A Glowing Report on Radiation

Red lady…your right those reators were built in 1972…umbrella tip to you…good post!

The score: Pacific Ocean – 10,000. Nuclear power plants – 0.

I think I’d rather live near the plants.

Wow this is all new news to me. i had never heard of such theories, and I listen to Alex Jones. . .
The botox that these anchors inject into their foreheads, goes straight to their brains. . . lolling

I’m not sure I would lobby for a nuclear waste site in my back yard yet (I prefer they reprocess the waste like France does) but Ann has written a very interesting article. I do know that the fear of all radioactivity is irrational and always has been. We’re surrounded by naturally occurring radioactivity all the time.

Do the democrats have an energy policy? From what I can see, it is an “energyless” policy which would destroy our economy. Except, of course, solar and wind power which would need to be heavily subsidized, provide almost no energy, and provide lots of unionized federal bureaucrats.

Do you believe everything you hear. Why don’t you wait for the facts?

In “The Republic,” Plato records Sokrates’s warning to Athens: Beware the physician who introduces disease into his patients and, then, once they have been infected, comes forward claiming to have the cure.

Sokrates was metaphorically warning Athens about their leaders.

During Lincoln’s Administration, Democrats were known as “Copperheads” because they were unpredictable, devious, untrustworthy and immutable in their attempts to suddenly inject political poison into Lincoln’s managing of the Civil War.

Since FDR’s Administration, Democrats have been diligent in their poisoning of the Body Politic.

Over the past 75 years, Liberalism has metamorphosed, metastasized and mutated into a full-blown political cancer that threatens to destroy this Republic.

America’s Democrat Party has ever been — and ever will be — an environmental pollutant far more caustic and far deadlier than nuclear radiation.

The latter can be mitigated and controlled through Applied Science. The former has only one cure: an aroused populace, determined to purge this Nation of what otherwise will most surely become a fatal infection.

The overpopulation people should be celebrating

Ya the way things are going we are going to be a third world country. I just wonder how much more damage the dems and obama are going to do in the next year and a half. Obama a one term clown.

Vihar..good to see you …and as always you bring much light to the darkness…I will say that if you look at how many coal miners die every year..then look at nuclear power plants..everything you’ve stated bears this out to be true…love your post!

HTDO

I did mean to bring that up…thanks for pointing that out

Hormesis, the concept of small amounts of toxic compounds stimulating the body to higher levels of health, is most important and this writer should be congratulated for bringing this topic to the popular press.

The concept goes back hundreds of years to Paracelsus, who explained that everything is a poison or a benefit, depending only on the dose. Food, water, sunshine, minerals, vitamins, exercise, nuclear radiation, even compounds normally known as only toxic such as pesticides, radon and industrial chemicals, all have been shown to have levels of ingestion that are helpful, as well as high levels being toxic.

Important scientific references on this include Dr. Edward Calabrese. A collection is maintained by Jim Muckerheide, the former Massachusetts State Nuclear Engineer at:
Radiation, Science and Health http://www.radscihealth.org/RSH/
http://www.radscihealth.org/rsh/docs/byAuthor/Muckerheide.htm
http://www.radscihealth.org/rsh/docs/Correspondence/RSH_InfoDoc.pdf

T. D. Luckey has published a book review of the topic entitled Radiation Hormesis.
http://www.radpro.com/641luckey.pdf is a short summary.

I worked in the nuclear weapons space on board an Aircraft Carrier during the 60′s. I only glow green in the dark 2 days a week now, where as it used to be 5 days a week. See, it goes away eventually, unlike asbestos or the EPA.

Here? In the US?

You could simply weld the valve open if enough of the people would put their livlihoods ahead of civic obedience.

Great article Ann, and once again pointing out the fear mongering of the left. This is another prime example of ” never let a crisis go to waste”. Speaking of wastes, Diane Sawyer was amazed about Japan’s recycling, she’s probably another one who has pathogens injected into her face. Yes we have had people here in the midwest asking about KI pills and wanting Dr’s to give them prescriptions for them, which none of the Dr’s have. People get a grip please, don’t run into your nearest ER and demand KI, you get more radiation from a chest X-ray or getting your dental X-rays.
This regime will use this to their advantage to not build anymore nuke plants.

I heard something about this. But not the degree to which it was taking place.
On a different note, I thought I was being smart and collapsing all the comments to keep track of them. They come back when you refresh, DOH!

I’m not sure but a couple are already in here with fingers flexed, ready to pounce on their keyboards. I’m still holding my breadth…

So it is kind of like our nation and socialism?

Barack Hussein Obama has dosed our nation with a more socialism than we ever experienced before, and the body of the nation is fighting back with renewed vigor.

The antibodies are taking effect, and thus the mid-term election results – beating back the cancer.

They should put those reactors on huge floating barges in inland bays where if there is a great earthquake/tsunami, they can haul them out to the deepest part of the sea and sink them.

Jules Verne would be proud of this concept.

Wacky, Ann; absolutely wacky! This article was a put on, right?
I read the article, absolutely incredulous, expecting the princess to add in the last sentence, “April fool!”
“Radiation is beneficial, there is no global warming, evolution is just a weak theory, the earth is 4000 years old, etc., etc.” The junk science the right buys into is just mind blowing!
Remember the tobacco company “experts” years ago who said there was no link to smoking and cancer?

MSM talking heads do not know what they are talking about but they go ahead and say it, anyway.

It might be useful to check the actual facts about the
chernobyl disaster, rather than AC’s made-up ones. 50 direct deaths, 4,000 deaths indirect, slower. These are just “deaths.” The permanently injured plus birth defects add thousands more. Check this web site:

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr38/en/index.html

Bingo!!!

After reading this, liberals are going to demand that everyone wear their own personal nuclear reactor; a ‘get close to energy’ core-partner, so to speak. If you can’t scare them to death, then radiate them to death.

This was the same tactic liberals used when they lost their slaves. Couldn’t scare them with perpetual subjugation, anymore, so, let’s create ghettos.

I know who your talking about…but as to me having feeling others..I’am not sure where your going with that…

I’d be willing to hazard a guess that they will go from office, to prison for fraud, among a hit-list of other crimes.

I’ve seen your post before…sound mind good heart…does not get much better than that…

It might be useful to consider some actual facts, rather than AC’s made-up ones. Actual, immediate deaths at Chernobyl = 50. But the long-term effects will produce 4,000 deaths plus many thousands seriously injured plus birth defects. AC says this has “not been confirmed by studies.”
Check out this study for a different view:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr38/en/index.html

Ann does know how to put the most truth in a nutshell in a relatively small weekly column. No doubt this also bothers those Liberals who think that they alone are the geniuses.

They are also hystericalidiots…

And Hey! As for them being out of office, I will feel great to know that they are building a resort at Guantanamo. I’m all for moving the lot of them there — either sooner or later.

Well said!

Ann is correct; the news outlets, including Fox, have shoved the magnitude of this earthquake under the nuke rug. For God’s sake this was a 9.0 earthquake. Compared to Haiti’s quake last year, this quake was 1,000 times more powerful. Consider the the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was 13 kilotons, the Haiti quake had a comparable seismic displacement of 484 kilotons of TNT. The Japan quake had a seismic displacement equal to 484 MEGAtons of TNT. Now come on; they are lucky anything is still standing. Let’s keep it in perspective!!!

Lib hack site people…

Or in layman’s terms, less damage than a blushing bride preparing her new husband’s first meal.

Aristotle would be a Conservative, Plato would be more akin to a socialist.

When you actually get to know the people operating these facilities, you learn how little we actually know about what we’re doing how little control over it we have. Most of what they are doing is guess work, they ‘re betting our lives and health on it, and they don’t tell us everything. My uncle, for instance, died from cancer that he/they believe was the result of a failure and quasi melt down at the nuclear plant just East of Peoria. He was a plumber and sent in to repair some pipes. They put a pigeon in a cage in the area where he was working and told him to get out if the pigeon died. Very few People know about the Peoria problem.

What do you care?

You live next door to Lawrence Livermore Lab and, except for sparks shooting out of your nipples, you’re in perfect physical health.

Very scientific, Stormy. The fact is if you get exposed to a large quantity of ionizing radiation, there is a good chance you’ll get leukemia and die, at a rate much higher than those not exposed. Do you believe radiation sickness is a liberal plot? Your hair falls off and you puke your guts out, as your GI tract sloughs off and you pass bloody dead tissue. The victims of Hiroshima and Chernobyl died horrible deaths in droves before their time.
You’re helping to perpetuate a dangerous myth.

Westcoast- I must have temporairly lost it. Yes, why get bogged down in facts and reality. Thank you for the wake up call. I’ll be rejoining the sheeple immediately.

The FOOL would be you April…

True, Jack. When we tore the hot shop down in 2006-7 it took tons of explosives and over a year of work for the Idaho Cleanup Project workers who were involved.

wtf is a paragargrapfs??

There is a big difference in the radiation from a welder and a nuclear reactor. The welder emits rays that will burn your skin off and cause skin cancer. Nuclear radiation in high levels disrupts cell DNA.

Another nuclear wasted life down the drain.

Why there is a simple solution Ken, store it for future use. The liberals have so little faith in mankind. Today’s understanding of science will never change. Such pessimists! We will be mining these waste materials in less than 100 years and it will be called recycling of all things. Lets see in 100 years we have gone from 1911 to 2011 – cars, airplanes, space travel, computers, iPads… Why should recycling nuclear waste be an insurmountable problem? “Oh you of little faith” to quote a rather famous Jewish Rabbi.

Watch out for see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil!

And by all means don’t stand directly in front of Culture Warrior’s nipples!

It’s OK. They were draftees.

Idah dun the same thing… we be one, I and thee, Mowgli….

OK guys: being so callous and juvenile I will thro you a bone. But please read my last paragraph of my post again. I have seen devastation in Texas like you cannot imagine.

There was a radio show in San Antonio that actually had people in Dolly’s wake that died on air. My tribulations were and are nothing. Nothing.

That was the point. They were nothing compared to what is going on in Japan.

Just trying to get over the sanitized gloss the MSM is delivering. Doing my part.

So here is my funny that I’m sure you will appreciate:

A preist and a rabbi walk out of a bar in Japan. A 20 foot wave full of cadavours and struggling people trying to survive is in front of them…

And the punch line is?

Those deaths do not fit in the mantra of hysteria of the progressive socialists they have a great utopia to worry about and to promote so we may all live in poverty while the elite few can continue to live good while preaching social justice…choke.

Thanks Ann. Great article.

Good comment. The problem is the temptation to locate the reactors close to the sea for secondary cooling water (a place to dump the heat from the cooling system, not the actual water running though the pipes). Had they been built a mile inland, they would have survived well. It just would have cost more for cooling.

Waaaa “Bush did it” the Ken Miller song for parrots. Yes …and the twinky fairy of NY prancing and puffing the lip service of the hysterical left.

I hope they dump the radio active grrbage in your water so when you dress as a drag queen at night you glow in the dark you dumb ass twink.

What is the difference?

Hey folks going on a date night with the wife…bless you ALL and keep fighting the good fight…

I’m not surprised the morons on the site are praising cult leader coulter, cause their intelligence doesn’t even reach that of a 6 year olds. As a sensible intelligent person, it just strikes me odd that people are so ignorant! Really, radioactivity decreases your chance of getting cancer?! Okay, would Ann Coulter and anyone else on this site care to go for a bath in uranium?

Nuclear power plants take money away from green projects like windmills. When you hear outrageous criticism of this form of energy, just remember to follow the money. I bet the Japanese in the end decide to continue with the construction of more nuclear plants, albeit with even more safety precautions. It is better then oil and coal. There is a new kind of reactor that is scheduled to go on line in the next few years that burns thorium. Look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_fuel_cycle for an interesting read.

At least she’s smart enough not to take it up the poop chute!

And don’t tell me you aren’t on the lookout for a Neutron Vibrator on e-bay! LOL!!!

Good evening sir.

12 Yr old Scotch is poison, too.

Jack: you are a troll. Please bless us with your absence.

Speaking of wives…

Winston once came across a women at an high poluting event in high society in the confines of Winsor Castle. It was just before the war. The conversation went something like this (very polite mind you):

Women: Sir, If you were my husband I would poison your drink.

Winstons reply: And you mame, if you were my wife, I’d drink it.

Uh, maybe it’s just me, but I sort of took her to be speaking of non-immediately lethal levels of radiation lol ….

Let’s look at it this way Pat. You eat some zinc in your vitamins. Then, you eat a bar of zinc. I guess zinc is bad.

Oh, Ann employed that comparison in the article? Silly me….

Yes Tony, the idiot population are buying iodine supplements off the shelves in Texas like doomsday is coming! I think Renolds wrap is also getting scarce! (I’m not kidding!)

Howdy Mel, what’s happening?

Your wife ran off with a circus clown and you’re worried about an unidentified Troll?

“cause their intelligence doesn’t even reach that of a 6 year olds”.

That would still make us Geniuses compared to you. When a person has thyroid cancer Radioactive iodine is often administered to ablate or destroy the few normal remaining normal thyroid cells that were not removed at the time of surgery. Radioactive iodine may also destroy any remaining clusters of thyroid cancer cells. The amount of radioactive iodine administered depends on the type and size of tumor, the initial extent of surgery, and the presence or absence of suspected residual tumor. In some instances, radioactive iodine for thyroid remnant ablation may be administered as an outpatient. In other treatment indications or regimens, patients may be administered a somewhat larger radioactive iodine dose that may require hospitalization for 48-72 hrs or so, depending on the dose administered.

Jas,

You are a bad, mean man!!

I think it is why I like you, LOL.

I am on the floor again,

I am SHOCKED that no spittle-flying, vein-popping, selfrighteously enlightened pseudoliberal hasn’t appeared here. Amazing!. Could someone please slip this article in to Ed Scultz and Rachel Madcow? I would love to see those gaskets popping. DEregulate now, massively ramp up nuke plant construction, gas and oil drilling everywhere on known fields(most of the entire continental shelf, the upper Appalachians, and the Overthrust in the Rockies) outside of the national parks( you can horizontally drill under them); we’ll be EXPORTING energy in 10 years. Back home in NoDak, they have found more reserves than in Saudi Arabia, and proving more almost daily. We need to educate our neighbors, whether liberal or not. I was an Alinsky Radical Commie until my autogenous transrectal craniectomy. Peace, Love, and Liberty.

Read Rebuplic and get back to me on that one.

No not today but this article is very funny and I don’t beleive it was to be taken serious.

Chernobyl was a complete Soviet pooch screw! Those morons built a reactor with no containment system. It was a hot reactor standing alone with morons running it!

Not much, watching this administration and the press corp trying to find an angle that will work for them to take advantage of a tragedy.

Nothing like a herd of hysterical leftlemmings ready to jump off of what ever cliff they can.

I just cannot wait for Chu to give stern directives to Japan.

We should be careful or we could be swimming in a red tsunami of dept as Japan dumps all those treasury notes they are holding in a kamikaze dive aimed at the Fed.

This administration is capable of screwing up anything.

This will likely work out as well for us as the middle east, Egypt, Libya and Yemen.

Other than that I am great. I do no plan to take any iodine, I think I will have a good glass of red wine with lots of tannins to attract all those free radicals. Or eat more blueberries.

Umbrella writes: “I think I will have a good glass of red wine with lots of tannins”

An excellent plan regardless of the situation.

You’re forgetting one thing. The liberals control the education system and pretty soon if you have a glow in the dark wrist-watch you’ll be accused of second hand radiation !!! Not to mention killing the children with this radiation !!!

Soundmind indeed…

Don’t troll the trolls. It’s like jabbing yourself in the eye with a fork. Accomplishes nothing at all, and the fork doesn’t like it.

He’s an old glassboned creep. I think he likes talking about my sexuality, cause he always brings it up

He talks about it because you brought it up. Bad move. It’s always a bad move. Unless you’re cruising for a date…

Do you always waste time with trolls? That’s what they desire.

With my avatar name I could not leave this article without a comment.

The ENDISNIGHE……the Endisnighe…..the endisnighe. Now that I got the obligatory environmental chicken without a head liberal pantomime routine out of the way.

Radiation, hydrocarbons, etc etc etc are NATURAL. Yes in higher doses they are not. Just as water can be a poison so can other substances be.

I myself carry plutonium around with me like Homer Simpson. Using the fallacy that the odds of someone poisoning me with plutonium is very highly improbable, but for two to poison me, it is astronomical! LOL

Hey, DHS observors, this is a JOKE and if you do not get it you are probably a communist liberal!

I never would have guessed that you were gay, you seem to be one of the most miserable, self absorbed, and angry people I have ever met; surely not gay.

I see you of the superior intellect are calling people morons now instead of imbociles(sic).

Good idea!!

Check my earlier post fact dude!

Heh heh heh!

You just don’t seem to grok. Welcome to oblivion. Truncheon out…

The hell you say!!??

Welcome to coulter’s cult

Who here hasn’t heard about radiation helping to cure cancer? My wife would not be here without it.

I’m smarter than you’ll ever be

Yet they want us to buy electric cars and plug them into our homes at night.

Where will that electricity come from? Look and AustinAndy’s post. What good does an electric car to for the environment?

Praise God your wife beat cancer.

I keep telling you that you need to stop pushing yourself as being smarter than people. You appear to biggoted (sic) also when you do.

Test.

Let’s say you drop your wallet in the Castro District. How far do you kick it before attempting to pick it up?

