Posted on 05/01/2016 4:57:36 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Just think what good Obama’s $900 billion ‘Stimulus’ money could have done if it was indeed used as promised.
Remember it was going to be spent on rebuilding America’s infrastructure?
Remember Obama’s promised “shovel ready jobs” that he later joked about never existing?
That $900 billion could have rebuilt or repaired these nuclear plants, repaired roads, bridges, other nuclear plants.
It could have even built new nuclear plants to replace the generating capacity Obama killed with is NO COAL vendetta.
However- most of the $900 billion just seemed to disappear into vapor.
Or into democrat pockets and bank accounts.
But in all fairness, Obama did use a bit of it to:
- Take over General Motors
- Screw the GM stockholders out of their investments-
- Shut down 2,000 privately owned dealerships screwing the owners out of their investment
- Kill 100,00 jobs in those dealsrships
- Trash 700,000 perfectly good used cars in his 2009 Cash For Clunkers debacle
And then there was the $535 million he gave to Solyndra.
Or did it grow to $850 million as some reported.....
And the $5.9 billion the government has handed over to Tesla.....
On June 24,1984 from 10:30 to 10:45 p.m. security guards at the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant near Peekskill, New York reported seeing UFO over the plant for approximately 15 minutes. It was roughly 30 stories above the exhaust funnel of one of the plant's three nuclear reactors.
UFO investigator Philip J. Imbrogno for the Dr. J. Allen Hynek's Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) in Chicago, Illinois interviewed six of the twelve security guards who saw the UFO.
The UFO, according to the witnesses was huge in size, diamond-shaped and approximately 450 feet in length. It was first white, then changed to blue to red to green to amber in color. Local police in Peekskill received numerous UFO sightings during the same evening. One of them, Sgt. Karl Hoffman said the UFO he observed included a "dozen white lights" in V-formation that slowly moved towards the power plant at Indian Point. 16
In the case of the UFO reported by security guards at the Indian Point Nuclear Plant at Peekskill investigators uncovered some interesting information.
As the UFO approached the nuclear plant it flew to within 30 feet of its Reactor Number Three. When it did the plant's security systems, shut down as did all of its alarm systems and communication systems.
Security guards were issued shotguns and were waiting for the final word to shoot at the UFO. A request was also made for an armed helicopter to come and shoot down the UFO, but before the command was given, the UFO moved away and left the area.
Carl Patrick of the plant's information office, when questioned by investigators about the UFO had this to say, "I can neither confirm or deny that the guards fired upon it, but they did what was necessary to protect the plant.
~http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-convisnuc.htm
Maybe the State of Missouri can buy out Bridgeton, disincorporate it as they did Times Beach in the 80s? Build a State Park? Only co$t $250 million....then.
Strontium is chemically like calcium, so it collects in bones, where it causes bone cancer and leukemia. Cesium is chemically like sodium, which means it goes everywhere in your body but also washes out pretty easily. Cesium 137 is a nasty gamma emitter, so it can irradiate stuff at a distance. Strontium 90 is a beta emitter, so you have to eat it, breathe it, or park it on your skin for it to cause trouble.
Nice to see somebody that knows the details of radiation risk and what background exposure means. Thank you for posting the science.
Sexual perversion will last forever, checked or unchecked. But the nations that indulge it will quickly decline.
Author can shove the title and article where the sun don’t shine.
Good grief!
The radiation thing is a lot more important as it can affect everyone over the long term.
This common headline, or media trope, annoys me no end.
Americans are NOT "arguing over which bathroom to use". There is zero argument taking place.
What there IS is a relentless rhetorical assault on normal people and normal, ordinary perceptions of reality, which are widely shared.
"Argument" presupposes a search for truth within a common frame of reference. This phenomenon lacks a common frame of reference, there are no elements subject to persuasion or to discovery of new facts.
There is only (so far, rhetorical) warfare.
Wrong. It's not more important.
Long term safety (from any threat) first requires a frame of reference within which A=A, water is wet, and fire is hot.
If you accept constant gaslighting along the lines of "that man is really a woman", or whatever, the goal of which is to put you into a frame of reference where A≠A or fire doesn't burn because it's not really hot, then you will wind up putting plutonium on your kid's Cheerios.
You are correct. I should have looked for the chemical similarities to non-lethal substances.
The pertinent point is not that a federal agency made a decision, but that they used relevant science to inform the decision.
The EPA certainly deserves every word of criticism it gets when it makes and enforces policies based on political narratives. However, it should be supported when it makes decisions based on genuine science.
Investigating cancer clusters just because they are clusters is a waste of taxpayer money (such investigations can cost millions). Anyone familiar with statistics knows that random distribution causes clusters and bare patches; random is not an even dispersal.
Strontium is in the same family as calcium, and thus behaves chemically similar to calcium. That means it deposits in bones and other tissues that have high calcium content.
And yes, this article is heavy on the vague fear-mongering.
And bathroom laws can change overnight while radiation can be effectively forever.
To be quite frank, bathroom confusion can never reach the level of seriousness of radiological disasters, and it is just as far from reality to assert they can be so, as to assert that a man can be a woman.
Perspective demands that potential nuclear disasters be viewed as an immediate do-or-die situation with consequences on the broadest possible scale. It has the potential to do effectively permanent planetwide ecological damage. It’s practically the definition of things that need to be taken seriously.
It’s a whole different class of problem than having to be street smart when you see a man in a dress.
Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is *not* a theory. A scientific theory is a conceptual framework that is developed to unify and explain the totality of observations made regarding a natural phenomenon.
By definition, AGW is not a theory. It is, rather, a hypothesis. A hypothesis is a supposition made on the basis of an observation or group of observations, and it is informed by theory. In this case, AGW is a hypothesis formulated on the facts that 1) carbon dioxide has a broad absorbance/emittance band within the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (in other words, it fluoresces in the infrared); 2) that heat is a result of infrared radiation; and 3) that human industrial processes are reintroducing carbon dioxide into the air that has been sequestered underground for thousands or millions of years.
A hypothesis is testable; scientific experiments are designed around devising a test that either supports the hypothesis, or shows that the hypothesis is incorrect (or that the null hypothesis is correct). If a hypothesis is not supported by the experimental evidence, then the assumptions used to formulate the hypothesis should be revised.
In the case of AGW, although experimental observations have not really supported the hypothesis, the assumptions underlying the hypothesis have not been appropriately revised.
You are welcome.
I try to correct misinformation where I can. Scientific education is pathetic in this country, so misinformation abounds.
I see that some of the other posters here also understand the science.
When you accurately describe homosexuals, pedophiles and other afflicted individuals as mentally ill, the leftists get all bent out of shape. They want it both ways. Just a variation on normal when it suits them, and illness when that becomes convenient.
Puzzling, because what benefit to big business is it to cater to the whims of a tiny fraction of the population while risking pi$$ing off most of the rest?
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