Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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For my money, I'd like to see LLNL pulled out of NNSA and put back into the DOE office of science. LLNL's guard force is about to be cut in half now that SNM has been removed. Continuing to treat LLNL like a mini Pantex, LANL, or Y-12 makes no sense. LLNL just doesn't look like the other NNSA sites.
As to LLNL's guard force being whittled down, what happens if SNM is imported from LANL, which is one of the items on the table with CMRR being scrapped.
Both have put their personal interests over the interests of the country.
Why should the security people at y-12 care more about their performance than does our weak, disinterested, self-serving president and congress?
The USA is really hindered by its weak government.
If Congress took it from him, either by transferring NNSA to a new agency or by firing him, he would be equally happy.
Him keeping the worthless D"Agostino - the futile architect of the privitization of the labs - allows Chu to ignore the labs. It he is asked to engage much, he will resign. No interest.
Kinda like my interest in Rachel Maddow. If most women were more like her, I'd turn in my masculinity and settle for a gay relationship....No interest
What's the point of rushing into a bad choice when there is no urgency? After all, it was just a 82 year old nun. Not like it is indicative of systemic failures in the culture or anything serious.
Btw, Rachel is better and more interesting than any of the right-wing FNC hacks.
August 17, 2012 8:13 AM
Rachel Madcow?? Nah.
If women were more like Rachel more men would prefer sheep...
What man in his right mind would tolerate this raging, opinionated cow?
If she wasn't useless, she'd act on her beliefs and actually do something rather than just gab, gab , gab. The most annoying trait of womenhood (and yes, of raging conservative hacks who have adopted the classic women's tactic of annoying people into action by incessant insistance)
Just sayin..