Chemical spill in W.Va.

[BlueStreak]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A0902T20140111

Yeah, no need for environmental regulation. All it does is kill jobs, anyways. Besides, the companies will do an excellent job of policing themselves. They drink the water and breathe the air too, you know.

Where is Senator Barton? We need to apologize to Freedom Industries for embarrassing them like this. I feel so sorry for them. Why would anyone want to do business in a country where you're held responsible for your negligence and irresponsibility? They should move to a more favorable business climate. I wouldn't blame them at all.

Dave

[finnbow]

Freedom Industries, eh? I saw their logo includes a big American flag. We should just leave this company alone because everybody knows that real patriots like to drink and bathe in 4-methylcyclohexane methanol.

[bobabode]

Isn't that the stuff they fry up freedom fries in?

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Freedom Industries, eh? I saw their logo includes a big American flag. We should just leave this company alone because everybody knows that real patriots like to drink and bathe in 4-methylcyclohexane methanol.

When some people speak of "freedom", they're not speaking of freedom in the general sense. They're speaking of their own "freedom" to behave like a total ass and make colossal messes without any ramifications to face from government or community. Screw that. That's freedom of the handful at the expense of many, which isn't freedom at all. It's tyranny.

Dave

[MrPots]

Turns out that as a chemical storage facility, it had no regulations or inspections to which it needed to comply. Nice little loophole there.

This is a nice jumping board into the water safety debate though, what with frackers on one side saying "don't worry" about the earthquakes and water, while the other side uses it's water Fawcett's as flame throwers and duct tapes it's pipes every time the earth shifts.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Freedom Industries, eh? I saw their logo includes a big American flag. We should just leave this company alone because everybody knows that real patriots like to drink and bathe in 4-methylcyclohexane methanol.

Since 9/11 I have become very leary of people that make a big deal out of displaying the American Flag.

There are just too many similarities to:

[bobabode]

Mine goes up on Flag day and Veteran's/Rememberance Day. That's it.

[BlueStreak]

Mine flies all the time.

But, if I saw somebody buring one, my only thought would be, "Asshole.", then I'd walk away. I'm not about to kill anybody over protest that I find distasteful. There's just something so "un-American" about that.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by MrPots

Turns out that as a chemical storage facility, it had no regulations or inspections to which it needed to comply. Nice little loophole there.

This is a nice jumping board into the water safety debate though, what with frackers on one side saying "don't worry" about the earthquakes and water, while the other side uses it's water Fawcett's as flame throwers and duct tapes it's pipes every time the earth shifts.

That's really weird. Because I know from past experience that chemical storage regulations can get pretty anal. At the headlamp plant, we had to build a separate "explosion proof" building just to house paints and solvents.

[MrPots]

I thought it odd too, but that's what was reported on NPR this AM.

My own industry (my day job) is regulated out the ass.......