StrangeSox

How so?

from my link directly above: Update 8:06 AM: Kyodo has a long article explaining the latest, and at this moment there may still be reasons to be hopeful, specifically noting that the explosion is at the plant, near the reactor, but not inside vulnerable reactor #1. The NYT also has a good technical explanation of what's going on, including this hopeful sounding note: Naoto Sekimura, a professor at Tokyo University, told NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, that “only a small portion of the fuel has been melted. But the plant is shut down already, and being cooled down. Most of the fuel is contained in the plant case, so I would like to ask people to be calm.” Meanwhile, large aftersthocks continue to rock the area. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/fukushima-n...3#ixzz1GOcv6UDv

I didn't defend ACORN there, that was my point. But look at the wikipedia page detailing the investigations by the GAO, a couple of AG's and another governmental office and then the part on the media coverage after it. There's absolutely nothing to defend with respect to O'Keefe, Breitbart, Hannity and the rest of the dumbasses at Fox News.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Mar 12, 2011 -> 07:11 AM) From what I have been told the radiation wouldnt pretty much not leave the premises of the nuclear plant if it does meltdown, but that is from what I remember m brother telling me about a year ago. I really hope they are able to fix the pumps, there's a big future depending on that fix including my brother's career. As long as containment isn't breached or damaged, it should be contained. Just like at Three Mile Island.

Running updates here, not looking good. http://www.businessinsider.com/fukushima-n...ar-plant-2011-3

O'Keefe heavily distorted and lied about what the ACORN videos showed through very selective editing. I'm not sure what your rant has to do with that fact, really.

Who cares if Illinois makes it in the tournament? They'll just play soft and lose again.

LOL Illinois.

Earthquake moved yokohama to mainland china

That's what the unedited video shows, too. This guy was repeating what two "top-level Republicans" said about the Tea Party. It's sad/hilarious. I thought everyone would take this buffoon with a little more caution after it was shown how much he distorted and lied with ACORN and then we he tried to lure a CNN reporter onto a sex boat, but then again a sizable portion of people instantly jumped on the "ZOMG! OBMA SPENDS $200 TRILLION AN HOUR IN INDIA!" s***. Confirmation bias an an endemic problem in politics.

Yeah that sounds decent, but IMO the owners have no ground to ask for any more money at all since they refuse to justify it.

Yeah but that kinda assumes NPR is just some dumb left-wing blog or something, not a national organization which leans left but has pretty high journalistic integrity and standards.

have a meltdown?

QUOTE (lostfan @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 04:57 PM) Hey remember 2 years ago when the DHS released a report (that was not supposed to be leaked to the public, but they are infiltrated by Fox News) about military veterans being in right-wing extremist organizations, which happens to be a factual statement, and everybody flipped the f*** out and drummed up self-righteous indignation? The suspect in the attempted bombing of the MLK Day parade is a veteran. IJS. It was more a narrative about how Obama was having the DHS target right-leaning political groups! And ignored that reports like this are somewhat routine and necessary, given that there are far right-wing nutty militia groups that like to kill people.

Second thought on the NPR thing: They're a news organization. Why the hell didn't they investigate O'Keefe's s*** claims and once-again-edited tapes instead of having a meltdown first?

The 400 richest Americans are now richer than the bottom 50% combined.

I generally agree with NSS there except the bit I see as right-to-work. That seriously damages a union's power thanks to free riders.

I really don't know. also those who love O'keefe the most are also tend to be those who b**** about liberal media bias and "gotcha!" journalism.

If Fukushima melts down, it'll be like Three Mile Island. Not good, but after decades there's been *maybe* one death attributable to that. Newer designs are significantly safer and less dangerous than the 40+ year olds designs we're running now, something to keep in mind. Here's what's happening at Fukushima: all nuclear plants have several sources of power. Critical systems (those essential to safe shutdown and security) are run off of the electric grid (not the reactor itself), backed up by diesel generators that have very short start-up times and then again backed up by Uninterpretable Power Supplies (batteries, more or less). The grid was severely damaged in the area and there's no power being supplied to Unit 1. The diesel back-ups were also damaged and are inoperable. This means that the cooling pumps are running on their UPS systems, but these only have several hours of run-time on them. Japanese and US officials are rushing to get more generators and batteries on-site ASAP. If cooling pumps shut down, the coolant will boil off fairly quickly and the reactor will melt down, though it would be like TMI and not Chernobyle. If this thing melts down, it'll be the end of the US nuclear industry imo. There will be immediate calls for SONGS and Diablo Canyon (west coast plants) to shut down. Probably the Florida and other Gulf Coast plants as well due to hurricane threats. At the very least, the NRC is going to be taking a second look at safe shutdown procedures.

LOL, of course. Doesn't matter at this point because NPR reacted as poorly to this as they did to the whole (self-created) Juan Williams fiasco.

situation not improving at Fukushima http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wo...0,2627198.story

LOL. Lockout imminent, then.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 03:51 PM) Honestly I don't think it matters. Chances of survival will be near-zero in either case with a wall of 50 mph water/mud/debris slamming into you, and churning you downstream for however long. Well, yeah.

Eh I'm going to blame the massive bubble generated and then inflated by terrible derivatives and insurance tools invented by people who still walked away much, much richer after the whole mess. Without Wall Street creating those, those 'stupid' home buyers wouldn't have been approved for loans in the first place. Either way it's naive to blame public workers unions for state budget shortfalls.

I'd say get out and float with your feet pointing down-stream. At least that's how you go through rapids if you fall out of your boat/kayak. The floatsam complicates that a bit, but I'd just imagine it'd be way to easy for you to get trapped in the car as it became submerged or rolled.