I went to bed around 1 am, and woke up at 8 am. It was my mother’s birthday today, so I cleaned the kitchen and living room for her. I had an early lunch/oddly lunch like breakfast of left over’s from last night. However I skipped lunch. It was cold and cloudy today so I stayed in.
I had pasta and portabella mushrooms for dinner and a glass of wine. Then caramel cake for my mother’s birthday.
My father also unenrolled from the Republican Party, I was proud of him. Evidently the combined effect of the union bashing buffoon in Wisconsin and the moronic senator from the western part of the country who confused concord New Hampshire with concord Massachusetts pushed him over the edge. He is after all a mass steel workers VP and like me grew up walking the freedom trail every 4rth of July… the so called “real Americans” from the former confederacy who pretend to be patriotic when they aren’t openly advocating secession sicken me to the core and apparently were too much for him. He expressed interest in joining the MA pirate party… I laughed and told him I intended to enroll as an independent when I go to get my license.
I’m very concerned about the situation in Japan, it seems a meltdown is likely and the Japanese people, being the only people to ever suffer a nuclear attack may end up having to suffer through another nuclear holocaust. The fallout from that, both literal and metaphoric will be of great significance to the entire world as we attempt to transition away from coal fire based energy. It seems to me unlikely that nuclear fission reactors will replace coal fire plants in light of recent events, which I’m inclined to view as a negative given what I know about their relative reliability in Europe, but I’m not wedded to nuclear power as the only solution… simply the most probable one. Certainly, we have to do something other than continue to burn coal. Kentucky can’t decide the fate of the country, much less the world’s climate, neither for that matter can Beijing nor Bengal. Clean coal is a myth and Obama need to give it a rest… then again he needs to do a lot of things he probably can’t do anymore.
Oh and the GOP is trying to cut funding for earthquake and tsunami detection... Are they trying to lose the next election? I mean honestly, are they so out of touch that they think this nothing cut to a vital part of our national security and scientific progress is worth the political fallout, potential natural disasters, and setbacks to research and development all so that we can have a few million off our 12 trillion dollar debt? Well I suppose this ties into my next point, in 2 hours march is wasted 15 days… tis not good, beware the ides of March.
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