I receive suggestions from time to time that have been sent in by readers. I do read all the articles. I don't always watch the videos; often I do on about 1.75 speed. (I like reading, so sue me.)
These two are from the suggestion pile.
I saw only a little bit of Sen. Britt's response speech. It was all I could take. Between the breathy moralism and the fact that some half-brain-dead lunatic thought it was a good idea to have her speak from a kitchen made me wonder whether or not she was also barefoot and pregnant. Because anyone who has even a passing familiarity with the Christian Taliban will know that they want their women to be in the kitchen, pregnant, and when they speak, it's to affirm whatever their man thinks.
I found it nauseating and almost as tone deaf as Bobby Jindal's SOTU reponse. But the hypocrisy goes far deeper, as Jess Piper well knows. Give her a read. it's free.
Shifting gears, the Katsaps want to refuel the nuclear power plant that they stole from Ukraine. But it's not going well.
Hungary's semi-elected dictator met with the TOFF and urged him to win/steal the election, bend a knee to Putin, give Ukraine to the Katsaps and thereby end the war. Orban and the TOFF either don't know or don't care that the Baltic nations are on Putin's target list, as well as every other country that was ever a part of the Russian Empire. For all we know, Orban has dreams of resurrecting the Austro-Hungarian Empire, possibly because he wants to have a navy.
Finally, let's be clear on one thing: The Republican party is dead. It no longer exists. It's the Party of Trump, now, as he cemented his takeover of the party, including installing his daughter-in-law, who has no qualifications other than being loyal to her hubby's daddy. She has already stated that the national party will devote all its money to the TOFF, so if you're in charge of a state branch that once got some financial help from your mothership or if you're running for the Congress, well, kid, yer on yer own.
Pretty sad that a party that began as an anti-slavery party which got civil rights effectively into the Constitution (changing it from aspirational to a force of law) ended its days in service of a wannabee dictator whose main objectives are to stay out of prison and grift every penny he can.
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Thank you JPiper! I now have a name for the voice and the
self genuflection that I'd seen in Japanese women and other
cultures. The Fundi Baby voice always grated on me as
it carried the "Bless You" effect hiding personal judgement,
superiority, or may be approval that you were, to borrow a
term, one of the body.
It reminded me of Science fiction Dune the Bene Gesserit
sisterhoods use of their weapons, the voice. Herbert's
use might have been inspired by the use of controlling
speech as a form of power to inflict suffering.
What is interesting is I hear it here on occasion usually
when evangelical fundies appear on the door step. Last bunch
before they left they offered to pray for me, I offered to
pray with them that they may gain understanding of the world.
Last time I'd seen those types leave in a hurry I'd threatened
them with trespass. I don't take well to infant voiced fundie
kids on my door step invoking old testament rite of
accountability before god. Weaponized religion bothers me.
So to me these are dangerous people.
Scary is russians playing with nuke plants...They have a bad
history. Fortunately the reactors are not of the unstable
RMK design.
Eck!
Digby has a pointer to a Twitter post of Stepford Katie vs. 'normal' Katie
https://twitter.com/aldotcom/status/1766218910058021182
Miz Britt sho do make a fine Nehemiah Scudder Handmaiden....
The party of Lincoln has become the party of John Wilkes Booth.
I just hope that Fergus' takeover of the RNC finances underfunds the senate races and helps us hold onto control of that chamber.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
I've got some (lots of actually) problems with the nuclear fuel story;
The fuel doesn't expire every six years. Think of the fuel rods in a nuke as a charcoal BBQ grill. Like the briquets you reshuffle and add some every once in a while. Nukes are on a schedule that the utility sets themselves on how often a plant has a refueling outage. Normal is every 18 or 24 months. All rods are removed from the assembly. 1/3 are removed and replaced with new ones. The other 2/3 are sorted and placed just as you would a bbq grill. New ones are placed between the hottest and medium hot.
You don't disassemble the reactor. The unloaded fuel goes with all the other unloaded fuel that has been taken out of all the other reactor on site to a spent fuel pool. It's not rocket surgery. The stinkin' huskies have all the technical and manpower to do this as it usually takes 3 to 6 weeks for 1,500 to 2,000 (working 7/12's) people to due the fuel change and all associated maintain for the whole plant during the shutdown.
Doug, I agree. But I hope the underfunding continues on through to the house races also. That would be rich.
Dale
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