Canadian Reactor's Shutdown Radiates 'Round the World

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Wednesday May 27, 2009 · 9:11 AM PDT

2009/05/27 · 09:11

In a potentially tragic manifestation of the old saw, "the thigh bone's connected to the hipbone; the hipbone's connected to the backbone," a local power outage shut down the Chalk River nuclear reactor in Ontario, Canada; the shut down led to a heavy water leak at the world's oldest nuclear research reactor; the leak caused officials to close the plant indefinitely; the closing has obliterated the availability of certain nuclear isotopes used in both diagnosis and cancer treatment throughout the world, even at Damariscotta, Maine's Miles Hospital.

[crossposted at the Alna Harridan]

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Friday October 24, 2008 · 10:20 AM PDT

2008/10/24 · 10:20

If, like me, you love radio and think it has been decimated by the right wing bloviators for nearly 30 years, and that their swill has finally been proven to be swill, join me in sending up an alarm. Today. Tell them how wrong they have been to pollute our airwaves with these nincompoops, Limbaugh, Beck and their ilk and ask the directors to get them off the air. Our air.

Join me on the flip for a letter I just pounded into my laptop in hopes that it will effect some change here in Maine and maybe your town too.

Feel free to edit, improve and post your own letter. I sent mine to Program Director Jeff Wade at Portland Maine's biggest AM station, WGAN 560.

Cross posted on the Snoozette.

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Monday October 13, 2008 · 1:14 PM PDT

2008/10/13 · 13:14

Cross posted at The Snoozette and Turn Maine Blue.

Working Americans in recent weeks awakened to the reality of a devastated American economy suffering damage wrought by decades of policies aimed at enriching the rich. Today, Paul Krugman, the most widely read American economist, and an unabashed supporter of a "new New Deal," was made a Nobel Laureate for Economics. Franklin Roosevelt’s reinvention under similar circumstances of this country’s economy and society suddenly looms large.

Come with me around the bend to find or be reminded of the woman who made the old New Deal happen.

leolabeth

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Saturday December 10, 2005 · 4:12 AM PST

2005/12/10 · 04:12

Second. Diary. Ever.

Nearly three years after the police removed my husband from our home and I filed for divorce, day before yesterday I received the final ruling in the mail. If it weren't on official paper with a county seal, I'd think it a cruel and tasteless joke. Because the judge believed the lies my husband and his large family told about me, I must move from the town where I "went home to mother," though she's been dead since '98, and return to a provincial coastal village where my husband's family's lobster fishing version of the Sopranos hold considerable personal, economic and political sway, and, since I am practically a pariah there, all my friends will be virtual.
[Update: this is me begging for recs.] Will you help me keep this up long enough the snoozier among us weigh in? Thank you. Read More

EPA Predicts Nuclear Future for a Million Years

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Thursday August 11, 2005 · 6:57 AM PDT

2005/08/11 · 06:57

Yes, the EPA, bowing to a court order approved as the result of a US Court of Appeals Ruling has been forced to consider what might actually happen to our 70,000 tons of nuclear waste (and growing) over the next million years.

Does anyone else think the EPA's blithe response to an obvious deal-breaker borders on the insane? The pre-court order standard of 10,000 years, about twice as long as recorded human history, was crazy enough, but a million?

A sixth grader could look up the earth's crust's activities over the last million years and see that Nevada is about the worst place on the continent for this bizarre exercise. It is bright red with volcanic action. How can this be good? There's more... Read More

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