‘Blah blah blah’ WTF!

Nuclear power in general does scare me. I know if  done correctly it can be safe, but I think with the brilliant scientific minds in the world we can find a better solution. I know I wouldn’t want anyone I know and love to live anywhere near a Nuclear power plant. Perhaps I saw Silkwood at too young and impressionable an age, but everybody knows messing with atoms can be catastrophically dangerous. It shouldn’t be taken lightly. In this clip McCain mocks Obama’s discretion over executing nuclear power safely. I want a President that will thoroughly assess everything he stands by and that should include the questions “is it safe”, and “is it safe for the environment”. I don’t think the words “safe” and “environmental” should ever be connected with “blah, blah blah”. 

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Eight years ago the University of Colorado (CU) became the first U.S. university to buy renewable energy credits. Today the mile-high school supports local offset projects. CU does more than buy its way out of carbon guilt, however. More…

Poor Dead Wolves

This article from Salon makes me so sad.

From the article…

Yet it is not hard to find Alaskans who say Palin’s enthusiasm for predator control fits a broader narrative of how she edits science to suit her personal views. She endorses the teaching of creationism in public schools and has questioned whether humans are responsible for global warming.

More still

“Across the board, Sarah Palin puts on a masquerade, claiming she is using sound management and science,” says Nick Jans, an Alaskan writer who co-sponsored the initiative. “In reality she uses ideology and ignores science when it is in her way.” The initiative was defeated last month.

It would seem that Sarah Palin has the same interest in science that President Bush does…

Says Jans, co-sponsor of the losing initiative to outlaw aerial wolf hunting: “This is a reflection of a somebody who doesn’t have any use for science.”