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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Steve Forbes on Health Care

Read this article on Health Care by Steve Forbes.

It succinctly describes the problems with Obama's socialized medical scheme. It also explains the vastly superior free market alternatives to his plans. I agree with his sentiments to the word.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

I Will Never Buy a GM or Chrysler Again

Today, Chrysler announced a deal with the U.S. Treasury to avoid bankruptcy. The deal gives the United Auto Workers' union 55% ownership of the firm. The federal government would own 10%, and Fiat would take 35%.

What does this mean? The UAW and the federal government will run the firm....into the ground. Chrysler, which has almost zero chance of being profitable now that they are run by two organizations that hold profitability last on their list of priorities, will be a function of the government. The UAW is too interconnected with the White House and the Democratic party and will owe its allegiance to them. Make no mistake, you and I will now have to subsidize Chrysler for years to come. These taxpayer dollars will then be turned around in the form of multi-million dollar donations to the Democratic Party.

General Motors is also on the same path. They are now entertaining a deal with the government that Larry Kudlow details this way: (HT EPJ)

What is going on in this country? The government is about to take over GM in a plan that completely screws private bondholders and favors the unions. Get this: The GM bondholders own $27 billion and they’re getting 10 percent of the common stock in an expected exchange. And the UAW owns $10 billion of the bonds and they’re getting 40 percent of the stock. Huh? Did I miss something here? And Uncle Sam will have a controlling share of the stock with something close to 50 percent ownership. And no bankruptcy judge. So this is a political restructuring run by the White House, not a rule-of-law bankruptcy-court reorganization.

That's right. The U.S. Federal Government will own 50% of the company. The UAW will own 40%. Political interference by the White House, the Democratic congress, and the UAW will prevent GM from ever becoming profitable again without government subsidies. Billions of your tax dollars will go to a company that will turn right around and give tens of millions to Democratic party candidates and our current President to help them stay in power.

If you believe in a truly free America you will do the same. Never buy any of their cars ever again.

4 out of 5 Ain't Bad - My Housing Predictions

In February of 2008 I made some predictions on 5 major housing markets as to their price falls from the then most recent data on the S&P Case Shiller.

Now, using the most recent data I've been able to check those predictions. Four out of five are spooky accurate, so I just had to brag.

Predictions for total price drop:

Miami – 32% drop
Los Angeles – 31%
Tampa, FL – 28%
Las Vegas – 28%
Washington – 24%

Miami - 33% drop
Los Angeles - 30%
Tampa, FL - 27%
Las Vegas - 38%
Washington - 23%

Note: For a fee I will send you lottery number predictions and perform Taroh card readings as well.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

The Fed's Quantitative Easing is Having a Curious Effect

On March 18th, the Federal Reserve announced that it was going to perform 'Quantitative Easing'. The plan is to buy treasury bonds on the open market. This would have two effects. First, it should increase the money supply which does provide, in fact, a temporary boost to output (although a misallocation of resources that reduces long term growth). Second, it should lower interest rates, obstensibly to lower mortgage rates and induce consumers to purchase some of these unwanted houses around the country.

Well, an interesting thing has happened since this announcement. 30-yr Treasury yields have been rising and are now at their highest point so far this year. Is this a trend? Is this the beginning of the dramatic and inevitable rise I expect in borrowing costs? We'll see...

Why is This Happening?

China is selling long-term U.S. Treasury Bonds in favor of short term t-bills. This has driven yield on short term t-bills down while putting upward pressure on yields for treasury bonds.

According to Bloomberg:

Rates on three-month bills turned negative in December for the first time since the government began selling them in 1929 as investors sacrificed returns to preserve principal. After increasing at the start of the year, rates have dropped 0.20 percentage point since the beginning of February to 0.13 percent.

Demand for bills is rising again because investors including foreign central banks are snapping up the shortest- term U.S. securities as the Federal Reserve buys Treasuries to drive down borrowing costs in a policy of so-called quantitative easing. China, the largest U.S. creditor, with $744 billion
of debt, has questioned the practice and shifted purchases to bills from longer-maturity securities.

“There’s a group of investors out there who are looking at what the Fed is doing and the policy action they’ve taken and the asset purchases, and saying ultimately this is inflationary,” said Stuart Spodek
, co-head of U.S. bonds in New York at BlackRock Inc., which manages $483 billion in debt. “You’re going to invest in very short-term bills because you absolutely need not just the quality but also the absolute liquidity.”

China bought $5.6 billion in bills and sold $964 million in U.S. notes and bonds in February, according to Treasury data released April 15. It was first time since November that China purchased more bills than longer-maturity debt.

Friday, April 24, 2009

There is Something Terribly Wrong in this Article

An Article from the New York Post entitled "CEO Stressed Out" opens with this sentence:

Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit's job security is increasingly in jeopardy as momentum grows in Washington to oust him.

I love how someone like Tim Geithner who has never worked for, much less run, a private firm in his professional life now chooses CEOs for major American companies.

There's also a word for this kind of government behavior: Fascism.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Mises Conference on the Great Depression

On Saturday, May 30th, the Ludwig Von Mises Institute is hosting an event in Fort Worth, Texas dubbed "The Great Depression: Then and Now". A good friend of mine is planning to go, so I thought I would invite my readers to attend as well. (All 20 of you!)

There are several great speakers, including my friend* Bob Murphy, author of the new The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal. Bob seems to be a laugh riot from the youtube videos I've seen of his other speaking engagements.

Others Speakers are:

Walter Block
Thomas DiLorenzo
Jeffrey Tucker
Thomas E Woods, Jr. (author of the NYT bestseller Meltdown)

What's great about this conference?

First, it's only $75, which is a bargain. Second, if it's anything like the similar Mises Circle in Houston the crowds are usually small so if you wanted to get a book signed or ask some questions that is available. Third, I'll be there! If you let me know that you are going I may get a group together the night before to have dinner where you'll get to meet my darling wife and kids.

To register, you can go here, and if enough of you mention my name in the comments I may be able to negotiate a reserved table closer to the front.

* I'm not sure how you refer to someone with whom you have exchanged a number of e-mails and debated on a blog. My bar for internet "friend" is whether they consistently respond to my e-mails, which he does.

Monday, April 20, 2009

I Need a Balanced Budget, Stat!

Dr. Alan Parks, MD, is the founder of Americans for a Balanced Budget Amendment. He sent me an e-mail notifying me of his new website. I perused for a bit, and found it worth mentioning. He's already gathered an endorsement from noted personal finance guru Dave Ramsey.

Dr. Parks ran across this post of mine in support of a balanced budget amendment. I tend to channel William Buckley when I'm emotional, as my vocabulary soars above my standard typo ridden fare. Looking back at it, I'm still pleased with it.

At any rate, check out Americans for a Balanced Budget Amendment, and lend your support.

Update on My Paranoia Front

Before I took my two week break, I wrote a post about my increasing concerns that the Left was trying to build a case to demonize the non-Left.

I wrote about this post where the young man in Pittsburg, PA, shot to death three police officers. I predicted it would show up in op-eds as further "proof" that those opposing Obama were dangerous. Refreshingly, it didn't reach any of the major papers that I peruse. It did however reach some left wing bloggers. Such as author David Neiwert who tries to link the shooter to conservative commentator Glenn Beck and also FoxNews.

