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Right. And the French were way ahead of the curve in criticizing TEPCO and the Japanese government in downplaying the severity of this incident. SO they do know more about this and they are more scared than anyone else. What does that tell you?

it was turned to steam by the heat of the rods.

Think about what this plan means, everyone; what is the unspoken admission revealed by this plan, or, for that matter, the dumping of boronated water by helicopters? (btw, boron is not being used as a fire supressant here as some idiot reporter claimed, but to absorb radioactive particles)

What no one seems to have noticed about these schems is that it means the pool in No. 4 (which the NRC is now convinced is dry) is fully exposed to the air right now, and that it is open enough such that a water hose from several meters (possibly 20 meters away) can shoot in there.

As I understand it, the problem isn’t simply meltdown, the problem is re-criticality. That is, there is apparently enough spent fuel rods in the (former) cooling pools that if they were to lose their protective sleeves (I believe they are still in zirconium sleeves), they would achieve critical mass and you’d have a criticality incident—far far worse than a meltdown, though not an explosion per se. Of the very little info TEPCO is releasing, their official last night (their time) said that the possibility of criticality was no longer zero. While there have been several exposed criticality incidents before, none have been of this scale under these conditions. It would more thank likely leapfrog this incident beyond Chernobyl and possibly create a deadzone for approximately 50 miles radius. But, of immediate importance, it would also prevent any further efforts at the reactors, allowing them to meltdown, and so on. A cascade failure.

Not looking great in PA. Nearly 60% of Philly districts reporting, with Sestak at a huge lead (over 60%). Anything over 50% lead in Philadelphia County will result in a win for Sestak overall. It is strictly a numbers game and there are no more Rs in Philadelphia.

http://www.phillyelectionresults.com/

Why she left now, is pretty obvious—too many frivolous complaints and investigations have made the job impossible. About that much, there is consensus now. But think she’s just not interested in running for President. She was quite clear about making a difference “outside” of politics. The fact is, we’re in a new media-driven world. Rush is far more influential than any official leader of the Republican party; Alec Baldwin is more influential than Obama. Sure, the Prez gets to press the buttons, but it’s the celebrities, the talking heads, who are going to tell him (or her) what button to press.

The Presidency has been nothing more than a figurehead since Clinton’s second term and that’s not going to change—ever. It wasn’t for anything he did per se, but because of fundamental changes in the way news media doesn’t just report events, but directly influences them by virtue of the 24/7 news cycle.

SP will make a much deeper mark for Alaska and the US by leaving politics and joining the new media. That’s fairly obvious too, if you ask me.

It begins—the rise of the first post-modern fascist state.

Notice how all or nearly all of the proposals on every section of this website begins with the phrase:

Barrack Obama will...

This is what is known as a mantra. It is not an accident of cut-and-paste. It is a deliberate method for implanting the notion of Obama as the progenitor of all things. We must all remain mindful of this and everything that happens and is said from here on out. This is a personality cult writ large, supporting a quasi-socialist enterprise built upon amorphous notions of “community” and “unity” and “something larger” than ourselves—in other words, this is fascism in the true sense of the word.

Nothing about introducing bills to do such and such, nothing about the role of the people, nothing about the role of Congress—despite the overwhelmingly leftist nature of the governing body. This administration is about Obama and Obama alone, with the feckless Biden at his side only too willing to do the master’s bidding.

This business about mandatory community service (usually a punishment given to petty criminals) is truly frightening. Previous statements about establishing a Civilian Defense Corps are particularly ominous and are a mirror of the establishment of the SA.

I had hoped I was wrong about Obama’s fascist tendencies, but I am not heartened by this. It may well be time to start preparing for open revolt and rebellion. I am not in any way encouraging this, but we must look ahead and see what might well happen in a few short years.

I also think it’s time to drop the nicknames and such and the rumors (true or not) as they tend to distract from the seriousness of what’s happening here. It is irrelevant at this point whether he is or is not a Muslim, a foreigner, or a Communist. He may well be all these things, but it has happened and it is done—those investigations must proceed, of course, but the main goal now is to preserve the Republic.

Obama has seized the reins of power and from here on out, it is only relevant at this point what he actually says and does—to the extent we will even know (even the MSM has rountinely commented on his inaccessibility).

