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DEL.ICIO.USNuclear power makes sense on all levels
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Drive through a pine thicket in rural Burke County and two markings suddenly appear, spray-painted in bright surveyor’s-tape green, a few feet apart. If all goes well, this spot of ground on 3,150 acres near Augusta will within a decade be the epicenter of a third nuclear reactor, a key element in America’s drive for energy independence.
Nearby will be a fourth — if the numbers work and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves the application by Southern Co.’s nuclear power subsidiary, Southern Nuclear Operating Co., to construct two reactors a short distance from the two that have operated safely at Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro for almost 20 years.
To jump-start the industry, which has been skittish for decades because of concern about regulatory obstacles and the willingness of the investment community to take risks on nuclear energy, especially when natural gas appeared to be readily available and cheap, Congress offered incentives. The first two nuclear plants constructed will be eligible for generous tax credits, loan guarantees and insurance protection against delays caused by litigation or the licensing process. The next four would qualify for lesser subsidies.
“There’s a reason there are 25 nuclear applications on the table today when there were six a year ago,” said U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) during a visit to this newspaper Wednesday. “And it is that you can do things by reducing the regulatory burden” and by offering incentives that attract private capital. “There’s no emissions, no global warming, no side effects to it, it’s equally safe and per kilowatt hour is as cheap or cheaper” than alternatives, so “capital will flow there once we reduce the regulatory burden.”
Part of the skittishness, too, is that Vogtle was under construction when the partial meltdown occurred at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island in 1979. As a result of shutdowns, design changes prompted by new regulations and other delays, construction stretched to some 14 years and the costs ballooned to $8.87 billion. Its projected cost before Three Mile Island was $600 million. The two units at Plant Hatch near Baxley came on line in 1975 and 1979 and cost about $1 billion.
In the decades since Three Mile Island, design and technology have changed. As one example, the partial meltdown there occurred because several water coolant pumps failed, causing the reactor to overheat. Now, gravity drops the cooling water, replacing the pumping system that failed at Three Mile Island.
Design and construction now are much more standardized, and while as many as 13,000 construction workers were employed in building Vogtle, now about 30-40 percent of the proposed new facilities would be built in modules off site and shipped in, reducing the on-site work force to 1,500 to 2,000.
Safety, though, has not been a question for some time. The issue has been permanent disposal of spent fuel, which is now stored underwater on site at Vogtle. The obvious site is Yucca Mountain in Nevada, where it could be stored a thousand feet below ground. The site has been studied since 1978, and because of objections by environmentalists and politicians, it’s not scheduled to begin accepting spent fuel from the 104 operating nuclear plants until 2017.
“It’s the most studied piece of real estate known to man,” says Lou Long, technical support vice president of Southern Nuclear in Birmingham. Utilities’ customers have paid $20 billion — $90 million by Georgia Power customers alone — to develop Yucca Mountain for storage, $14 billion of which has been spent on studies.
Clearly the nation does need to move promptly to get back into the nuclear power business in a major way. In France, 78.1 percent of electricity comes from nuclear. It’s cheap, clean, safe and efficient. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Belgium gets 55.1 percent, Japan 29.3 and the United States 19.9. About three-fourths of this nation’s emission-free power generation comes from nuclear.
Georgia Power adds 40,000 customers per year, and that’s about half the new customers coming online in Georgia yearly. The two 1,200-megawatt reactors at Vogtle alone generate about 11 percent of its electric-power needs.
The nation has been timid too long. Company officials have made no decision yet on whether to add the two reactors at Vogtle. The correct decision, for Georgia and for the nation, is yes. Build.
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By Natalie
August 26, 2006 08:05 AM | Link to this
Yucca Mountain has been downgraded to “dwarf butte”, making it totally unsuitable for a waste dump.
As far as France goes, we Americans call it, “freedom fission”. I speet on French enrichment programs.
Whatever we do, people, dont show this article to Iran.
Ixnay on the eacefulpay useway of ookyoularnay energyway.
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 08:08 AM | Link to this
Whats wrong with the peaceful development of enriching kudzu as our energy fuel?
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 08:12 AM | Link to this
I feel much better about the possibility of a radiation spill after Mr. Wooten’s assurances that, “Safety has not been a question for some time.”
Thanks for the hi-tech data rundown on that one, sir.
I’m totally convinced. It’s safe and we can eat off of spent fuel rods. Why, I’m even considering using one for my next colonoscopy.
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 08:15 AM | Link to this
Like the China Syndrome, nuclear plants will be built at the rate of one every half hour (around the world).
I certainly hope they’re safe.
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 08:31 AM | Link to this
“Two mile island was bad enough. Three mile island nearly wiped out the entire eastern seaboard. If there’s a four mile island, and the gamma rays get into the earth’s magma, we’ll never stop it, it’ll keep coming and coming till we’re surrounded. Our society depends on us burning only cow pies for energy. Otherwise we’re finished”. (Richard Widmark, The Ox Bow Incident 1955)
By G
August 26, 2006 08:33 AM | Link to this
Nuclear waste can remain dangerous for more than four times the length of all of recorded human history. We’ve never solved the disposal problem, even after nearly a half-century of trying. Any one who says we have is lying or has swallowed the nuclear-power industry propaganda.
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 08:38 AM | Link to this
G thinks you’ve been drinking the glow-in-the-dark Koolaid, Mr. Wooten. (Do they let you bring that on a plane?)
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 08:49 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten, the moron filter-screen I sold you is working perfectly on the blog today.
By Morticia
August 26, 2006 08:51 AM | Link to this
Everything we attempt is only going to slow down the inevitable. Have you all hugged someone you love today?
Why don’t we just demand that noone is allowed to have children and hope that solves our energy problem.
Wait, that wouldn’t work because Muslims are amongst the fastest growing population to date, and it’s a breeding ground for young buds into full flowers of radical Islam, an invasive weed.
Eradicate the weeds now or leave the garden to wither and die.
BTW, I’m in favor of nuclear power & enhanced national security.
By Morticia
August 26, 2006 08:56 AM | Link to this
Dang mailman was late in his delivery.
Off to do something of utmost importance. Hug someone I love.
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 09:00 AM | Link to this
D’oh!
By Markus
August 26, 2006 09:09 AM | Link to this
Well I was awoken by the nutty background chatter of someone talking amongst themselves again.
Hoy Morbid Morticia, nice link. You should like this one even better, liberal.
Apparently we conservatives don’t have to do much. You minions are doing it to yourselves. Sweet Saturday morning to my ears.
By Captain Freedom
August 26, 2006 09:10 AM | Link to this
Sen. Frist is to be commended for his visionary analysis of the energy situation. However, one of his remarks bears criticism…He points out the nuclear power does not cause global warming. This is of course silly for him to say. There is no such thing as global warming, everyone knows that. The science is clear. Global warming is a fiction perpetrated by the eco-jihadists like Gore the Loser, a cudgel swung by those who hate America.
If Dr. Frist is prone to speak of global warming as though it were fact, perhaps he is actually part of a sleeper cell of eco-jihadists?
By Markus
August 26, 2006 09:26 AM | Link to this
You know, the love the liberals and envirowhacks have for France and other nations in Europe is big. These people want America to follow their models of socialism. They want America to have a “living wage” for all; for America’s companies to offer months off with paid time for family issues; they want outlandish six week vacations for all (no mention if said liberals have a problem with France’s 25% unemployment rate for those under age 25); they want more urban housing and less suburban sprawl; they want everyone to ditch their cars ala Ted Kennedy (sans any interns that may be laying around); they want everyone to share the same lifestyle like Cuba, where nobody is rich and nobody is poor and everyone has the “same amount of stuff.” OH that’s giving me liberal feel-good goosebumps all over. Somebody get me a Puffs, I think I’m going to emotionalize myself to cry…
So what’s missing from this puzzle? What does the left NOT mention that’s so great about France and other European nations? Hark? What’s that? These liberals and enviroweenies don’t mention anything about Europe’s nuclear production? Anybody? Anybody?