This guy is a nobody, but I started reading the now infamous assessment from the Department of Homeland Security, where they list people who are pro-life, anti gun control, military veterans, and those who are generally anti big government as potential terrorists.

This is what it says on page 3:

A recent example of the potential violence associated with a rise in right wing extremism may be found in the shooting deaths of three police officers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 4 April 2009.

So much for "weaving a narrative" to demonize, now it is explicitly linked by official government documents.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Texas is the Future

Fortune Magazine put out its annual list - The Fortune 500.

Last year, the state of Texas pulled out into the lead against New York by having 58 of the 500 largest companies in the U.S. New York fell to second with 55. This year, New York actually gained one, surprising given their financial problems extending well back into 2008. Texas, however, placed 6 additional companies on the list, for a total of 64.

Within Texas, the major metropolitan regions had these totals:

Houston 29
Dallas/Fort Worth 25
San Antonio 5
Austin 3
Pittsburg, El Paso 1 each

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Saturday, April 4, 2009

Bad News

Two articles from Saturday have raised the hairs on the back of my neck.

First, is the incident of three police officers being shot in Pittsburgh. The piece of information headlined at Drudgereport added that he, the gunman, "feared the Obama administration was posed to ban guns. "

I wrote here, that I was beginning to feel that the Left was beginning to weave a narrative to demonize conservatives and anyone not supporting Obama. Robert Reich's freightening mischaracterazation was this:

Make no mistake: Angry right-wing populism lurks just below the surface of the terrible American economy, ready to be launched not only at Obama but also at liberals, intellectuals, gays, blacks, Jews, the mainstream media, coastal elites, crypto socialists, and any other potential target of paranoid opportunity.

This story just broke on Saturday night. If someone doesn't write an op-ed linking these killings to a demonization this coming week, I'll be surprised. If you see one, let me know. Not on this blog, but privately I have expressed some concern to friends that a mass shooting or domestic terrorist event commited by a crazed anti-government type will lead to a broad demonization of the non-Left in the U.S.

Second, is this one at the WSJ:

I must be naive. I really thought the administration would welcome the return of bank bailout money. Some $340 million in TARP cash flowed back this week from four small banks in Louisiana, New York, Indiana and California. This isn't much when we routinely talk in trillions, but clearly that money has not been wasted or otherwise sunk down Wall Street's black hole. So why no cheering as the cash comes back?

My answer: The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control. And for this intensely political president, mere influence is not enough. The White House wants to tell 'em what to do. Control. Direct. Command.

That's right. The government is not allowing banks to pay back the TARP money. The firm grip that Obama and his Congress have on Wall Street is not going to be relinquished.

The author, who is English goes on:

After 35 years in America, I never thought I would see this. I still can't quite believe we will sit by as this crisis is used to hand control of our economy over to government. But here we are, on the brink. Clearly, I have been naive.

Friday, April 3, 2009

Pat Buchanan becomes an Austrian

Pat Buchanan has a great column today at Human Events. He has apparently just read Tom Woods' Meltdown. A little secret: Tom Woods is an Austrian economist. Pat Buchanan seems to have discovered the Austrian Business Cycle Theory for the first time. The fact that the book has made the New York Times Best Sellers list (#18), and the fact that mainstream Republican thinkers are embracing it, is a good sign.

He seems most taken with Woods' account of the severe 1920-21 depression, where the U.S. quickly got out of it by doing what? NOTHING!

The "forgotten depression" of 1920-21 was caused by a huge increase in the money supply for President Wilson's war. When the Fed started to tighten at war's end, production fell 20 percent from mid-1920 to mid-1921, far more than today.

Why did we not read about that depression?

Because the much-maligned Warren Harding refused to intervene. He let businesses and banks fail and prices fall. Hence, the fever quickly broke, and we were off into "the Roaring Twenties."

He also rebuts the myth that Herbert Hoover was a laissez faire ideologue who refused to intervene as the economy began to tank

Herbert Hoover, contrary to the myth that he was a small-government conservative, renounced laissez-faire, raised taxes, launched public works projects, extended emergency loans to failing businesses and lent money to the states for relief programs.

Hoover did what Obama is doing.

Indeed, in 1932, FDR lacerated Hoover for having presided over the "greatest spending administration in peacetime in all of history." His running mate, John Nance Garner, accused Hoover of "leading the country down the path to socialism." And "Cactus Jack" was right.

Finally, he gets to the myth that World War II ended the great depression:

But how can an economy be truly growing 13 percent a year, as the economists claim, when there is rationing, shortages everywhere, declining product quality, an inability to buy homes and cars, and a longer work week? When the cream of the labor force is in boot camps or military bases, or storming beaches, sailing ships, flying planes and marching with rifles, how can your real economy be booming?

It was 1946, a year economists predicted would result in a postwar depression because government spending fell by two-thirds, that proved the biggest boom year in all of American history.

With this finale:

Should not this creature from Jekyl Island [The Federal Reserve], for all its manifold crimes and sins against the republic, also be summarily put to death?

Yes Pat, let's end the Fed.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Germans Persecuting Religious Minorities Again

As I have stated before, my wife and I plan to homeschool our children. Our motivation is only partially religious, but I err on the side of religious freedom for those whom it is the primary or sole motivating factor. I also do not believe that the government has any business running any schools. The temptation for the majority to purposefully suppress ideas of minorities is too great. I support the devolution of public schools through vouchers, and I recently wrote how public universities should be privatized.

From Foxnews:

Romeike, his wife Hannelore, and their children live in a modest duplex about 40 miles northeast of Knoxville while they seek political asylum here. They say they were persecuted for their evangelical Christian beliefs and homeschooling their children in Germany, where school attendance is compulsory.

When the Romeikes wouldn't comply with repeated orders to send the children to school, police came to their home one October morning in 2006 and took the children, crying and upset, to school.
He had to pay fines equivalent to hundreds of dollars for his decision, and he's afraid that if he returns to Germany, police will arrest him and government authorities will take away his children, who range in age from 11 to 3.
Lutz Gorgens, German consul general for the Southeast U.S., said he's not familiar with the Romeikes' specific situation but believes the claim of persecution is "far-fetched." He defended Germany's requirements for public education.

"For reasons deeply rooted in history and our belief that only schools properly can ensure the desired level of excellent education, we (Germany) go a little bit beyond that path which other countries have chosen," Gorgens said.

Germany's approach to homeschooling is starkly different to the U.S. and other European countries. Homeschool students have been growing by an estimated 8 percent annually in the U.S. and as of 2007 totaled about 1.5 million.

If you read between the lines in the article, what is apparent is that Herr Gorgens believes, along with much of Germany presumably, that it is the role of the state to properly engineer good citizens. They don't like minority viewpoints or value, so they actively seek to crush those viewpoints. If you resist, they will take your money and your children.

I support the Romeikes, and the United States should rebuke this kind of thuggery by granting them asylum.


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All aboooaaaarrd!

With July comes triple digits here in Southern California. Since our mornings are still cool enough to walk I've challenged myself to be up and out before 7:00 am. This isn't too difficult because I've always been a "morning person."

One of my routes takes me across a railroad crossing and usually the train is the Metrolink, a commuter train heading for Los Angeles. This morning a fast moving freight made me stop. With the sun behind the train I turned and watched the hypnotic flash of the cars going by. The space between each car was a framed picture and it reminded me of a Zoetrope, the precursor to moving pictures.

