Jack Ohman for April 24, 2013

Ouch!

Based on the comments from the radical conservative extremists who post here, I’m sure that this is Obama’s fault.

Nice play on words. Should make libertarians squirm – if only they were thoughtful enough to perceive the connection.

ZING!!!!!! ROF LOL!clearly Obama’s fault – caused by government over-regulation of business.

Well, if was around the last time this plant was actually inspected (2006), it would have been Dubya. http://news.msn.com/us/rick-perry-disgusted-by-texas-blast-editorial-cartoon#tscptmf

Bless your “little” heart, do you feel better after drawing this?

From a Texan!

Actually, the issue at hand is federal, not state. []It was supposed to be up to OSHA, DHS, and several other federal agencies to keep tabs on the place, as the type of fertilizer they were using is regulated at the federal level. []It wasn’t even the state’s responsibility to get involved in the first place.[]And the decision to allow housing so near to the facility was a local decision, meaning that it was made by the folks in the city.[]Perry didn’t have a thing to do with any of this.

“Wrong, Business’s fault 100% for their failure of obeying safety violations”

What in the world is “obeying safety violations”?

the company lied to the regulator about how much explosives they had. they lied to the town about how explosive the stuff was. Sounds like a good American business to me. now if they can only get the state of Texas to cover the expensive of the clean up and lawsuits everything will be as it should be.

Screw Jack Ohman and the horse he didn’t ride on. This is sooooo outrageous and unacceptable I can not think of any “comic” that is this offensive. He’s out of here! F-him-Boy, that is an impressive counter argument.

Rick Perry has vowed to eliminate all those pesky regulations, so they can just build another fertilizer plant on the same site, only this time without all those pesky regulations and inspections and stuff.-No reason to adjust the Texas business friendly environment just because of one little ol’ accident. I mean it’s not like any of the business executives or state officials got hurt or anything.

Apparently, Rick Perry is aware of this cartoon and blew his ten gallon hat over it. The following is from an AP story on the cartoon:

Ohman defended his cartoon with an Internet post, noting that the fertilizer plant “had not been inspected by the state of Texas since 2006” and that many “Texas cities have little or no zoning, resulting in homes being permitted next to sparely inspected businesses that store explosive chemicals.”

“My job, as I understand it, is to be provocative,” Ohman wrote. “I provoke, you decide. I don’t dictate, I put out my opinion along with everyone else. I sign my name. I own it. In my opinion, I could have gone further. Much further.”

braindead08 said, about 16 hours ago

“@Jay Vaughn

Screw Jack Ohman and the horse he didn’t ride on. This is sooooo outrageous and unacceptable I can not think of any “comic” that is this offensive. He’s out of here! F-him-Boy, that is an impressive counter argument"I think the quote from General Buck Turgidson from “Dr. Stranglove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb” is appropriate and fitting here:Turgidson: “Well, I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.”

Yet another reason to avoid Texas like the plague.

Texassissippi

Bad Taste. But this is what happens to a state that wants no regulations.

The real bad taste is in my mouth when I say GOVERNOR Rick Perry. If your lack of safety regulations lead to disaster, be sure to blame the cartoonist.

I find it rather comical and sorry that a political satirist (from the left) can make these kinds of judgement on which to base their satire! While I do not think it is not Obama’s fault, I do think things like this comic are just sick as Obama parading families and kids from Newtown massacre to drive political agenda. Jack Ohman and the rest of you koolaid drinkin morons are going to feel really stupid if West, Texas disaster turns out to arson or a jihadist terrorist bomb!

Oh, additionally, you are all regulation experts and know the plant’s executives were following regs to the “T”. God, do you know just how stupid you sound?

No, if you closely in the lower left you will see Bush driving off in a used Presidential limo.-———Huh?

You would OBVIOUSLY know sick and disturbed

Actually, we would all be better off if we ignored the trolls (Ms. Ima, HOWGOZIT, Gore Bane, Brandon, etc.) … all they do is spew the same one-and-two-line bulsit on each page — rants that get under the skin of right-minded people … consider that either (1) none of them care any more than to hit-and-run like most who spray grafitti on any blank space, and don’t really care what anybody thinks, or (2) some right-wing/Tea Party sugah dadda pays them to spew this garbage, making them low-life freeloaders, just as they accuse everybody who actually employs actual thought processes before posting on the Internet.

I would be VERY interested to see a DD214 proving more than three months of honorable service from any of these right-wing trolls … but I expect that could never happen …

Just a couple of cents from a 20-year USMC (Ret) who earned a master’s degree in something other than a redneck agenda …

I told you this would happen.

And the owner of the plant only carried one million dollars in liability insurance.……….http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/atty-texas-plant-blew-carried-1m-policy-19109697

… and guess who will pick up the rest of the tab?

Hint: not your beloved deregulated un-gubminted corporation.