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- Clearing the Browser Tabs – Radioactive Death Monday Edition
- Right On Cue: Democrats Want Us to “Put the Brakes” on Nuclear Power
- Administration Flack Learns the Difference Between Bush and Obama
| Clearing the Browser Tabs – Radioactive Death Monday Edition Posted: 14 Mar 2011 03:10 AM PDT It’s Monday and the USS Ronald Reagan has steamed through A GIANT RADIOACTIVE CLOUD, OH NOES! The article quotes the ubiquitous Robert Alvarez, who seems to be everywhere on this story even though, as best I can tell, his big claim to nuclear know-how fame is that he was a “policy adviser” to the Energy Department. He’s worried, of course, because worry gets him quoted a lot more and, I’m sure, makes his employer very happy that he’s getting so much visibility. And so it goes. And now, links!
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| Right On Cue: Democrats Want Us to “Put the Brakes” on Nuclear Power Posted: 13 Mar 2011 04:20 PM PDT One of the things I didn’t mention in this post (which earned the much-coveted Instalanche), was the sneaking suspicion I had that the shoddy journalism in Japan was headed toward a certain conclusion. With all the panicky stories involving scary, but ultimately useless, words like “meltdown”, “radioactive”, and “elevated”, it was only a matter of time before we saw a story like this.
But of course these calls would come from the Democratic Party. It’s not big secret that the left despises nuclear power — it is, after all, the home of the “back to the stone age” environmentalists. It does surprise me that Joe Lieberman, who has always struck me as one of the most thoughtful and sober Democrats, has joined the usual doom-criers Ed “Biz” Markey and Chuck “Rhymes with a Bad Word” Schumer. Then again, Lieberman only seems like a sensible Democrat when the issue is national defense. On everything else, he’s as predictable as a Michael Bay flick. Let’s be honest here. We may find a serious design flaw in the reactors at Fukushima, though I seriously doubt it. We are far more likely to find that things could have been exponentially worse but weren’t because of superior design, construction, and the diligent execution of plans honed sharp by experience and endless review. We should be pleasantly surprised that the reactors withstood as much energy as would be released by detonating almost 340 megatons of TNT as well as they did. We should be elated that they didn’t crack open like eggs. We should be hearing from actual, factual nuclear technicians who know a fuel meltdown from a core meltdown. Instead, the MSM are bandying about scary words they barely understand and Democrats in Congress are standing by to feed on the unease that “reporting” will surely cause. Fukishima is shaping up to be just another crisis the progressive left won’t waste. That’s a shame, because the real conversation ought to be how durable and, yes, safe nuclear energy truly is. If I didn’t know better, I’d say this was the plan from the very first report of a tremor. But that’s just crazy-talk, isn’t it?
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| Administration Flack Learns the Difference Between Bush and Obama Posted: 13 Mar 2011 01:22 PM PDT Today, the State Department’s chief spokesman learned a very hard lesson about politics. He handed in his resignation days after he called the administration’s treatment of Bradley Manning “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid”. Manning leaked several thousand classified documents to the Wikileaks group and is currently in military custody. You can hit the last link to see what drew Crowley’s ire and why the DoD has decided such treatment is not only warranted but necessary. To borrow a phrase from President Obama, Crowley acted stupidly. He forgot, in his enthusiasm to let his left-wing flag fly in front of a friendly crowd, that his job is not to say whatever damned-fool thing pops to the top of his head but to carry the water for his boss, the President of the United States. But that wasn’t his worst mistake. As we learned from the eight years of George Bush’s Presidency, government bureaucrats like Crowley can trash talk the administration and its decisions all they want so long as a Republican is in office. I dare say had President Bush demanded the resignations of the scores of middling bureaucrats who trashed him from behind the safety of anonymity over eight years, the MSM would be in an uproar right now. Heck, had he given Richard Armitage the axe for leaking Valerie Plame’s name to Michael Novak and remaining silent about it as baseless rumors floated by scurrilous journalists and Democratic politicians tore his administration to shreds, he would have been vilified. Still, it will be interesting, I think, to see how the administration mollifies its base on the “torture” matter. I suspect that the task till be fairly simple. There are still plenty of sops it can throw and no one has ever accused the rabid left of being hard to buy off. (via Cubachi and Liberty Pundits)
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