[yank in the UK]

This is emotionally damaging. I need as many of my fellow FReepers to remind me that this is all just a bunch of overblown hype, and that everything is going to be alright, and that there is nothing wrong.

[Candor7]

Yes, the remedy is so clear. We must INVADE Japan, and show them that they must follow the entombment option!

A military solution, thats the only answer! /s

What a bunch of whopping effers these propagandists in the thread article are.

The USA needs a new nuclear powered generating station in every state. Get Obama to write THAT into an executive order TODAY!

[homegroan]

She Blinded Me with SCIENCE!...can’t get the song out of my head now....

[exnavy]

This is what passes for military intelligence these days?

[driftdiver]

“with reports indicating that children in Japan and the U.S. are already being born with birth defects,”

Of course children are being born with birth defects, just as they were before the disaster.

[StonyBurk]

As it is written —”...the sorrow of the world produces death.” 2Cor.7.10.and elsewhere “Cursed is the man who puts his trust in man,who makes flesh his arm,and is turned from God.Jeremiah 17.5 IMO this military mind was offering a
worst case scenario. It may happen—may not. If we can do
anything to change it we ought be about it. If not like they taught us in public school back in the Cold War era Bend over put your head between your legs and Kiss your arse goodbye. These scenarios have been presented since we developed the Fat Boy to deliver to Japan -seems we may be getting the blowback from that —eh?

[nuconvert]

We’re DOOMED!

[jimfree]

The general is profoundly ignorant of the science he preaches.

[Psalm 144]

Check the sources for this ‘data’:
http://www.lifespirit.org/NSF-Main-Index.htm

These are helium breathing kooks on stilts.

General Stubblebine is kind of interesting too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine

I think the good general is not far removed from this colonel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9oBiD7-kAM&feature=related

In the 1970’s the same kind of people predicted death by another ice age, and/or starvation. Yesterday it was global warming and eating too much. Right now the GOP is pushing the idea of the extinction of freedom if a certain idle and stupid cokehead is reelected, because he is so omniopotent and the nation is so feeble. The Democrats are pushing the end of the world if everyone is compelled to actually work for a living or we use plastic grocery bags.

I would put ALL of this down to Chicken Little Pox. Anyway, off to work, as the world is not going to end and the utility bills will still be due.

[yldstrk]

The Chicken Little contingent weighs in

[Reeses]

<s> I can assure you, this accident couldn't happen in America. Unlike the Japanese, which rigidly follow rules and regulations, our country fosters creative employees that think outside the box and are quite ingenious in defeating even fool-proof designs. The Japanese lack our diversity in the workplace, and our affirmative action and equal employment opportunity laws. Our union-lead public education institutions are the envy of the whirled. Our spent nuclear fuel rods are not kept on plant grounds for political reasons but are whisked away to underground storage in Nevada. The Japanese have no Muslims working in plant security to protect them. Our reactors were designed by Westinghouse before the Japanese took them over. </s>

[Nifster]

Key to knowing that it is overblown hype and crapola....the story starts by saying...”It is estimated....”

Hence they don’t know. They aren’t counting. They have no evidence. They are guessing

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/24/nuclear-bomb-survivor-japan

Japanese man wins recognition for surviving two atom bombs

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, was caught in second world war atom bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasak

snip

A 93-year-old Japanese man has become the first person to be certified as a survivor of both US atomic bombings at the end of the second world war, officials said today.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi had already been a certified “hibakusha,” or radiation survivor, of the 9 August 1945 atomic bombing in Nagasaki. Now it has been confirmed that he also survived the attack on Hiroshima three days earlier.

Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on 6 August 1945 when a US B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He suffered serious burns to his upper body and spent the night in the city. He then returned to his hometown of Nagasaki.

snip

[shibumi]

This was just posted to the forum a short time ago.

It would seem to debunk that “uninhabitable” claim.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2888248/posts

[csmusaret]

Have you seen Hiroshima and Nagasaki lately?

[csmusaret]

Before and after pics here.....http://hiroshima55.tripod.com/id11.html

[hal ogen]

Just because someone is a general doesn’t mean they know what they are talking about. Anyway, we are all going to die eventually for some reason. Live and make the best of it while it lasts.

[Bikkuri]

Look... I am IN Japan.. have been for the last 14 years... All of this is OVERBLOWN HYPE.... stop being pulled to these green weenie sites (that name may turn them on.. we need a new name :P ) and ignore most of that crap.

If you want an update, ask people that are here ;)

Take care :)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You do realize that every time you open your window or walk outside you are exposed to RADIATION from the sun?

If I were you, I would find a cave to hide in.

Of course, rocks emit radiation, too.

[AmericanInTokyo]

BULLSHIT.

[Washi]

Consider the source of the story.

The U.S. Army General is a kook and a 9-11 "Truther".

http://world911truth.org/major-general-albert-stubblebine-towers-fell-down-because-of-explosives/