Say what? An MIT study published in 2003 said we could have electricity production at $.042/kWh which is comparable to our current coal-fired facilities with NO coal carbon byproduct? Well, I guess those cherrypicking liberals don’t like everything about Europe afterall.
By Markus
August 26, 2006 09:39 AM | Link to this
Hey Private Freedom:
“There is no such thing as global warming, everyone knows that.”
No sarcasm breath, most people accept global warming as fact. Why evev grade school science textbooks say that the earth has a history of warming and cooling like ice ages coming andd going about every 10,000 years (gee, what caused that ice to melt every time?).
What’s at issue is WHAT is causing global warming. Perhaps we should look at Mars’ polar ice caps melting. We’d better do it quick before either Halliburton sets up shop up their or it gets demoted to a useless rock. Hell we can’t even forecast where hurricanes are going to hit, yet we are supposed to know that the suburban soccermom’s SUV is causing fish to die in the Black Sea. Ah yes, the wonderful world of overemotionalism of liberalism.
By @@
August 26, 2006 09:53 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten: I’ve often been amazed by how environmentalists would oppose something like nuclear energy when it clearly meets all the requirements they demand.
Liberals ignore the progress of safety within the nuclear industry and use security as the reason for their concern. They then undermine our national security on a daily basis.
They’re a confusing bunch, those extreme left-wing liberals.
By Markus
August 26, 2006 09:55 AM | Link to this
Uh-oh. Global warming may cause glaciers to expand? Listening to global warming liberals like Al Gore describe how the extreme dynamic variables of the earth’s weather patterns are solely mankind’s fault is laughable.
By Mike
August 26, 2006 10:06 AM | Link to this
Natalie,
What are you going to do when the lights go off and it’s dark?
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 10:16 AM | Link to this
Meteorology 101: Global warming is a misleading buzz phrase. The mean temperature of every planet is on a cyclical wave that follows quantum probability outcomes of double blind photo-electrical experiments using photo-sensing apparatus.
Now granted, the apparatus itself determines the outcome for observers, but when we analyze the geo-thermally derived tectonic variations in stratification layers, our observations lead us to deduce a natural cyclical pattern to mean global temperature readings over the millenia.
Most gases that could aggravate the natural cycle come from magma. (air quotes by mini-me). Yes, MAGMA, is the culprit here. Sharks with laser beams on their heads would be nice. All I’m saying……
By Redneck Convert
August 26, 2006 10:17 AM | Link to this
Glad to see that Markus has nothing better to do than blog while he waits for his tee time on Sunday.
I say lock up these environment wackos and build as many nuclear power plants as we can operate. I’m tired of paying $60 to fill up my Dodge Ram. If we didn’t use oil for power, gas would be cheaper.
So a few people get fried green when there’s an accident at a plant. It will be their fault for living near the plant in the first place.
Let the younger people worry about how to deal with the waste. We’ll have cheap gas while we live, and they’ll have time to figure out how to dispose of the stuff. Besides, those people in Nevada need to worry about things other than gambling or whoring. Passing the problems down the generation line works for Social Security. Why not for nuclear power?
Well, I got some sheetrock to hang, so I won’t be back today. Maybe tomorrow—after I get over my hangover from my Saturday night trip to Billy Bob’s—I’ll check in and see what everybody else thinks. Anyway, I’m sure Markus can keep the panty-waist pinkos in line today without my help. Just remember, “Turning green makes for cheaper gasoline.”
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 10:20 AM | Link to this
Mike, if you’ve got champagne, I know exactly what to do when the lights go off and it’s dark. (Glow in the dark flavored condoms are not the only side benefit of nuclear power plant emissions, loverboy)
I’m pro-nookyoular power by the way. Just having a little fun. Forgive me. I just cant help myself.
PS: to Bill Frist. If you need a writer to help your campaign, I’m the best there is, and your opponent wont know what hit him.
Offering services here…..
By rednecks - America's Al Qaeda
August 26, 2006 10:26 AM | Link to this
Back in the ATL - sigh.
Like the papers in Colorado - the visage of Georgia and Alabama’s finest, John Mark Karr adorns the AJC this morning, along with an inside pic of Guvnuh Sonny with teenage girls - again!
Rednecks are such perverted stupid clowns - which applies to this discussion.
Back in the mid-80s, I spent 7 months in Plymouth MA at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. The plant was in the third year of an eventual 5 year shutdown for management related safety issues - the NRC sent an inspection team one weekend evening, and the control room operators were having a watergun fight - in the control room - which started the shutdown.
This was in Massachusetts, where people are far better educated than southrons, and people don’t hate gummint like you rednecks. I don’t want some moron not performing an inspection that he is supposed to out of cultural congential laziness and stupidity, or thinking, hell, it’ll last the rest of the shift, let somebody else worry about it, or I’ll fix it tomorrow - very redneck.
Ask yourself - do you really want Georgia high school graduates working with equipment and processes that can easily wipe out hundreds of thousands?
Nuclear is fine - but if it is to be done in the south, it needs to be done by non-southrons - the employees must be America’s finest, not Dixie dregs. I know you folks aren’t going to appreciate the truth, but that’s what it is - the truth.
By time for the truth
August 26, 2006 10:30 AM | Link to this
I am still very wary of nuclear energy, purely because of safety issues. I accept that the technology has vastly improved in the last couple of decades, but ultimately that wont actually matter if there is any kind of serious malfunction. For very obvious reasons a serious nuclear malfunction/meltdown is vastly more problematical than any other kind.
The UK has not followed the Gallic cheese eating surrender monkey path of great reliance on nuclear power. The nuclear plant at Windscale was constantly leaking low level pollution into the Irish Sea in the 1970’s and 80’s. There are handful of others remaining now at mostly very isolated places like Dungeness and Torness. Half of the original UK reactors have now closed having reached the end of their operating life cycle. Many of our experimental reactors have also closed now.
Not even the Conservative Party is pursuing the nuclear electricity option. The UK had its problems, although nothing like 3 Mile Island or Chernobyl. Our population centres are for the most part much more densely scattered than most of the USA. England and Wales now have around 53 million folks plus the illegals in an area about the size of Georgia.
Augusta is a big enough town. I wouldn’t want to live anywhere near this thing. Just a personal choice.
Naturally though I would be very willing to concentrate ALL the US nuclear power plants in the most obvious deserving places, namely Mass and California - maybe half a dozen in the immediate Bay Area. And of course one next door to both Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park. The rest should be placed down by the Mexican border in areas where illegals would be most intimidated by nuclear domes.
By getalife
August 26, 2006 10:36 AM | Link to this
If Jim says build it, don’t build it.
Conservatives are never right about anything. If there was a meltdown like Iraq, they would never admit it and many will die.
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 10:37 AM | Link to this
(crickets chirping….)
By Markus
August 26, 2006 10:41 AM | Link to this
Yeah rednecks, forget about all dem dumb@ss Southerners having a thing to do with NASA in Mississippi and nuke plants in Plant City, FL. What we backwoods hicks need is dem urban hip-hop bling smackin’ Escalade-wannabe drivin’ city boyz that dropped out of high school and fathered three kids out of wedlock to three different muthas. Yeah man, they’ll show us dumb@ss Southerners a thing or two about smarts, won’t they? Hell I can’t WAIT to hear their work ethic seminar. Yeah man, keep on preachin’.
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 10:45 AM | Link to this
Southerners do have NASA in the south. that’s why the shuttle keeps exploding on takeoff or landing, Einstein.
By Markus
August 26, 2006 10:47 AM | Link to this
Hey nolife-
Have you figured out what impact Iraq’s oil production has had today on the global market vs. their peak production year in 2000? Inquiring minds wanna know, nolife.
