Nothing like a bunch of Washington hypocrites, huh?
"Wash. sues to open nuclear waste site" by Associated Press | April 14, 2010
YAKIMA, Wash. — Washington state filed suit yesterday to stop the federal government from permanently abandoning the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, marking the latest clash in a dispute over where the nation’s nastiest radioactive waste should be stored.
Waste and spent nuclear fuel from south-central Washington’s Tri-Cities, site of the highly contaminated Hanford nuclear reservation and the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear plant, had long been intended to go to Yucca Mountain.
I say YOU CAN KEEP YOUR OWN S***!
The US Department of Energy has said the proposed desert mountain repository 90 miles from Las Vegas is no longer considered an option for radioactive waste storage. It has a motion pending to withdraw its license application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission “with prejudice,’’ which would remove it from consideration as a radioactive waste repository.
Don't you wish we hadn't wasted all that money building nuclear weapons, America?
Abandoning Yucca Mountain without an identified alternative “significantly sets back the cleanup at Hanford and puts our people and our environment at risk,’’ Rob McKenna, Washington’s attorney general, said in a statement.
Yeah, f*** the people in Nevada.
Nevada’s governor immediately fired back after receiving word of the lawsuit.
“Since the state of Washington is so enthusiastic about underground storage of spent nuclear fuel, perhaps their governor and their citizens will volunteer to have the nation’s nuclear waste dump located within their borders,’’ said Jim Gibbons, a Republican.
Yeah, NO ONE WANTS the STUFF!!
Would you?
The federal government created Hanford in the 1940s as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb. Today it is the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site.
Chris Gregoire, Washington’s governor and a Democrat, has said no option should be permanently off the table.
So where we setting up in your state?
South Carolina, which planned to send waste from the former Savannah River nuclear weapons complex, already has intervened in the case.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. — Public libraries’ refusal to disable content-blocking Internet filters for adult patrons does not run afoul of the state constitution, the Washington state Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
What are they trying to look at?
In a 6-3 ruling, the majority said libraries have discretion about which Internet content to allow, just as they decide which magazines and books to offer.
“A public library can decide that it will not include pornography and other adult materials in its collection in accord with its mission and policies and, as explained, no unconstitutionality necessarily results,’’ wrote the majority, led by Chief Justice Barbara Madsen. “It can make the same choices about Internet access.’’
Yeah, that has NO PLACE at the LIBRARY!
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The case was sparked by a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington in 2006 against the five-county North Central Regional Library District in Eastern Washington. US District Court in Spokane asked the state Supreme Court to review the case.
The case will now go back to federal court, to be decided under the guidelines determined by the high court.
The ACLU represented three library users and the pro-gun Second Amendment Foundation, arguing the district should be ordered to provide unblocked access to the Internet when adults request it.
Why don't you just flash the librarian and save us the trouble of tracking you down, pervert?
The plaintiffs include a Ferry County woman who wanted to do research on tobacco use by youth; a professional photographer blocked from using YouTube and from researching art galleries and health issues; and an Okanogan man unable to access his blog, as well as information relating to gun use by hunters.
So it's a ONE-SIZE FITS ALL FILTER, 'eh, sig heil?
Well, no reason to go to the library unless you are homeless.
The Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation contends the library district blocked online access to Women & Guns, a magazine it sponsors covering topics such as self-defense and recreational shooting.
Libraries that receive money for Internet access under two federal programs are required to have the ability to block minors from seeing pornography and other sites deemed harmful....
Who reads anymore anyway?
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E. coli kills boy, sickens three others
Seventh person dies from refinery blast
Related: Fire leaves 4 dead at Wash. refinery
Cause of fatal fire at oil refinery sought
Never heard back on that one, either!
Related: Around New England: Silent Gas Under the Sheets in Connecticut
WTF, Globe?
