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monolith
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state of being
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Aug 30, 2017 - 11:58am PT
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invited known violent thugs
They don't need invites, Wilmot. You are quite disconnected from reality.
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Norton
Social climber
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Aug 30, 2017 - 12:18pm PT
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invited known violent thugs
prove it, name of both the inviters and invitees, sources...
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 30, 2017 - 12:42pm PT
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Look through the videos and photos and count them. Dudes.
From noted leftist commentator Alex Jones (do you Mr. Jones?) website
And while we're at it how about a few fascists
For comparative purposes only and the sake of conversation. Which group would you say constitutes a larger threat?
Based upon this video (say about @ :10), I'm gonna revise my estimate up to about 75-100 wannabees.
You'd think they could afford a cheap-ass car or at least a shotgun or two, no?
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Those "blackies" have me so skeered, I'm gonna go out and buy me some extra shells for my own shotgun.
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Norton
Social climber
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Aug 30, 2017 - 03:53pm PT
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supply and demand maybe?
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 30, 2017 - 04:45pm PT
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Anybody wonder why North Korea is not in this list? Then checkout Cambodia on down to Pakistan.
Ireland?
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Aug 30, 2017 - 04:57pm PT
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Russia is -0.2%? Putin needs to start a war again. South America has some strong representation in the red.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 30, 2017 - 05:42pm PT
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At a press conference Wednesday, Rich Rowe, Arkema's CEO said that if the volatile organic peroxides stored at the plant get too warm, some sort of explosion is inevitable.
"There is no way to prevent an explosion or fire," Rowe said.
Do these folks ever plan?
Ya kinda think about what sheeit_pile your sitting on and brainstorm [pun] about what could go wrong.
Why wasn't this plant in India where life is cheap, eh?
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Aug 30, 2017 - 06:07pm PT
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My brother lives 13 miles from the Arkema plant, he is waiting for it to blow. Texas has a reputation for lax regulation, it is good for the economy, not so good for everyone else.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 30, 2017 - 06:18pm PT
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Lock THEM up. All the scumbags in Tejas.
Attica, Attica, ENRON, WASTE MANAGEMENT, BP - Deepwater Horizon ...
didn't Madoff live in Texas?
There are compounds, not on hand at Arkema, that would have prevented this.
N E G L I G E N C E!
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Jorroh
climber
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Aug 30, 2017 - 07:15pm PT
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"Texas has a reputation for lax regulation, it is good for the economy"
Lax regulation is terrible for the economy.
Sure, for a few years a few actors can reap some profit while the externalities exponentially pile up. But sooner or later those external costs have to be paid... and when that happens the public picks up an enormous tab.
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August West
Trad climber
Where the wind blows strange
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Aug 30, 2017 - 09:42pm PT
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Clearly the taxpayers don't want that sort of government, witness who we elect.
DMT
I have no optimism otherwise. As I said in my previous post, I expect tax payers will rebuild Houston back to pretty much what it was only to see more multi-billion floods in the next thirty years.
Not counting the current disaster, I image that just Houston, New Orleans, and southern Florida will cost Federal tax payers tens of billions of dollars per decade (long term average). Rebuilding the historic part of New Orleans, which was on the highest ground, was reasonable. Leaving the parts of the city that didn't flood, was defensible (although I expect it will flood in the not too distant future). Rebuilding the parts that flooded, was dumb.
If you had a benign dictator in charge, you would plan on abandoning southern Florida over the next 100 years or so.
Instead we will spend $100 of billions rebuilding it so it can flood again.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Aug 30, 2017 - 09:55pm PT
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White lawmaker in Georgia warns black attorney she may ‘go missing’ if Confederate statues are threatened
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 31, 2017 - 07:50am PT
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Minced words?
“I don’t want the public thinking these are massive explosions,” Royall told reporters. Attempting to explain why the plant operator called them explosions while local authorities did not, Royall said: “We’re on the same page. It’s a matter of terminology. I call it a chemical reaction and an overpressure of the container.”
Gonzalez, the sheriff, said at a news briefing that the fumes created by the chemical reaction are “not anything toxic; it is not anything that we feel is a danger to the community at all.”
But federal authorities used dire language to describe the impact of those fumes: The chemical plume in Crosby is “incredibly dangerous,” William “Brock” Long, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said at a briefing Thursday morning.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 31, 2017 - 08:05am PT
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Trump includes the worst recession since the Great Depression, which brings down the 10-year average. This chart shows that that quarterly average since the recession was well above 2 percent, even hitting 5 percent in the third quarter of 2014. The GDP growth rate for the United States averaged 3.22 percent from 1947 to 2017.
https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/files/2017/08/fredgraph-9.png&w=1484
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Aug 31, 2017 - 04:12pm PT
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CeCK9BvZCc8
The racism that normally goes on every day in America behind closed doors, being exposed and aired nationally. Common, but eye-opening and disgraceful.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 31, 2017 - 07:11pm PT
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El Trumpo taxes being reviewed now.
#Lockhimup
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Vlad Pricker
Mountain climber
The cliffs of insanity, inconceivable
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So I said I wasn't going to post for a while if again, certainly not politard stuff. But I just watched Pat Robertson and Kellyanne Conway discuss Trump's best trait, she said it was humility.
Humility? Trump? That has to be fake news. Every time he opens his mouth it is about him, himself, the Donald. Heck, he probably thought the hurricane should have been called Trump and not Harvey, so he wouldn't be upstaged.
I will also post this on the "not a big fan of Trump, but" thread, as it is hilarious. Trump and humility, the only time those two go to together is in this sentence.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Kellyanne Conway discuss Trump's best trait, she said it was humility.
Was she sober when she said it?
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