Unless you've got proof it's garbage, it's an unproven theory just as valid as any other unproven theory with no actual real world repeatable experimental evidence supporting it.
Of the 127 nuclear power plants built in the US, already 23 US nuclear reactors have been forced into retirement.
"Fact Sheet on Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants
Background
When a power company decides to close its nuclear power plant permanently, the facility must be decommissioned by safely removing it from service and reducing residual radioactivity to a level that permits release of the property and termination of the operating license. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has strict rules governing nuclear power plant decommissioning involving cleanup of radioactively contaminated plant systems and structures and removal of the radioactive fuel. These requirements protect workers and the public during the entire decommissioning process and the public after the license is terminated. Discussion
Decommissioning involves three different alternatives: DECON, SAFSTOR, or ENTOMB.
*
Under DECON (immediate dismantlement), soon after the nuclear facility closes, equipment, structures, and portions of the facility containing radioactive contaminants are removed or decontaminated to a level that permits release of the property and termination of the NRC license.
*
Under SAFSTOR, often considered "delayed DECON," a nuclear facility is maintained and monitored in a condition that allows the radioactivity to decay; afterwards, it is dismantled.
*
Under ENTOMB, radioactive contaminants are encased in a structurally sound material such as concrete and appropriately maintained and monitored until the radioactivity decays to a level permitting release of the property.
The plant owner may also choose to adopt a combination of the first two choices in which some portions of the facility are dismantled or decontaminated while other parts of the facility are left in SAFSTOR. The decision may be based on factors besides radioactive decay such as availability of waste disposal sites.
To be acceptable, decommissioning must be completed within 60 years. A time beyond that would be considered only when necessary to protect public health and safety in accordance with NRC regulations. Regulations
The requirements for decommissioning a nuclear power plant are set out in NRC regulations (Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, part 20 subpart E, and parts 50.75, 50.82, 51.53, and 51.95). In August 1996, a revised rule went into effect that redefined the decommissioning process and required owners to provide the NRC with early notification of planned decommissioning activities. The rule allows no major decommissioning activities to be undertaken until after certain information has been provided to the NRC and the public
Several opportunities are provided for public involvement during the decommissioning process. The NRC holds a meeting in the vicinity of the plant to discuss the decommissioning process and to invite public comments and questions. NRC approval and issuance of a license amendment is required for changes to the plant license and decommissioning activities that could adversely impact the public. The license amendment process provides an opportunity for a public hearing. Additionally, a license termination plan must be approved by license amendment, thus providing another hearing opportunity for affected members of the public.
Also, as a result of recent deregulation of the electric power industry, NRC now requires nuclear power plant owners to report to the agency the status of their decommissioning funds at least once every two years and annually within five years of the planned end of plant operation. This requirement went into effect in late 1998. Phases of Decommissioning
The requirements for power reactor decommissioning activities may be divided into three phases: (1) initial activities; (2) major de
A close family member did his U of Mich. Metallurgical Eng. Ph D research work on the subject of the accelerated corrosion rates caused by radiation seen in the nuclear industry at what was then GE's Hanford nuclear research complex.
Anywhere there's metal and radiation, there's accelerated corrosion. It's the reason the service lives of nuclear reactors has been consistently overestimated. They have no means of making reactor cooling system piping last until the end of industry projected reactor service lives.
It's not "falling apart" because radiation-caused corrosion is a very well known problem in the industry that inspectors check for in every inspection and shut down reactors permanently for when the corrosion gets too bad.
Nuclear power is only cheap for Bechtel to produce IF someone else......like maybe some government no-bid, cost-plus contact......pays for the nuke plant to be built...
and then someone else......like the government......pays for the decommissioning cost of the plant at the end of the plant's useful life when the company that operated the plant spins off the nuclear plant from the parent corporation to a new corporation created just to declare bankruptcy and leave the clean up mess in someone else's lap.
John Conyers is the chair of the committee the bill was refered to. Conyers is one of the most progressive members of Congress. Conyers decides what happens next.
Yeah... and John Conyers, one of few truly outspoken critics of Bush and Cheney during Bush's whole Presidency, is the Chair of House Judiciary Committee.
Sure... Pelosi could buy Conyers off with a ton of Pork... but Pelosi's gonna come up with enough pork to rebuild Detroit (Conyers district) from the ground up. Let's be honest. A little pork just ain't gonna make enough difference to anybody in Detroit to back Conyers off.
