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As Americans Argue Over Which Bathroom to Use, 3 Nuclear Disasters are Unfolding Inside the US
Freedom Outpost ^ | 4/30/2016 | Matt Agorist

Posted on 05/01/2016 4:57:36 AM PDT by HomerBohn

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Pumping nonsense and distraction in the media has certainly kept our focus from subjects like this and keeps the campaign rhetoric off this and other important subjects as well.

This being said, allowing wierdos access to bathrooms is patently ridiculous and the states shouldn't have to say anything. Companies and organizations that clamber to crawl aboard the pervert bandwagon should be boycotted and put out of business! They're anti-decency and anti-family.

1 posted on 05/01/2016 4:57:36 AM PDT by HomerBohn
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To: HomerBohn

Unfortunately, the author’s choice to lead off with the bathroom cocundrum will guarantee that the rest will be ignored, especially here. Although pointig out dangerous situations involving nuclear power is probably enough to do that anyway.


2 posted on 05/01/2016 5:06:03 AM PDT by Wolfie
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Hoping that should Trump become POTUS, efforts will be drawn AWAY from the politically correct bullshit we’ve been bombarded with and directed at things that count.


3 posted on 05/01/2016 5:10:22 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: HomerBohn

The nation will recover from three nuclear disasters sooner than it will recover from the active promotion and sufferance of sexual perversion.


4 posted on 05/01/2016 5:16:51 AM PDT by Agnes Heep ('I sold myself,' said Mr. Bumble ... 'for six teaspoons, a pair of sugar-tongs, and a milk-pot ....')
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Samples taken during the study show everything from the deadly radioactive isotope, tritium, to elevated levels of salt, ammonia, and phosphorous.

Tritium is a very low-energy emitter. Maybe in extremely high doses, it would be a problem, but trace amounts are hardly a worry. Tritium is the least worrisome radioisotope.

...however, according to an assessment by the New York Department of State as part of its Coastal Zone Management Assessment, contains a variety of radioactive elements such as strontium-90, cesium-137, cobalt-60, and nickel-63, and isn’t limited to tritium contamination.

Okay, some of those are very high energy emitters, and can do quite a bit of physical damage, with death occurring at high levels of exposure. However, at low exposures, they are not a problem. And the blog does not say how much of each radioisotope was found; my guess is that only trace amounts, barely above the level of detection, were found. (Otherwise, they would cordon off the area until it could be cleaned up.)

Unexpected increases were detected in 19 out of 20 major types of cancer. Thyroid cancer registered the biggest increase, going from 13 percent below the national average to 51 percent above.

The problem with trying to say anything definitive based on "cancer clusters" is that, through random distribution alone, clusters happen. I read a few years ago that some agency (EPA, maybe) decided to no longer conduct investigations upon finding a disease cluster, since every investigation done to date had found the cluster due to random variability.

In any case, tritium does not cause thyroid cancer. Strontium-90 can affect the thyroid, as can any radioactive form of iodine. Leukemia is a common cancer that develops after radiation exposure, since high doses of radiation damage and kill the rapidly growing cells in the bone marrow, which produce blood.

5 posted on 05/01/2016 5:25:22 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Agnes Heep

So then sexual preversion unchecked will last millions of years?


6 posted on 05/01/2016 5:25:56 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Miami-Dade County all in a huff over leaky reactors, but totally unconcerned about the raw, untreated sewage it has been pumping into the ocean and over the Keys is all fine and dandy?


7 posted on 05/01/2016 5:27:43 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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The COST will be more Women and Young Girls RAPED in the Women's room by PRETENDERS WHO SAY THEY ARE TRANSGENDERED (Sexual Predators).

Women and Mother's have already figured this out and will make there feelings known. Target knows their wrath and the Democrats who brought us this will know it in the next ELECTION when the ENABLER doesn't get the Women's vote. DOH!

8 posted on 05/01/2016 5:30:48 AM PDT by CptnObvious
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To: HomerBohn

This guy writes like an a-hole. It isn’t the problems or the airing of them that irritates me.

These problems he is discussing are not new. They have been around for years. I object to the tone.

We have a lot of problems in the world. Far more in volume, and in some cases, far more in serious than these.