On the opposite side of the train a man walking his dog was frozen into separate frames. I was mesmerized. Sequenced frames viewed together would make one fluid motion; a moving picture. The the train passed returning everything to normal. I had to wonder if that's how movies were invented.

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Monday, December 2, 2013

Scenic Road

The ever expanding worm of the universe
Checked his watch and followed the green sign
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Monday, September 20, 2010

Life is a Journey Worth Doing!

This past weekend was spent with my daughter Emily, Sam age 6 and Haley age 10, my grandchildren. Also included in the weekends festivities were 3 other special people, Diane, Cameron 10 and Mackenzie 8. They are very special friends of Emily's family. They came to Hutchinson for the Kansas State Fair and a concert on Sunday afternoon from Lawrence. As I had the opportunity to spend quality time with this gang, I began feeling very blessed! They all were awesome to be with. My heart began feeling full of how blessed I am to have them in my life. For those of you that know me and for those of you that don't, I am a relationship person. If my life begins going in a direction that I am not enriched by relationships I am not a happy person. I feel discontentment that makes me feel unsettled. If my life situations put me in a spot that I don't feel connected with my loved ones or friendships acquired over a lifetime I struggle with what is important.

The exciting thing for me about this weekend is that my grand daughter Haley has been so excited to share our home with her friends. That in itself is pretty awesome! She is awesome so I shouldn't be surprised. She is a kid that is about relationships too! I love being in her life as well as her families life. Haley and her friend Cameron are just a duo. They compliment each other in such a way that shows such maturity. They are friends for life, I can see that already. To be a grammy and have a grand daughter that is intuitive, social, loving, that enjoys spending time with me is a blessing that brings me such joy. Please don't be mistaken I love all of my family and grand children. This blog just happens to focus on Haley and her zest for life in such an exuberant way it just inspires me. There is no price tag that could be put on spending quality time with my relationship people. This weekend was NO exception.

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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

THAI KITCHEN HOUSEPARTY and your invited!!!

I just won a Thai Kitchen Houseparty and can't wait to have it.  I will receive a filled box of goodies to make my party awesome.  My friends will come over for a delicious dinner and go home with a bag of Thai Kitchen products and goodies.  Plus, we will be learning of a product that we not normally would (or at least I) use or eat.  I can't wait to try Thai food and see if it is something I, and my family, would like.

Here are some dishes that we will be having:

Don't they look yummy?  I am hoping they taste as good as they look.  I am totally looking forward to my party and will let you know how it turned out, and if I am a new lover of Thai Kitchen food.  We shall see...

Now, to let you know a little about Houseparty.  All you have to do is visit Houseparty and click on the party you want to be chosen for.  Apply for all or just one, your chances will still be the same, though you can only apply one per household, and they will check an disqualify you if you try to "cheat" them.  Click on the party you want and fill out a questionnaire.  Once you have completed the questionnaire, an email will be sent to your email address you have signed up with to validate, click on the link and walla, you have been entered to possibly win a party.  Make sure you write the date down from when it says Houseparty will let you know if you are a winner, as they invite so many and if you are not one of the lucky ones to respond in a timely manner, you may forfeit your chance to have a "free" and fun party.  This happened to me before for a Rowanda Iron Party.  I lost my chance at receiving a brand new Rowanda Iron, which I really needed.  My loss.  Once you receive that winning email, hurry up and start setting up your party through evite.  It is free, simple and easy.  Now you get to think of all the fun and exciting ideas you come up with for  your party.

So now you know how easy it is, click here to start signing up for FREE parties now!
Here are a few that you can sign up for:
*  Tombstone Pizza Haunted House Party (APPLY NOW)
*  Beyblade Let It Rip House Party (APPLY NOW)
*  KRAFT HOMESTYLE Comfort Food House Party (VIEW EVENTS)
*  BrewStation Cup of Creativity House Party (I am hoping and praying to win this one) (APPLY NOW)
*  Perler Bread-A-Palooza (LEARN MORE)

There are also 18+ parties and 21+ parties.
If you are still curious as to what a House Party is, it is thousands of parties across the country, hosted by people like us. Each event is sponsored by a leading brand (such as Kraft) and focuses on something cool that the sponsor wants its best fans to experience firsthand and share with their friends. Basically a House Party lets you share the products you like with all your friends, free of charge! Companies love to promote these type of events because it spreads the word about their products.

What free stuff will you receive?
That all depends on the specific brand your throwing the party for. Each brand has their own unique Party Pack filled with all kinds of free stuff to make your party a success!

Good luck and hope you win.  If you do, please let me know as I would love to not only hear what you win, but what you do special for your party, i.e., party favors, decorations, etc...

Happy "free" Partying...

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7 April 2009

We're Home

It's Mr. JB.

We got home just before 3 o'clock. First off, the day started with JB finding out her anesthetic was a truth serum. She is allergic to eggs so the normal anesthetic wasn't going to work. The surgery lasted 40 minutes and she was given morphine and another medication that starts with a P because she was shaking as she came to. Does anyone know what that is? JB has stage four endometriosis. The Doc couldn't do anything about it today. She has adhesions, fibroids, cysts and her right fallopian tube was obscured by the endometriosis. The Doc seemed genuinely irritated that this had not been dealt before now. She'll start taking lupron at the beginning of May and there will be surgery in four months. He mentioned that this surgery is his specialty. JB has been sleeping a lot because the truth serum knocks you out more than the normal stuff. The only pain she feels right now is from the incision below her belly button. The only pain medication that she was told to take was Tylenol and Ibuprofen.

Thanks to Sew for keeping everyone updated.

Thanks for prayers and we're going to need a few more in the next little while.

  1. I am not even sure what to say. You have answers. But not good ones. And you aren't done with surgery, but at least you know what you are dealing with.

    My one piece of assvice - you can do lupron and depo lupron which is the long acting kind. Stay away from the long acting kind. We have some of the same allergies and the carrier in that one is a BITCH. I can email you with more info. I will wait a few days until you are more awake and alert.

    Thanks for the update Mr. JB.

    Thinking of you and hope that you are ok. If you want to grab a tea or something, let me know.

  2. MR. JB and JB - sorry to hear about the stage IV endo - aggh - Mr. JB- go get some Vit E for JB it will help prevent scaring, also there is a giant ENDO book that I gave to JB, if you have a moment break it out and read as much as you can - it really does help to have a partner that knows what's happening.
    The ducks are here if you need us!

  3. Thank you for the update!!!

    Been praying for you guys all day long. I know things are difficult right now, but it sounds like you are in good hands and just think ... the endo will be GONE forever in a matter of months. That means you will get to start over.

    Will pray for patience until then...

  4. I'll be praying! It's so good to have answers, but it can be awfully tough to know what else needs to be done. I know I was really bummed out after my laparascopy when I heard that I'd need more surgery. It sounds like you're in good hands, and you've got a lot of people praying for you, too!

  5. Mr. JB YOU ROCK! Thank you so much for calling today!

    Mrs.JB at least you will have some relief! I am so excited the doctor said this was his specialty!

    We are praying and can't wait for you to get in tip top shape!!!!

    Make sure you take sterilized qtips to that belly button. Or should I say dry it out after the shower with the qtips!

