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Hey Bill, where do I fall on the issue?

We have a winner!

It would appear that something French was thrust down that poser's pie hole shortly thereafter....

feel free to enligthen me then - i've heard the term before but don't know much, other than that they're supposed to penetrate body-armor - what is such ammo, how is it different from other types, and why/why not shoudl it be banned? PM sent LOL

As much as I love to insult you at times, you do come up with some fuckin' funny shit....

Fair enough.

Read the responses to any news story about the shooting. Tea baggers are not only completely unapologetic; they rail against even the slightest criticism of their violent rhetoric and actions to date. Inability to be influenced, even by extreme events, is a reliable diagnostic indicator of sociopathy.

Victory for the locals

Still replying to this nobody's every post LOL.

How does Chernobyl speak to the future of nuclear power? The lesson that we should not build reactors like Chernobyl or TMI, for that matter, has been well learned at this point.

If you think I'm going to defend the clusterfuck that was the American nuclear program.... Fortunately, we have at least one functioning model that we can copy. I don't have a bullshit scale for comparison, but suffice to say that the anti nuke movement has been no slouch in the misinformation department. BTW, 20% of the American grid is supplied by nuclear. It never went away.

Probably about as much as you two hang on and respond to my posts, and sheeit, and I'm not even famous or good looking.... "Where's my COP KILLER answer!!!!!!??????" LOL

Oh...OK, Chernobyl was 'covered up'. My recollection was that it's been one of the most scrutinized, studied, and publicized industrial accidents, if not THE MOST, in history. The 'huge areas' claim is pure crap. Sorry. TMI produced...no cancer deaths. None. The New Yorker has a very good article (within the past year) on the evacuation and closure of Uravan, a U mining town in CO, that covers a lot of the mis information put out there by the anti nuke movement.

Think Palin's a nobody? Well, that nobody (despite her not having a snowballs chance for any nomination) probably just handed the presidency to Obama in 2012. This political assassination, quite rare in American politics, particularly against congressmen, will loom large in voters minds during the coming months. That is my prediction. We'll see.

Gang-rape is always smart and funny, right? Democrat violent rhetoric = Smart and funny Republican violent rhetoric - Mui Mal! UM, Sandra is an comedian, not a politician or political pundit. That you're calling her a Democrat highlights the complete lack of GOP condemnation of Palin's lunacy. Both side should be condemning Palin's antics. Only one side is, however. Palin's a vote getter...sociopathy and fascism are apparently OK with the GOP as long as they get some votes. And yes, that statement when applied to Ms. Palin is funny. It's classic political satire - turning Palin's brand of bullshit back on her. I realize that such parody isn't picked up by people afflicted with conservative brain syndrome, however. I'm just glad I don't have to spend my life walking down that narrow, poorly lit intellectual corridor. Oh, and you can do your own googling on cop killer bullets, you fucking lump.

Did you even bother to read the article? I wasn't implying that was a chief reason - one of many. But yea - it is a factor because the French have folks in leadership positions who actually understand the technology and can discuss it with their people - and the people appaear to appreciate and respect folks with knowledge about the subject. Thus they understand the tradeoffs and are making fully informed decisions. OK, sorry. The French do seem to have a far superior public policy making process, considering the undeniable superiority of both their grid, public transportation, and health care system over our clusterfuck attempts at the same.

