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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Pentecostal scary? Not really, not at all scary compared to a presidential candidate who was "saved" by and indoctrinated by the disgusting Rev Jerimiah Wright. BO sat in Wright's church and let that man preach hate, black separatism, retribution to "whitey" and God knows what other horrors to him and his children. Certainly he must have heard in over 20 years!
And then he has the nerve to say he "never heard this in the church" that Wright was "incendiary" but he would not repudiate him, not leave the church. Time moved on and when it became clear he had indeed heard it, had obviously embraced it -- he did attend every week -- he did a 180 and threw Wright under the bus. Obviously the right thing to do to that hatemonger - too bad we couldn't throw him from the planet of humanity too.
But BO did this only to appease the public, to secure votes, a slimy reversal of "values" all to attempt to get his messiah mission accomplished. He pushed Wright into "retirement" and then made a big show of dropping out of his church -- the same church he indignantly defended a week before claiming there was no real problem there.
And don't get me started on BO's fascination with the "ideals" of Farrakhan and others of his disgusting ilk. If we are to ever have a UNITED States, where people will work together and be for each other, based on character and NOT on the color of the skin, well, we won't be doing it based on the hateful agendas of "leaders" like these. BO's lockstep march on this path of garbage is a very big reason why he cannot ever reach his messiah goal - why on earth would any sane person who was not a racist support this kind of person?
So as to this author's concern about Sarah Palin's born again Pentecostal Catholic background -- it sounds pretty damned mild and tame in comparison.
Godot,
While you haven't replied, I think I've found a better method to educate you on how nuclear warheads work. There are a number of terms used to describe failed detonations. Words like fizzle.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=kims-big-fizzle
Plutonium weapons have several ways of misfiring. The first depends on the triggering of the plutonium by an implosion process. The implosion must be extremely symmetrical to be fully successful. Typically a combination of fast and slow conventional explosives surrounds a sphere of plutonium (the "core" or "pit"). Engineers must carefully machine all the pieces that make up this explosive shell into shapes that, when detonated simultaneously, produce a precisely spherical shock wave that compresses the plutonium to two to five times its normal density (the more compression, the greater the explosive yield). At the higher density, what was a subcritical mass of plutonium becomes supercritical--that is, one in which a sustained chain reaction takes place, producing the blast.
If the shock wave fails to be completely symmetrical--for example, if a detonator goes off 100 nanoseconds later than the rest--the compression will be less efficient because the core will tend to squirt out in the directions where the shock wave is weaker or arrives late. Another potential troublemaker is the initiator, a small device at the center of the core that emits a burst of neutrons to start the chain reaction reliably at a precise stage of the implosion. An initiator going off early or late--or not at all--reduces the yield.
This is written by a layperson, but the basics are correct.
http://www.milnet.com/nukbang.htm
Placing two pieces of subcritical mass together will generate heat and deadly radiation. However this will not create a nuclear explosion and unless your are using your hands to put the sub-critical masses together, the danger is minimal.
What is necessary for a nuclear detonation is to simultaneously (we are talking VERY simultaneously...nuclear triggers are devices which make the events occur within fractions of a second akin to computer speeds) compress sub critical pieces together in just the right configuration. We are trying to lodge loose neutrons which in turn bump other neutrons, and so on, creating the chain reaction. Dropping two pieces of critical mass from the top of a ten story building will not make this work. The pieces must be brought together in a certain form, then a huge compression of the entire mass must take place very quickly after that.
A large mass will generate heat, and this heat will eventually create an explosion, but it's not a nuclear blast, it's order of magnitude less powerful and the fundamentals are very different.
You sir, are correct. My apologies for clogging bandwidth with useless BS.
Point taken.
No one is waiting for this Godot...
Interesting. Godot told me about this.
We've just finished reading the relevant submissions and were sadly unsurprised to see how little support our good friend Godot, arguing against neoconservatives, got from other liberals, even though Godot was obviously in the right. To the contrary, liberals like yourself actually sided with the neoconservatives, and for all the wrong reasons.
Unfortunate, but it's happened to me also. Englishmen like myself, Canadians like Godot, and many others have noticed that American liberals really do not know who their friends are. Your progressives in general are aware they have severe problems but can't see past their own egos. Nader himself is simply notorious but it's not just him.
Democratic party operatives and various progressives have been told over the last few months, one by one, not to expect any more financial support from our groups, including U.S. groups. You've already lost to the neoconservatives again so it's a waste of good money. We can no longer help you fight your battles because you really don't seem to want it. Godot is right, but it's been people like you who convinced the rest of us. It's so sad you are so many. Greenwald should mention something about that.
Have a nice day. And have a really nice four more years. Much too short a time to keep you waiting for Godot.
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