A president of very little brain

[teamonkey]

Read it and weep. Literally. The prat's going to kill us all.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington ... usat_x.htm

[Cain]

"But Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., said the ban means scientists cannot even start developing new weapons.

"With many of the new and emerging threats in the world, we cannot afford to be ill-prepared," he said."

yes, because everybody knows how poorly stocked America's arsenal is.

how can you have a "low yield" nuclear weapon?

especially since one of the other plans in the pipe line is "The nuclear bunker-buster ... six times more powerful than the bomb U.S. forces dropped on Hiroshima in 1945."

very low yield

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Can't talk now honey-cakes, i'm on Nude-Patrol

[Guided By Vices]

[s]teamonkey wrote on 11:03, 22nd May 2003:
Read it and weep. Literally. The prat's going to kill us all.


'Prat' sounds a bit weak. May I suggest 'fuckwit'? Hmm, still too weak.

[Pin Cushion Queen]

I always had the impression that russia and the us were slowly reducing the size of their respective nuclear arsenals. I guess we need more, it's not like we've got enough to blow the entire world up yet.

Fuckwit. Everyone repeat the mantra. "he can't last more than 5 years, he can't last more than 5 years..."

[Cain]

[s]Pin Cushion Queen wrote on 11:18, 22nd May 2003:
"he can't last more than 5 years, he can't last more than 5 years..."


what about us though? how long will we last?

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[teamonkey]

[s]Pin Cushion Queen wrote on 11:18, 22nd May 2003:
Fuckwit. Everyone repeat the mantra. "he can't last more than 5 years, he can't last more than 5 years..."


Oh but he can. He's very popular amongst the rednecks. He's certainly going up for election again.

[Cain]

[s]teamonkey wrote on 13:48, 22nd May 2003:
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Oh but he can. He's very popular amongst the rednecks. He's certainly going up for election again.
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but, he can't. you can only serve two terms in office. he was elected in 2000, so this time next year he'll be campaigning for re-election. (maybe that's why he needs low yield nuclear weapons), then he'll be returned for another four year term. after that, he's out, whether he brings about world peace or destroys russia and all of asia.

it's the constitution.

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[Pin Cushion Queen]

yep, that's what i meant. He can't last more than 8 years, and he's already done 3(?).

[Sleigh]

I think if it's low yield it means there's a big bang as per usual but then the background radiation dies off fairly quickly. This stops nuclear bombs from being too dangerous.

[Marco Biagi]

No, if it's low-yield, it means it's not as big a bang. Relatively speaking. In nuclear weapons terms that means anything under 100 kilotons equivalent of TNT. You don't need a 14-18 year old chemistry set to know that that is still a bloody awful lot of bang.

What you're thinking of is a neutron bomb (illegal under international law, methinks), which converts most of the energy into radiation, hence wiping out people, but leaving lots of lovely equipment and buildings there to be plundered. Lovely.

Whoever said mankind wasn't creative?

[Pin Cushion Queen]

http://www.dancingbush.com/

Bushisms:

''I had no idea we had so many weapons, ...what do we need them for?'' — George W. Bush, stunned when told the extent of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, Newsweek, June 25, 2001

"It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." — George W. Bush, June 14, 2001. Speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.

[exexpatriot]

and people wonder why i am leaving the US for Scotland next year....

(don't think that america's nimwit pres. is the only reason why i despise the US and am leaving with a one-way plane ticket, but i have to say it helped make the decision easier)

[Al]

Time, I think, to once again dig out the following:

MAKE THE PIE HIGHER
by George W. Bush

I think we all agree, the past is over.

This is still a dangerous world.
It's a world of madmen and uncertainty
and potential mental losses.

Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the internet
become more few?

How many hands have I shaked?

They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.

I know that the human being
and the fish can coexist.

Families is where our nation finds hope,
where our wings take dream.

Put food on your family!

Knock down the tollbooth!

Vulcanize Society!

Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!

Sheer brilliance!!!!!

[hr]Rompiendo la monotonia del tiempo

[loveridge]

When reading this article, the words, "oh shit" come to mind.

Is it me or is Bush opening a Pandora's Box here.

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[cberry]

The move to not renew the ten-year ban on research and development, which still needs to be passed through the House, was a move to allow scientists and military experts to do what they do best, research. The Senate said in a statement that it had, "authorized a provision to repeal the ban on research and development of low yield nuclear weapons," and stated that nothing in the repeal shall be construed as "authorizing the testing, acquisition or deployment of a low-yield nuclear weapon." Allowing scientists to research the area freely is the only way we can see if these weapons have a place on modern battlefields. The US military and contracted scientists regularly research scores of programs, many much more destructive than this, this program recieves attention only because it involves nuclear power. I would rather have military scientists staying on the cutting edge of all fields of technology rather than some rogue nation who would actually use the weapons. Additionally, the US has had these low yield weapons such as nuclear artillery shells for decades and has never used them, so there is no worry that the militaries policy will suddenly change.

As for the cheap shots on Bush and the doomsday predictions, very creative.

[Pin Cushion Queen]

Did anyone see the Panorama report on the neo-conservative hawks in Washington? Scary stuff. They had a list of about 10 countries that they felt were evil and needed taking out.

[David Bean]

Chris! Good to see you've grasped the mantle of Sinner-baiting with both hands. Well done to you; I do hope we'll be seeing more of this.

The ghost of S will not rest in peace