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StumbleBerkley to Sanford: Stop trying to ‘screw Nevada’
South Carolina governor sues to stop Obama shutdown of Yucca Mountain
U.S. Department of Energy
Yucca Mountain is located about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Friday, Feb. 26, 2010 | 4:19 p.m.
Shelley Berkley
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WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley said South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is “trying to screw Nevada” by suing to reverse the Obama administration’s efforts to kill Yucca Mountain.
“When he’s not hiking the Appalachian Trail, if he’s so enamored with nuclear waste, I invite him to take all the nuclear waste he wants to South Carolina,” Berkley said.
“I know who the governor of South Carolina is in bed with this time, it’s the nuclear industry,” Berkley said. “There will be no nuke waste stored in Yucca Mountain. Period.”
The South Carolina attorney general’s office on Friday filed papers to intervene in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's decision and also sued the Obama administration in the 4th District Court of Appeals to halt efforts to kill Yucca Mountain.
Sanford had pledged earlier this month to take legal action to stop the what he called “Chicago-style political patronage” to help Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s re-election this fall.
Obama, like the other Democratic candidates campaigning for president in 2008, pledged to end Yucca Mountain, if elected.
“President Obama is keeping his word to the people of Nevada, Senator Reid, and others across the country who don’t want waste traveling through their backyards on its way to Nevada,” said Reid spokesman Jon Summers.
Sanford, who admitted last year to an extramarital affair, had told associates last year he was hiking the Appalachian Trail when in fact he had gone to Argentina to see his mistress.
Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons, along with his friend Kathy Karrasch, was photographed with Sanford at the National Governors’ Association event last weekend in Washington, and had broached the nuclear waste issue with the South Carolinian.
But Gibbons was unable to convince Sanford to change course.
“The two remain at polar opposites on the Yucca issue,” Gibbons spokesman Dan Burns said.
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Who are the people in this picture?
http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/politics/fi...
Would it be soon-to-be-divorced Governor Mark Sanford, not-yet-divorced-but-dating-anyway Jim Gibbons and his not-yet-divorced-but-dating-anyway girlfriend Kathy?
Or is it a picture of the destruction of the institution of marriage?
Berkely got some good burns in there. Thanks Shelley!
ksand...
Nice find.
You just cannot make this stuff up!!!
what is that snot nosed spoiled punk johnny boy i slept with my best friend's wife then ran to mommy and daddy to fix my boo boo ensign doing about his fellow c street cult member???
what a nest of maggots...
funny how these losers always criticize obama...
but they fall all over each other to visit the white house...
maggots all!!!
the state of nevada needs to start a pac...
to oppose anybody who challenges the closing of yucca...
would be money well spent...
Berkeley should keep her mouth shut. Every time that pig opens it she shows everyone what an ignorant moron she is.
whats a yellow hammer from carolina doin with his nose in nevada? at best, i hope this clown brings photos of his girl from brazil. shes suppose to be a real hottie!
You tell them, Shelley! Thanks for keeping your word. (and nice poke at his cheating ways)
Man, the Right has gone off the rails today!!!
the latest, just in from jlb101, a "vocal proponent" of all things Neo-Nutty;
"Berkeley should keep her mouth shut. Every time that pig opens it she shows everyone what an ignorant moron she is."
That's nice!
Thank you to Shelly for sayining it like it is.
@ ksand99
Epic Win!
How many face lifts has berkly had ?
They have spend so much money on this project so now they are just going throw our tax dollars away. And more people loss their jobs. There is another way. Put a recycling center next to it and charge very state a fee to store their waste until we recycle. Take care of OUR SCHOOLS and if there is anything left over give to the people of Nevada. More JOBS for nevada Think about it People.
Hearing the word 'SCREW' come out of that face.
That gives me night-mares!
I'd love to take credit for that find, but it's from Jonathan Humbert's page at lasvegasnow.com.
Sanford may want to dump tons of toxic goo in Nevada, but that won't stop Jim and Kathy from swilling champagne with him!
Wait, I thought Jim told us Kathy wasn't in Washington with him?
Anyone know if Kathy is from Argentina?
