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So I open a thread on how Rick Perry is slated to be the steward of our vast national security complex "dedicated to developing, maintaining, refurbishing and safely keep the nation's nuclear stockpile; combatting nuclear proliferation and maintaining and rebuilding nuclear production facilities" as well as national labs, widely "considered the crown jewels of government science" and what do I find? A string of cheap political pot shots. And not overly clever ones at that.
Now I realize Rick Perry doesn't have a clue. I've seen him on Dancing With the Stars and watched the debate where he stated he wanted to close down this agency that provides oversight of our nuclear arsenal.
But to be fair, he likely wasn't aware of the DOE's mission and responsibilities when he advocated closing it down.
NYT reports that when accepting the nomination to be Energy Secretary, he believed he was "taking on a role as a global ambassador for the American oil and gas industry."
Words fail here, so I'll move along.
Even if you are posting from some other part of the world. Say, for example, a part that is trying to destabilize the U.S. over social media. You can't honestly believe that having this cheerleader with an Ag degree in charge of keeping us from having a nuclear mishap is in the best interest of anybody on the planet.
Even if you're eagerly anticipating the Rapture, do you want to go this way?
Last edited by GotHereQuickAsICould; 01-19-2017 at 06:18 AM..
So I open a thread on how Rick Perry is slated to be the steward of our vast national security complex "dedicated to developing, maintaining, refurbishing and safely keep the nation's nuclear stockpile; combatting nuclear proliferation and maintaining and rebuilding nuclear production facilities" as well as national labs, widely "considered the crown jewels of government science" and what do I find? A string of cheap political pot shots. And not overly clever ones at that.
Now I realize Rick Perry doesn't have a clue. I've seen him on Dancing With the Stars and watched the debate where he stated he wanted to close down this agency that provides oversight of our nuclear arsenal.
But to be fair, he likely wasn't aware of the DOE's mission and responsibilities when he advocated closing it down.
NYT reports that when accepting the nomination to be Energy Secretary, he believed he was "taking on a role as a global ambassador for the American oil and gas industry."
Words fail here, so I'll move along.
Even if you are posting from some other part of the world. Say, for example, a part that is trying to destabilize the U.S. over social media. You can't honestly believe that having this cheerleader with an Ag degree in charge of keeping us from having a nuclear mishap is in the best interest of anybody on the planet?
Even if you're eagerly anticipating the Rapture, do you want to go this way?
"So I open a thread on how Rick Perry is slated.....and what do I find? A string of cheap political pot shots."
And what do you call these, High PRAISE?
" Mr. Perry studied animal husbandry and led cheers at Texas A&M University."
"Really makes ya sleep comfortably at night, with trump's pick at the helm of all this, doesn't it?"
"Goes along with the GOP plan to allow the Koch brothers to run the country.
If you are going to complain about "political cheap shots" DO NOTT POST THEM YOURSELF. Cheesh!
As to to getting a dig in at Obama for going along with spending $1 trillion over the next 30 years to upgrade our nuclear facilities.
If Ernest J. Moniz (former chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics department and director of the linear accelerator at M.I.T.’s Laboratory for Nuclear Science), and Steven Chu (a physicist who won a Nobel Prize) say we need to spend $1 trillion over the next 30 years to keep our nuclear arsenal safe, I say that's a good investment.
After all, the "wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost U.S. taxpayers nearly $5 trillion so far, and that total could rise even higher in the years to come..."
So I open a thread on how Rick Perry is slated to be the steward of our vast national security complex "dedicated to developing, maintaining, refurbishing and safely keep the nation's nuclear stockpile; combatting nuclear proliferation and maintaining and rebuilding nuclear production facilities" as well as national labs, widely "considered the crown jewels of government science" and what do I find? A string of cheap political pot shots. And not overly clever ones at that.
Now I realize Rick Perry doesn't have a clue. I've seen him on Dancing With the Stars and watched the debate where he stated he wanted to close down this agency that provides oversight of our nuclear arsenal.
But to be fair, he likely wasn't aware of the DOE's mission and responsibilities when he advocated closing it down.
NYT reports that when accepting the nomination to be Energy Secretary, he believed he was "taking on a role as a global ambassador for the American oil and gas industry."
Words fail here, so I'll move along.
Even if you are posting from some other part of the world. Say, for example, a part that is trying to destabilize the U.S. over social media. You can't honestly believe that having this cheerleader with an Ag degree in charge of keeping us from having a nuclear mishap is in the best interest of anybody on the planet?
Even if you're eagerly anticipating the Rapture, do you want to go this way?
I don't see how anyone can be satisfied with this choice, he really didn't know what his responsibilities were and that is the fault of not only him but his handlers. The fact that the 2 people preceding him had physics PhDs should have made him ask some questions particularly since Moniz was directly involved in the Iran nuclear deal. Now why would we need physics PhD's to promote oil and gas, does that make any sense at all, and why we would even be promoting that to the world is entirely another question.
Congress should demand minimum standards for these positions, this one reminds me putting Michael Brown in charge of FEMA when his prior experience was training Arabian Horses.
As to to getting a dig in at Obama for going along with spending $1 trillion over the next 30 years to upgrade our nuclear facilities.
If Ernest J. Moniz (former chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics department and director of the linear accelerator at M.I.T.’s Laboratory for Nuclear Science), and Steven Chu (a physicist who won a Nobel Prize) say we need to spend $1 trillion over the next 30 years to keep our nuclear arsenal safe, I say that's a good investment.
After all, the "wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost U.S. taxpayers nearly $5 trillion so far, and that total could rise even higher in the years to come..."
It would be better to look down and not step in it along with the rest of the crap the left pulls out of its collective a**.
Perry did make himself look ignorant here BUT the solution is to not ***** when the other guy looks ignorant, the solution is to hold your guy accountable when they do ignorant things.
Could be worse. He could put an unemployed housewife with no management, executive or diplomatic experience in charge of the State Department. We saw how that turned out.
Last edited by Toyman at Jewel Lake; 01-19-2017 at 07:03 AM..
$1 Trillion for nuclear weapons. $1 trillion while people are still going without health care. That is the basis of the issue. It's why Trump is in a position to appoint Perry (who I never did like in any office).
Obama went back on promise after promise after promise and very few held him accountable for those actions. Those like myself who see this as everything that is wrong with politics refused to vote to see another term of this.
Hillary lost and Trump won. Now he makes his picks. Not only do elections have consequences, so do actions or lack thereof.
And hopefully the new energy secretary doesn't get hoodwinked by Iran like the current one did.
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