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assume that most of you have heard the news about the Nevada challenge
for the nuclear waste dump plan for Yucca Mountain. Isn't that one
amazing? Not really in my own opinion. Does any state want a nuclear
waste dump that'll only last about 20,000 years without possibly
leaking? Are the human forms able to build anything that will last ten
or twenty thousand years? Will we even last that long? That news isn't what this one is about. I'm
glad that I sort of think that perhaps we're fortunate to have learned
about things that are dangerous to us - and that accumulated erudition
will perhaps modify our own strategies or lifestyles in the direction
of a cheerier future for not only our own but perhaps even our
extensive progeny. Does this kind of
exploitive fortunateness happen frequently? Not entirely a lot when I
have a president that I don't care for. What has he done
lately? He is no longer of my interest on any level. President Bush
nominated a career scientist, Stephen L. Johnson, to be administrator
of the Environmental Protection Agency. Who knows what this guy will do
next? Something interesting has hit the news lately. Johnson seems to
be "clawing" on the Department of Energy's back. I'm a bit puzzled. I'm
not sure I even understand this whole bit but here we go. I
reel in the refers to folks as "idiots" or "stupid people" but I think
I've stumbled over a classic group example. These people tend to prove
to outcome that I've hoped to eventually wish for. I
am not going to point at anyone. Not one was ever really responsible
for this problem. You might want to look at Don Metzler from the
bankrupted Denver based Atlas Corp.. I don't think that he's a bad guy.
He was actually trying to improve the situation. But the truth seems to
be that he and his company were simply as stupid as a long line that
has existed since the 1950's. I'm not sure which of the following are
responsible for being stupid but they were all here at one time or
another. At what time did one guy actually decide, "Well, we have a
pile of trash. Let's put it 200 feet from that big river. That sounds
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