By Markus
August 26, 2006 10:57 AM | Link to this
Ah, Natalie Maines has showed up I see. Yeah we know Gnatalie, we know. All those genius San Freaksicko homeless bums, all those Brooklyn punks, all those brilliant LA gangstas, all those Seattle grunge punks, all those Chicago street players, ALL those wonderful folks can outsmart Southerners. Whazzup with your mensa wannabe cut-n-paste babble topic earlier? You trying to impress that tattooed Yamaha Harley-wannabe rider across the street?
By Captain Freedom
August 26, 2006 10:59 AM | Link to this
Markus,
I am Commissioned in the Homeland War on Terror and Pigemented People. I have earned my rank, through long hours of brave keyboarding against Islamo-Germanic underminers like yourself. (What’s with that name spelling, anyway, sour kraut boy?)
Natalie, I’m with you in your offer to assist the good and Godly Senator from Tennessee. I would begin by touting his supernatural abilities to conduct medical diagnoses merely by viewing five-year old videotape. The man is clearly Presidentail timber.
Of course, his well-known leather and fisting fetish may prove hard for the more Fundamentalist of our team to swallow, but that’s where you come in.
By getalife
August 26, 2006 11:01 AM | Link to this
Well Markus,
I have read the oil coming out of Iraq is not being accounted for, so we really do not know how much is flowing.
Also, your boy Ken Melhman said we will stay in Iraq to keep Al Qaeda from getting the number two oil producing country’s oil. Seeing there are small numbers of Al Qaeda in Iraq, he is full of crap.
We will stay to keep Iran from getting Iraq’s oil because Iraq supports Iran. This war is all about oil and the rest is bs.
Meanwhile, Chavez is making deals with Iran, China, Russia and he is comparing w to Hitler.
Mexico wants the southwest back. North Korea is testing nukes underground. China and Russia told us to STFU. Iran opened a reactor.
w’s foreign policy is a disaster.
By Groundskeeper Willie
August 26, 2006 11:02 AM | Link to this
Aaaach…Tyme fur Troooth…
“Cheese eating surrender monkeys” is me line…
It belongs to the Simpsons Show and the Fox nitwork.
ya done posted a fyne bit a copyright infringement laddie..
A whiny lowyer wyll be a payin ya a visit laddie…fur payment..
By Captain Freedom
August 26, 2006 11:02 AM | Link to this
Markus,
My apologies for my outburst above regarding your name, heritage, and actual loyalty. Clearly, your post diverting all blame for inbred Southern stupidity to Pigmented Americans demostrates your true allegiance to the cause of White Christian America. Bravo, good soldier.
By Markus
August 26, 2006 11:06 AM | Link to this
Private Freedom-
Don’t kid yourself. The only order you ever received was when an 8 year old girl beat you up in second grade and told you to stay away from her best friend.
You couldn’t lead a pack of dogs to meat.
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 11:08 AM | Link to this
No shortage of hacks on the Wooten blog, eh?
Ditto Luckovich’s blog.
Ditto the arts in general. One guy gets a successful idea and fifty people copy it.
By getalife
August 26, 2006 11:10 AM | Link to this
Oh, and w is fishing with his cut and run daddy while the rest of the world treats him like their little punk.
By Markus
August 26, 2006 11:13 AM | Link to this
nolife-
“the number two oil producing country’s oil.”
As stated earlier, Iraq was NEVER above #3 in production, and almost always stayed at #4 behind Saudi, Iran, and the UAE. Things being as they are and you don’t want to answer my question on how much Iraq’s current situation reflects global oil prices vs. their peak year in 2000, I must say I don’t blame you for not answering. The truth hurts the emotionalism of liberalism every single time.
Get Cindy Sheephead Sheehan’s opinion on Chevez. She wants to more there.
Get Madeliene notsoAlbright on the horn and conference in Jimmy Carter and Bill Clintoon regarding North Korea.
Iran, as stated many times, will be taken care of by Israel.
Short time here as usual, have a nice day. Really.
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 11:15 AM | Link to this
(crickets chirping….greeeek greeek grreedle grreedle greeeeik)
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 11:18 AM | Link to this
What kind of a question is that to debate about Iran’s current situation reflecting global oil prices vs what?
Where do we find such minds?
I wonder what think tank is missing it’s star wit?
By Markus
August 26, 2006 11:18 AM | Link to this
Oh and Private Freedom-
As the son of a real military officer, my roots are not in the south… or anywhere else for that matter. Sorry to disappoint you, slugger.
By Markus
August 26, 2006 11:23 AM | Link to this
Gnatalie-
You have had one too many lattes this morning. It’s a nice day. Get out, go ride your bicycle, go take a walk, go to a lake, go get some sun (unless you are one of those freak Goth libs), or just go to the mall and shop till you drop. You are obviously not impressing anyone.
Peace out.
By getalife
August 26, 2006 11:25 AM | Link to this
So Markus,
You are saying Ken is a liar.
There is hope for you.
By time for the truth
August 26, 2006 11:25 AM | Link to this
Lance Corporal Syphilis
You and your dominant rednekkks id et al sure are perversely humiliating yourselves this morning with extra petulant puerility. This is dramatically underlined by the rather anal retentive focus on certain inane cartoon characters.
Poor old Natalie of Dixie Nitwit fame must have a brief respite in her crack paying tricks, doubtless normal service in Cabbage Town will be resumed real soon.
Note that I am generously pitching the tone of all this at your decidedly plebian level. Do let me know next year some time if I am actually using imagery that is too abstruse for you to assimilate.
By jbmlaw
August 26, 2006 11:42 AM | Link to this
I don’t have any serious qualms about nukes, either as weapons or as power sources. Bring ‘em on.
By jbmlaw
August 26, 2006 11:45 AM | Link to this
I suppose the military’s history and present dependence on nuclear power for subs and ships persuades me the risks are manageable.
By time for the truth
August 26, 2006 11:46 AM | Link to this
jbm
so you wouldn’t have a problem if they built one say 20 miles or so from where you live - the one in Augusta I understand is pretty close to the town - @ 20 miles or so.
By time for the truth
August 26, 2006 11:56 AM | Link to this
There is no room for error, flawed manufacturing or even so called acts of god when dealing with nukes. That’s the self evident problem which is something to be weighed very seriously. If say a sub goes down somewhere awkward or has a fire like the Soviet ‘widowmaker’ did the results are likely catastrophic for the crew and anyone in the area, which could include folks in major ports.
Storage and transportation of the spent fuel rods etc will dramatically increase with any US nuclear expansion. Any accident in transit could be very nasty - nuclear sites are currently hardly 100% secure sites.
Its really a balance - are the potential very obvious risks of undeniably long term problems, even possible devastation worth taking?
This for me really is the archetypal instance of not in my back yard.
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 12:05 PM | Link to this
I think that’s a hundred mile rule, not twenty miles. (for cheating on your wife not counting).
For nookyoular plants, it’s three miles, if you’re on an island.
But it all depends on where Iran’s current situation reflects in oil prices vs some other such thing that only the board genius knows about, but dont hold me to that, cause nobody can debate this prodigy with his eye for data like that, man oh manechevitz.
Ah, the tootling ‘tards of torpidity.
By Missy Rottweiler
August 26, 2006 12:08 PM | Link to this
…………………………………………………………………………………… Hear that? That is the sound of life on nuclear power…………….
By Captain Freedom
August 26, 2006 12:24 PM | Link to this
Markus, I too am the son of a “real” miltary officer. Like you, I find this sufficient justification to ponitificate about actual miltary matters, and de facto pardon from serving myself.
Just like you.
And whether you are fortunate enough to be from the South (though your very rootlessness is cause for suspicion), your posts — such as your pointed blame of Pigmented Americans for the shortcomings of our society — reveal your true nature.
Yes, my friend, your character is on clear display. The best I can say for you is that you do not pretend to English heritage.
By Morticia
August 26, 2006 12:32 PM | Link to this
Markus has wounded my heart by calling me Morbid Morticia.
Morticia is a conservative realist. Not a liberal idealist.
Morticia would encourage love not work. It’s more fun & gratifying.
