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glowing

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20. How crazy is our country. Boston experienced a horrible
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 12:54 PM
Apr 2013

planned bombing that injured and killed 3 people. The Federal Givt, State, and local police agencies are on a massive man hunt for a teen. It seems as if the entire Boston area is on lock down, as well as, every news agency reporting any tiny thing that may or may not be occurring whether right or wrong.

In Texas, a fertilizer plant explodes. Killing many more people, blowing up residential homes, etc around the plant, and still leaving cause for possible environmental health/ harm to the people working the effected area and living around the area (the pictures look like a war zone like we've seen out of Iraq or Syria). And this was an incident that occurred from a corporation; in cooperation from paid of politicians and agencies who are supposed to protect workers, not having the resources or "man-power" to have prevented this tragedy or future tragedies.

Which story is getting the most coverage? The foreign/ American persons who planted bombs at the Biston marathon OR the corporate explosion that basically has taken out a town in Texas? The people who owned this company should be sharing space with the brothers on the FBI wanted posters. They are responsible for this!!! And they do it for greed, which may actually be worse than for a delusional, impassioned belief in some sort of "noble cause".

In any case, people have died and have been injured and now have their lives changed forever. It's kind of like the BP deep horizon explosion/ ecological disaster that was created from pure greed. No one went to jail for the killing of 11 (or 12 I forget 3 yrs later) persons who perished after the explosion on the oil rig... And no one will go to jail for the subsequent ecological disaster that will cause countless species to die, mutate, or the humans that will suffer the long term effects on the Gulf region for years into the future, some of which will lead to their deaths by cancer or other manners of health issues.

Who caused more deaths this week? How differently is the response to the two explosions that occurred this week and which one will cause changes to it laws or security responses? I would argue that security protocols will become stricter in public spaces, while coprorate murder by greed will largely continued to be ignored, work place safety measures will not become more stringent, agencies that monitor hazardous work place environments will not get more funding or more people to help monitor work place safety, and Unions will continue to be villianized and continue to lose their effective bargaining abilities (especially in these states that have made Right To Work laws).

Things are so F'd up in this country. It's no wonder what's up is down and what's left is right. Is it any wonder people in this country are so whack? We really need to find our "soul" as a nation and become grounded in a real sense of justice, fairness, equality, and a Govt that works efficiently and effectively for The People with the guidance of principals outlines in our constitution. We are losing or have lost a moral compass on society, general well being, health, compassion, empathy, and common decency. We need desperately to rid ourselves of corporate controlled Govt that rigs the law in favor of the few over the many.

Just look at the gun bill law shot down, or the ACA (ObamaCare) - most of this country is in favor of a Medicare for All approach, or getting out of long assed costly wars, or ignoring the crumbling infrastructure, or the manipulation of extraction public monies for pricate companies in even our education now (which is making the issues with education worse, not better - study after study has shown that test scores and student achievement is directly correlated to poverty of which 25% of our young people are experiencing - and with the definition of "poverty" at an unrealistically low defined amount, I'd say even more children are living in poverty than the official numbers (I'd say its closer to 35 - 45% of our children are living in impoverished circumstances or in homes that are barely making ends meet with parents who are working multiple jobs which leaves children even more vulnerable).

Things are just so damned F'd up. And our corporately controlled media is worthless, doesn't give us truths, facts, or nearly enough information about the world's news. Is it any wonder that when anything happens conspiracy theories begin popping up at the drop of a hat? People have list faith in the Govt, the news media (which is kind of like a 4th branch of Govt to keep the Govt honest by reporting factual news without opinion and sensationalism), and each other. We are so divided in this country. Just look at the vile spewed in the comments sections of articles or FaceBook/ twitter, etc or even here. We the People are turning on ourselves instead of turning towards one another. And that division makes it all the easier for the mess of our Govt to become worse and worse year after year with complete ineffectiveness.

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K&R OneGrassRoot Apr 2013 #1
Wow, I can't believe so many are still missing. cbdo2007 Apr 2013 #2
With the magnitude of that blast, there may not be much left of some of them. BlueStreak Apr 2013 #11
First reports said 50 to 70 houses and businesses were destroyed. dixiegrrrrl Apr 2013 #18
Well the Rand Paul regulatory theory is if your work blows up then people won't work there Johonny Apr 2013 #3
Hey but they can recover damages for those who died in the courts? cascadiance Apr 2013 #4
Rand Paul Chaco Dundee Apr 2013 #15
Horrific. SunSeeker Apr 2013 #5
Definitely not a good week for the US. Beacool Apr 2013 #6
12 from the plant Catherine Vincent Apr 2013 #7
Most of them seem to have been volunteer firefighters NoPasaran Apr 2013 #17
Dunno at this point.. dixiegrrrrl Apr 2013 #19
good god marions ghost Apr 2013 #8
So that's probably 47 dead. Patiod Apr 2013 #9
This was just a tragic accident...NOT..This was CRIMINAL neglect.. Tikki Apr 2013 #10
People are going to go to jail for this one. AtheistCrusader Apr 2013 #12
You know what went wrong and who's to blame, and even go so far as to call it criminal... Demo_Chris Apr 2013 #21
I don't give a shit where it was located. AtheistCrusader Apr 2013 #22
Still too soon for political blame, need to find the rest of the dead first. TwilightGardener Apr 2013 #13
Realistically fertilizer is very dangerous in hands of terrorists golfguru Apr 2013 #14
I haven't seen anything about this on the news. A terrible tragedy. sabrina 1 Apr 2013 #16
How crazy is our country. Boston experienced a horrible glowing Apr 2013 #20
Good post malaise Apr 2013 #23
Good post! byeya Apr 2013 #26
Thank you. I'm sorry I had so many mis-spellings on that post. I was on the iPhone. glowing Apr 2013 #32
During weeks like this one there is no time for the grammar police malaise Apr 2013 #33
There is another reason nadinbrzezinski Apr 2013 #25
I think my ending thought is the need to find our heart. turn toward one another. glowing Apr 2013 #29
I agree, but it's the modern media nadinbrzezinski Apr 2013 #30
Agreed. They certainly do pick and choose some odd things to grab hold of... glowing Apr 2013 #34
I don't like the idea of pitting West against Boston Skittles Apr 2013 #35
Yes, they both deserve recognition. glowing Apr 2013 #36
last night i saw the death toll reported as 80 or more & 100. HiPointDem Apr 2013 #24
The wording is being ..tactful.... dixiegrrrrl Apr 2013 #27
Meanwhile, at the Legion of Doom Rick Perry Rex Apr 2013 #28
Last Inspection Of West, Texas Fertilizer Plant Was In 1985 (also paid fine in 2011) ProSense Apr 2013 #31
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