the French program is no cleaner than anybody else, except the Russian program of course. The French haven't had a major problem but they had numerous small leaks that were hidden from the public, like everybody else. In term of the centralization needed to control the risk involved in a a nuclear program, civilian programs have little to envy to military programs. Climate change is not a valid reason to develop a nuclear program that entails risks much greater than renewable energy like solar, wind, hydrothermal, etc ...Especially, that nuclear centrals need river water to cool, which was notoriously a problem during the 2003 heat wave when river waters became so warm (due to heat wave and cooling reactors) as to threaten river ecosystems. Since summer heat waves are supposed to ~double in frequency over the past, it seems to be something we take into account. Finally, the costs involved in nuclear (including liability) are likely greater than that of clean energy programs as shown by having few private investors willing to invest in developing plants. Considering that TMI and Chernobyl, the worst nuclear accidents in history, could hardly be classified as major disasters, what have been the actual consequences of these 'numerous small leaks?'. I'd wager...little to nothing. Legal costs for nuclear are an American problem related to our combined commercial/military program and are completely solvable. Not an argument against the technology, sorry: the French have proven that already. Intermittent power generation is fine, but only if combined with a steady power source. When one considers the life cycle cost of wind generation, it's far from 'free' - windmills last less than 20 years and have an enormous amount of embodied energy, particularly when one considers decommissioning them (they are typically left up to rot, of course...taking up a valuable land and wind generation space in addition to being an eyesore). Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it. Distributed passive solar water and building heat is awesome, PV is pretty much bullshit when you consider the life cycle and resource limitation of the materials involved to make the panels. It's great for wealthy off the grid homes, remote weather stations, and satellites, and calculators, though. That leaves hydro - yeah, we needn't go into the environmental/life cycle issues there at this point, I hope. This is all assuming a robust, comprehensive conservation program, of course. Visiting the oil sands pretty much sold me on nuclear for life. We need transport powered by the grid, plain and simple.

Yup. Obviously, the 'prestige of engineers', and easily measureable and repeatable...um...would that be a quantity or quality?...anyway, I'm sure that's the only reason why 80% of French power is generated by nukes. It couldn't possibly have anything to do with the efficacy of that choice, in terms of efficiency, cost, and environmental concerns. It's all about how the French 'admire engineers more than lawyers'. If engineers weren't as respected, France would clearly be burning coal. Yor posts are usually be less of a stretch than this, Jim.

I disagree that 'intellectual conservatives' are on board with Palin's agenda...it's just that such conservatives are, for all intents and purposes, long extinct. The GOP, in its 'party of the big tent' philosophy, ie, 'we'll take anybody, not matter how insane or violent', the party has long since lost its core values. Can any Rfucks here actually state what the party's core values are these days? Help me out here. The Democratic parties core values have always been easily summarized and have remained essentially unchanged, in contrast: the boring, middle class values of fairness, compassion for those less fortunate, educational opportunities for all, and social liberalism (not carrying what the gays next door are doing on a Saturday night), and separation of church and state.

I'm more of a Sarah Silverman kind of guy, but Sandra is awesome as well. There are guys who go for smart, funny, irreverent women, and guys who can't handle that kind of thing.

Yes, I'm sure your sources are completely unbiased, unlike mine. Industry organizations, like it or not, tend to have the most accurate information regarding exploration and proven reserves for the resources they report on. Feel free to check your own sources, of course. As uranium is ubiquitous and common, there are many other extraction alternatives, including directly from sea water, that have seen only rudimentary experimentation. When you consider that a (French style) nuke plant will give you 60 years+ of service producing clean power using inexpensive and plentiful fuel that requires only relatively small mining operations (as compared to any fossil fuel), I think it clearly deserves a second look by America's environmental movement.

She's the de facto spokesperson for the tea baggers, a major, pseudo fascist political movement. Whether or not tea bagger leaders agree with that claim is, for the most part, irrelevant. Can anyone else name anyone else in the tea bagger leadership that even comes close to the influence Palin has? Congratulations, Baggers! Nice hire!

I was pointing out that peak uranium might be not too far off and it'll get a lot more expensive when we have to mine and refine low grade ore. 80 years is 'not too far off?' That's with a fairly lax exploration program. http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf75.html

Read the responses to any news story about the shooting. Tea baggers are not only completely unapologetic; they rail against even the slightest criticism of their violent rhetoric and actions to date. Inability to be influenced, even by extreme events, is a reliable diagnostic indicator of sociopathy.