Not a damn thing. But it does up your lib cred better than that folded ribbon on your shirt…

I thought you didn’t like trolls? Now you’re trolling?

How smart is a person that reveals they are gay to a troll that dislikes gays? How smart is said person, for continuing to acknowledge the troll?

Several major cities including Houston and Washington DC have city buses running on CNG and have for a long time. If refueling stations were available across the country where I could buy fuel, I would buy a CNG powered vehicle myself if I could. A lot of oil, foreign imported oil, and a lot of emissions could be saved with CNG. You sure are right that we should be drilling and producing our domestic oil and gas reserves wherever deposits exist. Had we had an intelligent energy policy 25 years ago that included these things, we would be completely energy independent today and would have reduced emissions significantly. Sadly, here we are and we still don’t have a government that will just do what makes sense.

Let’s get into the Bakken formation for oil, and we’ll never have to get another drop of oil from anywhere else, or mess with windmills, etc etc. Let’s defeat the environmentalists on this one for the sake of everyone in the U.S

Yeah, liberals are like that. What I want to know is, how smart is a person that can’t figure out where to put their … well, you know …

Possibly if you would ever learn to spell and use proper grammar, people might believe you.

You have a problem with your/you’re.

You spell imbecile-imbocile

You spell Pedophile – petafile.

You spew infantile rants.

You use gay as an insult even though you are gay and don’t understand how funny that is.

You post opinion pieces as facts.

Nah, never mind.

No. Disappointed?

I always thought it would make sense to have one or two (or several) basic plant designs that have been pre-approved by all of the regulatory agencies. As long as a company was using one of those “canned” or “standard” designs for their new plant, the approval process could be streamlined. However, there is surely something wrong with that since it makes sense to me!

Yeah, I meant Pacer lol! Edited

With all the panic here in the States for potential disaster 5,000 miles away, people just need to stop and ask themselves “What would Charlie Sheen do?”

Toad, what’s happening man. Long time.

It looks as good as a gremlin if you cross your eyes.

The new enregy business model will be ROTM (Rats On TreadMills).

It is a perfect solution for the inner city where the supply of very large rats (not necessarily DemocRATS) but real RODENTS is abundant.

Think about it. The mutltiply rapidly. They eat garbage. Every apartment can reasoably be fitted with Rodenthabitwheels.

When the Rats get too old to be running on their RATWheel they can be slaughtered (don’t get wound up now libergays and libigot and libratist…and served for dinner.

I am sure that there are just as many rat specialty meals as there are for gorrest Gumps shrimp.

It really is marketing genious and I am sure that all those greenies will sort of approve.

Attractive franchises are available….

RATSONTREADMILLS.com

Oh, Ann, while I do believe that nuclear energy must be the very important part of our energy program (the program, which, by the way, does not exist and never existed), but don’t even try to convince me that radiation is good for my health. If you believe that it’s good for you, good luck!

Are you saying DQ couldn’t even get lucky in the Castro? LOL!!!

LOL, OK missed two percent.

All right, picky, picky, the point is that the democrats and the environmentalists do not want us to use the two major sources of power. They also have absolutely no idea of what to replace those sources (coal and nuclear) with.

That’s a good idea for the libs. That’ll calm ‘em down.

How’re you Toad???

Yeah, and burn some very sensitive areas of your body!

Then watch out for all that radiation, LOL

Oh sure, but the site that you posted said it was a mixture of innate and environmental factors. Nothing about choice, but since it discredits your “theory”, you disqualify that too.

Let me recommend that you download Firefox right now, install it, and never browse here with Internet Explorer ever again. Before you waste too much time….

Trust me….

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Only refresh when you’re completely lost. Otherwise, you might lose your “Reply” box. Ouch!!!!

What choice do they have? They have no natural resources and limited space.

TY so much….

Perhaps we can interest the greenies in Rats On Treadmills.

He’s got it all mixed up. When the working day is done… You get laid first. Then you do the coke. Then you get drunk. (you should eat dinner after the laid thing)

Forget the beating thing, it makes your hands hurt, it ruins the buzz, and nobody likes it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A

Captain Corelli.

Exercise away. Just don’t expect us to believe a word you say. (Extra points for rhyming, ya know!) LOL!!!

Why use nuclear power when we have abundant sources of natural gas that is much less expensive to use, and much safer.

Why have the comments not included the dangers of nuclear waste management. Actually nuclear waste management is a misnomer, because it is not really managed or stored. It just lays around so that terrorists can steal it.
We must have real nuclear waste disposal, in the facility in Nevada designed for that purpose. Harry Reid has blocked that use however, and must be overruled. Then you have to deal with all the states that don’t want it traveling across their borders.

Then what if a nuclear device is exploded on the storage facility? Would it generate a super nuclear explosion that would irradiate most of America?

Nuclear waste is dangerous for thousands of years. No civilization has even lasted that long. How can we protect all this dangerous material? We cannot guarantee that.

What a revolting predicament! Let’s go with natural gas, please!

Hottest chick there is what you told us. So did you get any or did she go with you because you were safe.

I’m doin’ good, Tony, how ’bout you? I’m thinking Congress should be looking into a way to tax us for any radiation headed our way, the same way they want to ‘global warming’ thanks to our sun.

Waiting for President “Present” to make a decision is sort of like watching grass grow or paint dry. On the other hand, if there is a pick up game of hoops or working on his golf handicap, he is right there.

I’m kinda surprised no one has mentioned the radiation that coal miners get in the mines. I guess if you don’t wear a TLD and measure it, it isn’t real. I work in a US PWR (in the plant, not an office) and get less dose per year than a lot of miners.

.0825 for every milirad you should have turned into electricity. Welcome to California.

Since there is a lot of general comments on energy in here, I’ll throw in my two cents for review. I have posted this before in various places, have sent it to my congressional delegation, and even sent a version of it to Obama about one and one-half years ago. Shoot holes in it if you wish.

IF we could generate large volumes of electricity from wind turbines at prices similar to what we see from coal, natural gas, and nuclear, I would be on board and promoting wind energy.

IF we could generate large volumes of reliable electricity from solar panels at prices similar to what we see from coal, natural gas, and nuclear, I would be promoting that also.

As a reference, a nuclear plant generates a kilowatt of power for roughly 2.5 cents, a natural gas plant about 3 cents, a coal plant 3.5 – 4 cents.

IF I could drive 30,000 miles a year using ethanol at a total cost comparable to gasoline without raising food prices, I would support that too.

IF electric vehicles could travel 1,000 miles between charges and without battery packs that cost thousands of dollars to replace I would support them too.

I try to be a practical, reasonable person. I have no axe to grind with traditional or renewable energy sources. No investments to sway my argument. I just want what is best for America and the average consumer like me. Any sane person would support alternative energy sources like these that are as reliable, as economical, and cleaner than traditional energy.

But that’s the problem. Today’s technology does not appear to give us alternatives that meet these criteria. Each alternative, wind, solar, and ethanol, all have serious downsides. Wind appears to be very expensive based on recent published proposals, solar is not reliable in that it does not produce at night (and may be too expensive), and ethanol is very inefficient, expensive, and raises food costs. Converting food into fuel does not seem very wise. The people pushing these alternatives, including the President, seem to ignore the shortcomings; shortcomings which to me seem crippling. If I’m wrong, tell me where.

To me, it’s about economics first with pollution a secondary concern. I can’t afford to see my home heating/cooling costs substantially increased nor can I afford much higher prices to go see my grandkids. As a nation, our entire economy runs on economical and dependable energy. Skyrocketing prices hurt us all.

Yes, oil and coal have pollution issues, natural gas less so. Yes they are all fossil fuels and as such are a somewhat limited resource although a great deal remains to be produced including a lot in this country, especially natural gas and coal. But I think we could be allocating these resources better than we have which would limit these issues, reducing pollution, making energy plentiful, eliminating our dependence on foreign oil, and keeping energy costs relatively low.

We have not been doing these things, which is our fault. Our government has completely failed to encourage a sensible energy plan for many years and has put us in the terrible position we are in today. But it is not too late to do what makes sense, although it will take time to crawl out of the hole we have dug, no matter what options we choose.

Based on today’s realities, I have been advocating all possible domestic oil and gas drilling wherever deposits exist in order to help eliminate our dependence on foreign oil. Among other things, foreign dependence is a major national security issue. I have been advocating CNG as an alternative transportation fuel to reduce our use of oil in general as well as reducing pollution. We could even liquefy coal making a gasoline/diesel substitute that would further reduce our reliance on oil.

I have been advocating far more nuclear power because it is the cheapest and cleanest way of generating large volumes of electricity, and it is very safe in spite of the problems in Japan today. 9.0 magnitude earthquakes do not happen everywhere in the world thankfully. It would be more than foolish to let a once in every 500 year event in an area known for major quake problems to overly influence our economic future. I would personally be very happy to have a nuclear plant in my back yard.

We have the means to become energy independent, reduce pollution, and do what makes sense economically if we would only start doing so. If “renewables” become economically competitive (without reducing quantities or raising prices for necessities like food) and dependable, bring ‘em on! Until then, let’s use what we have.

I mentioned this on another site or thread but…

Chris Matthews was talking about Obama’s Middle East policy. He called him President Carter. LOL.

Gross!

LMAO,

You are on a roll tonight!!

Too bad we can’t harness the hot air from the politicians to use as energy. If we could do that, there would be no need for nuclear. We could power the entire U.S.

Well sir you can have the first Rats On TreadMills franchise in Berkely or SF. (lots of rats there).

The local Fairies can use the rat dung for their gardens, and they can trim their blazers with rat fur collars…come to think of it chichillas are jsut rats with nice fur.

It is more than likely that bunnies on treadmills would do better in the bay area but bunnies are lazy.

Rats are far more energetic. Even cable cars couls be powered by herds of rats.

DQ might be able to supply you.

HAH!

lol

I think the libs are smoking the rat dung. We should start selling TV’s with an exercise bike attached. Pedal, pedal, power that baby!

UNM!

Try table salt

Amazingly Andy he has proven to be even a bigger Disaster In Charge (DIC ) than even I predicted befroe and after his election.

hard to imagin any other President with a Talking board and his sweet 16 pics while one of our stauchest allies is without power food, water and has had the worst disaster in their modern history, the Middle East is totally unstable, and he is playing golf…and picking his bracket.

God help us.

Molly be damned.

Learned that in a Tom Clancy book. LOL. It’s what geologists call it.

So instead of an “energyless” plan, we should have an energy everywhere plan. What are you, some kind of farsighted, informed and intelligent human being? You mean we should advocate a competent sensible plan instead of nonsensical foolishness?

You trying to upset the “chicken little” environmental apple cart?

Like Tony said, I think the liberals think that if only we could harness the power of Unicorns and Rainbows, everything would be great.

I have read into a lot of the energy ideas of the Cap and Taxers, I think there whole idea is to create new jobs like Ice deliverers. Something like tax attorneys and tax accountants. Create jobs that have no REAL purpose except creating the jobs for the sake of creating the jobs. The Cap and Tax bill I read into a lot. They were going to create these jobs by forcing people to environmentalize their homes before resale. Bigger and bigger bureaucracies to enforce these stupid regulations. This was just one component by forcing every jurisdiction, including townships, into hiring inspectors for these regs.

The more I think about it, I swear the Dems are attempting to force our country into a communist regime. No that is not a tin foil hat idea. What other reason why they need a government that is about half of the dang employment size. Over the last ten years the federal government alone has brought in about 1-1.5 million more people into the federal government. It may even be more than that. Getting it from the number of increased intelligence clearances handed out. I cannot remember what article I read that from. The Dems and the progressives in the Rethug party are taking us the exact opposite direction we have to go.

Sorry for the spiel.

Heh heh heh heh! Nicely done.

Get back to me when you can scramble eggs in your butt crack.

“I’m not surprised the morons on the site …”

Are you not on this site? Or are you a sensible (insert comma) intelligent 6 1/2 year old?

We are more likely to develop these new technologies as a rich country with cheap energy, than a poor country with an out of touch government.
Which is where we’re headed.

Rose is a magician.

My feelings for him are almost–wait for it–

DQesque!!! LOL!!!

…and they would have gladly ended the War even if it meant leaving slavery intact.

In fact, that was the central plank in the Democrats’ platform when they ran Gen’l. George McClellan against Lincoln in 1865.

Fairy Dust! An energy source I had completely overlooked! I will get right on that one. Think of the Giga Watts available from that source.

“I’m smarter than you’ll ever be”

Of course you are and thank you, thank you for gracing us with your wisdom. I feel 6 1/2 now too, merely by your presence.

Thank you Vihar_Adakozo.. your writing was far more intelligent than Ms. Coulter’s.

Nope. You said something about the 1st amendment. Nobody questioned your *right* to speak. I questioned the rational basis for your opinion. I even gave an example.

Tomatoes were believed poisonous for many years. You expressed an opinon which implied you had knowledge that low levels of radiation were in fact harmful, contradicting the scientific research presented in the article.

I requested that you indicate the basis for your rejection.

If what you’re trying to say is that you haven’t the foggiest fricking clue, then just say so. You like white chocolate, don’t like dark chocolate, fine. Fair enough. The number of things I know nothing about is infinity minus five, the five being the things I do know about.

Most people would put it this way, though, “That may be true, but I’m not doing it!”

You didn’t take that approach. Or is that what you meant? If so, my apologies. I’m hardened by the unending stream of know-nothing liberals that blow through here.

Tax the citizens and then Crap on them – Tax and Crap

You miss Edward? *shudder*

Yeah … he is actually a nice guy in person. I miss giving him excretion. Plus, I’d like to turn his words on him now, as all he accused Bush of, Obama is far more guilty of.

Been reading a lot on the Chernobyl “accident” a lot over the past few days. A few nuclear engineers called it purposefully done. Not the actual accident but the entire actions taken to get where they ended up.

It was like everything they did was done for the sole purpose of causing the “accident”.

I am outta here.

Good night good people and God bless all on this thread!!

What’d you get your PhD in. Gossip?

The DNC of today would disallow Truman or JFK from being a member of their elitist group; where the ultra wealthy reside, I might add.

Thank you sir.

Nice to hear something from someone that actually has real life experience.

I have copied your post and will share it with others that do not come here who even though they are on the right are also hysterical

He makes LeBron look like me! LOL!!!

There’s no cure for that sort of radiation … though a cold shower helps …

Pithy!

I got to take one. Wash off the glow. Ann explodes me!

Bravo, Storm_Bringer!!!

The media, including the so-called conservative cable news, are going beserk and hysterical with their ignorant doom and gloom agenda-driven shallow and unsubstaniated reports. Little more than scare-mongering to gain ratings. Dispicable!!

Or as they accused the TEA partiers of behaving. Then when they get a chance to demonstrate, see how they behave in Madison, Wisconsin.

Can you imagine what the press would be saying about Tea Party members who had done millions of dollars of damage to public property like that?

And weren’t those people (many of them of out-of-state but showed up like good ‘community organizers’ coordinate) protesting their “government”?

Isn’t that the ‘crime’ of Tea Party members according to MSNBC, et al?

Can you believe that moron?

You make several good points there, Loyd. Thanks!

The Japanese reactor problem does not play into the hands of the environmentalists here. This was not the goal, if you will. The thing to remember is that he environmentalists use everything they see possible to support their mindset. If a man steps on a flower, then they put that in the “dangers to the environment” list they carry around with them.

I think the environuts are happy as punch that this disaster happened. It both gives them cause to delay and then stop any progress. It’s a combination of control and of working to destroy what they hate about the country which is, by the way, the country being the best it can possibly be.

Pat, your comment with all the asterisks reminds me of an old ditty I learned in school many, many years ago. It goes like this:

Mary had a pair of skates,
Upon the ice to frisk.
Now, wasn’t she a foolish girl,
Her little *

What did you say was in that jug???

Good comment. As an aside, I had a very noticeable skip beat and a slow heart rate until the proper level of Levothyroxine was found for my hypothyroidism. Also, I constantly fell asleep. When I hear someone say they sleep all the time or that they feel unsteady heart rate or that their hair is falling out, I tell them to go to the doctor to get a blood test for TSH. In a few cases, this has been the problem. Nothing at all to do with radiation, either.

Those clowns would probably just call you a religious nut. Haha

Hi Jack.

Hi Paul!

I’m about to pack it in. Just finished “Unstoppable” and have to get up early tomorrow for a change.

Enjoy the thread!

G’night Westoast!

Goodnight Jas, You’ll have to tell me about “Unstoppable” tomorrow. I’m guessing that it’s a movie. Is it about Dropquick and Eddie locked together in a closet? If so, I don’t want to hear about it anymore.

So how are you doing Westoast? I was looking for a recent post of yours to respond to, but I couldn’t find you on the thread and this patience testing site won’t allow me to post a comment unless it’s in response to another comment, and even then it won’t at times.

When I lived in Brazil, they produced electricity from wood gas. They baked the wood to get the gas for the engines driving the generators and the by-product was coke which was used to bake the wood. It was a continuing cycle.

Before thinking this was a good thing, it was not AC but DC. Therefore, you only used it mainly for lighting.

It was supposed to be 110 Volts. During the day, it was around 80-90 Volts and as people went to sleep at night, it climbed up to as high as 160 Volts. Terrible regulation but this was typical of DC.

AC can use transformers to raise or lower the voltage level. DC cannot use transformers… The system was mainly for lighting but it was also used for refrigerators, etc., with the proper motors installed.

