Speakeasy forum: Having read as much as I could on Mitt Romney's positions du

and be 10 times as rich as he is now.

candidate:

"Do not go out there and compare yourself to Jack Kennedy. It never goes well.

"Don't use a tragic car accident as an example, in a debate with an opponent who lost his wife and daughter in a tragic car accident. People will think that either you don't know enough not to mention it, or that you don't care. Neither is good.

"Don't bad mouth the stimulus, if you sent your opponent two letters requesting stimulus dollars for your district. He might remember how that stimulus you called "wasteful" helped save your hometown. Worse, he could be smart enough to bring those letters with him.

"Don't talk about "privatizing" Social Security. We need Florida to win, dammit. We can't even send you down there now."

I missed the car accident moment. Ya gotta give Biden credit for not punching him in the mouth. I would have, but we all know I'm too old to care what people think.

And James, I hope he lives to be 100 too. I've always liked him, and that's saying something about a pol. And I understood his gaffes, because I have the same problem, I get 3/4 of the way through a thought, figure anybody would understand the rest, so I move on to the next thought. It's like Bridge (the card game) you get to a point and you say, and "And the rest are mine" or "It's a lay down" and put down your cards. My wife never understood that, and would make me play the most obvious hands to the very last card. She just never got it, Or family economics. Good thing neither matters when she's 3 feet up somebody's bowel removing a polyp or ink marking a section of diseased bowel for resection the next day.

Never been sued. Not once. She used to come home and cry when something went wrong, but never been sued or even discussed in weekly reviews. (And trust me on this, every endoscopist has perforated a patient's bowel at least once with the scope, requiring emergency surgical repair. Even one with the hands of a concert violinist.)

Rob

sufficiently. Yes, the old fashioned relatively low yield Uranium gun is relatively simple. But creating enough quality purified U235 is a big problem. I'd say that this is a perfect target for a neutron bomb or a couple or more MOABs. Kill off all the scientists and the technicians, and then go in and load up a couple of C-5's with whatever fissile material they have (well isolated and contained) and destroy the facility with huge amounts of explosives, or a couple more MOAB dragged inside where all the machinery is. Shame the 22,000 lb Grand Slam bomb of WW2 is unavailable, because they can penetrate very deeply both concrete and even stone, and collapse the entire complex through quasi-seismic activity (they used to be called Earthquake Bombs, because their action was by transmitting seismic waves through the ground).

You don't want to get involved in another land war, just drop in enough aircraft and soldiers to isolate the facility for the 8 or 12 hours the destruction will take. Then fly away (having called in airstrikes on all the triple A and missiles they may have dragged up), and let them mourn the loss of all that money which would have helped their people had they cared to spend it that way. I don't think Ahmendinjad would last 5 days afterwards, because Iran is a much more modern society than any other Middle Eastern country. It's only the Muslim Extremists who have taken control. Take away their seeming invulnerability, and the chickens come home to roost big time.

Now the Taliban won't like you, but they don't like you now, so where's the difference?

Rob

What would be the purpose of making weapons grade material just to look at?


For the purpose they are getting right now from the Republicans and SE?

Nya, nya, nya na na...look what we got., What do you think we will do with it?

I wish everyone earned and saved the means to support themselves adequately.

in his party. He needs to gather the support of those more extreme in order to win. This isn't a problem with Romney but with party politics. Obama has needed to shift a bit too to please the more moderate in his own party. IMO, he was elected because he was running against Bush and not McCain. Any democrat was going to win that race. Personally, I'm fed up with both parties. We have many good people out there. Even Ryan said that.