Going Nuclear

A committed, lifelong Green pounds the table for nuclear power. People familiar with the baseload problem and the unreliable nature of wind and solar won't find the plot surprising, but the detailed studies of California's seasonal use and generation from wind and solar were new to me. And no, batteries are not right around the corner. No mention of electrolysis, hydrogen and fuel cell batteries, however, so lots of room for follow-up.

And the safety of nuclear plants? Well, compared to what? This factoid grabbed me:

Because nuclear plants produce heat without fire, they emit no air pollution in the form of smoke. By contrast, the smoke from burning fossil fuels and biomass results in the premature deaths of seven million people per year, according to the World Health Organization.

Even during the worst accidents, nuclear plants release small amounts of radioactive particulate matter from the tiny quantities of uranium atoms split apart to make heat.

Over an 80-year lifespan, fewer than 200 people will die from the radiation from the worst nuclear accident, Chernobyl, and zero will die from the small amounts of radiant particulate matter that escaped from Fukushima.

As a result, the climate scientist James Hanson and a colleague found that nuclear plants have actually saved nearly two million lives to date that would have been lost to air pollution.

Seven million lives per year? That is a lot of Chernobyls and Fukushimas. However, assuming this is the study, there is a bit of apples-to-oranges going on here. From WHO:

After analysing the risk factors and taking into account revisions in methodology, WHO estimates indoor air pollution was linked to 4.3 million deaths in 2012 in households cooking over coal, wood and biomass stoves. The new estimate is explained by better information about pollution exposures among the estimated 2.9 billion people living in homes using wood, coal or dung as their primary cooking fuel, as well as evidence about air pollution's role in the development of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, and cancers.

In the case of outdoor air pollution, WHO estimates there were 3.7 million deaths in 2012 from urban and rural sources worldwide.

Many people are exposed to both indoor and outdoor air pollution. Due to this overlap, mortality attributed to the two sources cannot simply be added together, hence the total estimate of around 7 million deaths in 2012.

The indoor pollution, as well as the level of outdoor pollution, sounds like London in 1952, not the first world today. Nuclear power plants in California won't be a direct help to Third-Worlders burning dung. What is needed is to get developing countries onto a cleaner electric grid. Nuclear would be fine but any modern natural gas plant will be cleaner than coal-, dung- or wood-fired stoves.

Also, a lot of industrial air pollution won't be addressed by cleaner electricity, renewable or otherwise. Steel mills, for example, will remain a challenge.

Nonetheless, welcome aboard! If Greens generally are serious in saying we face a crisis then even more of them ought to re-calibrate their position on nuclear power.

Hmm - a big, critical project uniting left and right... applying American tech and can-do... saving the world... I can hear the Indiana Jones theme right now!

A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER: The NY Times notes that within Republican ranks there is a changing climate on climate change. They cite editorials by Senator John Barrasso (R, WY) who chairs of the Senate Environment Committee, and this from House Republicans Walden, Upton and Shimkus.

All emphasize nuclear power and innovation. On the importance of innovation, Megan McArdle makes an excellent point: The US, Europe and Japan are wealthy enough to subsidize our way to a much lower carbon footprint; India, China and the developing world are not. Unless we are prepared to subsidize them as well as ourselves, we need solutions that are competitive with fossil fuels. And however hard that looks, it is probably harder - as Tyler Cowen notes, if the West cuts back on its use of oil, the resulting price drop will make it more attractive in China and India.

Well, as the great Raylen Givens said in a different context, "I ain't lookin' for easy".

Comments

[MissMarple2]

https://pjmedia.com/trending/the-washington-posts-clawback-on-its-covington-story/

[GUS]

Some things are self evident.
The BARTENDER is not a CLIMATE EXPERT.

AL GORE is.

We have all been dead for several years. Al Gore told us so.

Here's the deal. I live in Wisconsin. We can grow apples, peaches in some places, but NO ORANGES, LEMONS nor LIMES. Should temperatures rise 3 or 4 degrees, we'd still have trouble growing citrus. Would that cause all 5.6 million of us to DIE.

It's CLOWNISH and ABSURD. COMMUNISM is what these fukwads seek.

COMMUNISM is SIMPLE. It causes DEATH.

How Ironic.

[MissMarple2]

Reuters Top News
‏Verified account @Reuters
50m50 minutes ago

Pakistan and India step back from the brink, tensions simmer https://reut.rs/2TbtcZd

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

What time does TWIP usually show up? Doubtless it's scheduled so it should be on an hour boundary.

