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There's a Real Environmental Catastrophe Unfolding In Ohio and the Media Is Downplaying It Or Just Not Reporting It for Some Reason

toxicplume.jpg

Let's talk more about carbon dioxide while burying the story about the train derailment that released toxic chemicals into the air of Ohio and the ensuing die-offs of fish.

A train derailment last week in Ohio has turned into a full-fledged environmental disaster, and it's received surprisingly little national media coverage.

Last Friday, a train belonging to Norfolk Southern, one of America's leading rail operators, derailed near the Pennsylvania border, leaving what the Associated Press called "a mangled and charred mass of boxcars and flames" just outside the village of East Palestine, home to about 5,000 people. The crash created a 50-car pileup--half the train's length. According to Norfolk Southern, a fifth of the cars were carrying hazardous materials.

The wreckage proceeded to burn ominously all weekend. By Sunday evening, residents near the train tracks were told to "immediately evacuate" in a sudden alert from the office of Governor Mike DeWine. He went on to warn: "There is now the potential of catastrophic tanker failure which could cause an explosion with the potential of deadly shrapnel traveling up to a mile."

Apparently a particular cause for concern were 14 giant tankers that were "exposed to fire" while full of hundreds of thousands of gallons of vinyl chloride. A chemical used in PVC, vinyl chloride is flammable, toxic, and a declared brain, lung, blood, and liver carcinogen. The federal government banned it from household spray cans in 1974. Breathing it "can make you dizzy or sleepy, or have a headache," a fact sheet released two days ago by the Ohio Department of Health alerts readers. "You can die from breathing extremely high levels of vinyl chloride."

It also boils at just 8 degrees Fahrenheit--meaning moving it into containers that cleanup crews could cart away probably wasn't a safe option.

Instead, the cleanup crew performed a "controlled burn," burning the stuff up.

But the byproducts of incineration are also dangerous.


Residents told the local news they "fear[ed] for their lives." One said that even indoors, "You could smell it and taste it, and I had a headache." Meanwhile, the crash site was leaching other hazardous materials besides vinyl chloride. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says they seeped into surrounding waterways, and "were immediately toxic to fish"--though it added that "actions were taken to minimize that." The agency has assured the public that, the poor aquatic life's fate notwithstanding, everybody's drinking water was "protected."

Bullsh!t.

So why is the media covering up what would usually be a four-alarm fire of a story?

Well, because it's happening on Biden's watch, and because the media knows that this disaster is once again well beyond the capabilities of the Secretary of Transportation, Mayor Butt, to manage.

So into the Quiet Pile the story goes.


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This Twitter user gives his own report after noting the derailment hasn't gotten much national media attention, and the media reporting it has gotten is "not good."


Stuff like this makes me think they're lying:

The governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine, is very nominally a Republican. If there was actually an official RINO Party, he'd belong to it.


Posted by: Ace at 12:11 PM




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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 13, 2023 12:12 PM (uNylN)

2 This is horrible. Ignore it.

Now turn off your AC to prevent carbon from getting into the atmosphere.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:13 PM (LvTSG)

3 not first. not in otter danger now....

and yeah, i can think of no reason they wouldn't want to discuss this at all....

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 13, 2023 12:13 PM (Mkvkw)

4 I wonder if li'l baby beau, up in heaven has foresaken us?

Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy at February 13, 2023 12:13 PM (MLrvz)

5 Hey, you know what else the MSM is downplaying and or not covering as well?

The continued baby formula shortage and oh, The Junta walking us directly into WWIII.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:13 PM (MDmJR)

6 This should be the lead story on every TV news station but it isn't. An environmental catastrophe that should give the green energy people tons of free ammo, but no one is talking about it. Very odd.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 13, 2023 12:13 PM (uNylN)

7 Ace, thank you for appearing and saving me fromt he last thread.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 13, 2023 12:14 PM (Y+l9t)

8 I genuinely had not even heard of this until yesterday, nine days after it happened.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2023 12:14 PM (bhRsz)

9 That's one helluva smoke column.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) reminds you at February 13, 2023 12:14 PM (yQpMk)

10 What a clusterfuck

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at February 13, 2023 12:14 PM (OgrpQ)

11 If Trump were President, this would be getting round-the-clock news coverage.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 13, 2023 12:14 PM (2tUFv)

12 Look, fat, what is the point of owning the media if you can't suppress a story here and there?

Posted by: blaster at February 13, 2023 12:14 PM (pwExq)

13 Dark cloud descending upon Western Civilization...sorry, feeling the vibe of the last thread...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:14 PM (ynpvh)

14 Tire Fire

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 13, 2023 12:14 PM (NtVYv)

15 Thanks, ace.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 12:14 PM (zZu0s)

16 Where's that gnome Fauci to tell us if we must or must not wear a mask for this shit?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2023 12:15 PM (/EuRN)

17 I strongly endorse this video of Tulsi Gabbard. It's relevant to the post, and is about 16 minutes.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8dkxfk

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 12:15 PM (eOEVl)

18 Pete should ride to the rescue on his bike wearing his bike helmet as protection. He's Super Pete!

Posted by: Puddihead at February 13, 2023 12:15 PM (8Sqzu)

19 16 Where's that gnome Fauci to tell us if we must or must not wear a mask for this shit?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2023 12:15 PM (/EuRN)

Will work as well as for COVID. Leftists should try it out.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:15 PM (ynpvh)

20 They won't discuss it because it would bring up a larger discussion about the piss poor management of the railroads, and the way the Biden admin and Congress screwed over railroad workers in order to prevent a strike prior to the midterms.

Posted by: Ronald at February 13, 2023 12:16 PM (wmDcS)

21 I wonder how long it took the administration to find a real chemist to tell them how serious this was.?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2023 12:16 PM (anj39)

22 We are the New Soviet Union.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2023 12:16 PM (lf83v)

23 Tell me again why pipelines are bad, grandpa Joe.

Posted by: Archer at February 13, 2023 12:16 PM (gmo/4)

24 Have they started to eat the babies like New Orleans yet?

Posted by: Puddihead at February 13, 2023 12:16 PM (8Sqzu)

25 >>>Well, because it's happening on Biden's watch, and because the media knows that this disaster is once again well beyond the capabilities of the Secretary of Transportation, Mayor Butt, to manage.


In fairness, the only thing within the capabilities of Mayor Pete to manage is getting rear-ended in a Prius.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2023 12:17 PM (bhRsz)

26 21 I wonder how long it took the administration to find a real chemist to tell them how serious this was.?
Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2023 12:16 PM (anj39)

What's today, the 13th? I'd say give it until 2025 or so.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2023 12:17 PM (/EuRN)

27 the derailment hasn't gotten much national media attention, and the media reporting it has gotten is "not good."

Well, we just had the Super Bidet and all those dead Turks and Syrians from last week's quake.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:17 PM (ynpvh)

28 Railroads.


Those are Transportation, no?


Where is our Transportation Secretary?
On Vacation?

Chest Feeding?

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2023 12:17 PM (9qmLq)

29 Once again, Buttplug is AWOL. And gay. Really, really gay.

Posted by: Archer at February 13, 2023 12:17 PM (gmo/4)

30 When you are the government and don't have a fucking clue, start arresting reporters. That always works.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2023 12:17 PM (lf83v)

31 Prevailing winds will carry the hydrochloric acid straight over Pittsburgh to New York. I wonder how long the contaminants will stay in the air.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 13, 2023 12:17 PM (QbC6G)

32 Had a fire breakout at a railroad tie manufacturing plant near Goldsboro on Friday also. Flames were 30 feet tall. Nothing the fire department could do, but they certified it a forest fire to allow aerial retardant drops.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at February 13, 2023 12:18 PM (OgrpQ)

33 Ohio is no stranger to "let it burn" Sherwin Williams paints fucked up Dayton for a bit.

Posted by: sven at February 13, 2023 12:18 PM (Lzpvj)

34 24 Have they started to eat the babies like New Orleans yet?

Posted by: Puddihead at February 13, 2023 12:16 PM (8Sqzu)

I don't think they have a Super Dome over there.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:18 PM (ynpvh)

35 I strongly endorse this video of Tulsi Gabbard. It's relevant to the post, and is about 16 minutes.

She will run for President in '24 or '28. She could win.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 12:18 PM (eOEVl)

36 NYT Editorial board #1: Did they vote for Trump?
#2: Yes
#1: They deserved this to happen to them.
#2: O-kay...

NYT Editorial the next day, "Why Chlorine in the atmosphere will stop global warming"

Posted by: Scott_T at February 13, 2023 12:18 PM (2waQ7)

37 Pete should ride to the rescue on his bike wearing his bike helmet as protection seat post. He's Super Pete!
Posted by: Puddihead

Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2023 12:18 PM (SbJgO)

38 Look at that cloud and tell me why my gas stove is a problem?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2023 12:18 PM (lf83v)

39 Pete Bootyjuice thought running trains meant something completely different before he took the job...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2023 12:18 PM (lc5cP)

40 28 Railroads.


Those are Transportation, no?


Where is our Transportation Secretary?
On Vacation?

Chest Feeding?

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2023 12:17 PM (9qmLq)

Not that kind of sucking...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:18 PM (ynpvh)

41 aliens?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:19 PM (lEVn+)

42 The only way we can counteract this is by stealing land from farmers and restricting our diet to insects.

Well, *your* diet, anyway.

Posted by: Bill Gates at February 13, 2023 12:19 PM (bhRsz)

43 There's no way to blame it on Trump, so they won't talk about it at all.

Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2023 12:19 PM (UnA8+)

44 Hey, climate change!

Posted by: Puddihead at February 13, 2023 12:19 PM (8Sqzu)

45 31 Prevailing winds will carry the hydrochloric acid straight over Pittsburgh to New York. I wonder how long the contaminants will stay in the air.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 13, 2023 12:17 PM (QbC6G)

Acid Rain, like the 70's. Goes well with unemployment and stagflation.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:19 PM (ynpvh)

46 She will run for President in '24 or '28. She could win.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 12:18 PM (eOEVl)


It would be hilarious if the GOP managed to prevent Trump from being the nominee in '24, only for him to run as a third party with Tulsi and take away about 30% of the vote share.

Posted by: Ronald at February 13, 2023 12:19 PM (wmDcS)

47 Shut up, and eat your bugs, they said!

Posted by: Archer at February 13, 2023 12:19 PM (gmo/4)

48 22 Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2023 12:16 PM (lf83v)

Take heart it may be that fact that saves the American experiment in liberty.

The assholes in DC are hellbent on larping as the politburo....

Chernobyl is what killed the USSR, and in a someone shut off the irony moment Armand Hammer helped.

Posted by: sven at February 13, 2023 12:19 PM (Lzpvj)

49 Well, because it's happening on Biden's watch, and because the media knows that this disaster is once again well beyond the capabilities of the Secretary of Transportation, Mayor Butt, to manage.

----------

They could just blame it on a UFO.

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 13, 2023 12:19 PM (D9emQ)

50 For now it’s just a black cloud. Once it kills or threatens to kill Black people we’ll get more serious.

Posted by: This is CNN at February 13, 2023 12:19 PM (2Jo7a)

51 As I've noted before, I've done many projects at Notre Dame, I've been at functions where Butt Gig was present, to call the man a mediocrity and non-entity is to slander mediocrities and non-entities.

You know who isn't a non-entity? Jerome Bettis that's who, dude is the biggest "little man" I have ever laid eyes on.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (MDmJR)

52 Actual environmental catastrophe: Check

Arresting Reporters for Reporting: Check

The FNM: This story is boooooooring.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (lc5cP)

53 Looks very much like the beginning of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Anyone had any dreams about Devil's Tower lately?

Posted by: Just Lily at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (PKlQk)

54 Daughter goes to school in Youngstown. She has seen the cloud from 20 miles north of where the train derailed. The good thing is that Youngstown State has offered councilors if anyone needed one.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (flINI)

55 28 Where is our Transportation Secretary?
On Vacation?

Chest Feeding?
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2023 12:17 PM (9qmLq)

Face Deep in another man's shit chute.

Posted by: XTC at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (UnA8+)

56 Unless the disaster involves darker hued folks or sodomites, the main stream corrupt media does not care.

That untalented chick from Da Islands who pretended to scream unintelligible words into a microphone and why she was so red and so fat is more important to them.

Get with the program.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (b/HKy)

57 Doesn't Choo Choo Joey know everything about trains?

Posted by: Puddihead at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (8Sqzu)

58 >>>Prevailing winds will carry the hydrochloric acid straight over Pittsburgh to New York

NEW YORK?!!

Why didn't you say so?! This is a MAJOR STORY!!!

Posted by: The Corrupt Leftwing Media Junta at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (C1Zwz)

59 Vinyl chloride is EXTREMELY toxic.

Vinyl Chloride is the monomer that is used to make polyvinyl chloride plastic. You likely have a lot of that in your drain pipes in your house. PVC is used everywhere.

Burning it to make it into HCL is not the worst possible outcome, although this is all dangerously grotesque.

East Palestine is in the northeast corner of Ohio, near the Pennsylvania border. Pittsburgh is the largest city near it, to the southeast.
I get lots of local news coverage of this, but it is strange that it does not get more national coverage.

Strange. But not in Biden world, I guess.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (vcOmj)

60 That same Norfolk & Southern line runs right past the small factory I work at, in NW Ohio.

There but for the grace of God go I. I've thought about a derailment before, and wondered how bad it would be.

Pretty f*cking bad, apparently.

And yeah, Dewine is a classic Ohio RINO. All we produce are RINOs, corn, soybeans, and black toxic clouds of death.

Posted by: Pastafarian at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (Osaa9)

61 Akron, OH "Better living through chemistry!"

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (jTmQV)

62 This looks a lot like the Gold King Mine disaster, brought to you by the Obama Administration. From wikipedia:

The 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill was an environmental disaster that began at the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado, when Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) personnel, along with workers for Environmental Restoration LLC (a Missouri company under EPA contract to mitigate pollutants from the closed mine), caused the release of toxic waste water into the Animas River watershed.

In other words, another government-triggered environmental disaster.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (lf83v)

63 >>Jerome Bettis that's who, dude is the biggest "little man" I have ever laid eyes on.


Until you put him next to Sirena Williams.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (9qmLq)

64 44 Hey, climate change!
Posted by: Puddihead at February 13, 2023 12:19 PM (8Sqzu)

Poisoning of the land. For reals this time.

Posted by: Iron Eyes Cody, call me Oscar at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (zZu0s)

65 50 For now it’s just a black cloud. Once it kills or threatens to kill Black people we’ll get more serious.

Posted by: This is CNN at February 13, 2023 12:19 PM (2Jo7a)

Black Cloud? RAACCIIIIIST!!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

66 35 I strongly endorse this video of Tulsi Gabbard. It's relevant to the post, and is about 16 minutes.

She will run for President in '24 or '28. She could win.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 12:18 PM (eOEVl)

========

The Democrat Establishment does not like her.

No, she has no chance to become president. They'd throw everything at her to defeat her in a Democrat primary, and they'd cheat her to lose if she won the Republican nomination or ran third party/independent (not that anyone in a third party would have a shot anyway).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:21 PM (LvTSG)

67 It could be that the great balloon hunt of 2023 is "Operation Shiny Objects" for keeping this off the front page.

Posted by: sven at February 13, 2023 12:21 PM (Lzpvj)

68 It would be hilarious if the GOP managed to prevent Trump from being the nominee in '24, only for him to run as a third party with Tulsi and take away about 30% of the vote share.

The GOPe wants to run someone like Mittens on a platform of "All the Woke stuff the left wants but slower and more completely administered!"

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2023 12:21 PM (lc5cP)

69 41 aliens?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:19 PM (lEVn+)

========

Incorrect.

awiens.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:21 PM (LvTSG)

70 53 Looks very much like the beginning of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Anyone had any dreams about Devil's Tower lately?

Posted by: Just Lily at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (PKlQk)

Does DC count?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:21 PM (ynpvh)

71 Daughter goes to school in Youngstown. She has seen the cloud from 20 miles north of where the train derailed. The good thing is that Youngstown State has offered councilors if anyone needed one.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (flINI)


Whew, crisis averted then.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2023 12:21 PM (bhRsz)

72 I have cousins that live a few miles from the epicenter.

It's just horrific.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 13, 2023 12:21 PM (N1tpc)

73 >>Acid Rain, like the 70's. Goes well with unemployment and stagflation.


That was a Very Special Episode of The Facts of Life.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2023 12:21 PM (9qmLq)

74 Fucking Aliens, dude. Fucking Aliens.

Posted by: Puddihead at February 13, 2023 12:21 PM (8Sqzu)

75 For now it’s just a black cloud.


*cough*Cloud of Color*cough*

Posted by: G'rump928(c) reminds you at February 13, 2023 12:21 PM (yQpMk)

76 What was the cause of the derailment? Was it sabotage?

Posted by: polynikes at February 13, 2023 12:21 PM (qnsfO)

77 trains, the reason Keystone made sense

Posted by: REDACTED at February 13, 2023 12:22 PM (us2H3)

78 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 13, 2023 12:22 PM (T4tVD)

79 If Elon hadn't bought Twitter, all the stories describing the accident would be spiked.

Posted by: kallisto at February 13, 2023 12:22 PM (dCxaZ)

80 Ok. Bad accident, big chemical spill. Shit happens man, avoid the bad stuff, clean it up, move on with life.

Actually, that's kind of a good segue from the last thread too.

Hmm...does Ace read the comments of the COB threads? Maybe he's saving us from ourselves....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:22 PM (lEVn+)

81 Send in AOC.

Posted by: Archer at February 13, 2023 12:22 PM (gmo/4)

82 Yikes! Sounds horrible. What a freaking mess. Those poor people who live there.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2023 12:22 PM (ffbyg)

83 What was the cause of the derailment? Was it sabotage?
Posted by: polynikes at February 13, 2023 12:21 PM (qnsfO)
---
A Chinese balloon landed on the tracks.../sarc

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2023 12:22 PM (BpYfr)

84 Fucking Aliens, dude. Fucking Aliens.

You rang?

Posted by: James T Kirk at February 13, 2023 12:22 PM (lc5cP)

85 So the governor of Ohio is now using WW1 gasses on the people of OH and PA...
Sounds like PA ought to declare war on OH!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 13, 2023 12:22 PM (WGDUh)

86 61 Akron, OH "Better living through chemistry!"

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (jTmQV)

Worked wonders when the Cuyahoga caught fire...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:22 PM (ynpvh)

87 Anyway, someone tried to buy $90 worth of gyros with my credit card, so need to go deal with that.

God, I hate updating my credit card number on OnlyFans...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:23 PM (lEVn+)

88 In other words, another government-triggered environmental disaster.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (lf83v)

THAT was the one that I was trying to think of. Have to love unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats with tons of power.

And how many do you think are going to fall on their swords over this nonsense? I would bet the most common statement was 'we had no idea', 'it was bill', 'I am triggered that you think this is my fault', etc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 12:23 PM (zZu0s)

89 I won't believe it's safe until President Biden tells me so. Or maybe Dr. Fauci. Admiral Doubtfire?

P.S. Willowed in last thread.