Morticia would kick irrational idealism out of her bed.
Morticia sends you her love Markus.
By Missy Rottweiler
August 26, 2006 12:32 PM | Link to this
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Hear that? That is the sound of nuclear powered capitalism on life
By Stewart
August 26, 2006 12:36 PM | Link to this
By @@
August 26, 2006 09:53 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten: I’ve often been amazed by how environmentalists would oppose something like nuclear energy when it clearly meets all the requirements they demand.
The problem is that most enviromentalist groups have been taken over by the “anti-capitalist” or “anti-nuclear” folks. They could really care less about the environment, they just want to see American and capitalism in general fail.
By Stewart
August 26, 2006 12:37 PM | Link to this
By @@
August 26, 2006 09:53 AM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten: I’ve often been amazed by how environmentalists would oppose something like nuclear energy when it clearly meets all the requirements they demand.
The problem is that most enviromentalist groups have been taken over by the “anti-capitalist” or “anti-nuclear” folks. They could really care less about the environment, they just want to see American and capitalism in general fail.
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 12:50 PM | Link to this
Synchronized morons
By rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda
August 26, 2006 01:00 PM | Link to this
Ah, yes markus, those “inner city boyz” that you refer to are of course the products of southern culture - your brothuh rednecks of a different color is all.
Of course they rape and they’re lazy and they’re uneducated - they are true to their southern roots…
By Cletus Snow
August 26, 2006 01:02 PM | Link to this
Two things concern me about nuclear power.
1 How to safely dispose of nuclear waste. 2 Nuclear plants are fantastic terrorist targets.Who would handle the security for the nuclear sites?By rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda
August 26, 2006 01:09 PM | Link to this
I’m being serious now - a lot of your grandparents don’t even know how to use a flush toilet - do you think people that value ignorance and stupidity as much as you southrons should be operating nuclear reactors?
Come on, you folks hate government regulations and rules, you hate honest work, you’re easily lead and flim-flammed. You’ll get p** at your boss and shoot up the place or engage in sabotage or walk off the job - not a good idea around nuclear reactors. You southrons always think you are smart enough to run the place when you really should be pushing a mop. Look at yourself in the mirror - you know what I am saying is the God’s honest truth.
Let’s face it - most southrons don’t have the intellectual or emotional maturity to safely operate nuclear reactors.
The human element is the biggest safety issue in nuclear power - and in the south, you’re having to deal with a sub-human element.
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 01:10 PM | Link to this
The Columbus Georgia Little Leaguers play today. They are doing great, and most people dont know that their practice diamond is on the grounds of a nuclear power plant.
There have been no safety problems and the little leaguers are all normal.
There was one incident last spring when the kids were innocently using aluminum rocket tubes as bats during a home run derby contest, but fortunately, there was no enriched uranium residue on any of the tubes.
That was a close one, just ask Condi Rice.
By getalife
August 26, 2006 01:18 PM | Link to this
This is the brave conservatives on this blog
By Mortie a/k/a Morticia
August 26, 2006 01:23 PM | Link to this
We could put our resident blog terrorist “Redneck Terrorist” on top of the nuclear plant. Take care of two dodo birds at one time.
When was the last time anybody saw a dodo bird? If you’re wondering what one looks like, just look ^^^ up. One has been spotted one at 1:09.
Seriously!!
By time for the truth
August 26, 2006 01:31 PM | Link to this
rednekkks is extra manic today - I guess those five private lascivious life changing minutes in a cell with its soul mate Karr have made it even more pugnacious than usual.
By Captain Freedom
August 26, 2006 01:49 PM | Link to this
Stewart,
It is not the environment that they care about. The enviro-jihadists hate everything American stands for. They won’t be happy until we are all on a diet of tree bark and bee spit, clothed in all-natural fibers, and worhsipping the Moon and other pagan-feministo claptrap.
I’d rather die than give up my Chevy Tahoe, Jesus, and enjoyment of meat and meat by-products.
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 01:52 PM | Link to this
I got your meat by-product….RIGHT HERE!!!
By Missy Rottweiler
August 26, 2006 02:02 PM | Link to this
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Hear that? Of course you don’t. It is the sound of yourselves sleepwalking through through the reality around you …..
By Mortie a/k/a Morticia
August 26, 2006 02:48 PM | Link to this
We should have a big group hug. Make sure all the liberal terrorists are in the middle. That way the conservatives can squeeze ‘em reeaaaal tight. Smother them with love.
That’s what they want. They want us to love the world’s problems away for them.
1——2——3….GROUP HUG!
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 03:10 PM | Link to this
Synchronized Doofus
By On the other hand:
August 26, 2006 03:17 PM | Link to this
I have no problem with Nuclear Energy Plants, it’s been done in the south successfully. But there are a few of my guidelines I would like for the Southern Company or the potential contractors to follow: A comprehensive plan for energy storage. A state of the art warning system. Frequent drug testing for workers, from contruction workers to planners, and right up the chain. (Especially since Augusta is so close to home.) A feasible and sensible time line for contruction so as not to sidestep safety features. Many top brass figures want to get that proverbial feather in their hats for their job performance and for beating the deadlines. Ban any contractor after the first violation of inferior work, goods or service. Those are are my druthers. If at least those are met with well trained and educated workers (we do possess them in this state), then I really could live with it and so could my kids.
By Michael Silly Savage
August 26, 2006 03:53 PM | Link to this
The group hug thing with a bunch of sweaty unbathed Perdue supporters sounds pretty gaggy - that’s why I prefer the locker rooms of my hometown San Francissy.
Looking forward to future hugs from my true conservative buddies, Markus and Captain Freedom. Wear your daddies’ uniforms, boyz.
By rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda
August 26, 2006 04:38 PM | Link to this
Markus’ Daddy got his job back!!!
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 05:02 PM | Link to this
I’d like a groupie hug, sir.
By Markus
August 26, 2006 05:06 PM | Link to this
Back in time for some more action! Well Rednex, I see you basically didn’t get anything accomplished today, like yesterday, the day before, and Tuesday, and last month, last year..
Anyway, I’d have been more offended at your cute little post to my old man, but he’s been gone for eight years now. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: you’ll get your just due in time. Bank on it. And personally from the bottom of my bowels, I hope it will be painful as hell. Mark my words here. So let it be said, so let it be done.
By Markus
August 26, 2006 05:06 PM | Link to this
Well let’s see. Liberals say no to nuclear power. Ok.
East coast liberal politicians like Ted “drunk Olds U-boat commander wannabe” Kennedy say no to Cape Cod wind power. Ok.
Walter Crockite says no to wind power there as well. Ok.
John “not my medals over the fence” Kerry Heinz owns many mansions with SUVs and a big honkin’ private jet that his loonbat wife really owns. Ok.
Al Sore flies around the world touting his Some Convenient Lies nonsense in Jet-A burning machines who’s ice-crystalization exhaust emissions create contrails at FL350, which have been blamed in part on increasing global warming (riiiiiight). Ok.
Every bedwetting greenback liberal on this blog is plugged into electricity and not a solar panel. Ok.
Well liberal ladies, I haven’t seen much leadership from your ilk on what to do with regards to cutting back on our petroleum dependency, hypocritical pigs.
By Markus
August 26, 2006 05:10 PM | Link to this
Oh THIS is priceless! This is what you get when you cross a psuedo-intellect demonrat liberal 9/11 conspiracy loonbat with a structural engineering background from Google (where most candyassed liberals get their education outside of the New York Slimes).
Only on democraticunderground.com folks.
geniuslib
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 05:11 PM | Link to this
Go soak your head, Markus.
By Markus
August 26, 2006 05:15 PM | Link to this
The Miami islamowannabe punks who wanted to bring down the Sears Tower (remember that anybody???) now have video against them in evidence of sending them far, far away.
hammertime
Too bad we don’t still have firing squads.
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 05:16 PM | Link to this
Can you imagine this late in the day on a Saturday and Markus comes out swinging like a Tasmanian Dork.