Thanks, MissM, for the Roberts link. What a big disappointment. Taking away our rights in order to virtue signal to his fellow elites.

"Published November 21"
"Shame on the chief justice. What he did is unforgivable, especially after the corrosive Senate confirmation battle over now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was the subject of bitter and baseless partisan attacks and character assassination by Senate Democrats.
With everyone looking for ways to remove the high court from the political thicket, Roberts strode arrogantly right into it."

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

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[Captain Hate]

Yes, that Roberts article was from November. Levin has weighed in on what he said multiple times and what a partisan hack he's turned into courtesy of the Bush Crime Family. I'm hoping that if the FISA court revelations ever see the light of day that he'll be impeached for staffing such a rogue operation and exercising no oversight of it.

[MissMarple2]

Robby Soave
‏Verified account @robbysoave

I asked Nicholas Sandmann’s attorneys whether WaPo’s editors note changes the lawsuit. They said no, the note is “barely worth commenting on.”

Full article:

https://reason.com/blog/2019/03/01/covington-nicholas-sandmann-washington-p

[James D.]

wasted assets are a social tragedy but I suspect the desired Liberal outcome.

They absolutely are the desired Liberal outcome.

[MissMarple2]

Sorry I didn't notice the date of the article.

I had never seen it and thus thought it was new. I will try to be more careful about that.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

I wanted to note that it's been great having Neo around regularly and posting great links.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/cold-blast-to-freeze-midwest-northeast-following-weekend-storm/70007588

I am in the blue section that is labeled "20-30 degrees below normal."

Ugh.

[hoyden]

Awwwright!!!! This is what I mean.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/03/the-week-in-pictures-cohen-head-edition.php

[hoyden]

Democrat infest MFM No-Brianer...

[jimmyk]

“I'm willing to admit that we may be warming”

We need Kim around to confirm, but my understanding is that while we have warmed a bit, we are not ‘warming.’ There’s no trend over the last 10-15 years.

[hoyden]

Hayward scores again!

THE WEEK IN PICTURES: COHEN-HEAD EDITION

[hoyden]

Speaking trooth to power...

[MissMarple2]

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/432291-dem-candidate-has-hawley-served-subpoena-at-cpac

[MissMarple2]

https://www.businessinsider.com/most-expensive-video-game-ever-sold-super-mario-bros-2019-3

[Buckeye]

Hmmm

Which tubs are the kid's video games in??

[Extraneus]

.

[Manuel Transmission]

So we go to our club for dinner last night for the monthly prime rib. A fellow I only know casually ends up at our table with a new date, an attractive blonde lady. Turns out she’s from Cowlumbus, so we get a chuckle that we’re probably the only people there that have that distinction. After a bit more chitchat, I ask what part of town and she replied, Bexley. So, in the way these things work, I take a leap and ask her if she knows Jeff and Sandy xxxx, who are the only people we know in Bexley. Long pause, jaw hanging, big grin. Sandy is her bast pal! What are the odds?

[Marlene]

Good Morning! Man Tran,it really is a small world! Hubby was kayaking the other day and passed a guy fishing with his grandkids. They chatted. Hubby mentioned Bangor,Maine and the guy said,I'm from Bangor.

[GUS]

Go Spurs. 1-1. HARRY KANE PK @ 75

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

Headline says it all
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2019/03/democrat-complains-it-is-hard-to.html
Democrat complains it is hard to convict Trump without a crime

[Extraneus]

HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS BANNED FROM TAKING LIMOS TO PROM BECAUSE OF INCOME INEQUALITY

Students and parents at a New Jersey high school plan to protest a new policy banning limos and party buses as acceptable transportation to and from the senior prom, CBS New York reported this week.

Under the new policy, Lakeland Regional High School prom-goers will be required to take the bus to the once-in-a-lifetime event on June 4.

“We have students from various. . . socioeconomic backgrounds, “ Superintendent Hugh Beattie told ABC 7’s Eyewitness News this week.

“And we wanted to provide an even playing field for all students,” he added.

[pagar]

MM's 6:54 link on Democrats and Socialism.

IMO, the democrats are 100% committed to destroying America and have Republicans that are helping them.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/03/01/fury-moderate-democrats-rage-at-aocs-proposed-enemies-list-n2542449

Here is a list of Republicans unwilling to defend America by not supporting President Trump and the wall.

