amazingly enough...david lee roth knew all the words to the songs when i saw them.
shocking.
And boom goes the fertilizer
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shocking.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/texas-fertilizer-plant-stored-1350-times-the-amount-of-chemical-that-would-trigger-oversight/article11436704/
Fertilizer plants and depots must report to the Department of Homeland Security when they hold 400 pounds (180 kilograms) or more of the substance. Filings this year with the Texas Department of State Health Services, which weren’t shared with the Department of Homeland Security, show the plant had 270 tons of it on hand last year.
The West Fertilizer facility was subject to other reporting, permitting and safety programs, spread across at least seven state and federal agencies, a patchwork of regulation that critics say makes it difficult to ensure thorough oversight.
Feature, not a bug.
But I mean, who cares? There's money to be made, and the firefighters ain't even paid.
Fertilizer plants and depots must report to the Department of Homeland Security when they hold 400 pounds (180 kilograms) or more of the substance. Filings this year with the Texas Department of State Health Services, which weren’t shared with the Department of Homeland Security, show the plant had 270 tons of it on hand last year.
The West Fertilizer facility was subject to other reporting, permitting and safety programs, spread across at least seven state and federal agencies, a patchwork of regulation that critics say makes it difficult to ensure thorough oversight.
Feature, not a bug.
But I mean, who cares? There's money to be made, and the firefighters ain't even paid.
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Homeland security.
What a f-ing joke.
What a f-ing joke.
270 is less that 400. Keep your socialist bs off the free market.
Totally shocking that system failed. But I mean who could have expected it?
Somewhat. Turns out self-reporting doesn't work so well, but that's mostly (from what I understand) so that DHS knows where potential targets are.
OSHA, the EPA, and "The best regulator of business is business!" libertarian assholes are much more at fault. Not to mention the owners of the plant, who at this point appear to have not been arrested.
Lucky the explosion was so large, there's probably not a lot of blood to get off your hands. Splinters of skull and bones are a bitch to remove though.
Late on Friday, plant owner Donald Adair released a general statement expressing sorrow over the incident but saying West Fertilizer would have little further comment while it cooperated with investigators to try to determine what happened.
"This tragedy will continue to hurt deeply for generations to come," Adair said in the statement.
Why hasn't this fvcker been charged with negligent homicide yet?
Most of us?
That sounds a little conservative.
Most likely because he has the ability to write a check big enough to make this go away. That prick Warren Anderson didn't spend a day in jail after Bophal.
This.
Welcome to our wonderful world where Capitalisim and Neo lib politics's collide.
Dammit can someone rep that kangaroo molesting hentai fetishist for me. 
I don't know if he's going to be able to do that. This isn't Dow Chemical. It looks like Donald Adair employed less people than he incinerated.
Dude, seriously?