Touch of Evil opening tracking shot.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EhmYY5ZMXOY

Thanks, ShainS, for edumacating me on the proper term.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 13, 2023 12:23 PM (FVME7)

90 The Democrat Establishment does not like her.

Which is precisely why she could win. After Biden loses in '24, people will be looking for someone who doesn't sound insane.

She could appeal to the center swathes of both parties.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 12:23 PM (eOEVl)

91 What was the cause of the derailment? Was it sabotage?
_________

Listen all y'all. . .

Posted by: The Beastie Boys at February 13, 2023 12:23 PM (lf83v)

92 aliens?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:19 PM (lEVn+)


According to FOX, the Commander of NORAD has not ruled them out.
This is what passes for rational thinking in the media and the DoD.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2023 12:23 PM (anj39)

93 The only thing that can save the situation is to put Hunter on Norfolk Southern's board of directors.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 13, 2023 12:23 PM (N52dd)

94 68 It would be hilarious if the GOP managed to prevent Trump from being the nominee in '24, only for him to run as a third party with Tulsi and take away about 30% of the vote share.

The GOPe wants to run someone like Mittens on a platform of "All the Woke stuff the left wants but slower and more completely administered!"

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2023 12:21 PM (lc5cP)

GOP 2024: "We'll rape you slowly and with love"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:24 PM (ynpvh)

95 Bus was a beast in his prime.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 13, 2023 12:24 PM (+Wcyp)

96 So, who owns those trains? Is it the American billionaire that markets himself to the public as a harmless teddy bear self made man? Meanwhile funding the Democrats who want to stop oil pipelines because that is competition for his trains? Placing millions of people who live near train tracks in danger as attested by past accidents?

Posted by: Floridachick at February 13, 2023 12:24 PM (5Qj+5)

97 But pipelines are an environmental disaster!

Posted by: Cosda at February 13, 2023 12:24 PM (ldIIj)

98 oh no the arrested reporter had the temerity to speak as he was being handcuffed and led away.

tomorrow news item:

reporter shot while "resisting arrest"

Posted by: kallisto at February 13, 2023 12:24 PM (dCxaZ)

99 The GOPe wants to run someone like Mittens on a platform of "All the Woke stuff the left wants but slower and more completely administered!"

In the video, she does an excellent job of sticking the knife into Romney and twisting it.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 12:24 PM (eOEVl)

100 @68

>>The GOPe wants to run someone like Mittens on a platform of "All the Woke stuff the left wants but slower and more completely administered!"


Their dream team is Sununu/Hogan, McConnell would literally jism in his britches if they could somehow get those two clowns the nomination.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:24 PM (MDmJR)

101 I won't believe it's safe until President Biden tells me so. Or maybe Dr. Fauci. Admiral Doubtfire?


I was greatly amused when Fauci published his "of course the clot shots were never going to work at stopping the spread" paper.

Remember every clot shot mandate was based on it stopping the spread of COVID

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2023 12:24 PM (lc5cP)

102 In fairness, the only thing within the capabilities of Mayor Pete to manage is getting rear-ended in a Prius.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2023 12:17 PM (bhRsz)


He gets rear-ended a lot

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 13, 2023 12:24 PM (NtVYv)

103 Are we sure this isn’t disinformation?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 13, 2023 12:25 PM (Z4AnZ)

104 UPDATE:

The United Nations just voted to condemn Israel for the derailment and to send $1.2Bn to the East Palestinians to help them fight against the Jewish environmental disaster in their small abode.

/sarc

Posted by: Sharkman at February 13, 2023 12:25 PM (gcK/b)

105 This is less than 50 miles from where I live. I was assured on the local news this morning that "The EPA is monitoring the air quality situation."

LOL

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 13, 2023 12:25 PM (i7Q7S)

106 87 Anyway, someone tried to buy $90 worth of gyros with my credit card, so need to go deal with that.

God, I hate updating my credit card number on OnlyFans...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:23 PM (lEVn+)

The greek dish or gyroscopes?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:25 PM (ynpvh)

107 Pretty f*cking bad, apparently.

And yeah, Dewine is a classic Ohio RINO. All we produce are RINOs, corn, soybeans, and black toxic clouds of death.
Posted by: Pastafarian

No shit. "Iron" Mike Dewine. Or Midget Mike Dewine.
Or...whatever. Considering the alternative, yeah, I held my nose and voted for him.

I saw the deal where the reporter was arrested at his news conference. Yeah, that was pretty funny shit, right there.
And Norfolk Southern; a pack of mean-ass railroad execs running that 3-ring circus. What corners can we cut this week?

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at February 13, 2023 12:25 PM (vcOmj)

108 Wasn't it their response to the derailment that caused an even worse situation to develop?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 13, 2023 12:26 PM (Y+l9t)

109 “Tin soldiers” aka that Ohio song could be about guys in hazmat suits.

Posted by: Rex B at February 13, 2023 12:26 PM (2Jo7a)

110 This is a job for the Memphis Police. They'd kick the shit out of that fire.

Posted by: Puddihead at February 13, 2023 12:26 PM (8Sqzu)

111 Just Mortimer Buckley and Larry Fink poisoning a red state. Nothing to see

Posted by: CN at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (Zzbjj)

112 Ohio Department of Health alerts readers. "You can die from breathing extremely high levels of vinyl chloride."

So we blew them up to burn it off and disperse it as widely as possible.

Get your boosters, folks.

Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (e2onP)

113 Hmm...does Ace read the comments of the COB threads? Maybe he's saving us from ourselves....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:22 PM (lEVn+)

Nothing definitive that I have seen. Occcassionally he will mention something about a discussion we had on a prior thread, but I think that is the COBNET where they are telling him things like: 'Get a load of the heat this gal is packing!' or 'You would not believe what this piece of samsonite said!' or 'They are doing that thing again, ace- and I spent a good couple hours writing that post up and now they are just doing comments relating movie titles with fish/vagina puns!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (zZu0s)

114 Obviously, the only solution to this disaster is to elect Pete BootyFag president in 2024 and to ban all plastics immediately.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (gcK/b)

115

I know it’s hard to defend an unpopular policy every once in awhile

Plastic people
Oh baby, how you’re such a drag

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (63Dwl)

116 This is less than 50 miles from where I live. I was assured on the local news this morning that "The EPA is monitoring the air quality situation."

LOL
Posted by: Jay in PA

"The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are safe and effective!"
The CDC and the FDA.

Those guys are in the federal government too, aren't they?

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (vcOmj)

117 105 This is less than 50 miles from where I live. I was assured on the local news this morning that "The EPA is monitoring the air quality situation."

LOL

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 13, 2023 12:25 PM (i7Q7S)

Reminds me of a story I was told. My grandmother asked her daughter to watch the roast in the oven while she was out. When she came back, the roast was burning and my Aunt was intently watching...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (ynpvh)

118 I blame Lincoln.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (ffbyg)

119 Take this smoke column, and spread thirty of them across the horizon. That was what the burning oil wells in Kuwait and Iraq were like at the end of Desert Storm. The smoke went up to 50,000 feet. It was an ecological disaster that was unbelievable. The good news there was very few people downwind.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (anj39)

120 This is literally what would have happened if Chris Pine and Denzel Washington with an assist from large breasted Rosario Dawson, weren't successful in Unstoppable.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (MDmJR)

121 Turley has a new column out today about how the reparations clock has stopped on Newsome and the California democrats. The bill is now due. They are in deep trouble now. And of course other deep blue States will follow, as will Congress eventually.

Posted by: It's happening at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (dheQy)

122 105 Posted by: Jay in PA at February 13, 2023 12:25 PM (i7Q7S)

They are, and you know they are just dying to make it illegal to transport industrial chemicals next.

Posted by: sven at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (Lzpvj)

123 This is like the Animus River but with choo-choo trains.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (+Wcyp)

124 Under Buttgig, there are shortages of vital goods, and those that can be obtained are enormously expensive. Air travel is uncertain at any time. And now burning cancerous chemicals are possible anytime and anywhere.

The people are uncertain, afraid, not clear about the future and are dreading what's coming.

Buttgig is doing exactly the job he was hired for.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (p+1gI)

125 "The EPA is monitoring the air quality situation."
___________

Like they did at Ground Zero in New York after September 11th.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (lf83v)

126 Of course it's essential that they throw the reporter on the ground before arresting him. The throwing on the ground is very important ingredient to the authoritarian recipe. Just like clubbing harmless J6 women.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 13, 2023 12:28 PM (H8QX8)

127 Actual environmental catastrophe: Check

Arresting Reporters for Reporting: Check

The FNM: This story is boooooooring.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2023 12:20 PM (lc5cP)
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"Mr. President, what's your favorite ice cream?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 13, 2023 12:28 PM (WvPpP)

128 So Ohio now has their very own Centralia. Fantastic. Way to go politicians!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 13, 2023 12:28 PM (d2bW3)

129 My home town of Warren has so many railroad right of ways, they cut between city blocks. Old days, servicing the steel mills. We had one that ran right behind our back yard, with a lot of B&O scrap haulers heading to Republic. You get used to the noise, but not toxic fires and explosions.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2023 12:28 PM (lz5hY)

130 118 I blame Lincoln.
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Me too. Fucking Peckerwood.

Posted by: Puddihead at February 13, 2023 12:29 PM (8Sqzu)

131 They are, and you know they are just dying to make it illegal to transport industrial chemicals next.
Posted by: sven at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (Lzpvj)

Nationalize the railroads. For the children.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2023 12:29 PM (/EuRN)

132 128 So Ohio now has their very own Centralia. Fantastic. Way to go politicians!
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 13, 2023 12:28 PM (d2bW3)

Isn't it right on the border? So Penn now has two Centralias!

We must not allow there to be a Centralia Gap!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 12:29 PM (zZu0s)

133 Now, if the pushback ever comes, the press needs to be held accountable too. Streicher was hanged after the war and all he did was publish a newspaper....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 13, 2023 12:29 PM (Angsy)

134 My recommendation: we send as many federal bureaucrats as possible out to Ohio to deal with the problem.

I figure if they're competent at their jobs, great; if they're not, then maybe they'll get sick from the fumes and have to take early retirement.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2023 12:30 PM (bhRsz)

135 The EPA is monitoring the air quality situation.



Like the Tuskegee Study.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 13, 2023 12:30 PM (Zqeqr)

136 'They are doing that thing again, ace- and I spent a good couple hours writing that post up and now they are just doing comments relating movie titles with fish/vagina puns!'
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (zZu0s)


Not seeing the problem here...

Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2023 12:30 PM (anj39)

137
Saw a tweet yesterday (maybe, maybe the day before) that a farmer in that area had all his chickens die.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 13, 2023 12:30 PM (enJYY)

138 This should be the lead story on every TV news station but it isn't. An environmental catastrophe that should give the green energy people tons of free ammo, but no one is talking about it. Very odd.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 13, 2023 12:13 PM (uNylN)


American transportation nets don't collapse and allow toxic chemicals to poison counties, only Communist countries have that happen.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2023 12:30 PM (xhaym)

139 135 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 13, 2023 12:30 PM (Zqeqr)

"I love de guhment!"

//Free Shit Army

Posted by: sven at February 13, 2023 12:30 PM (Lzpvj)

140 Of course it's essential that they throw the reporter on the ground before arresting him.

You know its a good point. They knew he wasn't a physical danger.

And...he's black right? This might be the first time we've had video of the police being unnecessarily rough in arresting a black guy that hasn't let to riots...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2023 12:31 PM (lc5cP)

141 Second look at Newsnation?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2023 12:31 PM (63Dwl)

142 Like the Tuskegee Study.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 13, 2023 12:30 PM (Zqeqr)


Like Chernobyl

Posted by: Kindltot at February 13, 2023 12:31 PM (xhaym)

143 There's a conspiracy, alright...DU says it's between the GOP and Big Business!

Apparently, the RR (Norfolk Southern) company in Ohio runs the state. Then you have a Republican as the governor and madness ensues. Acid rain and Phosgene will decimate the zones ecology.

The company with “market value of $55 billion fought the Federal Railroad Administration’s push to upgrade the ‘Civil War era’ brake system that remains widely used in American trains, and against stricter rules on the transport of hazardous materials.”

Everyone: Meet Alan Shaw. He’s the CEO of Norfolk Southern, the train company responsible for the derailment. He’s also funding COP CITY, in Atlanta GA.

So, funding Cop Cities is why people especially this Journalist was arrested? That what it is sounding like to me. Fund the enforcers so they will serve and protect your interest. Thanks for sharing this enlightening info!!

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at February 13, 2023 12:31 PM (JCZqz)

144 Ohio is no stranger to "let it burn" Sherwin Williams paints fucked up Dayton for a bit.
Posted by: sven at February 13, 2023 12:18 PM (Lzpvj)

well, they all probably use Sherman as their inspiration...

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 13, 2023 12:31 PM (Mkvkw)

145 from downstairs, the other Incendiary Thread of the Day:

hi Kallisto. I am not new at all, been around since the LGF days, had a different nic and then went into lurk status because I was being hunted (literally) by my ex. And I was 6 when that song came out, so finally, I am too young for something again!

this is so cool, Piper knows The Floaters! well not personally I guess, but at least she knows the song

Posted by: kallisto at February 13, 2023 12:31 PM (dCxaZ)

146 Does DC count?

___

It's more of a swamp than a tower, really.

But they definitely got the devil part right.

Posted by: Just Lily at February 13, 2023 12:31 PM (PKlQk)

147 Just found out the engineer and the conductor are women and weren't on speaking terms.

Under sharia law, this would not happen!

Posted by: Merging the Threads at February 13, 2023 12:31 PM (wrJpE)

148 So why is the media covering up what would usually be a four-alarm fire of a story?

Well, because it's happening on Biden's watch,
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Also they are obsessed with the wonders of public transit.

So Green!!!

It turns the air green, the water green, the fish green....

Posted by: ... at February 13, 2023 12:31 PM (hW6y3)

149 Something tells me this is all part of the silent war we find ourselves in. Poison vaccines, "accidental" food processing fires, bird flu (gotta kill the chickens don't cha know), mysterious cattle die-offs. This is the next phase affecting ground water. Who knows what other "accidents" they have in store for us. Nuke accidents?

Posted by: Haywood at February 13, 2023 12:31 PM (K23pB)

150 Would Ohioan's really care if the air was bad? Ever been to Akron?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2023 12:32 PM (D25PY)

151 137
Saw a tweet yesterday (maybe, maybe the day before) that a farmer in that area had all his chickens die.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 13, 2023 12:30 PM (enJYY)

Bird lungs are VERY sensitive to stuff like that. Burning your teflon pan can easily kill them.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:32 PM (ynpvh)

152 It's Rustbelt America. Who gives a fuck?

Posted by: tv producers everywhere at February 13, 2023 12:32 PM (rJ48h)

153

China on Monday accused the United States of flying spy balloons into its airspace without permission more than 10 times since the start of 2022, further escalating tensions between the two countries.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2023 12:32 PM (63Dwl)

154 Relax, foks! THIS environmental disaster isn't an attempt to get us into WWIII like the one we caused with NordStream!

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 13, 2023 12:32 PM (e2onP)

155 "Pardon me boy, is this the toxic waste Choo Choo?"

"Track 29 nine, can I give you a shine?"

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2023 12:32 PM (lz5hY)

156 "So why is the media covering up what would usually be a four-alarm fire of a story?

Well, because it's happening on Biden's watch, and because the media knows that this disaster is once again well beyond the capabilities of the Secretary of Transportation, Mayor Butt, to manage."


Look, if experts say a controlled burn is safe, who are we peons to question their expertness? Are you an expert, hater?

Posted by: Ripley at February 13, 2023 12:33 PM (cUYo/)

157 68 It would be hilarious if the GOP managed to prevent Trump from being the nominee in '24, only for him to run as a third party with Tulsi and take away about 30% of the vote share.

The GOPe wants to run someone like Mittens on a platform of "All the Woke stuff the left wants but slower and more completely administered!"

Posted by: 18-1
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The more people that run, the easier it is for Trump to win as he probably has a 30 percent lower limit for support. The primary problem for DeSantis is how do you address all these favorite sons e.g. Tim Scott is discussing running in SC and now Sununu in the NH primary which are crucial for a challenger to win to get momentum.

It may be that the GOPe are resigned to or want to have Trump and DeSantis take each other out leaving room for some dark horse like Youngkin or Kemp to be the nominee at the convention.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 12:33 PM (GVj+S)

158 Surprised there hasn't been a mandate for triple masking.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 13, 2023 12:33 PM (NpAcC)

159 Apparently, it just isn't good to have a name like East Palestine.
Most Americans are tired hearing about those crazy Palestinians (the world's worst negotiators) of the Mid-west (or Middle East).

Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2023 12:33 PM (RHGPo)

160 Bird lungs are VERY sensitive to stuff like that. Burning your teflon pan can easily kill them.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:32 PM (ynpvh)

Heh. Sorry. Inside joke I made in an Inorganic class in 1996.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 12:33 PM (zZu0s)

161 payback for blowing up the pipeline? that was actually my first thought, back when it happened ... or sabotage from Antifa as part of the war on everything. But if evidence of sabotage ever came out, there would be MAGA hats and nooses found at the scene.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 13, 2023 12:33 PM (Cus5s)

162 @147

>>Just found out the engineer and the conductor are women and weren't on speaking terms. Under sharia law, this would not happen!

I literally snorted Sprite Zero through my nostrils. Thanks a lot dude.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:33 PM (MDmJR)

163 This is literally what would have happened if Chris Pine and Denzel Washington with an assist from large breasted Rosario Dawson, weren't successful in Unstoppable.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (MDmJR)


Yeah, her breasts are definitely too large. Needs some more muscle mass, too. And some facial hair. But otherwise really hot.

Posted by: Super-Straight Cory Booker at February 13, 2023 12:33 PM (bhRsz)

164 They are, and you know they are just dying to make it illegal to transport industrial chemicals next.

And they'll define oil as an "industrial chemical".

No pipelines, and no oil trains.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 13, 2023 12:34 PM (2tUFv)

165 What I can conclude after the events of the last few weeks is, the Republican's in Congress must be involved in this countries destruction.

Nobody is coming to save you.
You're on your own.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2023 12:34 PM (D25PY)

166 Buttgig is doing exactly the job he was hired for.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (p+1gI)

———

He’ll be President in 2024

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 13, 2023 12:34 PM (Z4AnZ)

167 153

China on Monday accused the United States of flying spy balloons into its airspace without permission more than 10 times since the start of 2022, further escalating tensions between the two countries.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2023 12:32 PM (63Dwl)

Bitch, please! Just shoot them down.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:34 PM (ynpvh)

168 155 "Pardon me boy, is this the toxic waste Choo Choo?"

"Track 29 nine, can I give you a shine?"
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2023 12:32 PM (lz5hY)

Sarin and Lace!

