Guy Caruso,
Say hello to the family on your early leave.
The “DECIDER” gang think otherwise.

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I’ve seen things that would shrivel your pampered little soul.

Sound good to me. Sure would put a stop to theft.

Or, simply fill the jails with petty crooks. I thought you conservatives were always crying about your high taxes? Locking up petty crooks for a decade would be very expensive.

Who’s going to advocate raising taxes to pay for it?

You? Or will you just whine about it?

No, it’s a lesson I learned long ago, perhaps while I was unemployed, sleeping in a ditch, back in the crappy economy in the ’80’s.

Stealing is stealing..if they both know it’s wrong. You seem to be a follower of the BS philosophy, if everyone else does it, it must be OK for me to do it.

No, that the punishment should fit the crime. You seem to prefer the absolutist monochrome, of punishing all, equally.

So, ten years for rape, and for stealing a hubcap?

Warped.

BTW, what if terrorist organizations are taking advantage of the “Enron loophole,” created and sustained by Republicans over the past eight years, with these terrorist organizations (al Qaeda, Hezbollah, etal.) playing the electronic oil futures trading market overseas, gaming these unregulated markets through dummy companies or oil futures speculator front men (maybe in Dubai?), gaining hugh amounts of money in the process, that these terrorist organizations can then use to finance their terrorist operations?

In other words, what if free-market capitalism and deregulation mania has actually aided and abetted terrorists?

Completely close the “Enron loophole” RIGHT NOW.

I’m unwilling to continue to let Repukes put American lives at risk, even if there’s only a slight chance right-wing terrorists have been gaming the world energy markets like Enron gamed the West Coast energy markets back in 2001…using the same “Enron loophole” in the process.

Besides, if expert economists are correct, completely closing this loophole and re-regulating the electronic energy markets will cause gasoline pump prices in the U.S. to drop by a dollar or even two, almost immediately.

And I’m not interested in listening to the people who are using outrageously high gasoline prices to push their favorite pet policy…that does nothing to address high gasoline costs today. (Hammm, it’s almost like they’re enjoying gas pump prices rising above $4.00 a gallon. And food prices going up. And monthly utility bills escalating. Because this provides certain people with the right “leverage” to promote certain things that might help down the road, but won’t do anything about high energy/high food costs today).

So, let’s conduct an experiment. Completely close the “Enron loophole” and then see what happens. I bet gasoline prices will drop. And what’s the worst that could happen…gasoline prices will stay the same?

And I still stand by my assertion that terrorist organizations have probably been taking advantage of this energy trading loophole. Close it…stop funding terrorists.

Of course. We don’t live in a black and white world, where moral absolutes apply, and never did. You’re fooling yourself, if you think otherwise.

So, it’s the same morally if a child steals a piece of candy, and Ken Lay steals hundred of millions from employees, and from retirees of Enron?

Warped, man, really warped worldview.

You need to go back in the thread and tell me where I made such a claim.

Sorry. Wrong troll. Y’all look alike.

If you can stop being gratuitous: radioactive tailings are already leachng into groundwater at current uranium mines. A push to build more plants will cause more mining, more releases of radioactive gas, that is found with uranium deposits, and more radiactive tailings, adding greatly to the seepage, and contamination of the Colorado River, which is near these mines. Or we can bargain for it, with third world countries like Niger, which isn’t any better, from a national security standpoint.

Now that’s a warped view of moral equivalency. Criminal statutes recognize there is a difference. Why can’t you?

Oh see, now this is fun, Tracy 5… isn’t this better than calling each other crappy parents?

Falsely saying that Iran is developing alternative nuclear energy is also constructive?

That’s what Iran is claiming, and as they are a soveriegn nation they are within their rights to pursue nuclear technology for civilian purposes… think they’re doing it for other reasons?
Wish we could pressure them to stop?

See, this is why it’s important for US to respect treaties and international orginazations… so that when we want other countries to comply with our requests they can’t just say, “We’ll do whatever we want- world opinion be damned! After all, you guys do whatever the hell YOU want!”

Perhaps he’ll stop insisting that others provide what he is unwilling to offer.

Not counting on it, but…

Others caution that the industry should be wary of recreating a glut of capacity that would cause profit margins to sink again. “Refining has been a cyclical business for a long time,” said Bill Hauschildt, the vice president for global refining with ChevronTexaco. “In the past few years, there’s been much more discipline in the market for not overbuilding capacity.”

There are dozens of oil companies not building refineries in order to maximize profits… which ones specifically are you ignoring?

I thought I had sufficiently explained my opposition to expanding the nuclear energy industry. But, to make it clear for the slow folks, here we go again.

If we are to build and operate new nuke plants, we must have a structure in place that ensures lawyers, MBA’s, and politicians NEVER make an operational decision. Using the second best grade of steel to shave costs, for example. There is zero margin of error. I’m not afraid of nuclear energy, but, I’m terrified of greedy idiots using it to get rich. Until such time as scientists, physicists, and engineers are given COMPLETE control? It’s an unacceptable risk. I can imagine few worse nightmares than a, Bush appointed, Regent University grad making technical decisions on nuclear safety.

I’m not against Nuclear Power…I am against Nuclear Power that yields Radioactive waste that can be used to make Nuclear Weapons….that we don’t know how to store safely for thousands of years…and creates hundreds of aging, highly radoactive power plants that No One knows how to safely decomission. ( a fence around it for thousands of years is no solution.

I am interested in next generation fusion reactors, like the polywell, which used a Boron 11 isotope. Boron is safe and plentifull….and no Neutorns are released in the reaction…so the reactor does not become radioactive like a tar baby.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/24/19392/2417/623/499759

Wouldn’t we feel foolish, if we created a huge legacy of dangerous long lasting radioactive waste ( maybe it’s too late)…and then discovered how to tap Nuclear fusion with none of the Danger.

Tracy5 Says:

#119

“Then I suppose you have no objections if the Iranians also develop their “alternative energy”, huh?”

Iran is developing alternative nuclear energy? Are you smoking crack? Please cite one CREDITABLE nuclear watchdog NGO or government intelligence agency that believes that load of crap.

THIS is “constructive”?

DAIS, NAID. Seems to be the only program this model runs without a hitch.

Tracy5 Says:

#118

“I am not diametrically opposed to an expanded nuclear energy industry.”

Are you opposed to it as a source of energy? If so, please expain your “diametric” opposition in even a little detail.

Apparently, the T5 model also has some problems with its text recognition circuitry.

It reads “I am not diametrically opposed” then asks for an explanation of the poster’s “diametric” opposition.

Someone call tech support.

Tracy5 Says:

“Who knew that T5 was a Hugo Chavez supporter?”

Do you have anything constructive to add herd follower?

“Herd follower” is “constructive”?

Or is this another case of “Do as I say, not as I do” wingnuttery?

Are you opposed to it as a source of energy? If so, please expain your “diametric” opposition in even a little detail.

He just said no, the reluctance is explained in his post…