That was in the 1950′s. Today, that system is history. They now use 220 Volts for power as is typical of the majority of other countries. The power transmission easier if the aim is to reduce the number of transformers but most important is that the size of wiring is reduced by half. Less copper is used as a consequence. We, on the other hand, use 110-120 volts and we can also reduce the amount of copper used but not so much in the wiring but in the transformers. We do it by using AC at 60 Hertz (cycles per second) which is different from the 50 Hertz used in many other 220 Volt countries. Another advantage of using 60 Hertz is that not only is less copper is needed in transformers, less iron is also used. Transformers are smaller, as a result.

As can be seen, the deeper you go into electrical power generation, the more incidentals you find which very often bring up questions of savings and losses and this relates directly to efficiency.

I’m doing good . Thanks for asking. Just staying up late again.
Starting to get a little tired though. I guess if Jack is calling it a night one of us is going to have to start being funny.
No pressure.

No, not really. But I quit smoking weed a long time ago.

Way to step up! LOL

You ruined it. You were supposed to say “what”

Chickenbutt!

You know why?

Oops. I didn’t see the “why?” down lower.
No I don’t know why.

Chicken thigh!

What do you mean once!!

good my brother…

You know, I almost feel less inclined to pity the Japanese people. It seems like they are capable of taking care of themselves and it is just a matter of them cleaning up their own mess.
And the scope of the tragedy is a little large to comprehend for me I guess.

Yeah, they are real hummers……

We will have to talk about that tomorrow, I am off to sleep and already wrote you another parting post. Goodnight Westoast. God Be With you.

Goodnight to you too PB. Maybe we’ll get to talk another time soon, maybe tomorrow night? God Be With you Too. Take Care.

And yet the meaning remains pretty much the same.LOL

At the Michigan capital last night, there were some arrests made because of civil unrest, chaos, resisting arrest, trespassing, impeding a police vehicle and the like. The troublemakers? Not one of them a union member. What are they doing there?

Thanks for your great post Storm

I agree. I travel a lot and there are major wind farms in northwestern Indiana and is south east Minnesota that my trips take me through. I have consulted on a project to make the monstrous bases for sea-based wind mills. (They would require massive amounts of Nickel to protect them from the sea water.)

Then in the morning they will wake up with a new mission in life – stopping the building of windmills…

The way to turn the Greenies off from windmills is to point out that in the northern hemisphere the wind generally blows west to east or against the rotation of the earth. Windmills allow the wind to push against them to generate power. (Here is the panic part that you really have to play up.)

THAT SLOWS DOWN THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH! (Well it is slowing down anyway but this is only for the fun of scaring them with science.) Let them imagine all the awful things that will happen when the earth stops – like we will weight more (less centripetal force). I can just image them going back to their smoke filled dens and having another drug induced night knowing that they are totally insignificant, and can’t do a single thing about it.

So….what we have is…liberals, media and democrats will attempt to spin theories about things they do or don’t like on the people regardless of fact.

Here we have radiation and the “danger” of nuclear reactors. The democrats want us back at burning logs only….wait, too many trees. Use the sun even though it is way too expensive for too little – and they would figure a way to tax the sunlight. Use wind – even though it’s been proven it produces little to no benefit, especially in areas with little wind blowing. So they aren’t really sure what to use because everything is bad and whatever ideas others come up with they will shoot down.

So apply that to global warming…libs and media still try to make it real. So now they just say any change in weather at all is global warming.

What other theories with little to no evidence over the years/centuries have they forced upon people?

Hmmm, evolution perhaps?

Well, FYI……Covah was using 5 IDs before Human Events took 4 away from him, so that knocks a big hole in your accusation. People can use up to 5 IDs and they have yet to use yours.

There is only one who has ever stolen yours; you have never guessed who he is, and he’s not here 90% of the time.

And NO, it wasn’t me.

Amen to this one.

Read you Bible folks
These times are really great,it’s like putting a large puzzle together when you start the picture is unclear,but as you get to the end of the puzzle the picture clears up,this is the way biblical prophecy is today very clear and news is coming quick.These are exiting times we live in.

Congratulation Ann for your article. I guess, however, the truths what you explained with respect to radiation effect will be denied by the green/leftist people. I worked myself five years with the design of fuel elements and know what they can bear and what they can harm. Naturally the incidence is a tragedy for Japanese nation and they will suffer much. However, if we look at present situation we can count more than 10 000 immediate deaths due to the tremor/Tsunami and at least ZERO death from the nuclear incidence. Beside the structures of the plants sustained at least a factor of five more forces during the tremor regarding the design values. The Tsunami was the cause that all peripheral equipments related to the safety counter measures collapsed. Therefore, one should very carefully debate about the radiation exposure as they are all harmful at all. The dose makes the difference. The hormesis is a natural phenomenon. The mass media naturally will never accept it. Nevertheless, it is great that you tackled this story.
Thanks
Dr. Arman Nyilas

I’m holding my width……

You mean that His Wordiness convinced you…

I have a five-page resume. This goes against those who think only the one-page resume can get a job. The two times I submitted that resume, it got me the job.

Some things just cannot be compressed into one page without losing some part of the message. This is a fact of life. In fact, you cannot really know someone by merely seeing them in a suit. Why, even Obama can do this…

Anything as detailed as Wayne’s commentary is ripe with elements that can be taken apart and generate comments. I suspect, however, that the list of items on Wayne’s List started out with a few items but the list has grown. Also, he was presenting what he has sent to many others for their perusal. This, to me, is also interesting. We can see from this, then, what may have been interesting or what they chose to ignore. Wayne just offered to us the opportunity to see what is important to him and I did notice he used proper grammar and spelling which is becoming more and more rare these days. For me, it was interesting although I may have written it differently.

Not everyone has a wart on his nose and not everyone really minds if they do.

No matter how you cut it, Wayne’s commentary is giving us plenty to consider and talk about.

Good point, Ann. They could use you in Japan. What are you waiting for?

Molybdenum is often added to brass/bronze to create springiness in highly conductive “finger contacts” in shielding. It is not destructive to aluminum as are some other alloys. Therefore, it is mostly used for very specific purposes in manufacturing and engineering.

It seems too that molybdenum can be found in health food stores for those who have exhausted the other experimental offerings. There, molybdenum may create attitude flexibility in health food fanatics.

Gotta keep molybdenum in my list of words to use to impress people with my spelling of somewhat-rare words.

Good comment.

Sadly, Fox News which I did not include as part of “liberal media” has been just as bad as the rest. You’re right on about exploiting unfounded fears and that being despicable, but people I used to trust are doing it too.

As usual, a good post, Tony. I have often wondered why so many seem to want to destroy western civilization and the only reason I can come up with is they want the political power themselves. The old world domination scheme.

What?? THERE IS NO ECONOMICALLY VIABLE “GREEN” ENERGY. NONE! Nuclear power generates a kilowatt of electricity for about 2.5 cents. Tell us all how much that same kilowatt costs from a wind turbine or a solar panel. I might add that nuke plants are built with private corporation investments so they take nothing away from “green projects”.

I would only add that a wind farm proposal off the Rhode Island coast was rejected last year DUE TO THE COST OF THE POWER PRODUCED. The proposal called for the power generated to be sold to the power grid (wholesale price) starting at 24 cents per kilowatt rising to 48 cents over 20 years. Considering I’m paying around 8 cents per kilowatt (retail) at home, that is simply an insane cost for power. Wind sure ain’t free when it comes to generating electricity! The nation cannot afford costs like that.

Try it and let us know the results.

InstarLarvae? ain’t that the same as a MAGGOT?

Australia needs to modernize their polluting equipment.

When you pass coal fired plants here, all you see is steam. The residue is in piles awaiting the trains to haul it all away for production of other forms of fuel of for manufacturing purposes. Nothing is wasted.

It’s a little like pork canning factories where they use everything but the eyebrows and they are working on finding a way to use them, also.

Another Great Post!

If you are suggesting that she is saying that massive, chronic exposures are good, then I suggest a more careful reading of the article by Ann. Your hot button is a bit touchy. You seem to be falling prey to the same thing you accuse the Republicans of doing: falling for loony arguments.

I hate to tell you this, but AlGore (one word) went to college because his parents were rich and could afford to waste their money. His grade point was dismal as is his current grasp of science.

Sure the earth was warming, a few years before it was cooling. It seems to be cooling again right now, and if that solar cycle ever kicks in, it will be warming again. Nothing to panic about yet… But we will let you know when to panic. Americans so do love to panic.

The Japanese are keeping their cool. Unlike Americans, those who have done an inadequate job on the safety of those power plants, will apologize to the public and resign on their own accord as soon as they finish doing all they can to rescue the situation. There are certain things about the Japanese people to be admired.

I remember the times spent on my Grandparents farm in West Texas, an amazing place for a young boy. They, at the time, were getting all of their electricity from a windmill.

Even as a 12 year boy I was fascinated by the system and learned it well. The entire house was operated on a 12 volt system, even MoMo’s vacuum cleaner. The system included a shed that held about 80 12v batteries. This was back-up and in West Texas you rarely needed it, the wind blew all of the time. [Daddy Frank put a 4' pole out in front of the barn with a 3' piece of log chain bolted to the top. He did that for a farmhand that complained it was to windy to work. "When that chain is half-way up it's to windy, when it's straight out go to the shelter.]

But the wind did not blow all the time.

OK, not all of the time, but the battery bank could hold you for 3-6 days. This operating a dozen light bulbs {certainly not all at once} and a radio {no TV but then there were only two stations and Daddy Frank considered it a ‘foolish’ waste of time and money.} and of course MoMo’s vacuum cleaner, her only ‘luxury’ item.

By the time I was 14 RECC had come in and Daddy Frank and I ran the new wiring, we had to leave in a few DC outlets as MoMo was not parting with her DC vacuum Cleaner.

But time passes, I really doubt that many could fit their lifestyle into the DC power grid that served my Grandparents.

We are a nation rich in resources; Coal, Natural Gas and Oil. Our western states especially, have rich Hydroelectric potential and on-line sites.

And while those proven resources could carry US far into the next century, we are stopped at each turn from mining, drilling or building to reach a self-sufficient status. Instead we have elected to remain dependent on nations of questionable stability or loyalty.

If you say, ‘Drill now!’ they say, ‘That would take ten years.’. If you say ‘Build Now!’, they say, “But that would take ten years.” If you say, “Nuclear” they run in circles shouting “THREE-MILE ISLAND, THREE MILE ISLAND”.{Besides, that would take ten years.} Well there have been almost five ‘ten more years’ pass from the time when Daddy Frank and I ran wires for the new 120v service on that West Texas farm. And where are we? Sitting here with a government that wants to tell you what light-bulb to use, or what car to drive, what toilet to flush?

Had we started more Nuclear builds twenty years ago where would we be? Likely half of our electric needs would be provided from that energy source by now.

We have the majority of our submarine fleet powered by nuclear, and many other Navy vessels, notably the most awesome Aircraft Carrier in the world {named after an equally awesome man.} The Ronald Reagan, it can go 20 years without refueling. And guess what? In all the years of these ships being powered by nuclear, only one case of over-radiation was reported. The brave skipper of a nuclear submarine, Capt. Jimmy Carter, who apparently suffered some brain damage.

So if not NOW, when?

The path we are on leads to further subjugation; by unfriendly nations and by a government that deeply cares about our needs; and has already decided what they are.

Yours in Liberty, David

How about we get back to what is important – the survival of this great country of ours. Write your congressmen and tell them how you feel about the significant portions of what they have control over – our economy and the dollar are gradually sliding down a slippery slope that we may never be able to climb out of. God Bless America!! Let’s make April 2011 the “We only Buy USA” month.

Thank you River.

Well stated and as far as our nations energy programs absolutely true.

Shame on our legislative branch on both sides of the aisle for nor protecting our nation’s economy.

If anyone is wondering where AppyH and his zionist buddies are, they are marching in a St Paddy’s Day parade with a group called, The Log Cabin Republicans. It’s a joint effort (no pun intended) to cast the GOP in a new light as being tolerant of gays and zionists.

Now you bring back to mind Jessie Jackson’s comment about Obama needing his “jewels” removed.

And people call those Leetle Men their leaders? What kind of people are these, anyway???

FRAGGED…

Wayne, you’re correct (to a degree). It’s not Fox News that’s been hyping Japan, just Shepard Smith…

Disadvantages of Solar Power can be seen here:
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-disadvantages-of-solar-power.htm

Disadvantages of Wind Power can be seen here:
http://www.ehow.com/list_7166819_disadvantages-wind-power-generation.html

Americans are business-oriented. When a venture does not pay off, it is abandoned.

When we see certain groups of people still pushing Wind and Solar power, then there is an advantage in it for them or, in some cases, they are so disconnected with reality that efficiency and profit are not in their equations. Therefore, to make those forms of energy profitable and allow them to replace other, more-reliable and traditional forms of energy production means they either must depend on government subsidies or that they are not in it for the profit of business. The net effect is to be yet more expensive and less usable and available to the major part of society.

Too many in government want to continually shove down our throats what we do not want or need. Are we going to continue to let them get away with it?

This is a keeper. Thanks!

It’s rich vs. poor, not left vs. right, and if you can’t see that, and you’re not rich, they’re succeeding.

I enjoyed your post river..common sense, history, truth and a little humor..

Ah,

Tis St. Paddy’s day!! For all of you irish men and women and those that just want to be – an Irish joke for you all.

An Irish priest has been wanting to vacation in America his whole life. he scrimps and saves and finally has enough money. Asking around, his friends tell him that if he goes to America, the best place to go is Las Vegas.

So he books a hotel and a plane and off he goes.

As he comes off the ramp, a stewardess is standing there and goes, OMG, ELVIS!! I knew you weren’t dead.

The priest replies, I am not this Elvis person. Leave me alone.

Priest goes out and hails a cab, gets in and the cab driver says, ELVIS, I knew you weren’t dead. I knew it was only a matter of time til you got back to Vegas.

Priest says. I am not this Elvis Person. What is the matter with all of you people.

Finally he goes into the hotel. As he checks in the man at the counter says, ELVIS!! Good to see you. We knew you weren’t dead. WE saved you your old suite and we will comp it of course. I will call the ‘girls’ (wink, wink) and send up some booze and food, also comp’ed.

The Priest says, Thank you, thank you very much.

The detrimental effects of fossil-fuel burning are almost always reported as simply ‘green-house gas’ emissions. What has been known for half a century, and somehow ‘forgotten’, is the much more serious effects of respirable particulates. Burning coal, especially in the newer more efficient pulverized coal furnaces, produces flyash: the non-combustible mineral residue from the coal. Despite efforts to capture these minute particles, tons of it are going up the stack and into the atmosphere every hour in the U.S. and around the world. If you live within a hundred miles of a coal fired power plant, when the wind is blowing your way you will be taking some of this material into your lungs as you breathe.
Burning coal concentrates whatever elements were in that glossy black material. Some of those include heavy metals like vanadium, also common in the soot from burning diesel oil. Radioactive elements are also in the mix: Thorium 238 is the one most common in coal. So, the output from that coal-burning powerplant is going to put minute radioactive particles in your lungs, unless you walk around wearing a HEPA filter respirator 24/7.
According to the ‘zero-radiation-tolerance’ advocates, this means we will all die immediately of lung cancer. Since we haven’t, the evidence is that we in fact do have pretty strong tolerance to ionizing radiation, even when the source is within our bodies.
As background, the TVA in the 1950′s found a great use for the ash from their many coal-fired electric generating plants: ground up it made a terrific component of cinder-block building material. Problem was, after constructing several schools with this wonderful cheap material, somebody brought in a Geiger counter to show the kids what radiation was all about. After the AEC had checked the building and condemned it, the TVA had to find another disposal method.
More background: in the late 1970′s and early 80′s, I was part of a team at the IIT Fine Particle Research department which had EPA contracts to determine what was floating around in the air, what it contained, and where it came from. Look up our reports in the Library of Congress if you need more information.

Excellent statistics. Another keeper.

Thanks!

David, I have a couple of friends who drove LA class subs for years. They slept literally within feet of the reactor for months at a time with no adverse affects.

The electronics don’t always obey the wishes of computer designers but digital logic will always dictate the way it will be used.

There are no if’s, and’s, or’s, or but’s (or ‘lest’, nor’s, goto’s, etc.) about it.

We are forced to speak the Language of Logic whether we like it or not.

Do you have any answers or are you all about questions???

Thanks Mel, same to you. Dang, I missed Toad again last night.

Do you have my email address? I want to send you a chapter of a copyrighted book I wrote: Call it Heresy. If you want, send Mel a message for her to provide you my email address or for her to provide yours. I am leery about putting mine here and suspect you are, also.

Whew! Thanks, Andy. You sure put some village idiot back on the straight and narrow.

But those of us who actually read history, we think you dip too much from the fountain of worthless liberalism to get your programmed re-write of American history.

I’m not going to waste my time educating a nit-wit, but as a teaser, here is a chronological legacy of your ‘missing-every-marble’ Democrat Party and represented today by your patron saints, San Fran Nan, Barnette Frank, and your premier leg-tingling poverty pimp, Barocky Hussein.

I’ll keep this simple: Slavery, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws, Fire, Equal But Separate Laws, Hoses, Killer Dogs, Housing Projects, Ghettos and the Birth of Entitlement Sponges.

And the core manipulators? All worthless liberal democrats. Check it out. Who knows, you may even want to finally climb out of the delirium you’ve been made to live.