Be vigilant, America. We enter our darkest hours.

The Jewish vote is overwhelmingly liberal and has been at least since Truman (who, it is rumoured, supported the creation of Israel in order to lock-in the Jewish vote in New York for 1948). Most American Jews are descendants of those who came during the age of immigration, not post-holocaust Jews, so there’s not a great influx of fresh understanding of the virulent anti-semitism in the rest of the world. While support for Israel was pretty strong among Jews through to the 1980s, it began eroding with the radical leftward tilt on colleges in the late 80s and 90s (and huge numbers of Arab Palestinian students in the US), so that nowadays, the vast majority of younger Jewish voters in the US (at least on the east coast) are actually anti-Israel.

In fact, the most anti-Israeli people I’ve known have all be liberal, Ivy-League Jews. The destruction of Israel by the Islamic terrorists would be the fulfillment of their dreams. It’s kind of like rebellion against their parents. No one in this day and age should be suprised by younger generation Jews wishing ill on Israel. In fact, you can count on it. Now, it may be that this will change when Obama reveals his and his followers’ radical anti-Semitism, but by then it may be too late.

That can’t possibly be true. If it is, then 15-20% of Republicans must have gone for Obama, which I highly doubt.

Uh oh. Looks like FL is having some voting “irregularities” again:

Orange Cty: 604,243 registered 834,811 votes cast = 100.0% turnout.

Direct from the source (reformatted). Orange County is basically Orlando City and Kissimmee.

Why in the heck are they reporting anything from FL yet? Did no one learn anything from 2000? Polls do not close until 8:00 PM. Under no conditions should any precinct’s numbers be reported by the Sec’y of State or the media. Un-freakin’-believable.

I was at that polling place in the late morning. Nothing going on at that time; the reality is, McCain will be lucky to get 5 votes in this division, which adjacent to the notorious Richard Allen Homes (one of the worst housing project in the United States for many decades). The thugs were obviously there to intimidate Republican watchers who, frankly, are not going to be there to protect the non-existent Republican voters in the division, but to keep tallies on the suspicious registrations and provisional ballots.

I don’t know what the ACORN registration fraud numbers were in Philadelphia, but assuming they were what they were elsewhere, this division would be one of the worst offenders. If there are a lot of provisional ballots, then the watchers were probably able to do their job, despite the intimidation. If there are few provisional ballots, it can safely be assumed that the watchers were not able to monitor the fraudulent votes and I would not be suprised to see more votes cast than legitimate registrations in the division when all is said and done—in other words, big time fraud.

Nevertheless, I do want to emphasize that there was no problem when I was there and the poll workers, though obviously sympathetic to Obama, seemed to be trying to do their job. How they reacted when the Black Panther dudes showed up is unknown. At least they made them stand outside.

Update from Philly. I was at about 40-50 polling places today (can’t get into details here, but let’s just say it was official). Turnout all over in South Philly, Center City, Northern Liberties, and Art Museum areas was historically high—as much as 3x 2004 in some places (though some of this simply represents population shifts within the city from one neighborhood to another). The polls close at 8PM, however and the real question is whether a lot of people who normally vote at night decided to use the excuse to get into work late by voting early.

At about 7AM, most polling places were doing very brisk business at opening. My theory is that the hype about turnout encouraged everyone to just go to work late and get there early, rather than vote after work and have to stand in line in the (predicted) rain till heaven knows when.

That said, there is no question that there will be very significant turnout in Philadelphia, easily one of the highest, if not the highest ever. Given that this is a 5-1 Dem registration advantage (and ~52% black population), this does not bode well for McCain-Palin in PA. Again, however, there was a significant drop-off after lunchtime and the question is whether the after work turnout will match the pre-work turnout.

I am not terribly concerned about the voting in black or student areas—they either don’t work (students) or have high elderly and unemployed (black areas), therefore their early turnout could simply balance out by the end of the day. It may also be balanced by after-work turnout in other districts later—though there is no question that turnout in west philadelphia and near north Philadelphia (100% black and Dem) will be historically high.

