Why I Get My News From Rush (RE: Japan)

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Today:

RUSH: There's a website that people tell me is the most reliable information about what's happening. It's called the Nuclear Energy Institute, and as of 11:35 this morning Eastern Time, this is their update from Fukushima Daiichi: "The reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant are in stable condition and are being cooled with seawater, but workers at the plant continue efforts to add cooling water to fuel pools at reactors 3 and 4.

"The status of the reactors at the site is as follows: Reactor 1's primary containment is believed to be intact and the reactor is in a stable condition. Seawater injection into the reactor is continuing. Reactor 2 is in stable condition with seawater injection continuing. The reactor’s primary containment may not have been breached, Tokyo Electric Power Co. and World Association of Nuclear Operators officials said on Thursday. Access problems at the site have delayed connection of a temporary cable to restore off-site electricity. The connection will provide power to the control rod drive pump, instrumentation, batteries and the control room.

"Power has not been available at the site since the earthquake on March 11. Reactor 3 is in stable condition with seawater injection continuing. The primary containment is believed to be intact. Pressure in the containment has fluctuated due to venting of the reactor containment structure. TEPCO officials say that although one side of the concrete wall of the fuel pool structure has collapsed, the steel liner of the pool remains intact, based on aerial photos of the reactor taken on March 17. The pool still has water providing some cooling for the fuel; however, helicopters dropped water on the reactor four times during the morning (Japan time) on March 17.

"Water also was sprayed at reactor 4 using high-pressure water cannons. Reactors 5 and 6 were both shut down before the quake occurred. Primary and secondary containments are intact at both reactors. Temperature instruments in the spent fuel pools at reactors 5 and 6 are operational..." Now, when you read this -- and this is from a site that I'm not told is as credible as anything out there, not a news media site: Nuclear Energy Institute. This contradicts almost everything I'm seeing on television. On television, it's the apocalypse. So what are we to do? Answer: Don't panic.

Nuclear Energy Institute site: nei.cachefly.net/newsandevents/information-on-the-japanese-earthquake-and-reactors-in-that-region/

[Value Buy]

PBP,
With all due respect, I would not take this statement has the Holy Gospel.
I think the situation is not as stable as depicted.
It is much worse, imo.

[Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ]

I choose not to get my news from someone named after the initial effects of recreational drug use.

Do you have a source that says Limbaugh was named after a recreational drug?

[ugonow]

It's obvious he doesn't take it too seriously,if he can joke about it----www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/16/rush-limbaugh-mocks-japan-refugees_n_836384.html

[Mkitty is pro kitty]

On television, it's the apocalypse.

So Rush is watching Beck. Do I hear an echo ... cho ... o?

Do you have a source that says Limbaugh was named after a recreational drug?

There's lots of sources that give his first name. Since there's no apocalypse or anything, there's no Rush to do so.

[vonnie6200]

Rush Hudson Limbaugh III was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the son of Mildred Carolyn "Millie" (née Armstrong) and Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Jr. His father was a lawyer and a U.S. fighter pilot who served in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. His mother was a native of Searcy, Arkansas. The use of family name "Rush" was originally chosen for his grandfather to honor the maiden name of family member Edna Rush.[2]

From wikpedia

[vonnie6200]

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[billisonboard]

Re: Why I Get My News From Rush (RE: Japan)

Mar 17, 2011 17:12:09 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Today:

RUSH: There's a website that people tell me is the most reliable information about what's happening. It's called the Nuclear Energy Institute, ....

What is the "Nuclear Energy Institute?

NEI is the policy organization for the nuclear technologies industry. www.nei.org/aboutnei/http://www.nei.org/aboutnei/

Personally, I question going to the web site of the paid shills of the industry.

[billisonboard]

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[marjar]

Nuclear Energy Institute is a nuclear energy lobbyist group. Think they may be a tiny bit biased?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Energy_Institute

[marjar]

www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/world/asia/19japan.html?_r=1&hp

[Angel!]

So you get your news from rush because he is capable of using the internet & reading the news off of a computer? Why not just skip the middle man & go straight to the computer yourself?