Good Luck!

one of the few times I agree with Ann. Very thought out remarks.

My Dear Mr. Arnold,
Nice to see science applied with actual, provable, repeatable and reliable facts and figures and not just politically correct “Consensus”.

LOL

It wasn’t all sugar-free substitutes. It was the safe product Sweet N Low, which is mostly saccharin, that supposedly was suddenly unsafe. They were giving mice bathloads full in my opinion (propaganda to get unscientific results) to usher in the aspertame (Equal) which has been a neuro-toxin and has hurt a lot of people. There has not been one report of someone harmed by Sweet N Low (Saccharin) in 70 years. Stick with the old stuff; don’t trust the new.

And a fine day it is to have a pint or two.

Hey Mel, TDO, Nick

Good to ‘see’ ya’.

{hmmm, I didn’t know Green Beer was supposed to glow. ??? }

Keep in mind that when Jimmy Carter said “nucular” the media never flinched because it was one of their own, even a “nucular” engineer. But if Bush said it, he was an immediate ignoramus.

Sorta puts the mark of prejudice on the media, doesn’t it???

And ignore that what we want and need are no longer made in America? Those companies that used to make those things we want and need were priced out of the market by our wonderful unions. Fact!!! Then our companies went abroad to make what we need and want rather than close the doors. Fact!!!

Therefore, if I buy sardines at the Dollar Store that are canned in China, I am happy to do it considering that if American companies wanted to take over that market, they could do so — but not on my budget…

Protectionism is anther way to drive our American businesses out of the market. We cannot afford the prices, our businesses cannot afford unions that force businesses to set higher prices.

Fact!!!

Boob is just a bug under your saddle, Appy.

Ride ‘em, ride ‘em hard…!

HAHAHAHA, just love you Children.

Most of the Fox News shows have been guilty of fear mongering, not just Shepard Smith, although he may be the worst (he usually is). Megan Kelly has been bad, O’Reilly has been bad (although he is not a “news” show”. The best reports I have heard on Fox came from Glenn Beck! He actually took a little time to learn what was really happening and brought some common sense analysis to the table, even in a way that most people could understand. (His M&M fuel rods were pretty classic!) The rest of the reporting has been pretty bad. I wrote the network to complain and have tuned them out, at least until this baloney is over.

There was an old priest who got sick of all the people in his parish who kept confessing adultery. One Sunday, from the pulpit, he said, “If I hear one more person confess to adultery, I’ll quit!”

Well, everyone liked him, so they came up with a code word. Someone who had committed adultery would say they had “fallen.”

This seemed to satisfy the old priest and things went well, until the priest died at a ripe old age. About a week after the new priest arrived, he visited the Mayor of the town and seemed very concerned.

The priest said, “You have to do something about the sidewalks in town. When people come to the confessional, they keep talking about having ‘fallen.’”

The Mayor started to laugh, realizing that no one had told the new priest about the code word.

Before the mayor could explain, the priest shook an accusing finger at the mayor and said, “I don’t know what you’re laughing about! Your wife fell three times this week.”

A man wonders if having sex on the Sabbath is a sin because he is not sure if sex is work or play. He asks a priest for his opinion on this question.

The priest says after consulting the Bible, ‘My son, after an exhaustive search I am positive sex is work and is not permitted on Sundays.’

The man thinks: ‘What does a priest know of sex?’

He goes to the minister…a married man, experienced.. for the answer. He queries the minister and receives the same reply.. Sex is work and not for the Sabbath.

Not pleased with the reply, he seeks out the ultimate authority: a man of thousands of years tradition and knowledge… A Rabbi.

The Rabbi ponders the question and states, ‘My son, sex is definitely play.’

The man replies, ‘Rabbi, how can you be so sure when so many others tell me sex is work?!’

The Rabbi softly speaks, ‘If sex were work… my wife would have the maid do it.’

The Minister had the last of his teeth out and was fitted with dentures.

The first Sunday he preached for 10 minutes.

The second Sunday he preached for 20 minutes.

The third Sunday he preached for 1 hour 25 minutes.

When asked about this here was his reply. “The first Sunday my gums were so sore I could hardly talk.The second Sunday the new dentures were hurting and on the third Sunday I was in a rush. I grabbed the wife`s by mistake and well… I couldn’t shut up!!!”

In an ancient monastery, a new monk arrived to dedicate his life and to join the others copying ancient records. The first thing he noticed was that they were copying by hand, books that had already been copied by hand.

He had to speak up. “Forgive me, Father Justinian, but copying other copies by hand allows many chances for error. How do we know we aren’t copying someone else’s mistakes? Are they ever checked against the originals?”

Father Justinian was startled! No one had ever suggested that before. “Well, that is a good point, my son. I will take one of these latest books down to the vault and study it against its original document.”

He went deep into the vault where no one else was allowed to enter, and started to study. The day passed, and it was getting late in the evening.

The monks were getting worried about Father Justinian. Finally one monk started making his way through the old vault, and as he began to think he might get lost, he heard sobbing. It had to be Father Justinian.

The sobbing was louder as he came near. He finally found the old priest sitting at a table with both the new copy and the original ancient book in front of him. It was obvious that Father Justinian had been crying for a long time. Then the he heard Father Justinian moan aloud and say some startling words.

“Oh, my Lord,” sobbed Father Justinian, “the word is ‘celebrate’!!”

I’m from canada. Here, we have Radium Hot Springs in one of the national parks in British Columbia. the elderly Ukrainians from the Prairie provinces swear by it, & go there in droves!

Now this is REALLY funny. O-bummer has messed up so much stuff. Even the school bearing his name has to be closed.
LOL I wonder how he did that one?

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ASBURY PARK — The state fiscal monitor who oversees financial operations in the school district Thursday morning ordered the closing of the Barack H. Obama Elementary School as of July 1.

Students next year will go to the district’s two other more modern elementary schools — Thurgood Marshall on the east side and Bradley on the west side.

Bruce Rodman, the monitor, made the decision after the school board in recent weeks failed to support a plan by Schools Superintendent Denise Lowe to reconfigure elementary grades to create early childhood learning centers in the district, a plan which would have kept the Obama school open

ANOTHER Great Post!!!!

I heard the Greaseman tell that about 28 years ago. Except the girl’s name was Tootie. LOL!!!

As in:

Is that Tootie Green?

It’s kinda hard to tell from here, Reverend.

See all the nuclear fear mongering on the part of FOX and republicans – contrary to what Ann Coutlergeist is saying. The woman is a trip.

Preventing terrorism is everybody’s business.
If you SEE something, SAY something.
Call the Metropolitan Police Department at (202) 727-9099 or email at SAR@DC.GOV to report suspicious activity or behavior that has already occurred.
Call 911 to report in-progress threats or emergencies.

To learn more, visit http://www.mpdc.dc.gov/operationtipp.

Japan got into this mess, I believe, because the reactor owners gambled and lost.
Greed caused them to skip the safety measures and now They’re paying for it.

Nobody believes that all the backup systems failed.
They gambled, like BP in the Gulf, and they got caught.

Lastly, the religiously insane figure God will step in when things get REAL serious.
You and I know God isn’t going to do anything because he doesn’t exist.

You’re on your own and coming to that conclusion sooner
rather than later just might save your life and your family.

Wilted.

Ask g.shaarter if he can swing by and pick you up on his way to Bellevue. They can help you with your anti-Jesus fixation.

That is…

Unless a Priest pounded it into you. LOL!!!

Ah, just remember that your belief or disbelief in something has no relation to whether or not it is fact. And what you believe has little relevance to the rest of us. Just sayin…

I thought that was because the Kennedy’s didn’t want the view spoiled from their “Compound”. Wasn’t teddy the drunk still alive then and opposing it?

Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy, looking like he’d just been run over by a train.. His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken, his face is cut, and bruised, and he’s walking with a limp.

‘What happened to you?’ asks Sean, the bartender.

‘Michael O’Connor and me had a fight,’ says Paddy.

‘That little O’Connor,’ says Sean, ‘He couldn’t do that to you, he must have had something in his hand.’

‘That he did,’ says Paddy, ‘a shovel is what he had, and a terrible lickin’ he gave me with it.’

‘Well,’ says Sean, ‘you should have defended yourself. Didn’t you have something in your hand?’

That I did,’ said Paddy, ‘Mrs. O’Connor’s breast, and a thing of beauty it was; but useless in a fight.’

I bet there was liquor involved.

I need a drink.

That’s a silly question, or course it was.

Hey LeAnn,

Of course alcohol was involved. I was sitting here sippin some red wine (burgandy I think) when I posted those.

Someone sent me that one yesterday. Only the name was Nookie Green. Boy she sure gets around

Well, since David Blaine and DQ have been showing up

Did you hear about the two gay Irishmen?

Michael Fitzpatrick and Patrick Fitzmichael

(Thank you #3)

I see the geezer was here for a few posts. He even got in a couple of fistfights which is a good sign.

not to worry TDO I understand

LMAO !!!!

I see why they call you deranged.

Different proposal off the Massachusetts coast a couple of years earlier near the Kennedy estate. The one I referred to was just last year and, to the best of my knowledge, the Kennedy’s weren’t involved. It was rejected by the State of Rhode Island purely due to the exorbitant cost of the power to be sold to the grid.

Solar will become practical as a primary power source when we figure how to get the Energizer Bunny to run New York City (and everything else) at night. Until then, solar will remain a supplemental power source at best.

Damn! And I knew that. I’m either getting old or this green beer is irradiated more than I thought.

Greetings from the OK Corral:
To all of my friends out there, Irish and otherwise…
May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your front door…Beannachtam Na Feile Padraig
Old Gringo Ralph

Ken the turkey neck woman in a pink bathrobe who pecks away on her keyboard like a pullet all day long. It’s called “irony.” It’s called “sarcasm.” Are you from the kiddie gene pool or what?

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Just because Ann has found some sources that say radiation is good for us (Sources that are very hard, if possible, to find or find the particular issue she cites, based on the limited information she gives us), doesn’t mean it’s true. Do an advanced search in reputable domains, using a large enough sample of credible sources, and you will find Coulter hasn’t stood nuclear science on its head. She has not come across a great bunch of studies discovering and proving radiation is actually good for us. What her information is–I don’t want to call her a liar. All-right, yes I do! Wilson called the President a liar, I should be able to call Coulter one five times! She was also called a liar right on the cover of the now Senator from Minnesota’s book: “Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.” So I’m in good company. I wouldn’t call anyone on this site a liar, but Coulter is making and has made lots of money from lying and she’s gone too far!

Ken,

If it wasn’t for radiation, my wife and many like her would be dead. Funny thing that radiation. You all talk about how it causes cancer, I’d rather talk about how it cures it.

But hey, that’s just me.

I’ve posted this a number of times now but it bears repeating:

If Obama is the answer:

That had to have been the stupidest effing question ever.

http://i.livescience.com/images/i/15426/i02/guinness_02.jpg?1300384249

Lynn,

I am Irish but…

This is my beer –

http://leinie.com/1888_bock.html

I have to agree. I normally like and agree with Ann, but I think she should stick to her usual taboo subjects like Religion and Politics.

The article fails to differentiate between the different types of radiation from atomic decay, that being Alpha, Beta, and Gamma radiation, which are each tremendously different. One being an unstable atomic nucleus which can cause all sorts of chemical reactions in a person’s body, one being a subatomic particle, and one being not even matter, but an energy emission, and she mixes these up with x-rays, which is yet another form of energy emission.

To paint them all with the same brush as having beneficial effects is as foolish as the government setting an emission threshold that’s universal for all forms for radiation.

Remember, even sunlight is radiation, and so is heat. Too much of anything is a bad thing, and they’re not all the same!

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.luxist.com/media/2010/02/schorschbock40.jpg

Another stellar post!

Lynn,

My oldest son lives in Ft. Meyers. He says LeinenKugel is available down there. If you haven’t, give it a try. I am a big fan of their ale, red, and their bochs. They have two bochs that I know of, the 1888 which is made only from January thru March, and their creamy Boch. The creamy one is really good, but the 1888 is outstanding.

I know you are but what am I?
Turn down your brain, the luminosity is blinding me.

Yeah, everyone else, especially Ann, is a liar; ken is the only one who isn’t.

Who saw this coming?

I remember that night too.

It’s all IHOP batter.

excuse me>?? Are you almost done partying today??

A low dose of an agent (such as radiation) may result in the opposite response to a high dose.  This is called “Hormesis” and is what Ann was referring to in her article.  Hormesis comes from the Greek word hormáein “to urge on.”  What this means is that a low dose can trigger repair mechanisms in the body, and once initiated, not only corrects the damage, but also repairs other defects not caused by the radiation.  About 40% of laboratory studies on cell cultures and animals report some sort of radiobiological hormesis.  The idea low dose effects may be (sometimes strikingly) different is accepted.  For example low doses of 0.1 R/day or 100-400 R over a lifetime has indicated an increase in a rat’s life span, and also a lower incidence of disease. (R means Roentgen.)
 
The idea low dose effects are always positive is questionable.  This idea is counter-intuitive of the ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable) philosophy.  In the case of Japan, I cannot support the idea of hormesis because this would imply that there is a direct exposure to radiation only.  Such is not the case.  Not only is there radiation, but the particles from which the radiation is coming from.  Many of these particles are chemically harmful to the body without the radio properties.  And when you combine the chemical properties with the radiological properties you just might get a synergistic effect that is more harmful than the chemical properties by themselves.  For example we are all being bombarded by gamma radiation coming from the earth’s crust. Some of this is uranium.  But, getting a dose of, let us say, 28mREM/year from uranium outside the body is not the same as getting 28 mREM/year from uranium from inside the body because the chemical characteristics of uranium are more harmful than the radiological characteristics of uranium.  (I capitalized rem because it is an acronym for Roentgen Equivalent Man – a measure of biological damage compared to gamma or x-rays.)

I would mention that ALARP or your reference ALARA [Possible vs..Achievable] are standards developed by legislative bodies and not by a scientific body or journal.

What I got from Ann’s article is that once again hysterical arms flailing, eyes bugging, doom speak is serving as a substitute for news reporting. It seems to me that falls within the area of reporting you would have her relegated to.
It is a commentary on our news media not living up to the expectations of those who are looking only for the actual story, and not the sensationalized drama needed by the couch potatoes and eco-tards that are becoming a bigger part of our population.

I haven’t been watching the news lately. I’ll wait for the cheep Japanese move “The Pennsylvania Syndrome” to come out. Starring Tokyo Rose.

Here is a true story

I was dropped in Ft. Meade Maryland awaiting orders, so I went to visit my Grandparents in Pa. My Grandfather whispers to me “lets go out for a drink” We say goodbye to Grandma and she says “don’t ya be going and gettin ‘em no whiskey now”. We head down to the pub and have a few, then stop by the liquor store. The old man picks up a pint and slips it into his back pocket.

All the way there and back I’ve been worried about the ice and snow and my old grandpa walking, but also afraid to offend him by holding on. Well down he goes. “Pops are you OK”? I helped him up. “I don’t know” he says “I feel somethin’ runnin’ down the back a me leg, and I’m prayin’ it’s blood”!

Only I see him melting down! LOL:P

Hay Dave how are ya

“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.”

*** Aldous Huxley ***

Vertical and ventilating, and that is not all that bad.

Yes that’s what I was getting at…

I don’t know if you guys have seen this or not, but here you go. This website has pictures of Japan, when you move your mouse over the picture, it shows you the same pic after the quake and tsunami.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm

Just so the “Self Anointed Purveyors of ‘Truth”, don’t get their jammies in a wrinkle ( “CW”, ya listenin’?): So many divisive questions, so many divisive answers. When I was 17, having been raised to understand that “You don’t have to be in a building, to believe in God”, I decided that “God is Energy, after all, It’s everywhere”. Now, some five decades later, scientists in the field of “Quantum Physics/Mechanics”, with “String Theory”, have postulated that there indeed may be vibrating “Strings” of energy everywhere. Not only in interstellar, but intergalactic space as well. The other half of my postulation rests on the question: “What is thought?”. In it’s purest form, it is merely an inexplicable bit of energy. If that is also true, then that, I believe, coupled with string theory, is the mind of God. How presumptuous is mankind to believe he can truly understand the mind, let alone interpret the will of God. If I may quote Puck: “What fools these mortals be”. Beyond that, you may ask: “Does he believe there is a God?” Yes, I do. Well then, “Does he believe Jesus (of Nazareth) is the Son of God?” Again. Yes, I do, as is every (hu)man a child of God. Well. How then does he explain all the different names of God and ways of worshiping Him? As Tom Sullivan (when he was still broadcasting on the radio from Sacramento) once related, he has an Egyptian friend who noted: “There is only One God, but many different ways of worshiping Him”. “Intelligent Design” came up and how silly it is (for believing in unprovable precepts such as “Gods Hand Created the Heavens and the Earth”, which is based on unprovable, blind Faith). And this from the same crowd who believe (as do I) that the universe was created from a “Cosmic Egg” that came from they know not where, yet just was (but wasn’t for very long), that suddenly went (“Big) Bang!” and voila! We are (eventually) born. No “Leaps of Faith” there. Nope, none at all. Oh yes, their “Resurrection Theology?” “Entropy!” That’s where the energy of the “Big Bang” eventually “runs out of steam”, if you will, and everything collapses back in on itself and, “Guess What?”, it starts all over again – maybe. And they talk about “A Leap of Faith?” indeed. “What Fools We Mortals Be?” “You Betcha!”