I used to call funny... oh my God, your face is melting!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 12:34 PM (zZu0s)

169 149 Something tells me this is all part of the silent war we find ourselves in. Poison vaccines, "accidental" food processing fires, bird flu (gotta kill the chickens don't cha know), mysterious cattle die-offs. This is the next phase affecting ground water. Who knows what other "accidents" they have in store for us. Nuke accidents?
Posted by: Haywood at February 13, 2023 12:31 PM (K23pB)

I'd be 100% convinced it was part of a plan but for the fact that the Left f*cks up everything it touches. Instead I'm 90% convinced.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 13, 2023 12:34 PM (H8QX8)

170 Yeah, her breasts are definitely too large.
___________

Words that shall never come out of my mouth.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2023 12:34 PM (lf83v)

171 Down wind, what is effected?
Also in light of covid, maybe the wreck was engineered.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 13, 2023 12:34 PM (jxVII)

172 Sounds like the reporter was running his f*cking mouth during the presser, was told to shut up, and didn't shut up, so he got a cop boot on his neck.

No conspiracy there.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 13, 2023 12:34 PM (Zqeqr)

173 157 The more people that run, the easier it is for Trump to win as he probably has a 30 percent lower limit for support. The primary problem for DeSantis is how do you address all these favorite sons e.g. Tim Scott is discussing running in SC and now Sununu in the NH primary which are crucial for a challenger to win to get momentum.

It may be that the GOPe are resigned to or want to have Trump and DeSantis take each other out leaving room for some dark horse like Youngkin or Kemp to be the nominee at the convention.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 12:33 PM (GVj+S)

=========

Those sorts of native son candidates in only one state never work.

Lindsay Graham did it in SC in 2016, and he dropped out before the primary and endorsed Jeb Bush who finished 4th with less than 8%.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:34 PM (LvTSG)

174 Wendigoon talking about 24 'Lost' books of the Bible. Fun, funny...and 2 hours long. So fair warning:

https://youtu.be/idqPwX1XQOg

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:34 PM (lEVn+)

175 You know the lying propaganda media would be all over this if it were an oil pipeline that released 50-100 gallons.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 13, 2023 12:35 PM (17s+e)

176 Morning.

But Trump said "pussy"!

Posted by: Robert at February 13, 2023 12:35 PM (N4QQ2)

177 147 too soon! 😂🤣

Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2023 12:35 PM (ZdaMQ)

178 Just found out the engineer and the conductor are women and weren't on speaking terms.

Under sharia law, this would not happen!
Posted by: Merging the Threads at February 13, 2023 12:31 PM (wrJpE)


You shatter those glass ceilings, gurlz!!!

Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2023 12:35 PM (bhRsz)

179 151 Wouldn’t a bird in a Teflon pan already be dead?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2023 12:35 PM (ffbyg)

180 "Go back to your homes, folks! Everything's fine! A little mustard gas never killed anyone. Maybe wear an N95 mask just to be safe."

Posted by: red speck at February 13, 2023 12:35 PM (gS3OW)

181 It may be that the GOPe are resigned to or want to have Trump and DeSantis take each other out leaving room for some dark horse like Youngkin or Kemp to be the nominee at the convention.

I think you give them too much credit for evil, Machiavellian thought processes. They're pretty much limited to yoga pants and expensive junkets.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 12:35 PM (eOEVl)

182 Yeah, I'm thinking if I lived in that area, I'd be really, really concerned right now.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 13, 2023 12:35 PM (sVtYq)

183 "76 What was the cause of the derailment? Was it sabotage?

Posted by: polynikes at February 13, 2023 12:21 PM (qnsfO) "

that's what I was wondering, too.
doubt that anyone (even in a hazmat spacesuit) has been close enough to find out. I will be watching for the full formal NTSB report to come out, though; think 6 months + from now.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 13, 2023 12:36 PM (XzIdt)

184 Words that shall never come out of my mouth.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2023 12:34 PM (lf83v)

This.

Well, except the clownishly big fakes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 12:36 PM (zZu0s)

185 @157

>>It may be that the GOPe are resigned to or want to have Trump and DeSantis take each other out leaving room for some dark horse like Youngkin or Kemp to be the nominee at the convention.

The GOPe is stupid, unless they rig the primaries similar to how the Donks did, it's going to come down to the only two candidates that are acceptable to the Base, last time it was Cruz and Trump, if DeSantis runs it will be him and Trump, with Trump ultimately taking it.

DeSantis has nothing to run on except I'm going to do everything Trump did except better.

And that's not going to cut it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:36 PM (MDmJR)

186 This will be like the Camp LeJune water contamination suit in 20 years .

Were you or a relative living next to the Ohio train wreck in 2023? You may have been exposed to cancer causing agents and may be eligible for compensation . Call the Law Firm of Giveme, Monie and Now.

Posted by: polynikes at February 13, 2023 12:36 PM (qnsfO)

187 121 Turley has a new column out today about how the reparations clock has stopped on Newsome and the California democrats. The bill is now due. They are in deep trouble now. And of course other deep blue States will follow, as will Congress eventually.
Posted by: It's happening

Dems have their own failure theater and reparations is probably the latest one for them to pull off. Niche issue that does not attract majority support if they actually try to implement it.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 12:36 PM (GVj+S)

188 "Go back to your homes, folks! Everything's fine! A little mustard gas never killed anyone. Maybe wear an N95 mask just to be safe."
_______________

But first, give me your gas stoves.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2023 12:36 PM (lf83v)

189 And, alas, yet another opportunity for Mayor Pete Buttplug to show he is in charge and really should be commander-in-chief, but as usual, Mayor Pete has blown it yet again, showing that he is no better than a worthless Kamala Harris.

Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2023 12:36 PM (RHGPo)

190 The governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine, is very nominally a Republican. If there was actually an official RINO Party, he'd belong to it. - Ace

I thought the official RINO Part was the GOP.

Posted by: Fat Jonah of Krypton at February 13, 2023 12:36 PM (eDqf7)

191 16
'Where's that gnome Fauci to tell us...'

Be careful when you give even ironic deference to that bureaucrat bastard, it could become a habit.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 13, 2023 12:36 PM (q3iUt)

192 172 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 13, 2023 12:34 PM (Zqeqr)

Wait, I am lost I am supposed to dislike the OH NG AG, and Mike DeWine because a reporter was given a little lovetap compared to what I wish happened to them?

Headbutting a reporter got Gianforte 30,000 votes in Montana.

Posted by: sven at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (Lzpvj)

193 PVC is some nasty stuff, and our homes are filled with it. Doing a plumbing job, replacing a toilet floor flange, I took an angle grinder to some PVC. Took about a second to cease and desist.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (lz5hY)

194 Those sorts of native son candidates in only one state never work.

Lindsay Graham did it in SC in 2016, and he dropped out before the primary and endorsed Jeb Bush who finished 4th with less than 8%.


They're either trying to nudge the platform in their desired direction, or they're auditioning for a role in the upcoming administration.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (eOEVl)

195 They are, and you know they are just dying to make it illegal to transport industrial chemicals next.

Posted by: sven at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (Lzpvj)

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Isn't it time that we banned fertilizers?

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (DUIqS)

196 Controlled burn! I should have thought of using that phrase!

Posted by: Nero at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (FJYfm)

197 This is literally what would have happened if Chris Pine and Denzel Washington with an assist from large breasted Rosario Dawson, weren't successful in Unstoppable.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:27 PM (MDmJR)

Oh man, that movie sucked. After watching that us it any wonder Tony Scott killed himself?

Posted by: Robert at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (N4QQ2)

198 Nobody is coming to save you.
You're on your own.

Posted by: Maj. Healey

I would add that waiting until you see running gun battles in the streets before you make that emergency trip to Walmart for supplies isn't the best plan.

Posted by: I Mean at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (dheQy)

199 Best of hands.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (+Wcyp)

200 Remember the good old days of rivers on fire and such

Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (RHGPo)

201 170 Yeah, her breasts are definitely too large.
___________

Words that shall never come out of my mouth.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2023 12:34 PM (lf83v)

There is too big.
https://is.gd/codUQr

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (ynpvh)

202 Lying about and intentionally ignoring these types of environmental catastrophes prove what an absolute fraud and deception the "Green Agenda" is. Other recent environmental catastrophes ignored or subject to lying from the propaganda organs were the United States' act of terrorism against Nordstream I and II, and the open border that will lead to environmental degradation along with societal decay (damage is occurring even now via the crossings). The so-called "Greens" care only about control and do not give a single damn about the environment. The Soviet Union and East Bloc were absolute environmental catastrophes and the Left's plans for the United States and Europe will produce the same.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (KSNKu)

203 that's what I was wondering, too.
doubt that anyone (even in a hazmat spacesuit) has been close enough to find out. I will be watching for the full formal NTSB report to come out, though; think 6 months + from now.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez


No one in Ohio knows how to fly a drone?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (SbJgO)

204 IF the lying propaganda "media" do cover this fuck up, my money is they use the WHITE SUPREMACIST ULTRAMAGA TRUMP angle.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (17s+e)

205 Ace, there are two other reasons this story is memory-holed: it involves public transportation (trains) and it's in Ohio, which is basically a red state now. Nobody cares about dead or threatened Republicans. If this were a 18-wheeler crash in California while carrying oil, we would definitely be hearing about it.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2023 12:38 PM (iFTx/)

206 185 DeSantis has nothing to run on except I'm going to do everything Trump did except better.

And that's not going to cut it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:36 PM (MDmJR)

========

I still maintain that DeSantis won't run at all unless he feels Trump is weak enough. He won't make a decision until at least summer when it's Trump vs. 31 flavors of GOPe, and Trump is never winning by less than 30 points against the number 2 candidate.

With that kind of field, Trump doesn't look weak. He looks like he's running away with the race, and DeSantis never enters the race.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:38 PM (LvTSG)

207 I can’t breathe!

Posted by: Casey Jones at February 13, 2023 12:38 PM (6bDIQ)

208 I'm pretty sure that this is the first train derailment ever.

Posted by: Zombie Weyauwega at February 13, 2023 12:38 PM (MIODZ)

209 The agency has assured the public that, the poor aquatic life's fate notwithstanding, everybody's drinking water was "protected."


Colorado says "Hi".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 13, 2023 12:38 PM (JglZ8)

210 Wasn’t the train derailment with Crude last year sabotage? Have there been more incidents?

Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2023 12:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

211 The Soviet Union and East Bloc were absolute environmental catastrophes and the Left's plans for the United States and Europe will produce the same.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (KSNKu)

The Aral Sea just texted me to say nothing because it's fucking gone.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2023 12:39 PM (/EuRN)

212 Give Pete a break. He’s busy tilting at racist windmills.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 13, 2023 12:39 PM (u73oe)

213 194 They're either trying to nudge the platform in their desired direction, or they're auditioning for a role in the upcoming administration.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (eOEVl)

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You can say that about everyone except a couple of people who run for presidential nominations.

Do you really think Ben Carson thought he had a real chance?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:39 PM (LvTSG)

214 The greek dish or gyroscopes?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:25 PM (ynpvh)

lol, I suspect the former with a name like 'gyro bites' but...can't rule out gyroscopes I guess

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:39 PM (lEVn+)

215 Pasadena , TX has these types of incidents and warnings way more than one would like.

Posted by: polynikes at February 13, 2023 12:39 PM (qnsfO)

216 I am not a chemical industrialist or a chemist so I don't know, but if I am trying to give the benefit of the doubt to the operators, it leaves me with a question that perhaps some whemists here can answer.

Was the decision to burn it off and accept the consequences of hydrogen chloride not a good choice, but perhaps the least-bad choice? If you have tankers on the brink of exploding and no way to safely move them, cool them or contain them, then is opening the valves and burning off the contents a shitty thing that has to be done simply because it's less shitty than the alternative? Because if that's the case, I can understand the decision. If it's the Kobayashi Maru and there's no way to win, then picking the way likely to make you lose the least makes some sense.

Beyond that, at what level is vinyl chloride actually dangerous? Is it PPB or PPM? Because after the initial shock in the water, dilution is usually a good thing - but if the stuff is insanely toxic then the river might be inadequate.

It's certainly bad and people should leave that area, but what are the long-term effects? Once it's over, is it over or are there more serious downstream consequences?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2023 12:39 PM (t0OGg)

217 They are, and you know they are just dying to make it illegal to transport industrial chemicals next.

Posted by: sven


They have no clue what it takes to make anything.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2023 12:39 PM (SbJgO)

218 What was the cause of the derailment? Was it sabotage?

I had read somewhere that temperature detectors reported the "wheels were melting" (so they decided to continue at 30mph!). I assume that means the bearings. Once the wheels fall off, well, the wheels fall off.

Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2023 12:39 PM (amJF4)

219 100 @68

>>The GOPe wants to run someone like Mittens on a platform of "All the Woke stuff the left wants but slower and more completely administered!"


Their dream team is Sununu/Hogan, McConnell would literally jism in his britches if they could somehow get those two clowns the nomination.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:24 PM (MDmJR)

I just got my invitation to the CT GOP's annual fundraiser - the Prescott Bush Dinner. Last year's honoree: Joni Ernst. This year's honoree: Nikki Haley. Ugh.

I think Haley would be in the running for McConnell's endorsement at well.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 13, 2023 12:39 PM (/iWhV)

220 Oh man, that movie sucked. After watching that us it any wonder Tony Scott killed himself?
Posted by: Robert at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (N4QQ2)


Damn, dude.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2023 12:39 PM (bhRsz)

221 @197

>>Oh man, that movie sucked. After watching that us it any wonder Tony Scott killed himself?

See, this is a prime example of how two people can see a film and come away feeling about it drastically different.

I love that film, I love every ridiculous, improbable second of it, right down to the Animal House style where are they now blurbs over stills of the characters at the end.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:39 PM (MDmJR)

222 I hope the Republican Governor's conference with the Pfizer CEO went well yesterday.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2023 12:40 PM (D25PY)

223 The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared Until 1969

Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2023 12:40 PM (RHGPo)

224 The GOPe is stupid, unless they rig the primaries similar to how the Donks did, it's going to come down to the only two candidates that are acceptable to the Base, last time it was Cruz and Trump, if DeSantis runs it will be him and Trump, with Trump ultimately taking it.

DeSantis has nothing to run on except I'm going to do everything Trump did except better.

And that's not going to cut it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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The splitter strategy is a classic GOPe move but usually it is to the benefit of an established warhorse. GWB in 2000, McCain in 2008, Romney in 2012 and so on. Not sure what is going on here as GOPe does not really have a established GOPe candidate with wide popular support. So why run the Nikki's, Scott's, Sununu's, Hogan's, and other such if they want DeSantis?

Only thing I can think of is a brokered convention where they insert a mystery candidate but that may as you say be giving them too much credit.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 12:40 PM (GVj+S)

225 @138, LOL, ISWYDT!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 13, 2023 12:40 PM (XzIdt)

226 local auction has a vintage pop up book on phobias

Posted by: REDACTED at February 13, 2023 12:40 PM (us2H3)

227 Catastrophe Unfolding In Ohio and the Media Is Downplaying It Or Just Not Reporting It for Some Reason

Well, it is black history mumpfh.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 13, 2023 12:40 PM (Q2P04)

228 Apparently, the RR (Norfolk Southern) company in Ohio runs the state


Want to do some fun reporting? Go investigate just how much of any given state is "controlled" by the railroad. BNSF runs through my area. Mrs D used to ride the commuter rail before she retired. Every stop has an "agent" controlling the boarding area. They are complete assholes and claim authority that rivals the local police.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2023 12:40 PM (anj39)

229 The Aral Sea just texted me to say nothing because it's f***ing gone.

They are actually trying to revivify it, with limited but real success. It would be great if they succeed.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 12:40 PM (eOEVl)

230 PVC is some nasty stuff, and our homes are filled with it. Doing a plumbing job, replacing a toilet floor flange, I took an angle grinder to some PVC. Took about a second to cease and desist.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (lz5hY)
===

Pretty much all plastics out gas cyanide when they burn/melt. Cyanide bonds permanently with the iron in your blood. That's kinda bad.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 13, 2023 12:41 PM (17s+e)

231 211 The Soviet Union and East Bloc were absolute environmental catastrophes and the Left's plans for the United States and Europe will produce the same.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (KSNKu)

The Aral Sea just texted me to say nothing because it's fucking gone.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2023 12:39 PM (/EuRN)

Ask the nomadic tribes who live near... damn my memory!

Semipalatinsk.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 12:41 PM (zZu0s)

232 You can say that about everyone except a couple of people who run for presidential nominations.

Do you really think Ben Carson thought he had a real chance?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:39 PM (LvTSG)

You think someone was pushing him? He seemed like a pretty good guy, though clearly he didn't have the organization to hit the ground running. Neither did Trump, as it turned out.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:41 PM (lEVn+)

233 221 I love that film, I love every ridiculous, improbable second of it, right down to the Animal House style where are they now blurbs over stills of the characters at the end.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:39 PM (MDmJR)

=========

Dolley and I saw that at the dollar theater many moons ago, and it's a running joke in the house.

"That title was a lie! They stopped the train!"

"The title refers to the friendship between Chris Pine and Denzel Washington! Nothing could stop their friendship, not even a speeding train the size of a Chrysler Building!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:41 PM (LvTSG)

234 You can say that about everyone except a couple of people who run for presidential nominations.

Do you really think Ben Carson thought he had a real chance?


No, that was my point. He was trying to do both.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 12:41 PM (eOEVl)

235 Maybe this will prompt unification talks between East and West Palestine.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2023 12:41 PM (lf83v)

236 Trains carry scary shit right through your neighborhood.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 13, 2023 12:41 PM (JglZ8)

237 Would Ohioan's really care if the air was bad? Ever been to Akron?

There is no industry left in Akron. Zero, zip, nada. Been that way for two decades or more.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 13, 2023 12:42 PM (Xrfse)

238 172. Yes. He was doing a live commentary back to his station in Pittsburgh he works for and continued when DeWine started speaking. He was asked to stop by the cops, apparently ignored them , was asked to leave, ignored that and found himself on the floor in cuffs. This is not NYC where you can spit on and give the finger to cops with no repercussions, this is a small town where cops are still considered authorities. DeWine had nothing to do with this and has said that the reporter should not have been arrested.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 13, 2023 12:42 PM (y0TXe)

239 179 151 Wouldn’t a bird in a Teflon pan already be dead?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2023 12:35 PM (ffbyg)

___

New kind of sous vide?

You put your live chicken in a baggie and toss it in your cooker overnight. But never use a Teflon pan for that.

Posted by: Just Lily at February 13, 2023 12:42 PM (PKlQk)

240 185 @157

>>It may be that the GOPe are resigned to or want to have Trump and DeSantis take each other out leaving room for some dark horse like Youngkin or Kemp to be the nominee at the convention.

The GOPe is stupid, unless they rig the primaries similar to how the Donks did, it's going to come down to the only two candidates that are acceptable to the Base, last time it was Cruz and Trump, if DeSantis runs it will be him and Trump, with Trump ultimately taking it.