I love it. Where do we find such minds?
By rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda
August 26, 2006 05:19 PM | Link to this
Let’s face it Markus - those Miami folks had about as much chance of downing the Sears Tower as you have of becoming a war hero, you silly chickenhawk.
One good thing about your Dad being dead - he doesn’t have to see what a hatefilled coward his wife whelped.
By time for the truth
August 26, 2006 05:22 PM | Link to this
Rednekkk’s vermin …
I read earlier on here of your very recent furtive tryst with Karr in Boulder. How did that go? Did you manage to re-establish that magical unbreakable bond between you in such bittersweet circumstances?
I suppose your growing obsession with cyber stalking Markus is one way of channeling those much repressed feelings of chronic guilt for your own very sick past. I sort of hope you get beyond all that at some point … but dont really care one way or the other to be honest.
By Markus
August 26, 2006 05:22 PM | Link to this
Actually Necks, I’m full of happiness and joy. I just can’t stand pathetic anti-American scabs like you, that’s all. Nothing personal.
And I really, REALLY meant what I said in the previous post to you. REALLY. Your day is coming, and you can’t hide behind that computer screen mouthing off personal family insults forever.
By Markus
August 26, 2006 05:24 PM | Link to this
That’s right Rednex.. Satan has his eye on you.
By tftt??
August 26, 2006 05:25 PM | Link to this
…that smell again. huge smirk
By Markus
August 26, 2006 05:28 PM | Link to this
Heh, this place has more ID shifts than a vote recount machine in Palm Beach County.
By rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda
August 26, 2006 05:30 PM | Link to this
Sometimes the truth is insulting Markus.
Take a look in the mirror, in your heart you know I am right.
By Markus
August 26, 2006 05:30 PM | Link to this
Who here feels that our resident multiple ID’d no-life, no-family, no-friends neomarxist liberal socialist terrorist-loving freak has accomplished anything of substance on this blog since it’s been here? Anybody? Anyone?
By get over yourself
August 26, 2006 05:31 PM | Link to this
Markus has been on this board all day trying to argue his pathetic political views and searching for different blogs to link to in order to prove a mundane trivial point. Markus spending his Saturday in a political forum tells me that he has no social life. His lack of social life may point to a lack of sex. A lack of sex explains a very angry Markus.
By get over yourself
August 26, 2006 05:32 PM | Link to this
…and no, I’m not rednecks…smirk
By Markus
August 26, 2006 05:37 PM | Link to this
To resident freakshow ID issue# 1243:
a) I haven’t posted between 11:30am until after 5pm.
b) Unlike you, I don’t use multiple IDs.
c) You and your multiple IDs are the main time-waster here and everyone with their heads out of their @sses know it.
d) Again, I meant what I said earlier and I said what I meant. With wicked thoughts like that, your day to pay the piper is coming sport. I take great solace in knowing that.
By get over yourself
August 26, 2006 05:39 PM | Link to this
Markus is going to crack soon. He’s all out of options. His arguments go nowhere and he probably gets laughed at on a daily basis. Now is his time to shine.
By Mortie a/k/a Morticia
August 26, 2006 05:39 PM | Link to this
Mortie thinks Rednex is projecting. Markus left earlier today, but Rednex has spent his or her entire day in front of the tube waiting for what?
An opportunity to look like a deranged psycopath whose only reality is based in revenge.
Pathetic.
By time for the truth
August 26, 2006 05:41 PM | Link to this
as ever rednekkks vermin predicktably has nothing of any substance to say. its insults are getting more and more predicktable and desperate as it seeks to endlessly and pointlessly goad its conservative betters with ever diminishing returns.
effortlessly goading you into moronic hissy fits on such subjects as black crime, illegal immigrants, racial spoils politics and the south in general rednekkks vermin is even easier than beating the once dominant Atlanta Braves this season!!!
huge lets all abuse rednekkks mercilessly smirk
By getalife
August 26, 2006 05:41 PM | Link to this
Markus is a member of operation yellow coward
By rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda
August 26, 2006 05:43 PM | Link to this
Come on Markus - be half the man you think you are. Enlist in the Army or the USMC, and ask for Iraq. Be all you can be*. You’re a natural born sociopath - maybe you can be a prison guard at Abu Ghraib?
You have so much hate, Markus, why waste your time here when there are Iraqis to torture and humiliate?
By Markus
August 26, 2006 05:45 PM | Link to this
Dunno what you are talking about, getoverlosing. Markus smacked your forum ID# 221, getalife, all over the place all week on Iraq oil production. Methinks bedwetting candyassed liberals are the masters of puppetry and creating their own alter-reality world. One asshat neolib even said he was a mime. WAY too ironic. Bringing the circus to the blogs… liberalism at it’s finest.
By Natalie
August 26, 2006 05:45 PM | Link to this
Markus is very passionate, but he does not persuade. Markus, we have been very patient with you, but our decision has been made and it is final: You are banned forever from this great blog. We need gentlemen, not rear ends.
Sorry to see you go. Try the “woman to woman” blog, they needs more tamped-on tapped-out PMS mutants like you.
Oh, yeah, pun intended.
By rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda
August 26, 2006 05:45 PM | Link to this
great post get Still LOL
By Markus
August 26, 2006 05:48 PM | Link to this
Natalie, I hate to rain on your pretty pink panty charade, but dearie, you are not in control of this blog. I know sweetheart, I know how you pig liberals want to control everything and shut down the voice of opposition to you liberals, but here it just isn’t happening. There’s nothing you can do about it, K? Sleep tight. And my hex goes across all aliases BTW.
By rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda
August 26, 2006 05:50 PM | Link to this
tftt. my posts are truthful and honest, and you call them insults - yet you never ever take any issue with any of the factual material I post - BECAUSE IT IS ALL THE TRUTH.
All you do is whine like a little girl about insults.
Let me tell you, little fella - sometime the truth hurts - especially if you’re you. Now, be a man and quit the kid stuff - this ain’t Columbus Little League.
By get over yourself
August 26, 2006 05:51 PM | Link to this
Markus, since we all know that you probably have no girlfriend or wife…and if you do the we all definitely know that she isn’t fulfilling your needs or vice versa, here is what you can do to help in America’s war effort:
1)Go to CVS and buy a bottle of lotion.
2)Go to the video store and rent porn.
3)When you get home, draw your curtains shut. But then again, you may not be into that whole privacy thing since you probably support the Patriot Act.
4)Indulge. Indulge more than once for the sake of the free world.
A satisfied Markus may lead to a better world.
By time for the truth
August 26, 2006 05:51 PM | Link to this
rednekk’s vermin sure has its hateful bile flowing now!!
waited all day for this life defining blog abuse haven’t you rednekkks??!!!
you are the saddest of sad **s
By getalife
August 26, 2006 05:52 PM | Link to this
Markus just runs his ignorant mouth like the rest of the wingnuts.
They are too scared of Muslims to fight over there.
They hand over all their rights to w over here because they are scared.
By Markus
August 26, 2006 05:52 PM | Link to this
Rednecks, et. al.:
I want you to get off your lazy neocommie @ss and spend time building a habitat for humanity home. I want your @ss in a soup kitchen cooking for the homeless. I want you toutoring homeless children downtown. I want you donating EVERY spare SECOND of your time and EVERY spare DIME of your money to what your liberal socialist hackoff ideology espouses day in, and day out. Until you do so, get off your lame jackass and QUITCHAWHIN’ already about Iraq.
Oh, did I mention that I really don’t like your ilk?
By get over yourself
August 26, 2006 05:54 PM | Link to this
Markus,
Didn’t you already use the insult “neocommie” today? He’s running out of new words everyone.
By Markus
August 26, 2006 05:54 PM | Link to this
Getalife proves it can’t hold an argument, and therefore is not worthy of any real time here, unlike more reasoned leftists.
I find all that ID switching and psychological schizoid personality switching fascinating. You should be a case study for liberalism.
