Quake Rocks Japan

[rjs246]

another dose of propaganda from the super liberal anti-american NYTimes:

the plant design employed here is a sort of cheaper, less safe nuclear plant design

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16contain.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=nuclear%20plant%20design&st=cse

A thought about this article specifically:

It's arguing that design flaws exist, and yet this situation is still basically contained. A flawed, 30+ year old complex gets buttfarged by an enormous natural disaster and yet it still isn't leading to a massive risk to the population. That should actually put everyone's mind at ease if people are thinking rationally.

Also, if we're going to throw a hissy fit over design flaws, we have to recognize that the multi-decade slow-down in utilization/expansion of nuclear power has a huge impact there. Design and technology should have been improving over the years, allowing newer, safer plants to be the norm and older plants to be retired. But fear and irrational midsunderstanding of risk has basically stopped the industry in its tracks. Serious capital (intellectual and monetary) should have been spent on addressing the issues of waste and safety improvements rendering these concerns obsolete or insignificant. Insteads we've quaked in our boots at the idea of another Chernobyl, despite the fact that another Chernobyl is basically impossible.

[phillycrew]

Well said.  The disaster should spur further innovation and design refinement and not lead to a knee jerk "no nuclear plant" reaction.

[Sgt PSN]

Absolutely. I can't wait for the "God did this to Japan for bombing Pearl Harbor" rhetoric.

Bullseye!

"What if God was tired of the way they treated their own people in there own country! Idk guys he makes no mistakes," Pondexter tweeted on Saturday"

"u just never knw! They did pearl harbor so u can't expect anything less."

Too bad it wasn't said by someone that anyone has ever heard of.  It's funny though because she was 1 yr removed from Rutgers when Imus made his comments and she's on record saying at the time that he should be suspended. 

[smeags]

haa, that is awesome.

[Don Ho]

I'm sure she'll be a guest on the 700 Club in the days to come.

[ice grillin you]

Rush Limbaugh finds it funny that a natural disaster struck Japan-a country that has made such strides towards being environmentally friendly.

On Tuesday the radio host chatted with a caller who referenced the irony that "Gaia" (Mother Earth in Greek Mythology) lashed out at Japan. Limbaugh laughed about how the tsunami hit the very same spot where the one of the leading green vehicles was invented.

"What kind of payback is this?" Rush asked. "That is an excellent question. They invented the Prius. In fact, where Gaia blew up is right where they make all these electric cars. That's where the tsunami hit."

"What is Gaia trying to tell us here? What is the mother of environmentalism trying to say with this hit?" he continued.

Limbaugh also took a jab at Diane Sawyer who has been covering the devastation in Japan and, more specifically, at her report on shelter refugees and how they've been dealing with waste management and debris.

Sawyer was amazed at how a gathering place for people whose homes had been destroyed still made it a point to organize a system for recycling within the shelter. Limbaugh likened her remarks to someone talking to a group of children.

"This is almost like a kindergarten teacher talking to the four year olds," Limbaugh remarked. "That is how old you are in kindergarten, right? Five? Five? Four? Alright. This is -- some of these people here for days and look, look it's recycling, organized for recycling."

Thankfully, the next caller abruptly shifted the conversation to another type of madness—March Madness.

[smeags]

ok so we've heard from glenn beck & now rush, all we need now for is a quote or two from hannity.

[Sgt PSN]

Let me get this straight......the earth is punishing Japan for inventing vehicles that won't deplete the earth of all of it's energy sources.  Makes total sense.   

[smeags]

yeah, gaia must be in bed with the oil companies like the tea baggers.

[Tomahawk]

Absolutely. I can't wait for the "God did this to Japan for bombing Pearl Harbor" rhetoric.

Bullseye!

"What if God was tired of the way they treated their own people in there own country! Idk guys he makes no mistakes," Pondexter tweeted on Saturday"

"u just never knw! They did pearl harbor so u can't expect anything less."

Too bad it wasn't said by someone that anyone has ever heard of.  It's funny though because she was 1 yr removed from Rutgers when Imus made his comments and she's on record saying at the time that he should be suspended. 

She should probably realize Japan paid more than enough penance by having at least half the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki eradicated, and then shut up

[Don Ho]

She probably thinks Hiroshima and Nagasaki are two characters from Pokeman.

[mpmcgraw]

so i assume everything is fixed now yes?

[Sgt PSN]

Apparently Black Eyed Peas shot a music video in Japan and left like a few hours or maybe a day before the quake hit.  Somewhere in Richmond, VA, Russell is weeping. 

[General_Failure]

God really is punishing the country, then.

[PhillyPhreak54]

According to conservative columnist Ann Coulter, this whole Japanese nuclear crisis is overblown and "radiation is actually good for you" and the media isn't reporting its benefits enough.

On The O'Reilly Factor last night, Coulter spoke about her recent column that cites a number of articles in the New York Times and "a stunning number of physicists" showing radiation has a positive effect on cancer patients.

A skeptical O'Reilly retorted Coulter's evidence with this, "by your account we should all be heading for the nuclear reactor leaking and kind of sunbathing out there in front of -- come on."

Coulter responded by citing a study, mentioned by the Times , held in Canada finding that tuberculosis patients subjected to multiple chest X-rays had much lower rates of breast cancer than the general population. "There may be some doses of radiation in the human body can ward off infection," she said.

Joking aside, O'Reilly wanted Coulter to be "responsible" and admit that "some radiation will kill you." Coulter refused.

What a funhole