W1GUH
06-04-2008, 07:53 PM
Three items caught my eye:
Prop. 99 passes; Prop. 98 defeated (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-props4-2008jun04,0,933521.story)
Good news for a change. Rent control stays, and now it's illegal to use emminent domain to take over owner occupied homes for private projects.
U.S. seeks the go-ahead for Nevada nuclear dump (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-yucca4-2008jun04,0,3736862.story)
So I guess the technology for recycling spent nuclear fuel isn't really mature enough to be economically feasible. We're still trying to shove the problem under the rug (or bedrock).
From the administration:
The application "will further encourage the expansion of nuclear power in the United States, which is absolutely critical to our energy security, to our environment and to our national security," Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Tuesday.
A sharp cut in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's budget has left it short of resources, Chairman Dale E. Klein said. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency is years behind schedule in issuing a health standard for radioactive leakage from the dump. A previous standard was ruled illegal by a federal appeals court.
Hmmmm...wonder why that particular budget has had a "sharp cut?" Shows where the priorities are.
Nevada officials said the administration was rushing forward with an incomplete application out of the belief that it would be more difficult to stop once it was in motion.
"They are just trying to get this on the plate while they still have a pal in the White House," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said in an interview. "All they want to do is get it out of their hands and give it to the next administration."
One has to wonder if the individuals behind this push can actually comprehend what it means for such poison to last tens of thousands of years? Or do they just not care?
And, finally,
Canada's House backs war resisters (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-resist4-2008jun04,0,7458645.story)
Glass joined the National Guard after high school in Fairmount, Ind., in 2002, with assurances that he wouldn't face combat, he said. He thought he would be sandbagging levee banks or quelling riots.
"They told me the only way you'll see war is if foreign troops storm the shores of Florida," he said. "I believed that."
Deceptive recruiting practices?
But a year later, the U.S. invaded Iraq, and in 2005 he was sent north of Baghdad and pressed into service as a military intelligence officer.
"There were a lot of things -- crimes -- going on that I can't talk about," he said. "It convinced me that the war was illegal and immoral, and I didn't want to be a part of it."
Prop. 99 passes; Prop. 98 defeated (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-props4-2008jun04,0,933521.story)
Good news for a change. Rent control stays, and now it's illegal to use emminent domain to take over owner occupied homes for private projects.
U.S. seeks the go-ahead for Nevada nuclear dump (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-yucca4-2008jun04,0,3736862.story)
So I guess the technology for recycling spent nuclear fuel isn't really mature enough to be economically feasible. We're still trying to shove the problem under the rug (or bedrock).
From the administration:
The application "will further encourage the expansion of nuclear power in the United States, which is absolutely critical to our energy security, to our environment and to our national security," Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Tuesday.
A sharp cut in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's budget has left it short of resources, Chairman Dale E. Klein said. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency is years behind schedule in issuing a health standard for radioactive leakage from the dump. A previous standard was ruled illegal by a federal appeals court.
Hmmmm...wonder why that particular budget has had a "sharp cut?" Shows where the priorities are.
Nevada officials said the administration was rushing forward with an incomplete application out of the belief that it would be more difficult to stop once it was in motion.
"They are just trying to get this on the plate while they still have a pal in the White House," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said in an interview. "All they want to do is get it out of their hands and give it to the next administration."
One has to wonder if the individuals behind this push can actually comprehend what it means for such poison to last tens of thousands of years? Or do they just not care?
And, finally,
Canada's House backs war resisters (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-resist4-2008jun04,0,7458645.story)
Glass joined the National Guard after high school in Fairmount, Ind., in 2002, with assurances that he wouldn't face combat, he said. He thought he would be sandbagging levee banks or quelling riots.
"They told me the only way you'll see war is if foreign troops storm the shores of Florida," he said. "I believed that."
Deceptive recruiting practices?
But a year later, the U.S. invaded Iraq, and in 2005 he was sent north of Baghdad and pressed into service as a military intelligence officer.
"There were a lot of things -- crimes -- going on that I can't talk about," he said. "It convinced me that the war was illegal and immoral, and I didn't want to be a part of it."