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RadicalTaoist scratching at .8, just hopin' from the #GUniverse Since: Jan, 2001
scratching at .8, just hopin'
#53326: Apr 17th 2013 at 6:50:27 PM

Canada doesn't have that many parliamentary ridings, and we've got almost 30 times the population with the second largest territory in the world to govern.

In my weekly Charles Pierce flogging, it appears that Massachusetts has had enough of your shit. Glad to see people from my home state defend it. We should brofist our neighbour Vermont too, they know where it's at.

Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.
DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#53327: Apr 17th 2013 at 7:03:31 PM

Arrest Has Been Made In Ricin Mailings

Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#53328: Apr 17th 2013 at 7:18:53 PM

That fast?

I wonder if it's possible that they could learn something about the bombings.

Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Wandering Jew
#53330: Apr 17th 2013 at 11:55:30 PM

[up]

The explosion was at Waco...

I'm hoping that's just an very eery coincidence.

edited 17th Apr '13 11:58:33 PM by DeviantBraeburn

Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#53331: Apr 17th 2013 at 11:56:31 PM

I've been hearing about that all night, since I live in Texas. That's just, like, seventy miles away from me. While a tragedy, I'm not sure how it relates to larger US politics at the moment. I think this is just really a tragic accident and unrelated to other things; it's not like a fertilizer plant makes a great target for terrorists.

thatguythere47 Since: Jul, 2010
#53332: Apr 18th 2013 at 2:57:25 AM

Video of the second explosion (28ish in) for those interested.

Sort-of facts that CNN has been reporting:

2.1 magnitude blast

estimated 70 dead

confirmed 150+ injured

Blast felt several miles away

Google maps of the area: Note the apartments, school, playground and tennis court in what appears to be half a mile of the fertilizer plant .

Seriously, who the fuck zoned this? People are literally dead because some fuck-head decided that it's perfectly okay to put apartments within spitting distance of a goddamn fertilizer plant.

Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#53333: Apr 18th 2013 at 4:22:30 AM

You're expecting sane zoning in a state where the head politician attempts to fix droughts by prayer?

RadicalTaoist scratching at .8, just hopin' from the #GUniverse Since: Jan, 2001
scratching at .8, just hopin'
#53334: Apr 18th 2013 at 6:44:40 AM

This is like the worst week in the States in years. Please, would shit stop blowing up for like a month? Is that too much to ask?

Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.
TrashJack Confirmed Doomer from beyond the Despair Event Horizon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Confirmed Doomer
#53335: Apr 18th 2013 at 8:32:01 AM

[up] Shit will stop blowing up for real when the next Michael Bay film comes out. At which point, shit will start blowing up for fake.

"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary
Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#53336: Apr 18th 2013 at 8:33:40 AM

[up]

Yes, it makes a horrible mess of the bathroom...

Keep Rolling On
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#53337: Apr 18th 2013 at 12:22:25 PM

Presumably they didn't expect the fertilizer plant to explode like it did. I haven't really heard anything about WHY it exploded; it's mostly been about police cordoning off the area and evacuating anyone who lives near there. I'm far enough away I'm in the safe area.

Not being familiar with zoning laws, I'm not sure what's up with that. I think that's mostly decided at the local level though?

DrunkGirlfriend from Castle Geekhaven Since: Jan, 2011
#53338: Apr 18th 2013 at 12:35:48 PM

I've heard that they're not accepting help from the feds with this, so I'm assuming it was just a regular run-of-the-mill factory explosion and not a targeted attack.

[up] It probably exploded because fertilizer is pretty explosive. Lots of people have used fertilizer-based bombs before.

edited 18th Apr '13 12:36:25 PM by DrunkGirlfriend

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Lost in Space
#53339: Apr 18th 2013 at 12:38:16 PM

Fertilizer is used to make homemade bombs. Ammonia, nitrogen, oxygen = kaboom. This isn't the first such accident, assuming that it is one. The timing is bound to stir up fears that it's not a coincidence.

edited 18th Apr '13 12:38:37 PM by Fighteer

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#53340: Apr 18th 2013 at 12:41:39 PM

Also, Texas just has some damn stupid zoning laws. That is to say, they don't have any.

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#53341: Apr 18th 2013 at 12:43:03 PM

We like living on the edge here. Makes things interesting. tongue

But seriously though, this isn't a targeted attack. While populated, it's not the sort of area that would draw a lot of attention if not for the unfortunate timing. If they wanted to draw a lot of attention it'd have happened in the DFW area, not some relatively unknown place seventy miles away.

edited 18th Apr '13 12:44:17 PM by AceofSpades

Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#53343: Apr 18th 2013 at 12:44:19 PM

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Indeed - the Provos were using that trick in Ireland for years (until Gadaffi, NORAID, and the Sovs started giving them better stuff).

edited 18th Apr '13 12:44:28 PM by Achaemenid

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#53344: Apr 18th 2013 at 12:45:05 PM

We like not knowing if going to work or even to our homes might kill us or not. tongue

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Lost in Space
#53345: Apr 18th 2013 at 12:48:07 PM

Texas, home of caveat emptor? After all, that's what True Freedom (tm) requires.

edited 18th Apr '13 12:48:25 PM by Fighteer

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DeviantBraeburn Wandering Jew from Dysfunctional California Since: Aug, 2012
Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#53347: Apr 18th 2013 at 1:41:55 PM

[up]I love how the republican byline is "culture of dependency"

As though it was somehow a moral failing of people who have no money to have no money.

DrTentacles Cephalopod Lothario from Land of the Deep Ones Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Cephalopod Lothario
#53348: Apr 18th 2013 at 1:45:52 PM

Hint, Rubio. You're attacking the wrong part of the republican party line.

I mean, sure, the "It's never our fault" part could use attacking, but I'm more worried about your toxic socio-economic policy.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#53349: Apr 18th 2013 at 1:47:09 PM

Does that culture of dependency also include FEMA?

Curious because I have been Archive Binge-ying political cartoons and some of them were about that.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#53350: Apr 18th 2013 at 1:47:31 PM

Rubio's nothing more than a shill for "look, we really are trying to rebuild the party. We even let a brown person join the party!"


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