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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 12:22 AM
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16. Speaking of cynicism
Why is it that these news sources such as the Washington Post, which were roundly and justly criticized for getting nearly everything wrong during the bu$h misadministration, have now suddenly become authoritative sources about events in Japan?
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  -Please eat Fukushima’s veggies, Japan tells radiation-wary nation nadinbrzezinski  Apr-15-11 09:53 PM   #0 
  - I feel sorry for farmers of food that is safe. My other thought concerns feeding repubs  uppityperson   Apr-15-11 09:58 PM   #1 
  - Most if not all is not safe  nadinbrzezinski   Apr-15-11 10:28 PM   #8 
  - nuclides - nucleotides are building blocks of nucleic acids  jpak   Apr-16-11 12:03 PM   #26 
     - Point taken fellow nerd  nadinbrzezinski   Apr-16-11 07:08 PM   #41 
  - Haha. Hey, repubs hate environmental regulation so much they shouldn't mind eating the food.  franzia99   Apr-16-11 10:54 AM   #24 
  - hari kari by degree...if we must die...let's die supporting each other  angstlessk   Apr-15-11 10:02 PM   #2 
  - Would they be supporting each other, or helping greedy TEPCO & GE execs?  franzia99   Apr-16-11 04:56 PM   #34 
  - They should have waved a radiation detector over that before eating  Cronus Protagonist   Apr-15-11 10:04 PM   #3 
  - I wonder how stoked they were on potassium iodine,  MadHound   Apr-15-11 10:12 PM   #4 
  - +1  Liberal_in_LA   Apr-15-11 10:18 PM   #5 
  - Remember this politico eating meat  nadinbrzezinski   Apr-15-11 10:26 PM   #7 
     - AAAGH! Warn me before you start posting gratuitous pictures of the Iron Maiden  MadHound   Apr-15-11 10:33 PM   #9 
        - Yep and with the iron maiden and BSE it was a strange  nadinbrzezinski   Apr-15-11 10:37 PM   #10 
        - lol  franzia99   Apr-16-11 05:04 PM   #36 
  - It's like the gulf seafood.  JVS   Apr-15-11 10:19 PM   #6 
  - Hey, BP is telling us that the Gulf seafood is okay to eat now  Hugabear   Apr-15-11 11:59 PM   #15 
  - Here's the real story  Art_from_Ark   Apr-15-11 10:56 PM   #11 
  - Glad you posted that.  dixiegrrrrl   Apr-15-11 11:30 PM   #12 
  - Speaking of cynicism  Art_from_Ark   Apr-16-11 12:22 AM   #16 
     - People here are beginning to distrust WaPo, much like HuffPo and not even reading the link.  dixiegrrrrl   Apr-16-11 08:45 AM   #20 
  - Geiger counters are worthless when used to measure radioactivity in foodstuffs  jpak   Apr-16-11 12:06 PM   #27 
     - link?  Hannah Bell   Apr-16-11 03:14 PM   #32 
        - link to DU post and article I posted couple days ago that sunk. I thought it very interesting.  uppityperson   Apr-16-11 05:54 PM   #38 
           - mark so can find later, if you reply please do it here as other one glitched, not on My DU  uppityperson   Apr-16-11 05:55 PM   #39 
           - Thanks. confirms my suspicion that talk of "geiger counters" in regard to radioactivity  Hannah Bell   Apr-17-11 02:35 AM   #44 
           - Is Bloomberg.com an authority on measuring radiation levels  Art_from_Ark   Apr-17-11 02:36 AM   #45 
              - I'll tell you what, and this is the absolute truth  nadinbrzezinski   Apr-17-11 08:48 AM   #47 
              - "go by the measurements taken by professionals" was exactly the message in the Bloomberg piece  muriel_volestrangler   Apr-17-11 09:06 AM   #48 
                 - The three links I gave were from my prefectural food safety dept  Art_from_Ark   Apr-17-11 10:07 AM   #49 
  - unrec for misleading story.  Hannah Bell   Apr-15-11 11:35 PM   #13 
  - Misleading is right  Art_from_Ark   Apr-16-11 07:35 AM   #17 
  - Does that include NHK and Kyodo? Just curious  nadinbrzezinski   Apr-16-11 08:04 AM   #18 
  - nhk & kyodo aren't in the op. the op is misleading. see here:  Hannah Bell   Apr-16-11 02:49 PM   #30 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Apr-17-11 02:37 AM   #46 
  - Misleading = Not Happy Talk - and reccing  jpak   Apr-16-11 12:09 PM   #28 
     - no, misleading = misrepresenting the facts.  Hannah Bell   Apr-16-11 03:13 PM   #31 
  - Life imitating art!!!  Rage for Order   Apr-15-11 11:38 PM   #14 
  - I am disappointed to see such a misleading article.  Bonobo   Apr-16-11 08:13 AM   #19 
  - Contact them, I posted the link in-thread  nadinbrzezinski   Apr-16-11 10:50 AM   #22 
  - What the Japanese government is doing to the Japanese people is criminal...  Junkdrawer   Apr-16-11 08:54 AM   #21 
  - If San ONOFRE goes  nadinbrzezinski   Apr-16-11 10:51 AM   #23 
  - And because OUR government insures US nuclear power plants....  Junkdrawer   Apr-16-11 12:00 PM   #25 
  - Yup  jpak   Apr-16-11 12:10 PM   #29 
  - What, exactly is the Japanese government doing  Art_from_Ark   Apr-16-11 04:47 PM   #33 
     - For example....  Junkdrawer   Apr-16-11 05:49 PM   #37 
        - So how would you have handled it?  Art_from_Ark   Apr-16-11 11:37 PM   #42 
        - A few more variables to consider  Art_from_Ark   Apr-17-11 02:20 AM   #43 
  - Sounds like when our government proclaimed Gulf seafood safe within days of BP.  Bluebear   Apr-16-11 04:57 PM   #35 
     - That's what I was thinking  MountainLaurel   Apr-16-11 06:46 PM   #40 
 

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