Does it shock anyone that others in the country are upset at walking away from a $9 Billion dollar investment in Yucca.
Many may not want the jobs here but I would expect many other states and organizations to join South Carolina in the President just writing off $9 Billion dollars, but then it was cheaper than his buying GM for the UAW.
Before spending money(that we don't have) building more plants they should reslove the issue of storing nuclear waste. It is putting the cart in front of the horse.
This is a press release from the white house Feb. 16,2010.
Washington D.C. --- Underscoring his Administration's commitment to jumpstarting the nation's nuclear power industry, President Obama today announced that the Department of Energy has offered conditional commitments for a total of $8.33 billion in loan guarantees for the construction and operation of two new nuclear reactors at a plant in Burke, Georgia. The project is scheduled to be the first U.S. nuclear power plant to break ground in nearly three decades.
How funny! Gibbons was photographed with his pervy buddy, Sanford, in DC at the Governors Conference last week and a week later, Sandord sues Nevada. Did Gibbons collude with him?
http://blogs.lasvegasnow.com/politics/20...
Come ON Shelly, your best buddy Barack has hurt
Las Vegas more than anyone in our History. ASK
him publicly to stop bashing LV and help
us, like he is helping Chicago.
"There will be no nuke waste stored in Yucca Mountain. Period."
But there will be thousands of barrels of low level waste imported to the Test Site from around the nation, stacked 10 to 20 high, and then buried under dirt with no further protection.. and this is OK why? These shipments pass through Nevada's cities on a daily basis without a single word about the dangers of a traffic accident contaminating the area.
Further, what a arrogant statement that South Carolina should take more nuclear waste. This state has done far more than its share through supporting the nuclear defense complex that protects the United States and allows Nevada to prosper from world stability and cheap energy. Perhaps South Carolina and all of the other states should say that Nevada is on its own. Oh wait, they pretty much have since Nevada is at the bottom for tax dollars returned from the federal government. Next step should be to move Nellis AFB out of Nevada to a state that wants to participate in a federal Constitutional government where laws are followed and states work together for our common good. Unlikely under Obama where deals are made with individual states to pass health care, void nuclear waste laws and who knows what else. America asked for change, not cronyism.
Isn't it funny that no matter what a Republican does it's perfectly ok no matter what the consequences are? Harry Reid has been fighting against Yucca Mountain for over 20 years and during that time Nevadans have supported him, especially as the population in Southern Nevada grew. The issue has always been about the other states as well who don't want trains carrying nuclear waste driving through their cities and suburbs to bring it out here. And frankly, it's bloody stupid and dangerous and risks the wellfare of millions of Americans not just here in Nevada.
It's incredible to read the absurd comments above from the wacko right who simply can't sleep at night because we have a black President. And frankly folks, that's what it's all about. The Grand Ol' Party can't get over being second fiddle and are still dreaming of the Good Ol' days of segregation and of getting whatever you wanted by simply being white.
Look around you pinheads. O'Reilly, Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh are not the faces of America. They do not represent the fabric of the country which is woven with many threads. These aging white walruses with red faces and lines on their foreheads are nothing more than shadows of the death throes of an America that had many things wrong with it. You can't turn back the clock no matter how hard you try and everytime you people open your mouth nothing but juvenile rot comes tumbling out. You can't spell, you can't (or don't) read, you don't think, you simply spew. It's incredible. Really. And when you're called out on it the only thing you can say is "well both parties stink". Just once I'd like to see some intelligent discourse. Just once I'd like to see something other than right-wing subconscious vomit.
Tempus fugit my friends.
Does anyone remember when Archie Bunker was supposed to represent the jackass dying breed? Who knew we'd still be hearing that kind of discourse in the 21st century?
Nancy Pelosi has become some kind of right-wing battle cry and yet where were you all when Denny Hassert knowingly allowed one of his chums to send dirty text messages to a 16 year old boy? Republicans had the White House and the Congress for six bloody years and all we got out of it was a second Great Depression and two neverending wars. "Wha wha bailouts. Wha wha wha GM." Our little experiement in bringing Democracy to the Middle East has cost over a TRILLION dollars but I don't hear any of you whining about that.
