They took the web page that details the acts of in-house sabotage of nuclear
power plants by disgruntled or disaffected employees.
http://lutins.org/nukes.html is interesting but lacks many incidents
involved direct sabotage, while others were the usual rubber-bands and
chewing-gum bandaids tech's and engineers who are in a hurry or are lazy
often use.

I too am beginning to re-think how practical nuclear power is, because of
the ability to manage technology. Most of our cultural problems are due to
mismanagement - systemic dysfunction.

Just look at Gore and Bush. Does anyone think either of these mediocre men
would have made it into or out of Harvard or Yale without their family
names? Do we want people like that running our nuclear reactors? Running our
country? Do we want doctors operating on us, and our children, because they
got a scholarship from Micro$oft because they were not 'white', and the
college wanted the money? I have heard 1/3 of the students from Ivy League
(and probably other colleges) are there because of the 'political'
influences of their families. Somehow, I don't think our ruling class elite
will ever hear "you are the weakest link".

I'm sure many mediocre "C" doctors and nuclear engineers could breathe a
sigh of relief when President Bush declared last week at Yale, where he was
getting an honorary degree, that even C students can become president.
Things are changing! And we must get rid of those pesky SAT's that unfairly
'discriminate' against those pedigree'd elite that can't compete with those
cheaters that get tutored year after year! After all Clinton proved, "Its
not what you know, or who you know, its who you blow".

Such graduates know that if you are not talented, you need to control those
who are - use politics. Politics as in degrading those you cannot compete
against. Politics as in sabotage. If you live in a house of match-sticks you
may get your way by lighting one and threatening to burn the place down.
Degrade your competitors - project a 'looser' identity with contrivances and
conspiracy, poison them morally and even physically. How often do we see our
politicians complain for no other reason than to simply be contrary. How
often do technicians and engineers sabotage projects to discredit their
managers, and how often does management recruit and employ brain-dead
apparachik, that will follow orders however ridiculous and immoral because
they have been dumbed down to the level of rusty tools?

Lets all watch more 'Survivor' on TV and play the board game too! Lets learn
the lesson our Harvard and Yale elite ruling class are teaching us - it is
easier to degrade and destroy to get our selfish way than compete - but
within the scope of the common good. What truly distinguishes America from
the old world was the ability for organizations to exploit and reward the
strengths and talents of its members. We took Europe's talented misfits and
put them to work. We still do - as long as they don't demand the respect and
pay we native Americans demand! (Of course if they did, their
indentured-servant visas would be revoked!)

If history repeats itself, Chernobyls are inevitable. Its funny how the odds
get even at the end of the day. Those that love and let go get much more
than those that grab and control.

Scott

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The mob only rules what its members are allowed to achieve.
Democrats are the anvil, Republicans the Hammer, and we -
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