    Can't wait to give you tips on whore baths cause u r gonna need them! :)

  6. JB I got the exact same news when I woke up from surgery number 1. And I had to go on Lupron for 3 months and have another surgery. I hope our story gives you some hope. It is a good thing you have a diagnosis and a reason for IF!! We will keep you in our prayers!

  7. just know I'm thinking of you... I have not traveled as long as you have on this road of infertility yet but what struck me first was yes you have some answers but so disappointed that nothing was done yesterday and that you will have more waiting ahead.... I hope that you find some peace in the coming months and know that everything happens for a reason even though its just too muddy at the moment to see what that is.

    You are in my thoughts and prayers.

  8. I'm still thinking of you and I'm glad you came out ok. I hope when they do the surgery in a few months they can get rid of all the endo!


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(UPDATE 12/31/2013) For those who want the summary of the steam incident since July this year and the Reactor 3 operating floor condition since the March 2011 accident, I have a new post.

An acquaintance who casually follows the Fukushima I NPP accident sent me a link, quite worried. I opened the link, and I started laughing, then I despaired – realizing that this may be the current level of understanding in the US when it comes to the Fukushima I NPP accident.

I have no idea who this is (“Turner Radio Network – Free Speech, No Matter Who Doesn’t Like It”), but it has an urgent news flash on December 28, 2013:

Persons residing on the west coast of North America should IMMEDIATELY begin preparing for another possible onslaught of dangerous atmospheric radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site in Japan. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) says radioactive steam has suddenly begun emanating from previously exploded nuclear reactor building #3 at the Fukuishima disaster site in Japan. TEPCO says they do not know why this is happening and cannot go into the building to see what’s happening due to damage and lethal radiation levels in that building. Experts say this could be the beginning of a “spent fuel pool criticality (meltdown)” …

The page shows a photograph of Reactor 3 steaming vigorously to lend support to the contention above.

The problem? It is a photo from March 2011 right after the building blew up.

Further down the post,

The video below was taken several months ago by TEPCO. It shows that the roof is totally blown off reactor building # 3

Uh… no. All the debris on the operating floor of Reactor 3 has been painstakingly removed, piece by piece, by remote-control cranes and shovels supervised by carbon-based human workers wearing tungsten vests who were physically there on the platform surrounding the reactor building.

The readers of this blog know (I hope) about the story of this “steam” rising from Reactor 3’s operating floor. The best hypothesis so far is that this is a combination of rainwater going through the gaps and reaching the Containment Vessel below and being heated up and the steam leaking from a breach somewhere in the Containment Vessel as nitrogen gas is injected into the CV. The steam tends to get observed when it is raining or after it rains.

The steam rising from the gap in the Reactor 3 operating floor looks like this:

I suppose it is free speech to claim this is vigorous enough to reach the height of the jet stream and hit the west coast of North America. Or, to use the favorite refrain among many Japanese, “erring on the side of caution“.

The lack of coverage of the Fukushima nuclear accident by the established media in the US has been being filled by the alternative media. For good or bad.

For those who care to know, this is what the operating floor of Reactor 3 looked like, and looks like now (from TEPCO’s photos and videos library):

March 16, 2011:

March 24, 2011:

July 11, 2012:

September 21, 2012 (SFP, when TEPCO started removing the debris):

May 25, 2013:

October 10, 2013:

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  1. That all being said, if there was another devastating earthquke, or other cause of a Reactor 3 meltdown, there definitely would be a huge explosion and huge amounts of deadly radiation in cloud form that would make it to the states within days. “Debunking” this only prevents people from taking it seriously and preparing.

    It’s time to get real. We are no match for mother nature. Chernobyl was so much worse then anyone could have predicted, and the mistakes made and idiots making ego-driven and finacial driven decisions, rather than safe and responsible decisions are ruining this planet.

    Do the right thing and warn people to be prepared.

    • Thank you for the detailed information.

      Yes, the situation is already critical enough, fear-mongers are as harmful as those who play it all down.

      I had posted the Turner article on my fb-page and now removed it again.

      Once again, thanks for keeping us updated.

    • No their wouldn’t be a huge explosion or huge amounts of deadly radiation in cloud form.

      First reactor 3 has been shut down for over 2 years, it has already done all the melting down it is going to do.

      Second the earthquake didn’t do any significant damage. It was the tsunami which knocked out the backup generators in the bsaements.

      Yes we do need to get real. Unless you want to build a house directly on the Fukushima plant site you have nothing significant to worry about.

    • I replied to a later comment, but wanted to repost and add that the U.S. legislature passed a law that allowed the nuclear power companies to need only 100 million dollars of insurance coverage. Another “WOW”.

      WOW! I thought I was the only one on the planet that knew about that natural reactor in Africa!

      I believe there was too much of a rush to get commercial nuclear power…probably because the governments needed more plutonium for their magnificently evil weapons of mass death.

      If you ever read “We Almost Lost Detroit”, you would know that they built a fast breeder reactor named Fermi 1 to make plutonium and to generate electricity. This insanely designed reactor used molten sodium to cool the reactor. Molten sodium was used because, as I understand it, sodium slowed down the neutrons so the production of plutonium was more efficient.

      Now, before you start thinking “what’s the big deal about salt?”, understand that salt is sodium chloride, a chemical compound. “Elemental sodium” is a metal that does not occur naturally because it is so highly reactive. In high school chemistry class our instructor took a tiny sliver of sodium and dropped it in water. We watched it scoot around the surface of the water as it violently reacted. A larger piece would immediately break down the water into hydrogen and oxygen, and the heat of the reaction would spark an explosion.

      So….Detroit Edison, who built the plant, used tons and tons of sodium to cool the reactor. The smokin’ hot molten sodium would pass through a heat exchanger to transfer the heat to water, produce steam, and drive the generators.

      Now, in a conventional reactor, when you get a crack in the heat exchanger you would need to shut the system down and fix the leak. At Fermi 1, when you get a leak in the heat exchanger, the entire plant blows to hell.

      My point here is that the rush to get conventional nuclear power doomed us to Fukushima/Chernobol/Three Mile Island/Fermi 1 type of tradgedies.

      Let’s try conservation.

  2. You believe TEPCO? who’s naive?

  3. Dear “Me”,

    You are named quite appropriately. What a surprise you don’t even put some type of name to the reckless fear mongering you are spouting. There have been people like you throughout history bothering rational people for thousands of years and all you do is distract and prove to be a nuisance.

    People should be informed. That’s it. Scaring them with platitudes and, in your case, absolutely nothing to back up your point (and being filled with spelling errors and grammatical issues).

    What would we do if your doomsday prophecy comes true? NOTHING. We are long past the point of being able to contend with the dangerous technology we have discovered and proliferated. Nuclear power is only one of many. If you want to spend your time being worried about one or more of them, feel free to sit nervously in a corner with your head under your schooldesk (as the other fearmongers instructed us during the Cold War) but don’t try to shame others for “not being responsible” or whatever other twisted view you have for having a different, and in all cases, much more informed opinion.

