The unfortunate thing is that no one wants nuclear waste near them, but we generate medical nuclear waste every day, nuclear plant waste less frequently but in larger batches when we do.

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in BS' Vetting Process.

Nope.

PS. Loved Paul Wellstone for fighting the fight.

I remember when a friend came into where I was working in New York and told me what happened..

We were all crying

He died far to young.

Always a little bit too busy.

....Sierra Blanca's legal efforts were successful and the Sanders' (both Bernie AND Jane, who is being paid to still sit on the commission) decision was unsuccessful.

against Sierra Blanca

of the pot-kettle paradigm

town, Sierra Blanca, TX, were not asked or informed. It was sneaked in secret out of VT and the same at their end. When the locals learned and tried to fight it, even traveled to Senator Sanders and begged him personally not to send Vermont's low-grade nuclear waste across the country to their modest county, he blew them off. They were helpless to stop it.

He's always been a true believer in himself, and if I had to guess it'd be that there were far fewer contradictions when he lived a modest life writing impassioned political tracts. Don't know about his tenure as a mayor, except that kind of work usually requires a lot of pragmatism. As this shows, though, how he's willing to use his great power unquestionably parted company with his vaunted "for the people" ideals early on after he grabbed the golden ring of a senate career.

themselves, were/are they? People should be able to trust the MSM to be just somewhat earnestly wrong, sometimes, not systematically deceiving them. But the intense corruption that's taken over the Republican Party and many of our public and private institutions has also taken over much or most of the MSM. Certainly MSNBC, CNN, the AP and the NYT are dirty as hell.

They mix coverage to fool people into believing they're as "fair and balanced" as Fox claimed, but the goal of all of them in 2016 was to elect Republicans and defeat Democrats, proven by a number of studies of coverage (though those just stated what they found and left the only possible conclusion to others).

Or the reverse?

Send it to Mar A Lago!

I suppose he'd prefer that everyone forgot it. Not in his backyard, but someone else's backyard is fine, apparently. His response to the people living in that area was despicable.

Of course, that was 20 years ago. Maybe someone will ask him about it now and see if he still says "Drop dead." I mean, that was in his youthful days, right?

because REASONS! Because UNITY! Because YOU NEED THEIR SUPPORTERS!

All others will be held accountable for any and all "positions" they held at any point in their life, even in their teens.

Soon after Sanders campaigned for him. Shumlin actually appointed her to two commission positions.

Back in 1994, the state of Vermont had a problem: it had a nuclear power plant operating, but nowhere to dispose of the toxic waste. The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, located in Vernon, VT, provided 71.8% of all electricity generated within Vermont, amounting to 35% of Vermont's electricity consumption, according to figures in 2008. However, Vernon was deemed to be geologically unsuitable for nuclear waste disposal, so a search by the state began for a new low-level radioactive waste dump site. The result of the search: enter a tri-state compact with Texas and Maine to build a disposal facility in Texas and ship the waste there. Vermont's Legislature passed the General Assembly Act 137, which outlined the compact but still needed US Congressional approval to enact.

Enter our hero, then-Representative Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who ardently supported and co-sponsored the bill H.R. 629, the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Consent Act. Once passed and signed, the bill would validate the currently existing individual state bills, and thus start the construction of the waste disposal site. But where in Texas would the dump site be? Tasked with finding a suitable location, the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Authority (TLLRWDA) recommended to build the waste facility five miles away from a small town in West Texas called Sierra Blanca: