CommentsDisplaying Jimmy Chowda's 10 most recent comments.

• Glenn Beck Unveils ‘Anonymous for Good’

  January 24, 2012 at 8:47pm

  In reply to TTEXASTYLER.

  Great, do I now have to worry about the hacker group stealing my credit card info from the GBTV database? They hacked Sony and gave out info of thousands from their “secure servers”. ANON gets easily offended when their alleged ideas are plagiarized, much less their name and motif.

• Gingrich Flashback: ‘Progressive’ FDR Was ‘Greatest President of the 20th Century’ (Plus – SEIU’s Andy Stern Is Visionary Union Leader!)

  December 13, 2011 at 9:01am

  In reply to Jay Jay.

  Romney is not a career politician, but not by choice. :)

• Gingrich Flashback: ‘Progressive’ FDR Was ‘Greatest President of the 20th Century’ (Plus – SEIU’s Andy Stern Is Visionary Union Leader!)

  December 13, 2011 at 8:59am

  Some of that can be excused as the term “progressive” didn’t make a comeback in reference to a political until last decade.

  However, FDR had his lawyers on the House floor in the first months of his term writing laws on the spot which were passed because they “seemed professional”. I get the feeling Newt champions that kind of “effectiveness”.

• Holy Cow! Get a Load of These Major League Ticket Prices!

  September 24, 2011 at 3:28pm

  The Patriots joined the AFL in 1960 and came over in the merger. “1980” was a misprint.

• AP Claims to Find ‘Factual Stretches’ in GOP Debate

  September 13, 2011 at 9:07am

  I like how a lot of the facts are the reporter’s opinions.

• Governor Christie Evacuates Jersey Shore: ‘Get the Hell Off the Beach…You‘ve Maximized Your Tan’

  August 27, 2011 at 8:22am

  In reply to lonewolf57.

  I like this approach better than drawing off federal funds a day before the storm even hits them.

• AP Asks: Are Military Pensions Too ‘Generous’?

  August 19, 2011 at 9:16am

  I spent just over 10 years in the navy, have always been for a strong military, but I think the military needs to move away from the direct benefit retirement program it has. Maybe provide a lump-sum to their THRIFT savings plan at 20 years (more for each year over 20) starting with those entering the military today. Heck, make some of the bonuses they get throughout their careers go to THRIFT before tax.

  The point is EVERYONE should be going to a direct contribution retirement plan, including the military. Retirees get healthcare as it is. Getting rid of the number of retirees who draw a paycheck, many for twice the time they spent in the military, is a responsible move.

• Top Japanese Official Warns of Fresh Nuclear Blast Risk

  March 13, 2011 at 8:58pm

  Not a nuclear explosion, impossible for a shutdown reactor. Chernobyl was the result of criminally negligent shutdown maintenance performed on an operating reactor, inserting an insane amount of positive reactivity. That was a nuclear explosion, which caused a real meltdown. This “meltdown” is in the form of core damage, extremely unlikely to melt through the reactor vessel.

  Seawater is near last on a very, very long list of decay heat cooling methods. It pretty much wrecks the core for further use. They are also putting in bromide, a reactivity poison which will prevent any kind of fission were the fuel get exposed to conditions to cause fission again.

  The reports are extremely confusing if you don’t have experience in the field. The people issuing some of the statements don’t seem to have a clue. Others, like the “concerned scientists” are intentionally inciting panic. One from England writes nothing but papers on why we should build massive amounts of windmills.

• Update: Radiation Around Japan Nuke Plant DECREASES After Explosion

  March 12, 2011 at 5:50pm

  Former navy nuclear reactor operator here.

  THE NUCLEAR PLANT DID NOT EXPLODE!!!!

  First off, the physics of the fuel matrix does not allow for a nuclear explosion. Second, this is dangerous buildup of decay heat we are talking about here, not nuclear fission which stopped when the plant shut down. Based on my experience, the explosion could have been caused by one of two things:

  1. High concentrations of hydrogen if they tried to restore the battery.

  2. High concentrations of hydrogen and/or oxygen when they were venting off the reactor (gases come quickly out of water when they undergo a sharp pressure drop to atmosphere).

  I’ve read reports that it was the second one. And don’t think they just open up some huge valve and it dumps tons of radioactive steam. The core is likely isolated, in a saturated condition, and the valve operation is done quickly for pressure relief.

  What it seems has happened is plant #1 had fuel damage which is horrible from a financial standpoint, but can be managed from an environmental standpoint.