Sen.Blutarsky

Imposter. Bluto

I second Dorbie. What rule has been violated? Bluto

Funny thing. German air force pilots must be trained to NOT shoot down hijacked airliners. They are simply to monitor the situation and report back to base: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/15/AR2006021501333.html. Since warning shots will only waste the taxpayer monies, and may even harm someone down on the ground, they are to be avoided as violative of German law … Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

British and UAE companies have consummated a deal in the UK under UK law. The transaction was announced ex post facto. Political hay is being made of the deal by US politicians from the different parties because this serves their perceived political interests. I fail to see how Bush has sown anything in this case. Perhaps it's time for another Armenian thread or John Rich will indulge us with some new gun threads … Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

Sadly this is not the case with some people. My dad’s second or third wife had two daughters who used abortion as their primary means of birth control from their teenage years on into their twenties. Each had at least three abortions apparently because taking a pill was too much of an inconvenience for them, the eldest had at least one late term abortion to her credit. I couldn’t even bring myself to look at them they were so pathetically irresponsible. I have no doubt there are plenty of others out there who cannot be “taught” to behave responsibly. Witness the posters here who have admitted smoking during pregnancy. If these people are not able to make intelligent decisions and conform their behavior then perhaps the authorities will make the decisions and enforce responsible behavior going forward. So much for my Libertarian inclinations … Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

Were the policies of Carter and Clinton in respect of Saddam consistent? Carter and Clinton were Democrats, weren't they? Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

It does? Oh. Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

You missed that all religions are alike insofar as most of their adherents are nice people but there are always a few bad apples who can give the majority a bad name. Which would explain the mass casualty attacks on innocents being launched nearly every day by the Amish, Bahai, Buddhists, Hassidim, Orthodox Christians, Shintoists, Taoists and Zoroastrians, who collectively number in the hundreds of millions. If there’s one thing The Senator has learned in all his many years, it’s that you _never ever_ draw bad cartoons of Buddha or else you’re just asking for mayhem and murder … Right-o. Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

The Halliburton “family” of businesses and the government of Pakistan have been operating “over there” under conditions where it’s relatively easy for them to avoid intense scrutiny and the business environment is different than stateside. You can bet that the UAE port operator is already under the microscope and will be continually subject to examination and investigation at all times by state and local authorities as well as by the media and private organizations hostile to the operator. UAE GDP ranges between ~$75 to $105 billion depending on how you measure. Based on the economic damage amounts attributed to the World Trade Center attacks, a catastrophic terrorism incident at one or more US ports could easily exceed these GDP figures as a result of the costs and damages that would be paid out by the port operator and UAE government and the loss in terms of lost revenues. I don’t see it happening. The US and UAE are presently discussing a free trade agreement between the countries, and the UAE is forward-looking for its region and would not risk exposing its economy to the massive shock that would likely obtain from a significant terrorism incident at a US port being operated by the UAE company. Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

I favor the deal. In the event a terrorism incident does occur at one or more ports and the UAE operator is believed complicit the US government will exercise dominion and the UAE will suffer great financial loss. Private lawsuits alone could bankrupt the enterprise. That’s not in the interests of the operator. If anything, the UAE will bend over backwards to address the public’s concerns about port security issues. This is just another business deal in a global economy, it deserves less scrutiny than some transactions which American businesses have entered into with a certain rising Asian power. Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

I wonder how much the lawyer charged to draft the notice. What a great job to hold, "These eggs contain ... eggs," that'll be $250 please Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

Thank goodness I visited the ship before the Russians appropriated it, all this while I’d believed it would be Japanese tourists who would eventually take over. _Very_ cool that you got to raise an American flag on her when she was still ours. Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

