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Perry disgusted by newspaper cartoon depicting Texas plant explosion
pioneer press ^ | 4-27-13 | ap

Posted on 04/27/2013 8:11:03 AM PDT by TurboZamboni

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To: sagar

Get my drift... if there first, they should have bought the lot on which the houses were now on, if they did not want a blast wall, or else put up a blast wall. It takes two to tango this tango.


61 posted on 04/27/2013 10:27:06 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: HiTech RedNeck; All

Gov. Perry is one of very few politicians with any down to earth values and real patriotism.


62 posted on 04/27/2013 10:33:18 AM PDT by varina davis (A real American patriot -- Gov. Rick Perry)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Agree 100%.


63 posted on 04/27/2013 10:35:41 AM PDT by sagar
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To: varina davis

And that’s fine. I’d think that West, Texas might have been lax in not requiring a factory at which fuel for a blast was present to be zoned well away from houses, or vice versa, absent a blast wall or other shield like a woods. Perry’s not to blame for that. Just like we don’t need Barack Obama to tell us when we need a dog catcher.


64 posted on 04/27/2013 10:35:42 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: sagar

Which is fair enough. If I was a residential developer and coming in later, I’d want to work with the factory to erect a blast shield or even do it myself in the area facing the factory. I couldn’t in good conscience sell houses in such danger to ignoramuses (notwithstanding that many customers probably would be employees at the factory itself and would know the danger).


65 posted on 04/27/2013 10:38:40 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: sagar
Your guess seems reasonable but I got the impression this was the first time the plant stored ammonium nitrate. If so and if the other operations were rather innocuous, very little separation or berms would have been required. It sounds like this was a change of use and occupancy and the proper protection may not have been up to standards. We won’t know that until an investigation is completed. The insurance carrier will most likely conduct a separate and independent losss investigation since they may well be on the hook for the exposure liability.
66 posted on 04/27/2013 10:45:25 AM PDT by trubolotta
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To: TurboZamboni
More on the weird acts of the best and brightest Bee brains.

"A "Boondocks" comic strip featuring 'radical scholar and future voice of Black America Huey Freeman' went too far when the fictional character said conservative activist Ward Connerly should be beaten with a spiked bat . . . In the September 12 strip, 'Boondocks' author Aaron McGruder also called Connerly a 'boot-licking Uncle Tom.'

cartoon here

The best and brightest Bee brains saw nothing wrong with the cartoon.. it was just satire.

Yet.. earlier they dropped the "Non sequitur" cartoon because one of the cartoons was critical of newspapers.

67 posted on 04/27/2013 10:47:55 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck; sagar; mnehring
What we know about West and West Fertilizer.

(1) The population of West has been about the same since the fertilizer plant started up in 1962. People didn't build up around the plant, the plant was built among them.

(2) West Fertlizer was authorized to store up to 27 tons of anhydrous ammonia onsite and to notify the regulator if they had more than 1 ton in storage at any time. They had 55 tons of anhydrous in storage when the plant blew, and 270 tons of ammonium nitrate. They were in flagrant violation.

(3) These substances are ones that terrorists would love to get their hands on, so the company was not only playing with the lives of their neighbors, but by concealing their true stock of goods they were also potentially playing with anyone's life. When sagar talks of "personal responsibility" he is clearly exempting the owners of West Fertilizer from this requirement.

68 posted on 04/27/2013 11:01:15 AM PDT by wideawake
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You’re a bit late; sagar already conceded this. It apparently wasn’t a place known for this sort of blast hazard when it was erected. Whether the population change reflects a change in home siting, who knows. We don’t have data to that level. Anyhow, if there was a law and the plant disobeyed, then unless someone told the state and the state ignored it then certainly Perry does not bear blame. Why should we have the state inspecting every facility which is not supposed to have deadly quantities of chemical in it, when it ostensibly does not even deal in that chemical?


69 posted on 04/27/2013 11:32:51 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: wideawake

... anyhow, until companies in California stop disobeying laws too, maybe this idiot cartoonist should shut up.


70 posted on 04/27/2013 11:34:20 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

It certainly isn’t Perry’s fault, and the cartoonist is indeed an ass. The blame lies solely on those who made the reckless decision to overstock the facility.


71 posted on 04/27/2013 12:30:28 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: sagar
That fertilizer company is toast — but a new company will start, I am certain, to meet the demands. Cannot stop free market.

Maybe, but probably not. The current owner (a local farmer) bought West Fertilizer about a decade ago, when it was about to go out of business.

The locals were grateful, because they didn't have to start driving to Waco to buy fertilizer and other farming supplies.

72 posted on 04/28/2013 5:33:24 AM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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