January 17, 2014 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
Goes to show ya … cartoons aren’t always funny! These are pathetically sad and, even worse, they are too true!!
1The lack of oversight of these chemical installations is appalling, over 20 years since the last inspection of that site in West Virginia.
2The Governor of West Virginia is, unfortunately, a Democrat so the sell-out to the chemical industry is bi-partisan.
The fact that the company in WV is called “Freedom Industries” leads me to repeat my question for conservatives:
You talk about “Freedom”. Freedom for whom to do what?
3Oh, gosh! WV has been on the environmental hit list for decades. When I first arrived in D.C. I ended up working for the fore-runner of EPA. The lion’s share of the mail we got from horrified citizens came from WV and a lot of it contained photographs! The condition of the Kanewha River was a huge thing back then. Coal companies were polluting like there was no tomorrow cuz no one would stop them. Nowadays when I hear somebody cussing EPA for “over regulating”, I think “Buster, you should have seen the rivers in WV 45 years ago!” Do not regret what I did back then at all when it came to cleaning up the water. In many cases, the rivers were the only water available to poor people in the hollows. The pumps they had with their cabins weren’t always maintained the way they should be because it cost $$ people just did not have, so family members would tote buckets down to the rivers and streams to bring home water to pour into the wash tub sitting up over a fire for the laundry.
4“Freedom to Pollute” Industries is a fine example of why any industry-bootlicking GOP candidate who says that he wants to get rid of the EPA should be bounced out the back door on his misplaced mouth.
By the way, who thought it was a good idea to have a drinking water intake downstream of a chemical facility? Of course in that part of WV there wouldn’t be much upstream of one, assuming the streams haven’t been completely destroyed by having a mountain or two worth of overburden dumped into their valleys… legally.
5When I was growing up, the refineries in Pasadena, TX were prime polluters. We called it “Stinkadena” and we could always tell when the wind was from the east by the odor.
The Houston Ship Channel regularly caught fire as well. The water, not the ground around it.
EPA made a huge difference. People just don’t remember (or are too young) what it was like before. So many species were saved by implementation of safe water standards and changes in pesticides.
6Kool-Aid, indeed.
7Every generation has to learn all over again, about everything.THAT is what all history should include so kids won’t say “what’s the point of taking history?” Just hit my slow brain; who “sponsors” the development of text books? You know there’s always 3 or 4 different ones to choose from.
8Freedom Industries filed for bankruptcy today. The company appears to owe the IRS $2.3 million
9How convenient. Now they can avoid paying fines and cleanup to West Virginia.
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