Snowstorm headed for Wisconsin; Snowy winter leads to jump in snowmobile deaths; Report says Army bomb parts could have been recycled; more briefs
March 4, 2013 at 2:51 am in RiverTowns.net
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For the third week in a row, a major snowstorm is brewing to the west of us, and it’s heading right toward Wisconsin. Wisconsin snowmobile deaths are at their highest in three years. The U.S. Army could have recycled its scraps of secret bombs in the 1950′s instead of dumping them in Lake Superior.
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“The Duluth News-Tribune said the cleanup would not have been necessary had the Army taken the advice of the Honeywell Corporation. It suggested a $1,300 machine to crush the bomb parts and then recycle them.
Instead, the Army put the top-secret materials into 55-gallon drums and buried them in Lake Superior. U.S. officials apparently did not want enemy forces to learn anything about the weapons so they were dumped during the height of the Cold War.”
Typical government operation. Take a cost-effective measure (buy a $1300 machine), pay for secure labor to crush weapons (likely making them unrecognizable), sell the crush to a recycler (depending on recycle price at the time, maybe at a net return to labor) to be turned into new steel. Instead, spend lots of money to ship, dump and decades later pay to recover material so then it can be sent to recycler.
And you Dems/progressives don’t see any possible commonalities between this operation and Obamacare? (Hint: government employees don’t have to worry about future consequences…they will never be held responsible for their short-sighted, dumb ideas.) Bet you haven’t read /heard this latest problem with National Health Service in Great Britian: 1,000+ people starving to dealth in NHS hospitals over the last 4 years due to a lack of staffing. * Bring on Obamacare, absolutely nothing can go wrong with government in charge!! Even Donna Brazille (Dem Party big shot/commentator) is whining about her increase in health insurance premiums brought about by new Obamacare regulations…dah. **
* dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287332/Nearly-1-200-people-starved-death-NHS-hospitals-nurses-busy-feed-patients.html
** ihatethemedia.com/donna-brazille-tweets-why-did-my-health-care-premiums-go-up
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Hows the John Doe investigation going Alice?…been in Florida for awhile. Any recalls coming up?
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What’s the reason for misrepresentation of a statement, like Obama routinely does? Do you want to apologize for misrepresenting what I said?
gs said: “(Hint: government employees don’t have to worry about future consequences…they will never be held responsible for their short-sighted, dumb ideas.) ”
AR misrepresentation of what I said: “So…Democrats and government employees don’t have to worry about future consequences…they will never be held responsible for their short-sighted, dumb ideas”
My point is a private company is held liable for dumb (or ignorant) decisions decades after the fact. Take for example, the state of MN sueing 3M over PFC disposal. The people/persons responsible for those decisions are likely no longer working for 3M, but the corporation, present employees and even future employees are being penalized. That penalty ultimately affects 3M stock price and any pension plans holding the stock.
Who exactly gets sued for some foolish decision to dump bomb parts into an international body of water? Those parts and drums were not free of contaminents, and any pollution found in the area of the drums will be expensive to clean up. When some government employee (or elected official) makes a poor decision, who pays? Certainly not the people/persons who ignored Honeywell’s recommendation.
“John Stuart Mill’s classic essay “On Liberty” gives reasons why some people should not be taking over other people’s decisions about their own lives. But Professor Cass Sunstein of Harvard has given reasons to the contrary. He cites research showing “that people make a lot of mistakes, and that those mistakes can prove extremely damaging.”
Professor Sunstein is undoubtedly correct that “people make a lot of mistakes.” Most of us can look back over our own lives and see many mistakes, including some that were very damaging.
What Cass Sunstein does not tell us is what sort of creatures, other than people, are going to override our mistaken decisions for us. That is the key flaw in the theory and agenda of the left.
Implicit in the wide range of efforts on the left to get government to take over more of our decisions for us is the assumption that there is some superior class of people who are either wiser or nobler than the rest of us.
Yes, we all make mistakes. But do governments not make bigger and more catastrophic mistakes? …
One of the key differences between mistakes that we make in our own lives and mistakes made by governments is that bad consequences force us to correct our own mistakes. But government officials cannot admit to making a mistake without jeopardizing their whole careers…”
Read more: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/26/shepherds_and_sheep_117152.html#ixzz2MhTaQGAD
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Alice do you work for MSNBC? You parse words and spin things like that guy Maddow does on MSNBC.
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Your attempt at humor does little to mask the depth of your insincerity. I feel sorry for people who need to lie because, IMO, it is a hallmark of shallow character.
Since no job application I’ve ever filled out asks for political persuation, and therefore I have no way of knowing if a government employee is D or R or I or L or G, why don’t you respond to my statement instead of twisting it?
Or is it possible you have no argument against my opinion that government employees make decisions with little worry about future consequences?
Or are you in a snit because the John Doe investigation started 3 years ago after then-Milwaukee Co Exec Walker notified the DA of possible illegal activity in his office found NOTHING against now Gov. Walker and has been ended?
Or is your snit the result of Pres Obama looking more like a fool every day…blaming his big idea, the Sequestor budget cuts, for the need to end public White House tours? His numerous golf outings (like the Feb, 2013, 3-day Florida golf outing with Tiger Woods) are definately higher priority than allowing the common people to tour THEIR house.
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So you’re all about guilt by association then right? What do they have directly on Walker? Just curious. Any recalls I should know about coming up? Where is your next protest?
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