By get over yourself
August 26, 2006 05:56 PM | Link to this
Markus
…and you should have been a case study for the Kinsey Report…what happens to the mind when sexual activity is limited or nonexistent.
By time for the truth
August 26, 2006 05:56 PM | Link to this
rednekkks your posts - if you can even call such utter shiite that - evince a witless obsessive sociopathic nutter who has a compulsive need to post unhinged bile about its pet hates in life that has no meaning, context or credibility.
your pathetic dishonesty about the lack of factual challenges is as disingenuous as it comes. NO one normal challenges Charlie Manson’s rantings - yours are of the same menatlly unhinged cloth - just different subjects.
By Markus
August 26, 2006 05:57 PM | Link to this
getoverlosing-
I’ll never run out of words describing you jackasses on the sicko left. It sure is fun getting under your snakeskin though. REAL fun. You’ll be thinking about me later, you know you will. And you know you can’t shut me up either, and you know that will p!ss you off even more. smile
By getalife
August 26, 2006 05:59 PM | Link to this
There is no reasoning with pathetic cowards.
Just call em like I see em.
By get over yourself
August 26, 2006 05:59 PM | Link to this
Hurry before the porn shop closes Markus…
By Markus
August 26, 2006 06:01 PM | Link to this
And I close with a great article from MSN on being a guillotine operator. We should learn to bring this back for our domestic and international terrorists alike:
“alla akbar!”
headsup
By Markus
August 26, 2006 06:01 PM | Link to this
And I close with a great article from MSN on being a guillotine operator. We should learn to bring this back for our domestic and international terrorists alike:
“alla akbar!”
headsup
By getalife
August 26, 2006 06:03 PM | Link to this
Yes, it is fun bashing wingnuts but too easy.
If you are going to run mouth, enlist, go fight and then I will show some respect.
Until then, you are just another pos.
By Rainey
August 26, 2006 06:05 PM | Link to this
Mr. Wooten, Nuclear power was bound to happen sooner or later. If it’s the most cost efficient & has no impact on the atmosphere, it sounds like the way to go.
Disposal of spent fuel concerns me just a little. More details on Yucca Mountain and the methods they use in Europe might help me overcome my concerns.
Maybe if you’re on hand this weekend, you could elaborate a little more. I’ll do some research on my own.
Thanks for inviting me to rethink the topic.
By Frank Rich
August 27, 2006 08:16 AM | Link to this
“Were it not so tragic, Mr. Bush’s claim that he had never suggested a connection between the 9/11 attacks and Iraq would be as ludicrous as Bill Clinton’s doomed effort to draw a distinction between sex and oral sex. The tragedy is that the country ever believed Mr. Bush, particularly those Americans who were moved to enlist because of 9/11 and instead ended up fighting a war that the president now concedes had “nothing” to do with the 9/11 attacks.”
By James Madison
August 27, 2006 08:26 AM | Link to this
“Different interests necessarily exist in different classes of citizens. If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure. There are but two methods of providing against this evil: the one by creating a will in the community independent of the majority that is, of the society itself; the other, by comprehending in the society so many separate descriptions of citizens as will render an unjust combination of a majority of the whole very improbable, if not impracticable. The first method prevails in all governments possessing an hereditary or self-appointed authority. This, at best, is but a precarious security; because a power independent of the society may as well espouse the unjust views of the major, as the rightful interests of the minor party, and may possibly be turned against both parties. The second method will be exemplified in the federal republic of the United States. Whilst all authority in it will be derived from and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority. In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects. The degree of security in both cases will depend on the number of interests and sects; and this may be presumed to depend on the extent of country and number of people comprehended under the same government.” (via Federalist Papers)
By Ernesto
August 27, 2006 08:27 AM | Link to this
Rainey, well said, my fine friend. I do have the answer to the question you asked about disposal of European Spent Fuel. Bush allows the French to bury the radioactive waste in your county where it leaches into the watershed and ultimately into your children. But it took hard work to get that deal for nookyoolar stuff.
Bush is our greatest president, sir. Certainly he’s our most articulate. He’s influenced the lexiconers.
He is always doing hard work. Like the war on terror in baghdad is hard work. The front lines of the global war on terror is in closets and under the beds in dilapidated homes of Sunnis in the suburbs of Baghdad. It’s hard work to go house to house searching for Osama Bin Ladeners, Jihaders, and Islamisters. Hard work, sir. If Bush wasn’t born again, then I too might doubt that God-ers are on our side in this war with Iraqers on terrorers.
But there can be no doubters and we must press forward the hard work of freedomers. Onward Christianers.
By Ernesto
August 27, 2006 08:37 AM | Link to this
James Madison was a great man. Here’s what he said: “Because the minority views democracy as an evil, a diversified society itself becomes the safeguard against Fascism”.
By Red State Rebel
August 27, 2006 09:03 AM | Link to this
We need more nuclear power plants in the South.
We need our own atomic weapons program.
THE SOUTH SHALL RISE AGAIN
Always remember the words George Orwell wrote - “Freedom is Slavery”. That is what our forefathers - Calhoun, Davis, Jackson, Lee - believed.
By jbmlaw
August 27, 2006 09:07 AM | Link to this
Dear TFTT @ 11:46 yesterday, I apologize for slow response - topic just didn’t speak to my heart, never got on again yesterday.
Your perception is correct. I have an acre lot, and Georgia Power can have the back half of it to build a reactor if they will give me free electricity. Of course, my dogs would miss their woods, but we’ll adjust.
Have a great rest of the weekend, talk to you all tomorrow if time permits.
By Ernesto
August 27, 2006 09:25 AM | Link to this
Gee, I wonder if it’s possible to measure how close to 100% certainty it is today that Jmblaw will find the time to permit him to blog tommorrow? This is quantum physics at it’s finest. We’ll have to devise an experiment using photonic singularities and an apparatus that allows for juxtoposed event horizons.
Or we could just call him a moron and watch him have a melt down. Hey, that brings us back On Topic.
Meltdowns occur in people and in nookyoolar power plants. I think the secret solution here is to put meltdowning peoples into the radiation magma of inner core reaction chambers and thusly prevent the double secret probationary meltdowns of three mile islanders, IF I may be so pedantic.
By Ernesto
August 27, 2006 09:36 AM | Link to this
James Madison indeed. Dolly Madison, now there’s a topic. She was the Paris Hilton of her day. There was even a lewinski video of her circulating on Poor Richards Almanac.com. Stella got her groove back, 1776 style, and that weren’t no flag she was sewin’, if you get my dope down. (Hang, bro’) !
Well, it turns out she had so many suiters that many had to hide under the Lincoln Bed during formal White House dinners. That’s how Lewis and Clark met, and now you know the rest of the story.
By Rainey
August 27, 2006 10:08 AM | Link to this
Ernesto, Thank you for attempting to address my concerns on spent fuel storage. I was looking for facts not emotion.
The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) called for a nationwide search for a suitable site for an underground dump capable of storing the estimated total 470,000 cubic metres of waste created by the UK’s 23 nuclear power plants.
Be sure to read where the U.K. is looking for a site within it’s “national” boundaries. Reading down in the article, it seems that Scandanavia, particularly Finland has set a model for disposal.
Thanks so much for the expected leftists rhetoric. “It’s Bush’s fault.”
I’ll wait to see if someone else can offer answers minus the usual leftist agenda.
I’m off until later.
By time for the truth
August 27, 2006 10:28 AM | Link to this
This article is written by one of the true heroes of modern England. A man vilified and literally destroyed by bigots who burned down his school. All for simply speaking his now utterly vindicated mind and attempting to gently and very reasonably impose the actual law of the land for the benefit of children being neglected by their parents.
Now that the leftists, in a very recent speech by a Labour Cabinet Minister (and elsewhere) have officially admitted the crass stupidity and corrosiveness of their slavish addiction to this official policy this humble ex-headmaster of a middle public school, hounded from his job can speak with ever greater authority.