The fools and nitwits of this country are being willingly manipulated by corporations and politicians. What does it feel like to be someone's puppet? Perhaps that's why you're all so grumpy all the time. Having someone's hand constantly up your rectum and operating your flapping gums must be extremely uncomfortable.
Shelley Berkley needs to shutup and let jobs come back to nevada. Shelly and Dina have been working hard to kill jobs here and block off nevada to Nevadans. I just visited a facility in New Mexico that employes 8000+ that should have come to Nevada but our "LEADERS" didnt want it here.
There is a solution Nevadans. Vote independent/nonpartisan for every office this November 2. Get the foxes out of the hen house once and for all.
Not only are opponents to Yucca Mountain costing the state valuable jobs, they are completely ignorant of how the rest of the nation is coping with the waste issue:
"There are roughly 125 reactor sites in over 39 states that temporarily hold nuclear waste. This translates to over half of the population living within miles of a nuclear waste site."
http://www.iub.edu/~sierra/papers/2009/e...
By my own back of the envelope calculation, over half of the country (or close to it) lives within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant. You can verify this information at the NRC's website: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collec...
Yucca is 100 miles away from Vegas. Transport can easily be diverted from the city. NIMBY'ism is costing the state over a billion dollars a year from the Nuclear Waste Fund.
For more information, please support Nevadans for Carbon-Free Energy (NV4CFE) at http://nv4cfe.org
@sportyyetpractical,
How pathetic and shallow. People disagree with a President who is playing Chicago style corrupt politics and ignoring the Constitution, and you toss out the race card like that is the answer to why his approval rating is falling faster than a brick dropped from 50000 feet.
Obama is doing more to polarize people of all races and parties and economic levels and etc etc than any president in the last 240 years. And as he stated last year in a cabinet meeting that was discussing give and take, "I won people, I don't have to give and take with anyone". And this attitude shows on a daily basis.
The person who should be president is whoever is writing the speeches that Obama reads from the teleprompters. This guy is brilliant and is the reason Obama won the election. If people had seen the "uhs" and other gaffs in on-the-fly speaking, no way would Obama have been elected.
It may ease the conscience of people who want to make this into some kind of lurid soap opera starring the likes of Sanford, Berzerkly, and Gibbons, but that kind of fatuous perspective on the world is what makes Nevada what it is.
The rest of you are welcome to it, but I'm not going there.
As a Democrat who loathes Sanford and Joe "You Lie" Wilson on a personal level, and as a supporter of the Yucca Mountain Project who tries to look at the issue objectively, I would offer the following:
This is NOT about any of your soap opera stars. This is NOT daytime TV.
This is about, among others, the people of Aiken, SC, who agreed to host the Savannah River site, where DOE processes nuclear waste generated by the defense complex. This is NOT waste produced in South Carolina by South Carolinians. This is waste produced by our military for decades, ostensibly to protect ALL Americans.
Now, South Carolina, like Washington and Idaho, had this thrust upon them. And it was done with the solemn oath, from the government, that the waste would eventually be taken out of South Carolina and stored in a national repository, at Yucca Mountain.
The Obama Administration, which I otherwise support, has BROKEN this promise. It is literally that simple, and it has virtually nothing to do with an assembly of political buffoons like Sanford, Berzerkly, and Gibbons. These people are just mouthpieces in a poorly staged play whose cast of characters ultimately includes the entire population of the U.S.
So get a grip, and stop trying to make this about political personalities. This is an issue that impacts millions and millions of Americans, whether they know it or not. It shouldn't be reduced to a ridiculous battle between cartoon characters. All the while, the waste continues to pile up, probably now in excess of 60,000 metric tons of it, in temporary facilities like cooling pools and above-ground casks. Studies have pointed to an environmental apocalypse covering the map of the United States if, in the event of a loss of institutional controls, the waste remains where it is -- which is precisely what Harry Reid has been arguing for lo these many years.
South Carolina's lawsuit has a legitimate basis in law, unlike Berkley's comments. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA), requires that the repository be located at Yucca Mountain. The termination of Yucca Mountain would be a violation of the NWPA. The NWPA remains the active pertinent law. Nothing has changed it. No changes to it have even been proposed. South Carolina is following due legal processes, unlike Berkley.
