o'nocchio - Nuclear Kill, Cap'n Tax, and Coal

"A friend suggests that o'who? and 'those who surround him' aren't the "Keystone Cops" and bumbling fools they appear to be.  In fact, o'nocchio's grandiose scheme to "fundamentally transform America" is more than simple campaign rhetoric. ... It signals those who maneuvered him into power that our economic and social systems will be overwhelmed with burdens that will lead to their collapse.   And then, a new era of social progressivism will arise from the ashes of the former America to be led by those very 'puppet-masters' now orchestrating its destruction."  -- rfh, a paleoconservative , and kd

Warning: Changing Images of Man predicts an American economic collapse and a "garrison" (police) state," .. (2007, SRI Center)

Papers Please Nazi "SS" Gestapo Check Point inside the USA


"Truth, Justice, and the American Way" -- Superman, 1938

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Reid Celebrates Obama's Yucca Mountain Decision
By Paul Bedard, Posted February 26, 2009, U.S. News & World Report

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reports in a message to Nevadans that President Obama has ended the government's bid to store nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain and that instead, Obama will try to come up with another plan. On his Senate website, Reid reports:

Dear Fellow Nevadan-

Today was an extremely important day in our fight against the proposed nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain. In his budget request for 2010, President Obama will announce plans to devise a new strategy to find another solution to deal with the nation's nuclear waste that does not include storing it in Nevada .

As Nevadans know, I have been successfully fighting the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump since I began my career in the Senate. I have had tremendous help from our state's leaders and thousands of Nevadans along the way. President Obama joined the fight against the nuclear waste dump in his Presidential campaign, and I am proud that now he will deliver on his promise.

President Obama has made a critical first step towards fulfilling his promise to end the Yucca Mountain project, and I could not be happier for the people of Nevada. Make no mistake: this represents a significant and lasting victory in our battle to protect Nevada from becoming the country's toxic wasteland. I have worked for over two decades with help from our state's leaders and thousands of Nevadans to stop Yucca Mountain. President Obama recognizes that the proposed dump threatens the health and safety of Nevadans and millions of Americans, and his commitment to stop this terrible project could not be more clear.

HARRY REID
United States Senator for Nevada

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From the August 2009 Scientific American Magazine
Is There a Place for Nuclear Waste? ( Preview ) By Matthew L. Wald   
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-there-a-place-for-nuclear-waste

Yucca Mountain was supposed to be the answer to the U.S.'s nuclear waste problem, but after 22 years and $9 billion, that vision is dead. Now, some say that doing nothing in the near term may be the smartest solution
Key Concepts
• The Obama administration has effectively canceled the plan to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
• Spent fuel will for the foreseeable future continue to be stored on-site at 131 locations around the country.
• The end of Yucca means that all options for waste disposal are now in play, including recycling, use in advanced reactors and burial at other sites.

Holding Tanks:

Nuclear waste lingers in dry-cask storage at the Idaho National Laboratory. More than 60,000 metric tons of nuclear waste are in temporary storage at 131 civilian and military sites around the country.

Peter Essick (Getty Images)

Two weeks after President Barack Obama pulled the plug on Yucca Mountain, the site near Las Vegas where the federal government has been trying for 22 years to open a repository for nuclear waste, geochemist James L. Conca came to Washington, D.C., with an idea in his pocket.

Conca has been assigned by the state of New Mexico to monitor the environment around a different federal nuclear dump, one used for defense-related plutonium, and where others see problems, he sees opportunity.

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"fundamentally transform (overwhelm)"

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Robert A. Heinlein, quotes about Guns

"Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark."

From quotes.liberty-tree.ca: more Robert A. Heinlein quotes : view/comment
View more "Traditional American Values" & Found Fathers' quotes at http://harrold.org/quotes

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