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WB: Every Story Tells a Picture
Billmon:
At first I thought the "jolie ville" sign at the top was some kind of reference to noted Davos groupie Angelina Jolie, but later I found out that it was the name of the restaurant inside the center. Which actually had pretty good food, but I would have still preferred Angelina.
Every Story Tells a Picture
Union Local Stages Celebration March
First Nations Gird for Nucular War Path
Friday, 26 May, 2006
API – Las Cruces
Amid wild cheering and sporatic gunfire, the
Local 5-283 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic
Energy Workers Union, their brothers at Los
Alamos, the UC Professional and Technical
Employees and Los Alamos National Security,
a new quasi-private labor organization
created by UC Regents and Bechtel Corporation,
many legions of white-haired white-coated lab
scientists from Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
a whole battalion of Westinghouse/BCSR/Kaiser
workers just bussed in from the Hanford Nucular
Reservation, two wings of uniformed Navy/Atomic
Energy Commission staff, and colorful swirls of
drunken and ebullient supporters of Republican
Congressman Senator Pete Domenici marched
in the hundreds of thousands through the narrow
streets of tiny Las Cruces today, to celebrate the
inauguration of the Neo Age of Nucular Power.
With generous tax credits, government guarantees
for delays and cost overruns, and a National Energy
Policy Act plan to build six new nuclear reactors with
public tax monies, Senator Domenici in one stroke
has created the second largest white male welfare
bureaucracy since President Bush Jr started his
Neo Little War in Iraq, and spawned the bloated
and stinking DHS/FEMA white welfare hotel.
Onlooking First Nations leaders observed the grand
march with grim resignation. Nelson Fists-for-Hands,
a local paraplegic who lost the use of his hands after
being exposed to radioactivity in the uranium mines,
waved an American flag at the crowd and laughed.
“The White Man is eating the Earth,” he shrugged,
“and now they all want to get on the nucular welfare
dole. This is bigger than Sputnik! Whoo-ahh!!”
Nuclear energy, (pronounced “nucular” by Patriots,
and “nucleer” by gay effete liberal environmentalists)
has never made it into the Big Top Three of efficient
energy production, simply because the real costs
of mining, transportation and waste disposal have
always been kept off-budget for ‘national security’.
However, with the Global Warming Kyoto Accords and
‘carbon credits’, some say were instituted specifically
to underwrite the rebirth of nuclear power, this has lent
a faux gold patina to an otherwise dark life-killing force.
“Some say we should wait until we have a disposal
solution,” Domenici spoke in session, wailing with his
raised forefinger “But I have been to the Mountain! (Yucca).
They’re finding new ways to dump (sic) nucular waste every day!”
“Besides,” he laughed, “The House voted in 2001 to force
Nevada to provide the long-term storage for nuclear waste
from all around the country, so hey, what’re ya’ gonna do?”
The marchers met in Las Cruces Square to watch
lobbyists from the mining industry in Wyoming and
New Mexico, as they engaged in a belly-bumping
contest, then march organizers held a “star-dance”
with Chuck Wagon and the Wheels and Girls with
Guitars playing, possibly a folksey reference to the
six-pointed “Star of David” atomic energy symbol,
which has since been re-made as a kinder, gentler,
four-leaf clover beside a smiling pink bunny rabbit.
Where is John Glenn, now that we need another Space Race?
Posted by: Focus Chil’runs | May 23 2006 3:41 utc | 8
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