I remember so well the speech Reagan gave to the American people after the Challenger disaster where he said: “the astronauts who slipped the surly bounds of earth to touch the face of God.”

I remember crying, but happy we had such a wonderful president who looked into the eyes of America and honored those lost.

Today, I tried to feel good watching President Obama give a statement about Japan’s tragedy. I felt NO emotion as he read his prepared statement. I thought, why can’t you look straight forward and look into the camera which represents us and the eyes of the world? Nope. He seemed to be unfeeling, programmed, out of touch, disengaged and obligatory.

From the Rose Garden, he took off to celebrate St Patrick’s Day with green beer (not really, but maybe so) to watch the green fountain on the White House lawn, and then making a statement that he will be visiting Ireland this summer. Tomorrow, he is heading to South America with unbelievable security in tow!

Oh gee, I bet the Irish can’t wait. With a President who took 31 days to lay out a coherent strategy regarding Libya, Ireland was among the first to respond while our Commander-In-Chief twiddled his thumbs. I’ll give him one thing, though, he sure can designate other people in his administration to do the friggin’ WORK he was elected to do!

I’ll go with the Carina Nebula.

But really, your post contradicts it’s self repeatedly.

It would help if you indicated what your point is, you have taken three contradicting positions. I guess that is where your Quantum Physics comes in, saying that we can determine with accuracy a set point in a set future point in time and knowing that when we arrive at that point there is a 50/50 probability it will not be there but rather in front of us at that moment in a parallel universe.

I suppose I could send you a proof but this site will not accept symbols in proper sequence, I’ve tried.

Ω√≈∑ leaves much unclear as it only represents a flippant quip. Maybe I can find my book, Tensor Calculus for Dummies, and this could be figured out.

In the meantime, I might remind you that getting out of bed in the morning is ‘a leap of faith’.

Ken 20 minutes ago

GLOWING CUCUMBERS ARE DANGEROUS

I was over in Albany today sniffing cucumbers at the store when this man started following me and giggling. Damn that makes me mad when people don’t appreciate the finer ways to dress. An ascot with little butterflies and fairy slippers with beads is just over the heads of these hicks let alone my buttless chaps with perry winkles on them..

After my shopping and putting a bag of cucumbers in the back of my schwinn bike with pink rims and a tassle on each handlebar, a battery light and honk horn with a cute bulb to squeeze I saw the same man following me in his car very slow.

I rode my schwinn home and ran into my MOM’s basement and turned the lights off and then remembered that I left the cucumbers in the garage. I waited a while and went to the garage and there were the cucumbers but not where I had put them. Chills ran up my spine, I grabbed the cucumbers and ran and locked myself in the basement.

That night while entertaining myself I turned off the lights and did my squirrel walk past a mirror and saw this glowing object in my butt crack and screamed like a girly Gerbil and ran in my heels as fast as I could run..clip clop clip clop clip clop clip clop clip clop clip clop clip clop hep me hep me hep me I screamed but no one came.

I found out later that the strange man exchanged cucumbers on me and now all my battery operated toys go nuts near my butt crack. It is a very dangerous thing ..”glowing cucumbers” that damn brush cutting “George Bush” has something to do with this. Bush must have exchanged my cucumbers with radio active cucumbers at the same time he was polluting my drinking water and putting poison in my air.

Before I go I must say we all should buy Obammy B/W t-shirts that say “change” on them. It helps to remind you to change your shirt. Also the obammy B/W coin set and dishs and cups and the Obammy B/W picture of him covering his crotch instead of his heart during the National anthem. Support Obammy B/W give peace through submission and groveling a chance.

Reply to Ken Circus Train Miller :

Remind me to never pick up a cucumber again.

LOL out loud!

blaine, how many children did you rape today?

You are a special case tinkerbell. But in the words of Frank Zappa …

“Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not”

But you are a unique blend of the two. But SO NOT charming.

ps] that comment flagged.

How many family members do you have? LOL!!!

How is that tsunami cut going for you hill jacks? you have any inbreeds going on we should know about?

Suck it!

Google “this” pea brain. David puffer queen is back ….get ready for the queen of cut and paste. lace garter belts and butt plugs. Tinker Bell shoes and eye liner.

Appy had to mention cucumbers. LOL!!!

Dave,

I’m working on “well” my friend ..time heals many things and sometimes God needs to hold us still enough to listen….

LOL out loud! Been snorting a little trilithium tonight?

Are you as turned on as I am right now?

You sir should move to the head of the class with the likes of Vihar…BUT I must say for you to put that much effort into a response to the likes of a CW…I’am thinking your brain power is better off not even responding to a hole in the ground like that…choose you’re targets wisely as I’am sure you can do…welcome and PLEASE keep bringing it on…I noticed that your new to this site but we love it all…well maybe not all…but please keep it coming

Is Davy fruit cake a crotch reporter now? OH look David two birds are humping quick get your hall moniter pad and take names.

Your nattering Squirrel posts are the queeny review for twits, fruits twinks fairywinkle drag queens and puffers. And last but not least you post nothing but Huff and puff propagagme cut and paste info for fags and progressive Marxist bastards … no difference.

It brings them out of the wood work…..

CUCUMBERS …CUCUMBERS ….OH LOOK HERE COMES THE PRANCING FAGLETTE DAVID BITCHBOY PAIN The gerbil chanting dumbass minion.

Homos have a way of going out of Vogue every Global panic. Pretty soon you’ll slither back into the relative safety of obscurity.

Ok looney-toon, so now we know that you like musicals and identify with Maria. We have long known that you are a man to be respected for what you are, a babbling idiot.

Well I am riverdave and if you have been paying attention for these past four or so years you should know that I have no cloak and welcome fruitcakes such as you to come and attempt violence on my land.

Come on down to Kentucky, ask for riverdave.

I guess you know where to stick your “Cosmic Egg”.

OH David slurp …ping me ….you savage animal you.. nice heels.

Homo’s have a way of DICK’tating everything in your life!!!
If you do not like it. I suggest you suck your own.

The gays have already won the war you red neck pieces of sheeyat.
Game on. Next move?

AppyH wrote, in response to davidblaine:

OH David slurp …ping me ….you savage animal you.. nice heels.

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davidblaine wrote:

What is your freakin angle? You second amendment nut bag! I will say it again…We won…I will fuck your kids (albiet 60yr olds)…You think you will win? Game on.

I ADVISE EVERYONE TO FLAG THIS CLOWN, A MAN WHO CLAIMS TO BE A LAWYER AND PROVES TO BE A FLAMING HOMOSEXUAL ACCORDING TO THE POSTS HE CONTINUALLY LEAVES HERE IN THIS FORUM.

IF ENOUGH PEOPLE FLAG THIS “PERSON” FOR VULGAR AND PROFANE COMMENTS, MAYBE_MAYBE_MAYBE DISQUS WILL TAKE ACTION AND DO WHAT IS PROMISED IN THE PREAMBLE TO THE COMMENTS IN THESE FORUMS.

Jeez fool write a novel and get over it…I’am sure your west hollywood types LOVE YOU…is that bend over Blaine…

I’ve got his Cut & Paste…

Don’t turn him on, turn him in. Tolerating him is only encouraging him. Flag the guy until his teeth fall out.

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If I were a mental case like David PITA, I’d be more concerned that Ann Coulter would take him to court and turn him into a crybaby. Of course this would not be hard to do. Libel is a serious crime and if done constantly and continually, it shows malice which is a contributing factor in lawsuits, especially when it comes to the judgment phase.

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Thanks, NC. I’ve flagged all of them!

I think you mean FAG, FAG, FAG!

Bring it. I will sue you til the cows suck their own tits!

Flagged…

Flagged…

What flag? Or did you mean fag?
I think you hate both. No matter…I flagged you and will sue you to the fullest extent of the law.

Flagged….

Mona lezbo,

Consider yourself served!

I will sue you for oppressing my freedom of speech! i promise you that!

Maybe you didn’t hear me the first time? I will sue you and this site…freedom of speech!
Bring it.

Nuclear Problem In Japan: Is Obama Responsible?

From the BBC:

2226: The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper, quoting a senior official of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, said the US made the offer immediately after the disaster damaged Fukushima No 1 nuclear plant. According to the unnamed senior official, US support was based on dismantling the troubled reactors run by Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) some 250 km (155 miles) northeast of Tokyo. However, the government and TEPCO thought the cooling system could be restored by themselves, the report said.

Am I reading this right?

Our government demanded that the Japanese dismantle – that is, permanently remove – over five gigawatts of power in order to help them with a critical safety problem that had the potential to destroy 100 square miles of land and kill or injure thousands of people?

That as compensation for helping them we demanded that they cripple their electrical generating capacity on a permanent basis?
You have to be kidding me.

This is an extremely serious charge. If it’s true it stands alone as grounds for impeachment and dismembering every single federal agency involved.

Perhaps this explains why the US Military and/or civilian authorities didn’t stick a couple of big-ass generators on a transport plane and get them over there, restoring power to the reactors within hours of the incident and avoiding all of the serious radiation and physical damage at the plant.

This allegation is ridiculously incendiary and demands an immediate and complete Congressional investigation. Not only do the citizens of the United States deserve to know the truth (or falsity) of this charge (and who initiated it if it is false), but so do the Japanese people.

If this is how this man treats our friends – attempting to use a crisis threatening the lives of civilians to score a political point and advance his “green” agenda…..

Since I posted this, 4 more news sources have picked this up…..

View article here:
http://fedupusa.org/2011/03/17…

Stephanie S. Jasky, Founder, Director – FedUpUSA.org

“America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.” — Claire Wolfe

If you and your unHuman lackluster Events even think about blocking me from this site. I will bring on the biggest law suit they have ever seen. i promise you and them that!

He takes life for granted. He never thought of life as a gift. It was given to him, he did not buy it and for sure does not deserve it.

And I’m sure he does not think God is good and that He loves people enough to give them a life of some kind. Most rational, sane people are glad to have the life they have. Dissatisfaction comes from greed, many times, where people want more and more and do not appreciate what they already have.

To bad you don’t know what one tastes like…you seem to be pissing up a wall here cause your gettin nowhere….Oh I know you love going down on Flamers and thats what is all about …Please no sucking up/or ahh up and down..Ahhh crap never mind I know you can’t help it, WE all know what love…was that Man or Boy?

Well my ignorant young fool. Enjoy for the moment, your drivel will not be on this site tomorrow.

Just what hate possesses you is not my concern, that you express it so crudely in a public forum does.

A forum of this nature allows for sharing of common or opposing views.

I think that if you were not so blinded by your own rage you might just understand that you could come here at any hour and be out gunned on any level you chose to operate on.

There is no rant that has not been heard, no threat, no crude insult.

You are nothing new, just another child that thinks this a game and that it can be won by someone as brilliant as your immaculate self.

Think again, good riddance.

Get a sex partner that is not your family!

“America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.” — Claire Wolfe

***

heh heh heh, and that one goes in my quote folder.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-jacobs/ann-coulter-on-the-gay-ci_b_70156.html

Ann Coulter loves fags apparently?

“Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable” (Lev. 18:22)

Christianity and it’s disgusting History

Bible, Race & Slavery We are now in what many consider “National Bible Week” – a transparent attempt by right-wing theocrats to have their religion and their holy book be granted special recognition by our government. Unfortunately, some incompetent and insensitive politicians have played along with this by giving official proclamations for Bible Week. I think that it is important that everyone make a careful examination of the Bible and how it has been interpreted and used through history. If there are Americans who wish to celebrate the Bible in America, I think it might be good if they were educated as to just what horrors have been based on it.

Of course, any time the Bible is used to justify an action, a particular interpretation must be employed (after all, the Bible contains quite a number of broad, vague, and even contradictory statements). The problem arises when the person refuses to recognize that they are using an interpretation. Few Christian arguments annoy me quite so much as that someone’s interpretation of the Bible is just “common sense” – and that thus anyone with a modicum of “common sense” will immediately see what the Truth is and agree with them. In fact, it is rare that any interpretation of any text is really “common sense.” Either an interpretation can be objectively defended by appeal to text and context, or it cannot. Those who can will do so, and those who cannot will most likely refuse to admit it. One of those issues which will appear to be “common sense” to the average Christian will be the biblical position on slavery.

Unfortunately, one of the most abominable chapters in the history of how the Bible has been used and interpreted involve the questions of race and slavery. Racial relations, especially between whites and blacks, have long been deplorable in the United States. They started out badly, got worse before they got better, and are nevertheless still poor with slim prospects of improving a great deal any time soon. Although Christians will be loathe to admit it, their religion shares a significant part of the blame for this situation.

People on all sides of racial and slavery issues have interpreted the Bible through the filters of their personal and cultural assumptions – but at no point will you find them admitting this. In every case people have seen their interpretations as “common sense” – the only and obvious way Christians should interpret their scriptures. The results will be the focus of this week’s article.

Old Testament

The first, and most obvious, thing to remember is that there is no specific condemnation of slavery to be found anywhere in the Bible. At no point does God express even mild disapproval of enslaving human beings, robbing them of what freedom and independence they might have had. On the contrary, God is depicted of both approving of and regulating slavery, ensuring that the traffic and ownership of fellow human beings proceeds in an acceptable manner. In many cases, the regulations display a horrible disregard for the lives and dignity of enslaved individuals, hardly the sort of thing one would expect from a loving God.

Passages referencing and condoning slavery are common in the Old Testament. In one place, we read:

When a slave owner strikes a male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies immediately, the owner shall be punished. But if the slave survives a day or two, there is no punishment; for the slave is the owner’s property. (Exod. 21:20-21)<

So, the immediate killing of a slave is punishable but a man may so grievously injure a slave that they die a few days later from their wounds without facing any punishment or retribution. All societies in the Middle East at this time were condoned slavery, so it shouldn't be surprising to find approval for it in this document. As a human law, the above would be commendable – after all, there was nothing quite so advanced anywhere else in the Middle East. But as the will of an all loving god, it's abominable.

As a side note, it should be observed that the King James Version of the Bible presents the above verse in an altered form, replacing "slave" with "servant" – thus gravely misleading Christians as to the intentions and desires of their God. One more reason to reject fundamentalist claims that the KJV is the only true and valid translation!

New Testament

The New Testament, unfortunately, is little better. Jesus never even comes close to expressing disapproval of the enslaving of other human beings, and many statements attributed to him reveal a tacit acceptance or even approval of that inhuman institution. Throughout the Gospels we read passages like:

A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master (Matt. 10:24)

Who then is the faithful and wise slave, whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves their allowance of food at the proper time? Blessed is that slave whom his master will find at work when he arrives. (Matt. 24:45-46)

Although Jesus is using slavery in order to illustrate larger points, the question still remains why he would directly acknowledge the existence of slavery without saying anything negative about it?

The letters (rightly or wrongly) attributed to Paul are even worse, making it clear that the existence of slavery is not only acceptable, but that slaves themselves should not presume to take the idea of freedom and equality preached by Jesus too far by attempting to escape their forced servitude.

Let all who are under the yoke of slavery regard their masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be blasphemed. Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful to them on the ground that they are members of the church; rather they must serve them all the more, since those who benefit by their service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these duties. Whoever teaches otherwise and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that is in accordance with godliness, is conceited, understanding nothing, and has a morbid craving for controversy and for disputes about words. From these come envy, dissension, slander, base suspicions, and wrangling among those who are depraved in mind and bereft of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain. (1Tim. 6:1-5)

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ; not only while being watched, and in order to please them, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. (Eph. 6:5-6)

Tell slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect; they are not to talk back, not to pilfer, but to show complete and perfect fidelity, so that in everything they may be an ornament to the doctrine of God our Savior. (Titus 2:9-10)

Slaves, accept the authority of your masters with all deference, not only those who are kind and gentle but also those who are harsh. For it is a credit to you if, being aware of God, you endure pain while suffering unjustly. If you endure when you are beaten for doing wrong, what credit is that? But if you endure when you do right and suffer for it, you have God's approval. (1Pet. 2:18-29)

What are we to make of passages such as those quoted above? We must conclude that the author(s) did not disapprove of the institution of slavery and probably regarded it as an appropriate part of society. Again, slavery was common in all contemporary societies, and it would be surprising to find condemnation here. But if those authors were indeed divinely inspired, as is commonly thought by Christians, then we must conclude that God's attitude towards slavery is not particularly negative. Christians are certainly not prohibited from owning slaves, and anyone who does not agree is directly condemned. There is, then, no conflict between being a Christian and being an owner of other human beings.

No "common sense" interpretation can deny such things without doing violence to the text itself, and nothing can be criticized as having been "taken out of context." Christians should perhaps consider admitting that their Bible was written in a primitive, barbaric age and as such represents the primitive, barbaric attitudes of that age.

Early Christian History

How did the early Christians deal with the issue of slavery? There was almost universal approval of slavery among church leaders. Christians vigorously defended slavery (along with other forms of extreme social stratification) as instituted by God and as being an integral part of the natural order of men. At all points, their reasoning was clearly and easily supported by the Bible passages quoted above.

Let's allow them to tell us in their own words:

The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God… (Saint John Chrysostom)

…slavery is now penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance. (Saint Augustine)

These attitudes continued throughout European history, even as the institution of slavery evolved and in most cases slaves became "serfs" – little better than actual slaves and living in a deplorable situation which the church declared as being divinely ordered.

