Here we have one of our most persistent antinukes complaining about mining?
There is NOT one antinuke who could care less how many mountains are ripped apart for mines or how many people are killed in the process. The greatest mass of mining in this country is <em>coal</em> mining by far. Antinukes couldn't care less about coal.
The antinuke industry is so weak minded that it is left with "guilt by association" bad reasoning.
This is hardly new, but it is the height of hypocrisy for an anti-nuke to complain about mining when the anti-nuke industry is responsible for so much mining. In particular the fossil fuel shill Gerhard Schroeder who destroyed his country's nuclear infrastructure for 300,000 pieces of silver per year, is going to cause
South Africa to be ripped apart with mines in order to serve the new German coal plants. This act of pure vandalism is the
direct responsibility of the anti-nuke industry. Is it "guilt by association" to mention the Gazprom owned Schroeder. No, I am not criticizing Schroeder's gas shilling because he was crawling under a toilet divider. I am criticizing him for his actions on energy, which will lead to loss of lives.
Eleanor Roosevelt - for my money the greatest Democrat of all time, no demagogue - wrote thusly:
A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_RooseveltMrs. Roosevelt, who knew far more about Democratic values than you do, touches on an important point.
I didn't know much about Senator Craig until this matter of his arrest came up. Frankly, what happened to him troubles me, because it is clear that if his "crime" had been heterosexual rather than homosexual, the world probably couldn't have cared less, just as anti-nukes couldn't care less about the damage done by coal but scream loudly at every little blip involving nuclear energy. If it is true that Senator Craig was a friend to nuclear energy, then this was the "good" in him that Mrs. Roosevelt taught us to expect from <em>all</em> people. It means that he was not
absolutely bad.
If Senator Craig came out against dog fighting, that would not make dog fighting good.
Mrs. Roosevelt was a mature thinker. It's not the kind of thing I'd expect you to appreciate.