Okay, so you would think that a person has a right to know where businesses are storing dangerous chemicals.   It seems like there ought to be some public information laws about that.  However, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is blocking that information from the public.

Abbott says nope, you cannot see that information.  But he has a solution.

“You know where they are if you drive around,” Abbott told reporters Tuesday. “You can ask every facility whether or not they have chemicals or not. You can ask them if they do, and they can tell you, well we do have chemicals or we don’t have chemicals, and if they do, they tell which ones they have.”

No.  I. Am. Not. Kidding.  Just go lookie, Cookie.

So, I’m supposed to drive around my neighborhood, my kids’ schools, my job, the city swimming pool, my church, and where I grocery shop, and knock on the door of some business and ask if they have dangerous chemicals there.  One by one.

Seriously.  He believes that.  Because you can trust Big Bad Johnny’s Pool Cleaning, Fertilizer, and Whatnot, Inc. to tell you the damn truth.  “Yes, ma’am, we got some nuclear stuff out back in rotting containers.”

No, no, he really, really said that —

But Abbott said homeowners who think they might live near stores of dangerous chemicals could simply ask the companies near their homes what substances are kept on site.

We used to be able to get this information, but the Texas Attorney General cut that off faster than double geared lightning.

Warning –  don’t just sashay up to Billy Bob’s Transmission Repair and Carpet Cleaning and ask if they have chemicals.

“Just to make clear, you may not be able to walk on private property. But you can send an email or letter or notice to anyone who owns any kind of private property or facility, saying that under the community right to know law, you need to tell me within 10 days what chemicals you have,” Abbott said.

And do you know why Abbott won’t release this information?  Terrorists.  Because terrorists cannot send emails or drive around.  They don’t have that checked on their driver’s license or gmail account.

The only damn terrorists are Republicans who are a wholly owned subsidiary of Big Business.

Damn idiots.