Not even after serfdom disappeared and full-fledged slavery once again reared its ugly head was it generally condemned by Christian leaders. Edmund Gibson, Anglican Bishop in London, made it clear in the 18th century that Christianity freed us from the slavery of sin, not from earthly and physical slavery:

The Freedom which Christianity gives, is a Freedom from the Bondage of Sin and Satan, and from the Dominion of Men's Lusts and Passions and inordinate Desires; but as to their outward Condition, whatever that was before, whether bond or free, their being baptized, and becoming Christians, makes no manner of Change in it.

American Slavery

The first ship bearing slaves for America landed in 1619, beginning over two centuries of human bondage on the American continent, bondage which would eventually be called our "peculiar institution." This institution always received theological support from various religious leaders, both in the pulpit and in the classroom. For example, through the late 1700s, Reverend William Graham was rector and principle instructor at the Liberty Hall Academy, now Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Every year, he lectured the senior graduating class on the value of slavery and used the Bible in his defense of it. For Graham and the many like him, Christianity was not a tool for changing politics or social policy, but instead to bring the message of salvation to everyone, regardless of their status of freedom. In this, they were certainly supported by biblical text.

As Kenneth Stamp wrote in The Peculiar Institution, Christianity actually became a way to add value to slaves in America:

…when southern clergy became ardent defenders of slavery, the master class could look upon organized religion as an ally …the gospel, instead of becoming a mean of creating trouble and strive, was really the best instrument to preserve peace and good conduct among the negroes.

Through teaching slaves the message of the Bible, they could be encouraged to bear the earthly burden in exchange for heavenly rewards later on – and they could be frightened into believing that disobedience to earthly masters would be perceived by God as disobedience to Him. Ironically, enforced illiteracy prevented slaves from reading the Bible themselves. This is ironic because a similar situation existed in Europe during the Middle Ages, as illiterate peasants and serfs were prevented from reading the Bible in their own language – a situation which was instrumental in the Protestant revolution. Now, Protestants were doing much the same thing African slaves: using the authority of their Bible and the dogma of their religion to repress a group of people without even allowing them to read the basis of authority on their own.

Division and Conflict

As Northerners decried slavery and called for its abolition, southern political and religious leaders found an easy ally for their pro-slavery cause in the Bible and Christian history. In 1856 Reverend Thomas Stringfellow, a Baptist minister from Culpepper County in Virginia, put the pro-slavery Christian message succinctly in his "A Scriptural View of Slavery:"

…Jesus Christ recognized this institution as one that was lawful among men, and regulated its relative duties… I affirm then, first (and no man denies) that Jesus Christ has not abolished slavery by a prohibitory command; and second, I affirm, he has introduced no new moral principle which can work its destruction…

Of course, Christians in the North disagreed – and some denominations, like Quakers, appear to have never been afflicted by slavery. Interestingly, most abolitionist attacks were based on the premise that the nature of Hebrew slavery differed in significant ways from the nature of slavery in the American South. Although this was meant to argue that the American form of slavery did not enjoy Biblical support, it nevertheless tacitly admitted that the institution of slavery did, in principle, have divine sanction and approval so long as conducted in an appropriate manner.

In the end, the North won on the question of slavery. Although the Southern Baptist Convention was formed in an effort to preserve the Christian basis for slavery before the start of the Civil War, they did not feel it necessary to bother apologizing until June 1995. The reason was that even though the question of slavery had been settled, the question of race still burned.

Repression and Superiority

The later repression and discrimination against the freed black slaves received as much biblical and Christian support as the earlier institution of slavery itself. This discrimination and the choice to enslave blacks only was made primarily on the basis of what has become known as the "sin of Ham" or "the curse of Canaan." Occasionally there would also be defenses of the inferiority of blacks by asserting that they bore the "mark of Cain."

We read in Genesis, chapter nine, that Noah's son Ham comes upon him sleeping off a drinking binge and sees his father naked. Instead of covering him, he runs and tells his brothers. Shem and Japheth, the "good" brothers, return and cover their father. In retaliation for Ham's "sinful act" of seeing his father nude, Noah puts a curse on his grandson (Ham's son) Canaan: ?Cursed be Canaan; lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers" (Gen 9:25).

Over time, this curse came to be interpreted that Ham was literally "burnt," and that all his descendants had black skin, marking them as slaves with a convenient color-coded label for subservience. When and how this gained widespread acceptance is questionable, but anti-slavery religious and political leaders have worked to refute it for more than a century. Today, biblical scholars note that the ancient Hebrew word "ham" does not have to be translated as "burnt" or "black" – but there is unfortunately little consensus on how the name and passage should be interpreted. Further complicating matters is the position of some Afrocentrists that Ham, although not actually cursed (despite what the Bible says!) was indeed black, as were many other characters in the Bible. Once again, people end up reading the passage as supporting their own racial assumptions.

Although many Christians today would be horrified at using the Bible as a support for racism, they should recognize that it was used in just such a fashion by Christians in America in the same way and with the same justification as Christians today use the Bible in their defense of their favorite ideas. Even as recently as the 1950's and 60's, Christians vehemently opposed desegregation or "race-mixing" for religious reasons. The "curse" of poor Ham lingered on in the minds of white Christians who fought to preserve a constant separation of the races.

A corollary to the inferiority of blacks has long been the superiority of white Protestants – something which has not yet dissipated in America. Although "Caucasians" are not to be found anywhere in the Bible, that hasn't stopped members of Christian Identity groups from using the Bible to prove that they are the true "chosen people" or "true Israelites." This may seem bizarre, but it has long been popular among American Protestants to see themselves as being "divinely appointed" to tame the American wilderness despite the "demon Indians." Americans are supposed to be blessed with a special destiny by God, and many read an American role in Armageddon in the book of Revelations. I am ever amazed at the degree to which Christianity encourages extreme egotism and inflated sense of self-importance or personal destiny.

Christian Identity is just a new kid on the block of White Protestant Supremacy – the earliest such group was the infamous Ku Klux Klan. Too few people realize that the KKK was founded as a Christian organization and still sees itself in terms of defending true Christianity. Especially in the earliest days, Klansmen openly recruited in churches (white and segregated, of course), attracting members from all strata of society, including the clergy.

Although Klan ceremonies have varied greatly, one common form will include an American flag, a cross, and a Bible opened to Romans 12, exhorting Christians to "godly conduct, godly nature." Also common is a sword representing the war against all enemies of the Christian life an the American "Christian Nation." Opening and closing prayers may often include "The living Christ is a Klansman's criterion of character." The origin of a burning cross is unclear – it may stem from the ancient Scottish tradition of burning a cross on a hill to call together the clans, or it may be representative of spreading the light of the True Cross in an effort to promote Christian faith.

Interpretation and Apologetics

The cultural and personal assumptions of the pro-slavery Christians (and pro-slavery biblical authors) quoted above are probably obvious to all of us now, but I doubt that they were obvious to slavery supporters at the time. Similarly, today, I'm sure that few people are aware of the cultural and personal baggage which they bring to their readings. They assume the truth of what they believe, and are determined to find divine sanction for their beliefs in their holy book. I think that these Christians would be better off defending their ideas on their own merits, but I quite honestly doubt they are capable of it. Perhaps they doubt themselves too, and that's why they don't try.

My recommendation is against ever accepting any sort of "common sense" defense of any biblical interpretation. Throughout history, the idea that someone's interpretation is just "common sense" has been used on every side of every issue, including today's topic of slavery. Defense of an interpretation can only be done via rational, logical argument. Unfortunately for Christians, that has been used effectively on every side of every issue, too – including today's topic of slavery.

Maybe that means that using the Bible isn't a valid defense of an idea? Could be…

Leviticus 20:13 (King James Version)

13If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Are we witnessing another mental breakdown and implosion into insanity like we did last September when the 9th Circuit brought down their decision?

Think so…

Sue me, Bubba.

For your information, I don’t hate gays, just the act. In fact, I like to watch Ru Paul’s Drag Race.

Sue me!

LOL!!!!!!!!

Well the pucker butt has spoken…

Christianity and History
Bible, Race & Slavery We are now in what many consider “National Bible Week” – a transparent attempt by right-wing theocrats to have their religion and their holy book be granted special recognition by our government. Unfortunately, some incompetent and insensitive politicians have played along with this by giving official proclamations for Bible Week. I think that it is important that everyone make a careful examination of the Bible and how it has been interpreted and used through history. If there are Americans who wish to celebrate the Bible in America, I think it might be good if they were educated as to just what horrors have been based on it.

Of course, any time the Bible is used to justify an action, a particular interpretation must be employed (after all, the Bible contains quite a number of broad, vague, and even contradictory statements). The problem arises when the person refuses to recognize that they are using an interpretation. Few Christian arguments annoy me quite so much as that someone’s interpretation of the Bible is just “common sense” – and that thus anyone with a modicum of “common sense” will immediately see what the Truth is and agree with them. In fact, it is rare that any interpretation of any text is really “common sense.” Either an interpretation can be objectively defended by appeal to text and context, or it cannot. Those who can will do so, and those who cannot will most likely refuse to admit it. One of those issues which will appear to be “common sense” to the average Christian will be the biblical position on slavery.

Unfortunately, one of the most abominable chapters in the history of how the Bible has been used and interpreted involve the questions of race and slavery. Racial relations, especially between whites and blacks, have long been deplorable in the United States. They started out badly, got worse before they got better, and are nevertheless still poor with slim prospects of improving a great deal any time soon. Although Christians will be loathe to admit it, their religion shares a significant part of the blame for this situation.

People on all sides of racial and slavery issues have interpreted the Bible through the filters of their personal and cultural assumptions – but at no point will you find them admitting this. In every case people have seen their interpretations as “common sense” – the only and obvious way Christians should interpret their scriptures. The results will be the focus of this week’s article.

Old Testament

The first, and most obvious, thing to remember is that there is no specific condemnation of slavery to be found anywhere in the Bible. At no point does God express even mild disapproval of enslaving human beings, robbing them of what freedom and independence they might have had. On the contrary, God is depicted of both approving of and regulating slavery, ensuring that the traffic and ownership of fellow human beings proceeds in an acceptable manner. In many cases, the regulations display a horrible disregard for the lives and dignity of enslaved individuals, hardly the sort of thing one would expect from a loving God.

Passages referencing and condoning slavery are common in the Old Testament. In one place, we read:

When a slave owner strikes a male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies immediately, the owner shall be punished. But if the slave survives a day or two, there is no punishment; for the slave is the owner’s property. (Exod. 21:20-21)<

So, the immediate killing of a slave is punishable but a man may so grievously injure a slave that they die a few days later from their wounds without facing any punishment or retribution. All societies in the Middle East at this time were condoned slavery, so it shouldn't be surprising to find approval for it in this document. As a human law, the above would be commendable – after all, there was nothing quite so advanced anywhere else in the Middle East. But as the will of an all loving god, it's abominable.

As a side note, it should be observed that the King James Version of the Bible presents the above verse in an altered form, replacing "slave" with "servant" – thus gravely misleading Christians as to the intentions and desires of their God. One more reason to reject fundamentalist claims that the KJV is the only true and valid translation!

New Testament

The New Testament, unfortunately, is little better. Jesus never even comes close to expressing disapproval of the enslaving of other human beings, and many statements attributed to him reveal a tacit acceptance or even approval of that inhuman institution. Throughout the Gospels we read passages like:

A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master (Matt. 10:24)

Who then is the faithful and wise slave, whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves their allowance of food at the proper time? Blessed is that slave whom his master will find at work when he arrives. (Matt. 24:45-46)

Although Jesus is using slavery in order to illustrate larger points, the question still remains why he would directly acknowledge the existence of slavery without saying anything negative about it?

The letters (rightly or wrongly) attributed to Paul are even worse, making it clear that the existence of slavery is not only acceptable, but that slaves themselves should not presume to take the idea of freedom and equality preached by Jesus too far by attempting to escape their forced servitude.

Let all who are under the yoke of slavery regard their masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be blasphemed. Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful to them on the ground that they are members of the church; rather they must serve them all the more, since those who benefit by their service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these duties. Whoever teaches otherwise and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that is in accordance with godliness, is conceited, understanding nothing, and has a morbid craving for controversy and for disputes about words. From these come envy, dissension, slander, base suspicions, and wrangling among those who are depraved in mind and bereft of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain. (1Tim. 6:1-5)

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ; not only while being watched, and in order to please them, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. (Eph. 6:5-6)

Tell slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect; they are not to talk back, not to pilfer, but to show complete and perfect fidelity, so that in everything they may be an ornament to the doctrine of God our Savior. (Titus 2:9-10)

Slaves, accept the authority of your masters with all deference, not only those who are kind and gentle but also those who are harsh. For it is a credit to you if, being aware of God, you endure pain while suffering unjustly. If you endure when you are beaten for doing wrong, what credit is that? But if you endure when you do right and suffer for it, you have God's approval. (1Pet. 2:18-29)

What are we to make of passages such as those quoted above? We must conclude that the author(s) did not disapprove of the institution of slavery and probably regarded it as an appropriate part of society. Again, slavery was common in all contemporary societies, and it would be surprising to find condemnation here. But if those authors were indeed divinely inspired, as is commonly thought by Christians, then we must conclude that God's attitude towards slavery is not particularly negative. Christians are certainly not prohibited from owning slaves, and anyone who does not agree is directly condemned. There is, then, no conflict between being a Christian and being an owner of other human beings.

No "common sense" interpretation can deny such things without doing violence to the text itself, and nothing can be criticized as having been "taken out of context." Christians should perhaps consider admitting that their Bible was written in a primitive, barbaric age and as such represents the primitive, barbaric attitudes of that age.

Early Christian History

How did the early Christians deal with the issue of slavery? There was almost universal approval of slavery among church leaders. Christians vigorously defended slavery (along with other forms of extreme social stratification) as instituted by God and as being an integral part of the natural order of men. At all points, their reasoning was clearly and easily supported by the Bible passages quoted above.

Let's allow them to tell us in their own words:

The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God… (Saint John Chrysostom)

…slavery is now penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance. (Saint Augustine)

These attitudes continued throughout European history, even as the institution of slavery evolved and in most cases slaves became "serfs" – little better than actual slaves and living in a deplorable situation which the church declared as being divinely ordered.

Not even after serfdom disappeared and full-fledged slavery once again reared its ugly head was it generally condemned by Christian leaders. Edmund Gibson, Anglican Bishop in London, made it clear in the 18th century that Christianity freed us from the slavery of sin, not from earthly and physical slavery:

The Freedom which Christianity gives, is a Freedom from the Bondage of Sin and Satan, and from the Dominion of Men's Lusts and Passions and inordinate Desires; but as to their outward Condition, whatever that was before, whether bond or free, their being baptized, and becoming Christians, makes no manner of Change in it.

American Slavery

The first ship bearing slaves for America landed in 1619, beginning over two centuries of human bondage on the American continent, bondage which would eventually be called our "peculiar institution." This institution always received theological support from various religious leaders, both in the pulpit and in the classroom. For example, through the late 1700s, Reverend William Graham was rector and principle instructor at the Liberty Hall Academy, now Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Every year, he lectured the senior graduating class on the value of slavery and used the Bible in his defense of it. For Graham and the many like him, Christianity was not a tool for changing politics or social policy, but instead to bring the message of salvation to everyone, regardless of their status of freedom. In this, they were certainly supported by biblical text.

As Kenneth Stamp wrote in The Peculiar Institution, Christianity actually became a way to add value to slaves in America:

…when southern clergy became ardent defenders of slavery, the master class could look upon organized religion as an ally …the gospel, instead of becoming a mean of creating trouble and strive, was really the best instrument to preserve peace and good conduct among the negroes.

Through teaching slaves the message of the Bible, they could be encouraged to bear the earthly burden in exchange for heavenly rewards later on – and they could be frightened into believing that disobedience to earthly masters would be perceived by God as disobedience to Him. Ironically, enforced illiteracy prevented slaves from reading the Bible themselves. This is ironic because a similar situation existed in Europe during the Middle Ages, as illiterate peasants and serfs were prevented from reading the Bible in their own language – a situation which was instrumental in the Protestant revolution. Now, Protestants were doing much the same thing African slaves: using the authority of their Bible and the dogma of their religion to repress a group of people without even allowing them to read the basis of authority on their own.

Division and Conflict

As Northerners decried slavery and called for its abolition, southern political and religious leaders found an easy ally for their pro-slavery cause in the Bible and Christian history. In 1856 Reverend Thomas Stringfellow, a Baptist minister from Culpepper County in Virginia, put the pro-slavery Christian message succinctly in his "A Scriptural View of Slavery:"

…Jesus Christ recognized this institution as one that was lawful among men, and regulated its relative duties… I affirm then, first (and no man denies) that Jesus Christ has not abolished slavery by a prohibitory command; and second, I affirm, he has introduced no new moral principle which can work its destruction…

Of course, Christians in the North disagreed – and some denominations, like Quakers, appear to have never been afflicted by slavery. Interestingly, most abolitionist attacks were based on the premise that the nature of Hebrew slavery differed in significant ways from the nature of slavery in the American South. Although this was meant to argue that the American form of slavery did not enjoy Biblical support, it nevertheless tacitly admitted that the institution of slavery did, in principle, have divine sanction and approval so long as conducted in an appropriate manner.

In the end, the North won on the question of slavery. Although the Southern Baptist Convention was formed in an effort to preserve the Christian basis for slavery before the start of the Civil War, they did not feel it necessary to bother apologizing until June 1995. The reason was that even though the question of slavery had been settled, the question of race still burned.