The Congressional investigation for an impeachment process, and the sworn testimony that would go with an impeachment process has to be done. Bush and Cheney have to be forced to sit down in front of Congress and be forced to testify under oath to their acts during the Bush Presidency in a situation where they could not refused on the basis of executive privilege.
Bush and Cheney must allow themselves to be sworn in and testify in an impeachment investigation.
...A Boeing passenger jet or C5A-Galaxy must look like it's suspended from Mt. Olympus by Hercules from wires, and your average sports stadium outdoor lighting system and video screen look like the foulest of evil sorcery.
Every scientific advance mankind has taken looks impossible when viewed through the constraints of what is currently achievable.
Pardon me again, but I don't remember anybody putting Katrina in GITMO and torturing her.
Since neither Katrina, nor any of her brothers and sisters in hurricanedom are likely going to be brought to GITMO, the perceived need on the part of the neo-cons for martial law and torture is clearly something other than a hurricane.
Pardon me, but I don't remember anybody putting Katrina in GITMO and torturing her.
Admittedly... I'd probably like to kick Katrina a few times in the stomach myself if they did manage to capture her... Well...anyway... since neither Katrina, nor any of her brothers and sisters in hurricanedom are likely going to be brought to GITMO, the perceived need on the part of the neo-cons for martial law and torture is clearly something other than a hurricane.
I just know this is going to lead to an evil race of people who are all chipper and bouncy in the morning... a race of Soledad O'Brians and Matt Lauers... ewww.
Anti-abortion activists and other right wing extremist groups have proven they are much more prone to "blow-up-my-own-country" type activities than any other group. See Eric Rudolph and Tim McVeigh.
Eve is set up for veteran griefers to grief-and-run. Griefer jumps in with USS DreadMYuberness at the jumpgates. Unloads on newbie with massive broadside of whole arsenal of USS DreadMYuberness . Newbie usually dies in first onslaught (often while screen is locked up by lag due to the graphics for the new system just jumped into are loading). If newbie survive first onslaught, Griefer jumps out before newbie can call for help.
Jump system actually makes griefers more untouchable in Eve than other MMOGs. Ship speed is basically moot because everyone has to use the gate transit system. Griefers pounce at the gate itself. Unload on newbie before help can arrive. Loot whatever they can kill in one broadside. Jump out in the unlikely event the newbie survives first broadside.
Eve might be a cool game if you happen to live near where they base their servers. Otherwise, it's a laggy mess.
In my mind, all Eve has proven is that the technological barriers are still to high for MMOGs to be a single world based on one group of servers in one location.
"...For the purpose of this perspective, I will consider the following regimes: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco's Spain, Salazar's Portugal, Papadopoulos's Greece, Pinochet's Chile, and Suharto's Indonesia. To be sure, they constitute a mixed bag of national identities, cultures, developmental levels, and history. But they all followed the fascist or protofascist model in obtaining, expanding, and maintaining power. Further, all these regimes have been overthrown, so a more or less complete picture of their basic characteristics and abuses is possible.
Analysis of these seven regimes reveals fourteen common threads that link them in recognizable patterns of national behavior and abuse of power. These basic characteristics are more prevalent and intense in some regimes than in others, but they all share at least some level of similarity.
1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism. From the prominent displays of flags and bunting to the ubiquitous lapel pins, the fervor to show patriotic nationalism, both on the part of the regime itself and of citizens caught up in its frenzy, was always obvious. Catchy slogans, pride in the military, and demands for unity were common themes in expressing this nationalism. It was usually coupled with a suspicion of things foreign that often bordered on xenophobia.
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights. The regimes themselves viewed human rights as of little value and a hindrance to realizing the objectives of the ruling elite. Through clever use of propaganda, the population was brought to accept these human rights abuses by marginalizing, even demonizing, those being targeted. When abuse was egregious, the tactic was to use secrecy, denial, and disinformation.
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause. The most significant common thread among these regimes was the use of scapegoating as a means to divert the people's attention from other problems, to shift blame for failures, and to channel frustration in controlled directions. The methods of choice--relentless propaganda and disinformation--were usually effective. Often the regimes would incite "spontaneous" acts against the target scapegoats, usually communists, socialists, liberals, Jews, ethnic and racial minorities, traditional national enemies, members of other religions, secularists, homosexuals, and "terrorists." Active opponents of these regimes were inevitably labeled as terrorists and dealt with accordingly.
4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism. Ruling elites always identified closely with the military and the industrial infrastructure that supported it. A disproportionate share of national resources was allocated to the military, even when domestic needs were acute. The military was seen as an expression of nationalism, and was used whenever possible to assert national goals, intimidate other nations, and increase the power and prestige of the ruling elite.
