Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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"On Oct. 18, the DOE informed the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is leading the investigation into the Solyndra scandal, that it would not allow the committee to perform depositions of DOE officials, including Susan Richardson, chief counsel of the DOE Loan Programs Office."
It's time to start up the Congressional special investigations office and pull up the rug hiding all the dirt over at DOE HQ. Shame on you, Dr. Chu.
October 21, 2011 12:17 PM"
Ha ha ha ha, this is just what we want, you have fell into our trap. Worry about the DOE and not the real problems! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
October 21, 2011 8:21 PM
"Have fell"??? Hahahaha!
October 23, 2011 10:24 AM"
Very good, this is the whole point, keep going after DOE you little sheep while the world burns down, this is all part of our plan.
October 24, 2011 6:58 AM
So you want the world to burn down? Yeah, that's pretty sane. I bet you're the hunting/fishing/trapping survivalist loser who hates education. Go get 'em, Clem. I hope your kids are with their Mother.
October 24, 2011 7:10 PM"
Huhh? The point was that the DOE scandal is just a bunch of hot air. A simple look on the internet will show that the crazy accusations are just that. All this done just to make Obama look bad. I am no fan of the bureaucratic nature of DOE but in this case they are right. Look all you have to know is that Joe Barton is behind this. This guy is now on this
of the "dishonorable mentions" members of congress list. He is one of the dirtiest players in the game.
"Rep. Joe Barton bought an interest in natural gas wells, and has gone to great lengths to conceal the true origins of this investment, violating federal law and House rules in the process.
Rep.Barton is a fourteen-term member of Congress, representing Texas’ 6th congressional district. He is a member and chairman emeritus of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce."
http://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/mostcorrupt/entry/joe-barton
"Barton made a national spectacle of himself when, as ranking Republican on Energy Commerce, he apologized to BP after they agreed to pay for the cost of the oil spill."
"Barton has gotten bigger bribes from Big Oil than any member of the House-- ever-- $1,480,630. The only members of Congress who have gotten more from Big Oil directly are four especially corrupt senators: John McCain, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Phil Gramm and John Cornyn. And that has been the source of power for Barton. He represents a comfortably gerrymandered district and has no need to actively campaign for reelection. A dead pig in a red t-shirt would beat any Democrat in Texas' 6th congressional district. This year Barton took 107,104 votes (66%) to 50,683 (31%) for his Democratic opponent, In 2008 he won 62% and in 2006 he won 61%. Democrats rarely win a third of the vote there. Instead he uses the vast sums of money he scoops up from grateful corporate supporters-- $2,121,169 this year, for example-- to buy power inside the caucus. Since 1989 he's taken in $17,696,568, his biggest contributors being Anadarko Petroleum, Lockheed martin, RRI Energy, AT&T, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. and the National Association of Realtors. Other big donors include Exxon Mobil, Comcast and Valero Oil."
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2010/11/congress-most-corrupt-republicans.html
Hard to imagine this guy would have a problem with alternative energy.
October 26, 2011 8:25 AM
The problem with "alternative energy" is that it is not economically viable without government support (i.e., taxpayers footing the bill). No sign that it ever will be, either. No further discussion necessary.
October 26, 2011 1:42 PM"
Fair enough, however it does not justify the attack on DOE. If someone contributed money from the Keebler elves to Barton we would soon hear about how oil is not economically viable without government support and only cookies will solve all our energy problems.