UnReal Time

I'm sitting in a public place and they've got FNC running. Glenn Beck is on atm and being a bigger prat than usual. They had TWC on all day and then someone asked for the news. Glenn Beck is not news, but they won't change the fucking channel.

I am full of a measure of murder and rage I haven't experience recently.

Has anyone else noticed that these people are going into hardcore hype-defensive mode? That they insist on talking about everything as if they were under attack from all sides? That they _constantly_ talk about how they "feel" about one supposed threat to "their America" after another?

Why don't they ever just cite the facts? Why can't they seem to examine issues from all sides?

Water way to go...

Okay, I think I have an answer to the brine disposal issue inherent to the desalinization option in handling the So-Cal water shortage.

In the first place, set the plants up as a State Public Utility, sell the water to the private company and rebate the profits back the tax payers, less expenses. Second, you can power the plants by setting up solar farms on the other side of the inland mountains, providing local jobs to the natives. Third, you pump the brine back out to sea using off-shore wind turbines, diluting it using seawater in increasing volume until you discharge it at the edge of the continental shelf.

I advise talking to the Dutch about engineering.

Back to the Future!

Well here's a bit of amusing nonsense. I arrived at this particular truckstop on thursday at about 1600, and got up at about Friday. That's not my point though, my point is, when I got up and headed inside for breakfast. They had FNC on the tube; what do you suppose the wunderkinder were on about?

Joe Biden's very minor flub about travelling in closed-air public transport vehicles when your sick. It would seem that, at least according to these chuckleheads, that old Joe "could have" tanked the entire airline industry. Oh, and everything else.

Words fail. As I watch what the AM FNC lackeys are babbling about, I can't help but wonder exactly what they think they're accomplishing. In fact, if you look at the advertisements they run, you'd get the impression that civilization is in a state of imminent collapse.

The only question that I can think to ask is,"Exactly how did you come to these conclusions?" I know its unfair of me, but I have reached a point where I want to see people show their work, to borrow the favorite phrase of math teachers every where. In fact, I'd like to have them actually have a modrated discussion with the other team. I know that the President has poopooed the idea of reenacting the Fairness Doctrine...but frankly, when these people go off into weirdo-land, they really are the best possible advertising for it.