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McCain calls for more nukes
Concord Monitor ^ | 5-23-06 | By ERIC MOSKOWITZ

Posted on 05/23/2006 9:06:43 AM PDT by meandog

The United States needs to overcome its fear of nuclear power and embrace the technology as a way to wean itself from fossil fuels, Sen. John McCain told an audience in Manchester yesterday.

Nuclear power "is safe. The technology is here," McCain said, speaking to a crowd of about 200 at a breakfast hosted by The New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women. "It's a NIMBY (not in my backyard) problem, and a waste-disposal problem. It is not a technological problem."

McCain pointed to France, which draws more than three-quarters of its power from nuclear plants, and Russia, which has plans to build 40 new plants, as examples. "We've got to get over it, get over Three Mile Island," he said, referring to the 1979 accident at a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant.

McCain, a potential presidential candidate in 2008, touched upon a range of subjects during a nearly hour-long address and question-and-answer session, including his displeasure with Google's decision to submit to censorship in China.

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Having served on an SSBN during the late 60s and early 70s, the only thing wrong about nuclear power is that it builds up brain cells and separates one from typical kooks...you end up with the sane conclusion that McCain should be in the White House!
1 posted on 05/23/2006 9:06:47 AM PDT by meandog
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To: meandog
you end up with the sane conclusion that McCain should be in the White House!

LOL! Radiation ate your brain.

2 posted on 05/23/2006 9:08:43 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: meandog

You are brave! :)


3 posted on 05/23/2006 9:08:57 AM PDT by loreldan (Without coffee I am nothing.)
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To: meandog; Chieftain

Everytime I see McCain I keep thinking of that guy that rode the bomb out of the fighter plane in that comedy movie..wasn't that Dr. Strangelove?


4 posted on 05/23/2006 9:09:35 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Illegal Aliens....STFU!)
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To: meandog

Considering the alternatives, you're right.


5 posted on 05/23/2006 9:09:45 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (An immigration-thread-free FReeper as of...now!)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Yep, Slim Pickens, "Major Kong".


6 posted on 05/23/2006 9:11:13 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (An immigration-thread-free FReeper as of...now!)
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To: meandog

Well if you really believe that global warming is a problem and really believe we should do something about energy dependancy, nuclear power is the most logical answer. However, I have yet to see one greenie propose the most obvious solution. On this issue, the McCainiac actually makes sense, eventhough the global warming issue is grossly exagerated. Energy dependancy makes sense.


7 posted on 05/23/2006 9:11:39 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Which is funny because whenever I see Rumsfeld I think of George C. Scott in the same movie. This is a compliment, btw.


8 posted on 05/23/2006 9:11:42 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (An immigration-thread-free FReeper as of...now!)
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Considering the alternatives, you're right.

You think McCain is preferable to whom, exactly? (We're talking about other GOP candidates whose names have been bandied about, of course).

9 posted on 05/23/2006 9:13:09 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: meandog
McCain, a potential presidential candidate in 2008, touched upon a range of subjects during a nearly hour-long address and question-and-answer session, including his displeasure with Google's decision to submit to censorship in China.

But has no displeasure over the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance law which is a much being hit on freedom of speech than anything Google could do in China.

10 posted on 05/23/2006 9:14:40 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Slim Pickens?


11 posted on 05/23/2006 9:14:54 AM PDT by Smogger (It's the WOT Stupid)
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"Nuclear power "is safe. The technology is here,"

That's the most sane thing he's said in recent memory - it does not mean, however, that he should live in the White House.


12 posted on 05/23/2006 9:15:38 AM PDT by roaddog727 (eludium PU36 explosive space modulator)
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To: Always Right

One greenie does:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1615902/posts


13 posted on 05/23/2006 9:19:01 AM PDT by wolfpat (To connect the dots, you have to collect the dots.)
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To: Always Right
Well if you really believe that global warming is a problem and really believe we should do something about energy dependancy, nuclear power is the most logical answer. However, I have yet to see one greenie propose the most obvious solution. On this issue, the McCainiac actually makes sense, eventhough the global warming issue is grossly exagerated. Energy dependancy makes sense.

France, the nation we FReepers spoof most frequently as the kookiest of liberal democracies, operates nearly 80 percent its electrical grid by fueling it with nuclear power. In comparison this country hasn't built a nuclear power plant since the early 1980s.

14 posted on 05/23/2006 9:21:14 AM PDT by meandog (If I were to draw the odious Islamic prophet Muhammad, he would have horns, a tail, and a ptichfork!)
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To: wolfpat

OK, the exception that proves the rule. I bet that guy was kicked off the plantation.


15 posted on 05/23/2006 9:21:45 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Always Right

I think they're forming plans to draw and quarter him.


16 posted on 05/23/2006 9:24:06 AM PDT by wolfpat (To connect the dots, you have to collect the dots.)
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To: meandog

I wish the voters in Arizona would nuke McCain. puhleeeeeeeeese!


17 posted on 05/23/2006 9:24:11 AM PDT by sheana
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To: meandog
France, the nation we FReepers spoof most frequently as the kookiest of liberal democracies, operates nearly 80 percent its electrical grid by fueling it with nuclear power. In comparison this country hasn't built a nuclear power plant since the early 1980s.

That is why so many of the Euro-wennies love Kyoto. The CO2 emmissions baseline was set prior to many of these nuke plants coming on line. Many of the Euro-trash nations already meet their Kyoto requirements by doing nothing more than getting these nuke plants on-line. Meanwhile countries like the US, Canada, Japan, and Australia, are in that situation, and will end up costing those countries billions and billions and billions is carbon tax credits.

18 posted on 05/23/2006 9:25:11 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Always Right

are = are not.......


19 posted on 05/23/2006 9:26:16 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: meandog

Serious question: Where does France put their waste, their spent fuel?

[Bet they do not insist on a repository that will be "safe" for umpteen million years.]


20 posted on 05/23/2006 9:27:34 AM PDT by Adder (Can we bring back stoning again? Please?)
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