The rules created by the left will be applied to the left as equally and punitively as they have applied them to the right. And when they beg for mercy, I’ll begin to reconsider. Or maybe not. Because fuck these people.
This new philosophy has freed me of more emotional angst that I can describe. Literally nothing the left says or does matters to me anymore. I don’t care about their tantrums. I don’t care about their accusations. I don’t care if they say Trump is lying. I don’t care if Trump is lying. They created this Frankenstein. They own it. I am free of all obligation. I will never play defense again. I will attack, attack, attack, attack using their own tactics against them until they learn their lesson.
What I will not do is let them play my values against me ever again. I don’t need to prove that I’m better than them. I already know it.
I am glad to see I am not the only one having the same sentiments. And I am planning on slaying many a High Horse and bleach the shit out Bloody Shirts by the truck loads.
I have watched with embarrassment as employees with various federal agencies have gone rogue on social media to criticize President Trump. The alternative agency Twitter feed that I find the most upsetting is Rogue NASA.
BOOM!!! That’s it. I was hooked. That’s what I wanted to do with my life. I wanted to solve technical challenges. Also, SPACE!!! Space is awesome!
From Apollo 13 I was introduced to The Right Stuff, both the book and the movie. The more I read about what those men did, pushing the boundaries of engineering and design, the more I was inspired.
It is one of the greatest joys in life that I get to drive by an Saturn V rocket on my way to work everyday. The Saturn V is perhaps in the top 10 engineering advances in human history, right up there with antibiotics and splitting the atom.
NASA was founded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower with the signing of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958. The purpose of which was:
To provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the earth’s atmosphere, and for other purposes.
As an adult, I was dismayed when President Obama turned NASA’s gaze around to stare at earth to study climate change. NASA’s vision it outer space. We already have an agency that studies the earth and its atmosphere, the NOAA. NASA didn’t need to become a redundancy. A refocus of NASA on deep space exploration is exciting to me. I am thrilled about the impending launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. I look forward to a NASA that I hope will inspire my son with new discoveries the way NASA inspired me.
Well, the first stage of the Saturn V burned 203,400 gallons of kerosene in 162 seconds to produce 7.5 Million pounds of thrust. We did that 10 times, not to mention all the unmanned launches of the Saturn IB that we conducted to get the Saturn V ready.
The advancement in knowledge and reach we gained was worth every molecule of CO2 we made doing that.
Climate change is all these alt agency Twitter feeds are yammering about. A group of scientists are planning a march on DC to protest, and what is their march all about? Climate change and Social Justice intersectionality.
This brings me to my point, or should I say points.
First of all, I am dismayed that in Liberal America, “science” is synonymous with climate change. Any speculation about anything less than a totally apocalyptic future brought about by burning fossil fuels is “science denial.”
The attitude regarding climate change has become such an article of political faith that climate change and science hardly belong in the same sentence anymore.
So much of the climate change noise sounds like the street preacher screaming “The End is Neigh” only to change the date when the world doesn’t end when he predicted.
This is where the problem of the combination of political religion and scientists really kicks in: fixing the problem.
Now is when I take of my scientist lab coat and put on my engineer hard had. Let’s say for argument’s sake that man made climate change is completely real. Now what?
The response from the “scientists” (the use of scare quotes was deliberate) is to destroy the economy. Our economy thrives on shipping goods around the world on oil burning ships and across the country in diesel burning trucks. Our economy is possible because the cost of power in Western World is so very low.
That is a call for rolling blackouts. People would starve to death just due to the amount of food spoilage from shut off refrigerators. Innovation would end. Our economy would die overnight as electricity became prohibitively expensive. There is no way to replace 66% of our energy infrastructure with wind and solar in 5 years (the article was published in 2014). It took 20 years to electrify America. Rebuilding our energy infrastructure will take at least that long.
The same with any technology that aims to replace the internal combustion engine. There is no point to a commercial vehicle that takes an hour to charge up enough to drive 22 miles. Sure, Tesla Superchargers exist, but until an electric vehicle is built that has the carrying capacity, range, and recharge/refill time as any current commercial gas or diesel vehicle, the investment in the infrastructure isn’t there.
That’s OK. The Tesla today is like the Motorola of the 1980’s, battery life sucks, it is wildly expensive, and is mostly a toy for rich people to show off. Fast forward 20 years and through innovation brought about by the consumer market, everybody has a really awesome smart phone. Give the electric car industry another 20 years an I’m sure my son’s first new car after college will be something electric and awesome.
The point is we have to get there at a rate of technological progression that is economically feasible. We need to keep the lights on with coal to do that.
We’re not going to get to Star Trek by taking a detour through The Flintstones to avoid putting out any more CO2.
This isn’t bowing to the oil industry or big coal or hating the planet. This is Engineering Econ 101.
Without cheap energy our economy fails, A failed economy can’t innovate. Without innovation we have no solutions. We can’t bankrupt the economy to save the planet… assuming we can even save the planet.
And yet my saying “hey, slow down, we’ll get to a future that is nearly free of energy and transportation generated CO2, we just have to do it in an economically sustainable way” makes me a science denier.
I switched Themes to one of the basics that comes with WP to see if the error messages stop. It will take me some day to make it look decent, so advanced apologies for that.
It ticks me off to have wasted money on a paid theme, but this crap is getting annoying and HostGator simply won’t do shit.
Wordpress Optimized Hosting, isn’t.
The video below reminds me of what I read in Huxley’s “A Brave New World” about conditioning infants to not buck the norms of that dystopian society.
One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years, thought Bernard Marx, who was a specialist on hypnopædia. Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
Oh, and Shia LaBeouf is just a dancing monkey that need a shorter chain and a fresh banana.
Florida Action Report
DATE: January 25, 2017
TO: USF & NRA Member and Friends
FROM: Marion P. Hammer
USF Executive Director
NRA Past President
The critically important self-defense bill, SB-128, was heard by the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, Tuesday, January 24, 2017 and PASSED 5-4.
Next stop, the Rules Committee, before reaching the Senate floor. Here are the members:
at·tri·tion
əˈtriSH(ə)n/
noun
1.
the action or process of gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of someone or something through sustained attack or pressure.
NRA News’ Cam Edwards may look now like some wholesome farmer, but do not be fooled and think him ignorant of our history. Dear Ladd saying that Pennsylvania’s original constitution did not contain RKBA did not go unchallenged by Cam:
So maybe he meant the U.S Constitution and not the one from PA. But if so, I am not sure if by “pamphlet” Ladd refers to that part of the U.S. Constitution called “The Bill of Rights” which would make him a much bigger idiot that he usually represents.
