TMI & More

An editorial at nypost.com reports surprising news. I’d bet most people believed Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island facility had been shut down after the worst nuclear disaster in U. S. history in 1979, an accident at Unit Two that cost no lives and never leaked significant radiation. I did. It was closed only recently, although Unit One, which was not damaged in the accident and continued to serve 800,000 people, could have gone on churning out clean energy for 15 more years. What prompted the early shutdown? Abundant, cheap natural gas — thanks to fracking, a huge boon to the Keystone State’s economy, so cheap that nuclear power was no longer cost-competitive without a subsidy from the state. Wind and solar plants can’t operate without government help, either, but they’re loved by the green mafia. Ironically, the contempt of environmentalists for nuclear energy is contributing to the emission of more greenhouse gases. Then again, many leftists use climate change fear-mongering simply as a ploy to redistribute wealth.

The September NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that 69% of voters dislike Trump. Prior to this poll, the highest dislike of a president was 42% for George W. Bush after Hurricane Katrina in March 2006. The more troubling stat, at least to me, is that a record 50% dislike his policies. I couldn’t disagree with them more. I believe Trump is America’s best hope. May the polls be as wrong as they were in 2016.

Imagine the uproar if President Trump had threatened the Ukraine with the withholding of funds if a prosecutor investigating one of his sons were not fired. Since its Biden, the mainstream media is not interested.

From foxnews.com, edited by yours truly: A Florida woman chased her dog into an animal enclosure at a truck stop. A camel sat on her and she bit his testicles to get him to move. She and her husband were issued summonses for trespassing and not having the dog on a leash. “She said: ‘I bit his b — — to get him off of me, I bit his testicles to get him off of me.’” To paraphrase, she was humped.

This past off-season in MLB, it was a mystery that teams show no interest in Craig Kimbrel, who had more than 300 saves in his career. He was not signed until June. The Cubs were desperate for a closer and gave him a three-year $43 million contract. He is 0–4, ERA 6.53, and has blown a number of saves. He’s only 31. Apparently GMs throughout MLB had an inkling of Kimbrel’s loss of skill. Perhaps its a temporary aberration.

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