conclusion

The reactors causing all the problems in Japan were made by G.E. In 1975 three engineers with G.E., who were reviewing the Mark 1 reactors, ended up resigning. Their reason? The Mark 1’s containment design in the even of a loss of cooling was so flawed that it would lead to disaster. Sound familiar? It should because that’s exactly what is happening in Japan right now.

But G.E. apparently believes in their “we bring good things to life” motto to much and refuse to see acknowledge that there could be a problem:

GE told ABC News the reactors have "a proven track record of performing reliably and safely for more than 40 years" and "performed as designed," even after the shock of a 9.0 earthquake.

“Performed as designed”? Is this a design performance of their reactors?

If there was ever a strong case for better government oversight, this is it. While the article doesn’t go into specifics, my guess is that higher-ups at G.E. didn’t like the research teams conclusion that the safety features were flawed. They figured it would cost to much money to fix, and in the end game, it’s all about money. Sure some will say “well if this is the case, G.E. will pay now”, but at what cost? How quick would these people change their tune if one of these reactors were in their backyard and this happened? Pretty damn quick I tell you!

I’ve been looking at local results this morning and have come to one big conclusion – tea baggers love them some socialism!

We had two county wide tax levies here in Butler County, Ohio. One was for the parks system and the other was for senior services. Both levies ended up passing, but when you dig into the precinct by precinct data an interesting pattern emerges. The more conservative areas that helped reelect John Boehner by the widest margins also supported these levies by huge margins. That’s a real tell that you won’t hear about in the media. It will be interesting to see if this is a pattern that occurred in other areas of the country as well.

Sarah Palin just keeps getting more and more attention:

A 42-year-old Wasilla woman was arrested Thursday at her home by Alaska State Troopers with a search warrant in an undercover drug investigation. Sherry L. Johnston was charged with six felony counts of misconduct involving a controlled substance.

Johnston is the mother of Levi Johnston, the Wasilla 18-year-old who received international attention in September when Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, announced their teenage daughter was pregnant and he was the father. Bristol Palin, 18, is due on Saturday, according to a recent interview with the governor's father, Chuck Heath.

Troopers served the warrant at Johnston's home at the "conclusion of an undercover narcotics investigation," said a statement issued Thursday by the troopers as part of the normal daily summary of activity around the state.

Troopers charged Johnston with second-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance -- generally manufacturing or delivering drugs -- as well as fourth-degree misconduct involving controlled substances, or possession.

Wasilla is known as the crystal meth capital of Alaska. Even though the article doesn’t say exactly what it was she was busted with, one can only assume. The Wassilla-billies strike again!

From Greg Sargent

Okay, this is interesting. I've just learned that CNN has told top Dem strategists James Carville, Paul Begala, and Robert Zimmerman -- who are CNN mainstays but are all Hillary supporters -- that they will not be doing any more political analysis on the network until the Democratic primary has reached a conclusion.

I'm also told that this move came after the Obama campaign repeatedly complained to high level officials at CNN about the presence of Carville and Begala on the network.

This has been brewing for months now. It's good to see CNN make the right decision in the matter.

OK - Now I have no doubts there is some conspiracy behind the high gas prices and Bush has helped me come to this conclusion:

President Bush on Tuesday ordered a temporary suspension of environmental rules for gasoline, making it easier for refiners to meet demand and possibly dampen prices at the pump. He also halted for the summer the purchase of crude oil for the government's emergency reserve.

The moves came as political pressure intensified on Bush to do something about gasoline prices that are expected to stay high throughout the summer.

Bush said the nation's strategic petroleum reserve had enough fuel to guard against any major supply disruption over the next few months.

"So, by deferring deposits until the fall, we'll leave a little more oil on the market. Every little bit helps," he said

Amazing that instead of finding out is the gas companies are really up to no good we just pass the buck to mother nature. The gas companies have long been opponents of the environmental regulations and Bush just gave them what they wanted. I thought our country didn't not negotiate with terrorist?

The post speech analysis seemed to all come to one conclusion last night -
Bush was trying to unite the country. So did Americans come to the some
conclusion?

According to the latest SUSA
poll, Bush failed on that attempt but not by much. 44% of those polled feels
he will divide the country more while 40% feel he will unite the country. 16%
wasn't sure.

Only 53% of the respondents felt that Bush focused on the issues most
important to them as compared to 41% who felt he didn't. This number is actually
kind of shocking. Iraq has been the number one issue and he spent 1/2 of his
speech on the subject. I got a feeling people are getting smarter and can see
through his rhetoric a lot easier now.

Another very interesting part of the poll focused on Bush telling the truth
about Iraq. 36% felt Bush was telling the whole truth while 37% thought he was
shading the truth. Those numbers are close but here is the alarming number. 23%
feel Bush is intentionally misleading when it comes to the situation in Iraq.
Basically that means 60% feel he is lying.

The final numbers on the poll conducted last night should send alarms through
the White House. 53% feel Bush is out of touch with the American people as
compared to 42% who feel he is in touch.

According to a new
Gallup/CNN
poll, Bush had the lowest level of positive response to his speech since he
has been in office.