All posts by the_neuse_river_curmudgeon@nc.rr.com

ANOTHER PET PEEVE

Last night I mentioned how I don’t recognize most of the songs on Disney night on Idol. Tonight they had day two of Disney night and the five remaining singers sang two Disney songs each. And surprisingly I actually knew all but one. However the reason is because several were not Disney songs just because they showed up on the soundtrack of some Disney movie.

I believe that for Disney songs you should have to sing songs that were written for Disney movies. Not songs that were part of the soundtrack of some movie that I have never heard of. There are literally hundreds of great songs to choose from and so it’s ridiculous for anyone to choose something else. Tonight ‘Ain’t No mountain high enough’ and ‘Born to Be Wild’ plus one more song I forget were used as Disney songs. They all predated their Disney movies by decades.

I have no problem with the final three because I could support any of the final five. However it’s interesting that the final three is one black, one white and one woman.

IRAN AND A FEW OTHER THINGS

First I apparently extended this rant for three more years today automatically. I didn’t know that that would happen and it’s a little more expensive than before but what isn’t, and it’s well worth it to me for mental health reasons..Hopefully in three years I won’t become Magoo. I doubt that will be a problem because Magoo on his best day in his life was a small fraction of my intellect.

Next with respect to Iran, and although I screwed up a few things last week that I shouldn’t have because I’ve seen and either litigated or supervised the litigation of every part of the uranium enrichment cycle, I have still never read, heard or seen anyone point out what I did. Namely that there is zero reason that Iran would enrich uranium to the level they have except to get a nuclear weapon.

Next, I again feel old tonight because it was Disney night on Idol and I only knew two of the songs and that’s not because I had seen the movies. One was from the Lion King and the other was from Pocahontas and both were songs that became radio hits. Now to be fair I did see the live version of the Lion King at Disney World with the family.

And lastly I am thinking of turning off the comment option on my site. If I figure out how to do it. The reason is because Russian or Islamist bots are sending me 60 or more comments in Cyrillic or Arabic every day which I then have to delete and reporting them as spam is useless because they all have long names made up of letters and numbers and punctuation marks and then they just change a letter or reverse two letters or numbers and therefore they evade being spam. I don’t know why these idiots are targeting me but if you want to have the ability to comment on the site, please let me know.

QUESTION

Magoo has at least two multi million dollar mansions in Delaware which is a high tax state. He has an income of I believe $400K as a former president. How does he even cover his costs? The scam is over and no wants to pay him money to babble nonsense, The selling of access is over and he should end up bankrupt,

FOLLOW ON

I saw that a pundit thinks it would be even more cruel to be in imprisoned in some island 80 miles off of San Diego used by the Navy Seals and I believe that it’s not true. I stand by my Alcatraz rant. Imagine if you were a gambling addict and you had a choice of being incarcerated in an inescapable prison in the middle of nowhere and an inescapable prison ten miles outside of Las Vegas where you could see all the lights. Which would be more cruel?

GAIN OF FUNCTION

Today Trump banned gain of function research and people are now saying that gain of function research is really bio weapon research. I told you so several years ago, There is absolutely no reason to create a virus that doesn’t occur in nature for any scientific reason other than to create a bioweapon. Fauci needs to be in prison and be bankrupt.

ALCATRAZ

Ok Trump said he is going to get it back into business and I love it. Now before I get to my real point, I want to let you know about my familiarity with the place. A few of you may know this, but I searched it today and it hasn’t been on this site before. Now as you know I was born in San Francisco but never really lived there. I started traveling there because we had a regional office there and I went several times and never went to Alcatraz because it just wasn’t high on my list of places to visit. I had visited prisons when I was in law school and it just didn’t rank high on my list of things to do. But I brought my ex out with me before we were married and she wanted to go to Alcatraz and so on the first night we were there we were down at the waterfront and I took her to show her where she would catch the ferry to see it the next day when I was working. I was trying a national security case out there.

Anyway when we got to where the ferries were, there was a huge crowd and I asked a couple what was going on and they said that twice a year the National Park Service put on a night tour where they had people dressed up and playing the Birdman of Alcatraz and other famous inmates and I asked where I could get tickets and they told me that it was always sold out months in advance. However, another couple who was supposed to go with them couldn’t make it and they gave us the tickets gratis . And it was amazing.

