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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Arrest Has Been Made In Ricin Mailings
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.
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?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.
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.
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?
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.
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
"I don't know how I do it. I'm like the Mr. Bean of sex." -DrunkscriblerianFertilizer 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
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Also, Texas just has some damn stupid zoning laws. That is to say, they don't have any.
"The marvel is not that the Bear posts well, but that the Bear posts at all."We like living on the edge here. Makes things interesting.
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
Texas, home of caveat emptor? After all, that's what True Freedom (tm) requires.
edited 18th Apr '13 12:48:25 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Club for Growth splits with Eric Cantor, opposes House GOP ObamaCare bill
Senator Rubio (R-FL): Republicans are 'primarily' to blame for culture of dependency
edited 18th Apr '13 1:42:34 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016

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.