It is true that there are a large number of people who are distracted by shiny objects. But it is also true that there are a lot of people who aren’t. Some of us have to do things that require us to keep a lot of irons in the fire. Many people have to address various issues at the same time.

We are going to have to do that too. Because we have people in charge who hate letting a crisis go to waste. And to them, the concept of having a crisis not serve the purpose of concealing something else they are to lazy, incompetent or inept to address, is anathema, so they are going to do it regardless.

And if we don’t sensibly address the issues of uncontrolled immigration, election fraud, abuse of entitlement, destruction of the military, and hundreds of other issues that DO have importance, we are going to explode in civil conflict just as surely as one of those toxic plumes of pollution are going to spread to a water supply.


9 posted on 05/01/2016 5:31:47 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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And furthermore, there is this line: "...but it paints the trans and gay community in a negative light by asserting there is some sexual stigma involved in relieving one’s bladder..."

What an ass. What a blithering moron.

10 posted on 05/01/2016 5:33:29 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: Wolfie

Yes.

And because it is quite obviously that author’s pet issue, then everyone who objects to the idiotic and stupid way he frames the issue is defective in his eyes.

He can stuff it into his nether-regions.


11 posted on 05/01/2016 5:35:57 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: HomerBohn

I disagree that the bathroom issue is distraction. Of course some might think that normalizing pedophilia is just a distraction. I don’t. It’s all part of the LGBT agenda to turn the world into one where sex with children is accepted. The APA is already working to have pedophilia reclassified from a crime to a disorder. The next step will then be to give protections to pedophiles because they are “mentally ill” and “you can’t discriminate against the mentally ill”.

So no, the bathroom issue is not a distraction. This doesn’t make these nuclear problems go away. But I think that the country can handle two problems at the same time. Maybe even three or four.


12 posted on 05/01/2016 5:37:13 AM PDT by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand. If you are French raise both hands)
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Seems like the easy answer is build new nuclear plants and shut down the old ones.


13 posted on 05/01/2016 5:39:53 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Seruzawa

The bathroom issue distracts from the fact that the North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory (last year) along with the Georgia Governor Nathan Deal (this year) and other Republican governors have vetoed religious freedom legislation aimed at protecting people who object to gay marriage.

Big Business is pressuring the Republicans into backing down on First Amendment protection for gay marriage dissenters.

I think McCrory signed this law to distract from the retreat of the Republican Party on First Amendment protection for religious people.


14 posted on 05/01/2016 5:46:23 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: HomerBohn

Global warming is a theory which is treated like a fact, by some, a faith by others and a theory by others. There’s no way to agree among the three. There’s no compromise there’s only one truth. It is a theory. It’s the only way a sane person can look at it. Because that’s the only truth

Nuclear power is not a hundred percent safe. That is the only way to look at it. Yo can build a plant near two or even thirteen million people some of them are never going to like it. Some will see getting out of there in a hurry as a possibility. It’s why the shoreham plant on Long Island sits unused. You can’t evacuate all of the long islanders plus manhattanites

Sanity prevailed. But in these cases the rudeness of those who say it’s safe enough prevailed. Ironically, they’re most often guys that say global warming is not true


15 posted on 05/01/2016 5:56:48 AM PDT by stanne
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Quit pumping out the fresh groundwater and the salt water intrusion will likely decline. Conversely, start pumping fresh water into the well, and the salt water intrusion will probably reverse.


16 posted on 05/01/2016 5:59:52 AM PDT by PAR35
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I read a few years ago that some agency (EPA, maybe) decided to no longer conduct investigations upon finding a disease cluster, since every investigation done to date had found the cluster due to random variability.

My trust in any federal agency telling the truth about this is zero. Especially the EPA.

17 posted on 05/01/2016 6:00:10 AM PDT by disndat
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To: exDemMom

Cesium and strontium are nasty customers too. Cesium tends to destroy bone marrow and I believe strontium accretes in the liver.

That said, I find this whole article full of vague alarmism and pseudoscientific hyperbole.


18 posted on 05/01/2016 6:04:23 AM PDT by IronJack
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May be of interest.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1207616/posts

19 posted on 05/01/2016 6:08:27 AM PDT by disndat
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To: rlmorel

He probably likes stuffing “things” into his “nether regions”.


20 posted on 05/01/2016 6:09:34 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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