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| DocHolliday |
 Sep 12 2005, 09:12 AM
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Vote Libertarian (IMG: style_emoticons/default/13.gif) Still, I think Bush has done a better job than Kerry would have. Kerry didn't offer any solutions, he just said "I'm not Bush." The Democrats are going to need something more than that in the future. Not that I see the GOP winning the next election, as unhappy as people are with the 2nd term of Bush. *sigh* What happened to all the small gov't Republicans? (IMG: style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
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| bym |
Sep 12 2005, 11:01 AM
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QUOTE *sigh* What happened to all the small gov't Republicans? Probably on Halliburtons payroll... The people need to erect a guillotine on the White House steps. It would be nice to get rid of the present Senate, House and Admin. and start with some new blood. GREEDY BASTARDS, the whole lot of them. You're entitled to your opinions about Kerry, etc. but you can't say that Kerry did anything wrong...he never had a chance what with the election rigging and the outright fraud.
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| bym |
Sep 12 2005, 12:28 PM
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QUOTE Nuclear Storage on Indian Graves
The Associated Press
Friday 09 September 2005
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday approved a private company's plan to build a nuclear waste storage site on the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation in Utah, moving the proposal a crucial step closer to fruition.
Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman immediately vowed to challenge the decision in the courts, and state officials promised to fight the facility using all possible options. The state contends the project would be too dangerous.
Private Fuel Storage, a group of utilities, wants to store 44,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel at the site about 50 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.
Utah officials had argued the facility would be too close to a major population center and that the risk of a jet fighter from Hill Air Force Base crashing into the storage casks was too great.
But commissioners dismissed the argument, taking a two-pronged vote. First, they affirmed an earlier ruling that the waste containers wouldn't release an unacceptable amount of radiation if a jet crashed into them. Then they voted 3-1 to authorize the NRC staff to issue a license to construct and operate the storage site.
The license will be ready after paperwork is completed, said NRC spokesman Eliot Brenner.
"I'm very happy," said Paul Gaukler, an attorney who for eight years has represented Private Fuel Storage in its quest to build the waste facility. "People can be assured it's a safe facility."
Huntsman said in a statement that he was "deeply disappointed" in the NRC decision and would continue fighting the storage facility. In addition to a court appeal, another option for the state could be to designate a wilderness area to block construction of a rail spur to the site.
"This is a battle that will take several years to fight to completion, but it is also a battle that I intend to win," Huntsman said.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said in a statement that the plan was "dead on arrival."
"This is a reckless, dangerous proposal, and I am pulling out all the stops to make sure this waste never makes a home in Utah," Hatch said.
Private Fuel Storage's facility would be a temporary dump pending the opening of a national nuclear waste repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., has proposed storing nuclear waste at the facilities where it is produced - an alternative to both the Private Fuel Storage site and Yucca Mountain.
On Friday, Reid, the Senate minority leader, said in a statement that he still believes that is the safest option.
"Thousands of tons of deadly nuclear material will pass homes, schools, businesses and churches in communities all across the country, and there is simply no way to safely do this," Reid said.
An impoverished tribe, the Goshutes had been looking for ways to make money and eventually teamed with Private Fuel Storage to propose the station.
Under their plan, the waste would be kept aboveground in 4,000 steel casks, which can hold up to 10 tons of spent fuel each. The casks would be shielded in an overpack of two steel shells encasing a wall of concrete more than 2 feet thick.
There are still more regulatory hurdles before construction can begin. The earliest the site is expected to be in operation is 2008. Just the latest in W's 'plan'.....Gee, what happens when we disrupt Indian graveyards? LOL! Not to be flippant, but the tribe whose land this belongs to have openly hailed it as 'OK'! We should paint a large bullseye on it to make it easier to hit...I am thoroughly disgusted.
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| Fearn |
Nov 20 2006, 06:11 PM
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About our culture, borders, and language Culture The diversity here IS part of our culture. Of course as I am a 3 month immagrant, I cant really talk (IMG: style_emoticons/default/blush2.gif) Borders Makes since! Like really Language Do you think of the mexican immagrants that came over here LEGALLY??? They may understand the English language, but that may be what makes some people feel safe. Think about being picked up, and thrown into Saudi Arabia. You dont speak the Language, understand the culture, and so you are shunned. Everything is in Arabic...horrible right? But here in this country we are slowly eased into everything. We aren't forced to learn the language, and customs imediatly. We are left winged eneugh that we are able to do this, We are also right winged eneugh to limit the things that an immagrant can do without passing the Citezenship test. Thats my 2 cents SaUlE
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| extinctionspasm |
Nov 20 2006, 09:45 PM
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I just hope the apathy of america's youth will not be the nail in the coffin so to speak. It takes strength and self sacrifice to to accomplish change. Its very easy when you realise that the concept of yourself that you have to sacrifice isnt even your own. This requires strength. The courage to admit that the things you have been holding on to aren't even your own, and you do it only because you're afraid that if you lose that there will be nothing left. That is what America inc. wants you to believe. Do us all a favour and dont believe it. You are far bigger than your incapabilities, and far more creative than your illusory lack of choices would have you believe. "La force"!!!!
Look at history. In all cases the big changes in superpowers have taken at least decades to acheive - but they all included a consistent if covert effort. A constant working towards the goal. Sure America inc may be the biggest power to be reckoned with yet, but there are bigger powers out there as hippy an untouchable as that sounds its true. Only Americans can change America. Vote for a start. Even if the difference is so tiny as to be almost unnoticable. Surely a tiny improvement is better than none at all. This is the most effective approach to change. This is the sacred magick forum. We dont become adepts overnight. We make one tiny subtle change after another in a fashion that the evolution can even seem unnoticable, until suddenly you look back over a few years and think to your self "shit" or "wow" or whatever you would say. And realise how suddenly it seems to be all much better. But that really that it has been the result of millions of tiny and at first unnoticible little changes. Governments only change by people demanding that they do, people demand that they do by voting, lobbying, protesting, advertising, and educating. Get out there and do something. We can all be canadians yet!!!!!
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