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Unauthorized. The bleak, blasted and blighted path seemingly leading from Wolff's Whitehouse witch hunt. But such pretty witches, forgive us if this sweet chariot swings so asymptotically near Melania's deep mascara and Loboutin's red souls (sic.) These weren't made in America, were they?
Its a Fast-and-furious shout-out shot out of a coal shute faster than white-nosed bats out of hell. Hell, Hollywood and Babylon were never like this. Those slicing tweet shots zooming out of super swanky "Murcialago" barely whiffing the temple forehead fonts of journalism's ivy towers are drowning in the pond. That thing in 'The Shape of Water' should be hurling them back. But they hurtle past us harmlessly while tripping up that one-legged hurtler, $Trump.
Indeed, he is like the proverbial one-legged man in an *ss-kicking contest. He should be feeling the heat of controversy in the eye of this year's Polar Vortex of Irony. We notice it should be sweeping over the Whitehouse - just now and not on Xmas. You see Virginia - er Donald - Climate Change must be real. Climate Change and Santa Claus morphing into a Krampus-shaped Satan Claus. Forgive us, that schadenfreude simile is barely resistable. And he is dropping fire-bomb cyclone shape charges all over this kakatrumpian hellscape.
Meanwhile, Steve-Miller-cum-Reinhard-Heydrich is having an extra-Factual nuclear meltdown on national syndicated Sunday political TV. Shades of Paddy Chayefsky. Its like Oliver Goldsmith, Shakespeare and Hunter S. Thompson all time-travelled here and rolled into one. This is classic-cubed stuff that just cannot be made up. Along with the "Tax Change" its like Burroughs wrote his sequel 'The Naked Sh*t Sandwich". Yea, it is that bad and smells worse. But, Thank God, no drugs are involved - we hope, we pray.
We're already in a New Cold War, we hope and we pray its just that. This filet-of-soul and counterfeit caviar stinkburger already smells to High Hades. And that's bad enough. We invested heavily in Taibbi's "Insane Clown President" only to wake up to this year's 'Fire and Fury' that Trumps all. Yes, its worse than we suspected and we reach for a Bismo and/or blue ribbon cognac. We've had enough of this toxic fire hose lava flume running past our noses smelling like fire and brimstone. And I'm Cotton Mather ringing a bell in front of Hades' Gates with a "Run! Flee!" placard in this frostbitten hell scape. Res ipsa loquitur.
Sunday, January 7, 2018
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Our Notes on the West Virginia Chemical Spill
We had to come back for the West Virginia Chemical Spill which is said to have began on January 9, 2014. "Hard facts" have been hard to come by. Is the chemical "raw" (as one source reported) or is it a blend? We ask the question as the alleged company involved (Freedom Industries) uses at least one known affiliate for blending - Poca Blending. The web server (at this posting time) for Freedom Ind. is offline. Checked the Freedom Industries website today Jan. 14, 2014: West Virginia Chemical Spill: Freedom Industries site online: http://www.freedom-industries.com/home.html
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Source: All of the internet.
It has taken days to get these notes together. So this posting is going to look messier than usual. Apologies.
The Notes:
From 1_10_2014
Confirmed @NotOnTwtr The spill originated from Freedom Industries
according to West Virginia American Water. http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=126630 …
West Virginia Public Media
reported that too http://wvpublic.org/post/state-emergency-water-advisory-issued-9-west-virginia-counties …. But good to get confirmation!
West Virginia Public
Broadcasting now has 4 links on the MCHM chemical spill: http://wvpublic.org/category/news ; http://wvpublic.org/post/noon-newscast-west-virginia-water-emergency-beth-vorhees-ashton-marra-dave-mistich-report … …
More on WV MCHM spill: http://wvpublic.org/post/5-things-we-dont-know-about-drinking-water-emergency-west-virginia, http://wvpublic.org/post/chemical-spill-leads-state-emergency-and-water-advisory-wvu-grads-energy-hopes-more, http://wvpublic.org/post/where-find-water-list-distribution-centers
According to this link
Freedom Industries did not report spill for 10 hours: http://wvpublic.org/post/5-things-we-dont-know-about-drinking-water-emergency-west-virginia W Virginia Public Media.
