Why is LANL closing? What happened to the $450 million in reserve that McMillan reportedly was crowing about recently? Appears to be that it suddenly went from ten weeks of available worker wages down to three. Where did the money go to?
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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LANL (or LLNL and SNL) is not going to close! The Labs were merely bartering chips for Obama. What an absolute waste of money getting the Labs "spun up" to close. It was never going to happen in the first place!
Wait a minute...you mean, I'm a pawn?? shucks, I thought i was important...
Or, so Ted Cruz and the Teabag 5 were just blowing smoke the whole time? And I thought they were standing valiantly beside the American people.
I think you hold the labs in much higher esteem than the general public. I would wager that hearing about a couple of labs being shut down would be way down the priority list of the public. Just think of the hue and cry that was put forth over not paying for funerals and death benefits for slain servicemen. A lab shutdown would not have the same pathos and would be relegated to the B section of non-local papers.
The government is truly shutdown, I mean congress and the President aren't losing paychecks. Some are symbolically not tanking pay, but I'll bet you they get the back pay when all is said and done.
Washington is full of low life parasites and we voted them in.
Or, so Ted Cruz and the Teabag 5 were just blowing smoke the whole time?
October 16, 2013 at 9:41 PM
Yup!
October 16, 2013 at 9:41 PM
"Blowing smoke" implies that the Tea Party people knew better but were conning everyone. That is giving them way too much credit. They thoroughly believed in the rightness of what they were doing, which makes it even scarier. These bozos are going to sink the Republican Party and probably the entire country along with it, if they have their way. They are the products of gerrymandered congressional districts throughout the country whose populations are just certifiably nuts. Yahoos and rednecks with no knowledge about the world but plenty of certainty about how right they are.
Signed, a moderate Republican.