5. Rampant sexism. Beyond the simple fact that the political elite and the national culture were male-dominated, these regimes inevitably viewed women as second-class citizens. They were adamantly anti-abortion and also homophobic. These attitudes were usually codified in Draconian laws that enjoyed strong support by the orthodox religion of the country, thus lending the regime cover for its abuses.
6. A controlled mass media. Under some of the regimes, the mass media were under strict direct control and could be relied upon never to stray from the party line. Other regimes exercised more subtle power to ensure media orthodoxy. Methods included the control of licensing and access to resources, economic pressure, appeals to patriotism, and implied threats. The leaders of the mass media were often politically compatible with the power elite. The result was usually success in keeping the general public unaware of the regimes' excesses.
7. Obsession with national security. Inevitably, a national security apparatus was under direct c
jscheelntsu starts off by cutting and pasting out of context.I said "Right wing Christians have a real bad habit of intentionally screwing with people with differing religious beliefs." It's true. Right wing Dominionist Christians do have a real bad habit of intentionally screwing with people with differing belief systems. You want me to post all the quotes from right wing Christians calling people of differing faiths evil, demons, etc? You want me to post all the right wing Dominionist Christian quotes calling America a "Christian nation" even though the Constitution was written specifically to protect people from having one religion or denomination being forced on the US population? That was because there had been so many Protestants oppressed in Europe by other state religions or different state Protestant denominations?
I am a better Patriot than you. I served my country. Army. MOS: 19D - Cavalry Scout. No... I don't believe everyone needs to serve in the military. Did you serve in the Peace Corps? Vista? AmericaCorps? Did you teach in an inner city or rural public school? Worked in health care in urban or rural medical clinic? Not only no, but %^$# no. You ain't done &%#& for anyone but yourself. You are a useless eater and a leech upon American society. You suck capital out of the American economy and you return nothing of value. For an utter waste of a $2 sack of water and minerals like you to say a word to anyone of real value in our society of the ultimate hypocrisy. The idea that your complete lack of value to America should make you one of the "chiefs" is utterly hysterical.
And all you do in the media is propagandize for your fellow borderline Franco-model fascists.
CNN anti-military? Utter rubbish. CNN spends the vast majority of it's broadcast day peddling right wing propaganda. The Graner quote comes from the official depositions leading up to court-marshall anyway. What's next? Are you going to claim the US Army is anti-military and Anti-Christain, too?
jscheelntsu, you aren't making prisoner pyramids because you are hypocritically sitting on your butt in front of your computer here in the US demanding others fight a war you refuse to fight yourself.
Why aren't you in Iraq "keeping terrorism over there instead of here" and "fighting those who hate our freedom" (those quotes are from your guys)? You are in luck. I know how to hook you up with recruiter from the US Army. We can fix this error and get you to Iraq very quickly. Just click this link...
And everything you wrote in the first paragraph is wrong. I never said ALL right wing Christians do anything. You made up a strawman argument, claiming I made sweeping generalizations I never typed. MANY right wing christians do exactly what I said they do, though, and you know it.
Here's a transcript of CNN coverage during Lyndie England's prosecution...
SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good evening.
More government witnesses appear to be helping prosecutors build their case against pregnant reservist Lyndie England. She sat stone faced listening to testimony, including some testimony from another guard from her Reserve unit who testified by phone from an undisclosed location.
Specialist Joseph Darby became the whistleblower who turned his friends in. He said it was a hard call, but he told the court it was the moral thing to do.
Darby testified he was given a CD with photos from fellow guard Charles Graner, identified by prosecutors as a ringleader. These photos by now very familiar: Lyndie England holding a detainee on a leash; a pyramid of naked prisoners; some posed to simulate a sex act.
At the time, according to Darby, Graner explained one photo of a hooded prisoner chained to a cell like this. "The Christian in me knows it was wrong, but the corrections officer in me can't help but love to make a grown man urinate on himself."
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Unless you've got proof it's garbage, it's an unproven theory just as valid as any other unproven theory with no actual real world repeatable experimental evidence supporting it.
Kinda like string theory.
Of the 127 nuclear power plants built in the US, already 23 US nuclear reactors have been forced into retirement.
