Some fungus is getting a few of the Lithocarpus and Quercus around here.
It seems to be hitting like a new/exotic thing.

You may have done the right thing for the wrong reason, but apology accepted.

When you're surrounded by nails, and standing around holding a hammer, people will wonder why you're not hammering. As long as you're not Jewish. In that case they'll try to convince you that you're surrounded by petunias and daffodils.

The problem seems to be that every time Palestine gets some degree of freedom, it results in more rockets and shells falling on Israel. Not exactly an encouraging trend if you're considering giving them more freedom.

It might also help if the government of Palestine didn't have "destroy those Jews over there whom we won't even call Israel because we don't recognize the existence of such a state" as a major part of it's official policy.

You really have to be a complete fucking idiot to say something that ignorant. Yeah, Israel wants the "inferiors" gone so badly that they let them immigrate, give them citizenship, and let them hold elected office. They provide them with more rights in Israel than they would enjoy in Muslim-run countries. Meanwhile they continue to endure constant attacks while providing electricity, fuel, food, and medical help for the population which is attacking them.

Seriously, you're either mentally handicapped or you're intentionally lying. There's no halfway point here.

If you're basing foreign policy on things you learned from your mother, you're doing it wrong.

Yes, it absolutely does. Israel makes every reasonable effort to avoid hitting civilians, but when Hamas encourages people to sit on top of known targets it's completely fucking impossible to avoid killing them. The South Park Movie has a satirical bit where the US Military uses a tactic called "Operation Hide Behind The Darkies", which involves having their white soldiers hide behind all the black troops. They also tie black soldiers to their tanks and airplanes. Humorous at the time, but that's essentially what Hamas is now doing in Palestine, except with women and children.

"You can't blow up our rocket launcher, look at all the kids we duct-taped to it!"

And people like you just lap it up.

Oh noes. Teh hydrogen blowded up. Quelle horreur. We better go back to using oil and natural gas.

Oh ... wait ...

You haven't demonstrated a disparity. Assault is assault regardless of whether some guy thinks it should be taken seriously or not.

Why?

Yep! Which is why I know that you're full of shit.

Then again, the fact that you used the words "nuclear apologists" in the very first sentence of your very first comment was also a dead giveaway; after that, even someone who isn't intimately familiar with those incidents would still know you're full of shit. You realize you're on Slashdot, right? Not NaturalNews?

Something tells me you have no clue what "nuclear reactor" means. Hint: There is no "Boom!" in a reactor failure.

Really we should have NASA do what it is good at.

Going over budget?

Much more lucrative than the less organized organized-crime.

Ho-hum; it's apples and oranges though; when you control the game, you're quids-in.

if the 400 million is really the only overrun that's an astonishing record for the federal goverment

The 400 million is the funding they'll need to accurately calculate the overrun.

All the hot air would destroy the near-vacuum in space?