The other big issue, besides the employed-voter turnout, is who did the elderly Jewish voters in Society Hill and Center City vote for? These areas like Rittenhouse Square, and the co-ops on JFK Blvd happened to be the few polling places with any McCain signage at all that I saw in Center City (leaving aside the lone McCain signs occasionally seen in the projects).

I did not get into most of South Philly or the Northeast, but there is a “South Philly” ballot going around with McCain on top, Corbett for AG, then the rest local dems. I think South Philly may actually split, which would be good. It might even go for McCain, which would be a big problem for Obama (the South Philly wards have big populations). Don’t know anything about the river wards, other than Northern Liberties, which is pretty Dem these days.

So that’s it—does the elderly Jewish vote, South Philly and the Northeast counterbalance any of the huge Obama turnout (no other way to characterize it). We shall see. Most of South Philly and the Northeast (both largely white working class and some professionals) should be voting as we speak, if historical trends hold. Again, many may have decided to vote early rather than risk standing in the predicted rain (which so far as not really materialized).

Places like Chestnut Hill, Mt. Airy, etc. are out of my area, but these already had pretty good turnout stats for years, so the 60-40 or 70-30 split (D to R) will probably prevail and turnout not be much different than ‘04.

Conclusion: Obama obviously wins big in Philadelphia County and does take advantage of very high turnout, but the advantage, while greater than Kerry had in ‘04 is not as great as predicted. This means that the ring counties will be more important than Philadelphia (as McCain’s troops have been expecting). I cannot predict how PA will go, because I believe it will not depend on Philadelphia’s historically high turnout, which is the only thing I have direct knowledge of. Central and West PA will play a very big role, of course.

Thanks. I stand my what I wrote lo these many days ago.

Once again, the polls are all over the map—even state by state. Quinnipiac (sp?) had Obama up by 12 points in PA as recently as yesterday and their pollster was on KYW Newsradio as saying it’s over in PA. I knew that was BS, but didn’t think another poll would come out so soon to contradict it.

What I’ve read merely says that Butler ordered that women insulting Union troops be arrested as prostitutes. There’s no evidence I’ve seen that his troops went on a raping spree like the Russians typically did. There may be rumours to that effect in the South, but it’s not something that’s documented.

My wife and I were in Delco Saturday and I too noticed a lot more McCain signs than I remember seeing of Bush in 04. I also noticed quite a lot of McCain signs in Chesco as well on Sunday when I went out there.

Eagles this year? Pfft. Don’t get me started...

Woo Hoo!

I, for one, take LAT at their word that the person giving them the tape, did tell them that they not release it because, for various reasons, he would be exposed as the one releasing it and that his life or “cred” would be damaged as a result. In other words, the tape probably has someone saying, “yo, Abu’, man...let’s kill some Jews later” or something to that effect—a dead giveaway of the filmmaker. That Abuminah believes his own reputation in the Jew-killer community would be harmed if the tape were released is the real proof that the tape is not just very damaging to Obama, but to the entire AAAN enterprise.

This also leads to a presumption that it is not just damaging to Obama because he’s seated next to and yucking it up with Bill Ayers (which we now know is the case), but because Obama’s “testimonial” to Khalidi is likely more radical than anything Khalidi (an academic) himself would have said. In other words, I would bet that Obama didn’t just nod in agreement with an anti-Jewish polemic, but, in fact, gave one himself. Obama likely bemoaned the very existence of the Jewish state and he probably bordered or even ventured into outright anti-Semitism.

The fact is, we already know that Obama and Khalidi were friends. We already know that Ayers and Obama were friends. A tape showing Obama hugging Ayers and Khalidi or nodding in agreement with some radical sentiment would not be worth hiding these days—we all already know this. Obama is teflon and he just says, “well, these statements are not my statements and beliefs....just acquaintences of mine.” No, this is something far more serious. It is Obama himself talking like Wright, or Ayers. That’s why this tape cannot be seen; why it must be destoyed. I guarantee it.

If the tape still exists—and I believe it was destroyed long ago and the LAT refuses to admit it—then it must be procured by surreptitious means. The old fashioned way. Bribe the guards, bribe the archive attendants, bribe the reporter. Get the tape by hook or crook or have 10,000 show up at their doorstep and demand its release. It will never see the light of day any other way.