Tune in to watch one of the tallest structures in the Pacific Northwest BLOW UP!
http://www.kgw.com/...
Yes, it's the 500 foot tall Trojan nuclear power plant's cooling tower (say that one ten times fast) getting reduced to rubble, rebar, and broken, shattered, chunky-monkey dreams.
There it stood, on the Columbia river, a veritable skyscraper in the middle of 100-Acre Wood! An alien blast from the past, designed in a time when we thought nukeear power would be 'too cheap to meter..' and power would be essentially be free, free, free!
No kidding. Nukeeller power was supposed to be so cheap to produce, it just wouldn't pay to send a meter reader to everyone's house once a month. That's how it was sold, anyway.
But its replacement is under construction a few scores of yards away. It's a natural gas turbine.
This, at a time when natural gas is about to begin a steep decline in production.
http://www.hubbertpeak.com/...
Natural gas production peaked in the U.S. in 1973, and most commercial hydrogen production, and nitrogen fertilizers come from natural gas.
SO while you are drinking your coffee or Postum (to my non Mormon friends... a wheat-based coffee substitute), and considering the horrors of the upcoming RECESSION (even Greenspan admitted it this past week)... consider the OTHER things we've blown up in Oregon. Some, with more success than others.
The Seattle Dome.. easily the ugliest sports stadium I have ever bought a $5 dollar Pepsi in... blown up, and now thanks to Billionare Paul Allen's outright BUYING the electoral process.... Seattle area residents will now be paying for their folly for 30 years or so. Socialism for billionares, indeed.
http://www.seattleweekly.com/...
The Dead Whale that was blown up by Oregon's Highway Department in 1970. It washed ashore, and instead of burying it, towing it out to sea, the Oregon Highway Department .. blew it up. No kidding.
Better to watch the video link for that one.
http://perp.com/...
So what do WE LEARN from such wanton destruction? Have we looked at how money perverts our democratic process? Did we demand cheaper soda pop at stadium events? Have we realized that Vietnam AND Iraq, and soon IRAN will not be made better by our unwanted presence? Did we look deep into our souls about public financing for private stadium profits? Did we decide a backhoe was cheaper?
Allow me to quote one of the Oregon Highway Department's finest. After the whale was exploded. After looking over all the stinky goo laying around the beach, the rotting blubber on the spectator's cars, the smell of mortified cetacean in his hair...
He was asked what went wrong. Did he admit blame? That the process was, like Neocons invading Iraq... BANKRUPT from the start? Did he say 'true democracy would have given a better result?' Did he scream to the heavens, ' As god is my witness never again?'
No.
He said, 'The problem was, we didn't use enough dynamite.'
Indeed.