    • You are not using the term Fear Mongering correctly, as it doesn’t apply here. Fear Mongering is used to control people, and keep the truth from them with lies and deception. And that is what Tepco is doing. I am actually trying to shed light on the subject to educate innocent people as to the possibility of what hey should do if there is a full meltdown. Being prepared can not hurt. Hopefully there is nothing else to be concerned with, however, we all have witnessed over and over, mans continued repeating of mistakes throughout history due to ego, pride, and ignorance. The people of Russia were mislead over and over from the beginning and throughout the Chernobyl disaster, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths and illnesses. The government even had to pay the people that were lied to and still does to this day since many were exposed and most likely will have health problems as they get older.

      Say what you will about me, but you can’t argue what history has already shown… That people are out to save their own skin and Tepco will most likely say things are not as bad as they are to get people to even work in that horrible death trap environment. And they will keep the story internal until the last moment, which may be too late for the rest of the world.

      Don’t think it’s possible? Here’s some light reading… Enjoy:

      • Although it is Russia we are talking about, and getting the truth is next to impossible, the number of fatalities over Chernobyl was only 32. The disaster may be traced to a poorly conceived and executed test of equipment, however, the biggest problem was lack of a containment building which would have severely limited the problem. This particular cost saving measure has never been allowed in US Commercial Nuclear plants, where public safety, despite what you have been told, is a high priority.

  4. The information on this website is accurate. I perused the official report concerning the Fukushima 3 reactor yesterday after a friend of mine posted that crazy diatribe on facebook about how the plant had steam rising from it and was going to destroy the west coast. Two things made that suspicious. Number one: It wasn’t being reported by any news station. American media may be able to contain a story, but they don’t control ALL media sources. Number two: The Japanese people would have reported via facebook, youtube, and other media. There is a story about how the yakuza are using street people to clean up the reactor site. There is a huge difference between reporting the reality on the ground that can be verified through other sources and causing panic on purpose. We’re fortunate to live at a time where we can use the internet to verify by means of the people living in that area of the world.

    • This particular event may not be reported…yet. However, channel 5 news in San Diego has reported a 26% increase in infant hypothyroidism. What once was a condition reported,(as every infant is checked for hypothyroidism), as one in a million condition has increased to 400 in 100,000, as best I can remember. The channel 5 report is out there and my numbers may not be accurate, but the 26% increase is what was reported. so to say no harmful radiation is reaching the west coast is nothing but a lie. Unfortunately, the truth will not be known for a few more years. NASA claims the chemtrails are used to monitor air flows in the upper atmosphere. I never believed in chemtrails until I saw for myself over the skies where I live . Could it be they have increased the aerosol spraying to monitor where the radiation is spreading in Southern California? Since the event, the people of San Clemente have pushed back and the San Onofre power plant is now being decommissioned. I know a gal that grew up on San Clemente. Three of her four brothers that surfed Tresles, the break adjacent to the power plant have developed some sort of cancer. Draw your own conclusions, I think we can due without nuclear power. Isn’t it interesting that no nuke plant is ever built near a capitol building.

      • You aren’t very good with geography then. Ever hear of Three Mile Island? 12 miles from the state capitol. This is all nonsense.

      • Lyle M – your an IDIOT. I knew people that grew up at perpendicular angles to San Onofre and ate CARROTS – they died of carrot cancer. Just up the road, you DO know (or maybe not) Rancho Seco nuclear was just outside of Sacramento – California’s state capitol . Harsh on your theory. Draw your own conclusions – if we do without nuclear power the lights will be out for 6 hours per day. How did Channel 5 get a hold of the Medical Records data to determine this (exact quote) 26% increase in infant hypothyroidism – all related to PLUTONIUM – yes yes – run for the hills Ma Parker.

  5. A couple weeks ago I contacted FEMA to see if they had a plan if Fuk blows up spewing radiation into the air on the West Coast, they told me this is not their job that FEMA only reacts AFTER a disaster, so I should call my state disaster preparedness for which I did and they said they have no plans on the books that you need to call your county and local emergency management, so I did and they had nothing and told me to call the local fire department as they would be the first responders and the Chief for South Kitsap County told me he was concerned as well since they are the first line of defense but honestly they have no special orders or equipment and could only tell the tape and plastic story but he finished with then you just bend over and Kiss your A– goodbye, he was equally shocked that there is NO plan in place….not an inspiring future for the West Coast or the US in general.
    Me personally, I have my Passport coming (hope it arrives in time), then I get my Visa for Australia and when things start to look like they are going sideways I am gone.

    • You DO know that Australia is closer to Japan than the US is, right?

    • Hey – GROINGO – you didn’t attend many science classes. You’re going to tell me pissing in the Mississippi causes flooding. Then you’re going to tell me LIFE WILL BE WIPED OUT when the wisp of radioactive dust or vapour drifts over the ocean. Now what do you think gives a larger dose of radiation: your paranoid fantasy about Fukushima OR a day outdoors in the sun? The proof can be had with a geiger from Radio Shack.

  6. GROINGO, I too live in WA state. You say you will go to Australia when the sh*t hits the fan? Good luck with that plan. You’ll have 36 hours max before the radiation hits. Good luck finding a flight out of Sea/Tac of PDX. You and thousands of others will be trying to do the same thing. Unless you have a private plane, you are screwed. Mass panic will ensue and as the Fire Chief says, Kiss your A** goodbye. I have the masks, tape, plastic, fresh water, and tons of canned food. But I ask myself why? I may be able to hold out a little longer, but I will just be delaying my death by a week or so. Lets just hope that they can clean that mess us, remove the rods, and hope that no more major earthquakes hit until they are done. If the worst comes to reality, the entire northern hemisphere will be uninhabitable. Scary stuff man, scary!

    • You’re right, all I can do is keep tabs on what is going on in Japan or better yet just go now.
      The agrivating thing is friends and family trust the US Government to make everything OK so I will do what I have to do for me and my cat, one thing for sure, I have no intention of just setting back and doing nothing.
      The real alarming thing is this Fukushima mess will be threatening the world for decades to come, and this is just ONE Nuke Plant!
      Problem with the world today, if there wasn’t Fukushima there is always something else.

    • Hey washman66 -please post the data, scientific study, chemistry, fallout computations, unreliable computer modeling etc etc – ad infinitum and ad nauseum of which you were able to state that (exact quote) If the worst comes to reality, the entire northern hemisphere will be uninhabitable.

      Tell me PRECISELY the longitudes and latitudes you are referring to. When people will be dropping dead, JESUS will have to intervene, mummies will be walking around glowing, PLUTONIUM dust will get in your jock strap – be real direct on this ” the entire northern hemisphere will be uninhabitable”.

  7. The debate is about whether the steam coming from fissures in the ground, from #3, and from the ocean are from the normal decay heat found in spent fuel pools, or from an uncontrolled source of heat, such as a corium blob somewhere.

    To figure out the difference, the AMOUNT of steam should matter, as does the radiation level of the steam itself. TEPCO will not disclose the amount, nor the radioactive elements inside the steam. They have made up various stories, saying it is rainwater evaporating, and a variety of other reasons, including they don’t know what causes it. Why would someone who is in a position of very easily finding out what it is, where it is coming from and how dangerous it is REFUSE to do any of the above?

    Usually, when someone is hiding something, there is something BAD going on. There is no reason to hide good news, correct? TEPCO has been lying, denying and deceiving people since day 1. Is it any surprise that people make up stuff to fill in the absolute lack of credible information? Is it any wonder that people panic when someone presents fear porn?

