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dixiegrrrrl

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21. That is exactly what I thought about.

Reply to asiliveandbreathe (Reply #12)

Thu Aug 31, 2017, 01:08 PM

Aug 2017

And how our chicken shit Fed. gov then refused to help the ill first responders and others.
Just as the Navy is now refusing to help the crews of the contaminated US ships that were
sitting offshore too close to Fukishima, and got hit by a radiation plume.
The crew members described it as falling like snow, and there are pictures of crew washing down the decks of the ships, wearing only cloth around their mouth and noses.

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CEO of Texas chemical plant that just exploded: "Toxicity is a relative thing." [View all] dixiegrrrrl Aug 2017 OP

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Thanks, so if they are telling the truth, we must have people in our Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #5

Yes and no jberryhill Aug 2017 #11

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Makes me so mad. hamsterjill Aug 2017 #7

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Tje difference toxic and "non-toxic" smoke is marylandblue Aug 2017 #16

He's channeling his inner Don Blankenship. nt Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2017 #4

+ 1 Petrushka Aug 2017 #18

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Put him in the back of a pickup truck and start driving towards the plant NightWatcher Aug 2017 #8

Excellent Idea Leith Aug 2017 #19

Technically speaking, Toxicity is a relative thing Louis1895 Aug 2017 #9

That is true Lee-Lee Aug 2017 #17

Didn't Christie Todd Whitman - then head if EPA say the air was A okay.. asiliveandbreathe Aug 2017 #12

That is exactly what I thought about. dixiegrrrrl Aug 2017 #21

"Alternative truth"............. n/t raven mad Aug 2017 #22