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Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Rep. Mo Brooks: Dems wage ‘war on whites’
Politico
How well this works politically is beyond me, but if truth matters anymore, it should be pushed as hard as possible.
“This is a part of the war on whites that’s being launched by the Democratic Party. And the way in which they’re launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else,” Brooks told Ingraham.--- Lucy McCalmontA rarity in politics---the truth. It's probably much bigger than a war on whites. It's a war on western civilization. White people are synonymous with western civilization.
How well this works politically is beyond me, but if truth matters anymore, it should be pushed as hard as possible.
Monday, August 4, 2014
Market rally in lockstep with Fed balance sheet expansion
Published on Zero Hedge (http://www.zerohedge.com)
Deutsche Bank "Raises The Warning Flag": What The Most Important Chart For The Market Reveals
By Tyler Durden
Created 08/04/2014 - 14:09
"The risk sell-off we've seen in recent weeks frustrates us a little as the chart we've published most this year has pretty much predicted that tougher times would come around July. We've been paying it a lot of attention for over a year now but decided to wait until the autumn before we raised the warning flags. The chart in question (included in today's pdf) is the one showing the Fed balance sheet and the S&P 500 (as a proxy for risk generally). As you can see, since the Fed balance sheet was used as an aggressive policy tool post-GFC, the graph suggests that the S&P 500 is well correlated with the size of the Fed balance sheet... This is important as virtually all of the mega rally in the last 5 years has come in the Fed balance sheet expansion periods." - Deutsche Bank
If only
It has been a long refrain on this blog that if you had enough energy, you could do almost anything.
So, what if I had a molten-salt reactor on my property? What could I do with it?
One thing I think that I could do would be to make a helluva lot of water. I don't know how much exactly, but a lot. You can simply condense it out of the atmosphere.
How much energy? Well, one about the size that they tested in the lab in the seventies. About 10 megawatts or so.
It may use up a golf ball size piece of thorium every decade or so. The nuclear waste that would have to be stored would be about a sixth to an eighth of that. Doesn't sound too dangerous, does it?
I'm guessing one of those machines that condenses water would use about 1 kwh of electricity per day. It could produce about 6 gallons or so.
One of these reactors could power hundreds of them. In turn, they would generate hundreds of gallons of water per day.
You could do plenty with that much water.
So, what if I had a molten-salt reactor on my property? What could I do with it?
One thing I think that I could do would be to make a helluva lot of water. I don't know how much exactly, but a lot. You can simply condense it out of the atmosphere.
How much energy? Well, one about the size that they tested in the lab in the seventies. About 10 megawatts or so.
It may use up a golf ball size piece of thorium every decade or so. The nuclear waste that would have to be stored would be about a sixth to an eighth of that. Doesn't sound too dangerous, does it?
I'm guessing one of those machines that condenses water would use about 1 kwh of electricity per day. It could produce about 6 gallons or so.
One of these reactors could power hundreds of them. In turn, they would generate hundreds of gallons of water per day.
You could do plenty with that much water.
I must have disengaged
From politics, that is. The disengagement allows me to step back and look at it without passion nor emotion.
A perusal of the political news looks crazy to me.
Have people really lost their minds? Could be.
My verdict has long been that these people are serving their own interests, not the public interest. Their arguments arise from that. It is really an argument over who controls what. There's no problem solving going on at all.
A perusal of the political news looks crazy to me.
Have people really lost their minds? Could be.
My verdict has long been that these people are serving their own interests, not the public interest. Their arguments arise from that. It is really an argument over who controls what. There's no problem solving going on at all.
Sunday, August 3, 2014
Mystery solved? Palma Pita may be its name
The mystery plant I've been referring to looks a lot like this:
Now, I'm reading more about it.
There is a relative to this plant that has fruit that resembles a banana. Also something to look for in that part of the state.
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| Spanish Dagger, Palma Pita, Don Quixote's Lance |
There is a relative to this plant that has fruit that resembles a banana. Also something to look for in that part of the state.
Remarkable Plants of Texas: Uncommon Accounts of Our Common Natives
Been reading this book for most of the day. By the way, I mentioned the book yesterday.
Despite all the references to plants which are native to the state, I still haven't located the identity of that plant that I referred to.
Reading is a time consuming process. Sorry for the light posting, but there's just so much that I can do.
Despite all the references to plants which are native to the state, I still haven't located the identity of that plant that I referred to.
Reading is a time consuming process. Sorry for the light posting, but there's just so much that I can do.
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