His points and inexorable logic resonate far beyond West Yorkshire and England and speak to us all.
click on the print option to read the speech in full without page breaks.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;jsessionid=UW5M4EJJMKPSDQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/arts/2006/08/27/ftmulti27.xml
By time for the truth
August 27, 2006 10:39 AM | Link to this
jbm
You’re a far braver man then me. I wouldn’t ever have a nuclear reactor in my backyard -I realise you were more making a point than actually suggesting that you’d happily literally have one built - because zoning and other residents would prevent that of course. Free electricity - even for life - for a householder is not that much of an inducement. But beyond the humour of that thankfully the authorities wont allow one to be built too close to Atlanta. Though why Augusta deserves such risks is beyond me.
By Ernesto
August 27, 2006 11:24 AM | Link to this
Oh, the world is searching for a place to dump radioactive waste in someone else’s backyard. That’s the point. There’s not one person on planet earth breathing in the atmosphere, (soon to be downgraded to mushroom cloud), that wants the radioactivity. Dont want it. Nobody.
The occasional official can be bribed to accept it, but he’ll never be safe from the glowing mobs.
Why? Emotions. Ignorance. You see, ranier, I tell the truths that go to the heart of any argument by using the ridiculous. The more ridiculous, the closer to the truth. Works every time.
Proof? You need to talk to another human being in your orbit. Anyone. Pick a joe. Any Joe. Tell them that you want them to sign a petition that will allow radioactive waste to be stored in their neck of the woods.
Then absorb the emotions, sir, the very emotions that you didn’t ask for.
And try living in the real world for one day. Snap, you’re a human being.
What’s Iraq got to do with 911? “Nothing”. Bush, 2006.
What’s Iraq got to do with 911? “Agents of Saddam met with AL Queda in the 1990’s”. Bush 2002,2003, 2004, 2005
It IS bush’s fault. It’s all his fault. It’s your fault for not knowing that it’s bush’s fault. ANd it’s my fault for allowing ignorance and treason like yours to flourish all over this red country of mine.
Have a nice day. Golf is a great idea for you today. You should improve your backswing. I can tell by your syntactical choice’s that your hooking the ball. Keep your head down longer. Try spreading your legs an inch further apart.
Tiger plays today. Must see TV
By getalife
August 27, 2006 11:33 AM | Link to this
Please, law is lying again.
If they put a reactor next to him he would move faster than w lower poll numbers.
All mouth.
By Ernesto
August 27, 2006 11:39 AM | Link to this
law’s All Mouth? that’s what the sailor said last night.
By getalife
August 27, 2006 11:49 AM | Link to this
Hell, his mouth is big enough to dump the nuclear waste in.
Of course, you would cut and run so you have to catch him first.
By getalife
August 27, 2006 11:51 AM | Link to this
you=he
By Ernesto
August 27, 2006 11:53 AM | Link to this
That’s not what the sailor said last night.
By Rainey
August 27, 2006 01:10 PM | Link to this
Ernesto, You’re attempt at humor is lacking my friend. I asked for information. You responded that Bush was allowing France to dump their spent fuel here in America.
It might be better if you behaved like a responsible adult. Myself or anyone else could have taken your statement as fact. For someone who doesn’t bother to do research, that lie could have made it’s way around the world before everyone got out of bed in the morning.
At best it was irresponsible. Funny? Not to me.
I’m still waiting for a reasoned & mature discussion. You might want to remove yourself from one of those when it presents itself.
By rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda
August 27, 2006 01:12 PM | Link to this
tftt - thanks for the link - here’s an American organization dedicated to your views:
More support for tftt’s views
By Markus
August 27, 2006 01:18 PM | Link to this
Rainey-
You are dealing with our resident multiple-ID schizoid freak who likes to play games and shoot BS out it’s backside, not debate facts. Don’t waste too much time here on it’s disgusting ilk.
As a side note, I am truly saddened to see that Rednex, et. al. was not on that ComAir CRJ2 flight to ATL this morning. Have a bitter blog day, you freakshow anti-American pig from hell.
By getalife
August 27, 2006 01:35 PM | Link to this
Good job wingnuts
By time for the truth
August 27, 2006 01:43 PM | Link to this
rednekkks vermin - aka JM Karr’s cyber lover
The article I linked was from the UK’s finest daily newspaper. It was/is a perefectly legitimate article published by a head master of a school hounded out of office by violent Third World mohammedan bigots who repeatedly threatened to kill him and burned down his school for no reason. Even Blurrr’s odious corrupt politically correct Labour Govt have lately conceded Ray Hunniford was right about multiculturalism almost 25 years ago. As has even the black dominated, ludicrously named Commission For Racial Equality - another worthless racial spoils org abusing tax payer money in the UK.
Conservatives have a wonderful habit about being right about such matters.
As for your repugnant nazi link - we now know just where your political sympathises lie. You are undeniably a closet nazi!
Why dont you try actually debating the points raised in the Telegraph article.
Silly me - you’re just too busy e-mailing Karr for personal grooming advice to actually debate anything of substance on this politics blog!!
By Ernesto
August 27, 2006 01:43 PM | Link to this
Funny, I wasn’t trying to be funny. You weren’t either, but believe me, your comment was funny. Where does it say I meant to be funny? I was using irony to exploit your ignorance, and if somebody laughed, like anybody who read it, including your wife and kids, then, well, that’s just icing on the yellow cake you seem hell bent on trying to stuff down your neighbor’s throat.
You live in a world that is rapidly disappearing. The American people have had enough of you and other born-again, dominion-christian, civil war uncorkers.
Markus, I thought you agreed to blog on “woman to woman” from now on, like the sanitary napkin you are. Welcome back, blotter.
By Fundies R Fat
August 27, 2006 03:37 PM | Link to this
Apparently good American right-wing fundamentalists have successfully omitted one of the seven major sins from their list of no-no’s. How convieeeeeeeeenient! Bon Apetite, Tubbos!
By rednecks - Amerikkka's Al Qaeda
August 27, 2006 03:50 PM | Link to this
tftt - I know you don’t like Yankees, but maybe after reading this you’ll feel differently
Some more tftt supporters…
By getalife
August 27, 2006 03:58 PM | Link to this
My goodness,
Neo-Nazi speakers demanded Bush pull troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and place them on the Mexican border with orders to shoot to kill. They also denounced corporations for destroying the planet. Several punctuated their speeches with shouts of “White power!” and “Seig Heil!”
By Markus
August 27, 2006 04:22 PM | Link to this
Well, well, well. Neo-nazis protest about what the bedwetting candyassed left do. Iraq & Afghanistan and big evil corporations. Methinks the radical fascist right and radical fascist left (which represents the mainstream demonrats these days BTW) have more in common than they know. As the islamofascists say, “any enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Touche.
By Markus
August 27, 2006 04:27 PM | Link to this
FoxNews journalists freed. Quote: “We were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint,” Centanni later told Fox. “Don’t get me wrong here. I have the highest respect for Islam, and I learned a lot of good things about it, but it was something we felt we had to do because they had the guns, and we didn’t know what the hell was going on.”
No, according to bedwetting wiberals, radical Islamofascism isn’t a major threat to the world, including the United States. Let’s just sit back and not worry about what goes on outside of the US, right neopinko libs?
libstink
By time for the truth
August 27, 2006 04:34 PM | Link to this
rednekkks … I was outraged to learn on here earlier today that JM Karr is both your soul mate and your cyber lover. This is absolutely appalling and you need to dramatically rethink your twisted romantic choices.
I see you are now gently backpeddalling on your support for vile, odious nazis. Clearly my posts denouncing your repugnant behaviour have had their effect. Let this be a harsh lesson to you!!
By Ernesto
August 27, 2006 04:37 PM | Link to this
Right!