I realize the Russian navy is hurting for ships these days but you would think that they’d at least have some photos of their former ships laying around somewhere … Russians Perplexed By Military Day Billboards Featuring US Battleship Created: 22.02.2006 15:13 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 15:13 MSK MosNews Ahead of the Defender of the Motherland Day, celebrated in Russia on Feb. 23, Moscow streets have been decorated with patriotic festive banners containing a picture of the famous American battleship the Missouri, local media reported. Although it was evidently a mistake of a picture editor, Russian officers are angered. “They were going to offend us, were not they?” a captain Vladimir Zakharov said in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets daily. “We do not have our own arms any more, they say, look at the foreigners’ one! Not so bad congratulation!” … Source: http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/02/22/battleshipmistake.shtml Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

Rats, now you have bragging rights. Try not to gloat ... Americans Are Out By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS February 22, 2006 Filed at 2:40 p.m. ET TURIN, Italy (AP) -- Shot after shot slid through Rick DiPietro's pads, caromed in off his body and bounced the U.S. men's hockey team out of the Olympics. Olli Jokinen scored two power-play goals in the second period for Finland, which recovered after blowing an early two-goal lead and beat the United States 4-3 Wednesday night in an Olympic quarterfinal game. The U.S. team never got going in Turin: They struggled to score when the goaltending was good, and played poor defense when the goals finally came. The Finns will play in the semifinals on Friday against the winner of the Canada-Russia game, while the Americans (1-4-1) will try to figure out why they managed only one win after capturing the silver medal four years ago in Salt Lake City. … Source: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/AP-OLY-HKM-United-States-Finland-TR3.html?hp&ex=1140670800&en=c18cc9ec1e079174&ei=5094&partner=homepage Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

The student body supported Larry Summers but so what, higher education is mostly about faculty, isn’t it? Harvard says Summers resigns as president Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:29 PM ET By Jason Szep BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard University President Lawrence Summers resigned on Tuesday after a turbulent five years and the most public faculty rebellion against a Harvard president in the Ivy League school's 370 year history. Summers, a former U.S. Treasury secretary under president Bill Clinton, will step down at the end of the 2005-06 academic year, Harvard said. Derek Bok, who led Harvard from 1971 to 1991, will be interim president from July 1. Summers will stay on as a professor. The resignation caps an increasingly rancorous stand-off between Summers and disaffected Harvard staff and came just one week before faculty members were to vote in the second no-confidence motion against Summers in 11 months. Summers, whose brusque management style has won both praise and contempt, sparked controversy last year when he said innate differences between men and women may help explain why so few women work in the academic sciences. … STUDENT BACKING The announcement followed a poll showing most Harvard students backed Summers even if, as one student put it, he "can be a little rough around the edges." In the poll conducted at the weekend by Harvard's Crimson student newspaper, 57 percent of 424 undergraduate students said Summers should not resign. "I know the faculty hates him, but I think he's kind of running Harvard like a business -- and I respect that," one student, Derek Horton, told the student newspaper. … © Reuters 2006. All rights reserved. Source: http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-02-21T212916Z_01_N21159889_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-HARVARD.xml Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

Yes, I know, burning coal releases far greater quantities of radioactive gases and other harmful compounds. Still, I find the coincidence of recent area nuclear events, and the timing of the disclosures, somewhat troubling ... U.S. orders nuke plant inspections Inquiry in Illinois to follow leaks, alarm at LaSalle By Hal Dardick Tribune staff reporter Published February 21, 2006 After ordering an investigation of a rare emergency Monday at Exelon's LaSalle County nuclear plant, federal regulators said they would inspect all Illinois nuclear power plants because of the company's recent disclosures about radioactive leaks. … U.S. Rep. Jerry Weller (R-Ill.) requested NRC inspections last Wednesday, the day Exelon Nuclear announced radioactive tritium had leaked at Dresden Generating Station in Grundy County and Byron Nuclear Generating Station, about 25 miles southwest of Rockford. Earlier, Exelon had disclosed four tritium spills at Braidwood Generating Station in far southwest Will County between 1996 and 2003. As a result, tritium was found in groundwater outside the plant at levels that exceed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards. … Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0602210142feb21,1,3301787.story?coll=chi-news-hed Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

