Moving closer to a bomb for Iran

To read a little background, go back to this posting: http://hard_look.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archive.html.

A news item:
"An International Atomic Energy Agency report confirmed Iran's refusal to heed Security Council demands to freeze uranium enrichment and stated that the Islamic republic has enriched about 630 kilograms of low-enriched uranium suitable for nuclear fuel. Some analysts contend that the amount is enough to upgrade into a nuclear weapon."

What is low-enriched uranium and how can you make a bomb from it?

Natural uranium is about 0.7% U-235, 99.4% U-238 and the balance U-234. It is the U-235 that is capable of sustaining a nuclear chain reaction, necessary for making a bomb. In fact, U-235 is the only naturally occurring isotope that can sustain a nuclear chain reaction. But the 0.7% content of natural uranium is loo low a concentration for making a bomb. The percentage has to be increased using a method such as a centrifuge, to a level much higher, at least 20%. The graph below shows the kilograms of uranium needed to make a chain reaction vs the amount of enrichiment. At 6 percent the amount is infinite. At 20%, 400 kg will do it. At 80 % a few kg is more than enough. Low-enriched uranium is that which is less than 20% enriched. Well on its way to bomb-grade, but not practical for making a bomb. If the Iranian LEU is 10% U-235, continued refining will give enough to make at least one bomb.

Your Government: Are you proud of America?

As of the inauguration of the new administration, all three branches of your government--the executive, legislative, and judicial--will promote the killing of unwanted unborn children. The method of killing these children is generally death by dismemberment, but sometimes it is by inducing labor, allowing the child to be born as far as the feet and torso, but then puncturing the skull from beneath and sucking the brain out.

The diagram shows how an abortionist would kill a baby girl in the process of being born. Once the abortionist punctures her skull, he opens and closes the scissors do do as much destruction of brain tissue as possible and to create a hole into which he can place a tube to suck the little girl's brains out.

Once in a while the baby is born so fast that the abortionist can't get his scissors in fast enough. If that is the case, the live little girl is denied medical treatment and left to die.

This cruelty is promoted by the U.S. Government and is often paid for by tax dollars.

Do you promote this as well?

Wrong Answer, Obama

O.K., Listen up:

"RACE" doesn't really exist. The longer we keep kidding ourselves that it does, the longer racism will exist. No race, no racism.

I learned about racism in Japan. I was discriminated against due to my race there, but the funny thing was that many Japanese discriminated against people who they considered different "races"--Koreans and Chinese--that in America would considered the same race. When I lived in Hongkong I saw the same thing: Chinese considered Japanese to be a different "race".

Clearly race is arbitrary and is clearly decided by the observer. If I decide someone is the same race as I am, they are. If enough people decide that we are all the same race, racism will cease to exist.

Obama, stop recognizing race and racism will cease. You may think I am being too idealistic, but this is the teaching of St. Paul, so if you are a Christian, you need to start thinking like this. In Christ, there is no difference between the any races or nationality: the same Lord is over all.