produce!  You've got to eat locally grown organic foods that are ten times more expensive for half the quantity.   People deserting your city in search of work?  Forget about promoting business friendly policies.  Just shrink the size of the city!   Roads falling into disrepair?  No no no, don't bother with reassessing your spending policies to ensure there's money in the budget to fix up the infrastructure.  Just tear up the tarmac and let 'em go back to dirt!  Everything was so much better when all we had was dirt roads, remember?

62 @61
Yep. 

63 I kind of miss the days when Liberals were Humanists. 

Now everything associated with humans is bad, including humans themselves. 

64 Look, we're all adults here, right?

65 Earlier I promised a review of these new min-modular reactor systems. Here are links and a brief discussion of the B&W SMR system discussed somewhat in the article I initially linked to.

B&W PR site

NRC pre-application design review

It doesn't appear that there is anything really super-groundbreaking in this design. There are interesting twists in the use of some of the systems.

1. They are building the entire primary section of the unit subgrade. That has some advantages and it has some disadvantages. It makes the required containment construction simpler and probably cheaper, but it also has its own unique safety issues such as inadvertent flooding and personal safety from atmospheric issues.

2. They are using a PWR fuel design but operating without soluble boron in the moderator like a BWR. They do this by using what is known as a burnable poison actually designed into the fuel matrix. Removal of boron from the primary coolant simplifies a lot of the overall design with attendant cost savings. It does however cause other issues in fuel design and costs. (nothing is ever free folks).

3. It uses the B&W once through S/Gs which have the unique ability to provide superheat. That makes for a more efficient system and also a simpler design in the secondary. They do though have significant issues that have posed problems in the past. A loss of secondary feedwater event for this type of S/G is much more significant than the U-tube type design. This is what actually led to the event at Three Mile Island. In additon, they are using the S/G as an integral attachment to the Rx Pressure vessel in a manner I am not able to exactly determine from the literature.

4. They say that the core will be removed as a single unit for refueling. However it looks like the S/G will have to be removed in order to get to the core. I can see huge problems there over time.

5. The cores are designed to be 125MWe each with the intent that at least two of these will be used per site and as many as 6 (if you want what the standard Westinghouse AP1000 puts out. Two of these at 125MW will be cheaper to build but conversely you only get 250MW of generation. That is what you get from a standard IC Turbine on a skid now.

6. I gather that the majority of the cost savings are supposed to be in the smaller design allowing smaller plants unless you want to get a lot by building a 6 unit site which will probably cost as much as the AP1000.

And that is the crux of the matter. Utilities have tried multi-unit sites before with "shared" personnel between the units. it does not work well with the regulators, particularly with Operations and emergency personnel.

Even with the other personnel such as maintenance, engineering, and health physics there are periods when you run into problems. This usually means that it works out that there are no cost savings because you wind up with huge staffs as if you had multiple independent plants.

As for Chitown's remarks about 5 cents per KW/hr first off, that is hugely expensive. My last plant was running 1.3 cents on a rolling 3 year average. However, thee is nothing in this documentation that I see that even tries to estimate costs.

As for using waste to operate, that is a pipe dream.

BTW, I went through some of the "design documents" on the NRC site but so much as been redacted due to "patent concerns" it is hard to get much from them.

As an overall comment I will say that there may be some uses for these things in specialized settings but I don't see utilities climbing all over them in the future unless the vendors can get the NRC to give ground on the "shared resources" issues. And that, I don't see happening because there ARE legitimate concerns there that should not be blown off.

66 It shouldn't be left unstated, though, that Brian Deer, the author of the piece referred to in the links, is an investigative reporter in the UK. He's the one primarily responsible for bringing down Wakefield and has been on this target for years. Every rule has an exception, I guess.

Posted by: Andy at January 06, 2011 08:52 AM (veZ9n)

For whatever reason the UK seems to have some of the most rational (along with the most delusional) journalists around.  During 2008 the only skeptical MFM reports of the Indonesian Imbecile's shallow campaign speeches were from UK sites.

This anti-vaccine bullshit really hits me hard; it's a sure path for polio and other diseases to be an active threat to our population,

67 I'm seeing that Elizabeth Edwards' Will leaves Silky high and dry.  I'm sure that's good for a snark or two from the Morons and Moronettes.

68

Not only is Genachowski's policies sophmoric, they're technologically inept.

Hey app-makers! Just make your apps so that they can immediately tell the user where the traffic slow-down is happening!

Yeah, okay. They should just DO THAT then. While they're at it, they should also make their apps easily factor large primes and solve P=NP.

 

69 What's the other gvt building in Maryland that had an explosion today?  DOT was one, but the other is???

70 So, O'Reilly gets an exclusive interview with Obama before Super Bowl!?!  Wonder if he'll ask him to bring his b.c. hahaha

71 Reading the headline about Egyptian Muslims attending Coptic Christian Churches to act as shields against further attacks actually made me feel a bit of hope that Islam can shrug off it's reputation of terrorism and tyranny and become a religion of mercy, justice and righteousness and take it's rightful place with the other Great Religions of the world.

72 Egyptian Muslims Will Act as Human Shield for Christians

That there is real courage, as opposed to the kind Hollywood liberals have.  The 'splodeydopers won't be shy about blowing up fellow Muslims - hopefully they're savvy enough to realize that would be bad PR.

73 I'm seeing that Elizabeth Edwards' Will leaves Silky high and dry. I'm sure that's good for a snark or two from the Morons and Moronettes.

I find myself not very surprised she wouldn't leave a whole lot to her estranged husband.  In any event he had a pretty successful slip-n-fall lawyer business, so it's not like he'll be living in a refrigerator box.

74 House Republicans introduced measures on Wednesday to block the environmental agencyÂ’s proposed regulation of greenhouse gases and new rules limiting toxic air emissions from cement factories.

If they keep this up I might just vote republican in 2012.

75

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