[billbears]

I have read information that completely contradicts your statement about birth defects, and an increase in cancers

Stylin, I don't care if the stuff makes Tropical Punch Green Colored Lemonade!! I don't care if it's harmful or not. Contrary to the belief of some statists around here, the 14th Amendment(illegally passed) and any ensuing politically motivated SCOTUS decisions (Texas v White) does not give the general government the right to go dumping anything they please around the nation as if we were one big happy family and Denver's backyard is 2000 miles away. The fact is the states DO have rights to do what they feel is best within their own borders. If they don't let's start wiping out the border lines between states and we'll all just be part of the Amurican Empire. But the Founders felt (and rightly so) that government at the local level was best because local leaders KNEW THEIR CITIZENS. The general government has overstepped it bounds for so long, most not only don't remember the principles that this nation was established under, they actually accept it as a given that the general government is supposed to have this much power!!

I for one applaud Hodges this one time, and yes this is a politically motivated action, but if it stands up I can only pray we can start turning the feds back and get this nation back to where it is SUPPOSED to be

[stylin_geek]

I agree that States do need to tell the state when to stop. I would argue, though, that what we have here is weapons grade plutonium that is going to be downgraded to reactor grade fissile material. Weapons grade plutonium (in and of itself, I might add, a virulent poison, never mind highly radioactive) was created for national defense purposes, and is now being transferred to a national facility to be reprocessed in to something that is useable by private industry.

I would also ask, what if this were a private business trying to move raw materials in to a State, and the governor of the State called out (or threatened to call out) State Troopers to stop the transportation of the materials? Especially if the only factory the business owned that could handle the raw material was located in the State?