Al's on vacation. Paddling up to look at a polar bear's behind.
Posted on 05/19/2008 3:40:23 PM PDT by MissEdie
Why NBC is "in the tank" for Barack Obama:
The second largest company in the world is General Electric. GE owns NBC. It also builds nuclear power reactors. Is it any wonder then that NBC favored Obama from the start?
According to the LA Times, “Obama is the largest beneficiary of money from companies that have a stake in nuclear energy’s future.”
Are we surprised then that Tim Russert prematurely called Obama the Democratic nominee? Or that Russert allowed Obama to ramble on about how great nuclear power is on Meet the Press?
Take a look at Obama's Exelon connection and his handcrafted bill to not only waterdown regulations of radioactive leaks but to prevent state and local authorities from regulating nuclear power plants. Why would a freshman senator do that? Why would anyone do that, especially when a nuclear power plant continues to leak radioactive tritium into the groundwater? Nader calls Obama pro-corporate but I would call him worse than that.
Exelon tried to keep the public in the dark about its radioactive spills. It didn't publicly acknowledge at least eight spills of radioactive tritium until recently--even though the first one happened in 1996. Exelon also derailed an Illinois bill in 2001 that would have required it to monitor the groundwater at its nuclear facilities for radioactive releases. One wonders if Obama had anything to do with derailing that Illinois bill.
Axelrod is an Exelon man. Two Exelon executives sit on Obama's finance committee. They are his top fundraisers. When asked about his connections to Exelon, Obama says quote "that's why I'm in favor of public financing." Yet he waffled on his pledge to use public financing.
From the Public Citizen Web Site (www.citizen.org):
Recent History of Tritium Leaks
Braidwood
The Braidwood Generating Station in Illinois, 60 miles southwest of Chicago and run by Exelon, has recently been plagued by a series of tritium releases. The site has experienced eight leaks between 1996 and 2006, including one in 1998 and another in 2000. The 1998 leak resulted in the release of three million gallons of tritium-contaminated water. It was not until November 2005 that the leaks were revealed to state officials. The public was not informed until the following month. Tritium-contaminated water has since been found in at least one drinking well and beyond the site boundary in a forest preserve. Residents from the local area have filed a class action lawsuit against Exelon over potential health problems and loss in property values. On March 16, 2006, the state of Illinois filed a lawsuit against Exelon seeking $36.5 million in fines for both the company's failure to properly maintain the underground pipeline that leaked and their delay in notifying state officials.
Byron
In February 2006, a tritium leak was discovered at the Byron Nuclear Generating Station, another Exelon plant in Illinois. The tritium levels in vaults along pipes that transport waste water were at four times the EPA standard. It is not yet clear whether these elevated tritium levels have reached the groundwater.
Dresden
The Dresden Generating Station in Grundy County, Illinois is a third Exelon nuclear plant that has had recent tritium leaks. A 2004 test following the October discovery of a pipeline leak revealed groundwater tritium levels at 500 times the federal limit. A second leak was discovered on February 12, 2006, and follow-up tests found tritium levels 25 times higher than the EPA safe drinking water level.
Hope the wind blows up to Mayor Daley and his cohorts.
Pleaswe throw up the link - this is an admission from the MSM that there’s been MSM bias.
Yes, especially since today, Barack Hussein Obama has taken up the green torch from Al Gore, and they both live in mansions but think they can set rules for “ordinary” Americans.
Verry informative, this article. always about money, eh. Never the consideration of the good of the country.
Wait, wait. Is this a new game, like Where in the World is ALGore?
Game on. AlGore sightings.
Wheres Al? He’s trying to keep the dream alive, he’s in his back yard burning all the wood he can to keep global warming alive.
Al Gore is in Israel this week. He is giving a keynote speech for a Ness Company “customer week”
Ness is a large computer company in Israel.
Heh. I was just working out back with a sweatshirt on and decided to come in and get a jacket, and I asked myself the same question: “Where is that a$$4o1e Al Gore and his ‘global warming’?”
OK. Premature there, but I just loved the title. Then again, instead of playing Silo in the car this summer, kids can play Exelon Nuclear Silo so the family will know not to drink the local water or taste any local food.
This is how it works in America.
If you are in the nuclear power business, are you better off to support a Repub who favors nuclear or buy a Dem?
In the end, the Repubs are going to get shut out by the Dems between Congress and EPA and the courts. So it makes much more sense to cut to the chase, and buy yourself some Dems.
See #7
Al's on vacation. Paddling up to look at a polar bear's behind.
Al Gore has a fever.
Double bad.
We need more nuclear plants; don’t need more public suspicion of their safety.
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