[Extraneus]

$300,000 Lamborghini Huracan Found in a Ditch

The car was located a short distance from Tottenham Hotspur’s training ground in Enfield, England, reported the Daily Mail on March 1.

It reported that the Huracan is owned by Michael Hudson, who owns cryptocurrency firm Bitstocks.

[Extraneus]

In Devastating Blow to Democrat Talking Point, Tax Refunds Are Up This Year

Whew.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/anti-cnn-billboard-appears-next-cnns-hollywood-headquarters-1191686
Communist News Network

[Jack is Back (Again)!]

How about that PK stop by Lloris, GUS?

[GUS]

Horrible attempt by AUBAMEYANG Jack. My Dad played GK in the SCOTTISH PREMIER LEAGUE, I played Center forward in College. Great matchup very good goalie vs superb scorer. Aubameyang should have drilled it right.

[Old Lurker]

Jimmy "“I'm willing to admit that we may be warming” We need Kim around to confirm, but my understanding is that while we have warmed a bit, we are not ‘warming.’ "

At any single point in time, the earth is either coming out of an Ice Age or going into the next one. When we are coming out of one, the earth warms. When we are headed into the next one, the earth cools. Ice Ages happen. Like clock work.

Good luck changing that.

[Narciso79]

So did this Hudson fellow report the car as missing, or did his son Cameron take it.

[Old Lurker]

I hope the latest reports of how Roberts has revealed his leftiness at SCOTUS, and ongoing concerns about Kavanaugh too, will encourage Trump to go, or promise to go if RGB stays alive, solid right on the next one.

Since 2020 is going to be an absolute "pick Door A or Door B" choice for the country, and if it to be Door B, then our last one, he might as well make clear his intent as part of his deal with the country if re-elected. Nothing to lose.

[GUS]

Ext, maybe the school shouldn't accept higher TAX PAYMENTS from the more affluent parents.

Level the playing field. What a fucking pantload of steaming shyte.

Is the principal paid the same as the lunch lady??

[Old Lurker]

I continue to believe that in the first six months of his administration, he tried to make nice with everybody. But by now he surely grasps what a waste of time that was, and how much it damaged MAGA's momentum.

There is no middle ground now that the other side has so clearly laid out its values on so many issues.

[Jack is Back (Again)!]

OL,

That is why he has Brad Parscale. Don't think for a minute that Parscale, a social media expert, isn't keeping a lits of the Donks and their progressive BS they are trying to lure the free shit army to vote COMMIE.

AOC and all the other Donk idiots like Omar & Tlaib will be front and center as the poster girls. Oh, and Venezuela. The ads write themselves.

[Narciso79]

I'd say half an half the immigration pause was a paint by numbers exercise, yet it became ragnarok, in part because Ryan was coy about what was in the omnibus.

[Narciso79]

Is that the same Enfield where the rifle comes from?

[Jack is Back (Again)!]

[From The Daily Mail, where America gets its news:]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6762807/Wannabe-ISIS-jihadist-22-jailed-16-years-New-York-pressure-cooker-bomb-plot.html

Son of Chechen immigrants (natch) found with pressure cooker and intent to blow up as many people as possible in New York......turned in by a relative. No FBI handler, or we would have heard the Kaboom!

[MissMarple2]

Very proud of perhaps the greatest golf course anywhere in the world. Also, furthers U.K. relationship! https://t.co/3xTzzJH6Iq

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 2, 2019

Link goes to tweet and link about the Trump Golf Course landscape in Scotland.

=====================================
This will no doubt start the dems accusing him of drumming up business.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
2h2 hours ago

Will be speaking at CPAC at 11:30 this morning. Record crowd, live broadcast. Enjoy!

[MissMarple2]

Rather than clog up the thread with the rest of the President's tweets which are retweets of several things he said in late February, a link to the Trump campaign swag shop, and a link to VP Pence's speech from yesterday, I will just post a link to his Twitter page where you can take a look at them.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

[GUS]

OL, Mr Trump has lived in a VERY REAL WORLD for all of his life. YOU get it.

[henry]

WSJ has a long editorial, which pits the “anywheres” against the “somewheres” and blames the bureaucracy (aka deep state) for ignoring normal people. Then shoots it’s own gonads by saying a stronger party system would end dangers like the tea party. SMH

[Captain Hate]

he tried to make nice with everybody. But by now he surely grasps what a waste of time that was, and how much it damaged MAGA's momentum.

