WASTING INDUSTRY
Re: Max Schulz’s Obama
Nuclear Waste:
Max Schulz’s piece on “Nuclear Waste” offers the USEC loan
guarantee decision and the Yucca Mountain repository cancellation
as two examples of politics interfering with sound science-based
policy making. True, but he identifies the wrong interest groups
benefiting from these Obama policy choices. Hint: it’s not the
environmental crazies.
The beneficiaries of the Obama decision to deny a loan guarantee
for USEC’s new uranium enrichment plant are its competitors:
three foreign-owned suppliers of enriched uranium. They are the
European consortium URENCO, the French nuclear giant AREVA, and
the Russian state uranium company, Techsnabexport. The Obama
decision does not take us along the road to energy independence.
For this and the reasons cited by Schulz, look for the Obama
administration to reverse the decision denying USEC a loan
guarantee.
The political beneficiaries of the Yucca decision are less
obvious. However, many federal and state politicians currently
say. “I like nuclear power, but will not support construction of
new nuclear plants until there is a solution to the nuclear waste
disposal issue.” The cancellation of Yucca, a perfectly sound
solution to the nuclear waste issue gives them an excuse for not
supporting new nuclear plants. The un-built plants would provide
affordable carbon-free electric power. Who benefits from
deferring nuclear construction? … the fossil fuel competitors
to nuclear fuel. Base-load nuclear generation does not compete
with the windmill, sunshine, ethanol, and small hydro power
sources so beloved by Obama supporters. Nuclear competes with
carbon producing coal and natural gas. The shrewder members of
the environmental community have already figured this out, and
the rest soon will. Look for the Administration to reverse its
Yucca decision in early 2011. That will be after the
Administration’s Blue Ribbon Commission reports that Yucca is the
best place for disposal of non-recyclable nuclear waste and the
voters of Nevada have turned Sen. Reid, who won his last two
elections by a whisker, out of office.
— C.J. Milmoe
Wilmington, North
Carolina
RATIONING CHRISTIANITY
Re: Jeffrey Lord’s
Honey, Jim Wallis Shrunk the Church:
“There’s a God.” Respectfully: Nope. There’s God and there are
gods.
As for “Smiling’ Jim Wallis being the “Preacher,” well, no, I
don’t think so in the sense of Solomon, who wrote the Book of
Ecclesiastes in the Bible’s Old Testament; or the preacher
mentioned in the five-fold ministry in the Bible’s New Testament.
Maybe, though, something in the New Testament does apply to
Wallis? In it, Christ Jesus says, “Beware of false prophets,
which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are
ravening wolves.”
Wallis might remember — we all would do well to remember —
something else the Christ said: “Those things which proceed out
of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out
of the heart proceed evil thoughts…false witness…”
And as for Wallis’ rebuke of Sarah Palin: “Please don’t invoke
your ‘Christian faith’ anymore and embarrass the people of God
even further”? As one of the people of God, I challenge Wallis to
practice what he bloviates about.
It’s interesting, isn’t it, how those of the liberal/leftist
persuasion, particularly those who support and surround the
president, but including Obama himself, increasingly expose their
underlying pettiness and prejudice regarding anyone who dares
disagree with them and their agenda?
It’s a heart-sickness thing. Maybe they should invoke God’s
spiritual healthcare plan. He’ll give life, not take it.
— C. Kenna Amos Jr.
Princeton, West Virginia
The other problem with “rationing” is that it always seems to
come at the expense of the providers. You never hear about
cutting the folks with the sweet government jobs who run the
system, or furloughs. They, who take about 70% of the revenue (my
estimate), just keep getting fatter while all the cuts come at
the expense of providers and recipients!! Wonder who all those
union members are voting for these days.
— Bob M
They surely will not rid us of the AIDS patients, they could
become indispensable tools to further ravage mainly the black
populations and help realize Margaret Sanger’s dream of reducing
the inferior races.
