[Corsair]

http://slate.msn.com/id/2099425

I hope to god that this is exaggeration. I mean, what's the point? What's the use of having the ability to destroy the world 500 times over when we can already do it 400 times?

Note the "Vote for John Kerry" ad in the middle of the article.

[an0n]

Well he's already spent several dozens of billions of dollars on a war to avenge less people (3,000) than die every year from gun-crime in America (11,000), so what's a few billion on nukes?

[adwight]

You have a good point there Anon, We(America) don't look at our internal problems very much that we have within our own country.

[an0n]

Methinks that's the point of all these short, victorious wars.

[Bobboau]

even from a strictly machiavellian point of veiw this is unnecisary.
a few billion to make sure they still work I could undestand, is this acurate?
we don't need new ones, that could got to new stealth bombers or something somewhat useful.

[redmenace]

This might include developement of the e-bomb. you know anti electronic bomb.

[Bobboau]

well that would be usefull

[mikhael]

Originally posted by an0n
Methinks that's the point of all these short, victorious wars.

The smartest thing you have ever said, bar none.

[an0n]

It's also one of the more obvious.

[mikhael]

Not, unfortunately, obvious enough for voting public of the United States.

Its bizarre: we can have the whole thing shoved in our face day in and day out and still not actually absorb any of it and act upon it.

[an0n]

That's because the masses don't care about politics.

As long as there's food on the table and gates to hold back the barbarians, they're happy.

Nothing ever changes....

[Rictor]

And don't forget the TV, the people wouldn't survive a day without an 8-hour escape from reality...into someone else's. I might be developing a Sideshow Bob complex, but I'de gladly rid the world of it, for a few decades at least.

[an0n]

TV was fine until the invention of the 'romantic sit-com' and 'reality TV'.

Endemol destroyed what little educational value television had left when it unleashed Big Brother.

And whose fault is Endemol? That's right, the Dutch.

[Nico]

Originally posted by an0n
As long as there's food on the table and gates to hold back the barbarians, they're happy.

With all the money wasted in things like that, it's a wonder you still have food on your table...
I'm curious, how is the annual budget balance for the US gvt? How much debt?

[Tiara]

Originally posted by an0n
And whose fault is Endemol? That's right, the Dutch.

Teehee... Our brainwashing plan is coming along quite nicely

No really, in America, that kind of shows are the only ones that are actually going to be a hit The few who still want intelligent programs are far outnumbered so the producers won't even look in their direction.

Unlike here. Here we still have nice shows. But they tried to bring some of them to the US as well and it failed miserably. I think that most Americans don't even want intelligent TV programming.

[Ghostavo]

TV is opium for the masses...

[kasperl]

Tiara: They want to bring Kopspijkers to the States.

an0n: Yeah, guilty as charged.

Mikhael: Look at the **** our elections brought us. Not once, but friggin twice after the first attempt failed in what, 3 months?

[Janos]

Hehe, to an non-American this looks really, really ridiculous. Original anti-nuclear treaties were designed that way that no new countries could develop their own weaponry and those countries who already had it were supposed to minimalize their own weaponries.

Now current US administration goes "omg nukes!" and proceeds to throw a rather secular oil country into turmoil, while increasing his stockpile. Also, WTF is it with the small tactical warheads? Dumbass.

[Tiara]

Originally posted by kasperl
Tiara: They want to bring Kopspijkers to the States.

I know, but they have to tone it down so much it isn't even funny. No more jokes about the government, no more of almost anhything that makes the show what it is.

an0n: Yeah, guilty as charged.

Yes, and soon we will bring legalized crack into the States and take over the brainwashed stoners

Mikhael: Look at the **** our elections brought us. Not once, but friggin twice after the first attempt failed in what, 3 months?

Heh, *nods*. This was an awesome topic for Kopspijkers btw It cracked me up how they ridiculed our government's policy And sadly, I agreed with most of it.

[Tiara]

On topic:

Paine's report cites other startlers that have eluded all notice outside the cognoscenti. For instance, the Energy Department is building a massive $4 billion-$6 billion proton accelerator in order to produce more tritium, the heavy hydrogen isotope that boosts the explosive yield of a nuclear weapon.

And they wonder why the US government has such a large deficit...

But then again, I didn't expect anything less from, B*sh &Co. "The rest of the world can't have any nukes but we can have enough to carpet bomb the entire friggin' planet."