    The antidote to fear is information, which TEPCO is not providing. They have no interest in finding out where the coriums are, despite lots of technology available to tell them instantly where they are, what amount of fission is going on and where the coriums are exactly. Again the lack of information despite them bringing in corium finding equipment leaves one to assume the worst.

    The fact that they will not even admit to massive amounts of plutonium being released, a criticality explosion, or two melt outs visible on video and pictures from #3 and #4 gives informed people great concern.

    If they can hide and deny even BASIC facts, what ELSE are they hiding and denying, underneath a steaming #3?

  8. The Ecologist has an interesting take on the Fukushima steam. I agree that the steam is not vigorous to reach the jet stream. Still, if a meltdown is still a potential, then what are the dangers? Could a much larger cloud, containing radioactive contamination, reach North America by air if a major meltdown happened?

    Fukushima meltdown? Mystery steam rising over Reactor 3
    Oliver Tickell

    31st December 2013

    Unexplained plumes of radioactive steam have been rising from Fukushima’s Reactor Building 3, Could a major meltdown be on the way?

    Fukushima’s Reactor Building 3 exploded on 13th March 2011 as a result of a hydrogen buildup, breaching the building’s containment and emitting a huge plume of radiation. The reactor itself is in meltdown.

    And now fresh plumes of steam have been seen coming out the structure. These have now been confirmed by Tepco, the owner of the nuclear plant, from 19th December onwards. The company believes the steam is coming from the fifth floor of the building.

    However it does not know the cause of the steam. Lethal levels of radiation and the physical damage to the structure have so far made entry and inspection impossible.

    Possibility 1: a meltdown is taking place

    The Reactor 3 fuel storage pond still houses an estimated 89 tonnes of the plutonium-based MOX nuclear fuel employed by the reactor, composed of 514 fuel rods.

    Ever since the explosion Tepco has been concerned that if the spent fuel storage pond dries out, the intensely radioactive spent fuel rods would melt down and produce further significant radioactive emissions.

    One possibility is that this process may now be taking place. In the event of water loss from the pond, the water would begin to overheat and produce clouds of steam, prior to a complete meltdown. If this is the case then a second major nuclear disaster at Fukushima is in the making.

    This explanation appears to be relatively improbable, however the Turner Radio Network is advising people on the West Coast of North America to “prepare for the worst” in case a meltdown of the waste fuel is in fact commencing.

    No official warnings have been released on either side of the Pacific.

    Possibility 2: ‘corium’ has reached groundwater

    Reactor 3 itself contained 566 fuel rods, and has experienced a complete meltdown. The location of the molten fuel, known as ‘corium’, is unknown, but it may have burnt its way through the reactor base and entered the underlying soil.

    This would also produce steam as the hot corium came into contact with groundwater, while also releasing radioactive contamination to make its way into the Pacific Ocean.

    Possibility 3: rainwater on stray fuel elements / Reactor

    An alternative explanation is that the steam plumes could be caused by stray fuel pellets and reactor rod fragments – which themselves produce significant amounts of heat – coming into contact with rainwater percolating through the damaged and roofless structure.

    And of course the same water could be reaching the hot reactor vessel. According to a Fairewinds Energy Education posting on Facebook, the reactor is currently producing about 1 MW of heat, equivalent to 1,000 1KW electric fires, so enough to produce plenty of steam.

    This would provide the least worrying explanation for the steam, in that as the radioactivity continues decline so will the heat production and the volume of steam produced. If this explanation is correct, there is no reason expect any catastrophic outcome.

    However the steam is carrying considerable amounts of radiation into the atmosphere and represents an ongoing radiation hazard.

  9. First of all you have to know who HAL TURNER really is:
    Harold Charles “Hal” Turner (born March 15, 1962) is an American white nationalist, Holocaust denier[1] and blogger from North Bergen, New Jersey. In August 2010, he was convicted for making threats against three federal judges with the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Prior to Turner’s arrest, his radio program, The Hal Turner Show, was a webcast from his home once a week.
    Origin of China Eminent Domain Hoax

    In February 2009, Turner posted an article to his blog entitled: “FEDS GRANT EMINENT DOMAIN AS COLLATERAL TO CHINA FOR U.S. DEBTS!” claiming that a secret agreement had been made to allow China to physically take U.S. land, in the event of a U.S. default.[24] The story then went viral and was posted across the internet, including most conspiracy and extremist right-wing sites and forums.[25]
    Turner was a paid FBI informant for several years, supplying information about right-wing groups to federal agents.[27] The original allegations that Turner acted as an informant for the FBI surfaced in 2008 after unidentified hackers claimed on Turner’s website’s forums that they had read email correspondence between him and an FBI agent, apparently his handler.[28] This led to a discussion on a neo-Nazi website on January 10, 2008, in which Turner revealed he was quitting political work, was ending his radio show and that he was separating “from the ‘pro-White’ movement”.

  10. I think the reason the images were from earlier is that they were essentially being used as stock photos as the report from TEPCO didn’t provide new images. I agree that the turnernewsnetwork sounds like a questionable source but the fact is that the article is based on TEPCO’s own release. The fact that no other more legitimate news agencies hadn’t picked up on the story is a reflection of how quietly they released the information – namely, on their website in Japanese only. More mainstream news sites such as Gizmodo are beginning to report it now. Remember kids, just because something isn’t reported doesn’t mean that it isn’t true and similarly just because a hysterical person in the streets says “the sky is falling” doesn’t necessarily mean that it won’t, not if there’s a 17KM wide asteroid pointed at Earth. We all know by now that TEPCO and the Japanese Government have gone to great lengths to conceal the true extent of the disaster until well after it is time to appropriately report it. And yes, social media is a good way to guage on-the-ground reality when it comes to things like recruiting the homeless and so on, but keep in mind that this is now one of the least sparsely populated and highly secured industrial sites in the world, so chances of someone posting a status update to the effect of “New steam coming out of the ground right here lawl #wearedoomed #runforthehills” is pretty unlikely. As with all things, individuals should take all things into consideration before deciding for themselves what they think.

    As for the source of the water, I don’t personally think it much matters – whether the core has melted past the basement into ground water or if rainwater is leaking in, the fact of the matter is that steam happens when water is heated, and since all the sources of heat in that building are radioactive ones, and we have established that the steam itself is in fact highly contaminated, IMHO it makes little practical difference WHERE the water is coming from. The fact remains that it is radioactive steam being released in an uncontrolled manner into the environment, and the cumulative effects of all these “little” leaks are a concern for which we should be making the appropriate, rational preparations for dealing with.

    My 2¢. Love the blog, thanks for your work.

    • Your 2¢ and a nickel will get me 5¢.

      It’s obvious from the article itself that Tepco has indeed released pictures of the very faint and wispy steam from the top of unit 3. There’s a video right there.

      It’s also extremely clearly reported that the steam is NOT radioactive. And that is where Turner jumps off the reality bus – he simply invents the radioactivity. He is departing completely from the information provided and simply gulling the audience for drama.

      As for the heat onsite – the containment vessel is warm from the decay inside, but the warmed rain is on the outside, which explains why there is NO rise in radioactivity. If you hadn’t heard – metal can in fact conduct heat.

      The “argument to paranoia” of claiming that anything that hasn’t been reported can be true – and by implication is likely to be true – is simple fantasy, a strange wish for dire consequences despite a total lack of evidence.