@sportyyetpractical:
As one Democrat to (presumably) another: I worry for you if that's the filter through which you view every issue.
I entirely agree with a lot of what you said, but all you're talking about, frankly, is political perception and the shaping of it. There remains a massive disconnect between the political attitudes/perceptions you describe and the reality of the issue.
If you were at all inclined to be fair-minded, you would investigate (a) the existing record of nuclear waste transportation in this country, and (b) the rigorous scientific testing conducted to evaluate the safety and potential risk of such transportation.
The fact is, nobody -- I repeat, nobody -- has ever died from radiologic causes resulting from a nuclear waste shipment accident. Thousands of these shipments have taken place over the last 50 years, and there has never been a release of any consequence whatsoever.
Second, the transportation casks are virtually indestructible, as has been demonstrated in test after test. They have crashed locomotives and tractor-trailers into them at 80 mph. They have dropped them onto concrete and onto steel spikes. They have engulfed them in flames at 1400 degrees. The casks never release their contents. Even in the case of attack with an armor-piercing anti-tank weapon, the worst case scenario, the consequences are very minor in terms of radiological release, which is to be expected of casks carrying CERAMIC waste pellets housed in metal cladding.
This is not opinion; it is the record, demonstrated over decades and through a considerable battery of tests and studies by expert scientists and engineers.
Contrast all of this, as I've said many times on these blogs, with the recent incident here in Vegas involving a runaway train tanker carrying chlorine. These tankers pass through the center of town by the thousands, and this particular tanker broke free from its locomotive and careened through town before some brave transportation officials stopped it.
UNLV did a study to determine the greatest threat to the population in terms of accidents. You guessed it: The greatest threat was a chlorine spill, which the study estimated could kill 70,000 to 90,000 Las Vegans in a couple of days. The runaway tanker I mentioned was carrying enough chlorine to do the job.
So how are we supposed to take seriously this rubbish about "glow trains" and nuclear waste shipping catastrophes when you compare those hypotheticals to far greater risks we blithely live with every day?
From the Review Journal:
http://www.lvrj.com/news/9466232.html
"It could have gone either way.
For a brief slice of time Wednesday morning, the difference between disaster and a normal day in Las Vegas was hitched to a runaway train tanker loaded with hazardous chlorine gas.
"Las Vegas dodged a bullet there," said Steve Calanog, the Environmental Protection Agency's chief of emergency response for the Southwest region. "Had the train car released its contents in a residential area, the results could have been tragic."
In 2006, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Institute for Security Studies conducted a vulnerability assessment of threats to Nevada. It found that the most deadly of all natural or man-made disasters for the state was a chlorine gas accident.
Such a disaster would cause between 74,000 and 91,000 fatalities under the worst-case scenario, the report found. That would be triggered by a spill of 34,500 gallons of chlorine, the amount contained in an average railway tanker. The scenario for the worst case was a release of chlorine near the Union Pacific overpass on Charleston Boulevard."
So where was the concern when this happened? How many citizens voiced their protest, even in blogs such as this, and continued to do so in the following years as these shipments continued? How much money did the State spend to investigate this potential disaster and find a way to prevent it? Apparently, not much. Our elected officials are content to let us live with this daily risk, and yet they spend our money hand over fist to fight the relatively minor transportation risks associated with Yucca Mountain, and then claim to be concerned for Nevadans living thousands of years into the future, when they are obviously not concerned for Nevadans living now with the risk of a chlorine spill.
Go figure.
Yucca Mountain should be allowed to go forward. Long time Nevadans don't care, they like the jobs and know that the containers are safer than what goes through Nevada now on trains and trucks. Harry and company have spent us into bankruptcy to keep Yucca mountain dead and even our republican representatives are against it because they think it would be political suicide. They are wrong. Vote them all out.
What a stupid trout-pout moron....does she have any more brain cells that a fish?
ymdgr's post was right on and deserves to be repeated...