DeSantis has nothing to run on except I'm going to do everything Trump did except better.

And that's not going to cut it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:36 PM (MDmJR)

If DeSantis actually ran on a platform like that, I think he'd run away with the nomination, and even the presidency (if, of course, the GOP still has a way to get to 270 EVs in 2024). Not sure if his money handlers would back that message, however.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 13, 2023 12:42 PM (/iWhV)

241 DeSantis has nothing to run on except I'm going to do everything Trump did except better.

And that's not going to cut it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender


He's going to do everything Trump did but with the difference that, because he's nice, the Deep State and their media will allow it all to happen.

That's the pitch. (not by DeSantis, but by the people trying to convince you to back him)

Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2023 12:42 PM (e2onP)

242 I'm surprised the Monongahela never caught fire.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 13, 2023 12:43 PM (+Wcyp)

243 I hope the Republican Governor's conference with the Pfizer CEO went well yesterday.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2023 12:40 PM (D25PY)
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Extremely well. All of those governors are now looking for beach front mansions.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 13, 2023 12:43 PM (17s+e)

244 232 You think someone was pushing him? He seemed like a pretty good guy, though clearly he didn't have the organization to hit the ground running. Neither did Trump, as it turned out.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:41 PM (lEVn+)

=========

It takes more than a minor celebrity profile to win a national nomination for president. Normally, it's a massive political infrastructure that can mobilize in key states for months. Trump did it through taking up all the media oxygen in the room and saying things people liked.

The idea that mild-mannered Ben Carson, political neophyte, had a remote chance of being more than a week-long flash in the pan during the primary was silly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:43 PM (LvTSG)

245 Was the reporter vaccinated?

Posted by: Minuteman at February 13, 2023 12:43 PM (LaNzR)

246 229 The Aral Sea just texted me to say nothing because it's f***ing gone.

They are actually trying to revivify it, with limited but real success. It would be great if they succeed.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 12:40 PM (eOEVl)

Did any of the native fishes survive?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:43 PM (ynpvh)

247 Posted by: sven at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (Lzpvj)



There were lots of "Why are they arresting reporters?" comment floating around in support of the cover-up narrative.

It doesn't sound as if it was a conspiracy.

More like dude wouldn't get off of his cellphone in the middle of a presser.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 13, 2023 12:43 PM (Zqeqr)

248 This redhead in a sweater hopes for the best for the people of East Palestine and surrounds, and hopes the emergency crews can get things under control:
https://is.gd/YImm2M

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2023 12:43 PM (t0OGg)

249 Chinese people were wearing masks long before COVID, all due to the insane amount of pollution the country produces. But deaths among proles are just a statistic for commies.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 13, 2023 12:43 PM (CwhoI)

250 They are actually trying to revivify it, with limited but real success. It would be great if they succeed.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 12:40 PM (eOEVl)


The northern part of what was the Aral Sea has filled back up with water somewhat, enough that fishing operations have resumed. The southern half I think has been written off entirely, though.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2023 12:44 PM (bhRsz)

251 I had read somewhere that temperature detectors reported the "wheels were melting" (so they decided to continue at 30mph!). I assume that means the bearings.

Once the wheels fall off, well, the wheels fall off.
Posted by: t-bird


Once the wheels fall off, the walls close in. (tm)

Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2023 12:44 PM (SbJgO)

252 Was the reporter an election denier?

Posted by: Minuteman at February 13, 2023 12:44 PM (LaNzR)

253 I just watched Emperor of the North for the first time yesterday. No good guys in that movie though I guess Lee Marvin would be kind of an anti hero.

Posted by: polynikes at February 13, 2023 12:44 PM (qnsfO)

254 If DeSantis actually ran on a platform like that, I think he'd run away with the nomination, and even the presidency (if, of course, the GOP still has a way to get to 270 EVs in 2024). Not sure if his money handlers would back that message, however.

They would. They're still assuming he can be controlled. They're wrong, but that's not my problem.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 12:44 PM (eOEVl)

255 The EPA is monitoring the air quality situation.

This is the equivalent of a cuckhold standing in a corner watching his wife get plowed by Paolo.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 13, 2023 12:44 PM (N39Ws)

256 So why run the Nikki's, Scott's, Sununu's, Hogan's, and other such if they want DeSantis?

Money laundering and grifting. None of those others have any chance, everyone knows it, but it allows them to pull in cash from all sorts of sources that would not be open to them outside of a national campaign.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 13, 2023 12:45 PM (PmqP5)

257 Did the reporter take ivermectin?

Posted by: Minuteman at February 13, 2023 12:45 PM (LaNzR)

258 One thing about Biden is he made the trains derail on time.

Posted by: ... at February 13, 2023 12:45 PM (i7dZ9)

259 211 The Soviet Union and East Bloc were absolute environmental catastrophes and the Left's plans for the United States and Europe will produce the same.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 13, 2023 12:37 PM (KSNKu)

===

If we are in charge it will be Utopia!!!

Posted by: Woke Leftists at February 13, 2023 12:45 PM (17s+e)

260 248 This redhead in a sweater hopes for the best for the people of East Palestine and surrounds, and hopes the emergency crews can get things under control:
https://is.gd/YImm2M
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2023 12:43 PM (t0OGg)

You know my keywords. Have to change my passwords again.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 12:45 PM (zZu0s)

261 Jens Stoltenberg, the head of NATO:

"Unidentified balloons over US are the activation of the intelligence of China and Russia"

DAMN YOU, PUTIN!

Posted by: Everything Is Putin! at February 13, 2023 12:45 PM (2tUFv)

262 The air is brown, the water is orange. That's normal, right?

Posted by: The EPA at February 13, 2023 12:46 PM (CwhoI)

263 Texted my sister who's taking care of my folks in New Castle, PA. About 40 min from where the wreck is. They haven't noticed anything and only the local news is covering it, barely. I told her not to worry!! TOP. MEN. are in charge!! Also, they may turn into flesh eating zombies.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 13, 2023 12:46 PM (sAmhv)

264 @233

>>"The title refers to the friendship between Chris Pine and Denzel Washington! Nothing could stop their friendship, not even a speeding train the size of a Chrysler Building!"

If Bros could have harnessed some of that Washington/Pine, we're totally not g*y, but super machismo hombres out machismoing ourselves, it would have been a hit, I'll tell ya.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:46 PM (MDmJR)

265 Was the reporter an election denier?
Posted by: Minuteman


He sounds vaccinated.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2023 12:46 PM (SbJgO)

266 264 If Bros could have harnessed some of that Washington/Pine, we're totally not g*y, but super machismo hombres out machismoing ourselves, it would have been a hit, I'll tell ya.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:46 PM (MDmJR)

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I'm not a big Tony Scott fan, but Unstoppable is solidly good fun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:47 PM (LvTSG)

267 "The title refers to the friendship between Chris Pine and Denzel Washington! Nothing could stop their friendship, not even a speeding train the size of a Chrysler Building!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:41 PM (LvTSG)


A friendship that didn't actually exist until after they heard about the speeding train, but hey.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2023 12:47 PM (bhRsz)

268 Did any of the native fishes survive?

I believe so, since it did not entirely dry up.


The northern part of what was the Aral Sea has filled back up with water somewhat, enough that fishing operations have resumed. The southern half I think has been written off entirely, though.

I'm very reluctant to underestimate nature's ability to regenerate. Remember that the Gulf of Mexico was going to be a dead zone for centuries after Deepwater Horizon, and the poor caribou wouldn't survive the Alyeska pipeline. Both are thriving.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 12:47 PM (eOEVl)

269 Reports back from Feb. 5th during the polar vortex massive cold wave:
https://tinyurl.com/28e4kkem

Including other links, including DeWine tweet.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 13, 2023 12:47 PM (Vwz3I)

270 Last year's honoree: Joni Ernst. This year's honoree: Nikki Haley. Ugh.

We have quite the crop of GOPe female politicians in Conservative clothing worming their way up the ranks. Certainly Kristi Noem and possibly Kim Reynolds in Iowa. Reynolds for the most part is doing a better job than Noem, but I always worry the mask will come off...

Posted by: Grimmy at February 13, 2023 12:47 PM (JCZqz)

271 Ayy, yo! Way to go, Ohio.

Posted by: red speck at February 13, 2023 12:47 PM (gS3OW)

272 "Unidentified balloons over US are the activation of the intelligence of China and Russia"

Excuse me, I believe they prefer to be called "undocumented".

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 13, 2023 12:48 PM (CwhoI)

273 How long before Biden tells his train story again?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 13, 2023 12:48 PM (Y+l9t)

274 248 This redhead in a sweater hopes for the best for the people of East Palestine and surrounds, and hopes the emergency crews can get things under control:
https://is.gd/YImm2M
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2023 12:43 PM (t0OGg)

Soulless but cute

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:48 PM (lEVn+)

275 So why run the Nikki's, Scott's, Sununu's, Hogan's, and other such if they want DeSantis?
-------

They are there for Narrative Enhancement.

It will be all anti Trump all day, all the time.

Many different voices coincidentally singing the same exact tune, 24/7 to persuade the wahmenz.

Posted by: ... at February 13, 2023 12:48 PM (i7dZ9)

276 242 The Mahoning river between Warren and Youngstown was one of our favorite aquatic playgrounds as a kid. It's a miracle there aren't a bunch of web foots running about the Mahoning Valley.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2023 12:48 PM (lz5hY)

277 The Biden junta defines their term of DUMBOCRACY.

That's what they are working for.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 13, 2023 12:48 PM (17s+e)

278 China raises their military Reserve age limits.

Gulp!

Posted by: Taiwan at February 13, 2023 12:48 PM (dheQy)

279 Going to go workout before I have to teach tonight and run out of time. Please solve world hunger while I am gone with a way that doesn’t involve eating bugs. Please and thank you.

Posted by: Piper at February 13, 2023 12:48 PM (ZdaMQ)

280 Shouldn't it be "THE" Ohio state massive ecological disaster?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2023 12:48 PM (/EuRN)

281 Anonymous sources reveal Trump burns Ohio railroad to make way for new golf course.

Posted by: This is CNN at February 13, 2023 12:49 PM (gaSe6)

282 Also, they may turn into flesh eating zombies.

Why the phrase “flesh eating”? Give me a good barbecue and I’m a flesh-eating zombie.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 13, 2023 12:49 PM (PmqP5)

283 275 Many different voices coincidentally singing the same exact tune, 24/7 to persuade the wahmenz.
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2023 12:48 PM (i7dZ9)

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Diffusing the anti-Trump vote in every direction, ensuring that Trump easily wins.

The GOPe is stupid.

Push everyone behind Liz Cheney and let it be done. They might have a shot then.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:49 PM (LvTSG)

284 I'm very reluctant to underestimate nature's ability to regenerate. Remember that the Gulf of Mexico was going to be a dead zone for centuries after Deepwater Horizon, and the poor caribou wouldn't survive the Alyeska pipeline. Both are thriving.

And, of course, there is the plight of the polar bear, who could never survive global worming.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 12:49 PM (eOEVl)

285 Laura Loomer tweet on situation in East Palestine:

shorturl.at/noqUZ

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2023 12:49 PM (lf83v)

286 268 Did any of the native fishes survive?

I believe so, since it did not entirely dry up.


The northern part of what was the Aral Sea has filled back up with water somewhat, enough that fishing operations have resumed. The southern half I think has been written off entirely, though.

I'm very reluctant to underestimate nature's ability to regenerate. Remember that the Gulf of Mexico was going to be a dead zone for centuries after Deepwater Horizon, and the poor caribou wouldn't survive the Alyeska pipeline. Both are thriving.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 12:47 PM (eOEVl)

Just difficult for fishes to recover if...there's no water.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:50 PM (ynpvh)

287 >I love that film, I love every ridiculous, improbable second of it, ...
Posted by: Thomas Bender


I particularly like the part where the filmmakers completely ignore the way track switches actually work

Posted by: DB at February 13, 2023 12:50 PM (geLO8)

288 268 Did any of the native fishes survive?

I believe so, since it did not entirely dry up.


The northern part of what was the Aral Sea has filled back up with water somewhat, enough that fishing operations have resumed. The southern half I think has been written off entirely, though.

I'm very reluctant to underestimate nature's ability to regenerate. Remember that the Gulf of Mexico was going to be a dead zone for centuries after Deepwater Horizon, and the poor caribou wouldn't survive the Alyeska pipeline. Both are thriving.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 12:47 PM (eOEVl)

Oh, and let's not forget the Exxon Valdez, to boot. To your point, it's easy to forget just how big the Earf is. It will take a lot more than a couple of 'massive' oil spills and such to appreciably degrade the planet.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 13, 2023 12:50 PM (/iWhV)

289 262 The air is brown, the water is orange. That's normal, right?
Posted by: The EPA at February 13, 2023 12:46 PM (CwhoI)


"You've got Mark Rothko eyes,
Doo doo doo, doodle-dee-doo . . . "

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 13, 2023 12:50 PM (x0n13)

290 It takes more than a minor celebrity profile to win a national nomination for president. Normally, it's a massive political infrastructure that can mobilize in key states for months. Trump did it through taking up all the media oxygen in the room and saying things people liked.

The idea that mild-mannered Ben Carson, political neophyte, had a remote chance of being more than a week-long flash in the pan during the primary was silly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:43 PM (LvTSG)

He should have gotten three 9's or something.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:50 PM (lEVn+)

291 China raises their military Reserve age limits.

Gulp!
Posted by: Taiwan


We got your back, Taiwan. As long as China does come with the big balloons, this'll be no problem...

Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2023 12:50 PM (e2onP)

292 Never fear!!

Super Power Bottom Pete Bootyjuice is on the job.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 13, 2023 12:50 PM (17s+e)

293 @266

>>I'm not a big Tony Scott fan, but Unstoppable is solidly good fun.

We are talking about the same guy who directed Top Gun, True Romance, Crimson Tide, Man on Fire, Enemy of The State to name a few.


I mean he's no Vincent Gallo or Ed Wood, but that's a respectable resume.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:51 PM (MDmJR)

294 290 He should have gotten three 9's or something.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:50 PM (lEVn+)

=========

At least Herman Cain had a gimmick. He still had no shot, and I rate his campaign as a grift, but he had a gimmick.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:51 PM (LvTSG)

295 247 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 13, 2023 12:43 PM (Zqeqr)

I make a living pretending to be a reporter....

sometimes a reporter wants to be arrested.

Posted by: sven at February 13, 2023 12:51 PM (Lzpvj)

296 He should have gotten three 9's or something.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:50 PM (lEVn+)

He'd be every instagram thot's dreamboat then.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 12:51 PM (zZu0s)

297 291 China raises their military Reserve age limits.

Gulp!
Posted by: Taiwan

We got your back, Taiwan. As long as China does come with the big balloons, this'll be no problem...

Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2023 12:50 PM (e2onP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwgOWo7mDc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:51 PM (ynpvh)

298 I want to see the cop bodycam footage
Fire the fucking cops, otherwise.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 13, 2023 12:51 PM (ufFY8)

299 >I'm very reluctant to underestimate nature's ability to regenerate. Remember that the Gulf of Mexico was going to be a dead zone for centuries after Deepwater Horizon

Psyentists say Utah's Great Salt Lake will disappear


Posted by: DB at February 13, 2023 12:51 PM (geLO8)

300 Oh, and let's not forget the Exxon Valdez, to boot. To your point, it's easy to forget just how big the Earf is. It will take a lot more than a couple of 'massive' oil spills and such to appreciably degrade the planet.

Why, it's almost as if the hysterical types have another agenda.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 12:51 PM (eOEVl)

301 If only there were some other way to transport our hazardous materials. Maybe an underground pipe or something like that. It's just an idea.

Posted by: Mike at February 13, 2023 12:51 PM (gaMig)

302 I still maintain that DeSantis won't run at all unless he feels Trump is weak enough. He won't make a decision until at least summer when it's Trump vs. 31 flavors of GOPe, and Trump is never winning by less than 30 points against the number 2 candidate.

With that kind of field, Trump doesn't look weak. He looks like he's running away with the race, and DeSantis never enters the race.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I think you have the timeline for DeSantis to announce correct but I assume that he is running. You don't raise over 100 million bucks for the non-competitive Fla governor race unless you plan higher office.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 12:51 PM (GVj+S)

303 @287

>>I particularly like the part where the filmmakers completely ignore the way track switches actually work

As the saying goes: STORY!!!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:51 PM (MDmJR)

304

The good news is, exposure to PVC smoke cures both tinnitus and toenail fungus, so maybe we can get those damn ads off our feed...

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at February 13, 2023 12:52 PM (wKMPF)

305 The splitter strategy is a classic GOPe move but usually it is to the benefit of an established warhorse. GWB in 2000, McCain in 2008, Romney in 2012 and so on. Not sure what is going on here as GOPe does not really have a established GOPe candidate with wide popular support. So why run the Nikki's, Scott's, Sununu's, Hogan's, and other such if they want DeSantis?

The others are running because it's a way to make some cash, and possibly be picked as the VP candidate. If the GOPe wants DeSantis, they're going to make sure that everyone around him is under their control.

Posted by: Ronald at February 13, 2023 12:52 PM (wmDcS)

306 Trump did it through taking up all the media oxygen in the room and saying things people liked.

Specifically, he had a knack for saying things that people liked, that the media was so out of touch as to think it would harm him.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 13, 2023 12:52 PM (PmqP5)

307 238. And I remember when lots of posters here desperately wanted Jim Acosta beaten into the floor by Secret Service for not surrendering the mic to a WH aide and for being a general asshole with questions and demeanor during Trumps press conferences. But let another reporter find out you still need to be polite and not interfere with a governors press conference and now it is suppression of the truth.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 13, 2023 12:52 PM (y0TXe)

308 281 Anonymous sources reveal Trump burns Ohio railroad to make way for new golf course.
Posted by: This is CNN



I blame those homo joo's!!!!

Posted by: Joy Reid, not hysterical at February 13, 2023 12:52 PM (sAmhv)

309 I'm very reluctant to underestimate nature's ability to regenerate.

Salmon are exquisitely genetically tuned for a particular river or stream. If you lose all the salmon in a stream, you can't replace them with other salmon - the genetics are too different. It is equivalent to wiping out an entire species.

Also, the Kiwis tossed a few salmon from the Sacramento River into a few rivers in New Zealand, and now New Zealand has huge salmon runs.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 13, 2023 12:52 PM (2tUFv)

310 From what I heard, the reporter being arrested is a bit of a red herring. He was doing a live broadcast with his own commentary while they were trying to do a media briefing. They told him to take it outside. He did his little, "I'm a reporter, you can't shut down my free speech!" act.

Of course, this could all be BS, but it sounds to me like everyone's egos got involved. The person doing the media briefing could have had more patience. The reporter could have treated the briefing as a briefing and not tried to treat it like his personal live broadcast. The police could have done a simple no trespass or a warning to treat the briefing as such and follow the protocols for that. IE listen while they're talking, then ask questions in turn.