Chicago is bracketed from the other side of the lake by two other N-plants, DC Cook near Bridgman Michigan and Palisades near South Haven Michigan. My chief concern is the age of our country's civilian reactors. Their designs date back to before the 70's. It's my view that we need a national commitment to design new and safer commercial power reactors as part of a comprehensive national energy plan. Given the Administration hales from the oil patch, I'm not optimistic that a real initiative will be launched any time soon. Perhaps I'll take this issue to my fellow Bilderbergers ... Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

EXACTLY. I would have volunteered to go up there and take readings if the winds weren't so strong ... Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

One can almost predict how this will fold into Ahmadinejad’s rhetoric and play in the Muslim world … excerpted from the Beeb: Holocaust Denier Irving Is Jailed British historian David Irving has been found guilty in Vienna of denying the Holocaust of European Jewry and sentenced to three years in prison. He had pleaded guilty to the charge, based on a speech and interview he gave in Austria in 1989. "I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz," he told the court in the Austrian capital. Irving appeared stunned by the sentence, and told reporters: "I'm very shocked and I'm going to appeal." Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4733820.stm Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

Our N-plants may be showing signs of their age … Emergency declared at nuclear power plant The Associated Press Published February 20, 2006, 10:33 AM CST An emergency was declared at a nuclear power plant about 55 miles southwest of Chicago early today when operators could not confirm the position of three control rods after the reactor shut down, officials said. There were no injuries, no radiological releases and no equipment damage at the LaSalle Generating Station in Brookfield Township in LaSalle County, according to Exelon Nuclear officials. The plant, which is owned by Chicago-based Exelon Corp., was scheduled to shut down early today for a refueling outage. According to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, the reactor did not shut down properly. Company officials said instruments showed three of the 185 control rods failed to insert fully into the reactor core and operators declared a ``site area emergency'' at 12:28 a.m. That is the second-highest of the four emergency categories in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's emergency response system. The emergency was over about four hours later, Exelon Nuclear officials said. Operators reset the control rod position indication system and then found only one rod was out of position, company officials said. Exelon Nuclear officials are trying to determine why the control rod indicators originally showed the rods weren't inserted properly. The NRC said it also will investigate the shutdown and the IEMA is monitoring the station. Preliminary information showed a malfunction of the plant's turbine control system caused the automatic reactor shutdown, according to the NRC. Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/newsroom/chi-060220nuclear,1,2917200.story?coll=chi-news-hed Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

Sure. Blutarsky-ites are a lock. We’ll make planter’s punch of the Dems’ plantation politics. “Swing low, Sweet Chariot fo’ I’m a comin’ on up to carry you h-o-m-e “ … Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

Let us actually witness this transformation and then we shall see where it leads us and them. At least Khatami recognizes that it is Islam which requires substantial reform. Better late than never. Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

The constituent minerals in a bottle of spring water can give it a unique flavor that I may be willing to pay for depending on the brand. I don’t drink crap like soda pop. If the energy situation ever comes to it and the soda drinkers give up their beverages, then I’ll do my part to save energy by switching back to tap water when ever I’m in the US. Until that actually transpires, please pass me the Volvic or ze wasser mit gasse. Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

Post-WWII Europe was so nearly concomitant with a period when many Europeans had been conditioned to accept extermination of the Jews to avoid social disruption, a period immediately on the heels of a time when many Europeans actually DID try and kill all the Jews, that denying the Holocaust was deemed to be de facto equivalent to screaming “fire!” in a crowded space. Denying the Holocaust quite likely would have resulted in the deaths of Jews and the speech did not have redeeming social value then. Your position may have arguable validity today. Certainly one could argue that was the case with the Armenian Genocide preceding the Holocaust. Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!

Quite possibly that step would eventually follow any first step onto the slippery slope of censorship based on offense to religious values. At which point it would not be a Danish Denmark anymore, would it? So much for Scandanavian liberality and openess ... Blutarsky 2008. No Prisoners!