Monday May 28, 2012

ChristopherBlackwell's past comments

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    ChristopherBlackwell

    I have never read or heard anything that makes decontamination sound plausible, much less possible. I think Tempco will end up declaring bankruptcy and the Government will back off claiming it is also bankrupt.I hope that I am wrong for the sake of the survivors

    Posted in: Thousands rally for Fukushima compensation, decontamination

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    ChristopherBlackwell

    I think the world is eager to see just how they plan to decontaminate such a large area. No one has ever done it before. Russia did not even try, just blocked off the area and abandoned it. I am especially interested in how they will decontaminate the soil and all that rubble, or if they remove it where will they dump it, in whose back yard? If the decide to get new soil, where will they take it from, again whose back yard?

    Posted in: IAEA to send 12 experts to help with Fukushima decontamination

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    ChristopherBlackwell

    Gee, that is nice. A nuclear reactor shut down ad the people running it don't know why. Next comes the statement, "There is no reason to panic!" At which time everyone panics. Meanwhile only one out of four reactors is working. I can't imagine why anyone would be getting nervous about now...[Grin]

    It might be time to fire the management though, take back their salaries and retirement benefits just in case the company is going to need to money soon. Remember nuclear power is completely safe. How do we know? The nuclear industry keeps telling us so, and they would never lie to us.....would they?

    It might be a good time to see if any of the big guys have dumped their stock lately. Might be good to confiscate that money as well, just in case the company is going to need the money.

    Posted in: Genkai nuclear reactor shut down in Saga; cause unknown

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    ChristopherBlackwell

    The odds of getting killed by a terrorist in the United States is far lower than people think. Now if you want something dangerous, try riding in or diving a car, not only the accident rate, but car jacking.Then if you live in a city, try the possibility of walking into a crime scene, particularly in one of our convenience markets late at night. Then there is always the chance of getting shot by one of our street gangs or even the police.. forcible home break in is another possibility.Even dying by accident in your home, has a higher possibility, or by medical misadventure in one of our hospitals. Dying from family violence is more likely. So if none of these things scare you that much, I would hardly worry about terrorists.

    As for 9/11, I only wonder why they only used jet airliners once and then went back to car and truck bombs.

    Posted in: U.S. investigating credible but unconfirmed al-Qaida bomb threat

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    ChristopherBlackwell

    Smithinjapan Nanjing and unit 731 were Japanese atrocities under the same time period. Of course to be fair it would be jus as difficult to get movies about American atrocities in World War II shown either. There were plenty of atrocities in World War II by all participants, but only the losers got credited with it. I think fire bombing of Japanese cities and German cities could be considered as war atrocities as mostly civilians were killed and that would also include the dropping of the atomic bombs. But again the winners get to write the history anyway they want.

    As a Marine Vietnam War veteran I think much of what we did there with napalm and white phosphorus artillery shells, along with Agent Orange and some village mass killings would today be considered war crimes. But I don't expect movies about that to show up in America. I have an odd view for an American. If it is a war crime if the enemy does it, then it is a war crime if we do it as well.

    Posted in: Film series looks at world under Nazi rule

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    ChristopherBlackwell

    We have not shortage of areas in North America and Mexico and South America that could produce equally damaging earth quakes. It is possible that we are entering a very active period for the so called Ring of Fire.

    Just as we are entering a cycle of very damaging storms here in the United States. On the Atlantic side we have some evidence that the Gulf Stream is moving over a bit, and that can have drastic effects on both Europe and the Eastern United States.

    I believe it is said of a Chinese Curse, "May you live in interesting times. We may indeed be entering such a time and a lot of assumptions about modern civilizations superiority may get a real test. We may get some interesting surprises, such as the disadvantages of having a linked world economy and having manufacturing spread over several countries.

    Posted in: Japan quake could raise concerns elsewhere

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    ChristopherBlackwell

    I liked all of the books and the movies that I have seen so far. I have to wait for the DVD. But what really struck me about the Harry Potter phenomena was getting the religious nutters to give it nearly daily free advertisement. I would have never read the first one without all the noise made by the religious nuts. They turned it into the success it has been because they got the adults to read what had been a children's book, most of us might have ignored.

    Posted in: Harry Potter stars sad to say goodbye

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    ChristopherBlackwell

    Lets see, he has a fifty member church, $140,000 mortgage that he can't pay and runs a business on the side selling furniture on E-bay. Sounds to me he is hoping the publicity might make him a little money and increase his membership. It is usually little failing churches that do these kind of stunts. And for the same reason, the minister is hoping it will make him famous and successful, with a big income. So much for caring anything about the deity. Money talks with a number of the ministers and that is the reason they are in the ministry to make as much money as possible. Serving Mammon is so much more profitable than serving God in their mind.

    I think consider how insane this little act is, you can fully understand why the bank wants the mortgage paid now, before the church goes up in smoke. Yes, I would say that church sounds like a real credit risk. Pity the poor bank that holds the mortgage.

    Posted in: Pressure builds on Florida pastor who wants to burn Quran on Sept 11

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    ChristopherBlackwell

    Don't worry no matter how bad the disaster, the right amount of money and the government will step aside, especially as the Supreme Court says that not even Congress has any right to limit the amount of money that corporations give them as, bribes, campaign contributions. Do you want to guess just how hard Politicians are going to fight to limit all this money coming to them. We have the best government money can buy. But if you have not bought it, it ain't yours and we are not talking about your tax dollars. It is how much you can pay the politicians that determines what laws get written and what laws get enforced and how often they are enforced. So expect congress to echo Sarah Palin and say "Drill Baby, drill!"

    Posted in: Gulf of Mexico oil spill grows to 3.5 mil gallons

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    ChristopherBlackwell

    While i can understand someone wanting to develop the land where the old base is, have you considered that all closed US military bases around the world have turned out to be major hazardous material sites. The land will prove to be unusable and the cost of clean up beyond any value you can get in development. Meanwhile you lose the money that everyone is making off the base. So you get rid of the base and end up with a desert to dangerous to develop. Are you sure you want to close down one of the biggest businesses on your Island, just to get unusable land. The United States will not clean up the mess it leaves behind, it has not done so anywhere else in the world.

    Posted in: Futenma commander defends Marine base

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