There was nothing he could do about the Razzle Dazzle guy except tell him to just GTFO before the badmouthing begins in earnest but Sleepy Jeff was a bad self inflicted error.

[Jack is Back (Again)!]

MM,

My great-grandfather was the first professional at the Aberdeen Cricket Club from 1859-1862.

[MissMarple2]

I assume that school banning limos is willing to assume the liability if some kids are killed in a late-night car wreck.

Are they putting a limit on the cost of prom dresses? Are they banning upscale labels? How about professionally done hair styles?

Pffft.

[Catsmeat]

daddy, MM, as you know, the idea that Carroll was the Ripper is nonsense on stilts. That's just back projection--modern people can't understand surreal logic or genius without assuming mental illness or dysfunction. Carroll was an extremely competent actor in multiple fields: mathematician, scientist, polemicist, photographer, inventor, and author. He invented, among many things, the magnetic chess board so he could play games when on the train (he noted it came in handy the one time he visited Russia--on an ecumenical mission).

[Narciso79]

Yes that's insane and the theory that he was queen Victoria offspring widely promoted by Alan Moore is dubious,

[Jack is Back (Again)!]

What a concept:)

Populist Austria to Transform All Asylum Reception Centres into Deportation Centres

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/02/28/austria-transform-all-asylum-reception-centres-deportation-centres/

Wonder if that would work here?

[Captain Hate]

Catsmeat,

Someone in NYC should do this after that Elaine Benes worthy crap about Tolstóy

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CtcQqwpCFJ4

[Jack is Back (Again)!]

Catsmeat,

Lets not forget "literary nonsence" as in.....

"Jabberwocky"

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

[Catsmeat]

Yes, Jack, and I forgot what was most important to him--Anglican deacon! He even gave some sermons, but didn't like to much, except to quite humble audiences or children because he stuttered, and he hated the idea that religious ideas would be marred by the inevitable humor engendered by a bad stutter. He in fact hated priests making any kind of joke from the pulpit no matter how mild--and would send a loving letter of rebuke afterwards to the offender. He was pretty orthodox in his beliefs, with the exception of his disbelief in eternal punishment--it's not that he didn't believe in hell, but he didn't believe a merciful God would ever completely close the door on a human soul.

[Jack is Back (Again)!]

Catsmeat,

I almost forgot but my great-Uncle, and namesake, John Lillywhite, was the cricket coach at Rugby during the time Dodgson was matriculating there. Those were the days when Rugby football was established from soccer. One of his top players was a gentleman named Tom Willis (I have his biography)who went on to take Rugby to Australia, and convert to Australian Rules Football.

I know Dodgson hated his time at Rugby, and I wonder if was because of games, or bullying? And, wasn't he also a reknowned mathmetician?

[Narciso79]

A story that doesn't seem to interests:
https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2019/03/02/a-tour-with-an-invoice/

[MissMarple2]

White House Live Stream of President's CPAC speech. Hasn't started yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWlT9hYaw5Q

[GUS]

LUKAKU!!!!!!!! Doesn't even look. Pivot shoot SCORE.

[MissMarple2]

Way overflow crowd at CPAC, with three satellite campuses at Lynchburg, Colorado Christian, and Pepperdine.

[MissMarple2]

President Trump hugs the American flag at @cpac! #CPAC2019 pic.twitter.com/ZdVWBWhqWb

— America's Voice News (@AVoiceNews) March 2, 2019

Photo at link.

[GUS]

Read this and listen to the USELESS FUCKING IDIOT with the SMART GLASSES.
The FULL COMMIE sux them in like a vortex.
GET ME MY FUCKING DRINK, is completely NUTS, and the LEFT is getting in line behind her.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-attacks-ice-as-a-dangerous-agency
Lets call it THE FULL COMMIE.

[Rocco]

Jonathan Turley - The revenge of Rod Rosenstein

These are all examples of why fighting a hundred duck-sized horses is easier but can take more time. Trump will be answering questions and subpoenas on these allegations for the next two years. It is unlikely to be lethal, absent false statements or obstructions, but it is likely to exhaust him and his presidency. His mounting troubles are likely to rekindle his anger at Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who will leave the Justice Department in coming weeks. It was Rosenstein who ordered the referral of the Cohen criminal case to the Southern District of New York.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/432306-the-revenge-of-rod-rosenstein

[Rocco]

Trump has a little GUS in him!

