Amendment to previous post:

I know of two possibly viable heath insurance reform plans, viable in the sense that they might work. One is Karl Denninger's here;

https://market-ticker.org/akcs...

The other one is basically Medicare for all Paid For with a 20% VAT. Note the VAT solves the tariff problem too since the WTO does not consider a VAT to be a tariff. So the price of everything other than rice and beans goes up 20% but health care is now covered and insurance companies are wiped out which is good riddance.

Disclaimer, I have my own feud in progress with the poorly named WellCare.

Sadly the Democratic Party does not have working economic or Health Care policy either. Nor can the Democratic Party govern. Letting repeat criminals out time and time again certainly doesn't help. See Iryna Zarutska and this very recent case in Seattle. Note that no guns were used either time.

"Fale Pea, 42, is charged with first-degree assault, which includes a deadly weapon enhancement. Pea was armed with a wooden board that had a screw through one end and used it to strike Jeanette Marken in the face, according to charges filed in King County Superior Court.

The hit gouged out Marken's eye, and doctors have told her she will not recover her eyesight in the affected eye."

Remember the howling about the tiny cuts DOGE made? Imagine the howling that would ensue if they went about Really fixing the deficit. 1.7 trillion dollar deficit, 170 million working Americans. That comes out to an extra $10,000 per year in taxes per worker. Can you afford it?

No I don't know what the answer is. I'm not sure what the answer might be except that there isn't one single solution to the collection of problems we have.

As far as measles go ignore the news media's fear mongering. I had them, my brother had them, my friends all had them, my relatives all had them. No one died, no one went to the hospital. The measles will knock you on your ass for a week, you'll be wearing sunglasses to go to the bathroom although I understand photophobia is not a universal symptom, then you'll be fine.

It's going to take ten years to fix the mess Biden made in four. The current judicial habit of letting the felons go early if they were incarcerated at all isn't helping.

One example, note the article is sanitized to avoid mentioning race and prior convictions. The news media is complicit in the problem.

"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqZyz-Hr0Rk"

Fale Pea, 42, is charged with first-degree assault, which includes a deadly weapon enhancement. Pea was armed with a wooden board that had a screw through one end and used it to strike Jeanette Marken in the face, according to charges filed in King County Superior Court.

The hit gouged out Marken's eye, and doctors have told her she will not recover her eyesight in the affected eye."

The country is awash in fentanyl. I don't know who is using it but it's moving by the ton. We should put a sign at the border "Closed for reconstruction."

Harbin was once mostly Russian also in the last 150 years. The border moved a few times.

The issue seems to be the car got confused and just stopped in the middle of the road. It should have pulled over to the side and waited for normal operations to resume. That should be fairly easy to fix assuming it can handle a four way stop sign.situation.

That's not an issue, a cooling tower or pond would work as well. The S1W prototype reactor was out in the Idaho sagebrush lands and had a cooling pond.

I was a trainee there and then went back as an instructor. The A1W and S5G prototype reactors were on the same site.

Yes they are quite safe. They also run on highly enriched uranium. Space is rather important on a submarine so a small reactor is important.

There are a hundred S5W reactors plants buried in Hanford. The S6G reactors from the 688 class boats are being decommissioned at the moment. They have twice the power capacity.

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The Wikipedia articles used to be more informative but I suppose that someone from the Navy checks up on them and dumbs them down from time to time.

As it should be. The globalist mantra of buy everything from somewhere else only looks good from the tallest of ivory towers. Outside the university it's a race to the bottom.

"Keep your eye on the target at hand. What is the justification for WIND FARM cutoffs,"

You missed the point. Wind farms obstruct the radar horizon. There is your justification. The rest was me admittedly rambling a bit just as your original post did. Things have changed and the last time things changed that fast battleships sank in large numbers before people realized the rules had changed. Something similar is happening now.