— Edgar
SHOOTING THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT
Re: Matthew Vadum’s
Obama’s Plan to Desecrate 9/11:
There is always good news and bad news. The bad news about this
article was that it was bad news. The good news was that it
showed Obama yet again, in his real colours — public mischief
thinly wrapped in tacky emoting camouflage. This is the work of a
bunch of lunatics way out-of-touch with mainstream opinion. These
guys are dilettantes and incompetents, they have no understanding
of their limitations and their story is increasingly about over
reach and clumsy, tin-eared public manipulations. Every article
like this, and they come in all the time, is yet another
indication that the Obama super tanker is on a course straight
for a great rocky reef. Conservatives can take heart everywhere
that the opposition is turning out to be so stupid and self
destructive — why waste your ammunition when your enemy is hell
bent on shooting himself in both feet? With enemies like the
Obamanistas, conservatives are going to make a lot of friends.
Sit back and enjoy the show.
— Christopher Holland
Canberra, Australia
I note that within Matthew Vadum’s “Special Report” he makes the
following odd statement:
“Yearwood, who uses the honorific ‘Reverend’ before his name…”
This implies that Rev. Yearwood is not entitled to the honour.
However, it is well known that the Rev. Yearwood is an ordained
minister of the Church of God in Christ. The COGIC is the largest
Pentecostal church in the U.S.
The Spectator should retract the statement and issue a
clarification.
— Craig Burley
CAST INTO DARKNESS
Re: Nicole Russell’s
Whole Foods, Half a Brain:
I suppose this is yet another example of how, among liberals,
unless one believes in the One True Faith one way, one is cast
into the outer darkness with the Republicans and
conservatives.
— Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida
I too have visited Whole Foods here in NJ both in Chatham and
West Orange…what a bunch of snooty assholes!
Most of the ones shopping look as if they have been starved in a
concentration camp! This is healthy???? NOT!
Prices are ridiculously high! Try buying Filet Mignon…you think
you we’re paying for Kobe beef!
I went there referred by a friend, I won’t be going back
again.
— Debbie
ALL THAT HOT AIR
Re: Ralph R. Reiland’s
The Collapse of Obama’s Hot Air Balloon:
Depressing read. One might say the world’s greatest country in
the history of man does not deserve such and I would certainly
agree. It obviously has a lot to do with the almost total
breakdown of the nation’s public (and in some cases private
education) education system as well as people’s rejection of the
type of lukewarm religion we get in the so called mainline
protestant and Roman Catholic churches today along with many
other culture issues. However, the Republican Party (the “dumb
party” according to William Kristol) comes in for a large part of
the blame. No serious party would have nominated such “unserious”
candidates as Robert Dole and John McCain and expect to prevail
but did they actually expect to win? I wonder? To bastardize a
quote by a long ago Supreme Court member, “one idiot nominee is
bad but forgivable but two within three generations or so is
either a tragedy or a conspiracy.” Please, let’s return to the
“smoke filled rooms” to pick the nominees.
— Jack Wheatley
Royal Oak, Michigan
Buyer’s remorse for some equals “we warned you” for others.
Regarding the central committee’s standards, wonder if they’ll
also have standards based on IQ or scientific literacy or
economic literacy? Character? Physical descriptors? I’m thinking
if they do, they may have to eliminate some of their very own,
from the highest to lowest post.
— C. Kenna Amos Jr.
Princeton , West Virginia
THE SOUTHERN
STOOGES
Re: Paul Chesser’s Counting the
Costs:
The other Republicans should have followed the lead of Perry and
Jindal and saved their state budgets the expense of this wasteful
trip. Democrats who preach about global warming and reducing
“carbon footprints” are the most wasteful of our political class.
As for Kaine, who cares what this stooge thinks? Hopefully, in
this year’s election Virginia will elect an adult instead of
adolescent as Governor.
— Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina
NOT SO FICTION
Re: Larry Thornberry’s Her
Name Was Trixie:
No offense, but Dean Koontz has written at least three other
non-fiction books that I know of — two “how to write” books and
a memoir. There might be others I’m not aware of, but I know for
sure of these three.
— Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida