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Personally, I question going to the web site of the paid shills of the industry.

So, you're completely discounting all the global warming claims from colleges and universities that are paid shills for the government and extremist environmental groups?

[billisonboard]

Mar 18, 2011 11:30:12 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Personally, I question going to the web site of the paid shills of the industry.

So, you're completely discounting all the global warming claims from colleges and universities that are paid shills for the government and extremist environmental groups?

I support tenure which means that the person's job is not on the line for not saying what the bosses wish said. I question grants from industries that fund "chairs" at colleges and universities.

btw, I also question the going from the "I question" of my statement to the "you're completely discounting" of your statement.

[marjar]

And all this time I thought Rush was an entertainer.

[Deleted]

I don't listen to Rush, just because he is on at the same time here as Laura Ingraham, and I like her more---- but-- these people do not just make things up, you know. They study the news, have teams of people helping them do that. You may not like their SLANT on it-- always 2 sides of any issue, but they do not create the news.
Just saying..............

[safeharbor37]

I've found over the years that things are never as bad as the news makes it look, or as good as the news makes it look. Remember, it's the job of the news to make news.
In my time in Florida, I've enjoyed watching/listening to how my neighborhood was being blown away. I've lost power and had a tree blow over on my house, but it was never anything approaching what I saw on TV/heard on radio. Maybe next time. The local news makes out like a bandit during hurricane season [They get a lot more for local programing than for network offerings].
Just notice how quick something becomes "yesterday's news" when a new story pops up. It tells you something. Notice how the market is holding up ~ and they are silly-nilly scaredy-cats.

[hello fromWarsaw]

#18- except when they DO - last time I listened to Rush he said 66% of Wisconsin graduates couldn't read (total STUPID LIE) and went on from there about teacher thugs (!!!)...

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Mar 19, 2011 20:26:05 GMT -5 hello fromWarsaw said:

#18- except when they DO - last time I listened to Rush he said 66% of Wisconsin graduates couldn't read (total STUPID LIE) and went on from there about teacher thugs (!!!)...

You are incorrect. Rush quoted the United States Department of Education's own report that concluded that just 32% of 8th graders in Wisconsin could pass a reading proficiency exam. That acutally makes the number greater than two thirds-- 68% who could not pass that exam.

Even the lefties at PolitiFact had to acknowledge this was TRUE.

He archives the show, you know. That's why people like you that go around misquoting him have been embarrassed so badly (and so often) over the last twenty some odd years.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Deaths from earthquake and tsunami: 19,000 and counting.
Deaths from reactor 'meltdown': 0

[hello fromWarsaw]

I heard what he said,- and Wisconsin's 34% proficiency was 4% OVER the national average, meant nothing like what he- or YOU- say. You are totally misled STILL!

[hello fromWarsaw]

You just repeat his LIES. ;D, the big fat idiot...at BEST!

[safeharbor37]

That's why people like you that go around misquoting him have been embarrassed so badly (and so often) over the last twenty some odd years.

Come on Paul. You can't embarrass those people.

[hello fromWarsaw]

Rush has been proven a huge liar so many times only dittoheads believe a thing he says. So insult me, violentyly closeminded ones

[safeharbor37]

It seems that some have found that exposure to radiation levels in excess of what AEC considers safe may actually be beneficial for health. One example was women who had regular x-rays for lung problems were found to have less breast cancer.
Worrying about it will probably prove more harmful to our health than any radiation from the Japanese reactors to which we'll be exposed.

[Deleted]

Yeah, safe-- I heard Coulter tell that story. Seems some studies show radiation to some degree can protect from cancer. Interesting. Makes sense, also, to a point.

