{"id":5300,"date":"2011-04-02T06:32:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T10:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=5300"},"modified":"2011-04-02T06:34:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T10:34:06","slug":"saturday-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2011\/04\/02\/saturday-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looks like I’m not the only one with sump concerns. Over in Fukushima, they have a two-meter deep sump pit with an eight-inch crack in it, and “highly radioactive” water (in a hour, the levels are 330 times what us folks in “civilized” parts of the world get in a year) is leaking out of the crack and into the Pacific Ocean<\/a>. Rest assured, however, that they have a plan to fix it. They’re gonna fill the pit with concrete. Um. OK. Perhaps I’m just an idiot, but, like, I have sump pits myself. And I reckon I could fill them up with concrete, and that certainly would keep the pumps from running. But it wouldn’t stop the water from coming in, which is what the actual f*cking problem is. And my water (to the best of my knowledge, knock on wood) isn’t radioactive. <\/p>\n

Water from the two-meter deep, concrete-lined basin could be seen escaping into the sea through a roughly 20-cm (8-inch) crack, an official the Tokyo Electric Power Company told reporters Saturday afternoon. But the company could not explain how the water was getting into the sump….<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, might wanna figure that out.<\/p>\n

It’s getting awfully hard to ignore all this stuff. I went from caring about the future to giving up and just hoping things are good enough to keep my life from being too miserable for the next 25-35 (whatever I’ve got left) years, to hoping they don’t fuck it all up before I at least get to retire for a couple of years. <\/p>\n

Clearly, the “Democrats suck but the Republicans are worse” theory isn’t really getting us anywhere. I mean, it’s true as far as it goes, I guess, but it’s a moot point. It’s like arguing over whether Hitler was worse than Stalin or something. At best, Democrats are feckless (they’re the Chinese dude, and the Republicans are the tank, except the guy driving the Republican’s tank aint gonna stop), and at worst they’re in collusion with the Republican monsters.<\/p>\n

The meek won’t inherit the Earth. The ruthless, greedy, evil assholes will, having been delivered their mandate by the ignorant, with the tacit approval of the apathetic. <\/p>\n

I wish I could afford a backhoe, ‘cuz I’d like to dig a really deep hole and then go hide in it. <\/p>\n

Maybe I’ll get a puppy instead. :pup: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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