"South Carolina's lawsuit has a legitimate basis in law, unlike Berkley's comments. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA), requires that the repository be located at Yucca Mountain. The termination of Yucca Mountain would be a violation of the NWPA. The NWPA remains the active pertinent law. Nothing has changed it. No changes to it have even been proposed. South Carolina is following due legal processes, unlike Berkley."
Thanks to ymdgr...
oh, puh-leeze, how many of you right-wing clowns were in favor of Yucca before the Democrats stopped it? you'd be cheering a Republican president for doing the same thing.
you clowns don't fool anybody. sad.
Sanford may want to dump tons of toxic goo in Nevada, but that won't stop Jim and Kathy from swilling champagne with him!
WTF is toxic goo that this jackass is talking about..You have no clue as others that have the same mindset...Quit watching TV and then you might actually get it right...As for Berkely,, he ,, I mean she and the rest of the bozos representing Nevada should think before they start throwing words like " screwing Nevada" around as its right in front of their face,, if they had a mirror.......
Does it shock anyone that others in the country are upset at walking away from a $9 Billion dollar investment in Yucca.
Many may not want the jobs here but I would expect many other states and organizations to join South Carolina in the President just writing off $9 Billion dollars, but then it was cheaper than his buying GM for the UAW.
Yeah, that's what I can't figure out. The gov just loses 9 billion invested here, just like it was nothing. And then homeowners want their morgages refinanced! And we keep losing jobs here!
$9 billion investment is nothing to Navada I guess.
Shelley is correct and Mark Sandford ia just
another lying republican who can't be trusted.
YUCCA MOUNTAIN IS DEAD.
THANK YOU DEMOCRATS.
Hey teamster... Read this...
ymdgr's post was right on and deserves to be repeated...
"South Carolina's lawsuit has a legitimate basis in law, unlike Berkley's comments. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA), requires that the repository be located at Yucca Mountain. The termination of Yucca Mountain would be a violation of the NWPA. The NWPA remains the active pertinent law. Nothing has changed it. No changes to it have even been proposed. South Carolina is following due legal processes, unlike Berkley."
Thanks to ymdgr...
Sbob2u
$9 Billion, huh? there are sometimes when the money is not worth it. There have been also studies done that suggest after 10,000 years that containers break down and seeping the radiation into the water table. Even if it is sooner, the fact is that with that and the fault running under the mountain, don't count on ever seeing $9 Billion, back. When Harry Reid wasn't Dingy Harry the Majority leader, I actually supported Reid on this. I wouldn't vote for him now, because just like a lot of republicans I want him gone. But that being said to all of you, it is not because of race that we as Republicans hate Obama. It maybe for some, but not for me. Sanford sticks his nose in our business in Nevada, and Yucca opponents will not stand for it, not at all. And knock it off with the Argentinian jokes. That's low for even you. Second, ever heard of the words "terrorist attack"? Even if the slight possibility, don't want that in my backyard. And besides, if that has flaky basis, they have talked about recycling the waste, so it doesn't have to stay in the plants, and better ways of storing the waste at the plant sites. No matter what, Yucca needs to be stopped, so that generations will not have a cloud over their heads.
Hey larry, Yucca is DEAD,DEAD DEAD.
davelv,
"If people had seen the "uhs" and other gaffs in on-the-fly speaking, no way would Obama have been elected."
Are you kidding me? After the moron that occupied the Oval Office for the previous 8 years? He spoke english like it was his second language!! That IDIOT read a teleprompter worse than a third grader. But of course, that wouldn't matter to a conservatard, because the vast majority of conservatards are either just plain STUPID, and/or mentally ill!!!
the EXXON VALDEZ oil contamination of alaska wasnt suppose to happen either, but it did. the oil company took the case all the way to the supreme court so they didnt have to pay for the cleanup or the liability. i dont want to hear how great yucca is or how many jobs it will create; when that radiation cloud drifts over las vegas, you will see the same corporate suits explaining how this wasnt suppose to happen and how its not our fault and we're not responsible for the dead and injured and we're not paying one dime for anything.
Hey Dipstick you are showing your ignorance. this is a metal not a powder. you need to go back to acorn and finish 1st grade.
