Warning! Politics!
I used to think John McCain was a good guy. Then he ran first for the republican nomination for president, and then for president, and that version of John McCain did not seem like a good guy.
He did however publicly disagree with the “birther” morons. Although, when someone “accused” Obama of being a Muslim (which to me seems pretty much equally as bad as being a Christian), McCain said “He is not a Muslim. [b]He is a good man[/b]”. That must have endeared to him to the Muslims of the world...
I used to not know who Mitt Romney is. I feel I still don't. It seem Mitt Romney the governor would have made a fairly decent president - also, he'd have the huge advantage over Obama that he wouldn't have a congress opposing nearly everything he tried to do. Mitt Romney the candidate however seems like he'd be a terrible president - assuming he actually believes in the stuff he currently claims that he believes in.
I find it amusing that many, possibly most, Americans think one of the most important thing in an election is that the candidate believes in the same fairytales as them. The next presidential election will be between one person who is a Mormon, a religion which in spite of having the name + title “Jesus Christ” in their name (“church of Jesus Christ and latter day saints”) can hardly be called Christian, and one who many think is a Muslim (presumably something they base on him having dark skin like most Muslims, and a name that sounds suspiciously similar to Osama) and others think is an atheist, and yet more dislike because he knows a Christian priest with views (according to the media) that most Americans disagree with.
Ludicrously long run-on sentences - that's my specialty!
There has been a fair amount of talk about the Fukushima nuclear power station accident that happened a bit over a year ago.
Of course, this disaster (zero people killed so far, unknown but fairly small number will die during the coming decades) was far more significant than that silly little earthquake and resulting tsunami that was the direct cause of that event, killed an estimated 20000 people and caused very major material destruction.
I expect that more health issues, environment problems and economic damage has been and will be caused by people panicing over the event, mainly as a result of nations switching from nuclear power, officially to renewables (that actually do have major problems in itself, mainly linked to supply being unpredictable and difficult to match to demand over the day), but predictably mainly to worse forms of electricity production like coal. (In what way is an electric car "environmentally friendly" when it uses energy from a coal fired power station instead of internal combustion? The one advantage I can think of is that the plants have better filtering and release the exhaust further away from people)
Energy Source Death Rate (deaths per TWh)
Coal - world average 161 (26% of world energy, 50% of electricity)
Nuclear 0.04 (5.9% of world energy)
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html
He did however publicly disagree with the “birther” morons. Although, when someone “accused” Obama of being a Muslim (which to me seems pretty much equally as bad as being a Christian), McCain said “He is not a Muslim. [b]He is a good man[/b]”. That must have endeared to him to the Muslims of the world...
I used to not know who Mitt Romney is. I feel I still don't. It seem Mitt Romney the governor would have made a fairly decent president - also, he'd have the huge advantage over Obama that he wouldn't have a congress opposing nearly everything he tried to do. Mitt Romney the candidate however seems like he'd be a terrible president - assuming he actually believes in the stuff he currently claims that he believes in.
I find it amusing that many, possibly most, Americans think one of the most important thing in an election is that the candidate believes in the same fairytales as them. The next presidential election will be between one person who is a Mormon, a religion which in spite of having the name + title “Jesus Christ” in their name (“church of Jesus Christ and latter day saints”) can hardly be called Christian, and one who many think is a Muslim (presumably something they base on him having dark skin like most Muslims, and a name that sounds suspiciously similar to Osama) and others think is an atheist, and yet more dislike because he knows a Christian priest with views (according to the media) that most Americans disagree with.
Ludicrously long run-on sentences - that's my specialty!
There has been a fair amount of talk about the Fukushima nuclear power station accident that happened a bit over a year ago.
Of course, this disaster (zero people killed so far, unknown but fairly small number will die during the coming decades) was far more significant than that silly little earthquake and resulting tsunami that was the direct cause of that event, killed an estimated 20000 people and caused very major material destruction.
I expect that more health issues, environment problems and economic damage has been and will be caused by people panicing over the event, mainly as a result of nations switching from nuclear power, officially to renewables (that actually do have major problems in itself, mainly linked to supply being unpredictable and difficult to match to demand over the day), but predictably mainly to worse forms of electricity production like coal. (In what way is an electric car "environmentally friendly" when it uses energy from a coal fired power station instead of internal combustion? The one advantage I can think of is that the plants have better filtering and release the exhaust further away from people)
Energy Source Death Rate (deaths per TWh)
Coal - world average 161 (26% of world energy, 50% of electricity)
Nuclear 0.04 (5.9% of world energy)
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html