The Collimated News Column

[Maxwel III]

Damn, another serious chemical spill, this time in Arizona. A semi carrying nitric acid crashed on the interstate and a large spill has occurred. Looks like a large cloud of nitrogen dioxide fumes all around the crash scene.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1625651327803052032

About 1992 I was returning to a job six hours from home on a Sunday evening, we carried a stunned but otherwise unhurt driver from an area covered by HCL, which whilst bigtime HAZMAT, is less toxic than other fuming agents. We were first on the scene (west of Rockhampton AUST) and the EMT who turned up minutes later had a porta-shower and washed us all down.

Very bizarre experience, the whole area around the trailer was hissing like a snake as the fuming acid ate the grass and trees. Also a stroke of luck, the cargo was in 44s not a tanker!

In hind-sight we risked burns but got the driver out of his wrecked cab. I was a bit itchy for two days afterward but the thing I remember most was the worksite was isolated for the clean-up, two days 'coz we were the only guys ahead of first responders. Nobody else could get through, bar a car or two prior.

Calculated risk -- we knew it was HCL. Had it been H2SO4 or Fluorine none of us could've done much. We had to take a gulp of fresh air before charging in to drag the driver out.

 

[RedCowboy]

Russia suspends participation in last remaining nuclear treaty with U.S.​

Putin: Russia suspends participation in last remaining nuclear treaty with U.S.

President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia was suspending its participation in the New START treaty with the United States that limits the two sides' strategic nuclear arsenals.

www.reuters.com

 

[Cheech]

How Much Money Do Pediatricians Really Make From Vaccines?

If you want to be sure your pediatrician has your child’s best interest, this is mandatory reading. Pediatricians around the country have begun refusing to accept families who opt out of some…

wellnessandequality.com

 

[Cheech]

Social Security is Broke, but American Taxpayers Just Gave Ukrainian Pensioners a Double-Digit Raise

As American taxpayers paying into Social Security today stare down the barrel toward substantial cuts to their own benefits, estimated to take place in 2034, they can at least take solace in knowing that all categories of Ukrainian pensioners will ge...

www.americanthinker.com

 

[RedCowboy]

China to triple its nuclear warheads by 2035: Report

In the backdrop of Taiwan tension, China is mulling tripling its nuclear warheads arsenal to 900 by 2035, according to Japan's Kyodo News. Citing Chinese sources, the publication stated that the plans formulated by the People's Liberation Army had been approved by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

www.wionews.com

 

[Cheech]

Biden Bails Out Teamsters With $36B For Mismanaged Pensions

'The largest private pension bailout in American history' gave each beneficiary of the Central States Pension Fund nearly $100,000.

thefederalist.com

 

[RedCowboy]

Starting 2026 all new cars will have a remote kill switch so cops can shut your car down or put you into limp mode when they pull you over, also your car will spy on you and shut down if you drive aggressively or if it thinks you are intoxicated.

 

[paul1598419]

https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/10/12/every-25-seconds/human-toll-criminalizing-drug-use-united-states

The Senate is getting testimony now from Merrick Garland. Some want to push for greater penalties like murder for those who have distributed fentanyl. There are already penalties for death from drugs used by persons who got them from an individual in addition to the penalties for distribution of those drugs.

 

[Ears and Eggs]

They should build a few MASSIVE new super prisons like the new one they just opened in El Salvador to keep all the gang members. Holds up to 40,000 inmates, in huge cells with up to 100 inmates each. Crime has drastically dropped over the past few years amid Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's crackdown on the gangs terrorizing the country. The current prisons were getting overcrowded so he built this epic new mega prison to house gang members.

El Salvador moves suspected gang members to 40,000-capacity ‘megaprison’

Around 2,000 inmates transferred on Friday as part of president’s crime crackdown

www.theguardian.com

Photos: Inside El Salvador’s new ‘mega prison’ for gang members

Rights groups have criticised a crackdown on crime, accusing the government of empowering itself to act with impunity.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[Unown (WILD)]

Concept car you have an infraction and Paul you're on your second temp ban.

 

[Unown (WILD)]

conceptcar you now have two infractions. This is not the place to argue.

 

[Unown (WILD)]

conceptcar a 3rd infraction for continued arguing

 

[Ears and Eggs]

Rofl: https://www.businessinsider.com/funko-pop-sends-plastic-figurines-to-dump-excess-inventory-2023-3

 

[paul1598419]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueFtBqrXm28&ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive

 

[Unown (WILD)]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueFtBqrXm28&ab_channel=SaturdayNightLive

I'm gonna give you a chance to explain yourself before I perma ban your butt off of this forum

 

[paul1598419]

I'm gonna give you a chance to explain yourself before I perma ban your butt off of this forum

I don't understand. This is not political at all and was just something funny on SNL last night. It certainly wasn't my intent to push anything political here. A person actually dressed up as Dilbert seemed funny to me. I thought others would think so as well. Are telling me not to post anything to this thread? I really don't understand what it is that I did wrong here.