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   dtroutma said, 5 months ago

   So squab is on tonight’s menu?

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   believecommonsense said, 5 months ago

   huh ??

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   Dale Hopson said, 5 months ago

   Did Tippi Hedren show up again?

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   believecommonsense said, 5 months ago

   ^ that one made me laugh aloud, Dale

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   Thomas Trowbridge said, 5 months ago

   How about explaining it. I guess I’m not part of the neocon insider club.

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   believecommonsense said, 5 months ago

   ^ I don’t get the toon either, thus the huh?

   but Dale’s comment re Tippi Hedren was funny….

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   fennec said, 5 months ago

   But then it’s Pandora’s box…has been from the beginning really, because no matter what you do, sooner or later technologies will spread. Just knowing it’s possible is enough to get people going finding out how to do it.

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   petergrt said, 5 months ago

   Its all about nuclear weapons’ prelifiration.

   0bama, in his Cairo speech gave a clear signal to Iran and anybody that wants it, that nuclear technology for peaceful purposes was fine. Unless its the US, that is - no new power plants, no Yucca Mountain repository …

   Of course there is a relatively short step from peaceful purposes to less so, which is precisely the problem with North Korea, Iran and so on, and consequent proliferation of nuclear weapons.

   If Iran is not stopped, its Arab neighbors will want them as well, no to mention Japan, and etc. - hence the birds.

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   dtroutma said, 5 months ago

   Japan already has nuclear power plants, which led to some concern with one of their recent earthquakes. They can also cook that squab (pigeon) with the electricity. With the intent of providing “mini” power plants in third world counties- the issue of “peaceful” vs “weapons” nuclear development WILL become a lot more complex. Remember the U.S. is also pushing for far more nuclear power. Low level waste isn’t really a particular problem, but the “hot stuff” (Yucca Mountain) definitely is, and mining-refining- is far more hazardous than the electricity generating facilities and “waste”. We had mines, and a refinery- VERY dangerous!!

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    believecommonsense said, 5 months ago

    thanks to those who added info to help me get this toon

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    petergrt said, 5 months ago

    Its the nuclear weaponization that is the problem.

    While Japan has nuclear power plants, thy don’t yet have the weapons, as they are constrained by the US designed constitution and the Non-Proliferation treaty. However, given the North Korean threat, they will, if they haven’t already, develop the systems soon.

    On the other hand, countries like Iran and Syria cannot be trusted to keep the nuclear Genni for peaceful purposes.

    With respect to the ‘hot stuff’ - it would be a whole lot safer in Yucca than in the current leaking storage tanks all over the US.

    “… and mining-refining- is far more hazardous than the electricity generating facilities and “waste”. We had mines, and a refinery- VERY dangerous!!”

    That is a pseudo intellectual nonsense.

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    Dutchboy1 said, 5 months ago

    and Japan isn’t full of religious extremists who want to kill everyone who don’t believe the same as them. The message is “if you let Iran get nukes, all the rest of the ‘pigeons’ will want them also and will eat you alive”.

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    PlainBill said, 5 months ago

    Dutchboy1 - One of the ‘Big Lies’ is ‘It can’t happen here’ (or in this case, ‘It can’t happen there’. It’s been less than 15 years since the Sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway by Aum Shinrikyo.

    Every country has residents who will cheerfully sacrifice strangers, their neighbors, friends, families, and in a few cases, even themselves to make a statement. Don’t forget, until September 11, 2001 the worst case of terrorism on American soil was perpetrated by an American.

    I think Steve Benson sums it up well: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/benson/

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    dtroutma said, 5 months ago

    peter- on the pseudo-intellectual on mines and mills- my son’s reviews in nuclear school (Navy) with engineers and physicists from GE and others confirmed that growing up where mines and mills were, was thousands of times more hazardous than living next to a power plant, like another student in his same class did. Extraction and processing of fuels IS dangerous.

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    petergrt said, 5 months ago

    And so is life itself.

    Its no secret that radiation is dangerous. However, we have gone a long way since Curie.

    Unfortunately, much of the public, a product of public education, is irrationally fearful about nuclear power, driven by their arrogant ignorance about the matter.

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    ANandy said, 5 months ago

    It’s not pertinent to oBozO that Iran had a treaty obligation not to pursue nuclear technology, as he would rather overwhelm the masses with great teleprompter reading.

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    danielsangeo said, 5 months ago

    What fun ANandy’s world must be!