Nuclear Energy Isn't Dangerous. Corporate Greed Is.

In the wake of the horrific disasters in Japan, there has been a lot of anti-nuclear hysteria going on.

The general consensus seems to be that we mere, puny humans are no match for Mother Nature and there is no way we could build something inherently "dangerous" as a nuclear power plant that could possibly survive something as powerful as an earthquake.

Well, that's bullshit.

After 7 million years of evolution, we are Homo Fucking Sapiens and we can do whatever the Hell we want to do!

It's not an engineering problem. It's a profitability problem.

"Since its inception in 1948, the U.S. Navy nuclear program has developed 27 different plant designs, installed them in 210 nuclear powered ships, taken 500 reactor cores into operation, and accumulated over 5,400 reactor years of operation and 128,000,000 miles safely steamed. Additionally, 98 nuclear submarines and six nuclear cruisers have been recycled. The U.S. Navy has never experienced a reactor accident."

How can that possibly be when "we all know" that nuclear power is SO DANGEROUS?!?!

Simple.

The Department of the Navy dosen't build nuclear reactors as cheaply as possible so that they can make a profit by charging naval vessels for the power they use!

The Department of the Navy builds nuclear reactors to be safe and reliable in peace or war. Our Navy is self sufficient. Our Navy doesn't have to rely on the good will of foreign countries to refuel our warships. They can remain at sea for YEARS.

The latest generation of Navy nuclear cores can power a ship for 40-50 years before needing to be replaced.

A modern air craft carrier can carry as many as 8 nuclear power plants.

The Navy knows how to GET SHIT DONE!

So here is the XO Plan For Energy Independence:

Replace every coal fired power plant with clusters of U.S.N. Nuclear Power Plants operated by the Navy.

That's it.

How do we pay for it?

* Get the fuck out of Afghanistan and Iraq (where we never should have been)
* Eliminate Corporate Welfare and Farm Subsidies (Free Market, baby!)
* Legalize marijuana and tax the fuck out of it (Huh? Wha? DOOD!)
* Eliminate the Tax Exemption for "churches" (They provide services and own property in exchange for collecting fees...they are a fucking business...TAX 'EM!)

With the savings from the above changes and the reinvestment of those funds into our new U.S.N. Energy Grid, your home utility bill goes away.

Your tax dollars are now paying for domestic energy generation instead of killing foreigners, jailing stoners, making billionaires richer and subsidising medieval fantasies.

You can recharge your fancy electric car (which is now ACTUALLY Green because the electricity isn't being generated by burning fossil fuels) at Navy Power Stations.

I challenge anyone to explain to me why this wouldn't be better than what we have now.

Prosecutor To Probe CIA Interrogations

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Attorney General Eric Holder has asked federal prosecutor John Durham to examine whether CIA interrogations of suspected terrorists were illegal, the Justice Department announced Monday."

Good! It's about fucking time somebody grew some balls!

"WASHINGTON (AP) - A newly declassified CIA report says interrogators threatened to kill the children of a Sept. 11 suspect.

The document, released Monday by the Justice Department, says one interrogator said a colleague had told Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that if any other attacks happened in the United States, "We're going to kill your children."...Another interrogator allegedly tried to convince a different terror suspect detainee that his mother would be sexually assaulted in front of him — though the interrogator in question denied making such a threat"

What the fuck? Our government threatening to kill children and rape mothers?

This isn't the America I grew up in. I don't care what the external threat may be. I grew up in a world that could end in nuclear annihilation on 20 minutes notice. I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. I remember being in 2nd grade, leaving for school in the morning knowing that the world could be engulfed in thermonuclear flames before the end of the school day.



But even then, it was understood that the United States would never, ever, initiate hostilities. As my father (a veteran of WWII in the Merchant Marine and The Korean Conflict in the Army) explained it to me, "we don't start wars...we finish them".

I was raised to believe that America leads by example. We don't stoop to the level of the terrorists. We don't BECOME terrorists.

We are a nation founded on the rule of law. We must always, ALWAYS follow the law.

When we cast the law aside in the name of expediency and lower ourselves to the level of our enemies, we have ceased to be Americans.

I hope Durham is given the authority to follow the evidence and prosecute any official, at any level who attempted to pull America down to the level of a terrorist.