  11. I am living in Southern Cal. The hills have not turned green like they do twice a year since the accident and no California poppies have bloomed in the usual areas when they covered the hills every spring as long as I can remember. The west facing hills look like they have burnt, as if a fire gone through but where no fire has been. The east face of they hills don’t look as bad, but still not normal. To say that no harmful radiation is reaching the west coast is a total farce. I’m no expert, but I was an honor graduate from the US Army’s Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC) Warfare School. I also wrote a thesis that concluded the radiation from the two bombs dropped on Japan killed as many people as the initial blasts. The first thing that happens in any nuclear accident is the lie of how bad it really is…every single time throughout history. Unfortunatly, the reality of it all will not be known for years. San Diego has reported a 26% increase in hypothyroidism in children. Draw your own conclusios and do your own due dilligence. Google “Voices of Iowa” as this blog is put up by a gal that has a degree in environmental science and intensely researched the long lasting effects of Chernobyl and lists all resources to back it up, none of which come from media, mainstream or alternate.

    • I also live in Southern California and can tell you that the reason the hills haven’t been green and that poppies haven’t bloomed is that Southern California (and California as a whole) is in the middle of several years of dought. And it looks like it will continue. Most times the simplest causes are the most likely. No water= no green

  12. For the end days are upon us. Take refuge in the lord, for the apocalypse is here and his wrath shall destroy the earth.

  13. Hi y’all.

    Be prepared?

  14. It’s time to stop profiting off of the misfortune of others. Time to stop destroying our planet and ourselves with un-natural energy. Using sound as a power/ energy source is possible, and the only way.

    • What is un-natural about nuclear energy? Uraniuam occurs in nature and there was even a natural reactor at one time in Oklo Africa.

  15. Again maybe some of you dont understand. There is nothing to be prepared for. If we cant get Fukushima under control taking iodine and eating veggies and moving to Chile will not save you. The radiation will spread everywhere. Once you understand this you will hopefully see Fukushima in a sadly clearer light…..and then hopefully call for action.

    • Actually the iodine WILL help! At least, in inhibiting the uptake of radioactive I-131. Potassium can help inhibit the uptake of Ce-134 and Ce-137. I would NOT give up on smart nutritional interventions, that’s for sure. There’s one more “controversial” food you can eat, but I won’t mention it here.

      • No, iodine is of zero value now. As you say, it is only of use for inhibiting the uptake of I-131 – but there is none of this isotope left from Fukushima. A half-life of about 8 days means that there are zero atoms of I-131 left after about 2 years.

        Prophylactic iodine is actually of dubious value for adults in the first place – studies of medical-therapy doses of I-131 showed no increased cancer effects in adults. Those doses were many times higher than would be expected from environmental uptake after even Chernobyl. Children are affected, however, and the effects manifest many years later, so that the adults who were children in the vicinity of Chernobyl’s meltdown show a continued excess of thyroid cancers, because they didn’t get prophylactic iodine at the right time and the known pathways – especially milk – were not rapidly controlled.

        I’m assuming you’re talking about cesium (Cs) but increased potassium uptake wouldn’t help you there – there isn’t a blocking effect like with the thyroid.

        Fortunately radio-cesium levels aren’t close to ingestion-concern levels, and all the rest of the doom talk is also just people trying to scare themselves and to persuade others of their groundless fears.

        • …So just How Much are you being paid??

        • I would like to understand why you say that radio cesium levels are not at ingestion concern levels. Do you have any support for this? The issue of hot particles and hot spots having been found in 2011 is well known. Why should we not believe the views of those such as those of Physicians for Social Responsibility who warn that such risks have not been adequately considered or addressed.

  16. Deception………. Do Not Be Deceived! TEPCO a for profit Co.
    No word from the Main Stream Media? A few local news stations giving it a few seconds and silenced. Our President said he did not believe there was any danger to the U.S. Hilary Clinton signs a food trade agreement with Japan. We live in a world that if we do not question we will be repaid with the consequence of ignorance. Ignorance is bliss till it is time to pay. It maybe time and that would truly suck! May God have Mercy on us All!

  17. Good update from ex-skf on the current state of the clearing of unit 3, including a very detailed composite picture of the top of the building taken from the crane.

    • WTF is wrong with you? You and your blogger friend are full of shit. Watch this – and don’t come back with any of your “I don’t like Arne” crap – Arne is reading from TEPCO’s own and actual reports…. and please pay special attention around the 6 minute mark: ie: (sic) “Unit 3 is so radioactive that NO ONE, not even robots, can get in there”.

      Unit 3 is NOT being “cleaned up” you idiot….. it might never be “cleaned up”…… WAKE UP and stop fostering false information. PLEASE.

      • Calm down lass, you’ll burst a blood vessel.

        It’s not that I don’t like Gundersen – it’s just that he’s so consistently wrong about everything. Including the phrase you quote. He uses odd pictures and numbers from the Tepco report and relays his own story and misunderstanding, as usual. The idea that he can be trusted to read a report in any kind of useful manner is highly amusing.

        For a blast from the past, you might like to look back at a video he made in July 2011 – insisting that a fleeting glimpse of a piece of twisted rebar was in fact the handle of a fuel bundle, despite the disparity of scale and the thickness of the free end that’s pointing towards the camera.

        On the other hand, if you’re a True Disciple, you will of course simply believe everything he says.

        • “Lass”? Now that really is amusing considering I’m probably old enough to be your mother, if not your grandmother! It’s OK, I’ll just add “patronising” to my “Joffan lexicon”.

          Now FYI, I’m not an “Arne Disciple”, I admit that early on I was, but too many times Arne’s info is a bit “off” – I guess it’s because he doesn’t want to end up as one of those mysterious bullet-in-the-back-of-the-head suicides. Nevertheless, he’s very valuable for reference and cross-reference, and in this case – no matter what you say or think – he speaks the truth: Reactor 3 is FUBAR and it’s not going to be “fixed”….. for goodness sake, the bloody thing isn’t even really there anymore… it blew up!! (Go back and look at the 3.11.11 pics BEFORE censorship.)

          These days I’m more inclined to what this guy, Jim Stone, has to say:

          Certainly no-one, not even God or the Aliens will be able to fix any of if he’s right! Whatever, it’s all very sad and it does make me extremely angry and ANYONE like you who tries to downplay the horror of Fukushima and/or pretend that everything will be fine are second only to the evil that is Fukushima and all things nuclear.

          • You chose the screenname Scottiegirl – “lass” seems appropriate. And my mother is 86, so if you can match that, congratulations, but cautions about your blood pressure are more appropriate than ever.

            Glad to hear you are not utterly devoted to the Gundersen bafflegab. Unfortunately you seem to be adhering to another “guru” with perhaps even less grasp on reality.

  18. What are the reasons for the delay of removing the spent fuel rods from Reactor 1?

    • If you have paid attention, then you realize that the fuel assemblys have melted and are not where they should be. Also, the reactor building above the reactor vessel must be flooded 30 feet above the reactor head. The entire area is highly radioactive and the area above the reactor is damaged and will leak.

  19. Some of my Japanese friends are becoming more and more scared based on what is being reported on various blogs. I am skeptical by nature but I would like to know why people are so sure that the steam coming from the reactors is not contaminating other parts of Japan including Tokyo. Surely you cannot be 100% certain so can someone quantify the risk?? Blogs by some apparently knowledgeable people such as Ichiro Iiyama are referring to a lot of details about the steam and unusual fog patterns in some parts of Japan.