Repression and Superiority

The later repression and discrimination against the freed black slaves received as much biblical and Christian support as the earlier institution of slavery itself. This discrimination and the choice to enslave blacks only was made primarily on the basis of what has become known as the "sin of Ham" or "the curse of Canaan." Occasionally there would also be defenses of the inferiority of blacks by asserting that they bore the "mark of Cain."

We read in Genesis, chapter nine, that Noah's son Ham comes upon him sleeping off a drinking binge and sees his father naked. Instead of covering him, he runs and tells his brothers. Shem and Japheth, the "good" brothers, return and cover their father. In retaliation for Ham's "sinful act" of seeing his father nude, Noah puts a curse on his grandson (Ham's son) Canaan: ?Cursed be Canaan; lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers" (Gen 9:25).

Over time, this curse came to be interpreted that Ham was literally "burnt," and that all his descendants had black skin, marking them as slaves with a convenient color-coded label for subservience. When and how this gained widespread acceptance is questionable, but anti-slavery religious and political leaders have worked to refute it for more than a century. Today, biblical scholars note that the ancient Hebrew word "ham" does not have to be translated as "burnt" or "black" – but there is unfortunately little consensus on how the name and passage should be interpreted. Further complicating matters is the position of some Afrocentrists that Ham, although not actually cursed (despite what the Bible says!) was indeed black, as were many other characters in the Bible. Once again, people end up reading the passage as supporting their own racial assumptions.

Although many Christians today would be horrified at using the Bible as a support for racism, they should recognize that it was used in just such a fashion by Christians in America in the same way and with the same justification as Christians today use the Bible in their defense of their favorite ideas. Even as recently as the 1950's and 60's, Christians vehemently opposed desegregation or "race-mixing" for religious reasons. The "curse" of poor Ham lingered on in the minds of white Christians who fought to preserve a constant separation of the races.

A corollary to the inferiority of blacks has long been the superiority of white Protestants – something which has not yet dissipated in America. Although "Caucasians" are not to be found anywhere in the Bible, that hasn't stopped members of Christian Identity groups from using the Bible to prove that they are the true "chosen people" or "true Israelites." This may seem bizarre, but it has long been popular among American Protestants to see themselves as being "divinely appointed" to tame the American wilderness despite the "demon Indians." Americans are supposed to be blessed with a special destiny by God, and many read an American role in Armageddon in the book of Revelations. I am ever amazed at the degree to which Christianity encourages extreme egotism and inflated sense of self-importance or personal destiny.

Christian Identity is just a new kid on the block of White Protestant Supremacy – the earliest such group was the infamous Ku Klux Klan. Too few people realize that the KKK was founded as a Christian organization and still sees itself in terms of defending true Christianity. Especially in the earliest days, Klansmen openly recruited in churches (white and segregated, of course), attracting members from all strata of society, including the clergy.

Although Klan ceremonies have varied greatly, one common form will include an American flag, a cross, and a Bible opened to Romans 12, exhorting Christians to "godly conduct, godly nature." Also common is a sword representing the war against all enemies of the Christian life an the American "Christian Nation." Opening and closing prayers may often include "The living Christ is a Klansman's criterion of character." The origin of a burning cross is unclear – it may stem from the ancient Scottish tradition of burning a cross on a hill to call together the clans, or it may be representative of spreading the light of the True Cross in an effort to promote Christian faith.

Interpretation and Apologetics

The cultural and personal assumptions of the pro-slavery Christians (and pro-slavery biblical authors) quoted above are probably obvious to all of us now, but I doubt that they were obvious to slavery supporters at the time. Similarly, today, I'm sure that few people are aware of the cultural and personal baggage which they bring to their readings. They assume the truth of what they believe, and are determined to find divine sanction for their beliefs in their holy book. I think that these Christians would be better off defending their ideas on their own merits, but I quite honestly doubt they are capable of it. Perhaps they doubt themselves too, and that's why they don't try.

My recommendation is against ever accepting any sort of "common sense" defense of any biblical interpretation. Throughout history, the idea that someone's interpretation is just "common sense" has been used on every side of every issue, including today's topic of slavery. Defense of an interpretation can only be done via rational, logical argument. Unfortunately for Christians, that has been used effectively on every side of every issue, too – including today's topic of slavery.

Maybe that means that using the Bible isn't a valid defense of an idea? Could be…

If the KKK can exist legally…so can you.

How did your family taste? You having the baby?

Ann Coulter: On the Gay Circuit in West Hollywood

We had dinner last night at Murano, a new West Hollywood restaurant, owned by gay circuit party promoter Jeffrey Sanker, and lesbian night club owners Robin Gans and Sandy Sachs. It’s a visually stunning space, straight lines, whites and reds accented by brilliant Murano glass chandeliers (hence the name of the restaurant). It’s right at home within eyeshot of West Hollywood’s Pacific Design Center, clearly appealing in a neighborhood of gay clubs, bars and restaurants.
Toward the end of dinner, one of my companions insisted that the painfully thin, emotive, long blond haired thing in a small black dress with nearly exposed bosoms was none other than Ann Coulter. I did not believe him. Why would Ann Coulter, who hates homosexuals, go to dinner at gay ground zero? Why would she spend her hard earned gay-bashing royalties to enrich Jeffrey Sanker and otherwise support gay-owned businesses?

But sure enough, he was right. I could not tell if she was dining with people she hates or just demonstrating that she’s a fraud who says whatever she must to sell books so that she can live the gay urban lifestyle. Based on her behavior last night, I am sure it is the latter, although based on her table mates, it could be both.
Remember Ann Coulter on John Edwards and homosexuals?
“I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I’m – so, kind of at an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards, so I think I’ll just conclude here and take your questions.”
Now, the last I checked, most gay people, including me, do not think the term “faggot” is endearing.
Notorious people have the right to dine where they please. I also think that they have to eat their own cooking. It’s quite simple, really. If a person makes her money by being famous and that person has an addiction problem, she has the right to privacy to solve that problem. But if she proclaims her sobriety to get out of jail and then shows up at a bar, she has to expect that her public might inquire as to her truth. You can’t have it both ways: sober for the police and the press; publicly drunk for real. In time, you are caught in the lie. It’s one or the other, fame or privacy.
Clearly, Ann Coulter was caught in a lie. There she was, burbling like a fountain about her interview on Donny Deutsch’s show in which she says Jews should be Christians, completely at ease in the heart of the gayest city on the planet. She was a natural with the gay men who surrounded her. She enjoyed the fawning attention by her two not so masculine male escorts, clearly in her milieu.
I was therefore shocked that when we tried to engage her in conversation, she became embarrassed, turned away, nestling her head inside her long, blond hair, much as would an embarrassed school girl caught stealing the answers to an exam.
We wondered if she was comfortable in West Hollywood, in a restaurant where a large number of the patrons are gay, and where the gay owners make money off of her dining bill. Her response (physically, because she would not speak): “I am too embarrassed to talk to you.” Had we been able to see her high cheek bones, then averted and clutched in her hands to hide her shame, we’d have seen a red-faced hypocrite, caught living a lie. Think Britney Spears or Paris Hilton or others who make money simply for being famous and then have no clue how to respond when they are caught lying.
Ann Coulter loves the camera, so we snapped a few with a cell phone. Her sturdy female minder said we were “molesting” her. Ann Coulter molested by having her picture taken? I guess she’s molested every day, then. She might want to check into rehab to deal with her addiction to such molestation.
When the manager came by with our check, he said, “Look, I’m sorry she’s here, but I have to serve her.” The staff were clearly appalled when they realized who was in their midst. Did Hitler eat kosher food even as he worked out the final solution?
Remember those “we reserve the right to serve anyone” signs? I assume they are for real. Had it been my restaurant, I would have sent her away, not allowed her to enjoy the life she craves. On the other hand, we have to wonder why Ann Coulter feels so comfortable among the gay men she hates. Clearly, she’s just a hypocrite, saying outrageous, inflammatory, dangerous, un-Christian words simply to make enough money to pay for dinner in, well, West Hollywood.
Ann Coulter had nothing to say last night because anything she could conjure would have been too absurd. So she ducked her head, embarrassed at being caught where she most likes to be, hoping to disappear. Ann Coulter is a coward who uses evil speech in the safety of a studio to make money. She obviously does not even believe the obscenities she hurls at America, a country she says she hates.
How many adolescents in mid-America have heard Ms. Coulter saying they are “faggots,” subhumans who should die, just so she could eat dinner at a gay-owned establishment and pay with blood money? How many lives have ended so that Ms. Coulter can giggle and guzzle in West Hollywood?
I do not believe in bothering famous people when they are out in public. But Ann Coulter created her fame and fortune by cultivating a persona of hate. She has to be called to account. Next time, I hope the folks at Murano or any other public establishment will just say no to the Ann Coulters of the world. Let Ann Coulter eat her own cooking. I doubt she can stand the taste of what she dishes, but it’s worth letting her try.

not only have i spoken…i have a link with pics of her in fag heaven!

http://www.hotgaylist.com/

Sue me, baby cakes!

For your information, I look BETTER than a drag queen! I can dress up and makeup just like them because I know what it takes, but I am a woman!

Therein lies the difference.

The more you implode, and call me names, the more fascinating the implosion!

Oh, you are so scary. BTW, why did you call me a lezbo? I have one healthy relationship with a MAN, Bubba!

I’ll bring my daughter to the trial in her uniform…this should be so much fun! I didn’t suppress any freedom of speech for you. I flagged because this forum has rules and regulations that offensive speech is NOT tolerated!

Buh bye, davidblabbermouth, I have seen your kind before.

YAWN!

Thanks NC I still think there might be a hairline crack from the earthquake that the water is seeping through but I don’t know enough about all this..Sendai looks like Hiroshima. I prayed so hard for those folks last night. They are such great people., they are refusing to leave where they think their houses use to be., I’d probably be the same way I’ve been through a couple disasters myself.. Glad I went to sleep before the devil’s son showed up…Ann I love you and don’t know why you let him in at all…If it helps don’t care where you hang out..It’s still a free country as far as I can tell maybe for a little while.. You are a beautiful person..DB is probably someone like Rosie wishing you would hang out there…by the way watched Jeff Beck last night and he still rocks…

John 19:6 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.
John 19:15 But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

40 years later those chief priests, having already turned against the Caesar, lost it all when Jesus Christ, using the Roman army under the command of General Titus, returned in final judgment on Israel and had Jerusalem captured and its temple burned to the ground because of the false religion known as Judaism.

1,878 years after that date that Israel was wiped off the map, the United Nations reinstated Israel as a nation….

God is watching all of us. Amen.

CW’s mission here has always been to miss the point, then build an argument around that negative.

He’s but one particle out of the many liberal isoDOPES we’re exposed to at Human Events.

I LOVED watching the liberals banging their heads into the walls when David Guggenheim (co-writer and filmaker of and inconvenient truth) after he came out with “Waiting for Superman” explaining how teachers unions were screwing minority students by forcing them to go the sub-standard schools. I mean, he was a genius a few years ago, and now he’s an idiot. I wish they’d make up their hypocritical minds.

Matthew 5:17-20 (New International Version, ©2011)

The Fulfillment of the Law

17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19 Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Let’s send Biden to Japan with his trains, wind mills and solar panels to fix there economy.
Maybe this time he will figure out that Japan is a country not a state next to delaware.

Coulter tells you radiation is no so bad, like zombies you believe this and justify this…. Are you conservatives or just mindless idiots?

To anybody that believes Ann Coulter and her “assessment” of the risks of radiation, I want you to do two things: 1) Go to Japan, tell them there’s no danger and they’re all going to live longer because of this accident, and THEN volunteer to go into those nuke plants yourself. And don’t wear the radiation suits. After all, if a little radiation is good for you, then a lot must be even better, right? Besides, you’ll be able to glow in the dark…should be quite pretty.

And, TWO, LIVE THERE, right next to it. Plant corn. Raise a family. Live your life. I’ll check back with you in a few years to see how many arms, legs, and heads your children have.

Yes we are all out looking for something radioactive to put in our mouths, now that we have missed the humor in Ann’s column, and decided radiation is always a good thing to be exposed to.
I haven’t visited infowars yet though I intend to. I am not able to log on right now for some reason. I’m curious what the fuss is about.
Usually when something pops up that is supposed to be conservative it is a watered down version of conservative thought designed to pull people into PC mainstream media/liberal democrat thinking.
If you think that Ann Coulter would tell people to use radioactive materials for jewelry, and are in any way right, maybe we ARE all zombies here and can’t think for ourselves.
Or maybe someone has persuaded you to think that Ann is always lying and should never be afforded an impartial ear. Even if it is just to get a smile or laugh. Because then you might learn something they do not approve of.

AS Rich said “useful idiots”…

More importantly, if that’s what you are, what are we? Isn’t this the message you meant to send home???

I think you give Obiden too much credit for logical thinking. That guy’s a whole nickel short of a penny.

A fool talks about what he thinks is foolishness…

Why are Atheists fools? Because the Bible tells us so:

Psalms 53:1 To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

Copy & Paste, Copy & Paste, Copy & Paste, Copy & Paste, Copy & Paste…

Do you have a brain, Blaine? When are you going to say something original instead of cherry-picking nonsense from ancient, little-known writers?

As Obama said, “They’re words, just words.” But, if you are indeed a lawyer as you brag, then you are wordsmith…of the lowest order.

FLAGGED…
DisGust, are you reading this weird stuff from davidblaine???

And you hang out on beaches. You love those beaches, don’t you.

Idiot…

Do people here realize that it’s snowing where the tsunami hit and that almost all their clothes were lost in the disaster?

Even in a power outage due to an ice storm or a shortage of non-contaminated water, people here help our own. Where we are able, Americans are quick to help those in dire need. And, Japan is now in dire need but it is a need NOW and not weeks or months from now.

We are in debt to Japan — big time! If we help them in their hour of need, will they be as quick to call in those debts if we were very understanding regarding their crucial needs at this moment?

The Japanese are very honorable people and are not the kind to offer up revenge in a moment of anger. This is not their way. But, they are survivalists and will do what they believe necessary.

It is time for Americans to think outside the envelope.

FLAGGED…

I’m betting we will continue to see David PITA change the subject when anyone dares him to sue any of us. He’s all talk. Just a bag of hot air that reeks of homosexuality.

His goal is to get everyone talking to him. It’s a turn-on for a Legal Beagle to engage in an argument that he thinks he’s winning. I guess it’s much better for David PITA than to be just talking to himself. What a miserable thing that would be.

In case you missed it… Coulter’s article here looks like the latest iteration of the right’s assault on science in support of its political aims. They’ve done it before with their contrarian opposition to global warming, evolution/’intelligent design’ and peak oil. Although their assertions have flown in the face of modern science they have managed to create a constituency of the gullible.
The current embroglio was probably hatched in right wing think tanks, a la Frank Luntz. They seem to be launching a propaganda campaign aimed at its base to manipulate opinion with the intention of influencing American elections. They have long supported nuclear power and the nuclear industry. Widespread public opposition to nukes, since TMI, seems to be waning and the right needs to act fast in the wake of the latest Japanese nuclear disaster.
I expect the American people to see this farce for what it is.

Right! More bravado from a big-mouthed homosexual. Hahaha

Even if CW is not worthy of such a reply, using CW’s comment as a “teaching moment” is beneficial to others at this site. Thus, we have learned something that will help any of us to reply to “more worthy of discussion” radiation fear mongers we encounter in the future.

You speaking for “American People”???

May I then assume you are not American? If so, then just speak for yourself and allow us to judge whether you are any smarter than Ann Coulter.

Pretending to speak for “American People” sure does something for your credibility, doesn’t it? Right! It makes us laugh until our fingers keep sliding off the buttons on our keyboards.

He’s stretching that concept of being smarter when he applies it to himself.

He’s still thinking like a child — ergo NAIVE…

In your criticism of wind mills you forgot to mention the devastating effects on our little avian friends. Why do we not hear the wacko environmentalists crying about all the turbine wacked birds?

Oops, I posted my reply before I saw yours.

Red,

Sorry,

I am in the middle of chores, LOL. I just now saw this.

Yes, I will be on and off over a few minutes time, so if you respond and I don’t get ‘right’ back to you, I will shortly,

Sorry, again!!

Let me see if I got that right. You are comparing the blast of an Atomic bomb to the core meltdown of a nuclear power station?

Damn son, the difference was explained to my classmates and me in the 6th grade. {1960-time flies when you’re having fun.} And trust me, we were much more concerned about “the bomb” back then.

As for ‘normal’ I guess that is somewhat relative, if you are normal, {why would anyone want to mutate to arrive there} then it follows that you are also a mutant.

Hi Red, TDO.

” I’ve been gargling with whiskey for years, ”

Ah,

Our suspicions are confirmed.

They won’t let me smoke it while I fly the plane. Freakin’ Nazis!

I’ve got one word for all you that doubt large releases of radiation are dangerous-

Godzilla!

Bill, I find you grating normally, but I never suspected your reading comprehension was faulty, just your idea of humor.

You may want to read the article and the comments again.

Please point out anyone who doubts large scale releases of radiation are harmful. I will help you ridicule them.
P.S. I know you’re just being comedic but a lot of people have come on pretending we want to put fuel rods in school lunches.
Missing the point of course that this weeks article is, in part, about blowing things out of proportion.

If Red had used two words, they would have been:

Wedding Photos. LOL!!!