Note, I am not saying the chemical disaster is not serious. I'm not saying there isn't some coverup going on. I just don't think this narrative that they're shutting up reporters for telling the truth because it's a huge coverup is entirely correct.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2023 12:52 PM (V1QHJ)

311 262 The air is orange. Something I grew up with. The mills giving the blast furnace and the BOF a little cleanout. Toot toot with the air horn, heard all over town.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2023 12:52 PM (lz5hY)

312 Just difficult for fishes to recover if...there's no water.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:50 PM


I give you the reverse aqualung - Prof. Wernstrom

Posted by: Archer at February 13, 2023 12:52 PM (gmo/4)

313
Democrats are incapable of embarrassment.

Republicans are incapable of understand they'll never win another national election.

Posted by: Auspex at February 13, 2023 12:52 PM (j4U/Z)

314 293 We are talking about the same guy who directed Top Gun, True Romance, Crimson Tide, Man on Fire, Enemy of The State to name a few.


I mean he's no Vincent Gallo or Ed Wood, but that's a respectable resume.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:51 PM (MDmJR)

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I don't really like Enemy of the State, and he also made freaking Domino. Then there's stuff like Days of Thunder which is...passable, I guess.

Also, Top Gun is half of a terrible movie and half of an awesome movie.

I just can't with the Tony Scott love. His brother is a significantly more gifted filmmaker. Alien, Blade Runner, Matchstick Men, Kingdom of Heaven, hell, even White Squall is solid stuff.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:52 PM (LvTSG)

315 We've now shot down more aircraft over the North American than all of WWII.

Another grim milestone for the Biden administration.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 13, 2023 12:53 PM (UuD2k)

316 No pipelines, and no oil trains.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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Yeah, you know, if they were shipping that stuff in a pipeline there would be no derailments.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 13, 2023 12:53 PM (DveAR)

317 They have no clue what it takes to make anything.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2023 12:39 PM (SbJgO)

I'm long past assuming ignorance when it comes to these shitstains. I think they just don't care.

Posted by: ... at February 13, 2023 12:53 PM (i7dZ9)

318 303 @287

>>I particularly like the part where the filmmakers completely ignore the way track switches actually work

As the saying goes: STORY!!!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:51 PM (MDmJR)

We talking Under Siege 2? I dislike the movie because it did not have the surprise, high quality, nudity of the first.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 12:53 PM (zZu0s)

319 ||EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Governor Mike DeWine of Ohio has issued a mandatory evacuation order for those residing within a mile of a train derailment in the eastern part of the state.

The train, carrying 150-200 cars, derailed on Friday in East Palestine, Columbiana County and caught fire, stretching from a quarter to a half-mile along the tracks. Although the intensity of the fire has decreased, it is still burning as of Sunday evening.

The evacuation notice follows a “drastic temperature change” in one of the rail cars, which could lead to an explosion that could send shrapnel up to a mile away, the Governor’s Office said.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 13, 2023 12:53 PM (Vwz3I)

320 Another crime in Palestine?

I blame the Jews.

Posted by: Rashida Tleiiiiiiib! at February 13, 2023 12:53 PM (N4QQ2)

321 Who are Norfolk Southern's biggest shareholders?

Vanguard, JP Morgan, Black Rock and more, the usual democrat donors.

https://tinyurl.com/yckjwr64

Posted by: huerfano at February 13, 2023 12:53 PM (dTFZY)

322 I'm very reluctant to underestimate nature's ability to regenerate.


Nature points out the folly of man.

Posted by: Archer at February 13, 2023 12:53 PM (gmo/4)

323 Trains are a hobby horse for the left. Every time they think of being able to control where things can get shipped, and where people can go, they see railroad tracks in their minds. When they think of controlling every part of our lives outside the house, they see railroad tracks. Nothing can give rail shipping or travel a negative appearance. Lest their dream of making all shipping and travel government controlled, from government sanctioned stations, to government sanctioned destinations disappear in favor of those evil diesel trucks, and even more evil cars and planes.

Posted by: mikethemoose at February 13, 2023 12:54 PM (T/vhV)

324
If we are in charge it will be Utopia!!!
Posted by: Woke Leftists at February 13, 2023 12:45 PM (17s+e)

Comrade, Your use of "Utopia" is troubling. The New Current Think is that Ourtopia will be a place of unlimited Human Equity for All.

Perhaps you should report to your local DEI Sector Officer for counseling.

Posted by: Woker Leftists at February 13, 2023 12:54 PM (cupoy)

325 @314

>>I just can't with the Tony Scott love.

No, I get it, I feel the same way with Tarantino and De Palma, just messin' about is all.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:54 PM (MDmJR)

326 They are there for Narrative Enhancement.

It will be all anti Trump all day, all the time.

Many different voices coincidentally singing the same exact tune, 24/7 to persuade the wahmenz.
Posted by: ...
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That sort of approach works when a candidate is not defined but not so well for incumbents (essentially Trump is the incumbent here). The usual tactic is to use one candidate to make a kill shot rather than a shotgun approach.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 12:54 PM (GVj+S)

327 I'm not a big Tony Scott fan, but Unstoppable is solidly good fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:47 PM (LvTSG)


I would have liked it more if they could have made it look like the train was going fast.

Posted by: Wally at February 13, 2023 12:54 PM (FJYfm)

328 302 I think you have the timeline for DeSantis to announce correct but I assume that he is running. You don't raise over 100 million bucks for the non-competitive Fla governor race unless you plan higher office.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 12:51 PM (GVj+S)

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I think it's about $200 million, and yes, it's a massive warchest.

I'm sure he's got consultants crawling all over him, begging him to run and let them have a piece of that $200 million pie, but, at the same time, he stays at the top of the conservative dreamlist while knocking the left around within his own borders and doesn't have to take on an incumbent president with the largest fraud operation in history.

There's nothing saying he can't keep hold of it until 2028.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:55 PM (LvTSG)

329 I don't really like Enemy of the State, and he also made freaking Domino. Then there's stuff like Days of Thunder which is...passable, I guess.

Also, Top Gun is half of a terrible movie and half of an awesome movie.

I just can't with the Tony Scott love. His brother is a significantly more gifted filmmaker. Alien, Blade Runner, Matchstick Men, Kingdom of Heaven, hell, even White Squall is solid stuff.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:52 PM (LvTSG)

*notes the absence of the mention of Prometheus*
*considers mentioning TJM's error*
*thinks better of it, decides to do my part to keep the thread Prometheus-free*

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 13, 2023 12:55 PM (/iWhV)

330 281 Anonymous sources reveal Trump burns Ohio railroad to make way for new golf course.
Posted by: This is CNN


I blame those homo joo's!!!!
Posted by: Joy Reid, not hysterical

Dose Greek faggots!

Posted by: Al Sharpton at February 13, 2023 12:55 PM (+Wcyp)

331 From what I heard, the reporter being arrested is a bit of a red herring. He was doing a live broadcast with his own commentary while they were trying to do a media briefing. They told him to take it outside. He did his little, "I'm a reporter, you can't shut down my free speech!" act.
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And Jen told us that this morning but it was in the comments so someone didn't see it.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 13, 2023 12:55 PM (Vwz3I)

332 I'm not often a fan of Biden or his cabinet picks, but in this case his pick at least seems rational.

If anyone should have a knowledge of running a train, you'd think Buttigeig would be that man.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 13, 2023 12:55 PM (Zqeqr)

333 Richard Grenell just retweeted a tweet by Greg Price (@greg_price11) that reads thus and includes a 38-second video clip of him speaking:

"Buttigieg made no mention of the Ohio train derailment while speaking at a conference this morning but did find the time to say that there are too many white people who work construction."

May be worth adding to this story, with a link. It's the National Association of Counties conference.

Most of the Twitter replies laugh at Butty for not knowing that whites are in fact underrepresented in construction jobs, and Hispanics very much overrepresented - as anyone who's ever driven past a construction site with his eyes open and brain turned on would know.

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at February 13, 2023 12:55 PM (yj0/u)

334 I just can't with the Tony Scott love. His brother is a significantly more gifted filmmaker. Alien, Blade Runner, Matchstick Men, Kingdom of Heaven, hell, even White Squall is solid stuff.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:52 PM (LvTSG)

Also Prometheus and Covenant- everybody sucks sometimes.

Plus, I like 'some' of Ridley's stuff, but his movies which are good/decent tend to have the same quality... kind of a sterile-ness to a lot of the movie and shots. Alien and Blade Runner are both examples of this- and I like both of those.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 12:55 PM (zZu0s)

335 We talking Under Siege 2? I dislike the movie because it did not have the surprise, high quality, nudity of the first.

It was necessary to the story!!!

Posted by: Erica Eleniak at February 13, 2023 12:55 PM (eOEVl)

336 This redhead in a sweater hopes for the best for the people of East Palestine and surrounds, and hopes the emergency crews can get things under control:
https://is.gd/YImm2M
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2023 12:43 PM (t0OGg)


A sweater makes sense. It's a bit nippy there.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) reminds you at February 13, 2023 12:55 PM (yQpMk)

337 Isn't it right on the border? So Penn now has two Centralias!

We must not allow there to be a Centralia Gap!


Centralia gets all the publicity, but there are over a dozen underground coal fires in PA.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 13, 2023 12:55 PM (OCO0/)

338 We've now shot down more aircraft over the North American than all of WWII.



Eat lead slant - Capt. Wild Bill Kelso, AAF

Posted by: Archer at February 13, 2023 12:56 PM (gmo/4)

339 Just difficult for fishes to recover if...there's no water.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 13, 2023 12:50 PM (ynpvh)


It's not that there was no water in the Aral Sea, it's that what remained was so salty basically nothing could live in it. After the local governments changed their policies and allowed more water to run back into it, the salinity dropped, and they seem to have successfully reintroduced flounder, mackerel, and a few other species. It's kind of a fascinating story, really.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2023 12:56 PM (bhRsz)

340 325 @314

>>I just can't with the Tony Scott love.

No, I get it, I feel the same way with Tarantino and De Palma, just messin' about is all.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:54 PM (MDmJR)

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I don't begrudge anyone their own tastes.

Except Gaspar Noe fans. Those people are sick.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:56 PM (LvTSG)

341 Nature points out the folly of man.

Posted by: Archer at February 13, 2023 12:53 PM (gmo/4)


Amen.

Posted by: Blue Oyster Cult at February 13, 2023 12:56 PM (FJYfm)

342 Old and busted: Cow Catchers
New and exciting: Rotary cannon on locomotives

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2023 12:56 PM (D25PY)

343 Prediction:

All the GOPe presidential candidates will make bank and then not endorse Trump when they drop out.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 13, 2023 12:56 PM (N52dd)

344 DeSwine is one of the endorsement "wins" Trump likes to brag about.
Which I understand Trump endorsing someone that was highly likely to win, for the "win" bragging rights. But DeWine is a horrible, no good scum bag. The only blank I left on my '22 ballot.

Posted by: Fool Otto at February 13, 2023 12:56 PM (DB16e)

345 Yeah, you know, if they were shipping that stuff in a pipeline there would be no derailments.

The environmental costs of pipelines is just too high.

Posted by: Warren Buffett, Oil Train Owner! at February 13, 2023 12:56 PM (2tUFv)

346 A lot of Republicans are running to ruin the eventual candidate for the General. There's a living in that.

Posted by: ... at February 13, 2023 12:57 PM (i7dZ9)

347 I just can't with the Tony Scott love. His brother is a significantly more gifted filmmaker. Alien, Blade Runner, Matchstick Men, Kingdom of Heaven, hell, even White Squall is solid stuff.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:52 PM (LvTSG)

Ahem. He also made: Thelma and Louise, 1492, GI Jane, Hannibal, A Good Year, American Gangster, Body of Lies, the bad Robin Hood, Exodus: Gods and Kings and one or two other films I will not mention unless provoked.

Tony Scott has a more consistently good resume. Ridley is higher highs and lower lows.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:57 PM (lEVn+)

348 335 We talking Under Siege 2? I dislike the movie because it did not have the surprise, high quality, nudity of the first.

It was necessary to the story!!!
Posted by: Erica Eleniak at February 13, 2023 12:55 PM (eOEVl)

It kept the movie from the dust bin of history, that's for sure.

Whole 9 Yards is the same.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 12:57 PM (zZu0s)

349 There's nothing saying he can't keep hold of it until 2028.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:55 PM (LvTSG)

That's what I'm thinking.

Posted by: polynikes at February 13, 2023 12:57 PM (qnsfO)

350 Not sure what is going on here as GOPe does not really have a established GOPe candidate with wide popular support. So why run the Nikki's, Scott's, Sununu's, Hogan's, and other such if they want DeSantis?

I don't think the GOPe wants DeSantis to win....they're probably hoping Trump and DeSantis battle it out, kaiju-style, and destroy one another. Have a bunch of random GOPers in the mix, too, see which one clicks with the voters, and try to pump them to victory.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 13, 2023 12:57 PM (JCZqz)

351 Most of the Twitter replies laugh at Butty for not knowing that whites are in fact underrepresented in construction jobs, and Hispanics very much overrepresented - as anyone who's ever driven past a construction site with his eyes open and brain turned on would know.
Posted by: Dr. Weevil at February 13, 2023 12:55 PM (yj0/u)

I think his point is that one is too many.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2023 12:57 PM (/EuRN)

352 Since balloon-size is reported on as "the length of three school buses", how many school bus lengths is that ominous black cloud?

Kamala is the school bus expert, so I think I'll ask her.

Posted by: Short Bus Pete at February 13, 2023 12:58 PM (wrJpE)

353 At least Herman Cain had a gimmick. He still had no shot, and I rate his campaign as a grift, but he had a gimmick.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:51 PM (LvTSG)

Herman Cain always sounded like he was selling pizza. It doesn't help that he ran Godfather Pizza. E dry time he started talking about 9-9-9 Plan I was convinced he was going to start talking about nine nine topping pizzas for nine bucks. Something like that.

Posted by: Robert at February 13, 2023 12:58 PM (N4QQ2)

354 @340

>>Except Gaspar Noe fans. Those people are sick.

Gaspar Noe is the David Cronenberg of Harmony Korine's.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 12:58 PM (MDmJR)

355 The others are running because it's a way to make some cash, and possibly be picked as the VP candidate. If the GOPe wants DeSantis, they're going to make sure that everyone around him is under their control. Posted by: Ronald
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I can see why others are running but expecting them to be a wingman to DeSantis and VP candidate makes it difficult for them to me too DeSantis too much because Trump is at the pole position right now in polling and that probably won't move much until open campaigning begins this fall.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 12:58 PM (GVj+S)

356 352 Since balloon-size is reported on as "the length of three school buses", how many school bus lengths is that ominous black cloud?

Kamala is the school bus expert, so I think I'll ask her.
Posted by: Short Bus Pete at February 13, 2023 12:58 PM (wrJpE)

*checks picture*

That's a shit load of buses.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 12:59 PM (zZu0s)

357 320 Another crime in Palestine?

I blame the Jews.
Posted by: Rashida Tleiiiiiiib!



I fully expect The Squad retards to actually say this at some point. Because they are vicious retards.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 13, 2023 12:59 PM (sAmhv)

358 Brought up here before. I was at a family function with the in laws, and the ex wife's cuz shows up, a crash inspector for Con Rail. Guy had a Motorala Radio and a bag phone and said he was on call. I asked it that was necessary and he said "we wreck 'em all the time, you only hear about the big ones".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2023 12:59 PM (lz5hY)

359 Erica Eleniak was more of a smoke show than the Ohio derailment.


Oh, and Rihanna is a skank.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 13, 2023 12:59 PM (lf83v)

360 Herman Cain always sounded like he was selling pizza. It doesn't help that he ran Godfather Pizza. E dry time he started talking about 9-9-9 Plan I was convinced he was going to start talking about nine nine topping pizzas for nine bucks. Something like that.
Posted by: Robert at February 13, 2023 12:58 PM (N4QQ2)

That would be a good deal. Totino's party pizzas?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 12:59 PM (zZu0s)

361 My favorite train movie is the 1967 film The Incident.

Posted by: polynikes at February 13, 2023 12:59 PM (qnsfO)

362 Most of the Twitter replies laugh at Butty for not knowing that whites are in fact underrepresented in construction jobs, and Hispanics very much overrepresented - as anyone who's ever driven past a construction site with his eyes open and brain turned on would know.

Posted by: Dr. Weevil
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Not under-represented enough.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 13, 2023 12:59 PM (17s+e)

363 347 Ahem. He also made: Thelma and Louise, 1492, GI Jane, Hannibal, A Good Year, American Gangster, Body of Lies, the bad Robin Hood, Exodus: Gods and Kings and one or two other films I will not mention unless provoked.

Tony Scott has a more consistently good resume. Ridley is higher highs and lower lows.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:57 PM (lEVn+)

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1492 is good, not great. So sue me, I like GI Jane. It's dumb, but it's fun. Hannibal is a wonderful operatic monster movie. A Good Year...I haven't seen in forever but remember finding it fine. American Gangster is awesome. Body of Lies is similar to A Good Year...it's been way too long. I really like the Robin Hood. It's overcomplicated and has the silly Marian as a soldier stuff, but it's outright libertarian in the best of ways while gorgeous to look at. And damn, I do like Exodus as well. Probably his best looking film, at the least.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:59 PM (LvTSG)

364 Ahem. He also made: Thelma and Louise, 1492, GI Jane, Hannibal, A Good Year, American Gangster, Body of Lies, the bad Robin Hood, Exodus: Gods and Kings and one or two other films I will not mention unless provoked.

Tony Scott has a more consistently good resume. Ridley is higher highs and lower lows.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:57 PM (lEVn+)


*shuffles feet*

I liked American Gangster.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2023 12:59 PM (bhRsz)

365 Also, the Kiwis tossed a few salmon from the Sacramento River into a few rivers in New Zealand, and now New Zealand has huge salmon runs.
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The Kiwi government is thinking of transplanting grizzly bears and Native Americans to keep the numbers of salmon down but have to complete an ecological survey first.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 13, 2023 12:59 PM (Vwz3I)

366 According to Wiki, only flounder survived the high salinity in the Aral Sea. It has since been restocked with some native and other non-native species.

The salinity increase and drying of the lake led to the local extinction of the Aral trout, ruffe, Turkestan barbel, and all sturgeon species, and dams now block their return and migration routes; the Aral trout and Syr Darya sturgeon (Pseudoscaphirhynchus fedtschenkoi) may be extinct due to their restricted range. All other native fish, barring the stickleback (which persisted during the lake's shrinkage and salinity increase), were also extirpated, but many have returned to the North Aral Sea following its recovery from the 1990s onwards.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 01:00 PM (eOEVl)

367 I imagine DeWine is going to go down for this and he knows it.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at February 13, 2023 01:00 PM (sI15f)

368 Oh, and Thelma and Louise sucks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 01:00 PM (LvTSG)

369 A NewsNation reporter was arrested during a news conference held by the Ohio governor about a train derailment.

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Hey media, are you starting to see why reporting honestly and holding politicians/government to account on things like January 6th might be important?

