Life in Good ol DEREGULATED Texas

God bless America said:
Well, Zappacrite?

Are you running away again after you "forgot" to mention that the West, Texas explosion occurred during Obama's term and failed to produce a single quote from a resident stating that they "wished they'd had a bit more Government oversight/EPA regulation"?

That is what you claimed Zappacrite. Here is your assertion in case you have Zapnesia:



I'm still waiting for you to back up your August 24 claim that Russell Walker is a Trumpkin, Zappacrite.
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https://twitter.com/russell363636


he posts about Maga on his facebook
 
evince said:
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Obama had nothing to do with Texas state laws idiot.
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It was a deliberate act of sabotage you tweaker. For all I know you had a hand in it.

Obama was president when it happened, which Zappacrite "forgot" to mention. I fail to see how "deregulation" caused what was determined to be a deliberate act of sabotage.

Zappacrite also "bet the people of West, Texas wished they'd had a bit more Government oversight/EPA regulation of the plant that exploded and blew half their town off the map". He hasn't been able to produce a single quote of any resident saying that so far.

I also want to know how "more Government oversight/EPA regulation" would have prevented a crazed killer form blowing up the plant.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is a federal agency. They have nothing to do with Texas laws, "business-friendly" or otherwise. There was no flood involved.

A 2013 fertilizer plant blast in Texas that killed 15 people and wiped out hundreds of homes was caused by a "criminal act," federal officials said Wednesday.

The findings were revealed in a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigation into the origin of the deadly fire and explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. on April 17, 2013, in the rural town of West.

The explosion flattened the farming community of 2,800 people, just north of Waco, turning some 500 homes into rubble as residents tried desperately to flee the horrific scene. Over 200 people were injured.

The force felt was equivalent to that of a magnitude-2.1 earthquake, and a 93-foot-wide crater scarred the site of the fertilizer plant, where dangerous chemicals, including ammonium nitrate, were stored.

ATF Special Agent Robert Elder said the agency is offering a $50,000 reward to help find the person who committed the crime, which was determined to be deliberate after "we ruled out all accidental and natural causes." But he could not say why someone would have set the fire.

"I think it's too early to speculate on murder charges," Elder added.

No arrests have been made, but more than 400 interviews have been conducted amid the investigation, Elder said.

Ten first responders and two volunteers were among those killed while fighting the initial blaze before the blast occurred just before 8 p.m. local time.

The event occurred during the same week the nation was gripped by the Boston Marathon bombing.

A memorial service for the victims in West drew then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry and President Barack Obama, who told the survivors, "We're neighbors, too. We're American, too. We stand with you and we do not forget."

In the past three years, the tiny town has bounced back, slowly rebuilding and honoring those who died with annual remembrances.

Litigation also remains ongoing. While some of the lawsuits against the fertilizer company were settled out of court for undisclosed amounts, other residents and businesses have sued. One trial is slated to begin May 16.

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board released its final report earlier this year about the blast. It determined it was "one of the most destructive incidents ever investigated" by the board.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...plant-explosion-was-criminal-act-feds-n572231


The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board is federal too. Obama was in charge. Turn yourself in.
 
Here's the Russell Walker that Zappacrite claimed is a Trumpkin.


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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...federate-Flags-Look-there-s-Martin-Luther-c-n

Here's the Russell Walker the tweaker tried to claim is the same person:

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https://twitter.com/russell363636

She also can't tell the difference between Twitter and Facebook. :rofl2:
 
christiefan915 said:
Sew buttons on your boxer shorts.

Cultural appropriation of a Pittsburgh epithet.
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taint neethur

As Carnegie-Mellon professor Barbara Johnstone points out, the term originates in northern England, where “the verb ‘to jag’ means to prick or poke.’”

“Jagoff,” it turns out, comes from the same root as “jagged,” a term for something that pokes or annoys.



http://www.lumpenmagazine.org/on-jagoffs/
 
God bless America said:
taint neethur

As Carnegie-Mellon professor Barbara Johnstone points out, the term originates in northern England, where “the verb ‘to jag’ means to prick or poke.’”

“Jagoff,” it turns out, comes from the same root as “jagged,” a term for something that pokes or annoys.

http://www.lumpenmagazine.org/on-jagoffs/
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Same author. Yer research needs redd up.

Among the many words used in southwestern Pennsylvania that are probably Scotch-Irish are redd up (clean up, tidy), nebby, slippy, and diamond for a town square. So is the word jag in the sense of poke or stab, from which come jagger (thorn, burr), jaggerbush (thorny bush), jag somebody off (irritate), jag around (fool around, goof off), and jagoff (a derogatory term for someone stupid or inept). Yinz, which is found throughout the Appalachians in various forms (such as you’uns), is most likely Scotch-Irish as well. So is the grammatical peculiarity found in expressions like The car needs washed or These customers want seated, where other dialects would have an infinitive (needs to be washed) or a present participle (needs washing). This is also found in Appalachian English and in the central Midwest
 
ZappasGuitar said:
Thanks to Texas' "business friendly regulations", Arkema doesn't even have to tell those who live near the plant what chemicals are being used/produced in the plant.

How is a community supposed to make contingency plans in case of emergency when the company won't even reveal what it is they use/make?
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You didn't read my post Zap. Under the Federal Emergency Planning and Community Right To Know Act (EPCRA) they are absolutely required too and The Texas Commission of Environmental Quality (TCEQ) reporting requirements are actually more stringent than the Federal standards. Texas has areas of deregulatory concern as you pointed out with certain fertilizers used in agriculture (sodium and ammonium nitrate) but the article you posted was factually wrong.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
You didn't read my post Zap. Under the Federal Emergency Planning and Community Right To Know Act (EPCRA) they are absolutely required too and The Texas Commission of Environmental Quality (TCEQ) reporting requirements are actually more stringent than the Federal standards. Texas has areas of deregulatory concern as you pointed out with certain fertilizers used in agriculture (sodium and ammonium nitrate) but the article you posted was factually wrong.
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Sorry, but it is Y-O-U who is wrong.

From the OP: "Dempsey went on to detail a back-and-forth he’d had with Arkema’s CEO, who refused to make the plant’s inventory public and who hasn’t answered questions about whether the plant has industry standard fail-safes that deplete the stock in case of disasters like Hurricane Harvey."

And according to the tceq, there are EXCEPTIONS to the TCRA which allow chemical companies to ignore disclosure laws under certain circumstances:

The Community Right-to-Know Program has been established under both federal and state laws. As a result of these laws, all facilities that store significant quantities of hazardous chemicals must share this information with state and local emergency responders and planners.
 
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