    And the former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland is concerned enough to be writing to influential people all over the world.

    Now the easiest response is that these people are crazy, but I somehow that seems like a cop out.

    I also want to know why no-one is taking the issue of so called “hot particles” seriously any more. It is a fact that after 3/11 these particles were found as far away as parts of Yokohama, Chiba, Saitama and Tokyo. Why are we sure that people in Tokyo (and perhaps elsewhere around the world) are not breathing in these hot particles? I understand they are difficult to find and measure but since they were found in some places after 3/11 doesn’t it stand to reason that at least some of this is still there? All the discussion and comparisons of radiation levels (for example that Tokyo is similar to New York) completely ignores the issue of risk of ingesting such particles. Can someone please explain why the media is ignoring this.

    Everyone knows that TEPCO and the Japanese Government are not credible sources, and the IAEA is also not independent of the energy industry. I think it is natural to be skeptical in these circumstances.

    I would appreciate views on the issue of (1) risk of radioactive steam and (2) hot particles in Tokyo and other parts of Japan.

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Republican games continue

The following amendment was proposed by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid on the Senate floor today.

Sense of the Senate on the Need for a New Direction in Iraq Policy and in the Civilian Leadership of the Department of Defense:

1. U.S. forces have served honorably and courageously in Iraq, with over 2,600 brave Americans having made the ultimate sacrifice and over 20,000 wounded.

2. The current “stay the course” policy in Iraq has made America less secure, reduced the readiness of our troops, and burdened America’s taxpayers with over $300 billion in additional debt.

3. With weekly attacks against American and Iraqi troops at their highest levels since the start of the war, and sectarian violence intensifying, it is clear that staying the course in Iraq is not a strategy for success.

1. Our troops deserve and the American people expect the Bush Administration to provide competent civilian leadership and a true strategy for success in Iraq.

2. President Bush needs to change course in Iraq to provide a strategy for success. One indication of a change of course would be to replace the current Secretary of Defense.

Based on poll after poll its clear how the citizens of the United States feel on the issues posed in this amendment. How does the Senate feel? We will never know, the Republican leadership ruled that this amendment was "not material" and ruled it out of order.

Why vote party to change the majority in Senate and Congress? Today's actions are just one of years of such reasons.

Ohio the choice is clear, we must elect Sherrod Brown to the Senate.

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Solve Rails Native Compile Issue

I seldom blog about issue on Windows, because I don't really have a Windows machine with me. This will be an exceptional case that I show how to solve a Rails' native compile issue.

If you see an error from Rails on Windows system, something similar like this

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The reason is, gem try to build native library to improve performance, but it was not able to do it on your Windows system.

The easiest is to install DevKit from The DevKit will be installed at c:\DevKit. Just take note which DevKit to be installed, 32 bits or 64 bits.

Set Windows system PATH environment:
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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Qualcomm bugs exposed nearly 1 billion Android devices

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Samsung Note 7, Snapdragon 820

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Qualcomm bugs expose nearly 1 billion Android devices to exploits, Extreme Tech.

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Fighting with Ruby on Rails on old Snow Leopard

Finally I give it a try for Ruby on Rails. The first thing I want to do is install Ruby on Rails. According to the tutorial, I need ruby 1.9.3, then using ruby gem to install rails 2.3.2.

This is not a tutorial, but just show what doesn't works for me. You might not able to get you solution here.

There are a few ways to install Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X:
1. Use Gem on OS X system.
2. Homebrew
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Since then gem version (1.8.7) is a bit too old, I use homebrew to install.
$ brew install ruby
The gem came with ruby, use gem to install rails. Before install rails, I disable ruby document.
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I try to compile from downloaded source, both ruby-2.3.1, ruby-2.3.0 are unable to compile successfully on my OS X 10.6.3. So I compile ruby on another machine with OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and copy the binary to OS X 10.6. The binary can't execute properly.

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I try to use the system gem to install rails, but since the gem version is too old, it can't install the later rails.

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Some cocktails must obviously taste terrible if you have a closer look on the list of ingredients. As a natural consequence such recipes are not very common: who wants to order a foul-tasting swill or feature it on the bar menu! The Blood and Sand seems to be one of those drinks at first sight … but then proves the opening words to be lies.

I got to know the drink on my second visit to Bar Le Lion in Hamburg. After I already had a few drinks, I asked curiously for a cocktail with smoky Islay whiskey. There are not many prevalent recipes of such drinks out there and I was curious what the staff would recommend to me or if I would even get a recommendation. When the the Blood and Sand cocktail was suggested to me and I heard about the ingredients my initial reaction was similar to the one described above. But I took a chance and ordered it. And what can I say? The result was fantastic!

The name “Blood and Sand” may also seem a little bit strange. It is named after the eponymous silent film from 1922, which is an adaptation of the Torero-novel “Sangria y arena” of the Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. It is said that the drink was served at the film’s premiere, but that’s not entirely secured.

The taste of the drink is not easy to describe. The ingredients used are Scotch whiskey (there’s no need to use a smoky one, but personally I find it much more interesting), cherry liqueur, orange juice and red vermouth. As already said, at first glance that is indeed a really strange mix. Nonetheless, Vermouth, orange juice and cherry liqueur merge to a tangy yet fruity melange that works as an awesome fundament for the smoky flavors of the whiskey. Like a small campfire under a fruit yielding cherry tree in the midth of summer.

The famous American bartender Dale de Groff once stated:

„At first glance, this unusual cocktail seemed a godawful mix. But over time, I noted that the recipe appeared in some serious cocktail books, so I finally tried it. The taste convinced me never to judge a drink again without tasting it.“

A special feature of the drink is also the very rememberable recipe. Each ingredient is in fact used in equal proportions in the drink. There are versions with less orange juice, as well as some with less vermouth and cherry liqueur (those are the ones I usually tend to mix for myself). Anyway, I’m going to present the classic recipe here. Everyone can adjust the measurements to personal taste.

2.5 cl Scotch Whisky (smoky or non-smoky, depends on your personal taste. In the Bar Le Lion it was prepared with Laphroaig Quarter Cask)
2.5 oz orange juice (preferably freshly squeezed)
2.5 oz cherry brandy (eg Cherry Heering)
2.5 cl red vermouth (eg Lillet Rouge)

Combine all ingredients in a shaker on ice and shake vigorously. Then double strain into your chilled glass.

Glass: Coupette

Garnish: cocktail cherry (In the Bar Le Lion it was served with three Griottines-cherries. Since I really liked that I have adopted this.)

Buying sources:

In well-stocked supermarkets you’re very likely to find all the ingredients. Otherwise – as always – your personal liqueur dealer will help you (or the Internet, of course).

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005 of 365 Things I Want To Do

005 of 365 Things I Want To Do

I have always heard of wonderful things about this writer.  And after my exposure to this short story, I was absolutely in love with his words.  My partner Rocky has a beautiful collection of his books and I am someday going to have the opportunity to explore them and enjoy his stuff.  Here is hoping I am smart enough to really take it all in.

But yeah, Haruki Murakami is a writer I am dying to really get into.    And thanks to my partner, it seems this year I will!

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