Sen. Reid has Mr. Seidman's vote apparently.

They both think the Yucca Mountain Project was the worst thing that could happen to Nevada. I think they are hysterical and it was a huge mistake to kill funding for the project. I am also certain it will be built one day. But not for a long time now. There were many educated, and productive people working to solve a national problem and spending their professional salaries in the local economy. Now they are leaving this area.

But this problem won't go away. Acting on solving it will simply be delayed. It is almost inevitable.

So that is quite an accomplishment there Senator Reid. Kill off a workplace that would have employed professionals "till the end of the republic" in the worst economic climate in generations. Then tell everyone it is not about jobs. Then make a ridiculous statement about employing people in the thousands of new green jobs you've created. And they are where exactly? How much do they pay? How many of them are there? There are in fact almost none.

Well, there are all those valet positions available.

Oh, wait. You can't get one of those positions without a sponser. A degree doesn't count.

Well they are still building mega resorts along the strip.

Oh. Wait. Echelon and Fontainebleau are dead.

Well at least there will be no scientists employed in the desert. Congratulations Senator Reid. The Sun thinks that is quite an accomplishment. Hope you can talk with Brian about it over brunch after your forced retirement next year.

Mr. Seidman doesn't know much about the science or the many professional studies that detailed the geological conditions around Yucca Mountain.

But, he doesn't care to know. He is simply parroting.

Harry Reid will be irrelavant after 2010.

Well, more so than he is now--he can them join the "Sun" as a true staffer, an unofficial position he holds now.

People are not stupid, they know what is happening to them and who is responsible for it.

Harry Reid is wearing a great big political bulls eye on his back and voters will aim there ballots dead center.

He is gone, and good riddance to a spiteful self serving career politician.

As for the LV Sun, unlike the newspaper that delivers it to its few remaining readers, it will carry on for a few more years as an insert--till it too becomes just another blog.

But I don't wish it on you, I don't harbor the vitriol of Senator Reid who wishes the LV Review Journal go out of business. If only because Brian Greenspun needs to maintain a hobby platform where he can post those brilliant editorials that the lefties love so much.

Trouble is, this is Nevada Brian. The West...not your coffee house in Berekely.

Harry Reid will be in a low place after 2010. We'll see what kind of a friend he is then. Reid is finished.

Harry Reid may win. But not if I can help it. And I will work my ass of to defeat this SOB.

About 1976 I was employed at a research facility outside Boston. My roommate was attending MIT as a nuclear engineer to be. We discussed nuclear power then and he told me it was a great way to go if we could solve the waste problem. That was about 34 years ago. Yucca Mountain was brought up often in the mid 80's in discussions I had with others in the scientific community, always very respectfully, it was talked about in the same way as we might talk about the space program. Then the studies were started, papers were done, engineering was done and laws were put in place and processes were adopted.

But always, politics were just behind the curtain as they are in most major decisions.

I remain convinced after many years of thought, reading and review, that nuclear power is safe, necessary and viable. I also know that the waste problem has to be addressed, and I now know that the science has addressed most of the serious issues regarding storage at Yucca Mountain.

But the politics which remain are the problem. We adopt a nimby frame of mind while disavowing any serious approach to solving the problem. Repeating 30 years of work elsewhere is not an answer. A referral to another congressional committee is not an answer. El Lobo's thoughts are representative of that attitude as far as I see it. I think it a moral failing on this generation to not take responsibility to solve this problem, and as stated previously I feel confident that Yucca Mountain is a good solution.

I find Senator Reid to be the worst type of elected official for playing off irrational fears for political purpose.

I will work hard to help remove him from office in the next election, even though I've never volunteered to be active in the elcection process before. I urge others to volunteer as well.

It's natural that some think that the project for dealing with nuclear waste is "dead". Harry Reid says so--so it must be true, right?

The difficulty is, there is this law, that is still the law of the land, and the waste must still be dealt with and the administration, still in power now, will not be one day. And guess what?

The license is still before the NRC as the law stipulates it must be.

So believe what you like, but only time will tell the outcome, and in this matter the repository has a much longer life span than any of us arguing about it.

About the half life of several very troublsome materials, that will still need a home anywhere from 220,000 years to 2 million years.

That's longer than Harry's tenure under any circumstances.

I guess I'll accept the right winger label that El Lobo is so fond of lobbying about. You can draw your own conclusions as to what he is... : )

I see you still have no sources. (Nor a coherent argument)

I'm sure what I wrote is confusing to you because the gist of the matter is when you make a claim directed toward people who can read and actually think for themselves, they weigh such things as "evidence".

You seem to more comfortable in the realm of hyperbole and vague ramblings, no doubt made much easier after following your hero Harry the Great!

Hurray for El Lobo and his hero "Hands Up" Harry Reid!

So Good luck, maybe you can get the rest of the clan to run what's left of the Nevada economy into the ground and enjoy this near 10% unemployment!

There are perhaps others reading who may want to consider the merits of El Lobo/Harry Reid's positions...and vote for a change in 2010.

Umm..El Lobo...you constantly misstate facts, quote mythical sources and flat out lie.

Are you in fact Harry Reid hiding behind a pen name?

Quick: Which New York Kennedy and part time girl friend to Arthur "Pinchy" Sulzbergerwas was supposed to be the new great senator from New York?! Too hard to spell? OK which war did we already lose (but not really now that Obama is on the hook?)

Did you really say the Begin was a terrorist recently? On TV?

Ha..or are you Reid's fact checker maybe, yes?

By the way, there are over a million documents in the publicly available docket before the NRC regarding the Yucca Mountain Project.

Which ones are you referring to that state "to store nuclear waste there would be a geologic nightmare."... which geologists take that position?

Do you have any actual names?

Here is a link to a real document done by actual scientists that covers geological, hydrological, meteorological, biological and other relevant issues.

http://ymp.gov/feis_2/summary/indexsum.h...

Lets see some links to work done by actual scientists that back up your (and Harry Reid's) positions. Still looking? Pretty thin pickings I know.

Look under uuhhnnaahhh! in Google..

I think you work for Reid as a fact checker...don't you El Lobo.

Oh well, out of work for in 2010!

Headline Read:
Nevada's 'mighty expensive dinosaur'

I immediately thought it referred to Harry Reid!

Then I said, no, if that was the case it would have said "Nevada's 'out of touch, arrogant, mighty expensive dinosaur'"

El Lobo obviously is young. He doesn't remember the Carter years. He is about to find out how very simple it is indeed.

Inflation and interest rates, both topping 18%.
SEE:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articl...

Gas lines.

Anger and "a sense of hopelessness".

People have to relearn things over and over. We elect democrats, they do what they do, and we learn--for a time--not to let them loose.

It's very simple, as El Lobo said, just not as he thinks it is...the certainty of what is coming is what will change the leadership in the Senate.

Watch and see.