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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This budget is dead so who cares anyway.
It sounds as if you are arguing against the entire concept of insurance, as it has existed for hundreds of years in the US. You want everyone to pay based on risk instead of common costs (an insurance pool). Well, you may regret that when you are older. That concept devolves to everyone being "self-insured" i.e., you pay your own medical bills, no insurance company "bails you out" if you can't afford it. A true conservative might believe that, but a true libertarian would say that people should be free to establish whatever systems they want to provide health security for themselves and their families and neighbors. Government should stay the hell out of it. And government enforcement is the only way to achieve what you want. Bad idea.
Title is NM Labs fare well..
and then the rants start about something completely off the mark.
Let me suggest some more topics:
guns
gay marriage
illegal immigrants
and the list goes on.
Ok lets settle this so we do not have to talk about it.
Illegal immigrants and everyone else should have the right to bare arms. Marriage is not the governments business. If you do not like gay marriage than move to Iran.
Back to the original post. The presidents budget is dead so we have to wait and see how it will turn out for the NNSA labs. I would say that the very best this could mean and that is a big maybe is that in the end we could have no cuts or just a small cut.
April 14, 2013 at 8:16 PM
No, no, no! It would be much better for everyone if we forgot it!! Please spare us more NIF vs everyone else garbage!! Curse you for raising that canard again! The next person who posts about NIF or EoS on this thread will burn in hell!
Or could their be a small sense of jealously?
April 15, 2013 at 8:28 AM
Not so fast. This is the President's budget PROPOSAL. Dead on arrival.
April 17, 2013 at 7:51 PM
That's old-style thinking. There is nothing "Congress" wants. Just things the Democrats, the Republicans, the Tea Party, and the Libertarians want. And they aren't the same things.
April 18, 2013 at 8:15 PM
Which ones are the bums? You expect a complete replacement of both houses of Congress?? HaHaHaHaHa. All polls show that voters think Congress is performing horribly, but like their own Congress person. The problem isn't Congress, it is the voters. Get rid of voters who want something from the federal government!
April 23, 2013 at 4:17 PM
Oh, but there IS a difference! Junkies can go on for hours on the topic. Problem is that no one except another deeply immersed fanatic gives a rat's hind end about the subject.
Fits in with most of the threads here.
April 24, 2013 at 3:33 PM
Really?? "The City Different"?? Santa Fe is full of warmed-over hippies and crazies. Trust-fund babies of all ages, just hanging out at Whole Foods and Trader Joes. Homeless people on every corner, and sometimes knifing tourists on the Plaza for not giving them money, in the middle of the day. Pretentious overpriced hotels and restaurants. Cholos willing to kill you for looking at them crosswise, and uneducated spanish girls with all-body tattoos and 50 lbs overweight with two fatherless babies and an attitude. Not my idea of "lovely." A wannabe San Francisco, without any of the class. A thoroughly dirty and depressing place to live in (and I don't).
April 24, 2013 at 7:58 PM
Or send off your next payment on a $600k mortgage on a $200k house.