West, Texas explosion editorial cartoon strikes a nerve with Rick Perry

[SlyPokerDog]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/...ical-cartoon-strikes-a-nerve-with-Rick-Perry#

 

[jlprk]

Deregulation.

Texas has always prided itself on its free-market posture. It is the only state that does not require companies to contribute to workers’ compensation coverage. It boasts the largest city in the country, Houston, with no zoning laws. It does not have a state fire code, and it prohibits smaller counties from having such codes. Some Texas counties even cite the lack of local fire codes as a reason for companies to move there.

But Texas has also had the nation’s highest number of workplace fatalities — more than 400 annually — for much of the past decade. Fires and explosions at Texas’ more than 1,300 chemical and industrial plants have cost as much in property damage as those in all the other states combined for the five years ending in May 2012. Compared with Illinois, which has the nation’s second-largest number of high-risk sites, more than 950, but tighter fire and safety rules, Texas had more than three times the number of accidents, four times the number of injuries and deaths, and 300 times the property damage costs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/u...texas-remains-wary-of-regulation.html?hp&_r=0

 

[DaLincolnJones]

bullshit

just caughta pi ece on OPB no less,that they have found bomb fragmants at the xpolsion site

 

[MARIS61]

bullshit

just caughta pi ece on OPB no less,that they have found bomb fragmants at the xpolsion site

Link?

 

[Denny Crane]

http://news.yahoo.com/unexpected-twists-case-deadly-blast-texas-fertilizer-plant-194420106.html

Unexpected twists in case of deadly blast at Texas fertilizer plant

A first responder to the huge explosion last month at a Texas fertilizer plant was arrested Friday for possessing a pipe bomb – but officials aren't linking his arrest to the deadly incident. The probe, however, is now a criminal matter, they said.

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On Monday, investigators said they had ruled out weather and natural phenomena as causes of the blast, which happened about 20 minutes after a fire began tearing through a fertilizer and seed building on the property.

 

[DaLincolnJones]

oh no, where is my tin foil hat and my coat of self rightouness....

 

[jlprk]

oh no, where is my tin foil hat and my coat of self rightouness....

Did you post that when Boston exploded? When Bush wanted to fight Saddam? When the Republicans politicized Benghazi?

Or do you only make conspiracy accusations when your side starts to lose?

 

[jlprk]

bullshit

just caughta pi ece on OPB no less,that they have found bomb fragmants at the xpolsion site

Bullshit. Has not happened. Link?

A pipe bomb causes an explosion about .0001% that big.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

That NY times article makes Texas sound a little like Mexico. Throw in some corruption and take away the boarder and Mexico would just blend into Texas.