The Gift that Goes on Giving

BFP's BFD is no big thing (0.00 / 0)

"samples taken Nov. 7 and 10 showed no signs of tritium, so it's OK!"

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by: Comrade Rutherford @ Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 21:15:46 PM UTC

No "small" thing (4.00 / 2)

the plant leaked and is perhaps still leaking.No "small' thing at all.
I am so old I remember when it was a big deal if a nuclear power leaked radioactive material...even a small amount!

Bob Audette[Brattleboro Reformer] correctly reports that an elevated concentration of 1120 picocuries per liter was found.  It is reported that the sample was drawn 6 feet from the bank; and presumably at least six feet from the point of discharge into the river.

Depending on the volume of discharge, river flow rate, and other factors, this sample could have been diluted several orders of magnitude, so concentrations at the point of discharge could well be in the hundreds of thousands of picocuries per liter.

Raymond Shadis, New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution
http://vtdigger.org/2011/12/22...
http://www.reformer.com/ci_195...

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by: BP @ Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 23:03:44 PM UTC

analogy (0.00 / 0)

"Like an aging spinster she wraps her boney frame in economic illusion and insists you'll miss her when she's gone."

I appreciate your points about Yankee but this is a really sexist, ageist, nasty analogy for a rather preternaturally male institution.


peggy luhrs

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by: artemix @ Fri Dec 23, 2011 at 06:20:35 AM UTC

So make up your own. (4.00 / 1)

I'm sorry if you're offended, but I'm not striving for political correctness.

Being female, I feel a certain ownership of the territory.

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by: Sue Prent @ Fri Dec 23, 2011 at 15:15:08 PM UTC

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sorry (0.00 / 0)

Sorry you are a self hating female. You wouldn't react that way around a racist comment. Women can be sexist fools too.

peggy luhrs

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by: artemix @ Fri Dec 23, 2011 at 20:58:16 PM UTC

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Okay, since this obviously is important to you (0.00 / 0)

I will explain my choice of metaphor.  Would it have been less sexist for me, a woman to put it this way:

"Like an aging bachelor he wraps his bony frame in economic illusion and insists you'll miss him when he's gone?"   I don't think so

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And if I might be so bold: describing VY as a "preternaturally male institution" also seems somewhat sexist on the face of it.

To completely kill the mood, let me explain precisely why I chose a feminine metaphor.

"Illusion" has a double entendre here, referring at once to a sly deception and an old fashioned name for a sheer fabric that would be unlikely to be worn by a man.

Of course, on second thought, if I had gone with the guy thing, I could have ended with "Don't look now, dear, but your fly is undone."

Alas for opportunity lost. ;)

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by: Sue Prent @ Fri Dec 23, 2011 at 22:12:40 PM UTC

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Whoops! (0.00 / 0)

I was Skyping with my sister in Oregon when I typed that.  The "I don't think so" should have been outside of the quote.

So much for multi-tasking.

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by: Sue Prent @ Fri Dec 23, 2011 at 22:24:20 PM UTC

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nuclear industry is male (0.00 / 0)

No it isn't sexist when the reality is men invented the bomb and then the peaceful atom to assuage their unrecognized guilt. I see you have the liberal ideology that takes the power dynamic out of women's oppression. No its different, 70 year old men are considered sexy if they have enough money. Old women are avoided and put down. Sexism like racism is a system of power that oppresses women as racism oppresses people of color. Its systemic and has real power behind it. Women protesting that men are rapists or nuclear warriors isn't sexism it is a description of reality that liberals try to take off the table in favor of reducing it all to an issue of gender characterization so as not to deal with power. Thankfully radical feminism is returning.  

peggy luhrs

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by: artemix @ Sat Dec 24, 2011 at 16:44:46 PM UTC

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Peggy, you lose me (4.00 / 1)

every time you try to characterize me.  I won't engage in that sort of exchange.

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by: Sue Prent @ Sat Dec 24, 2011 at 18:18:30 PM UTC

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All men... (0.00 / 0)

are rapists and nuclear warriors? Or just successful big money old men? Or just the not so cute older big money men? Or just the ones with penises?

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by: bmike @ Sun Dec 25, 2011 at 12:32:21 PM UTC

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all men (0.00 / 0)

No all men are not rapists and nuclear warriors and I work with plenty of men who work for peace and equality. But 99% of rapists and nuclear warriors are men and I get very tired of people who characterize our problems with these things as female in any way. They come from the worst of capitalist patriarchy and and male domination and it is because of this and the many women who won't dare to face it that we are in the endless war and rape culture we live in.
To sum up all men aren't bad, all women aren't good but this society has been run by and for men and they are behind nuclear power and war and rape for sure.

What is so hard about getting this?

peggy luhrs

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by: artemix @ Sun Dec 25, 2011 at 18:59:18 PM UTC

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New version? (4.00 / 1)

Like an aging Lothario, he combs his few remaining strands of hair carefully over his scalp, adjusts his gold chains, and prepares for his medical visit to secure a little blue pill prescription, hoping that he will in fact still need them, and imagining his front walkway lined with women twenty years younger than he, yearning for his attention, the 'gifts' he can bestow before he leaves with their money for parts unknown.

NanuqFC
The release of atomic energy has changed everything except our way of thinking and thus we are being driven unarmed towards a catastrophe. ~ Albert Einstein

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by: NanuqFC @ Fri Dec 23, 2011 at 15:21:23 PM UTC

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analogy (0.00 / 0)

I like this it makes one think of donald Trump and his ilk the big money boys who like nukes.

peggy luhrs

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by: artemix @ Fri Dec 23, 2011 at 20:59:44 PM UTC

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Day 9812 (4.00 / 1)

Now...Imagine if they were able to do with these 'leaks' what they have done with their 'alleged' break-in/arson story.  Or maybe the SOBs will come up with a tale about how all this tritium in the river is being put there by anti-nuke terrorists.  

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by: PeteySweety @ Fri Dec 23, 2011 at 16:19:43 PM UTC