Can we stop referring to the Heritage Foundation as a "THINK" tank? Thinking is a process that starts with data and ends with a conclusion. All work at Heritage STARTS with a desired conclusion, and looks for ways to massage or concoct data, and to form arguements and talking points that support said conclusion.

Never forget, friends, that the Heritage Foundation's original mission was to prove that cigarettes did not pose a health threat.

Robert Reich explains VERY CLEARLY why a profit-motivated oil company CANNOT really be responsible for the Gulf cleanup, and why the federal gov't MUST place BP America under receivership (first article under Recent Posts) -

http://robertreich.org/

Indian Point nuclear plant was discussed by Thom as a potential 9/11 target. He said it was rejected because they couldn't believe it didn't have surface to air missiles protecting it. That didn't sound right, and I googled it and couldn't find any corroborating story. Does anyone know of a source for it?

Nuclear plants are made to withstand a plane crash, by the way. Also, they don't have outdoor waste ponds, that would be coal mining operations, not nuclear. I think Thom mentioned something about nuclear plants being dangerous because they have outdoor waste of some kind, but they don't. What nuclear waste that is on-site is buried deep. I doubt that even a plane crashing into it could smash the containers.

I wish Thom would stop being against nuclear power and learn more about thorium reactors and the new fourth generation nuclear plants that are being designed, instead of bashing a power industry that could provide us with a lot of CO2-free power.

Coal plants emit more radioactivity than nuclear plants do. And they store their waste outside in unlined ponds. People need to get educated on nuclear power and start backing it instead of bashing it.

People have been borrowing money through a Peer to Peer website. You post your credit score along with how much money you want, and perspective lenders choose if they want to provide you with cash or not. The SEC is quite upset by this and wants to put a stop on it. With the SEC felling like this needs to fall below their jurisdiction mainly because it is a form of financing; they are trying to put a stop to this. On the other hand, with how many attempts that legislature has made to push out payday lending, it's no wonder that individuals have found other options to obtain financing.

My wife has a tendency to set me straight. I am a person who becomes really pissed off at all the greed and hatred that I see around me. Our parents have lived to an average age of eighty-one years. My wife keeps saying to me, "Jerry, in another ten years it won't really matter for us." What a woman and what a wife!!!

Concerns about the oil spill in the gulf.

One of my concerns is how deep the oil is. I have heard reports that the oil coming out of the well was hot. One question I ask was is the oil hot enough so that it degraded the rubber in the blow out preventer and and kept the blow out preventer from working?

Another question stems from my visit to Yosemite, a few years ago. The history of Yosemite is that Yosemite was covered with glaciers. When the ice melted, the pressure that the ice put on the ground was relieved. As a result of that, the ground started to raise, forming half dome and other features.

I wonder if the same thing is happening underneath the oil pocket in the gulf. Is the oil spilling into the gulf releasing enough pressure so that the ground underneath the oil pocket is starting to raise?

Considering the reports I have heard that the oil is hot, how thick is the solid rock underneath the oil pocket? At what point and dept does the rock start to become molten underneath the oil pocket?

Then I have my biggest concern: is the solid rock thin enough so that if it started to raise, would it crack and any molten rock be able to come into contact with the crude oil?

I also have other concerns, too. Like the plumes that are being found in the gulf.

When a volcano blows, all the lava doesn't always come out the top. Sometimes lava makes its way to the side of the volcano and comes out the side.

So, the question becomes, after the initial explosion, did oil, from the oil well, start to come out from the side of the well and go to the top of the ocean floor? Did the oil come from below the casing, or did the initial explosion rupture the casing so oil is coming from it?

I think the plumes that that have been found is coming from cracks that were cause by the explosion in the gulf.

Keeping that in mind, lot of us have heard how sonar has destroy some marine life's hearing. With the “advances” in sonar that have been made, I think we could put sonar buoys on the bottom of the ocean, then how deep the cracks are and were they originate from can be determined. We can also use thermal imaging to to see where the cracks are and how deep they are.

Then BP can use that information to drill wells along the cracks and put casing pipe in the hold and then use a valve to cut off the oil flow coming from the well.

School Vouchers

I oppose school vouchers because they are tax breaks for the rich parents and for upper middle class parents. Here is a reason. Let us say that a lower middle class parent and a poor parent are interested in sending their children to private schools in Washington, D.C. A parent has three children. The average private school costs are $7,500 per year for tuition. $7,500 times three equals $22,500. Washington, D.C. was saying that each child would receive a school voucher for $1,500 per year. You subtract $4,500 from $22,500 and the parent still has to pay $18,000. Poor parents and lower middle class parents could not pay $18,000 per year to educate their children.

Make no mistake school vouchers are to help and to give tax breaks to rich parents and to upper middle class parents!!!

Maybe we are concentrating our anger in the wrong or least constructive manner. We know that corporations only care about the bottom line and shareholders. Instead of boycotting the small business person, we get a movement going to support shareholders who divest themselves of BP stock and invest in companies who are supportive of real earth friendly technologies. Encourage union memberships to sell BP stock and get into something else. Have retirees sell their BP stock. Hit BP where it really hurts.

"If atheism is a religion, then not collecting stamps is a hobby." - Michael Lebron aka "Lionel"

Somebody must know what they are doing. A caller named Blue calls into Mike Malloy. He says that international panels are being conducted and they are saying there are solutions not being tried. That last caller though here on Thom Show was a chump for nuclear power- what rubbish, this was worse than 10 Chernobyls! We have a non profit in Grass Valley that brings those Russian kids here just to breath for the summer- still! MArk my word, the nuclear power industry is frightened right now that Americans will discover solar thermal and concentrated solar and thin film solar technology- which we have right here in SAC being developed by former BP employees, check out Bloo Solar http://www.bloosolar.com/

Woah- did someone catch that blogspot address from the caller talking about the Barnett Shale and how under the freedom of information act they learned BP was lying? I only caught tx share it?