For gosh sakes, they are supposed to work for us…we need to scare THEM a bit…

Find your legislator at http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-legisportal/redistricting.do

They can try to scare us with cries of higher energy prices but when election day comes, we will only remember how they considered our health and well-being secondary to allowing big business to get what it wanted.

Breach of contract is NOT frivolous. It costs tens of millions to build a power plant. If a state approves the construction, but then denies the operation, then the owner / builder has a right to sue for breach of contract, because approval to build implies intention to approve, otherwise, no one would ever build.

I don’t believe anyone would have any right or reason to sue if construction was denied, but denying approval after construction is a breach of contract.

I thought you guys were against trial lawyers and their unneccassary lawsuits…

Nuclear is as good as an option we have today in my opinion.

Comment by Southern Man — February 20, 2008 @ 5:17 pm

Too bad you’re such a fu(king idiot, or your opinion might be worth something. all of our posts today mark you as a liar, a hypocrite, and immoral piece of shit, and worse. you have absolutely no honor, and on top of that, you’re stupid. F the south is right.

Nuclear still doesn’t address the problem of the power grid… or of waste/pollution… or of NIMBY really…
How many people do you know who would prefer to have a turbine in their backyard rather than a cooling tower?
I know a fair few- admitedly I’m in Seattle myself but I think the feeling is fairly universal (I don’t hear f’ the South here really BTW)
In addition, the reason that France and other European countries are able to build so many nuclear power plants is that they have a strong central government-
Invest now in alternative and renewable energies and new industries will spring up around them-
I’m for harvesting the nuclear energy that the sun radiates each and every day…

somebody please send them a calendar.

Buck Fush

Comment by Buckie Boy — February 20, 2008 @ 3:49 pm

I grew up in Seattle, and I now live in a southern state. When I was in Seattle, I don’t remember any widespread hostility toward southern states (I do remember “don’t californicate Washington”, however). Maybe times have changed.

Yes, I now live in a red state. But there are a lot of us blue folks living here. The southeastern part of this country is a wonderful place to live, work, and raise children. There is more racial integration and less racism where I live than in any place I have lived previously. The people here — even people whose political ideology is different from mine — are friendly and welcoming. I live in the Triangle area of North Carolina, where we have a much higher concentration of Ph.Ds than the national average, three major universities, and cutting-edge scientific and medical research going on here.

We aren’t all toothless rednecks here. And we don’t deserve to have our environment polluted by industries more interested in false marketing than in delivering a clean product.

1. The Red States almost uniformly occupy the bottom of the list in terms of education (both quality and per centage of the popluation) thus it is hard to see the smugness that come from those with a higher illiteracy rate, lower high school graduation rate, lower college attendance rate than in general throughout the rest of the nation. We see the mythical belief in the literal interpretation of the bible and the denial of science through adopting beliefs in creationism and ID. No wonder why they take a stance against intellectuals. I guess that is the only way of denying that your area of the country is inferior in developing their minds.

2. We do know that education correlates directly to the earning power of individuals. Those with higher education forge the new technologies necessary to mover this nation ahead. Those with higher educational attainment earn more and contribute more to the tax base in this nation. The same is true of those individuals who have a better work ethic and are more willing to participate in the opportunities provided by this great country. How unfortunate that the Red States have the highest rates of poverty, lack of insurance coverage and other indicators that there people are indolent and unable to contribute to the economic success of this nation.

3. One would expect those in the Red States (since the Southern Man claims that the liberal states are worse run and have more problems than Red States) to contribute more in taxes than they receive in subsidies from Washington, have less on welfare, uninsured and other indicies that Southern Man believes establish people as leaches on society. Too bad Southern Man, Red States receive far more than they contribute to the tax coffers, lead in those uninsured and on welfare as a percentage of their populations. I guess we know the truth. Those of you in Red States are indeed the leaches on this society, you take but you do not give – you are the true welfare queens – which brings me to the next measure:

4. We know the moral superiority of the Red States and their hatred of the dreaded homosexuals that threaten the very foundations of our society. People who can not keep their peckers in their pants resulting in greater proportion of divorces, teenage pregnancies and unwed mothers obviously indicate those who are indeed morally inferior. Gosh, once again it is the Red States that lead in every single category. (Does this tell us something about your sexual orientation, Southern Man? Are you setting an example to undermine the institution of heterosexual marriage?)

5. Of course their are those other indicies of morality – a higher per capita rate of pedophilia occurs in those Red States as is also true of incestuous relationships.

6. The Red States believe far more than liberal states in the destruction of the wall between church and state, the use of torture and the pre-emince of the power of the state over the individual. So much for patriotism unless you mean the kind of uber patriotism of the Nazis.

I agree that private energy companies are a bad idea- I’m just surprised to hear you say it…

Comment by Southern Man

We went to the moon 10 years after we decided to do it……come on now….you will have to do better than that……they are not trying…..that’s why we will regulate them……

$2.5 million … over 10 years is peanuts…

more of an insult than incentive…

Can’t miss The O’Reilly Factor, eh, Mannie?

YAY!!

Comment by Southern Man — February 20, 2008 @ 4:59 pm

I think people have a “get started now” attitude… I understand why the oil, gas and coal companies are interested in waiting but why are you?