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malaise

(269,200 posts)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 05:41 PM Feb 2012

I dare anyone to ask Santorum what he knows about this

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/dayintech_1026
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The "Donora Death Fog."
1948: An inversion layer settles over the rust belt town of Donora, Pennsylvania, trapping industrial pollution in the atmosphere. When it clears six days later, 20 people are dead, another 50 are dying and hundreds will live out their days with permanently damaged lungs.


In Donora, an industrial town situated about 20 miles south of Pittsburgh, pollution from the nearby U.S. Steel smelting plants and Donora Zinc Works was the main culprit. Trapped in a temperature inversion, the pollutants blanketed the town during the night of Oct. 26.

The companies connived with the U.S. Public Health Service to cover up the facts of the incident and succeeded in doing so for half a century. Whistle-blowers were silenced; records disappeared. It wasn't until 1994 that a full accounting of what happened in Donora was finally published.

To Philip Sadtler, an industry consultant sent to evaluate the disaster and who tried without success to expose the corporate cover-up, U.S. Steel was guilty of murder:

"The directors of U.S. Steel should have gone to jail for killing people," Sadtler said shortly before his death in 1996.
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and then let him tell me about environmental regulations
"GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU BACKWARD IGNORANT 'MORAN'"!!!

Bet he never heard about it.
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I dare anyone to ask Santorum what he knows about this (Original Post) malaise Feb 2012 OP
I would love for him to talk to the coal miners about black lung disease, too livetohike Feb 2012 #1
He won't malaise Feb 2012 #3
I think you are wrong Hugabear Feb 2012 #5
I dare anyone to ask him about malaise Feb 2012 #6
Well if he does know about it, I'm sure he doesn't care livetohike Feb 2012 #11
That's what I want malaise Feb 2012 #12
Oh, but that's the past. Must look forward, except when it involves Obama. nt valerief Feb 2012 #2
Were it not for regulations malaise Feb 2012 #4
They was sinners, obviously. nt DCKit Feb 2012 #7
Don't rule that out malaise Feb 2012 #9
he is so far beyond the fringe, it's scary spanone Feb 2012 #8
What's even more scary is that he's leading in polls malaise Feb 2012 #10

livetohike

(22,165 posts)
1. I would love for him to talk to the coal miners about black lung disease, too
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 05:45 PM
Feb 2012

Since he is so big on dragging his Grandfather the coal miner into his story.

livetohike

(22,165 posts)
11. Well if he does know about it, I'm sure he doesn't care
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 02:47 PM
Feb 2012

I wish one of these reporters who are following his campaign around would ask him anything of substance!

malaise

(269,200 posts)
10. What's even more scary is that he's leading in polls
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 10:18 PM
Feb 2012

I'm beginning to wonder what century we're living in right now

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