Ex-Congresswoman Heather Wilson inappropriately paid by Sandia Labs:
http://www.nukewatch.org/watchblog/?p=1617
"The DOE IG report said that the facts indicate that federal funds were used for prohibited lobbying activities"
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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And you say you're not bitter. Pants on fire.
So if you want to rip off the public and line your pockets, make sure you spread your contracts around so everyone is at fault. This is a great strategy! Heather is a genius!
All a bunch of scumbags!
Read the newer posting before you jump on SNL, because LLNL and LANL are involved
November 7, 2013 at 10:20 AM
Maybe LLNL is involved, but haven't seen that in any of the stories. LANL was called out in the IG report on several locations, as was SNL.
http://llnlthetruestory.blogspot.com/2013/08/sandia-to-blame-for-cost-overruns.html
...as well as having managers that spend frivolously on extraneous trips...
"a couple of people in the Materials Chemistry department (including Adam Rowen, the manager) at Sandia booked a trip using Sandia funds to Hawaii to attend the 2012 ECS meeting. That is definitely a waste!"
This is the way of the world, Heather is just better player than most so who can blame her. There are winners and losers in life. Managers and workers, lions and gazelles. We all know the rules and we all play. If you lose than do not blame the better player. Envy the better player and up your game for the next go around, become the lion. Morals are nice but they can also be the excuse of losers. Come on if you where better players would you be so moral? I think not.
Double Bubba is back!!!
November 10, 2013 at 7:37 PM
Yeah and he also calls himself "POS" now. How unfortunate. Sigh...
November 11, 2013 at 9:21 AM"
Hashtag, what we have become is a for profit corporation. We now follow corporate practices to make a profit. What is good for the corporation is not necessarily good for America. If you do not like it get out. If you like it try to get what you can from it for you and the corporation.
"Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win
Kevin O'Leary"
Think about this and the way our contract is set up. Most of the profit is for safety and security.
Science is not part of the profit
and in most ways it is liability to LLNLs and can cost them money. You are NOT part of the team and the non-managers at LLNL are the competition. LLNLs is about making a profit nothing more and nothing less. In the end do not take what they do to you as personal it is just business.
November 11, 2013 at 10:15 PM
Apparently you have no idea how the award fee (i.e., the profit) is determined. The science goals are as important as the operations goals in determining the "profit."
November 12, 2013 at 9:04 AM"
I think you might be mistaken on this point. Science goals at best are 30% of the fee. You can look this up. In fact I believe the exact breakdown was put on this very blog The meaning of 30% science itself is very vague. If you got rid of half the science at the lab I you doubt you would lose more than 5% of the bonus. Think about that