"Fact Sheet on Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants
Background
When a power company decides to close its nuclear power plant permanently, the facility must be decommissioned by safely removing it from service and reducing residual radioactivity to a level that permits release of the property and termination of the operating license. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has strict rules governing nuclear power plant decommissioning involving cleanup of radioactively contaminated plant systems and structures and removal of the radioactive fuel. These requirements protect workers and the public during the entire decommissioning process and the public after the license is terminated.
Discussion
Decommissioning involves three different alternatives: DECON, SAFSTOR, or ENTOMB.
*
Under DECON (immediate dismantlement), soon after the nuclear facility closes, equipment, structures, and portions of the facility containing radioactive contaminants are removed or decontaminated to a level that permits release of the property and termination of the NRC license.
*
Under SAFSTOR, often considered "delayed DECON," a nuclear facility is maintained and monitored in a condition that allows the radioactivity to decay; afterwards, it is dismantled.
*
Under ENTOMB, radioactive contaminants are encased in a structurally sound material such as concrete and appropriately maintained and monitored until the radioactivity decays to a level permitting release of the property.
The plant owner may also choose to adopt a combination of the first two choices in which some portions of the facility are dismantled or decontaminated while other parts of the facility are left in SAFSTOR. The decision may be based on factors besides radioactive decay such as availability of waste disposal sites.
To be acceptable, decommissioning must be completed within 60 years. A time beyond that would be considered only when necessary to protect public health and safety in accordance with NRC regulations.
Regulations
The requirements for decommissioning a nuclear power plant are set out in NRC regulations (Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, part 20 subpart E, and parts 50.75, 50.82, 51.53, and 51.95). In August 1996, a revised rule went into effect that redefined the decommissioning process and required owners to provide the NRC with early notification of planned decommissioning activities. The rule allows no major decommissioning activities to be undertaken until after certain information has been provided to the NRC and the public
Several opportunities are provided for public involvement during the decommissioning process. The NRC holds a meeting in the vicinity of the plant to discuss the decommissioning process and to invite public comments and questions. NRC approval and issuance of a license amendment is required for changes to the plant license and decommissioning activities that could adversely impact the public. The license amendment process provides an opportunity for a public hearing. Additionally, a license termination plan must be approved by license amendment, thus providing another hearing opportunity for affected members of the public.
Also, as a result of recent deregulation of the electric power industry, NRC now requires nuclear power plant owners to report to the agency the status of their decommissioning funds at least once every two years and annually within five years of the planned end of plant operation. This requirement went into effect in late 1998.
Phases of Decommissioning
The requirements for power reactor decommissioning activities may be divided into three phases: (1) initial activities; (2) major de
A close family member did his U of Mich. Metallurgical Eng. Ph D research work on the subject of the accelerated corrosion rates caused by radiation seen in the nuclear industry at what was then GE's Hanford nuclear research complex.
Anywhere there's metal and radiation, there's accelerated corrosion. It's the reason the service lives of nuclear reactors has been consistently overestimated. They have no means of making reactor cooling system piping last until the end of industry projected reactor service lives.
It's not "falling apart" because radiation-caused corrosion is a very well known problem in the industry that inspectors check for in every inspection and shut down reactors permanently for when the corrosion gets too bad.
Nuclear power is only cheap for Bechtel to produce IF someone else... ...like maybe some government no-bid, cost-plus contact... ...pays for the nuke plant to be built...
...like the government... ...pays for the decommissioning cost of the plant at the end of the plant's useful life when the company that operated the plant spins off the nuclear plant from the parent corporation to a new corporation created just to declare bankruptcy and leave the clean up mess in someone else's lap.
and then someone else...
And what materials are they planning to make this reactor out of?
If there's any metal in the design, it's still going to fall apart at because of the accelerated rate of corrosion caused by radioactivity.
It's impossible to make nuclear reactors safe as long as metal parts are used in reactors. Why? Because radiation accelerates corrosion.
Right now, humanity still cannot design a nuclear reactor that's not going to fall apart. Maybe later, but we're not there yet.
John Conyers is the chair of the committee the bill was refered to. Conyers is one of the most progressive members of Congress. Conyers decides what happens next.
Yeah... and John Conyers, one of few truly outspoken critics of Bush and Cheney during Bush's whole Presidency, is the Chair of House Judiciary Committee.
Sure... Pelosi could buy Conyers off with a ton of Pork... but Pelosi's gonna come up with enough pork to rebuild Detroit (Conyers district) from the ground up. Let's be honest. A little pork just ain't gonna make enough difference to anybody in Detroit to back Conyers off.
You realize real liberals want NOBODY to have the kind of power Bush has, right?
