I Hear the Thunder, from Three Miles Away. The Island is Leaking Into the Bay

A young Blue listened to Dan Fogelberg when he was a teenage romantic and bought the album "Phoenix". So imagine when he heard a great rocking tune by this wonderful sensitive poet. It was called "Face the Fire" and it lends some lyrics to this title. Fast Forward some thirty two years. Mr. Fogelberg has passed, (much, much to early) young Blue has become Ole Blue, romance has given way to reality...But Nuclear power was becoming relevant in a positive way. Some of us liberals were realizing that when ran right, it's a clean energy, ways are even being conceived to make nuclear waste and meltdowns a thing of the past...Then a massive earthquake ravages the country of Japan. The Fukushima nuclear plant is affected. Of course the nuclear powers there are scared so they fudge some facts but sadly it seems we may be paying the price in our country for that fudging. When it became known that some facts were being hidden, we, in the States,  raised holy hell with them. Many tales of bravery are coming out like seniors volunteering their time to see damage and be guinea pigs for the future generations, skeleton crews volunteering their time in the plants again, in essence, dooming themselves...But boy are we pissed at the Japanese Government for not telling us the full story...


Folks we can get off our soapbox. How many of us in the states now that in Nebraska there is a level 4 nuclear emergency in their power plant? It isn't just the "lamestream media" or "liberal media" not covering this. We only hear about this from the Salem times or Hawaii times. No Fox looking to capitalize on a mistake happening in the Obama Administration (his fault or no), no NPR to calmly tell us that two or three states away that serious shit is going down, No CNN having Anderson Cooper tell us in his heartfelt, touching voice how brave people are in Nebraska...we get nothing.

I do understand the concept of top secret. If we know the truth about some things we will be scared shitless or definitely lack some judgement that better trained minds than ours, but if I at 14 was smart enough to catch on to the serious issue that was Three Mile Island, don't we think, media outlets, there's some 14 year old say maybe in Nebraska, that would like to know what the fucks up?