Mouthing off

Ok, well before I get into Japan I have to tell you about Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) What a bastard! Where did they find these guys? Well, Kasich once worked for Fox (need I say more?) He just put some more cuts into his budget for Ohio -
now get this - I will only say it once and then on to Japan:
He is cutting funds from childrens' hospitals!!!!!!!

It is very bad in Japan. U.S. giving harder assessment than the Japanese government. Lester Holt - journalist for NBC had radiation on his shoes. The journalist he is working w/was just on tv and said they just got back to Tokyo from the north (that's where it all happened - north of Tokyo) and it is snowing quite a bit and they stepped in the snow and the radiation lays in the snow and that's how they got it on their shoes and on their tripods. Ok, enuf of that.
Gen. McCaffrey US Army (ret) said that the radiation is EXTREMELY high. I do not believe the Japanese government is saying that. Now, 20 million people live in Tokyo and we have 50,000 U.S. military w/families in Japan but I don't think they are all in Tokyo or maybe they are. France & Australia have told their subjects to either leave Japan or go at least 50 miles south of Toky. Can you imagine? Tokyo! It is unbelievable. The cancer this causes is usually thyroid and Iodine Potassium is used in cases of thyroid cancer and the shelves in the drug stores are empty because there has been a run on Iodine Potassium. E-Bay and Amazon have run out of Geiger counters because people are going crazy. I said 20 mil. people in Tokyo and yesterday I heard them say 35 mil. in Tokyo. Whatever it is, that's a lot of people! Now, they had 50 volunteers working on the reactors and they are getting sick. If no one is there there is no way to stop what is happening. However, they are working on the power lines and hoping they can get the power back on which will start the pumps getting water into the reactors. They tried yesterday using helicopters to dump water on them but it didn't work as the radiation level was so high they couldn't get close enuf. Our military have pulled the ships 50 miles out. BTW, the U.S. Navy & the Marines are the worlds biggest experts in nuclear reactors. I didn't know that. But then, why should I? However, and this is a quote, the U.S. Navy is "anal retentive" when it comes to their men and they are not going to let them get contaminated. Hopefully, they won't! A scientist was on MSNBC (actually a few have been on)They are actually experts in the radiation power plant field - and he said "If I were in Tokyo I would be extremely worried!"
Now, our government wants to build more plants. Of course, the Republicans want more plants. Sen. Inhofe (R-OK) said
"why is everyone so worried? This is something that happens every 300 yrs!" Well, it's happened 3 times in 32 yrs! I don't remember if I ever told you about Inhofe or "C" St in D.C. If I didn't I will one of these days. Very interesting. If I did talk about "C" st. maybe someone could leave me a comment or 2 to let me know.
We have 2 plants that are leaking as we speak. Did you know about it? I didn't. I don't think they advertise these things. One is Oyster Creek in NY and the other is Vermont Yankee which I have to believe is in Vermont. They are very, very, very old! And rickety! They want to run them at 120% of capacity (don't know what that means but I don't think I like it)for 20 yrs more. Now, the 2 in CA that are built on the fault, San Onofre & Diablo Canyon are also very, very, old. Where is this money coming from? I believe it was the Weeper of the House that said "it will come from tax payer's money". I guess it will have to because Wall St won't pay for it - Wall St. doesn't like power plants - they aren't good investments! When I turned the computer on this a.m. the front page shows some bits of news and it said U.S. doesn't have to worry about radiation from Japan - either at this time or right now, I forget, but it sounded that maybe at some time we will have to.
To sum it all up - it is very, very bad. Even though Limbaugh is cracking jokes and laughing at the Japanese - it is very bad. It is sad and terrifying and just plain awful! And it is hard to believe that it is happening.