The Congressional investigation for an impeachment process, and the sworn testimony that would go with an impeachment process has to be done. Bush and Cheney have to be forced to sit down in front of Congress and be forced to testify under oath to their acts during the Bush Presidency in a situation where they could not refused on the basis of executive privilege.
Bush and Cheney must allow themselves to be sworn in and testify in an impeachment investigation.
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...A Boeing passenger jet or C5A-Galaxy must look like it's suspended from Mt. Olympus by Hercules from wires, and your average sports stadium outdoor lighting system and video screen look like the foulest of evil sorcery.
Every scientific advance mankind has taken looks impossible when viewed through the constraints of what is currently achievable.
Pauley: "Some guy's been watchin' every ting we been doing for years. I took care of it."
Maybe... but you can't make a good longbow from yew dirt, now, can ya?
So there.
Pardon me again, but I don't remember anybody putting Katrina in GITMO and torturing her.
Since neither Katrina, nor any of her brothers and sisters in hurricanedom are likely going to be brought to GITMO, the perceived need on the part of the neo-cons for martial law and torture is clearly something other than a hurricane.
Pardon me, but I don't remember anybody putting Katrina in GITMO and torturing her.
... Well...anyway... since neither Katrina, nor any of her brothers and sisters in hurricanedom are likely going to be brought to GITMO, the perceived need on the part of the neo-cons for martial law and torture is clearly something other than a hurricane.
Admittedly... I'd probably like to kick Katrina a few times in the stomach myself if they did manage to capture her
I just know this is going to lead to an evil race of people who are all chipper and bouncy in the morning... a race of Soledad O'Brians and Matt Lauers... ewww.
Gotta keep those Left Coast perverts away from those box turtles. They might start marrying those box turtles.
Anti-abortion activists and other right wing extremist groups have proven they are much more prone to "blow-up-my-own-country" type activities than any other group. See Eric Rudolph and Tim McVeigh.
Eve is set up for veteran griefers to grief-and-run. Griefer jumps in with USS DreadMYuberness at the jumpgates. Unloads on newbie with massive broadside of whole arsenal of USS DreadMYuberness . Newbie usually dies in first onslaught (often while screen is locked up by lag due to the graphics for the new system just jumped into are loading). If newbie survive first onslaught, Griefer jumps out before newbie can call for help.
Jump system actually makes griefers more untouchable in Eve than other MMOGs. Ship speed is basically moot because everyone has to use the gate transit system. Griefers pounce at the gate itself. Unload on newbie before help can arrive. Loot whatever they can kill in one broadside. Jump out in the unlikely event the newbie survives first broadside.
People who live near Eve's servers have fun. The rest look at screens locked up by lag.
Eve might be a cool game if you happen to live near where they base their servers. Otherwise, it's a laggy mess.
In my mind, all Eve has proven is that the technological barriers are still to high for MMOGs to be a single world based on one group of servers in one location.
14 warning signs of fascism...
"...For the purpose of this perspective, I will consider the following regimes: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco's Spain, Salazar's Portugal, Papadopoulos's Greece, Pinochet's Chile, and Suharto's Indonesia. To be sure, they constitute a mixed bag of national identities, cultures, developmental levels, and history. But they all followed the fascist or protofascist model in obtaining, expanding, and maintaining power. Further, all these regimes have been overthrown, so a more or less complete picture of their basic characteristics and abuses is possible.
Analysis of these seven regimes reveals fourteen common threads that link them in recognizable patterns of national behavior and abuse of power. These basic characteristics are more prevalent and intense in some regimes than in others, but they all share at least some level of similarity.
1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism. From the prominent displays of flags and bunting to the ubiquitous lapel pins, the fervor to show patriotic nationalism, both on the part of the regime itself and of citizens caught up in its frenzy, was always obvious. Catchy slogans, pride in the military, and demands for unity were common themes in expressing this nationalism. It was usually coupled with a suspicion of things foreign that often bordered on xenophobia.
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights. The regimes themselves viewed human rights as of little value and a hindrance to realizing the objectives of the ruling elite. Through clever use of propaganda, the population was brought to accept these human rights abuses by marginalizing, even demonizing, those being targeted. When abuse was egregious, the tactic was to use secrecy, denial, and disinformation.
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause. The most significant common thread among these regimes was the use of scapegoating as a means to divert the people's attention from other problems, to shift blame for failures, and to channel frustration in controlled directions. The methods of choice--relentless propaganda and disinformation--were usually effective. Often the regimes would incite "spontaneous" acts against the target scapegoats, usually communists, socialists, liberals, Jews, ethnic and racial minorities, traditional national enemies, members of other religions, secularists, homosexuals, and "terrorists." Active opponents of these regimes were inevitably labeled as terrorists and dealt with accordingly.
