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that was all over the various global news channels last night--along with the irony that it was going to mean a big boost in at least short-term biz for all the nuclear plants in Germany's neighboring countries. Along with such interesting tidbits, to US audiences, as the fact that France gets something like 75% of its current power from nukes, so this is a non-trivial issue.

Angela Merkel is pulling the plug on 17 nuclear reactors after the amazing meltdown experiences in Japan following the devastating earthquakes and a tsunami. Best wishes to Germany in leading the way for development of alternative energy sources. Growth of wind and solar energy will be expensive. Wind power start-up costs in the US have been enormous. Russia will certainly be a supplier of natural gas, but how reliable is this ??

So it's another Memorial Day Weekend and Marye will encourage the usual platitudes and while there is no doubt they are due I watched the uncut version of Apocalypse Now this weekend and was set to thinking -- Though it sounds lame and cliche, What if they threw a war and nobody came? Or they decided to all go home after they shot the baddest Ayatollah's eyes out and threw him in the ocean? But nobody is going home... we got Khadhaffys and Al-Awalakis and Al--Zawahiris left to kill, not to mention the total extermination of the Big Al. On and on, obscenities within obscenities. They are protecting our way of life except our way of life has become very lopsided lately. And the usual people profit. So this Bud goes out to a retired Major from the Green Beret from a couple towns over. He's totally fucked up as he sits there fondling that string of over 50 human ears (whats left of them). It ain't far to the VA Hospital where he gets his Klonopin and the rest of the psychmeds that don't make him forget. He's got an arsenal and is just looking for a way to use it. It seems a natural death would seem like cowardice to him and his apples that haven't fallen far from the tree. I guess Colonel Kurtz knew.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/livni-palestinian-stateho…********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde

I am pretty tickled at Obama making such a sensible statement. Moreover the founder of the Parents Circle (bereaved families on both sides, Israelis and Palestinians) thought it was great also. (They're a Rex Foundation grantee, which is how it happens to be on my radar.)

Vibes to the MO tornado victims, that destruction is so very sad. And I agree with you about Obama's stance being refreshing. The unleashed backlash though has my mouth hanging open at the venom. ********************************** I am not enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde

Jeezum', Obama departed from the holy writ, talked about going back to the 1967 lines outlining a Palestinian state (actually referring to them as a jumping off point for negotiations) and the heavy guns circled the wagon in Washington DC. You can only take "Never Again" so far, then it becomes a cliche. If Bashar Al-Assad gets his just desserts in Syria then surely a reckoning is in store in Israel. I find Obama's comments freshening though I'm sure his handlers underestimated the Right Wing in Israeli politics. These people have way too much influence in our country -- and the best that money can buy.

The F4 or F5 twister that tore through there yesterday and more violent weather there today was a monster. If there is still anybody alive in the wreckage may they be found and treated as soon as possible!

"The devil made me do it," but the "60s made me do it." These must be the same guys who believe that one can be "cured" of homosexuality.

...for pedophile priests. This is the farce of the year. Yeah, blame the hippies and the anti-war movement, that's it. NOT!