Your faith in satellites is touching. The Russians have lots of satellites. They are not helping the ground action. They did not protect the Black Sea Fleet. They are not protecting merchant shipping in the Black Sea. They do not hover in one spot continuously unless too far from earth to give good pictures, and if you do point a big enough telescope at the earth to see something at geosynchronous orbit the field is view is tiny. Basic physics.

Oh, banning drone imports was not covered in anything I said, but letting adversaries run fleets of drones in your airspace does not seem like a good idea. Even unarmed drones can cause trouble. A small bird whacking you in the shoulder at 60 MPH is quite a distraction. I know that from personal experience.

For that matter, how much C4 (or whatever) was in the pagers the Mossad handed out to Hezbollah? Combine that with drones and think of the disruption that would result in a city full of delivery drones as the drones start crashing into traffic. Now I'm off topic again.

All those things could be true, but there is a threat that needs to be evaluated. Satellites are very easy to dodge as everyone and their mothers knows where they are and where they are going at any given time. The Soviets moved entire divisions while the satellites were elsewhere, and did massive war games when the satellites were overhead only to tow the broken down tanks to new locations for the next pass. They were masters of the art of satellite spoofing.

Anyway, given a few Ukrainian drones have proven capable of sterilizing the Black Sea of surface ships I suspect the Pentagon isn't feeling very secure right now. The Houthis chased off an aircraft carrier last year. Drones had better have the military brass spooked.

One solution could be to put a radar unit on the towers just under the lower blade height to provide an uncluttered view to sea. But hanging military hardware on civilian infrastructure makes it an instant target not that it isn't already. Another question, do you really want and important part of your energy generation way out at the edge of your defensive zone? You don't even have to hit it, get close and the shock wave will snap a blade off. Durable they are not.

Speaking of drones, you might review the damage the kamikazes did in WWII. The AI claims "Kamikaze attacks during WWII sank approximately 34 to 47 Allied ships and heavily damaged hundreds more, with the most intense activity around Okinawa resulting in 26 ships sunk and 168 damaged, killing nearly 5,000 U.S. sailors and wounding thousands more in the fiercest naval battle in U.S. history"

Details here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Now imagine how much worse it will be today. I'm a submariner and got to be on a designated target. The 1980 Mark 48 was already a bitch to evade. It hasn't gotten any better. Now they are too smart to be fooled by a noisemaker. Drones are not as new as people think, but they are smaller.

Neither the West nor Russia has found a defense against drones as of yet. If they had the war in Ukraine would have ended by now. This technology is changing even faster than aircraft in the 1930s. "Aircraft can't carry weapons large enough to to sink a capital ship."; Taranto, Pearl Harbor; "Aircraft can't sink a fully manned ship steaming at sea with modern antiaircraft defenses."; Three days after Pearl Harbor Force Zed goes bloop and we end up at "Battleships shall not venture forth without aircraft carrier escorts."

Even worse, the Zero went from air supremacy in 1941 to flying coffin in 1944. Exciting times have returned.

Oil platforms don't have large rotating parts generating radar returns. You must have noticed the sudden increase in the capabilities of drones in the last few years.

Your comment is the one that lacks logic.

Really?

What a difference two extra letters make.

They would post this during a snowstorm. It's only the second one this winter though and it is December.

The woodstove is going having been kindled with the still bounteous supply of junk mail.

The change at the glacial margin was a lot quicker.

Consider a 5000 foot thick icesheet. 90% melts and its still 500 feet thick. Nothing has really changed. Now melt off another 5%, it's now only 250 feet thick and the tops of hills are poking out. Birds land on the bare hill tops and poop out seeds and the wind blows in more. From there the rest proceeds very rapidly.

Read the Pielou book. It was really interesting.

There is a lot of literature on start and stop of the Younger Dryas too. Neither event was gradual.

Imagine what it was like as the Wisconsin glaciation began to melt off. The ice retreated from Manhattan, the Missoula and Bonneville floods were about to start. Exciting times indeed.

As for the ecosystem changes, go to the library and read After the Ice Age by EC Pielou. Life went storming north after 100,000 years after hiding out anywhere it could.