Here's the MSDS sheet
for 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol, the chemical involved in @wvamwater contamination:http://t.co/2Y8Ad3481c
The MCHM could be a
blend with almost anything in it. Freedom Ind. lists Poca Blending affiliate: http://www.pocablending.com/services/default.htm …
Location of Freedom
Industries in West Virginia: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Freedom+Industries,+Barlow+Drive,+Charleston,+WV&hl=en&ll=38.362068,-81.613183&spn=0.010415,0.013797&sll=45.00109,-86.270553&sspn=9.616754,14.128418&oq=Freedom+Industries&t=m&z=16&iwloc=A … …
1% methanol in the
Eastman MCHM msds. Not sure of the stuff from Freedom Industries.
MCHM has a German CAS
file: http://www.tcichemicals.com/eshop/en/ch/commodity/M1412/ …. CAS # 34885-03-5. Other things blended in? But is free methanol
in it?
MSDS on the Chemical
spilled in W. Va: http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/wvpn/files/201401/MSDS-MCHM_I140109214955.pdf … "Strong irritant". The methanol part is likely the
worst.
100K West Virginians
cannot use tap H2O due to chemical spill. http://avideos.5min.com//808/5180808/518080748_2.mp4 … Via Newsy. 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol.
Chemical spill in
West Virginia leads to tap water ban for 300,000 people | via @Telegraph http://fw.to/qDDrRyb
Updated 1_11_2014
"Update" 4 Hospitalized, Dozens
Seek Treatment After West Virginia Chemical Spill http://ti.me/1cOvU8R
via @TIME
Via AP: 4 HOSPITALIZED IN W. VA. AFTER
CHEMICAL SPILL: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CHEMICAL_SPILL_WVA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-01-11-02-15-55
West Virginia chemical spill is in the
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Elk_River_chemical_spill …
MCHM in the Wikipedia now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-methylcyclohexanemethanol …
4-methylcyclohexanemethanol. May or may not be fully accurate.
Freedom Ind. personnel may have had some
previous controversies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Elk_River_chemical_spill#Background …
Freedom Ind. personnel may have had some
previous controversies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Elk_River_chemical_spill#Background …
Via @Wikipedia
Elk River is the only known habitat of the diamond darter (fish): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_darter …
Mayor of Charleston, W.Va., says water
emergency is devastating his community - http://goo.gl/news/43mq via http://news.google.com/
AP PHOTOS: W.Va. stocks up on water after
spill - seattlepi.com http://www.seattlepi.com/news/science/article/AP-PHOTOS-W-Va-stocks-up-on-water-after-spill-5132067.php?cmpid=twitter
via
@SeattlePI
FEMA page on W. Va. Chemical Spill (EM
3366) http://www.fema.gov/disaster/3366
Public Health Emergency Page from DH+HS FOR
WEST VIRGINIA http://www.phe.gov/emergency/events/wv-chemical/Pages/default.aspx
President Obama Signs West Virginia
Emergency Declaration | The White House: http://wh.gov/lIW3K
@whitehouse (Released 1/10.)
West Virginia Dept. of Environmental
Protection URL: http://www.dep.wv.gov/WWE/ee/hw/Pages/default.aspx
Ooh! The @USGS H20
Water Quality Assessment of West Virginia: http://water.usgs.gov/wid/html/wv.html
Service adds West Virginia fish to
endangered species list: http://www.fws.gov/southeast/news/2013/043.html#.UtGNESOJyzU.twitter
Service adds West
Virginia fish to endangered species list. July 25, 2013
Should the diamond darter be a symbol of the
spill?
Diamond Darter image: http://www.fws.gov/southeast/images/diamondDarter-.jpg
Credit/Source: US Govt. Work; Public Domain; Fish and Wildlife Service.
Freedom Industries web server is down? 8D pic.twitter.com/bGFfzC4sS1
@NotOnTwtr #lol you're right pic.twitter.com/bB4H5vI9ll
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Officials silent on water timetable - News - The Charleston Gazette - West
Virginia News and Sports - http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201401110010
Bottled water for West Virginia residents
plagued by chemical in - KiiiTV3.com South Texas, Corpus Christi, Coastal Bend http://www.kiiitv.com/story/24423917/bottled-water-for-west-virginia-residents-plagued-by-chemical-in-water-supply#.
FAKE BREAK NEWS Elk River nicknamed
"Sh*t Creek". Gov. Christie of NJ seen paddling up it...
Update 1_14_2014
Update 1_14_2014
Tweets (posted by Kenwardjr and HuffPostPol) on the WV
Chemical Spill seems to show that the WV and US Govt don't give a...
Three
years ago this month, @chemsafetyboard
urged WV to help Kanawha County set up chemical accident prevention program.
State said no.
