Month: April 2011

This sort of thing is getting as outrageous as it is predictable.  At his public school, Little Village Academy on Chicago’s West Side, students are not allowed to pack lunches from home. Unless they have a medical excuse, they must eat the food served in the cafeteria. Principal Elsa Carmona said her intention is to…

During one of his discussions of Chernobyl (the truths of which seem very much unsettled), M. Simon cited a source familiar to anyone old enough to remember the good old days of Cold War moral clarity. PRAVDA. While it still bears the commie logo, the editorial bias has changed. Anyway, in response to M. Simon’s…

The Nuclear Plant at Fukushima has just reached the inner circle of hell. Level 7. (well it is Japanese and I don’t read that so good – like not at all) But you can go to Zero Hedge for a general outline. Here is what they have to say. What started as less serious than…

Note to my readers: I like to post here at Classical Values only the most reliable reports and speculations. Well as reliable as possible given that it is breaking news. I do use My Naval Nuke Reactor Operator training to filter as much as I can. I also use as a filter the Emperor’s evaluation…

In a piece Glenn linked titled “Big government on the brink,” Robert Samuelson points out that Americans are more dependent on the government than they realize: Few Americans realize the extent of their dependency. The Census Bureau reports that in 2009 almost half (46.2 percent) of the 300 million Americans received at least one federal…

Food prices are going through the roof for basic commodities. This is causing instability in many places around the world. Spengler says there may be no solution. From the Straits of Gibraltar to the Hindu Kush, instability will afflict the Muslim world for a generation, and there is nothing that the West can do to…

One of the many annoyances these days consists of spam text messages on cell phones. The worst is so called bulk SMS “short code” spamming, because many of these orginate from crooked providers from all over the world who, because of inherent flaws in the system (as well as lawsuits based on “free speech”) are…

I am in a hurry today, so I have no time for a long and thoughtful post. However Sarah emailed me a link to a humorous article which is simply not, um, “family friendly” enough to be quoted at length in this blog. I didn’t know what to do with it, until I saw this…

There is a lot of back and forth going on about nuclear power. The advocates say it is plenty safe and there are others who say radiation scares me and I don’t think nukes are safe at all. Let us think about it in terms of “fear of flying”. By objective criteria (compared to automobiles)…

You can see the whole video the excerpt was taken from at my Gorbachev – Chernobyl Did It post. This article explains why “biorobots” were necessary. Describing the horrific event and its immediate aftermath, Russia’s Pravda (April 26) said: “The nuclear reactor was burning for ten days. The people who were trying to extinguish the…

China likes Thorium based nuclear reactors. So they are doing research. If the reactor works as planned, China may fulfill a long-delayed dream of clean nuclear energy. The United States could conceivably become dependent on China for next-generation nuclear technology. At the least, the United States could fall dramatically behind in developing green energy. “President…

A source for the plastic detector: Rexon Components. Another Source: Bicron Plastics. A pdf of some of their products. GammaWatch makes a very neat watch/radiation detector for $250. Unfortunately they are currently out of stock. This is kind of cool but it is not very sensitive. It will warn you of very serious hazards: NukAlert…

Althouse says quoting from AP: Winnebago County’s numbers say Prosser received 20,701 votes to Kloppenburg’s 18,887. The AP has 19,991 for Prosser to Kloppenburg’s 18,421. I live in Winnebago County and no one I know here voted for Prosser. Or Kloppenburg. In fact I can state categorically that neither was on the ballot. Fraud? Well…

As I spent the last two hours unable to log into this site to write a blog post, I thought I would break with the usual pattern of looking for something interesting to write about and lay the blog problem out for the world to see. Without naming names of any of the parties who…

Some goofball teacher on an anti-Christian crusade in Seattle has made herself look more moronic than she realizes. A student wanted to bring Easter Eggs to class, but the teacher would not allow them to be called Easter Eggs: A sophomore at a local private high school thinks an effort to make Easter politically correct…

As most readers know, I take a broad, lliteral view of the First Amendment. I think freedom of speech means the state cannot stop anyone from saying anything (no matter how offensive), and free expression allows things like flag burning, Nazis marching in Skokie, flying Confederate flags (or I suppose, even Ku Klux Klan demonstrations…

Some people reading my recent posts on nuclear power think that I oppose nuclear power. Nothing could be further from the truth. What I’m against is pretending that there are few or no problems with nuclear power as it currently exists. Let me start with the Chernobyl accident. It was not a tragedy for people…

Commenter Frank at my post Lies Of Chernobyl had this to say in response to this comment fragment of mine. I said: M. Simon: Also the 10 REM dose limit supposes that most people are not too far from average when it comes to the effects of radiation. But people are genetically different. To which…

I just love the following headline in today’s Detroit Free Press: Angry voters send gov a message And I hope that instead of taking it down, they keep it up.  Wisconsin voters sent Republican Gov. Scott Walker a message about their unhappiness with his muscling an anti-union rights bill through the state Legislature by sending…

In these confusing, topsy-turvy days of interconnected tubes, miscegenation, Twitters, and furries, it can often be hard to tell whether a party you belong to is racist, especially with the modern proliferation of partisans: the Democrat Party, the Republican Party, the Tea Party, the Coffee Party (“yes, we’re still around, thanks for asking!“), the Green…