Cranky-D

If the president wants clean energy, that doesn’t create carbon dioxide (whatevs!!!) then why not move nuclear powerplants forward? They fix all the problems that the wackos bitch about.

We could have nukes all over the darn place, generating all the electric power we will ever need. Why give that idea up? Ideology should not matter a bit.

Anyway, people need to get their heads in the right place. If you really want to move forward, remove the barriers to nuclear power. We will all be a lot better off.

So, Jon and Kate are getting divorced. What a remarkable result. I’m so glad they’re “just thinking of the kids.”

Please.

I think she’s a shrew. However, it’s most likely she has always been that way. So Jon-boy suddenly discovering that fact of life this late in the game is, well, stupid. If he thought people got easier to get along with as you get older, then he is doubly dumb.

He should have learned to live with it. She should have learned to keep her mouth shut more often, and not treated him like a child when they were in public. And when you’re whole life is on teevee, you are always in public.

They should have worked it out because marriage is not about “eternal love” or “eternal happiness” or any crap like that. It’s about raising kids, and they have a truckload of kids that need a lot of raising. You suck it up and go on with life.

They should have done the counseling thing or “encounter weekends” or whatever the heck it takes for two people to grow the hell up and act like adults.

Am I married? Nope. If I were to think about it, I would take it very seriously. It isn’t about hearts and flowers and the bride’s big day and eternal happiness. It’s about dealing with the same thing every day and learning to not let stuff that bothers you bother you any more. It’s about taking care of everyone else’s needs before your own. Your life is not your own any more, and if you have kids, your life is now theirs.

I know that, which probably keeps me away from the whole thing. That’s a lot to ask, and the older I get the harder it is to contemplate the whole thing.

Little Jonny didn’t know it, and now he looks like a loser, because he is one.

“The Last Straw” - “Well, that about wraps it up,” he smirked as he tied the last ribbon. She brained him with a Louisville slugger.

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My twitter handle is crankyd, since they didn’t allow hyphens.

I cannot believe I joined that thing. G-d help us all.

Over here, at Ace of Spades, is a story about the latest stupidity from the U.K., the “anti-stab” knife. Basically it’s a normal knife except it doesn’t have a point on it. Wow, that’s gonna change everything.

Progressives blame the tools for the crime. Knives make people all stabby, guns make them all shooty. Without weapons, we’d all be holding hands and singing Kumbaya.

Right.

Another great read:Charles Krauthammer - Barack Obama Surveys the World. I liked the second paragraph very much:

Not that Obama considers himself divine. (He sees himself as merely messianic, or, at worst, apostolic.) But he does position himself as hovering above mere mortals, mere country, to gaze benignly upon the darkling plain beneath him where ignorant armies clash by night, blind to the common humanity that only he can see. Traveling the world, he brings the gospel of understanding and godly forbearance. We have all sinned against each other. We must now look beyond that and walk together to the sunny uplands of comity and understanding. He shall guide you. Thus:

Poetic.

One of the quotations proves that our president is a bald-faced liar, and he knows he will never get called on it.

Even on freedom of religion, Obama could not resist the compulsion to find fault with his own country: “For instance, in the United States, rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation” — disgracefully giving the impression to a foreign audience not versed in our laws that there is active discrimination against Muslims, when the only restriction, applied to all donors regardless of religion, is on funding charities that serve as fronts for terror.

It’s nice to have a president who really represents his country faithfully, isn’t it?

Well, it was at least. Of course, that was about six months ago.

Victor Davis Hanson has more:

What is stunning about Obama’s hostile demagoguery about Bush’s War on Terror is not that he has now contradicted himself on one or two particulars. Instead, he has reversed himself on every major issue — renditions, military tribunals, intercepts, wiretaps, Predator drone attacks, the release of interrogation photos, Iraq (and, I think, soon Guantanamo Bay) — and yet never acknowledged these reversals.

Are we supposed to think that Obama was never against these protocols at all? Or that he still remains opposed to them even as he keeps them in place? Meanwhile, his attorney general, Eric Holder, is as voluble on the excesses of the Bush War on Terror as he is silent about his own earlier declarations that detainees in this war were not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Convention.

Our president has been a really busy guy. We are sure seeing a lot of that “change” stuff, but I am running out of hope.

It’s my birthday pretty soon. When I corrected my mailing address when a family email came announcing the June birthdays, I wasn’t asking for cards. I just thought it would be a good time to let everyone know where to send the hate mail if they are so inclined.

I think I’ve already received more cards than since I was a teenager.

It is kind of nice, though.

My employer has had me on to do lists for a while now, which is insulting enough since I have already proven that I can work on my own. I have produced two products all by myself so far, though he stuck his hand in one and thinks he actually contributed something.

Whatever.

Well, the latest one required me to integrate code that he hadn’t finished writing yet. So, instead of making fake work and twiddling my thumbs, I decided to wait a bit until he was finished, and make up my hours later when I really had something to do. He finally got the code to me today, but not before complaining that I didn’t have enough hours in for the first week of the month.

What a jackass. If there were a job market, I would be so gone.

Great video here:Terence Kealey - ‘The Myth of Science as a Public Good’ on Vimeo.

I used to be of the opinion that some science needed to be funded by the government. This guy has changed my mind. The fact that immediate government de-funding of private research/business would leave me without a job does not change my mind, either.

The presentation runs about 25 minutes, with an hour of questions and answers following.