"Tri-State Airport evacuated"...WHEW that wasn't close...

[Hubert Flottz]

Tri-State Airport evacuated

Liquid in bottles not explosive, tests show; No charges planned;

snip...

“She just had water to drink because she is pregnant and she had a face wash that had a drop of bleach on it,’’ Qayyum said from her home in Jackson, Mich.

Qayyum said her daughter was attempting to travel to Jackson where she previously lived. Her daughter will try again today, she said.

After initial tests concluded late Thursday, the liquid inside those bottles was determined not to be explosive, State Police Capt. J.C. Chambers said. But a residue on the outside of the containers could still be ruled explosive, he said.

Additional testing will take place today.

http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/2006081734

I had my duct and cover tape at the ready, at all times yesterday...

[ixion]

1. this is pathetic

really. In every sense of the word.

As a nation that once cherished freedom, bravery and liberty, we should be ashamed of ourselves.

...Fighting shadows on the wall. :-(

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Chalk it up to...

Some People are just plain stupid. They could have fixed a lot of potholes in these sorry roads with the money they wasted yesterday chasing their tails.

[bdamomma]

20. those pharmaceuticals companies are going to make millions

off us paranoid/depressed/anxious/panic attacks Americans. this is just too much.

[Eurobabe]

2. Who puts bleach in their face wash?

Just curious. Sounds like this woman was no threat, but lady -- be careful what you put on your face!!!

[sweetpotato]

5. The way I read it

She was carrying a wet washcloth that had traces of bleach, like maybe she used bleach in the laundry. I do it all the time!! I like white towels and washcloths.

[theHandpuppet]

7. You'd be surprised how many products contain bleach

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=safari&rls=en&defl=en&q=define:bleach&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

It was also interesting to note that the woman was pregnant; perhaps she was using one of the many products used in the treatment of melasma:
http://www.aaaskindoctor.com/new.html

[Hubert Flottz]

9. They need to drive around about midnight past the chemical...

plants in Wv. The plants dump tons of chemicals out into the air when everyone is asleep around here. The plant right up the road is making the exact same stuff,(MIC)that did this...

Environmental Justice Case Study: Union Carbide Gas Release in Bhopal, India
Bhopal, India

http://www.umich.edu/~snre492/lopatin.html

Corporate Terrorism scares me more that what Bush is trying to scare us with...More people died at Bhopal India that night than the attack on 9/11 killed. Our government still hasn't done much of anything to the people who did that...

Carbide’s guilty secret found in Bhopal factory papers
Bhopal, India, Nov 15, 2002. Shocking new evidence concerning Union Carbide and its ex-CEO Warren Anderson’s role in the Bhopal disaster has come to light after plaintiffs and organisations representing survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster released a pivotal document disclosing that the company and its former boss had imposed “unproven technology” on their Bhopal factory in the critical MIC unit, from where 27 tonnes of poisonous gases escaped in 1984, killing 8,000 people in three days.

Speaking of this document and others, which Union Carbide were this year forced to disclose during litigation brought by Bhopal survivors in the Federal Southern District court of New York, Rashida Bi, leader of one the Bhopal survivors’ organisations, said “these papers constitute a blueprint for the Bhopal disaster: they prove that Anderson and Carbide ordered cost-cutting in the most hazardous part of their factory. They knew of the technology risks from its design and location and they still took them.”

Other documents now publicly available for the first time reveal that Union Carbide and Anderson ordered the under-investment in the highly dangerous Sevin/MIC units in order to help side-step Indian regulations requiring a dilution of foreign equity that would have endangered the company’s overarching control of it’s Indian subsidiary, UCIL who, in an affidavit to the Indian courts in 1986, Union Carbide had entirely blamed for the disaster.

An amended complaint by H. Rajan Sharma, the attorney representing plaintiffs in the New York case, had argued how the company took pains to ensure control over its subsidiaries: “Union Carbide actually produced an internal manual ‘Legal Control of a 50-50 Joint Venture Affiliate’ which lists a number of ‘devices or expedients’on how to retain control of an affiliate.” According to Bhopal campaigner Satinath Sarangi, the new documentary evidence confirms this theory: “one such ‘expedient’ was the MIC unit; they built it in order to retain control, they used untried technology to keep control, they under-funded it to keep control. When it turned Bhopal into a gas chamber, they said they'd had no control." MORE...

http://www.pan-uk.org/press/bhopsec.htm

17 Years After the Bhopal Tragedy,
Union Carbide Continues to Evade
Responsibility

http://www.organicconsumers.org/toxic/bhopal120601.cfm

If I'm going to be scared then I'll be scared of the real fascists and greed driven fanatics in America.

[theHandpuppet]

19. Yep, that road into Charleston is a path of poison

Dow, Union Carbide, you name it, all running along the banks of the Kanawha. No one can convince me the people of Charleston aren't being slowly poisoned to death.

[Hubert Flottz]

23. If the terrorists kill more people here than cancer does there...

won't be anybody left to bury them. We grew up playing Carbide and Indians here!

[gademocrat7]

4. This is just too much. Rovian tactics in progress.

A waste of taxpayer money. We are the victims of an incompetent administration.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Barney Fifedom lives on in West Bye Gawd Virginia...

We watch our cars rust for entertainment, but damn I never thought we were this hard up for something to do! Hell I'm afraid to go to the state fair now! I'm too Skeerd!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

8. Fear.

It's what's for dinner.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. Where he "LEADS" them they will follow...

What he feeds them they will swallow...Even 100% Bullshit!

[ewoden]

11. The terrorists are winning!!

Times are now that attacks don't have to even be succesful, perhaps not even real, to put the Government, media, and populus into a panic. I would expect that Al-Queda now realizes this. Picture a couple of "terrorists" e-mialing faux plans and cryptic references about activities.. .

Ali: "Brothers in GOD, put the hot dogs in the envelope, I repeat put the hot dogs in the envelope"

Chertoff " Holy Christ, get on the phone and call the Postal Service. All mail must STOP!! And get on the line to Oscar Meyer and have them shut down weiner production. I always new that Nathan's character was a fellow traveler, round him up and close down that Coney Island shop"

[Hubert Flottz]

12. The GOPers are playing the people just like the terraists are IMO

There is money to be had by the sleazy corporations like Halliburton, in this trumped up "War On Terra."

[underpants]

13. Is this the Huntington airport?

I know it is Yeager field on Charleston because the article says plane were diverted to there. Is this the one in Huntington or is this a smaller one?

[Hubert Flottz]

15. Yes...it's the one the Marshall team crashed at that time.

I landed there the day I got out of the Army. It's dangerous enough without terra!

[Cha]

14. Don't forget your

Plastic, sweetie!

[Hubert Flottz]

16. I've got my plastic JHC!

I never leave home without him! I don't know what he thinks about all my constant roadragous cursing of those STUPID drivers, who seem to be everywhere I go? Or even if he can think, sitting there glued to the dashboard of my Chevy? He never complains!

[Cha]

17. Oh yes, the plastic

JHC.. Probably saves you from all kinds of hell! But, you need some plastic sheeting, too, to go along with your duct tape ..just in case :nuke:

[frylock]

18. ...and the home of the brave

:sarcasm:

[bdamomma]

21. not any more it is.

home of the paranoid is more like it.

[gatorboy]

22. The GOP wants to kill her fetus!

The woman probably needed that water?

Repugs...Why are you so Anti-Life?

[Hubert Flottz]

24. The GOP will get those off white feti one way or another!

And if it ever does slip by and grow up, they'll send it abroad in an OD green uniform to preemptively whack more off white babies over there, so that we don't have to whack them over here!