Posted on 01/21/2006 10:34:53 AM PST by oxcart
I always wonder, do you mean looking at it right, or anatomical right?
The tall one is on the anatomical right, the shorter one is on the looking at it right.
Pageant Director should be canned. Now.
I never in my life heard of leaking questions prior to the pageant, and it is clear to me this was done to kill off her chances of winning - fixing it, if you will.
I say release all of the answers from all of the contestants so we know their opinions on all of their questions.
Better argument is that, there are simply no risk free alternatives. Yucca Mountain probably represents a much smaller cumulative risk than any of the proposed alternatives, including "do-nothing", which carries far worse risks.
I used to live in North Carolina...there was a series of radio commercials telling listeners to tell their senators (Edwards and Helms at the time, as I recall) to approve the Yucca Mountain plan and put the nuclear waste "where it belongs."
I had hoped that Nevada had the right to not have nuclear waste forced down its throat. Apparently they did.
Now suppose she had come from some state other than Nevada -- wouldn't the PC answer have been to put the waste at Yucca? Were other contestants put to the same scrutiny as Miss Nevada?
I was at Yucca Mountain last year. There is NOBODY "out there." It's adjacent to the old Nevada Test Site. I bet there's not a home within 40 miles of the place. Nothing but rattlesnakes and lizards.
I'd say Ms Johnson needs to find out more about the issues and the SCIENCE -- as well as a little contract law.
Various states vied to be selected for the storage facility. They were happy for the Govt. $$ and jobs and accepted it all. Now that the facility is finished, or nearly so, they don't want the waste. Where do they think the waste is now?
The waste is now in ground level storage in other areas of the United States, which is not as secure as Yucca Mountain would be.
The rods are SPENT. There is little danger of leakage and none of explosion (as it has been explained to me by scientists who work with the rods every day). The real danger is from THEFT. No one wants these spent nuclear materials falling into the hands of terrorists because they WOULD cause unbelievable harm if they were incorporated into a "dirty bomb."
Every consumer of energy in the US has been paying a hefty tax for over 30 years -- the proceeds used to build this facility at Yucca Mountain -- and we have nothing to show for it yet because of "chicken littles" like Ms. Johnson.
Our nation's security DEMANDS that Yucca Mountain be opened at once.
Congress passed a law a few years back that disallows the rods from being recharged in a "breeder reacter", so what else are we supposed to do with them? We are storing them for several European countries, as well as from all the nuclear reacters in the US.
Miss Nevada is spot on in her remarks, IMHO.
I believe the French send their spent rods HERE where they are in ground level storage (because Yucca Mountain is not open yet.) I think there was a treaty that engineered that arrangement.
Looks better as a brunette.
Instead, she's shooting from the hip with a ridiculous statement that feeds into many people's idea that Miss America contestants are bimbos.
Peggy Maze Johnson is jealous.
I wonder if she's a member of NAG.
see post #19 for the BIG picture....
I'm picturing a gigantic bird, about to come into frame, to feed her masticated worms.
this is my cousin Ane Romero... she is representing New Mexico in the Miss America Pageant... she is both beautiful and highly intelligent... it runs in our family... haha!
She is beautiful... and you must be happy it runs in your family! I don't usually watch Miss America pageants, but I will this year!
that's pretty cool....best of luck to her!!!
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