Now the hook to today is that HFJ said on the Five that they shouldn’t send prisoners there because it’s too beautiful, and he couldn’t be more wrong. Not because it’s not beautiful, but because and I thought this when I was there, it would be torture to be a mile and a half from San Francisco and able to see it every night and see the lit up waterfront and skyline and know ecstasy was just out of reach.

San Francisco is incredibly beautiful from Alcatraz and especially at night. The night I was there there was a clear sky and a full moon sitting over the Transamerica pyramid. I took a picture which was incredible. However, when the film came back from developing, the only photo missing was that one and not even a bad negative. I’m certain that someone has made some serious money with that photo.

THE RETURN OF THE CACKLER

She’s back and nobody missed her. She is an idiot, has always been an idiot and will always be an idiot. I’m positive that her IQ is medium double digits at best. She walks on a stage and starts laughing and pointing at who knows what. I have never walked on a stage, and I’ve walked on many, and started laughing. It’s ridiculous.

Now I know that the common perception is that she’s drunk and maybe that’s true. But I have another take. She must be on nitrous oxide — laughing gas for those of you that don’t know — because she is just laughing at stuff that’s not funny. The elephants were not funny. Nobody who watched that laughed. There was nothing funny about it. They didn’t fall down or charge their enclosure. They just did what their DNA told them to do. It is no different than what musk oxen do when a predator approaches. They form a circle with all the big ones on the outside providing an impenetrable defense of the rest of the herd.

Kamala is only good for laughs, and while she continues to lead in the polls for the Dem nomination for president in 2028, please let that happen.

Now to change the subject, I will again address a pet peeve of mine. Tampon Tim continues to button his suit coat with his tie extending well beyond his coat. Notice that Trump never does that and he wears his tie long like I used to do. As I’ve said before if your tie shows below your jacket, it’s like you pulled up your zipper and left your dick hanging out. It’s just annoying.

A FEW THINGS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED

First I heard that when Obama was supposedly the deporter in chief, they counted people turned away at the border as deportees. Using that metric, Trump has deported millions.

Next I heard Clay Travis say that Trump has destroyed the msm ability to control the narrative.. Every day he either goes on Truth Social or holds an relatively early press conference and he sets the narrative for the day..The left is used to sending out their bat signals to gIve the talking points for the day, but because of Trump’s early narratives, they can’t do it.

And the last thing I saw is that the attacks on Tesla are actually being funded by people who did it to short sell Tesla and make a huge profit. Remember if you sold Tesla at the price before the nonsense and then bought it back at half the price you made a huge profit.

IRANIAN NUCLEAR

Let me say that I am hopeful that I’m going to educate you about Iran’s bullshit about its nuclear power program. First let me enlighten you and me about uranium enrichment. I should have known but believed that U-238 had to be enriched with U-235 to ten to twenty percent for a nuclear reactor, it appears that 3-5% is sufficient. I’ve seen articles supporting my original opinion and I apologize because I should know. I have been at the facilities where the enrichment occurs. But my point is that regardless of how much enrichment is required for Iran’s supposed nuclear energy program, it’s not 60% or higher. It takes 90%+ to reach weapons grade. There’s zero reason for Iran to be enriching uranium to the levels they are except for a nuclear weapon.

And I want to point out another thing that no one seems to be discussing. Iran has at this point one nuclear power plant that may not be operational. They have more than enough nuclear material to power many nuclear power plants and they aren’t doing it. Also any nuclear power plants they have or plan need to be on the Persian Gulf because they are a desert and I don’t believe that they have the required cooling water anywhere else. And the vast majority of the country is a long way from the Persian Gulf.

So what’s my point? First Iran is enriching uranium way beyond what’s needed for nuclear power, and so Trump must not allow them to have any enrichment capability in an agreement. They can’t be trusted because they have never complied with any deal that they made. And second they have already proven that they are not interested in a nuclear power program because they are enriching uranium way beyond the level necessary for a nuclear power plant.

BTW the reason you keep hearing about centrifuges is because U-238 is by atomic number heavier than U-235 and so would separate from the lighter isotope.