Jen Sorensen for April 30, 2013

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    ConserveGov  almost 11 years ago

    Funny how libs like Jen would’ve been blaming Bush for the explosion if he was prez, but Barry gets a full-time pass.

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    rmacprivate  almost 11 years ago

    Yeah, Winston Churchill.

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    Nighthawks Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    ah, THAT was the third federal agency he was going to do away with when he became prez. the army corp of engineers

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    Ironhold  almost 11 years ago

    As an actual Texan?[]All three levels of government – local, state, and federal – dropped the ball on this one. []Blaming Perry for the entire deal is unfair and dishonest.

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    Chillbilly  almost 11 years ago

    In my post above, I mentioned that I lived in a central Texas town (Temple) with a plastics factory (WilsonArt) right smack in the middle of town and that we could smell formaldehyde at the high school. If you look at that on Google Earth, you’ll see how perilously close it is to a lot of residential areas—and of course the high school.

    I have to wonder what makes people buy, rent or live in houses so close to danger or toxicity. Scott & White Clinic is located about a mile from that plant. That’s where my dad worked. And they put is in the high school too. I guess it’s easy to not think about these things until it’s too late. Some people think the government should do that thinking for you and others don’t.

    All sarcasm, snarky comments, etc. aside I think the best that we can do without zoning is to try to think for ourselves where danger may lie. In Texas, you should take it for granted that you’ll need to do that thinking on your own.

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    steveo2  almost 11 years ago

    the good thing is less Texans!

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    I Play One On TV  almost 11 years ago

    I grew up in Virginia Beach. The Navy operates a jet base there, which trains pilots. They long ago told the city where not to build. This did not stop the city “planners” from putting malls, tall hotels, and whole neighborhoods where they were asked not to do so.

    This continued constantly, accelerating during the 1980s during the Reagan buildup, making it the biggest city (in population) in the state.

    About 10 years ago or so, the Navy had had enough, and threatened to move. Like a child that continually tests its parents, suddenly it was “Oh, please, please, please, don’t take your industry away. We’ll do ANYTHING!” Building projects were stopped after the initial destruction but before the next project was started. They moved my elementary school out of a crash zone that was not really, because they used an incorrect map (and they put it across from a hospital on the busiest street in the city…I suppose they really hope someone will die in an ambulance because of the traffic). About this time, I had had it, as well, and moved out.

    Cities are about growth. Smart growth….not so much. As with the feds, if someone has the means to do things and the money to help “persuade” the right people, bad things happen. There are whole neighborhoods that were built with drywall, blue-foam insualation, and vinyl siding. Not a piece of plywood in any walls. Tomorrow’s slums today.

    As I have said, and it still applies, if people were honorable, there would be no need for unions, regulations, inspections, OSHA, etc. Despite the claims of people about how religious or spiritual they are, for the most part, it comes down to how many people are we willing to inconvenience, cost money, and perhaps kill in order to make the balance sheet look right.

    In the old days, when there was a garment plant that collapsed in Bangladesh, or when an entire country was wasted in an earthquake because of shoddy concrete construction (think Haiti), we could feel safe in the knowledge that it couldn’t happen here.

    No longer. Until people become altruistic, there will always be those who will be willing to lose a few of us to save a buck. Deregulation is NOT the answer.

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    Train 1911  almost 11 years ago

    bush was never elected president how can you call him president

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    Ironhold  almost 11 years ago

    Again – the local government and Uncle Sam both dropped the ball as well.[]Where’s the blame for them?[]Or do you want to just make Perry a scapegoat so that you don’t have to look at the government?

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    3hourtour Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    ..you don’t have to deregulate..just defund…if you have no one to inspect…

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    3hourtour Premium Member almost 11 years ago

    …it’s tragic,not ironic that workers at a fertilizer plant are pushing up daisies…

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    Chillbilly  almost 11 years ago

    Who needs libmedia with rational, carefully thought-out analyses like you provide?

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    bgcmagic  almost 11 years ago

    Seems odd mainstream press goes after Perry, but gives Obama a whole-lota free passes, why do we have such a liberally corrupt media?

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    PMcDonald1963  almost 11 years ago

    We would all be better off if we ignored the trolls (Ms. Ima, HOWGOZIT, Gore Bane, onguard, ConserveGov 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 …

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    Hawthorne  almost 11 years ago

    Where do I nominate this post for ‘post of the year’?

    Thank you for asking these questions and particularly the second. I have been trying hard to figure this out, with no success.

    Unfortunately, I doubt we’ll get an answer to either question.

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