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Court: NRC In Violation For Not Ruling On Yucca Mountain
schwit1 sends this quote from an AP report: "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ordered the [Nuclear Regulatory Commission] to complete the licensing process and approve or reject the Energy Department's application for a never-completed waste storage site at Nevada's Yucca Mountain. In a sharply worded opinion, the court said the nuclear agency was 'simply flouting the law' when it allowed the Obama administration to continue plans to close the proposed waste site 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The action goes against a federal law designating Yucca Mountain as the nation's nuclear waste repository. 'The president may not decline to follow a statutory mandate or prohibition simply because of policy objections,' Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh wrote in a majority opinion (PDF), which was joined Judge A. Raymond Randolph. Chief Judge Merrick B. Garland dissented. The appeals court said the case has important implications for the separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches of government. 'It is no overstatement to say that our constitutional system of separation of powers would be significantly altered if we were to allow executive and independent agencies to disregard federal law in the manner asserted in this case by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,' Kavanaugh wrote. 'The commission is simply defying a law enacted by Congress ... without any legal basis.'"
Ummm no. The problem here began because girlintraining just got caught not knowing what he was talking about, again, while acting like an expert about a topic, again.
First, not a dude. Second; Men are competitive, and they express that through abuse, derogatory comments, etc., because that's how you "win" in a competition. Now I don't assume that's sexist, in fact, I know it's precisely because they aren't being sexist that this behavior happens. I don't expect men to act less like assholes just because there's a woman around; much to the chagrin of my feminist peers. I just wanted that up there because you, like so many other people, either assume I'm a dude, or a dude pretending to be a chick, or whatever other politically-incorrect way of describing me you can come up with, including intentionally calling me by the wrong pronouns. I get it... you feel threatened, so you attack my gender, and it's not because you're sexist, but because you're an asshole. Now, with that sorted...
girlintraiing then just did a complete about-face attempting to salvage the situation, proving as well that honesty and accuracy on the tin isnt as important to him as appearances.
Actually, I could give a flying fuck through a rolling doughnut about appearances. It's one of the reasons moderators alternate between praise and frothing at the mouth with me; I don't take sides, I don't sugar coat, and I try to beat my opponent with facts, not name-calling or labelling (invariably the lead-on to a strawman). I don't care whether I'm +5 or -99; What I care about is trying to be as accurate as I can, as often as I can. Does that mean I don't trip over pedantic and nuanced differences? Of course not! Does it mean I don't occasionally mix up my facts, reverse the names, or add an extra word here or there that completely changes the meaning of what I was trying to say? Nope. I'm human, this is a forum not an academic paper, and I fuck up. And I'm big enough to admit when I do, if I do.
The common theme between the two posts is appearances, accuracy be damned.
Sooo... you're upset that my follow-up post is related to the original, meant to clarify what was apparently unclear to everyone else, and claim that this attempt to be more accurate... is evidence that I don't care about accuracy?
Huh. Okay. Have you considered a career in politics?
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> As someone who lives in a country with universal health care (albeit I'm male, so the right to choose doesn't directly effect me),
I've always thought that was the strangest statement. Killing your son wouldn't affect you? It would affect me deeply, permanently.
I don't suppose that's actually happened to you yet, has it? You spend a few months getting ready for your new baby, all excited to be a dad,
then she kills your baby, saying she doesn't want to feel fat for another few months? That would most definitely affect me in the most
extreme way.