I just want to expand a little on your ideas. o, along with hairy reed, worked very hard to get the repugs back to power as soon as the ’08 election was over. The development of this repug dominated congress has been his objective as the rep of the 1%. o will now be “forced” to do things that the obots swear he is opposed to.

Now that the repugs have control of the senate, I want to see what happens on two fronts: will they now impeach o as many have been screaming to do, and will mcconell set the super majority requirement for passing senate legislation? If they do decide to impeach, I suspect that they would convict, but I think that the 1% will be perfectly happy to hold o in place because he has done their bidding so well. I suspect that the senate will now only require majority vote to pass anything.

It really didn’t matter which “party” won anywhere because the same 1% will continue to run the country. I am just worried now that the repugs will feel emboldened enough to think that nato could defeat Russia and no other country (China) would feel threatened.

If the repugs get sufficient numbers to control the senate, that will affect national politics how? The repugs already control the senate because hairy read got the super majority established to give the dims cover on letting the repugs gain control. I wish there were some light at the end of the tunnel that wasn’t an oncoming train.

Rania Khalek: “Why do media value Israeli children’s lives more than those of Palestinian kids?”

I suggest that
this is an answer.

I suggest reading The General’s Son by Miko Peled. Miko Peled’s father was a hero in the Israeli army, but predicted that the country would move toward what it now is if the government didn’t change its ways.

It’s very hard to make a rational argument when the facts aren’t on your side. In Jim’s case I’m sure that his recitation of the facts will cause everyone to see everything in proper perspective.

Apparently this was a nightly show enjoyed by many ghouls.

I am saddened by the oscar pistorius sentence: five years with possibility of parole in 10 months. I could see this coming from before the trial began. The judge wanted to let him go with out any punishment, but she realized that wouldn’t fly, so she gave him as light a sentence as she could. He is a well connected white guy due to his athletic achievements. I believe he killed her in a fit of rage and should have been given a life sentence. Had he not been who he is, I believe that would have been the most likely outcome. All of the judge’s excuses given by some legal pundits were simply to cut down her ability to give him any realistic sentence. Any complaints by the pistorius group are simply cover for a decision that should get the judge disbarred. I’m not a legal expert so you can dismiss my view as not supportable, but I think that if you do you know that you are kidding yourself.

I am, as they say, a day late and a dollar short, but happy birthday Brandon.

I have become so fed up with the dims that I am unsubscribing to all of their begging emails. It really doesn’t matter if the repugs have numerical control of either branch of congress because everything depends on them having the last say so the dims can hide behind the repug decisions. There was no need to have a super majority imposed on the senate, but that was hairy reed’s gift to us. There is no there there as has been said before. We get a truthful statement but no worthwhile action and some, as this thread shows, praise the statement as if it were the necessary action. I don’t know what steps could be taken, but I know what shouldn’t be done by either the pres or fed head. Then, while nothing was being done, we might be able to chart a course that makes sense.

Does the processing kill the problem radioactivity or just transpose it to another form that still has to be dealt with? This seems like a major effort. Would Japan have to build a special building to do this? Why are they not doing it now?

Thank you Drs. Caldicott and Lochbaum for coming to visit us today. This is such an important topic that I will see to it that our township library gets a copy. Our library already has books by both of you so this will not be a shock to the system.

Dr. Caldicott, Ms. BearCountry and I have heard you on WBAI several times. We have appreciated the level of knowledge that you have given us and we see in many cases people who are intelligent and supposedly well read who are quite ignorant in terms of nuclear energy and the threat to the world of nuclear use.

I hate to be all gloom and doom, but it seems to me that Fukushima is a disaster that threatens the end of the world as we know it. It may be true that beetles will inherit the earth and life evolution will have to start again with radioactivity as the basis of life.

The PTB realize what the TPP will do to national sovereignty so they are desperate to keep the negotiations under cover. I think, however, that based on the little that has escaped and our congressional kowtowing to the nuclear industry, we will be even harder pressed to control the nuclear industry in terms of safety, shut down, and stopping any further builds.

It seems to me that the VIPS of nuclear energy are sure that any short or long term fall out will not affect them or their families. It is only the 99% that will suffer.