Let's pretend I visit your house. You offer me food and rest. I decide to stay.Then, I order you and your family around, use your things and rearrange the rooms. I take down your photos and religious symbols, replace them with my own and make you speak my language.One day, I dig up your garden and replace it with crops that I can sell. You and your family must now buy all of your food from me.Later, I invite my father and his buddies over. They bring guns. We take your keys. I forge a deed and declare my father to be the owner of your house. I bring more people. Some work for me. Some pay me to stay in your house. I seize your savings and spend it on my friends. You and your family now sleep on the porch.Finally you protest. Being reasonable, I let you stay in a corner of the house and give you a small allowance, but only if you behave. I tell you, "Sorry, I was wrong for taking the house." But when you demand your house back, I tell you to be realistic."You are part of this family now, whether you like it or not," I say. "Besides, this is for your own good. For all that I have done for you, why aren't you grateful?"
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  • Just wanted to share the latest,

    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
    NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
    ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD
    Before Administrative Judges:
    E. Roy Hawkens, Chairman
    Dr. Anthony J. Baratta
    Dr. Michael F. Kennedy
    In the Matter of
    U.S. ARMY INSTALLATION COMMAND
    (Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii, and
    Pohakuloa Training Area, Island of Hawaii,
    Hawaii)
    Docket No. 40-9083
    ASLBP No. 10-895-01-ML-BD01
    December 3, 2009
    NOTICE OF CONFERENCE CALL
    (Conference Call to Discuss Matters Relating to Convening Oral Argument)
    On Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 1:00 PM, ET, this Board will hold a conference call
    regarding hearing requests received in this proceeding, which involves the application of the
    U.S. Army Installation Command for a Source Material License to possess depleted uranium at
    two sites in Hawaii. The purpose of the call is to discuss matters relating to convening oral
    argument on standing and contention admissibility issues either by videoconference or in Hawaii
    in early January. The call is expected to last about 60 minutes.
    On or before 5:00 PM on December 4, 2009, participants1 should email the Board’s law
    clerk, Katie Tucker at katie.tucker@nrc.gov, to obtain the telephone number and pass code for
    the December 8, 2009 teleconference. The Board asks that all participants call into the
    teleconference a few minutes before the conference is scheduled to begin so that it commences
    promptly.
    1 The participants in this conference call will be Cory Harden, Jim Albertini, Isaac Harp, Luwella
    Leonardi, Barbara Moore, the U.S. Army, and the NRC Staff. Members of the public who wish
    to listen to this conference call may do so, and should contact Ms. Tucker at the above email
    address for the requisite information.
    - 2 -
    The conference call will be transcribed and posted in the hearing docket.
    It is so ORDERED.
    FOR THE ATOMIC SAFETY
    AND LICENSING BOARD2
    E. Roy Hawkens, Chairman
    ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE
    Rockville, Maryland
    December 3, 2009
    2
  • That's the best reason ever. EO Pomai!
  • As for the Dog House, they repaced that with a Swimming Pool, o Pomai
  • This is why on January 17, 1993 I renounced my citizenship to the United States and went home to my country, the Hawaiian Kingdom. Imua Ke Aupuni Moi O Hawaii Nei, o Pomai
  • You forgot the part where you bring in "others" to do your dirty work...and they take the rest of the rooms of the house, leaving you in the dog hous.
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