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at February 13, 2023 01:00 PM (EdaAK)

370 It's bad enough I have to put up with volcanic eruptions....

Posted by: Ozone Layer at February 13, 2023 01:02 PM (2YtOq)

371 Arresting reporters and members of the public seems to be de rigeur at press conferences, school board meetings, city council meetings, and other such events. Tis all quite fascist.

Posted by: Thin blue line protecting us from First Amendment rights at February 13, 2023 01:02 PM (7b+Kq)

372 I don't think the GOPe wants DeSantis to win....they're probably hoping Trump and DeSantis battle it out, kaiju-style, and destroy one another. Have a bunch of random GOPers in the mix, too, see which one clicks with the voters, and try to pump them to victory.
Posted by: Moron Analyst
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Maybe but the whole favorite son strategy in early primaries effectively blocks that approach. Outside candidates depend on the early three primaries of Iowa (yeah I know it is a caucus), New Hampshire, and South Carolina to build momentum as the rest of the primary schedule rapidly becomes impossible for candidates without a large infrastructure in other states.

It is a sequential game theory approach and very difficult to calculate for minor candidates as you have to have the infrastructure in later states and that requires winning the early primaries to gain money and momentum in time to set up that infrastructure for later primaries.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 01:02 PM (GVj+S)

373 If there was actually an official RINO Party, he'd belong to it.

Ahoy!

Posted by: Cap'n Bill at February 13, 2023 01:02 PM (a3Q+t)

374 >Oh, and Thelma and Louise sucks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison


they wasted a perfectly good vintage T-bird for that final shot

Posted by: DB at February 13, 2023 01:02 PM (geLO8)

375 Oh, and Thelma and Louise sucks.

It was sad what happened to that Thunderbird. I cried.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 13, 2023 01:02 PM (PmqP5)

376 Herman Cain always sounded like he was selling pizza. It doesn't help that he ran Godfather Pizza. E dry time he started talking about 9-9-9 Plan I was convinced he was going to start talking about nine nine topping pizzas for nine bucks. Something like that.

Posted by: Robert at February 13, 2023 12:58 PM (N4QQ2)

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Comet Pizza started that with their 6-6-6 Pizza.

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 13, 2023 01:02 PM (d9aGi)

377 Interesting if true.

From Julian Ropcke, a very pro-Ukrainian, but honest reporter for BILD (translated from German) three hours ago:

Russia's mega offensive has begun.
Massive Russian advance attempts are taking place along virtually the entire Donbas front. So far with devastating consequences - especially for the Russian army. It remains questionable how long Ukraine can withstand the onslaught of 300,000 men.


Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 13, 2023 01:02 PM (2tUFv)

378 Is this one of Warren Buffet's trains?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2023 01:03 PM (63Dwl)

379 Did someone mention RINO?

Posted by: Mittens Romney at February 13, 2023 01:04 PM (a3Q+t)

380 The Kiwi government is thinking of transplanting grizzly bears and Native Americans to keep the numbers of salmon down but have to complete an ecological survey first.

Only if the Maori agree, since the ruling New Zealand Labour government wants to give the Maori a veto over any governmental decision.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 13, 2023 01:04 PM (2tUFv)

381 brought forward from JJ thread:

270 "184 People have no idea how much methyl-ethyl-badshit runs through their backyards on rails.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy"

ever since the 80's I've had one copy or another of the DOT Hazmat handbook in the door pocket of my car, mostly to decode the placards on tank cars while trains are going by, and tankers on the highway.
the crucial bit is the number, UNxxxx, which obfuscates the contents from the uninformed view; 1203 is gasoline, 1202 is diesel; ethanol is 1170, propane is 1075, liquid nitrogen is 1977 ...
these are some common ones you can see every day, but there are thousands of others!

https://amzn.to/3lyBjhK"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 13, 2023 01:04 PM (XzIdt)

382 When reporters say what we tell you to say, that's a healthy First Amendment right.

When you don't report what we tell you to, that's trespassing.

Officer, do your duty.

Posted by: Government at February 13, 2023 01:04 PM (lf83v)

383 378 Is this one of Warren Buffet's trains?
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next stop Margaritaville?

Posted by: Haywood at February 13, 2023 01:05 PM (K23pB)

384 I liked American Gangster.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 13, 2023 12:59 PM (bhRsz)

My man...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 13, 2023 01:05 PM (CCSxw)

385 the problem is overspecialized chemicals not carbon

Posted by: yoeman at February 13, 2023 01:06 PM (BYNHj)

386 A year ago I watched the Men's Professional Tackle Football competition finals match and in one of the commercials Matt Damon told me to buy crypto because Fortune Favors The Bold.

How'd that work out?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 13, 2023 01:06 PM (DhOHl)

387 Is this one of Warren Buffet's trains?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2023 01:03 PM (63Dwl)
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The train is probably full of chemicals used in the manufacture of environmentally friendly green energy.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at February 13, 2023 01:06 PM (2YtOq)

388 >>378 Is this one of Warren Buffet's trains?

No. Buffet = BNSF

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2023 01:06 PM (D25PY)

389 31 Prevailing winds will carry the hydrochloric acid straight over Pittsburgh to New York. I wonder how long the contaminants will stay in the air.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 13, 2023 12:17 PM (QbC6G)

And thence into the ocean. Yes, I know the ocean is large, but is it large enough to dilute the resultant rise in acidity as the stuff falls out of the clouds?

I also wonder why it took the Governor two days to give the evacuate order. Did he say anything at all about it before then?

Posted by: Flyover at February 13, 2023 01:06 PM (Rbu5d)

390 Speaking of Uniparty, I went to Memeorandum to see what the Center-Left and RINO denizens of public life are talking about and, guess what! The walls are closing in on Trump. Also on Nikki Haley, because she worked for Trump for a short stint.

No mention of the Palestine chemical disaster, or the Junta encouraging the onset of WW3 in eastern Europe.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 13, 2023 01:06 PM (+iiWN)

391 Hey, remember when that city in Mississippi screwed up their own water supply and it was everyone elses fault and we were all supposed to feel bad for them and send them lots of money and support their football team? And this doesn't get any media coverage?

Don't look now, but:

East Palestine, Ohio
Black 0.6%
White alone, 94.5%

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at February 13, 2023 01:06 PM (EdaAK)

392 So the toxic rain cloud around the E Palestine crash is a 200 mile radius. It's not like there's a whole crapton of farm land in the area.

When will we begin to witness "mysterious" illnesses or deaths caused by consuming contaminated food if they do not acknowledge that this is a significant issue? Soon to be followed by severe crackdowns on sources of misinformation / disinformation that accurately assign the illnesses or deaths to poisoning resulting from this disaster?

Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2023 01:06 PM (V1QHJ)

393 344 DeSwine is one of the endorsement "wins" Trump likes to brag about.
Which I understand Trump endorsing someone that was highly likely to win, for the "win" bragging rights. But DeWine is a horrible, no good scum bag. The only blank I left on my '22 ballot.
Posted by: Fool Otto
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Trump is running an insider campaign in the states this time--he is not an insurgent candidate so he is coopting the establishment in critical states like South Carolina. His rally with Ladybugs Lindsay and Henry McMaster is designed to block out much support statewide for Tim Scott or Nikki.

That is certainly a risk though if the GOP electorate in 2024 wants a change because it makes DeSantis the change agent.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 01:07 PM (GVj+S)

394 According to Wiki, only flounder survived the high salinity in the Aral Sea.
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This feels ironic

Posted by: ... at February 13, 2023 01:07 PM (5ebrm)

395 Maybe but the whole favorite son strategy in early primaries effectively blocks that approach. Outside candidates depend on the early three primaries of Iowa (yeah I know it is a caucus), New Hampshire, and South Carolina to build momentum as the rest of the primary schedule rapidly becomes impossible for candidates without a large infrastructure in other states.

It is a sequential game theory approach and very difficult to calculate for minor candidates as you have to have the infrastructure in later states and that requires winning the early primaries to gain money and momentum in time to set up that infrastructure for later primaries.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 01:02 PM (GVj+S)


This strategy hasn't worked since Carter in 1976. Football coaches don't still run the Winged T formation, or even the Run and Shoot, but politicians hang onto this Carter win from almost 50 years ago

Posted by: Wally at February 13, 2023 01:07 PM (FJYfm)

396 >I also wonder why it took the Governor two days to give the evacuate order. Did he say anything at all about it before then?

Posted by: Flyover


well, they probably wanted to do some internal polling to see how the disaster was playing with the public

Posted by: DB at February 13, 2023 01:07 PM (geLO8)

397 Also on Nikki Haley, because she worked for Trump for a short stint.

Did a good job of it from outside appearances, as I recall, and immediately threw it away when she left.

I’m thinking mainly of her stint at (telling off) the U.N.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 13, 2023 01:08 PM (PmqP5)

398 388 No Buffet?!?!

AIEEEEEEE!

— Michael Moore

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2023 01:08 PM (sjxgf)

399 367. Why? What did DeWine do to effect a train derailment? Or are we going to insist he should now be an expert on chemical spill resolution, just like Trump should have been an infectious disease expert and Rick Snyder should have been a water treatment expert with full knowledge of the Flint River acidity levels and the amount of lead in 100 year old water pipes.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 13, 2023 01:08 PM (y0TXe)

400 East Palestine is in Columbiana County, votes for GOP POTUS candidate in the County (per Wikip):
2020 71.51%
2016 68.13%
2012 54.66%
2008 52.54%
2004 52.06%
2000 49.08%

Posted by: Baldy at February 13, 2023 01:08 PM (xud/k)

401 Sh!t always happens in Palestine...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 13, 2023 01:09 PM (TGPs7)

402 Rep. Santos called Mitt Romney and asshole to his face in with millions of people watching.

DeSantis/Santos 2024

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 13, 2023 01:09 PM (D25PY)

403 My prepositions are:
Behind/inside

Posted by: Shiggz (defective slave) at February 13, 2023 01:09 PM (0SrVS)

404 > It remains questionable how long Ukraine can withstand the onslaught of 300,000 men.

I've seen reports that the Ukrainians are losing around ten men for every on Russian they kill. I have no idea what the real numbers are, but everything I've seen indicates the Ukes are still losing more than the Russians are. If 300K Russian fighters are entering the combat zone, I don't see how the Ukes will survive this.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2023 01:09 PM (V1QHJ)

405
I eagerly await SecGay Buttgiggity coming on line and telling us that the whole problem could have been avoided by transporting vinyl chloride in the trunk of our electric vehicles.

The guy is a genius, I tell you, genius!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 13, 2023 01:09 PM (yCjjf)

406 That is certainly a risk though if the GOP electorate in 2024 wants a change because it makes DeSantis the change agent.

They do. I think this is a major, possibly fatal, error.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 01:09 PM (eOEVl)

407
well, they probably wanted to do some internal polling to see how the disaster was playing with the public
Posted by: DB at February 13, 2023 01:07 PM (geLO

And ask the railroad owners if they wanted the dangers mentioned, or spare their blushes

Posted by: CN at February 13, 2023 01:09 PM (Zzbjj)

408 >I also wonder why it took the Governor two days to give the evacuate order. Did he say anything at all about it before then?

Posted by: Flyover

well, they probably wanted to do some internal polling to see how the disaster was playing with the public
Posted by: DB at February 13, 2023 01:07 PM (geLO

Government employees don't work on weekends.

Posted by: Robert at February 13, 2023 01:10 PM (N4QQ2)

409 First the Nord Stream pipeline, now train cars full of dangerous chemicals.

Is there anything the Democrats WON'T blow up and poison the earth with?

Posted by: Brass Bancroft at February 13, 2023 01:10 PM (T7017)

410 I've seen reports that the Ukrainians are losing around ten men for every on Russian they kill. I have no idea what the real numbers are, but everything I've seen indicates the Ukes are still losing more than the Russians are. If 300K Russian fighters are entering the combat zone, I don't see how the Ukes will survive this.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2023 01:09 PM (V1QHJ)

Casualty reports are always shaky at best. In this environment I would not trust either side.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 01:10 PM (zZu0s)

411
Godfather's Pizza: Pita bread, ketchup, Velveeta and bologna.

Posted by: Auspex at February 13, 2023 01:10 PM (j4U/Z)

412 69 41 aliens?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:19 PM (lEVn+)

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Incorrect.

awiens.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:21 PM (LvTSG)

https://tinyurl.com/3erevutu

Posted by: Flyover at February 13, 2023 01:10 PM (Rbu5d)

413 I've seen reports that the Ukrainians are losing around ten men for every on Russian they kill. I have no idea what the real numbers are, but everything I've seen indicates the Ukes are still losing more than the Russians are. If 300K Russian fighters are entering the combat zone, I don't see how the Ukes will survive this.

Absurd. The Ukes aren't the ones staging mass, suicidal, frontal assaults with poorly equipped conscripts.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 01:11 PM (eOEVl)

414 This strategy hasn't worked since Carter in 1976. Football coaches don't still run the Winged T formation, or even the Run and Shoot, but politicians hang onto this Carter win from almost 50 years ago
Posted by: Wally
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I agree but the GOP has always been pretty much a party that makes the decision who is going to be the nominee BEFORE the primaries until Trump.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 01:11 PM (GVj+S)

415 Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2023 01:09 PM (V1QHJ)

I agree, MacGregor hopes that Zdogg lets his soldiers flee or surrender, but thinks he's too invested in making martyrs...and escalating the war

Posted by: CN at February 13, 2023 01:11 PM (Zzbjj)

416 Also on Nikki Haley, because she worked for Trump for a short stint.
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And like Pence she was a good soldier for as long as she needed to be and had a LOT of people fooled, even DESPITE prior warning signs. .

Might be a lesson in that. Might not be. Eh forget it, it's probably not important.

Posted by: ... at February 13, 2023 01:12 PM (OCwj1)

417 Probably be different if it was in California.. Ohio ? That's where all the Rubes are....

Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2023 01:12 PM (bs+z0)

418 Oh, and Rihanna is a skank.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot


Her unborn baby has been to more Superbowls than the Dallas Cowboys in the last 25 years.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2023 01:12 PM (SbJgO)

419 About Ukraine: It's long been obvious the Biden administration will fight to the last Ukrainian and not one body more.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at February 13, 2023 01:12 PM (2YtOq)

420 My favorite train movie is the 1967 film The Incident.
Posted by: polynikes
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Well, mine is 'The Train'. Burt Lancaster doing all of his own stunts, And the train-yard bombing was one of those. 'We only get to make one take' shots.

Then, there is the derailment scene in 'The Fugitive'. Also a live one-time shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LF4I1S9rOo

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2023 01:13 PM (q0Hle)

421 Mayor McButtCheese

Posted by: Sphynx at February 13, 2023 01:13 PM (P6qMv)

422 Matt Damon told me to buy crypto because Fortune Favors The Bold.

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I remember that commercial because he says "brave" and not bold. It always annoyed me. More than Taterhead normally does.

Speaking of, did you know he permanently damaged his internal organs because He's Super Smart and knows all about Global Warming and other Important Stuff and he decided he do a super smart diet and it almost killed him but only because he's so smart?

I *guarantee* he was face down on that couch at some point.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at February 13, 2023 01:13 PM (EdaAK)

423 And like Pence she was a good soldier for as long as she needed to be and had a LOT of people fooled, even DESPITE prior warning signs. .

Might be a lesson in that. Might not be. Eh forget it, it's probably not important.
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2023 01:12 PM (OCwj1)

It's just a flag, nothing to worry about.
It's just a few statues, nothing to worry about.
It's just your kids, nothing to worry about.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 01:13 PM (zZu0s)

424 I just discovered that Monday, 2/20, is International Pipe Smoking Day. Smoke 'em if you got 'em!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2023 01:13 PM (J2vNu)

425 Just one story reported truthfully.....just one.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 13, 2023 01:14 PM (+Wcyp)

426 > Absurd. The Ukes aren't the ones staging mass, suicidal, frontal assaults with poorly equipped conscripts.

No, they're engaging in guerilla warfare with poorly trained civilians who have no idea how to use the equipment shoved into their hands.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2023 01:14 PM (V1QHJ)

427 96 So, who owns those trains? Is it the American billionaire that markets himself to the public as a harmless teddy bear self made man? Meanwhile funding the Democrats who want to stop oil pipelines because that is competition for his trains? Placing millions of people who live near train tracks in danger as attested by past accidents?
Posted by: Floridachick at February 13, 2023 12:24 PM (5Qj+5)

Must admit I was wondering the same thing.

Posted by: Flyover at February 13, 2023 01:14 PM (Rbu5d)

428 "Instead, the cleanup crew performed a "controlled burn," burning the stuff up."

This is a dumb way to present this. They presented it like the cleanup crew had a choice. This is standard practice for liquified gas tanker fires to prevent a BLEVE.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 13, 2023 01:14 PM (Y5qcH)

429 I've seen reports that the Ukrainians are losing around ten men for every on Russian they kill. I have no idea what the real numbers are, but everything I've seen indicates the Ukes are still losing more than the Russians are. If 300K Russian fighters are entering the combat zone, I don't see how the Ukes will survive this.

Posted by: bonhomme

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They will fight 'til your last dollar.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at February 13, 2023 01:14 PM (EdaAK)

430
I thought Obummer fixed all the infrastructure problems?



U.S. has the worst shape railroads in the world, or at least the first world.

Posted by: Sphynx at February 13, 2023 01:14 PM (P6qMv)

431 Godfather's Pizza: Pita bread, ketchup, Velveeta and bologna.

Posted by: Auspex at February 13, 2023 01:10 PM (j4U/Z)

Godfather's Pizza, doo iiiitt.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at February 13, 2023 01:15 PM (OgrpQ)

432 International Pipe Smoking Day. Smoke 'em if you got 'em!
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Posted by: Hunter's Crack Pipe at February 13, 2023 01:15 PM (lf83v)

433 governor Haley caved to the woke crowd over the SC flag. She'd be no better as POTUS

Posted by: Fool Otto at February 13, 2023 01:15 PM (DB16e)

434 I agree but the GOP has always been pretty much a party that makes the decision who is going to be the nominee BEFORE the primaries until Trump.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 01:11 PM (GVj+S)


Agreed. Name recognition has always been the way to go.

Years ago, I worked on a campaign trying the old Carter "We'll surprise them in Iowa, pick up a little more momentum in New Hampshire, and then, LOOK OUT!" It didn't work.

Posted by: Wally at February 13, 2023 01:15 PM (FJYfm)

435 I just discovered that Monday, 2/20, is International Pipe Smoking Day. Smoke 'em if you got 'em!

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(ears perk up)

I can finally be part of something important!