John
Boehner on West Virginia chemical spill: "We have enough regulations"
http://huff.to/1d0zlJH
@NotOnTwtr
The area where the spill happened is known as 'Chemical Valley', West Virginia.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/01/13/hundreds-report-exposure-symptoms-in-w-va-after-crippling-chemical-spill/ …
1.
|
CNN-4 hours ago
That was the setup
in West Virginia last week when a chemical spill contaminated a river
supplying water to hundreds of thousands of people.
|
3.
NPR-3 hours ago
Google News has about 4100 news article
listed on the WV Chemical Spill if you search GN today... https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=chemical+spill&oq=chemical+spill&gs_l=news-cc.1.0.43j43i53.45246.48380.0.51083.14.5.0.9.9.0.78.337.5.5.0...0.0...1ac.1.1s3RmfcKD9A …
Department
of Defense
- 1 day ago
Hundreds of thousands of
people in nine West Virginia counties are unable to use their tap water
as a precaution following a chemical spill.
democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?...west-virginia-chemical...
23
hours ago - ... last week's toxic chemical
spill in West Virginia. Although Freedom Industries was storing
thousands of gallons of a potentially toxic chemical ...
louisvilleky.gov/.../West+Virginia+Chemical+Spill+Not+a+Concern+for+Lo...
19
hours ago - chemical
spill,
West Virginia, drinking water, Elk River, Ohio River.
www.csb.gov/csb-deploys-to-chemical-spill-in-charleston-wv/
o
Cached
Washington
DC, January 11, 2014 – An investigative team from the U.S. Chemical
Safety Board (CSB) is deploying to the scene of a massive spill into the
Elk ...
via @ColbertReport
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Congress and the Executive Branch no longer required to file financial disclosures
Mr. Obama talks about the values of 'fairness' and 'hard work' before signing the Original STOCK Act. The original Act has since been modified under S.716.
Credit: US Govt. Work; Public Domain; http://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse?feature=watch
The Modified Stock Act (S.716). Credit: US Govt. Work; Public Domain; http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113s716enr/pdf/BILLS-113s716enr.pdf
The Original Stock Act (Public Law 112-105). Credit: US Govt. Work; Public Domain; http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-112publ105/html/PLAW-112publ105.htm
If one visits the White House List of Signed Legislation it appears at the top and is dated April 15, 2013. However, we first became aware of the legislation via a Tech Dirt post on The Hacker News this week. But that post and the FireDogLake post don't seem to include these links on their sites - even though they made these "great catches". But (in an earlier post) FDL did catch the letter to the Honorable Harry Reid and the Honorable Mitch McConnell re. the STOCK act.
In that letter the SEA (Senior Executives Association) complained that the "old" STOCK Act was a violation of The Privacy Act and "burdensome" regulation. But didn't the President's promise on transparency mean that the public should know about such unlimited and inside financial transactions by our lawmakers and executives? And what about the "burdensome" complaint? For a Congress that works only 126 days to 109 days per year - it can't present such a burden - especially when our Federal employees stand to gain untold millions of dollars due to their positions. You would likely be fired from your private position/job if you were to gain such gross amounts for such transactions - and likely jailed for corruption.
But back to the SEA - posted on their landing mission statement is the following "The Senior Executives Association is a nonprofit professional association that promotes ethical and dynamic public service...". Yet, the request for modification of the STOCK Act does not seem ethical in that it does not present the transparency in the needed promise to get the current Administration elected into office.
The (offending) section of S.716 is Section 1 which includes, but is not limited to: "
SECTION 1. MODIFICATIONS OF ONLINE ACCESS TO CERTAIN FINANCIAL
DISCLOSURE STATEMENTS AND RELATED FORMS.
(a) PUBLIC, ONLINE DISCLOSURE OF FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
FORMS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except with respect to financial disclosure
forms filed by officers and employees referred to in paragraph
(2), section 8(a) and section 11(a) of the STOCK Act (5 U.S.C.
App. 105 note) shall not be effective.
(2) EXEMPTED OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES.—The officer and
employees referred to in paragraph (1) are the following:
(A) The President.
(B) The Vice President.
(C) Any Member of Congress.
(D) Any candidate for Congress.
(E) Any officer occupying a position listed in section
5312 or section 5313 of title 5, United States Code, having
been nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate..."
Link here to the Original STOCK Act (112-105 linked above also) to see that Sec. 8a and Sec. 11a do exclude members of Congress and members of the Executive Branch from reporting on those "burdensome" financial disclosures.
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