Even if National Research Council scientists and ADEM believed incineration safe mechanically under ideal operating conditions, the facts in the history of the Army’s management of chemical weapons incineration indicates anything but a record of safety. The facts regarding the normal incineration process indicate, too, the continuous release of poisons during daily operations and potential deadly releases during upset conditions. Therefore, incineration in not a safe technology even under ideal circumstances and the can-do mentality of Army brass is clearly not one to be running an incinerator.
Two Republican senators from Kentucky and Colorado have, therefore, strongly opposed Army management even for their neutralization sites. Of course, these senators’ leadership has provided first-class citizenship (i.e., contained, safer, faster neutralization) for their states, unlike most of Alabama’s “leaders” who pretend kowtow to the powers that be.
Gene Blanton
Jacksonville
Power play
I recently read where Alabama Power is increasing amounts of service establishment, reconnect services and bounced check fees. The increases include jumps from $3 to $40 to establish service and from $10 to $50 to reconnect service during business hours. Bounced check fees will be $20 now instead of $17. First off I have to say this is just downright ridiculous. I can agree with the bounced check fee being increased. But they are increasing reconnect fees to $50. If people can barely afford to keep it on and it gets cut off, what makes Alabama Power think that their customers, that have the power cut off, can afford the $50 fee. If people want to move they have to pay an extra $37? That is just insane.
What, are these guys not making enough money in their sales department and now they have to compensate by raising prices to people that are paying for their junk in the first place?
It isn’t like Alabamians have a choice on where they can get their power from, and that is just too bad. I assure you that I would choose the “other guys”!
Melissa Hunter
Jacksonville
Lump of coal for fire
And now to that which should not be a matter of indifference to anyone, a situation which everyone has noticed — well, everyone of adult age who isn’t dead or of a bovine mentality!I speak of laws and anti-social constructions which rob wage earners in order to fatten the leeches of society. Has no person of intellect, character, and education attained high offices in this land for at least a half century? Who among us is shabby enough to punish the innocent for the imprudent actions of the guilty to the fourth or any other generation?
Time to concentrate our cognitions, unleash our indignation, render a suitable verdict, and press our elected poltroons, under threat of impeachment, to pronounce an end to the infamy, and end to the promiscuous abuse by which a person of particular reputation gains an instant promotion from “flossy” to “with child,” who never marrying or working for wages is supported in idleness by choice with free food, housing, health care, free and/or subsidized utilities, public transportation and monies — allowed to avoid the risks, contingencies, and perils hanging over millions of married wage-earning families idle by circumstance as one calamity after another fills their nights with trouble thoughts instead of the peace and blessing of a restful sleep due to job and health care loss, not knowing where or how to obtain the necessities of life for family.
Irresponsible propagation, an offense not necessary to be prohibited by law, whereby those having no natural qualities such as intellect, ambition, self-control, who are obese, slothful, resentful, rating reason and especially the steady application of it, have made a career in attaining social security, and whose progeny are producing a steady income for jailers, prison guards, educators in the tutoring business, psychologists, and sellers of bonds to finance public education.
Jesse L. Warmack
Piedmont