Bill,

I hear the gubermint is thinking of removing the federal tax on ciggarettes (sic).

And there is nothing like a medium rare Porterhouse, sorry.

And not wearing seat belts has saved me from serious injury twice. Although since they have improved side collision strength, I always wear one. But then, why aren’t they on school busses. I wonder about that a lot.

Or required on tour buses. Or in RVs

Something was eating (sic) away at him last night.

You need to keep your google mail as an open tab TDO….

I don’t know if Blowupindy can get any dizzier.

Is is obvious that you aren’t lost—- just the dipshit wise ass… are you also a dwarf?

That was easy.

Next time, try it with sliced Hebrews. LOL!!!

One more stooge and you “fellas” would be a trifecta.

Ethnic Melting Pot food. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!

Wow,

I was alive during all that above ground testing in the 50′s. You mean I am dead?

Imagine all those intellectuals sitting around the dinner table using a Spinach Quiche, a bowl of beets, and seared lamb chops as substitutes for the Cosmos.

I see nuked people.
They see what they want to see…

Hey fellers, I do believe we have enough firepower for a good old Lynn-fashioned Gang Bang!

PRESIDENT OBOMA SAYS HE READS 10 LETTERS FROM CHILDREN EVERY NIGHT. I suspect that it’s been a long, long time since he’s read anything from John Stuart Mill or Benjamin Franklin, so here are some “letters from kids” who have actually heard of the Founding Fathers.

Dear Mr. President: I am 5 years old and I have been home-schooled for three years. My mom says that 2 + 2 is 4. What was it when you were in school? My dad says you must not have the slightest idea.” — Joshua

Dear Mr. President: I am 6 years old. I go to a private school. My question is: As a Constitutional lecturer, what do you think the original purpose of the Constitution was? My mom says you must not have the slightest idea.” — Becky

Dear Mr. President: I am 7 years old and I would like to have a bicycle, but my dad says he is going to wait and see if you make us buy health insurance. So what’s it going to be — a bicycle or health insurance that I don’t need?” — Jacob

Dear Mr. President: I am 8 years old and live on a dairy farm. I have been doing chores since I was just a little kid — most of my life actually. My question is, why should people who dropped out of high school and have never worked get free milk? — Daniel

P.S. I know how to drive a tractor and a truck, but I don’t have a bicycle yet. My dad says he’s waiting to see if we have to buy health insurance or go to jail.

Dear Mr. President: I am 9 years old and we are studying philosophy in my parochial school. Some people use salt to melt ice and some people use salt to make ice cream. Do you think we will ever find out who’s right? — Sarah

Dear Mr. President: I am 10 years old and I read the New York Times. The other day Al Gore said that the seas are evaporating, but some people think the seas are rising. Do you ever think we will find out the truth? — Isaac

Dear Mr. President: I am 11 years old and go to a public school. My teacher says that she knows for sure that Thomas Jefferson had a child by a slave. I didn’t know my teacher was that old. — Ann

Thanks Curtis D…

Oh, and exactly what the hell is wrong with corn syrup? I do believe those Corinthian Dogs I ate were, like, 99% polyunsaturated corn syrup. I ate like a dozen of them and I’m fine.

I’m still doing the math.

I met a fairy today that would grant me one wish.
“I want to live forever,” I said.
“Sorry” said the fairy, “I’m not allowed to grant wishes like that!”
“Fine,” I said, “I want to die after the Democrats get their heads out of
their asses!”
“You crafty bastard,” said the fairy.

That’s Obama’s line!

Shame on you!

Hi Lynne. Nice to see you’re feeling better.
How fortunate For yoU

Don’t mention it, petty……coat! LOL!!!

Oh good, I thought for a second that JAS had become a brain fart for you…. the ole one-mind gang bang mentality at work.

Mar 21, 2011

Islam is a Religion of Sin-Sick People

The earthquake in Japan has been such a massive news event that it has absolutely dominated the headlines. But one story out of Israel deserves our attention.

In the Israeli settlement of Itamar, five members of the Fogel family were murdered in their home. This included three children, ages one month, three years, and eleven years. The eleven-year-old was killed as he lay reading in bed. All three children had their throats slit. The mother was stabbed as she came out of the bathroom, with evidence showing that she struggled with her attacker.

The massacre was most likely carried out by Palestinian terrorists. Despite the heinous nature of the crime, two Palestinian groups have been competing with each other to claim responsibility for the killings.

There is clearly a form of insanity at work in the minds of these people. In response to the murders, Gaza residents from the southern city of Rafah hit the streets Saturday to celebrate the terror attack. On Monday, Hamas showed their glee by handing out candy and pastry treats. One Gaza resident said the joy “is a natural response to the harm settlers inflict on the Palestinian residents in the West Bank.”

The worship of people who commit evil acts is embedded into Palestinian culture. A child can walk to school today along a street named after terrorist Abu Jihad, who planned a bus hijacking that killed 37, spend the day in a school named after Hamas founder Ahmad Yassin, play soccer in the afternoon in a tournament honoring terrorist Abd Al-Basset Odeh, who killed 31, and end the day at a youth center named after Abu Iyad, who was responsible for killing 11 Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich.

The record-holder for killers who have the most things named after them would have to be Dalal Mughrabi. He murdered more Israelis than any other Palestinian terrorist, and for this reason his name graces two elementary schools, a kindergarten, a computer center, summer camps, football tournaments, a community center, a sports team, a public square, a street, an election course, an adult education course, a university club, a dance troupe, a military unit, a dormitory in a youth center, a TV series, a TV quiz team and a graduation ceremony (http://www.palwatch.org/site/modules/print/preview.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=2128).

There is rarely any mention of this disgusting practice by the liberal media. Imagine what would happen if a veterans’ group that still held a grudge from World War II expressed joy over the calamity taking place in Japan. The negative backlash would be so great that the group would be forced to disband. Comedian Gilbert Gottfried made jokes about the earthquake and tsunami on his Twitter page and was promptly fired as the voice of the Aflac duck.

One of the greatest mistakes of our generation is the inability to realize the demonic nature of Islam. If it weren’t for the teachings of the Koran, there would be no need for airport security. Muslims have a near monopoly on acts of violence. On Rapture Ready’s “Terrorism Timeline,” you would have to go back to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing to find an attack that wasn’t carried out by a follower of Mohammed.

In the past couple of months, the Middle East has been swept by a reform movement. Despite all the hope, there is little chance that true democracy will gain a foothold in that region. Most polls show that radical Islamic groups would have the upper hand in any free election. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has brutalized his people, and he deserves to be overthrown. Unfortunately, the odds are very high that someone of equal cruelty will take his place. As long as the Arab people continue to adhere to Islam, they are doomed to live in bondage.

It’s frustrating to see Islam playing the role of “Teflon religion.” I realize that Satan is going to do everything he can to prevent discredit coming to one of his best tools for the damnation of souls. Judgment will eventually come to the Islamic world. Someday, it will side with Israel ‘s enemies and suffer a series of defeats.

“It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God” (Heb. 10:31).

“Just so, when you see the events I’ve described beginning to happen, you can know his return is very near, right at the door” (NLT Matthew 24:33).

– Todd

HA HA HA HA HA HA that is your final answer Lynn? You posted the books of the Bible?….you just get more rich as time goes by.

N/C is sound in his scriptures …and has used them…and you post the books of the Bible because as a professional Bible mechanic you have those answers. Going to a site and dragging up some bible verses to prove the Bible wrong because you cannot discern what it means is not a Bible study nor is it an application of God’s HOLY Word to one’s self is it?

If in fact you knew the bible frorm front to back and could quote every word and not apply what you have read to yourself it is all for nothing. Of course as the Bible says, The word of God is not of any private interpertation it is of God’s spirit and if a person does not have God’s spirit they cannot discern what application to make.

Just saw you posted it at Pat’s.

It really needed to be there. Thanks.

Now watch the deniers and antisemitics come out.

If you mean Pat’s site, I already posted it there. If it’s another site, then let me know, or you can copy and paste it there.

Yeah, that’s what I meant.

Now watch the reaction, LOL

That didn’t really answer the question I asked you, now did it.

OMG,,,,, a circle jerk AGAIN….. I am outta here.

He’s Hovering….

In more ways than one. LOL!!!

Yeah, It’s really sick how people, including those who believe themselves to be good; can look at reality and excuse evil merely for the sake of their own hatred. Although what we see going on in today’s world in regards to this blindness that seems to strike so many; I believe there’s a spiritual component to it; namely the absence of God’s Spirit and a wealth of influence from the Devil who’s goal is to exterminate the Jewish people.

How come TDO gets to be a simpleton and I always have to be the dipsh*t wise ass?

You just answered your own question. LOL

Only if you’ll study this for the next 10 minutes without becoming aroused:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&p=cartoon+sheep+likes+being+sheared

First option.

Another non answer.

So do you really think that a book of satire on the christians of the time and a book that declares that there are, in fact, two separate Gods, should be in the New Testament.

A simple yes or no is sufficient.

Or once again you can run away, oh mighty biblical scholar.

He could explain it, jas, but then he’d have to kill you. It is one of those MI things

These books again can be found on any bible book store shelf and were removed by Bible scholars because they are historical having nothing to do with salvation but are avalible anywhere. No secret Mr. Wizard of wisdom and witchcraft, your pointed hat is caught in the ceiling fan.

Some of these books were written by questionable people as well.. Go ahead now and explain the whole process where these men simply without any reason excluded these books ….waaaa booo hooo..

Futhermore why do you care? You have proclaimed here many times that it is all hog wash and you don’t believe any of it..or maybe you do AGREE but “not believe” with three pages from the whole Bible and yet oh wise one you will believe any weird false doctrine you may get your hands on….go figger.

The apocrypha or the groups of books you mentioned are not now carried in any bibles.. Of course since most Christians are following the teachings and wisdom of God you would be interested in the books disgarded from the other books because not too many are wasting time in these books of interest.

Oh my… this would then put our Lynn ahead in the peeing contest of horse crap…. “meaning you are all wise” in your own WISDOM. As we all know the wisdom of man has some real flaws and man does not go to be with God on flaws..

Great men who preached the gospel and still do would not use these books today for any spiritual reason however for some historical reason they may look into one of that era. Of course if you reject the plan of God for salvation and his plan of living for HIM and not “youself” you would weasl some other way to get in God’s grace, at least before men in public…however as scripture says JESUS is the only way…so build the tower in your back yard to heaven and end up babbling to yourself or try to come as a thief in the night but God is all wise and see’e the heart ….so none of the man made religions in the times of Christ or now trumps God’s plan..and never will.*

And I await a simple answer from you.

I guess we all have to wait sometimes, right?

I am leaving…. but answer this Weird Wizard…. have you ever read any of it…. or did someone tell you it is all wrong?

Oh,

And why is that Lynn, did it take that long for it to show up on the internet for your C/P.

AppyH 0 minutes ago in reply to Lynn Long

Lynn I read all the lists of books and sections not included in the Bible anymore that you are posting for your bravado and these books again can be found on any bible book store shelf and were removed by Bible scholars because they are historical having nothing to do with salvation but are avalible anywhere. No secret Mr. Wizard of wisdom and witchcraft, your pointed hat is caught in the ceiling fan.

Some of these books were written by questionable people as well.. Go ahead now and explain the whole process where these men simply without any reason excluded these books ….waaaa booo hooo..

Futhermore why do you care? You have proclaimed here many times that it is all hog wash and you don’t believe any of it..or maybe you do AGREE but “not believe” with three pages from the whole Bible and yet oh wise one you will believe any weird false doctrine you may get your hands on….go figger.

The apocrypha or the groups of books you mentioned are not now carried in any bibles.. Of course since most Christians are following the teachings and wisdom of God you would be interested in the books disgarded from the other books because not too many are wasting time in these books of interest.

Oh my… this would then put our Lynn ahead in the peeing contest of horse crap…. “meaning you are all wise” in your own WISDOM. As we all know the wisdom of man has some real flaws and man does not go to be with God on flaws..

Great men who preached the gospel and still do would not use these books today for any spiritual reason however for some historical reason they may look into one of that era. Of course if you reject the plan of God for salvation and his plan of living for HIM and not “youself” you would weasl some other way to get in God’s grace, at least before men in public…however as scripture says JESUS is the only way…so build the tower in your back yard to heaven and end up babbling to yourself or try to come as a thief in the night but God is all wise and see’e the heart ….so none of the man made religions in the times of Christ or now trumps God’s plan..and never will.*

And I might add that your challenge begs the questions:

1) How long have you studied it O wise one?

2) Do you really feel all others are incapable of Mastery in that amount of time?

GONE! You silly uneducated and pretentious turds…. have fun without me.

I’m not keeping up is he a new idiot or an old one…

Either a new one or an old one using a new name

Actually, Jesus preached about Hell a number of times throughout His ministry.

That is not what he said, Lynn. He proposed that the Gods were physically different. He was not talking about ‘ideas’ about God but two different Gods entirely.

What would most christians call that. Polydeism? Heresy?

Let me think about that one for a while

LOL Out Loud back at ya!!!

I didn’t see that. I have only been on line sparingly the last three days. Big Jizzy is an idiot and a Jew hater, but like you; I agree that it’s of greater value that people can read his beliefs and positions. I think what’s really of value in his post’s, and the post’s of those who think like him; is the lucid and clarifying responses that people give to their hate filled and illogical post’s. As we already know, sadly, many people in America and abroad are not that well informed (except by a corrupt media). The benefit in having these types of poorly informed people being exposed to the truthful, logical and common sense rebuttals to post’s of those like BigJizzy — are immeasurable and can only be a good.

I am trying to figure out what books written in the 2nd or third centuries AD, have to do with the bible. Isn’t that when they believe the gospel of Mary was written and they aren’t even sure that this is Mary of Magdelene, correct?

But as usual, he deflects.

LMAO

Listen Genius (you too Yappy)- The whole misdirection of Christianity began in 325 AD with the pagan Constantine at the Council of Niceae – get real for a change. The canon of the New Testament was not formalized until the 5th century.

Lynn,

You STILL haven’t answered my questions.

You can continue to deflect but it doesn’t change the fact that your list contained writings by:

People satirizing the christians.
Heretics.
A gospel according to Mary Magdelene. Man that Biatch was old!
People hearing voices they claim were Paul talking to them thru an interpreter.

So do you think those books belong in the New Testament?

A simple yes or no or you can expand, I don’t care.

But those are just some of the things I have found in looking at your post and i have only looked at about 10 of them.

I’m out of here for now, everyone have a good day.

Stay close to Jesus, read and study God’s word; we are in a time where the truth is in short supply and demand; Jesus wants us, warns us; commands us, to WATCH and pay attention to the signs He’s given us that point to His coming. God Be with you all.

Do you three have such a weak belief and fear of being contradicted that you can’t even consider that there were MANY GOSPELS… check what Luke said. Now, Luke said that— and Luke was written in the 1st century…… cut the world a break…. save your bigotry for private conversations.

Oh yappy, if only you could be intelligent! But of course, you are nothing but an ignorant lowlife

Study how the human body metabolizes corn syrup and compare that with the way it handles other sugars. Can’t have a serious conversation with people who aren’t up it.

King James Bible LUKE 1:1

Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

Pretty simple stuff, really.

I know now you are a lib by your corn syrup post.

If you don’t like corn syrup, just don’t eat anything with it in it.

But you would have it banned, correct?

But i’m sure you have a problem with me. Hypocrite!

The only one that has a problem with you, skippy is yourself.

All of your ills are self-inflicted.

Oh great, the typo convention is in town.

Okay fine septic, FINE! I try to be nice and this is what I get? And to think, I was about to tell you about the time I had dinner with 3 Grand Dragons when this old geezer came along and lynched them all…now you can just FORGET IT!

Not at all skippy. I have a pretty good life by most standards. I have a good woman by my side, a bunch of kids and grandkids to make me smile occasionally and enough worldly possessions to see me through what is coming.

How are you doing?

On this cite though, eye have a spiel chequer.

He is the biggest fruit in the world. And they still won’t name a pie after him.
Life is so unfair.

Dropquick pie?

Ummmmm, no thanks!

dropfruit, your mom just called and asked me if I thought this was a reliable website:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-your-child-a-prehomosexual-forec-2010-09-15

Now I know you told me that she just loves that you are a fruit and all and she is looking forward to having some fat hairy guy for a daughter-in-law, but, man, I think she might be changing her mind.

Lynn the deflector….well then Lynn what is your real point…DO NOT BELIEVE THE GOSPEL? …OR ALL LIES? What is the point of your blathering?

I think I know, you are a skirter …the truth is far from you but then that would be admitting you are a sinner like the rest of us and that would be admitting you are wrong and God is right. You have said many times the Bible is not accepted by YOU…

You mock God and Christians that his Son died for.. you are the wise one but only in your own eyes.

I could be the keynote speaker. My typos are world famous.

And yet you read it! Thanks for at least making the effort.

What point is it you half-agree with: the toxicity of Ms Coulter or Americans’ limited personal experience of radiation sickness?

and your point is?

D E F L E C T I O N

Tralfamadore is a fictional creation, rather like Bush’s “Iraqi WMDs”!

Unfortunately Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed in real-life, hence my point that the Japanese have a bit more experience of radiation sickness than, er, Ann Coulter, who seems to be recommending it as a kind of preventive medicine technique!

Hey Lady,

I’d love to come here you speak.

{do they have a choise of entres and is the bar open or cash?}

Hi Red.
Hope you’re having a good day.