Posted on 09/16/2010 9:16:09 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
I thought you were on the way to beddy-bye?
As a Down-Winder, I think William Shatner had it together. But I can’t recall what he said about us...
Harry Reid is trying to scare us all with the nuclear waste...he’s too late...I’ve been nuclear wasted!
I live by the Idaho National Laboratory. They didn’t do any bomb tests there. But lots of other nuclear related activities. Lived in a small town on it’s other side. They (Arco)lay claim to being the first city lit by nuclear power. But I’m pretty sure that was Hiroshima. Seems like too many people out there die of some strange cancers. There was going to be some sort of Federal study but it never happened.
When I was an engineering student they took us on a field trip to one of the facilities. You could stand on top of that reactor and look through view ports while it was on. Weird blue glow. But really cool.
Thanks bhf!
Us Down-Winders have a lot to say. We didn’t dare speak up when we were fed iodine pills every week in second grade. We were told it was “what they did.”
Now, I can’t help asking how many of us have become ill and/or died because of the radioactive stuff we ingested. And how many children in St. George were born with Down Syndrome and other birth defects?
In the ‘80’s, I believe the statistics were NOT on the side of the liberals...
I was on the way, but I thought of something interesting to post. Then a fly landed on the touch-screen and zotted my post, so I went to bed.
John Wayne shot a movie in an area near previous tests, and he and his co-star (eventually) died of cancer; they weren’t the only ones among those who worked on the movie. Maybe someone knows the details of this better than my garbled version.
John Wayne and co were in a different direction than we were. We were NE, and the movie “The Conquerers” was filmed in Kanab, more to the east and much farher south. In fact, I slept in the cabin he stayed in once, when I was at a Singles Convention 20 years ago.
It’s still a nice area, though I imagine folks still glow at night. ;o]
Well, they may have been filming things surreptitiously, but I doubt if there was more than a handful of tests that were not officially recorded and documented to the T.
Go out to Youtube and search for “Davy Crockett”...
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