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Japan Plans To Scrap Nuclear Plants After 40 Years
An anonymous reader writes with this news as carried by the San Francisco Chronicle: "After the nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima plant, 'Japan says it will soon require atomic reactors to be shut down after 40 years of use to improve safety.' If, however, a nuclear plant is deemed still safe it may continue operation."
"The best argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill.
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
And then...
"I will tell you: It's three agencies of government, when I get there, that are gone: Commerce, Education and the -- what's the third one there? Let's see. ... OK. So Commerce, Education and the -- ... The third agency of government I would -- I would do away with the Education, the ... Commerce and -- let's see -- I can't. The third one, I can't. Sorry. Oops." –Rick Perry, at the time frontrunner for the GOP nomination.
"I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed." - Mitt Romney, talking to people in Florida in 2011. What he left out: Mitt Romney is independently wealthy to the tune of $200 million in the bank, and never has to fear homelessness or anything else, basically ever.
"I have two grandchildren – Maggie is 11, Robert is 9. I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they're my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American."
"I have two grandchildren – Maggie is 11, Robert is 9. I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they're my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American." - Newt Gingrich. Apparently he hasn't the brainpower to realize that "secular atheist" and "radical islamist" governments are contradictory.
"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything." - Rick Santorum. Pretty much self-explanatory.