4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism. Ruling elites always identified closely with the military and the industrial infrastructure that supported it. A disproportionate share of national resources was allocated to the military, even when domestic needs were acute. The military was seen as an expression of nationalism, and was used whenever possible to assert national goals, intimidate other nations, and increase the power and prestige of the ruling elite.
5. Rampant sexism. Beyond the simple fact that the political elite and the national culture were male-dominated, these regimes inevitably viewed women as second-class citizens. They were adamantly anti-abortion and also homophobic. These attitudes were usually codified in Draconian laws that enjoyed strong support by the orthodox religion of the country, thus lending the regime cover for its abuses.
6. A controlled mass media. Under some of the regimes, the mass media were under strict direct control and could be relied upon never to stray from the party line. Other regimes exercised more subtle power to ensure media orthodoxy. Methods included the control of licensing and access to resources, economic pressure, appeals to patriotism, and implied threats. The leaders of the mass media were often politically compatible with the power elite. The result was usually success in keeping the general public unaware of the regimes' excesses.
7. Obsession with national security. Inevitably, a national security apparatus was under direct c
jscheelntsu starts off by cutting and pasting out of context.I said "Right wing Christians have a real bad habit of intentionally screwing with people with differing religious beliefs." It's true. Right wing Dominionist Christians do have a real bad habit of intentionally screwing with people with differing belief systems. You want me to post all the quotes from right wing Christians calling people of differing faiths evil, demons, etc? You want me to post all the right wing Dominionist Christian quotes calling America a "Christian nation" even though the Constitution was written specifically to protect people from having one religion or denomination being forced on the US population? That was because there had been so many Protestants oppressed in Europe by other state religions or different state Protestant denominations?
I am a better Patriot than you. I served my country. Army. MOS: 19D - Cavalry Scout. No... I don't believe everyone needs to serve in the military. Did you serve in the Peace Corps? Vista? AmericaCorps? Did you teach in an inner city or rural public school? Worked in health care in urban or rural medical clinic? Not only no, but %^$# no. You ain't done &%#& for anyone but yourself. You are a useless eater and a leech upon American society. You suck capital out of the American economy and you return nothing of value. For an utter waste of a $2 sack of water and minerals like you to say a word to anyone of real value in our society of the ultimate hypocrisy. The idea that your complete lack of value to America should make you one of the "chiefs" is utterly hysterical.
And all you do in the media is propagandize for your fellow borderline Franco-model fascists.
CNN anti-military? Utter rubbish. CNN spends the vast majority of it's broadcast day peddling right wing propaganda. The Graner quote comes from the official depositions leading up to court-marshall anyway. What's next? Are you going to claim the US Army is anti-military and Anti-Christain, too?
jscheelntsu, you aren't making prisoner pyramids because you are hypocritically sitting on your butt in front of your computer here in the US demanding others fight a war you refuse to fight yourself.
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Why aren't you in Iraq "keeping terrorism over there instead of here" and "fighting those who hate our freedom" (those quotes are from your guys)? You are in luck. I know how to hook you up with recruiter from the US Army. We can fix this error and get you to Iraq very quickly. Just click this link...
http://www.army.com/
And everything you wrote in the first paragraph is wrong. I never said ALL right wing Christians do anything. You made up a strawman argument, claiming I made sweeping generalizations I never typed. MANY right wing christians do exactly what I said they do, though, and you know it.
Here's a transcript of CNN coverage during Lyndie England's prosecution...
SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good evening.
More government witnesses appear to be helping prosecutors build their case against pregnant reservist Lyndie England. She sat stone faced listening to testimony, including some testimony from another guard from her Reserve unit who testified by phone from an undisclosed location.
Specialist Joseph Darby became the whistleblower who turned his friends in. He said it was a hard call, but he told the court it was the moral thing to do.
Darby testified he was given a CD with photos from fellow guard Charles Graner, identified by prosecutors as a ringleader. These photos by now very familiar: Lyndie England holding a detainee on a leash; a pyramid of naked prisoners; some posed to simulate a sex act.
At the time, according to Darby, Graner explained one photo of a hooded prisoner chained to a cell like this. "The Christian in me knows it was wrong, but the corrections officer in me can't help but love to make a grown man urinate on himself."
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0408/06/ld