Proposed sites narrowed for nuclear plant (Mississippi, Alabama)

ap on Yahoo ^ | 9/22/05 | H. Josef Hebert - ap

[megatherium]

I confess: I had to look up Project Dribble. I lived in Mississippi for seven years, and never did I hear that the state had been nuked! Amazing.

[UCANSEE2]

How about NO?

DITTO

[wideminded]

I confess: I had to look up Project Dribble.

I confess: I had to look up the Battle of Oxford.

[PAR35]

I confess: I had to look up Project Dribble.

I didn't know the name of the project, but I met one of the local guys who was a contract employee on it, so I figured that was what was being discussed.

[PAR35]

I confess: I had to look up the Battle of Oxford.

Think of it as a modern day Battle of Lexington, but with US Airborne forces instead of British and Hessians against the citizen patriots.

Of course, the Kennedy brothers from Boston were behind the attack.

[wideminded]

Think of it as a modern day Battle of Lexington,

BY the rude bridge that arched the flood,
  Their flag to September's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled students stood,
    And tried to stop James Meredith from registering for classes 

[PAR35]

Yes, compare what the Kennedys did at Oxford with the much better way that integration was handled at the University of Alabama.

[wideminded]

Gov. George Wallace blocks the doorway to Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, June 11, 1963.

Black students were not admitted to the University of Alabama until a federal judge ordered the university to be integrated and President Kennedy sent in the National Guard.

The night of Wallace's stand in the doorway, Kennedy gave a speech to the nation on civil rights. Later that night Medgar Evers was killed in Jackson, Mississippi.

One reason the integration of the University of Alabama may have been less violent is that Wallace probably just wanted to put on a show.

[Alas Babylon!]

As soon as they can get Arianna out; they'll be coming down to protest in their big new shiny Chevy Suburban SUVs.

[PAR35]

The way that Alabama got integrated (and not just the tokenism for the media) involved the USC football team. When USC and its star player whipped Alabama, Bryant made it clear to the university that he was going to recruit, and play, black players, and that they were going to have adjust to that. That's why things went more smoothly at Alabama than they did at most of the southern schools.

[Sweet Southern Freedom]

The Bellefonte site near Scottsboro, Alabama has a MAJOR amount of work already completed. And is probably to that extent already near state of the art. It could save many millions.