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at February 13, 2023 01:15 PM (EdaAK)

436 I've seen reports that the Ukrainians are losing around ten men for every on Russian they kill. I have no idea what the real numbers are, but everything I've seen indicates the Ukes are still losing more than the Russians are. If 300K Russian fighters are entering the combat zone, I don't see how the Ukes will survive this.
Posted by: bonhomme
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Old military maxim was that the offense had to outnumber the defense in trench warfare by at least 3:1 because the offense is likely to suffer proportionately more casualties than defenders in fixed defenses.

What it appears that Russia is doing is attrition figuring correctly that they can trade lives for real estate more than the Ukrainians can.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 01:16 PM (GVj+S)

437 Here's a pretty good summary of DeSantis' position vis a vis Scott Walker's in 2016. Amazingly, it's in an organ of the NYT.

https://tinyurl.com/3bnry6n8

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 01:16 PM (eOEVl)

438 Geez. The railroad had an accident. Chemicals are burning. It's happened hundreds of times and we and the environment survived. Get a grip.

I consider this on the level of click bait.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 13, 2023 01:17 PM (BdMk6)

439 ...and the ensuing die-offs of fish.

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Public health officials couldn't get the fish to socially distance so they are closing the schools...

Posted by: Muldoon at February 13, 2023 01:17 PM (ykeLU)

440 There's a reason OH keeps electing soft-socialists to represent them.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at February 13, 2023 01:17 PM (hf5YE)

441 No, they're engaging in guerilla warfare with poorly trained civilians who have no idea how to use the equipment shoved into their hands.

Other than everything you said, you are correct. Also, if they're so inept, why have the Russians been immobile for so long?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 01:17 PM (eOEVl)

442

I don't understand uh, anything uh, that's uh-uh going on

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at February 13, 2023 01:17 PM (vwCZJ)

443 You are soaking your hands in it.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 13, 2023 01:18 PM (jxVII)

444 We will not rest until we know we can no longer receive another untraceable dollar from the United States!
- Ukrainian politicians

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at February 13, 2023 01:18 PM (EdaAK)

445 I just discovered that Monday, 2/20, is International Pipe Smoking Day. Smoke 'em if you got 'em!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 13, 2023 01:13 PM (J2vNu)


OK, I don't know much about transportation, but I am quite the pipe smoker!

Posted by: Mayor Pete at February 13, 2023 01:18 PM (FJYfm)

446 I just discovered that Monday, 2/20, is International Pipe Smoking Day. Smoke 'em if you got 'em!

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During Chinese Spy Balloon and UFO Pride Month?

REALLY???

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 13, 2023 01:19 PM (xC5xH)

447 > Speaking of, did you know he permanently damaged his internal organs because He's Super Smart and knows all about Global Warming and other Important Stuff and he decided he do a super smart diet and it almost killed him but only because he's so smart?

I hadn't heard about that. Did he do the stupid fruit diet that almost killed Steve Jobs?

Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2023 01:19 PM (V1QHJ)

448 Since everyone has decided to grind their pet cause:

https://tinyurl.com/342s6u96

Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 01:19 PM (zZu0s)

449 What it appears that Russia is doing is attrition figuring correctly that they can trade lives for real estate more than the Ukrainians can.
Posted by: whig


They did it during Stalingrad. It's a winning formula for them.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2023 01:19 PM (SbJgO)

450 Geez. The railroad had an accident. Chemicals are burning. It's happened hundreds of times and we and the environment survived. Get a grip.

I consider this on the level of click bait.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

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Even if you want to disregard the media blackout, wildlife deaths, contamination, and denials, don't miss this part:

"A NewsNation reporter was arrested during a news conference held by the Ohio governor about a train derailment."

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at February 13, 2023 01:19 PM (EdaAK)

451 Years ago, I worked on a campaign trying the old Carter "We'll surprise them in Iowa, pick up a little more momentum in New Hampshire, and then, LOOK OUT!" It didn't work.
Posted by: Wally
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GOP had (in the past-dunno about today) many less states that allocate delegates proportionally than Dems and did not have the whole super delegate etc. provisions. Harder for an insurgent candidate to break through under those conditions plus adding South Carolina in 88 served as a firewall in the GOP for the frontrunners as Carroll Campbell built a GOP political machine still running the state.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 01:20 PM (GVj+S)

452 I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy.

She looks...squishy.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 01:20 PM (eOEVl)

453 Blackrock has 16,718,777 shares of Norfolk Southern, just sayin'.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at February 13, 2023 01:20 PM (OgrpQ)

454 31 Prevailing winds will carry the hydrochloric acid straight over Pittsburgh to New York. I wonder how long the contaminants will stay in the air.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 13, 2023 12:17 PM (QbC6G)

*******

This should create more dead people in Philly, NJ, and NY, who will all then vote Democrat in the upcoming 4,256 elections. Well, this assumes the left will need another 4,255 elections to cement their place in power.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at February 13, 2023 01:20 PM (xxG/v)

455 "In fairness, the only thing within the capabilities of Mayor Pete to manage is getting rear-ended in a Prius."

I'm surprised there's enough room in the back seat for that.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 13, 2023 01:20 PM (LLSQr)

456 A prescribed burn is better than a BLEVE.

boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0jtD_OWLU

Posted by: Machias Privateer at February 13, 2023 01:20 PM (EMi53)

457 "The Ukes aren't the ones staging mass, suicidal, frontal assaults with poorly equipped conscripts."

WTF? Where has this been happening?

A lot of the contested areas in Donetsk oblast have been fortified for years by the Ukes (it's a secret to many, but the war there's' gone on for 9 years now). So taking territory there can be very slow, costly, and even leaving aside Russia's inability to mount serious combined arms maneuver operations, it's a slog by its very nature.

And little if any of the action by either side has involved mass frontal assaults (and "frontal assaults" are kind of your only option in properly fortified areas, so smaller ones have been frequent).

Posted by: rhomboid at February 13, 2023 01:20 PM (OTzUX)

458 "I wonder how long the contaminants will stay in the air."

Probably not long if they get a good rain and/or snowstorm through there.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 13, 2023 01:21 PM (LLSQr)

459 U.S. has the worst shape railroads in the world, or at least the first world.
Posted by: Sphynx at February 13, 2023 01:14 PM (P6qMv)

But yet the efficiency of our railroad system is the envy of the world.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 13, 2023 01:21 PM (BdMk6)

460 Usually, no one is truly in charge of such situations. They don't know what to do for such a large scale incident; don't have an adequate number of knowlegeable workers &/(or volunteers) available to safely address it, and/or don't want to take responsibility (Incident Commander) & have fingers pointed back. Private employer assistance is also needed.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) &/or others (i.e., Chemical Safety Board (CSB), etc.) that are advisory in nature, will appear to gather reports of actions that were taken, or not, in response to the incident and combine the findings into a report of corrective recommendations for abatement & best practices that are unlikely to be implemented because of time, $, infrastructure, lack of multiple agency coordination, etc.

See ntsb dot gov: Conrail Freight Train Derailment with Vinyl Chloride Release, Paulsboro, NJ November 30, 2012.

Prayers for those affected & the emergency responders.

Posted by: Lola at February 13, 2023 01:21 PM (Wxlzw)

461 The Ukraine wars have started.. This morning it was the Religion wars.. Why is everyone so cranky ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2023 01:22 PM (bs+z0)

462 This is standard practice ... to prevent a BLEVE.

********

Which we all know means..."to BLUFF". So what happened, your friend was playing poker?

/Miracle Max

Posted by: Muldoon at February 13, 2023 01:22 PM (ykeLU)

463 How much coverage is this story getting in National Review?

Posted by: ... at February 13, 2023 01:23 PM (avC+E)

464 United States tells citizens: Leave Russia immediately.

“Russian authorities arbitrarily enforce local laws against U.S. citizen religious workers and have opened questionable criminal investigations against U.S. citizens engaged in religious activity.”

related:
“Federal authorities at the DOJ/FBI arbitrarily enforce laws against U.S. citizen religious workers (see Little Sisters of the Poor) and have opened questionable criminal investigations against U.S. citizens engaged in religious activity (Radical Traditional Catholics).”

Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2023 01:23 PM (RHGPo)

465 Speaking of, did you know he permanently damaged his internal organs because He's Super Smart and knows all about Global Warming and other Important Stuff and he decided he do a super smart diet and it almost killed him but only because he's so smart?

I hadn't heard about that. Did he do the stupid fruit diet that almost killed Steve Jobs?

Posted by: bonhomme

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I thought it was potatoes (which is why I've called him Taterhead for years) but it turns out it's chicken breast. Nothing else. No nutrition whatsoever.

Now listen to him explain Global Warming to you.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at February 13, 2023 01:23 PM (EdaAK)

466 A prescribed burn is better than a BLEVE.

boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion


aka a fuel-air bomb.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 01:23 PM (eOEVl)

467 465 I thought it was potatoes (which is why I've called him Taterhead for years) but it turns out it's chicken breast. Nothing else. No nutrition whatsoever.

Now listen to him explain Global Warming to you.
Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at February 13, 2023 01:23 PM (EdaAK)

=========

In a minute. He's busy explaining how the public schools aren't leftist enough right now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 01:24 PM (LvTSG)

468 I bet the people of Ohio are wishing that they were in the middle of that bad cold snap from a month or so ago.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 13, 2023 01:24 PM (LLSQr)

469 United States tells citizens: Leave Russia immediately.

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hahahaha

The Ukraine supporters might just get their WWIII after all.

The Big Guy thanks you for the 10%!

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at February 13, 2023 01:24 PM (EdaAK)

470 @437

>>Here's a pretty good summary of DeSantis' position vis a vis Scott Walker's in 2016. Amazingly, it's in an organ of the NYT.

My biggest issues with DeSantis is that there is no rational for his run, there's also no getting around the Hale/Yarvard/MIC/Skull and Bones pedigree.

Also of note, he was already a no-account, useless POS congressman for 8 years, he knows what the score is, he's not going to Washington to tell the humps what's what, he was one of those humps and he knows that rank and file are just cogs and votes for the machine, a machine that is not run by the sitting President of The US.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 13, 2023 01:24 PM (MDmJR)

471 United States tells citizens: Leave Russia immediately.

“Russian authorities arbitrarily enforce local laws against U.S. citizen religious workers and have opened questionable criminal investigations against U.S. citizens engaged in religious activity.”

related:
“Federal authorities at the DOJ/FBI arbitrarily enforce laws against U.S. citizen religious workers (see Little Sisters of the Poor) and have opened questionable criminal investigations against U.S. citizens engaged in religious activity (Radical Traditional Catholics).”
Posted by: SMOD at February 13, 2023 01:23 PM (RHGPo)


If they didn't figure this out after Britney Griner, they're either too dumb or making too much money to leave now.

Posted by: Mayor Pete at February 13, 2023 01:24 PM (FJYfm)

472 Posted by: Muldoon at February 13, 2023 01:17 PM (ykeLU)

Listen, fucker...

Posted by: ... at February 13, 2023 01:25 PM (avC+E)

473 I mean, if you were deliberately attempting to poison a huge food-producing area in the heartland of America, how would you do it differently?

What possible justification does the media have for not covering this like they normally would?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2023 01:25 PM (0hOvj)

474 > Geez. The railroad had an accident. Chemicals are burning. It's happened hundreds of times and we and the environment survived. Get a grip.

1984 Bhopal disaster, 45 tons of methyl isocyanate was released. ~20,000 people died. ~500,000 survivors had respiratory problems, blindness and other eye problems. Several hundred tons of industrial waste were on site for decades.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2023 01:25 PM (V1QHJ)

475 "In fairness, the only thing within the capabilities of Mayor Pete to manage is getting rear-ended in a Prius."

I'm surprised there's enough room in the back seat for that.
Posted by: FeatherBlade


Mayor Pete is what? A boy's medium? He's not big at all.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2023 01:25 PM (SbJgO)

476 466 A prescribed burn is better than a BLEVE.

It's not a "prescribed burn". It's a jet of fire shooting out of the relief valve and everyone staying way the f'k away.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 13, 2023 01:25 PM (Y5qcH)

477 I am Lump.

Posted by: Fetterman's Lump at February 13, 2023 01:25 PM (Vu7A1)

478 Missing from all the "balloon" coverage?

With the exception of the initial 60,000 ft. altitude F-22 strike on the Original Balloon, all subsequent strikes were at altitudes easily reachable by non-exotic fighters, such as the F-15 or F-16. Both include two seat versions, with most squadrons including one such for training purposes, and F15-E Strike Eagles are all two seaters, of course.

I'll wager a $20 (same as in town), that before the Sidewinder were Fox-Two'd, that the GIB on a two-seat ship utilized a pro-grade DSLR, and zinged off hundreds of frames of still or actual video photography of the objects in question. Probably from only a few hundred yards separation on a series of close fly-bys.

We have not, of course, seen one single frame or photo from such, but I'll guarandamnteeya, they exist. They'll not let us see them (un-photoshopped, anyway), because too many out here have the knowledge and ability to examine such pics, and make sense of what they're seeing, then tell the rest of us what's up with things.

Long as we're not seeing those pics, it's proof that they're lying to us, still. Q.E.D.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 13, 2023 01:25 PM (e6UQI)

479 PVC pipe prices are already high and there are still shortages I believe. Someone would ask if this is going to effect construction shortages if we had actual reporters.

I know that's down a ways from human life and health.

As a ute I worked a summer at Pfizer in Groton, changing oil in machinery. One of the areas we went into had signs that you could not wear any nylon or similar fabrics, as the stuff in there would melt it to your body. It seems like it was vinyl chloride but then again I could be misremembering.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 13, 2023 01:25 PM (z/ifB)

480 What possible justification does the media have for not covering this like they normally would?

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SHUT UP CONSPIRACY THEORIST!

Also be sure to get your booster!

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at February 13, 2023 01:25 PM (EdaAK)

481 Ok what diet did Facebook dude hurt himself with? And what fruit diet did Jobs do? I never heard about this.

Posted by: Iris with her selfsame badge of honor at February 13, 2023 01:25 PM (foa6+)

482 294 290 He should have gotten three 9's or something.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 13, 2023 12:50 PM (lEVn+)

=========

At least Herman Cain had a gimmick. He still had no shot, and I rate his campaign as a grift, but he had a gimmick.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 13, 2023 12:51 PM (LvTSG)

I'd have voted for Herman just to get pizza parties for state dinners...

Posted by: Inogame, Si vi pacium para bellum at February 13, 2023 01:26 PM (53oGX)

483 The current US advising amcits to exit Russia due to harassment based on religious rationales exceeds the capacity of all known irony meters in the universe to measure.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 13, 2023 01:26 PM (OTzUX)

484 Acid Rain, like the 70's. Goes well with unemployment and stagflation.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia

I've been saying it's the seventies all over again. They even brought back Chesterfield cigarettes!!!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 13, 2023 01:26 PM (Wy1BU)

485
WTF? Where has this been happening?

A lot of the contested areas in Donetsk oblast have been fortified for years by the Ukes (it's a secret to many, but the war there's' gone on for 9 years now). So taking territory there can be very slow, costly, and even leaving aside Russia's inability to mount serious combined arms maneuver operations, it's a slog by its very nature.


Exactly my point. It was asserted that the Ukes were conducting a guerilla war. That is not the case.

And little if any of the action by either side has involved mass frontal assaults (and "frontal assaults" are kind of your only option in properly fortified areas, so smaller ones have been frequent).

Here's an example.

https://tinyurl.com/yfzpyetz

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 01:26 PM (eOEVl)

486 > Other than everything you said, you are correct.

OK, dude. They're not arming civilians and nobody is severely under-trained. Got it.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2023 01:26 PM (V1QHJ)

487 No, they're engaging in guerilla warfare with poorly trained civilians who have no idea how to use the equipment shoved into their hands.
Posted by: bonhomme
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That is a significant overstatement. Conscript armies that Russia have are scarcely better in training and arguably poorer in morale.

Right now, most of the information we get is inaccurate particularly by authorities on the subject so you have to use indirect methods to get an rough idea of the truth. E.g. statements against interest such as using the Russian mil bloggers issuing statements against Russian interests and it is much harder to determine exactly where Ukrainians are military wise as they have been much more effective at OpSec than the Russians are. You can see occasionally Western intel agencies such as Germany issue statements against interests about the Ukrainians.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 01:27 PM (GVj+S)

488 OK, dude. They're not arming civilians and nobody is severely under-trained. Got it.

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Technically something like 90% of the weapons aren't reaching Ukraine, so that's true.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at February 13, 2023 01:27 PM (EdaAK)

489 The Ukraine wars have started.. This morning it was the Religion wars.. Why is everyone so cranky ?

Because I'm tired of the usual suspects dragging their Ukraine hatred into every conversation, and then getting the facts completely wrong.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 01:27 PM (eOEVl)

490 The current US advising amcits to exit Russia due to harassment based on religious rationales exceeds the capacity of all known irony meters in the universe to measure.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 13, 2023 01:26 PM (OTzUX)

The only thing better would be if it was due to the threat of Communism and Misinformation.

Posted by: ... at February 13, 2023 01:27 PM (avC+E)

491 239...You put your live chicken in a baggie and toss it in your cooker overnight. But never use a Teflon pan for that.
Posted by: Just Lily at February 13, 2023 12:42 PM (PKlQk)

[side eye]

Posted by: Flyover's Hens at February 13, 2023 01:28 PM (Rbu5d)

492 Don't worry Pete's on the job. The blow job that is.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at February 13, 2023 01:28 PM (W7Wi6)

493 I mean, if you were deliberately attempting to poison a huge food-producing area in the heartland of America, how would you do it differently?

What possible justification does the media have for not covering this like they normally would?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Facebook keeps claiming the 96 food plants that have burned just isn't true. Except it is.

https://bit.ly/3lBwnZy

Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2023 01:28 PM (SbJgO)

494 boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion

...

Boiling liquid sounds bad but this vapor would be at atmospheric temp or perhaps still very cold?

Posted by: TexasDan at February 13, 2023 01:28 PM (z/ifB)

495 So a resurgence in Disco and AquaNet is in the offering?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2023 01:29 PM (8V7g+)

496 495 So a resurgence in Disco and AquaNet is in the offering?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2023 01:29 PM (8V7g+)

Hey, my Mammaw used Aquanet.

Maybe we'll get the XB-70 back.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 01:29 PM (zZu0s)

497 Technically something like 90% of the weapons aren't reaching Ukraine, so that's true.

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at February 13, 2023 01:27 PM (EdaAK)

And 33 cannibalized M1A1/A2's

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at February 13, 2023 01:29 PM (OgrpQ)

498 Posted by: Jim at February 13, 2023 01:25 PM (e6UQI)

Ah, a fellow traveler who has learned to recognize the world by what is missing more than or as much as what he sees

Posted by: ... at February 13, 2023 01:30 PM (avC+E)

499 461 The Ukraine wars have started.. This morning it was the Religion wars.. Why is everyone so cranky ?
Posted by: It's me donna
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Day drinking.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 01:30 PM (GVj+S)

500 "Someone would ask if this is going to effect construction shortages if we had actual reporters."

Last I heard, PCV is no longer code for pipes inside buildings.

Water pipes at least.

