Archive for October, 2011

-- Featured Comments -- France reprocesses nuclear fuel and they have very little nuclear waste to deal with. In 1977 Carter indefinitely deferred reprocessing of nuclear fuel. The excuse was possible proliferation of nuclear material. Since then we have been storing nuclear waste primarily in water storage tanks at nuclear More

-- Featured Comments -- The idea of external censorship on children's novels is extremely disquieting to me. I was a child who found solace in books - Diana Wynne Jones's emotionally abusive families in children's novels were vitally important to my sense of self. That children in novels could grow up and realise their More

-- Featured Comments -- They also hate Palin for knowingly giving birth to a baby boy with Downes Syndrome. You see, abortion is one of the solutions to children with defects, isn't it? Sarah Palin not only talks the talk, she walks the walk.Has everything to do with immigration policies. And if not, we have a problem More

-- Featured Comments -- Banks went all out to hand out consumer loans instead of business loans. Lending to small business has been declining. This is a trend of the past 30 years. It is not a new thing. The banks have been lending to the consumer instead of the businesses. This is part of the banks troubles now. www.tradi More

-- Featured Comments -- Well Donny boy, I'm a little surprised that Mr. Schwartz didn't take your admonitions to heart since you must have been singularly instrumental in his financial success, and he must have owed you a great deal of attention. Please tell me that you were, otherwise I might be absolutely astounded More

-- Featured Comments -- I don't want to sound like a prude, but why hasn't anyone mentioned the hyper sexual society we live in. We all are,including children, constantly bombarded with sexual images of men and, especailly, young women in print, billboards, movies, TV, and the internet. I'm sure this is a factor. Over More

-- Featured Comments -- John Mcrae , you ask : will Hamas change? Well, let's answer that question with another question and then the answer will become clear. Article 7 of the Hamas Charter reads: http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/1609.htm "The hour of judgment shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews More

-- Featured Comments -- the tax exempt needs to go also. No one should receive a charitable contribution deduction for donations to serve a political purpose. perhaps the news and political divisions could be sold off and the remaining educational and entertainment programing be continued without direct tax dollars but More

-- Featured Comments -- Insurance companies make money by denying service and claims; they don't make money by paying claims. We need further insurance industry reform to level the playing field, especially for smaller employers who face a tough choice of providing medical benefits for their employees or waiting for the More

-- Featured Comments -- Do you right wingers give credit to Obama when he does a speech on a day that the stock market goes UP? The market is probably going down again because of the SAME OLD "STUFF" ... problems with all those "too big to fail" banks that sent the world economy off a cliff in 2008. The European banks More