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  • Surviving the Rip Tides

    “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell “Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It… Continue reading

  • Fukushima Radioactivity Release Estimates Pt. 1

    Further information concerning the truth in the Fukushima accident. You can’t be distracted by the noise of misinformation. – James Daly http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13678627 Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (Nisa) now says 770,000 terabecquerels escaped into the atmosphere following the 11 March disaster – more than double its earlier estimate of 370,000 terabecquerels. Although the amount… Continue reading

  • BBC News – German nuclear review throws up new problems

    Simple mathematics. P = (N + F + W + S) + I Where: P = power consumption. N = nuclear generated power. F = fossil fuel generated power. W = wind generated power. S = solar generated power. I = “imported” power. And this power’s source is an unknown, but probably cheapest possible. If… Continue reading

  • Nuclear Energy Institute – Information on the Japan Earthquake and Reactors in That Region

    Hello folks. I have been wondering what the state of the Fukushima reactors is, and since the ADD afflicted American media has completely forgotten that there is even an island State named Japan I thought I’d try to find an update. I have noticed though that the concern for our safety due to release of… Continue reading

  • Submariner’s Prayer

    http://www.gashbag.com/submarinersprayer.htm In the beginning there was a word; and the word was God.  All else was darkness and void without form. So God created the heavens and the earth. He created the sun and the moon and the stars, so that light may pierce the darkness.  The earth, God divided between the land and the… Continue reading

  • BBC News – Christmas Island shipwreck inquest opens

    BBC News – Christmas Island shipwreck inquest opens. An Australian inquest into the Christmas Island shipwreck has heard how the captain abandoned the boat a day before the tragedy. The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind. Anyone who has read Lord Jim by Joseph… Continue reading

  • Adios OBL

    “It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man’s character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible. “- Mark Twain “To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.” – Samuel Butler “Boy, when… Continue reading

  • BBC News – ‘100 missing’ as DR Congo boat capsizes

    BBC News – ‘100 missing’ as DR Congo boat capsizes. When I was a boy we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner. – Lyndon B. Johnson “Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the… Continue reading

  • A Real Deal Explanation of the Japanese Nuclear Disaster

    The utter devastation that has been visited on Japan is heart-rending. I fear the death toll will do nothing but rise for the next few weeks. My mind boggles at the damage that is slowly being revealed. I am doing the only thing that I know to do, and that is to donate to the… Continue reading

  • Righteousness in the name…

    Speaking in the King Hussein Mosque in Amman, he argued that religion was a force for good, but its “manipulation” caused divisions and even violence. – Benedict XVI “I think it’s perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don’t know everything, and there may well be a… Continue reading

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