It's amazing what you find when you Google Crosby. Or Bing Crosby. Who in the world would have guessed that the owners of the Arkema chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, have a big pile of recent OSHA safety violations and also lobbied -- with help from Texas Republican, of course -- against more stringent safety rules? You know the plant -- it's the one with a little ol' problem with its volatile chemicals spontaneously
When I was a kid, my dad worked with toxic chemicals (he was a color engineer and color chemist in -- you guessed it, plastics). Before that, he worked in paint. This was before OSHA (he died in 1968), and he'd scrub his hands after work to remove the resin dyes from under his fingernails and mutter, "This stuff's gonna kill me." It basically collapsed his circulatory system, and combined with diabetes, made it so.
My mother loved cleaning house with toxic, caustic chemicals. I nearly died when she told me to throw some bleach into the kitchen sink, having forgotten that she ALREADY HAD ammonia in the drain. I saw the cloud of chlorine gas rising, and got the fuck out of there (did choke just a bit).
Chemical safety is paramount. I'm glad I left Houston 16 months after arriving there. Haven't set foot in TX since. Left in 1976, and returned home to NYC, where we have some nice weather.
I find it higly.... something that they keep calling these "Job Killing" regulations. These are job creating regulations. They create the jobs of inspector, compliance officers and operations personnel to ensure compliance.
no- direct deposit to the Caymans or to some Wyoming bank or to the C.Rep's revolving door charity of choice.Big bills- too cumsy on the House Floor- the lobby's lousy with potogs.
Texas Legislature convenes once every two years and usually amounts to s shorter session than smaller states' annuals. They prefer to seal their deals in foursomes on their links or else over their phones and armadillo roast gatherings. Too busy with their side jobs- they like to stay out of Austin during boogie season.
I have decided what sort of business I"m going to start if I win the lottery, a safety equipment business. Then I"m going to pull all the crap chemical and manufacturing industries pull right back at them: I'm gonna lobby hard for more strict regulations, keep track of the expiration dates of all the equipment I've sold and if they laps I tattle to the regulation authorities about them.
I'll name it "Big Safety" so any time someone's complaining about the effects of "Big Safety" on the market, they'll hand me free advertising to boot.
Arkema Chemical said that regulations kill jobs. Clearly, they'd rather kill everyone within a 1.5 mi radius of their plant so as not to have to deal with no regulations.
When I was a kid, my dad worked with toxic chemicals (he was a color engineer and color chemist in -- you guessed it, plastics). Before that, he worked in paint. This was before OSHA (he died in 1968), and he'd scrub his hands after work to remove the resin dyes from under his fingernails and mutter, "This stuff's gonna kill me." It basically collapsed his circulatory system, and combined with diabetes, made it so.
My mother loved cleaning house with toxic, caustic chemicals. I nearly died when she told me to throw some bleach into the kitchen sink, having forgotten that she ALREADY HAD ammonia in the drain. I saw the cloud of chlorine gas rising, and got the fuck out of there (did choke just a bit).
Chemical safety is paramount. I'm glad I left Houston 16 months after arriving there. Haven't set foot in TX since. Left in 1976, and returned home to NYC, where we have some nice weather.
"So let me pick at its bones and see what I can steal."
I find it higly.... something that they keep calling these "Job Killing" regulations. These are job creating regulations. They create the jobs of inspector, compliance officers and operations personnel to ensure compliance.
You would think that in a place where flooding is a virtual certainty, they'd put the diesel generators on platforms 10 feet off the ground.
But... but... GOVERNMENT OVERREACH and DON'T TREAD ON ME and YOKE OF OPPRESSION and and
Republican Jesus will take care of everything. Just have to pray harder.
Also keeps them from unionizing or asking for raises. WINNING.
Isn't this the place that Superman got that crazy acid after dropping a frozen lake on it?
Scott Pruitt should drink a tall glass of "Clean Coal" juice
no- direct deposit to the Caymans or to some Wyoming bank or to the C.Rep's revolving door charity of choice.Big bills- too cumsy on the House Floor- the lobby's lousy with potogs.
Texas Legislature convenes once every two years and usually amounts to s shorter session than smaller states' annuals. They prefer to seal their deals in foursomes on their links or else over their phones and armadillo roast gatherings. Too busy with their side jobs- they like to stay out of Austin during boogie season.
General Phil Sheridan:"If I owned Texas and hellI'd rent out Teaxs, if I could and live in hell:"
A funnier quote than his "Good (1st national) is a D---d (1st national). (He was severely manic)He did save D.C, from Jubal Early once, though .
my coat got soldow, my, ain't it coldbut I ain't gonna holler 'cause I still got a dollar so
When I get low woooah oah o I get high
My man walked out- you know that ain't rightno roach for him if I see him tonight ,yo when i get low woooah oah o I get high
A rukus last night that ended in jailBut no worry here- my girls got me bailI say when I get low Woooah oah o I get high.
(peakeasy 3 via Ella Fitzgerald via Marion Sunshine and Chick Webb, 1931- a good year to get back up high when stuff gits low.
Marion Sunshine/ Chick Webb/ Ella FitzgeraldShowed us the way.Get High!
I have decided what sort of business I"m going to start if I win the lottery, a safety equipment business. Then I"m going to pull all the crap chemical and manufacturing industries pull right back at them: I'm gonna lobby hard for more strict regulations, keep track of the expiration dates of all the equipment I've sold and if they laps I tattle to the regulation authorities about them.
I'll name it "Big Safety" so any time someone's complaining about the effects of "Big Safety" on the market, they'll hand me free advertising to boot.
Arkema Chemical said that regulations kill jobs. Clearly, they'd rather kill everyone within a 1.5 mi radius of their plant so as not to have to deal with no regulations.
That's Republican thinking for you!