By Markus
August 27, 2006 04:37 PM | Link to this
Ok, the countdown is T-minus three days and counting before Ernesto hits the Naples-to-Tampa areas as a possible low Cat 3. The question of the day is how many of those folks are preparing their evac or hunker down process with necessities like food & water? The bonus question of the day is that at this point, what part of the responsibility is constitutionally validated for the federal government to step in before state and local authorities? This is at the same time frame now that the Louisiana state and New Orleans local authorities had to figure out what to do about their citizens prior to Katrina hitting. It’s gametime again folks, hopefully most of you Floridians are not used to sitting on your butts waiting for the federal government to tell you what to do after feeding you. The disease of quasi-socialist cradle-to-grave federal government liberalism will be the downfall of this nation yet.
By getalife
August 27, 2006 04:44 PM | Link to this
The folks in Tampa do not depend on the levees holding stupid. The folks in New Orleans made that mistake. If the levees held, Katrina would have not caused that much damage in New Orleans.
Of course, the elderly drown in their beds and the handicapped will need assistance.
I know its all about you Markus but some people really do need help in a disaster or hurricane.
By Here idiot.....
August 27, 2006 04:55 PM | Link to this
Corps not promising levees would hold
NEW ORLEANS — Despite aggressive efforts to repair the New Orleans levee system, it isn’t clear whether it would withstand a hurricane with heavy storm surge this year, the head of the Army Corps of Engineers conceded Saturday.
…”To pinpoint it to one thing and say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ is very difficult,” Strock said.
By time for the truth
August 27, 2006 05:04 PM | Link to this
maggot brain … the levees failed to hold in NO because the corrupt local blacks/liberals had not maintained them properly, nor strengthened them for years. The GOP has had little or no say in NO politically for many years. MOney meant for the levees had been used for corrupt local purposes. Also after the fact satellite photos have shown that parts of NO were sinking faster than originally thought - hence the water slopped over faster than anticipated. The racist incompetent hustler mayor is more responsible than anyone for the NO deaths, come come few folks asked why the hundreds of unused schoolbuses are still rusting? -although the demoncrat gov also has her share of the blame. They refused to evacuate properly or accept the national guard before the storm. BUsh’s responsibility is pretty minimal when all said and done. Its just liberal media lies and racebaiters that have banged this utterly dishonest drum for a year now. FEMA admittedly were a bit slow after the event - but local demns held them up - when convoys of buses were ready to move folks the LA dems said no … and refused water and food as well - to keep even more folks from going to the dome …
but if the local blacks/liberals had done what they mostly always do In FL and TX and evacuated properly there would have been far less misery and death.
any comments on the UNDENIABLE fact that in places like HOuston the murder and crime rate has massively increased with the invasion of the mainly young black thugs that arrived as refugees. funny how you lefties always gloss over such facts!
By ok
August 27, 2006 05:11 PM | Link to this
ok I’m sorry Markus I read all the post, Yo son flip on the north if yo like but dang, yall still can’t hung with us and just like the braves ya can’t win when it counts…. ever!…..now fall back.
By getalife
August 27, 2006 05:13 PM | Link to this
Damn lies,
You are paranoid. Where in my last post did I blame the gop. I blamed the levees. Yes, Louisiana is famous for corruption. The only one held accountable was Brownie.
By Markus
August 27, 2006 05:16 PM | Link to this
I see, oh great multiple ID one. Let’s talk about that levee system. New Orleans is a freaking FISH BOWL technically below sea level. For DECADES it was known that those levees couldn’t withstand anything more than a Cat 3. Yeah, that means CATEGORY THREE. What category was Katrina, hmmm???
Read this article, smartass lib. Funding for New Orleans and not taking major priority is nothing new. Some even considered THAT pork spending. Straight from a leftwing
“But in May 2004, then Senate Minority Whip Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he had visited the levees as a guest of Landrieu and believed them adequate”.
liblies
And another from that same site:
“Mandatory evacuation in the parishes below New Orleans would kick in when the storm was 50 hours from the coast, Ebbert said. New Orleans would begin mandatory evacuation at the 40-hour mark.”
morelibignorance
Well it’s about FREAKING TIME they learned what Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina have known for about a FREAKING CENTURY now. Pathetic.
By Markus
August 27, 2006 05:23 PM | Link to this
Well said TFTT! Here’s a nice link to back up what you stated. Amazing how the New York Slimes or CB.S. didn’t put it’s newsferrets on this story, huh? And people wonder why the jackass liberal mainstream media is going titzup these days.
exposeliberalies
By Vacation
August 27, 2006 05:24 PM | Link to this
They were fishing
By getalife
August 27, 2006 05:31 PM | Link to this
Here is what Brownie said happened
Post on the main thread there at the HP Markus. They love wingnuts over there.
By Markus
August 27, 2006 05:53 PM | Link to this
No, I don’t waste time posting on wingnut sites like NewsMax or the Puffington Post or demonratunderground.com (I get tossed off on that one). If anythig, FEMA is just a Class A example of why you jackass socialist liberals are dead wrong on the governmenet taking over things like healthcare. It makes no difference what administration is in charge. Government agency bureaucrocies are always just that. Hey bozo, did you hear about Medicare sending $215 checks to 250,000 folks for prescription drug “refunds” (always a government code word for robbing from someone else). Read all about it here.
Oh I can’t wait for a Democare freebie healthcare for all. Disgusting socialist liberalism.
By Markus
August 27, 2006 05:55 PM | Link to this
Link again: freeforall
By Markus
August 27, 2006 05:56 PM | Link to this
What the heck is going on? Link, AGAIN.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/23/national/main1930908.shtml
By Markus
August 27, 2006 06:01 PM | Link to this
Yep, you bet. I’m armed to the teeth and ready for next week’s onslaught of the liberal media, Hollywood ignoramuses like Spike Lee, and others who are going to blame Katrina and slander Bush which is mostly unwarranted.
By Patrick
August 28, 2006 10:52 AM | Link to this
Ok, so gravity is replacing the failed cooling pump system so the Three Mile Island meltdown supposedly won’t occur. What are they using to get the water up high enough for gravity to work? Magic? Watermill? Men with buckets?
By concerned citizen
August 28, 2006 12:28 PM | Link to this
Wow, a conservative calling for energy independence. Ole Lucifer must be putting on his mittens and earmuffs.
Nuclear, ethanol, hydrogen, clean burning coal, whatever we can come up with to make the production of energy an internal industry. Less foreign oil means less clash with rogue nations. Our energy policy IS THE CENTRAL FRONT IN THE WAR ON TERROR, not Iraq.
By Noah
August 28, 2006 03:28 PM | Link to this
Come on, Jim. Do not succumb to the current fashion of using epicenter when you mean center. Epicenter means above the center which is why we use it for earthquakes, for we cannot describe the point on the earth’s surface above the point of geologic plate friction as the center of the quake. There are few other occasions to use the word correctly.
The word center cannot be modified any more than can the word unique. If you would never say very unique then you should similarly never say epicenter to mean right smack dab in the center.
It is okay for under-educated public officials to use words beyond their ken, but Thinking Right should lead directly to Speaking Right and Writing Right.
Counting on you for the former and helping you with the latter, I am sincerely yours,
Noah Skuce Southeastern Field Representative The Committee on the Mother Tongue (Phylis Dean, Chair)
By Udo Stenzel
August 28, 2006 04:31 PM | Link to this
G says: “Nuclear waste can remain dangerous for more than four times the length of all of recorded human history.”
I really hate to break it to you, but here in Europe, we have a lot more than 250 years of recorded industry. Human civilization didn’t start with the declaration of independence, you know?
(Terribly sorry for the drive-by slander, but the numbers fit just too well.)
By Udo Stenzel
August 28, 2006 04:32 PM | Link to this
G says: “Nuclear waste can remain dangerous for more than four times the length of all of recorded human history.”
I really hate to break it to you, but here in Europe, we have a lot more than 250 years of recorded history. Human civilization didn’t start with the declaration of independence, you know?
(Terribly sorry for the drive-by slander, but the numbers fit just too well.)