Murderous rampage’: Gov’t lab worker threatens reporters

Well, there aren't many details to find on her, but if she's "tech staff" that could mean anything - high school degree, BA/BS, MS, or PhD so there's no way to know what she spent on her education or whether she got loans at all. While I absolutely do not condone her threats, whether made in jest or not, or her tweeting immature, stupid personal info on work time, which can't be verified now that she's made her account private, I have to say that reading through @COWatchdog's Twitter feed, and reading this and their other article on NREL (1. "secret lab"??? just because they wouldn't let you onto the premises? No honey, you can't just walk into any Senator's office or wander the FBI headquarters without an appointment either and we taxpayers fund them too, and 2. lacking documentation on salaries - does Arvizu make $900K from NREL alone, or combined with being on the BOD for State Farm, or other investments as well?), that I find them seriously lacking in professionalism and objectivism. News organization? Bulls*** - just look at some of their tweets and you might wonder if they bullied and harassed her into half of her replies just so they could get some attention for this story.

"@crosbolicious They are following you because you are crazy?" - do you think you'd see the official FOX News/MSNBC/Denver Post/etc Twitter admins replying this way to a conversation?


Multiple re-tweets of their own tweet, making sure to reference her so she'll get the direct mention and with a link to the story they've written about her - harassment at its finest.


This time multiple tweets to and about her, referencing an article written on an extremist website, and re-tweeting other opinion tweets that call her names like "unhinged scientist", envirofascist, and sociopathic moonbat - it reeks of stalking and paparazzi-like methods to get attention. She only has 247 followers - she's not going to get a call to arms, but re-tweeting right-wing bloggers opinions on the story is an obvious attempt to make a mountain out of a mole hill. So who's wanting to make a name for themselves?


On a side note, the quotes in the Nov 24th article I linked above from Nick Loris of the Heritage Foundation about government subsidized energy, and why he thinks the government shouldn't be funding green energy projects, made me laugh out loud at the irony.

However, at least one expert who has studied NREL doesn’t see any problem with the fact that the agency is overseen by a management company.

“I have no problems with the contractors operating the lab. They would do a much more efficient job than the government,” said Nick Loris, an energy policy analyst with the Heritage Foundation. “It should lower the cost of these projects.”

But what Loris doesn’t like is the entire concept of placing the government in a role of making energy affordable. That should be a job for the private sector.

“It’s not the government’s role to make energy cheaper. There is no reason the taxpayer should subsidize this,” he said. “We’ve seen the failures when the government gets involved in these projects. If they are going to be successful in the marketplace, they wouldn’t need help from the government”