[Marlene]

Trump just said bullsh*t! *faints* He is throwing out the red meat. Ha.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

This is apropos nothing but I was just thinking about how progs are screwing up and forgetting their Alinsky rules.
If you tell the truth about somebody doing something wrong they tend to hate themselves and wilt.
If you tell lies about someone they tend to hate you and get their backs up and fight like beasts of the field.
Alinsky slyly told progs to held their enemies accountable for the enemies' own rules, which shames them and puts them on the defensive.
Because the progs are now too radical even for Rules for Radicals they instead constantly attack their enemies with bald faced lies which enrages their enemies and has the opposite effect they seek.

[Jack is Back (Again)!]

This has been around before but in case you missed it, I am re-linking:

BG Steve Ritchie on the rescue of Roger Locher. Vietnam 1972. Ritchie himself is an Air Force legend,AFA graduate, fighter ace. But you need to listen to this all the way to the end, especially the end.

https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/rescue-of-roger-locher.42816/

[MissMarple2]

Boy, Trump is on fire. If you aren't watching it, be sure to watch the replay. He just said that "they try to rake you out with bullshit."

He also did an impression of Sessions. LOL!

[James D.]

I hope the latest reports of how Roberts has revealed his leftiness at SCOTUS, and ongoing concerns about Kavanaugh too, will encourage Trump to go, or promise to go if RGB stays alive, solid right on the next one.

Absolutely.

I have to say, it’s mind boggling to me that, after the way he was treated by the left (and the way the GOPe stood at arms length for most of his ordeal), that Kavanaugh would understand the stakes and the nature of the left. And that he’d have at least a smidge of gratitude towards the only people who actually stood by him from the start.

Apparently not.

[James D.]

Under the new policy, Lakeland Regional High School prom-goers will be required to take the bus to the once-in-a-lifetime event on June 4.

“We have students from various. . . socioeconomic backgrounds, “ Superintendent Hugh Beattie told ABC 7’s Eyewitness News this week.

“And we wanted to provide an even playing field for all students,” he added.

Maybe if they cut the school superintendent’s pay by $50,000, they could use the funds to pay for limos for all the students.

[Skoot]

I love the his verbiage, What we did had never been done before, and in 2020 we will "Verify" it.

Excellent - It wasn't a fluke, watch me do it again. Just outstanding.

[Extraneus]

MICHELLE MALKIN BLOWS UP LIBERAL TWITTER WITH ONE LINE FROM CPAC SPEECH, CRITICS LEAVE OUT CONTEXT

“I have been called white for stating facts. I’m not white, I’m just right,” Malkin said at one point, referring to criticism she has received from the left about her stance on immigration. Then, at the end, she said: “Diversity is not our strength, and I know those words are a ‘trigger.’ Diversity is not our strength, unity is. Our common purpose is the common defense of our nation. Good people make America great. Good people stand up and fight.”

Prog army to the fainting couches.

Twitter critics latched onto Malkin’s “diversity” comment while leaving her “unity” statement entirely out of the picture.

Either way, she's right.

[MissMarple2]

"Right now we have people in our Congress who hate our country. I can name every one of them if I want."

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--that Kavanaugh would understand the stakes and the nature of the left. And that he’d have at least a smidge of gratitude towards the only people who actually stood by him from the start--

A squish never let's principal or loyalty stand in the way of a good kow-tow.
Might keep them out of the running for that coveted Strange New Respect award.

[MissMarple2]

Curtis Houck
‏Verified account @CurtisHouck
2m2 minutes ago

Trump could speak until 8pm and chances are almost everyone in this room would stay #CPAC2019

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Let's face it we need RBG and Breyer to fall off their tricycles to pack the court properly.
Probably too much to ask that the youthful Roberts choke on a lamb shank.

[MissMarple2]

Whoa. Trump went to senators being influenced by "generous donors" on free trade.

[MissMarple2]

Now he's going after the federal reserve!

[Extraneus]

US Army Takes 50 Tons Of Gold From Syria In Alleged Deal With ISIS

As the remaining pockets of ISIS fighters faced imminent defeat in northeast Syria, the United States allegedly gave them an offer they couldn’t refuse: give us your massive caches of gold - or die.

