Fred Thompson's Physics Masterclass

[realthog]

"I hope that they are accurate with this assessment [the NIE re Iran's nuclear program], but right now, I don't have the confidence in our own intelligence capabilities to make that assessment[.] . . . Nowadays they can have a peaceful nuclear program and it's very, very easy once they get to that level to turn a screw or two and make it into a weapons program. It's a thin line," Thompson said.

In full at: http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071204/APP/712040854&template=apart

Comments

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the yellowcake thing and its fallout (if you will) was a national disgrace. I was disgusted with the Valerie Plame business; rule one of running a country: you do not out serving intelligence officers to discredit their husbands.

You're right about Campbell. Love him or hate him, he was a properly, fully-evolved political animal. Compared to him, Bush and Cheney and their lackeys are Little-Leaguers. We may not see his like again.

And I don't think there's anyone who takes Michael Crichton seriously as a climatologist. Oh, please god tell me there isn't...

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"And I don't think there's anyone who takes Michael Crichton seriously as a climatologist."

(1) Il Buce himself, Our Glorious Leader, who called him to the White House to consult him on global warming.

(2) Therefore, the (then) GOP-dominated Houses of Congress, including Environmental Issues Senate Chairman James Inhofe, a man whose rear you cannot kick without risk of breaking his neck.

(3) Therefore, your distinguished journalistic colleagues at FOX News.

(4) Therefore, large sections of the US public.

Did I remember to post your journalistic colleague Michael Savage's supposedly science-based description of the Nobel Committee (which one?) as "90% socialist perverts". I must go and check . . .

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

1) Oh no, please God tell me it's not true.
3) They are not my colleagues except in the loosest possible sense and I wish you'd stop spreading the entirely spurious rumour that I work for Big Rupe.

I'm a journalist, I'm not responsible for these people...

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"(1) Oh no, please God tell me it's not true."

Sorry, but, er . . .

[hutch0.livejournal.com]

*puts head in hands*