We could simply say that they had the realistic foresight to build a government that is merely able to change with society
Which they did but this was not the way to to change the government that they had enshrined in the highest law of the land. The constitution states what rights are reserved tot he federal government of which marriage is not one of them so it was left up to the states. This would simply mean that each state could have its own laws regarding marriage and could define it any way it wanted. What muddies this issue is the full faith and credit clause which means states would have to honor marriages (and any number of other things) from other states, unless regulated by congress. So back with President Clinton the DOMA was passed by congress regulating interstate recognition of marriage, which is one of the powers granted to congress to do. I dislike this ruling, even though I feel it was the morally correct one, because it does smell of activism by the judiciary. The proper way to handle this would have been to:
repeal the federal DOMA
modify the constitution to add sexual preference as something that cannon be discriminated on
or do what my state did and have the state legislature vote to approve homosexual marriage
All of these would have been constitutional and were how the framers envisioned changing our government. The way this came down I expect it to become a huge wedge issue (more so than before) like abortion and to be something that gets rehashed many times over also like abortion.
The NSA is an offensive organization
You could have just stopped there.
Also consider the emissions associated with uranium mining, purification
Well that is a steaming pile of BS. Having been to large ore mines, iron not uranium but probably not much different equipment wise, the haul truck, shovels, and conveyor belts could all easily run off of electricity. The big shovels are all electrical internally but usually have a large stationary 2 stroke diesel engine nearby providing the power so this is just a change of power source. Most of the large haul trucks while diesel are all electric drive with the engine being a large generator and there have been tests with providing them with electricity from overhead lines as well. The conveyors that I have seen all are already electrically driven so no change is needed there.
Once the ore is delivered to the processing plant it is crushed by some huge rock crushers (electrically driven), fed into some ball mills (electrically driven) and this seems to be also required for uranium processing as well. After this the processing of iron ore and uranium ore diverge but from my understanding uranium ore becomes more dependent on electricity any way with the running of centrifuges and chemicals.
To sum up I don't think all of those huge electric motors that make this whole process possible really care where their electrons come from.
famed mostly for talking out of his ass and raising taxes
So you're saying he is a politician and a democrat .
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