I think that dippy is talking about that powder that she has been snorting that makes her wiser then most Liberals...
After 10 months of trying to get my first Social Security check, and after calling and writing nearly everyone I could think of in government, including both of our senator's, one call to Shelley Berkley's office and bingo, the next day it was taken care of, plus back pay and an apology from SS. I'm a die hard Republican, but Congresswoman Berkley and her staff have my full support. This lady does truly care about her constituent's! Name calling and dumb partisan comments should be reserved for the other lazy politicians, me thinks.
Say its not so,,nothing for nothing or any way you like it... Why is it that everyone thinks that this waste is going to seep into the ground and violate whatever resources we use everyday...If you wannabe scientist would actually do some research into yucca mtn. and how this waste is processed to be stored then you would actually have something to say...What makes any of you think that this project is dead when all that money was invested for the purpose of storing waste..And of all things the jobs that will be lost,, not mentioning names,,but union jobs at that so I wonder how much of a union brother this person is... If you think that if its stored here and actually leaks into the ground and into water supply that everyone will be glowing like a firefly,, then you should get off the couch and away from the TV... Plus any additive to LV water would be an improvement... So all of you that think Berkely is actually wanting this stopped,, dont be fooled by her and others as this is election time and some of them want a head start on their game of BS... Also why hasnt she and the others been against it way before it was built and not now when it actuaaly ready for some waste...If you think Yucca is dead,, look up FOOL in the Websters and you will be looking at yourselves...
The gov only wants the Obama adminstration to follow FEDERAL LAW! For crying out loud, they paid millions into an account with nothing to show for it.
This would be the equivalent of paying for a car for five years on 'lay-away' only to not have a car available when you go to pick it up!
For more info go to http://aBadReid.com (click on the "Yucca Mountain" tab) for a REAL detailed view on why this is bad for our nation and bad for Nevada. All to get one man reelected.
Bad Reid
Bad Senator
gmag39......
Don't be too tough on our little friend jlb101. He can't help it! He has this anger management problem. He tried to get help for his problem, but he was told that currently there's no cure for it....
This whole Yucca closing deal in no more than an election year ploy to get Harry Reid re-elected.
As soon as the November elections are over. Yucca will be resurrected.
Liberals have demonized Yucca just like they demonize people who have different political beliefs then the Liberals.
The big Liberal hope is that the uniformed and the easily brainwashed voters in Nevada will come to Harry's aid.
Shelley....
Good job! Keep up the good work. You have done Nevada a great service in Washington. Please don't think about retiring. We need you representing us.....
Hmmmmm.....I see "Independent Larry" has just released one of his standard and often used rants on Yucca Mt. & Harry. No surprise there...
Boy, it looks as if Larry is going to be in deep depression once the November election is over...6 more years of Harry's great leadership in Washington! Larry will have great difficulty dealing with that.
I hope we won't have to change Larry's name from "Independent Larry" to "melt down Larry."
The "jobs" whiners simply don't get it. Yucca Mountain is more than whether YOU have a job or not. Let me make it real simple for you. Hit men have jobs. . . .
Lobo, it will be interesting to see if the Tea Partiers are truly independent and vote for their candidate for Senate, or if they just fall in line with the republicans.
They keep telling us that the Tea Party is full of independent people who vote for the candidate, not the party.
Is that why the Tea Partiers have been curious about John Ashjian, the Tea Party candidate for Senate in Nevada?
I think real independents should check Ashjian out.
No worry Larry. Yucca not dead. My cousin work there , and they still going full ahead. Not even Senior Reid could stop it, and for that Thank You Senior Reid for lying to all the Liberal low IQ voters. or as my sister calls them "brain dead"
These liberols are so stoopid. They think that the no more then everyone else when they really are brane dead. These loosers can't even defend they're own party politicks let alone know what there party stands four. Soon enouf, these idiot liberols will be voted out of office and their will be offishals who no what their doing. Us concervatives are the future. We are the only ones who no about God and country and government, not stoopid liberols.
RustyShackleford.......
