I held my breath as I passed through a puff of rude smoke. I had to re calculate my route when some creeper guy stood smack dab in the middle of the sidewalk and looked me up and down and followed me with his eyes as I passed making a big curve away from the creep right through someone's cigarette smoke as they blissfully and ignorantly puffed away while waiting at a bus stop. Did you have to take a breath at the end of that sentence? Because that's how I felt after I got across the street and evaluated what I had just walked past. Some men these days have no decency; whistling out their window at girls maybe a third their age. Maybe as I get further into my psychology studies I will find out that there is some major epidemic of creeperness in the male population ages 35 to 60. Or maybe the radioactive waste at Hanford finally reached the Columbia river and we're all slowly being poisoned as we hydrate ourselves, some of it going straight to the brains of middle aged men. Either way, my life is filled with instances of uncomfortable situations because of some disturbing fascination middle aged men have with making young girls feel repulsed. I dress conservatively and feel that same amount of unwanted attention from nasty obnoxious men as do girls who try to flaunt what they got to get that extra attention. Until today I don't think I have ever reflected on how uncomfortable I can be by just one unwanted stair by a creepy stranger.

As if the world needed something else to worry about, the United States government used human testing to see what would happen if, I don't know, radiation was injected into the blood stream, or how about feeding children radiation injected oatmeal. When an explosion occurs at a nuclear power plant and radiation is falling from the sky into your city, would you want to know about it? The Soviet Union tried to play this off in Chernobyl until they were caught when SWEDEN's nuclear power plant alarms went off for heightened levels of radioactivity and they began to investigate where the hell this was coming from. It took 6 DAYS for the nearby city to be evacuated. A large fraction of the rescue squad from the explosion died within 3 months from all the exposure to radioactivity without protective gear. The Soviet Union wasn't going to say anything about this and let people continue living their lives in cancerous radioactivity causing things like thyroid cancer and those exposed long term affects in their kids like down syndrome, chromosomal aberrations, and neural tube defects. Those who were working at the time of the accident were told to continue working at their stations. Radioactive rain was experienced in the UNITED STATES. But, the United States buried radioactive waste some odd miles away from Point Hope, Alaska without using any of the usual precautions such as encasing the material in some sort of container or how about informing the residents of such a dump. It wasn't until an anthropologist went to this unique community to study them that alarms went off with all the cases of cancer deaths. The U.S. government said oh must be your lifestyle choices smoking with your religious ceremonies. Not. Or how about when the U.S. drew blood, filled it with radioactivity, then injected it back into the Marshallese test subjects. Who would consent to that? They didn't. They were forced to. How about going outside to see it raining a strange gray material into your water supply? How many Americans would like that? Oh wait but you haven't heard the best part, that gray material is radioactive and you just drank it because you were told it was safe to drink anyway. All but a handful of the Marshallese have survived this radioactive testing performed by the U.S. government. Now they are facing famine because their food sources are still contaminated from the atomic bombs dropped. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8fRvH1nPGo is a 6th grade choir singing in Marshallese. Notice how a lot of the words they sing are in English because their language has never needed the words like bombs or leukemia. It scares me what the government is capable of getting away with. You hear about the genocide happening in Africa or child labor in China but you never hear about how the U.S. poisoned its people and poisoned communities to study its affects. Well duh radiation is deadly. How much more do you need to know? What is the purpose of these "studies"?

That was a long boring rant. Reading optional I suppose. I always critique people I hear talking who sound uninformed or naive. But really I think the whole world is a little bit naive. There are some things that have happened that some people are better off not knowing, I guess. Live happier lives that way I suppose.