Unless it's CPVC, which... is more brittle, I guess? so that doesn't make any sense.

Anyway, ABS for your drains or PEX or hard-pipe for your supply.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 13, 2023 01:30 PM (LLSQr)

501 495 So a resurgence in Disco and AquaNet is in the offering?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 13, 2023 01:29 PM (8V7g+)

I like the Bee Gee's and Donna Summer

Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2023 01:30 PM (bs+z0)

502 More like dude wouldn't get off of his cellphone in the middle of a presser.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 13, 2023 12:43 PM (Zqeqr)

Reporters are asshoe. Nothing a punt in the nuts wouldn't fix.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2023 01:30 PM (tkR6S)

503 499 461 The Ukraine wars have started.. This morning it was the Religion wars.. Why is everyone so cranky ?
Posted by: It's me donna
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Day drinking.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 01:30 PM (GVj+S)

I am thinking of doing my version of thread jacking and posting every barely SFW picture of a busty woman I can find.

Of course, that is kind of my default response.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 01:31 PM (zZu0s)

504 Today:

"NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Ukraine is using up ammunition far faster than its allies can provide it just as Russia ramps up its military offensive"

https://tinyurl.com/2luype7w

Man, if I could only remember what NATO stood for. I guess it doesn't really matter since Ukraine isn't part of it.

Wait, what?

Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at February 13, 2023 01:31 PM (EdaAK)

505 > Probably not long if they get a good rain and/or snowstorm through there.

Vinyl chloride binds to water and becomes hydrochloric acid and formaldehyde. It also seeps right through the ground and ends up in groundwater.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2023 01:32 PM (V1QHJ)

506 So a resurgence in Disco and AquaNet is in the offering?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Shitty music and ugly hairstyles have never left us.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 13, 2023 01:32 PM (Wy1BU)

507 Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 01:31 PM (zZu0s)

Would usher in a new meaning of the word threadjacking

Posted by: ... at February 13, 2023 01:32 PM (avC+E)

508 Yes, I know the ocean is large, but is it large enough to dilute the resultant rise in acidity as the stuff falls out of the clouds?
=
Lets see, dilution

so, the entire ocean, compared to what 5 or 10 20,000 gallon tankers? Its like if you took a piss in Lake Erie. Locally deplorable, but no measurable change in PH. If you dumped all 10 in the same spot it would be a problem, locally.

Posted by: Not that its okay to transport dangerous chems on trains with burned up wheel bearings at February 13, 2023 01:32 PM (puzSj)

509 Nood

Posted by: RUReadingthis at February 13, 2023 01:32 PM (aQ25I)

510 Oh, and let's not forget the Exxon Valdez, to boot. To your point, it's easy to forget just how big the Earf is. It will take a lot more than a couple of 'massive' oil spills and such to appreciably degrade the planet.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 13, 2023 12:50 PM (/iWhV)

Just look at the Pacific Northwest - 17 million years ago most of Washington/N. Oregon was inundated by lava from the mantle. Didn't stop for millions of years, added about a mile of crust there. In the same area at the end of the ice ages an inland sea emptied out in a catastrophic series of floods that cut scars all over the rock getting to the coast.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 13, 2023 01:32 PM (eoQWY)

511 Of course, that is kind of my default response.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 01:31 PM (zZu0s)

I just fall back on terrible, terrible puns.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2023 01:32 PM (/EuRN)

512 Geez. The railroad had an accident. Chemicals are burning. It's happened hundreds of times and we and the environment survived. Get a grip.

Why is the media so reluctant to cover this massive disaster?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2023 01:32 PM (0hOvj)

513
So a resurgence in Disco and AquaNet is in the offering?
Posted by: Anna Puma
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I-I don't uh know what uh-uh,, that means

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at February 13, 2023 01:32 PM (vwCZJ)

514 I mean, if you were deliberately attempting to poison a huge food-producing area in the heartland of America, how would you do it differently?

What possible justification does the media have for not covering this like they normally would?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2023 01:25 PM (0hOvj)

It's a fucking train derailment. Nothing more. If you want modern comforts, this is the price you have to pay. Shit happens.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 13, 2023 01:32 PM (BdMk6)

515 Ayn Rand told us, as did George Orwell.

Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2023 01:32 PM (MF3yS)

516 Would usher in a new meaning of the word threadjacking
Posted by: ... at February 13, 2023 01:32 PM (avC+E)

Heh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 01:32 PM (zZu0s)

517 EVERYTHING BLOWED UP REAL GOOD!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 13, 2023 01:33 PM (wtvvX)

518 I am thinking of doing my version of thread jacking and posting every barely SFW picture of a busty woman I can find.

Of course, that is kind of my default response.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Chicken. Bwak bwak. You don't have a hair on your ass if you don't do it.

(Is it working yet? Is the goading working?)

Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2023 01:33 PM (SbJgO)

519 Mmmm…Lindsey Wagner…mmmmmm…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2023 01:33 PM (sjxgf)

520 Facebook keeps claiming the 96 food plants that have burned just isn't true. Except it is.

https://bit.ly/3lBwnZy
Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2023 01:28 PM (SbJgO)

So its an even 100 then?

Posted by: Oldcat at February 13, 2023 01:33 PM (eoQWY)

521 Last I heard, PCV is no longer code for pipes inside buildings.

Water pipes at least.

Unless it's CPVC, which... is more brittle, I guess? so that doesn't make any sense.

Anyway, ABS for your drains or PEX or hard-pipe for your supply.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 13, 2023 01:30 PM (LLSQr)

Pretty sure you're fine to use PVC? We're using it for water and wastewater plants. Plumbing is not my bag so this is second hand.

The stuff at the plants (and they use all kinds of pipe not just or even very much PVC) is pretty big pipe of course.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 13, 2023 01:33 PM (z/ifB)

522 Any significant Democrat constituencies downwind of that cloud of poison?

Posted by: davidt at February 13, 2023 01:33 PM (SYTee)

523 Don't look now, but:

East Palestine, Ohio
Black 0.6%
White alone, 94.5%
Posted by: The shots were safe and effective. Some people got safe, some people got effective. at February 13, 2023 01:06 PM (EdaAK)

Man... white AND alone... sad!

Posted by: Inogame, Si vi pacium para bellum at February 13, 2023 01:35 PM (53oGX)

524 449 What it appears that Russia is doing is attrition figuring correctly that they can trade lives for real estate more than the Ukrainians can.
Posted by: whig


They did it during Stalingrad. It's a winning formula for them.
Posted by: rickb223
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Depends on who they are facing and teh fact that Ukraine is not a life or death struggle for Russians like WWII. Might cause Putin's demise but that is far from a winning rationale for those doing human wave attacks.

The real crisis for both countries is the number of trained professionals and they have to have a critical mass in order to direct and lead the replacements. Then there is logistics including food, fuel, ammo, and sundry supplies to support them.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 01:35 PM (GVj+S)

525 I saw Boiling Liquid, Expanding Vapor on the pre bill for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at a Saturday Matinee Double Feature down at the Bijou last month.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 13, 2023 01:35 PM (ykeLU)

526 Chicken. Bwak bwak. You don't have a hair on your ass if you don't do it.

(Is it working yet? Is the goading working?)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 13, 2023 01:33 PM (SbJgO)

Too bad there is a new thread. I'll have to wait until the next thread where Ukraine/Russia and Desantis/Trump rears it's head. Shouldn't be long.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 01:35 PM (zZu0s)

527 Since when are 200 car trains common? There used to be a 75 car maximum.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2023 01:36 PM (lTGtQ)

528 ""Buttigieg made no mention of the Ohio train derailment while speaking at a conference this morning but did find the time to say that there are too many white people who work construction.""

Has anyone told Bootygag that "construction labor" does not fall under the purview of "Transportation"?

Seriously, is anyone in Washinton capable of doing their ~own~ jobs?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 13, 2023 01:36 PM (LLSQr)

529 Why is the media so reluctant to cover this massive disaster?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 13, 2023 01:32 PM (0hOvj)

Maybe it's not as bad as the internet hypsters say it is. Maybe space aliens caused the wreck.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 13, 2023 01:36 PM (BdMk6)

530 518 I am thinking of doing my version of thread jacking and posting every barely SFW picture of a busty woman I can find.

Of course, that is kind of my default response.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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You will awaken the Fenelon if you do and your soul will be in mortal peril.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 01:36 PM (GVj+S)

531 “Russian authorities arbitrarily enforce local laws against U.S. citizen religious workers and have opened questionable criminal investigations against U.S. citizens engaged in religious activity.”
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Russian Evangelicals Penalized Most Under Anti-Evangelism Law
The tight restrictions on minority faiths have increasingly gotten Protestants in trouble and continue to raise concerns over religious freedom.
KATE SHELLNUTT| MAY 7, 2019 09:28 AM

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 13, 2023 01:36 PM (Vwz3I)

532 So, shut down more oil pipelines. Rail is ever so much safer to move that stuff.

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 13, 2023 01:37 PM (cYLbH)

533 My favorite train movie is "The Train" w/Burt Lancaster

Posted by: Archer at February 13, 2023 01:37 PM (gmo/4)

534 My biggest issues with DeSantis is that there is no rational for his run, there's also no getting around the Hale/Yarvard/MIC/Skull and Bones pedigree.
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Its a bit too coincidental isn't it. But, we'll see I guess. You never know what is going to happen, except this, its going to be weirder than you can imagine right now. Because that's been the one constant for the last 21 years.

Posted by: But sure, we TOTALLY voting our way out of this and a great president can fix anything at February 13, 2023 01:38 PM (1a2Eo)

535 > Right now, most of the information we get is inaccurate particularly by authorities on the subject so you have to use indirect methods to get an rough idea of the truth. E.g. statements against interest such as using the Russian mil bloggers issuing statements against Russian interests and it is much harder to determine exactly where Ukrainians are military wise as they have been much more effective at OpSec than the Russians are. You can see occasionally Western intel agencies such as Germany issue statements against interests about the Ukrainians.

I agree with all of this. I have made several disclaimers that I am well aware I can't trust any info coming out of the region. I'm just being snarky at people who slam me for observing that Ukraine is fairly obviously not doing all that well in this conflict.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2023 01:38 PM (V1QHJ)

536 527 Since when are 200 car trains common? There used to be a 75 car maximum.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 13, 2023 01:36 PM (lTGtQ)

Cross country trains less than a mile long are uncommon anymore. The average train is around two miles long.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 13, 2023 01:40 PM (BdMk6)

537 "Bullshit". Exactly my reaction.

Is NPR reporting this? I remember how they did endless reporting and speculation on what dire outcomes might come from Three Mile Island.

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 13, 2023 01:40 PM (cYLbH)

538 You will awaken the Fenelon if you do and your soul will be in mortal peril.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2023 01:36 PM (GVj+S)

I shall make peace through superior boobage linking!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 13, 2023 01:40 PM (zZu0s)

539 I am thinking of doing my version of thread jacking and posting every barely SFW picture of a busty woman I can find.

Of course, that is kind of my default response.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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You will awaken the Fenelon if you do and your soul will be in mortal peril.
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well, its not like the whole country didn't publicly celebrate its perversions during half time last night with androgynous machine elves dancing and Rihonna spreading her butt cheeks on camera. I surely, the bar for acceptable behavior has been lowered to the point were one's personal interests superceed any civility or decorum, forget virtue. Yes by all means, degrade yourself.

Posted by: #self respect starts with self control at February 13, 2023 01:42 PM (UD0bc)

540 Put on your cloth covid mask. Or even your surgical mask. It will keep you safe from the toxic fumes.

Posted by: Antknee Fauchi at February 13, 2023 01:42 PM (aDBAL)

541 PS - For example only -

Philadelphia had the Sunoco oil refinery plant explode and go on fire for the LAST time, June 2019.

July 2001, an explosion of a sulfuric acid tank occurred at the Motiva Enterprises refinery in Delaware City, Delaware.

Oct 1980, Five employees at a Delaware Amoco Chemical plant were killed and at least 29 others injured in a propylene gas explosion.

Halting the use of oil, gas, PVC, etc. is not the answer.

Posted by: Lola at February 13, 2023 01:45 PM (Wxlzw)

542 534 My biggest issues with DeSantis is that there is no rational for his run, there's also no getting around the Hale/Yarvard/MIC/Skull and Bones pedigree

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He just seemed relatively quiet during his first campaign for Governor. I really had my doubts, and he won by only 30,000 votes. To think how we might have gotten that weird, lefty Gillum

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 13, 2023 01:45 PM (cYLbH)

543 Wasn't there a giant explosion in Texas like 4 years ago? Was that a grain silo? Blew up a town or something.

Posted by: so many disasters so little time at February 13, 2023 01:46 PM (UD0bc)

544 A visit to the railroad's website highlights there ESG profile. Their 3 largest shareholders are big institutional pushers of ESG governance. Job well done, clowns.

Posted by: Anotheranon at February 13, 2023 01:47 PM (s6Yyc)

545 They will tell me to turn off my gas stove, its killing everyone around my house. And never use it again, and by the way, your other gas appliances need to go now!

Posted by: Colin at February 13, 2023 01:48 PM (lHM9r)

546 A visit to the railroad's website highlights there ESG profile. Their 3 largest shareholders are big institutional pushers of ESG governance. Job well done, clowns.
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You see, we've found that if you make the right contributions, you don't have to worry about doing maintence to your rolling stock and the occasional pesky hot axel will be forgiven.

Posted by: N & S RR at February 13, 2023 01:49 PM (MaHTZ)

547 What was the cause of the derailment? Was it sabotage?

Posted by: polynikes at February 13, 2023 12:21 PM

Schoolteacher in a truck on the tracks trying to stop the US Air Force from transporting an alien?

Need to check for any kids in the area who could have been filming a home movie at the time of the derailment...

(On a serious note, sabotage by environazi domestic terrorists cannot be ruled out.)

Posted by: Super 8 at February 13, 2023 01:53 PM (Do5/p)

548 Geez. The railroad had an accident. Chemicals are burning. It's happened hundreds of times and we and the environment survived. Get a grip.

I consider this on the level of click bait.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 13, 2023 01:17 PM (BdMk6)

That's it in a nutshell.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2023 01:53 PM (tkR6S)

549 18 USC 242: "Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States..."

The above is normally a misdemeanor, however bodily injury of the victim elevates the action to a felony. The phrase "Color of law" means pretense of law. It is used in this law because any law that claims to take Constitutional rights away from people is null and void from the moment it is written.

The reporter should have arrested the people who were arresting him, any citizen may arrest someone who commits a felony in their presence. Learn the Miranda warning.

The time for being nice, polite, and civil toward those who are uncivil, is over.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at February 13, 2023 01:56 PM (CecP5)

550 Mayor Butt
.......

Mayo Butt

Posted by: wth at February 13, 2023 02:00 PM (v0R5T)

551 1984 Bhopal disaster, 45 tons of methyl isocyanate was released. ~20,000 people died. ~500,000 survivors had respiratory problems, blindness and other eye problems. Several hundred tons of industrial waste were on site for decades.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2023 01:25 PM (V1QHJ)

Plant run by Indians, with their noted high regard for safety, check.
Plant surrounded, right to the very fence, with a tent city full of poor Indian bums, who took the brunt of the chemical release.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2023 02:00 PM (tkR6S)

552 We don't need pipelines, they might leak. We'll just ship oil by rail cars. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Max Entropy at February 13, 2023 02:02 PM (vIpgS)

553 Saw a tweet yesterday (maybe, maybe the day before) that a farmer in that area had all his chickens die.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 13, 2023 12:30 PM

I posted this in The Morning Report thread this morning:

https://bit.ly/3HUxBX6

The next town over, the release instantly killed everyone's chickens. This stuff is catnip for human cancer

"My video camera footage shows my chickens were perfectly fine before they started this burn, and as soon as they started the burn, my chickens slowed down and they died,”

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 13, 2023 02:03 PM (Do5/p)

554 Because I'm tired of the usual suspects dragging their Ukraine hatred into every conversation, and then getting the facts completely wrong.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2023 01:27 PM (eOEVl)

What about the Ukraine fanbois dragging their Russia hatred into every conversation?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2023 02:03 PM (tkR6S)

555 Top five owners of NSC (Norfolk Southern):

Vanguard
JP Morgan
Blackrock
State Street
Lazard


Posted by: mogsmash at February 13, 2023 02:21 PM (0d7Hb)

556 DeWine is 1/2 of the mess left over when Rumplestiltskin ripped himself in half.

Posted by: MikeG at February 13, 2023 02:42 PM (VsUo2)

557 @541 Philadelphia had the Sunoco oil refinery plant explode and go on fire for the LAST time, June 2019.

FORMER Sunoco refinery. They left the refining business in 2012, and the company does not even exist any more. I am stuck with what is left of some of their stock, "Energy Partners." They thought there'd be better money in milk and Twinkies.

A lot of us real conservatives here sure as hell have some hippy-dippy heebie-jeebies about large scale industrial processes. You are mush-mouthed weaklings. Go scrabble in the woods with the rest of the squattopee commies.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 13, 2023 02:43 PM (jYCXf)

558 512 "Why is the media so reluctant to cover this massive disaster?"

Because only Americans are in danger, and many of them are not Democrats and/or from NYC.

Next question?!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 13, 2023 02:54 PM (gMml8)

559 Animals are dying in a 10 mile radius at least, it might be bigger or smaller, but this is just a local news story.

Posted by: DFCtomm at February 13, 2023 02:54 PM (xge03)

560 "Instead, the cleanup crew performed a "controlled burn," burning the stuff up.

But the byproducts of incineration are also dangerous."

On this point they didn't really have a choice. A BLEVE explosion in that situation could be in the kiloton range.

Where they fucked up massively was in downplaying the environmental effects of their lesser-evil decision and generally botching the evacuations. You have locals thinking that N95 masks are going to protect them from the byproducts.

Posted by: somedood at February 13, 2023 03:12 PM (CKXPc)

561 A discussion thread on this derailment at a railroad forum I frequent, mostly as a lurker. Last mention of this was 4 days ago! Can't have any negativity there!

https://tinyurl.com/3wmnvayb

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 13, 2023 03:23 PM (Zvtjl)

562 When Twitter first started there was a polly-anna belief that it would foster "citizen journalism" live at the scene of events totally unfiltered by press bias.

Now that Musk owns Twitter I would like to see him actually put this into real practice by employing AI to compile first hand reports of a situation and release a real "on-the-scene" news story eliminating the need for media altogether. He could replace AP reporting with good software.

Posted by: JT Smith at February 13, 2023 04:20 PM (FxdZx)

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Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at February 13, 2023 04:51 PM (9unN2)

564 A few years ago i watched little short film about Global Warming/Climate Change and some nit-wit had sign on their bike reading Trains not Planes I just wonder of the Nit-Wit knew that Trains and Planes run on Fossil Fuels

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 13, 2023 05:17 PM (wGqjj)

565 This may qualify as a superfund site...

www.alleghenyfront.org/epa-lists-additional-
chemicals-released-in-east-palestine-train-derailment/

A major disaster.

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