According to reports by Syrian state news agency SANA, U.S. forces struck a deal with ISIS whereby the terrorist group would give up 50 tons of gold across eastern Syria’s Deir el-Zour province in exchange for safe passage.

The precious metal, worth about $2.13 billion, was plundered by the self-designated “caliphate” as its reign of terror spread across Syria and Iraq between 2015 and 2017.

Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah reports that local sources claim U.S. Army helicopters have already transferred the gold from the U.S. forces’ base in Kobani, the Kurdish-controlled city that lies close to Syria’s northern border with Syria. A portion of the gold was also distributed to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which dominates the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

[Marlene]

He's calling out the Never Trumpers. This is too funny.

[MissMarple2]

Marlene,

This is epic Trump! I am going to rewatch it because I am sure I am missing things.

[MissMarple2]

"We spent 7 trillion dollars in the Middle East and we cannot land a plane (AF 1) with the lights on."

[MissMarple2]

JohnWickofPolitics
‏ @Gingrich_of_PA
2m2 minutes ago

Trump just stormed the last of the never Trumper strongholds in the @ACUConservative - This speech may be off the cuff, but it’s clearly designed to rattle the establishment cages. Some senators are probably re-thinking their pushback on the National Emergency Declaration. #CPAC

[Jack is Back (Again)!]

daddy,

SpaceX's Dragon V2 Manned Spacecraft: How it Works (Infographic)

https://www.space.com/26188-spacex-dragon-v2-manned-spacecraft-infographic.html?utm_source=sdc-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190302-sdc

Seats 7 Astronauts.

[hoyden]

JOM, thank you for the Trump CPAC commentary. I am busy with chores and checking here in spare moments.

[MissMarple2]

hoyden,

You will have to watch the video of this. He's speaking mostly off the cuff, and it is really something!

[MissMarple2]

Now he's speaking out for free speech on line and on campus.

[Marlene]

He just brought up the kid who was punched in the face. He still has a black eye.

[Extraneus]

Heh. He tells the guy to sue the attacker, the college and maybe the state of CA.

[MissMarple2]

"If colleges want federal money they are going to have to support free speech!"

[MissMarple2]

This is just great!

[Captain Hate]

He also did an impression of Sessions. LOL!

I need an endless loop of this.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

That 1:10 confirms my decision not to link zerohedge anymore.

[MissMarple2]

The President is still going! He's approaching 2 hours!

[Extraneus]

Yeah, I should precede with ZH: when I do.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

Ext, you really do seem to come up with stories that others of us don't see.
Do you just read widely, or are there one or two places that give you a higher grade of detailed news?

[MissMarple2]

Charlie Spiering
‏Verified account @charliespiering
3m3 minutes ago

-@realDonaldTrump still speaking @CPAC

He took the stage at 12:14 - it’s now 2:14

Two hours!

[Extraneus]

Like so:

ZH:

Trump Unloads: Says Mueller Trying To Take Him Out With "Bullshit"

President Trump railed against special counsel Robert Mueller, outgoing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein - and even did an impression of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia probe.

Speaking from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday, Trump said that Mueller and his team of "13 of the Angriest Democrats in the history of our country" are trying to take him out with "Bullshit."

"We're waiting for a report by people who weren't elected," said Trump. "Robert Mueller never received a vote. And neither did the person that appointed him," referring to Rosenstein.

"Unfortunately you put the wrong people in a couple of positions, and they leave people for a long time that shouldn't be there. And all of the sudden they're trying to take you out with bullshit, okay?"

Video at the link.

[MissMarple2]

Two hours extemporaneous speaking after that long plane trip home! And he is 72!

Amazing!

[Captain Hate]

Best President Ever.

[Extraneus]

Do you just read widely, or are there one or two places that give you a higher grade of detailed news?

I have a home page that's mostly RSS feeds, so I see headlines from Drudge, Breitbart, ZH, The Federalist, Ace, PowerLine, Insty, Newsbusters, etc., etc. Around 20 or so that are politics or news related. (I also have football, guitar, birds, humor, local news, finance.)

I previously wrote and hosted my own custom page using Yahoo's RSS API, but when they deprecated that I went to Google's, which was also recently deprecated, so I now use a home page from http://www.protopage.com. It's pretty convenient, and can do a lot more than just RSS feeds, including stock prices, weather, maps, twitter feeds, to-do lists, and even widget code.