Great post I'm sure....if I could only read it! What other class or classes did you fail in high school besides English? Maybe history, logic, applied grammer, and simple math????
I bet you're one of those people who believes that we're already spending too much on our schools....
Are you a fan of governor "blockhead?" Apparently! "Blockhead" just recently said (when asked what kind of student was he in college) "I'm not the smartest guy around..."
I found that very telling but also brutally honest. I didn't realize that "blockhead" had a "truth streak" in him...
Do you have a "truth streak" in you? In other words, did you complete high school?
Boy, our Liberal friends are sure getting testy today.
Do they see the advancing storm that is about to hit the Democratic Party?
Too bad, the Democratic Party used to be for the people. Now it's is being manipulated by the extreme left that is out of touch with America.
Amen...
Is that like how the republican party is being manipulated by the extreme right that is out of touch with America?
Nowadays, with the extreme tea partiers and their crazy signs, I'm not sure what type of person calls themselves a republican anymore. Is that why self-identified republicans are at nearly an all-time low?
Probably...
"...extreme tea partiers and their crazy signs,..."
Liberal elitists just love to demonize...
Pitiful...
Wow, Larry won't condemn the tea partiers with their extreme signs?
One said, "Obama's Plan: White Slavery"
One said "American Taxpayers are the Jews for Obama's ovens"
This stuff isn't made up. It isn't demonizing, it's referencing real signs the tea partiers held and celebrated.
Why won't you condemn these people?
ymdgr's post was right on and deserves to be repeated...
"South Carolina's lawsuit has a legitimate basis in law, unlike Berkley's comments. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA), requires that the repository be located at Yucca Mountain. The termination of Yucca Mountain would be a violation of the NWPA. The NWPA remains the active pertinent law. Nothing has changed it. No changes to it have even been proposed. South Carolina is following due legal processes, unlike Berkley."
Thanks
Isn't it interesting to note that the people's representatives of Nevada are turning away hundreds of millions of dollars in possible state revenues for hosting the safest waste site possible and will add negligibly to one of the worlds largest waste sites already sitting on top of the ground and in the ground uncontained in their own back yard, i.e., from the bomb tests. Who's fooling who? One wonders if they're just holding out for more money.
Fact, Yucca Mountain was a political move at the time when Nevada and Las Vegas was still small and did not have the numbers in the House and the Senate that they do today. That is why it is still known as the Screw Nevada Bill.If you think it is safe ask the Atomic Vets how safe it is? If you can find one that has not died. If it so safe as Sanford wants to lie about, ask the NRC and DOE to start looking at sites in his home state.It has never been about sound science but who had the most power and money.And to those who still want to believe in the lies, I feel sorry for you but you are welcome.It was never a good idea and thank you Harry, Shelley, Obama and the countless activists that fought the long hard fight to keep this deadly toxic crap out of my home state!!!
And here all this time I thought all states in the U.S. had two U.S. Senators...
I guess Leana owns the state of Nevada...
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA), requires that the repository be located at Yucca Mountain. The termination of Yucca Mountain would be a violation of the NWPA.
Why the heck is Berkley sticking her nose in this? I thought she was supposed to represent Israel?
Last week, three civic leaders in the Tri-Cities filed a federal lawsuit against the Energy Department, saying its decision to abandon Yucca Mountain violates the Nuclear Waste Policy Act.
On Friday, a federal court awarded the operator of the Northwest's only commercial nuclear plant nearly $56.9 million in damages from the Energy Department.
The residents of Nevada and particularly Las Vegas should be severely criticized for the posture that they have taken on Yucca Mountain. You have been living off the income from the rest of the country for a long time and have done little to repay us for this charity. There is no unusual hazard from using Yucca Mountain for a temporary or permanent nuclear waste repository. The design criteria are 100 times more conservative than the hazards you experience every day in cities and your state and radioactive materials have been safely transported throughout the country for more than 1/2 a century. How stupid can you be? I guess the Vegas casino owners are afraid that some of us may not be as interested in dumping our money in your state. Tough! What you need is a national boycott until you step up and do your fair share to help us benefit from the continuing operation of clean and safe nuclear power plants that produce reliable and economic power. Shame on you!