[safeharbor37]

Beneficial effects of radiation and regulatory policy. Jaworowski Z. Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection, Warsaw, Poland.Abstract
Adaptive and stimulating effects of ionizing radiation occur at near natural doses. This disagrees with linear, no-threshold hypothesis on the dose/effect relationship, which is a basis of the current radiation protection. Vast literature demonstrates that such effects, usually known as hormetic ones, occur at molecular, cellular and population levels, and often result in increase longevity and decreased cancer incidence. Exposure to lower than natural radiation causes deficiency symptoms in protozoa and bacteria. Hormetic effects suggest that the current radiation protection regulations may be too conservative. After the Chernobyl accident, adverse health effects and vast material losses were induced in the former USSR by practical implementation of the ICRP radiation protection recommendations. A revision of the current approach to managing the risks of ionizing radiation is needed for the public interest. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9409013

Low-dose radiation is documented to be beneficial for human health but, for political reasons, radiation is assumed to be harmful at any dose. Radiation-protection scientists, and others, who cover up the data that contradict present policy should be investigated for misconduct.
Low-dose radiation has been shown to enhance biological responses for immune systems, enzymatic repair, physiological functions, and the removal of cellular damage, including prevention and removal of cancers and other diseases. Research on low-level radiation has also shown it to have no adverse effects. Yet, current radiation protection policy and practice fail to consider these valid data, instead relying on data that are poor, ambiguous, misrepresented, and manipulated.... www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/nuclear.html

Policies and myths that were created half a century ago by the International Commission on Radiation Protection (ICRP) have convinced many people that radiation is harmful in any amount. The regulatory authorities, and many research scientists, continue to ignore statistically significant evidence that contradicts this linear no-threshold view of radiation. They simply ignore both the evidence that shows there are no adverse effects from high levels of natural radiation in many regions, and the evidence that low doses of radiation received by nuclear workers and medical patients (including cancer patients) provide significant over-all beneficial health effects.

The ethics of the International Commission on Radiation Protection's behavior is being questioned and debated in the scientific community, [37, 38]but there is enormous bureaucratic resistance to any change that would disturb the billions of dollars of research money and clean-up funding flowing as a result of the linear no-threshold myth. [40]

Most damaging is the public fear that this myth perpetuates, making it difficult for many scientists to present the real evidence of the beneficial effects of low-level radiation that have been observed on humans and other living things. It is, therefore, not surprising that the very important UNSCEAR 2000 Report received very little publicity. So, the myths about cancer and abnormal babies will continue, as scientists carry out more and more politically correct and politically funded research on the response of cells and mice to radiation.

The linear no-threshold myth blocks efforts to supply reliable, environmentally friendly nuclear energy, to power the world economies. It also blocks the widespread use of low-dose radiation therapy to cure or control cancer and other diseases. In the name of ”protection,” it is actually causing harm. How long will it be before concerns about energy supplies and cancer death rates will cause people to pay attention to the actual scientific results, discount the myths, and take action to reap the great societal benefits? www.mitosyfraudes.org/Ingles2/Rad-1.html

[Value Buy]

Safeharbor, I love ya man, but I will take my radiation in as a low of a dose as possible, just in case you are wrong.......
No leaking radiation from Japan is necessary for me.
I will stick to the Doctor's office, or a Boeing 737......

[safeharbor37]

Me too. I was just trying to put things in perspective. My mother used to say, "You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die." I didn't take that literally, even as a kid, but remember that while working in the garden, pulling carrots out of the ground, rubbing them against my jeans and then eating them. We fertilized with cow manure. I also learned that no tomato was more delicious than one from a plant that grew spontaneously out of a cow paddy.
I remember going to the Thom McAn show store to watch my foot bones wiggling in my shoes while my mother was shopping. They took those out due to concern about radiation, but I never heard of any ill effects from the x-rays.
When I was a kid working in a service station [in violation of child labor laws] I used to clean my hands with carbon tetrachloride when gasoline wouldn't get the grease off [despite warnings]. There's more, but since all that's from over sixty years ago, I'm assuming that there were not fatal consequences. I think that people worry too much about minor environmental hazards like dirt, chemicals and such. A certain amount of exposure I think is probably beneficial [It toughens you up ~ kink of like the Indians dipping their newborns in frigid water] and, although I try to avoid those things said to be harmful, I don't worry a lot if I do get exposed. I don't get flu shots, but I do go to the doctor if I get sick. I try to eat right, but don't worry much if I don't.
Everybody's got to die of something. Jus' sayin'.