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Another WW-I Chemical Site In Washington, DC
WrongSizeGlass writes "The AP is reporting that the US Army Corps of Engineers has uncovered what appears to be the fourth major disposal area for World War I-era munitions and chemical weapons in the nation's capital. Digging was suspended at a construction site after 'workers pulled smoking glassware from the pit — preliminary tests show the glassware was contaminated with the toxic chemical arsenic trichloride. ... Workers also discovered a jar about three-quarters full of a dark liquid that turned out to be the chemical agent mustard.' Someone needs to remind our government of the meaning of NIMBY."
LOL not sure if I am sad about this or happy! This is the stuff we used to destroy god knows whom... and like Agent Orange - it is now coming back to haunt us! Almost like the taliban we created...!
Maybe they're really Saddam's WMDs that Bush and Cheney were searching for all those years! Those sneaky Iraqis!
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Maybe with the government in charge of health care, he can finally afford the operation that makes that possible.
"His name was James Damore."
Someone needs to remind our government of the meaning of NIMBY.
I know, that's what I've always said. I've always said we should have buried that stuff in Germany. Or at least England.
Qxe4
Sadly, it's not toxic enough.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
There is quite a difference between http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_(condiment) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_mustard (or mustard gas).
Well, technically, mustard the condiment is a chemical agent, in that it has chemicals and it isn't completely inert. But it's only been used as a weapon in food fights, as far as I'm aware.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
What, Obama is pro-cloning?
Ezekiel 23:20
Maybe not that big of a difference...remember, it's related to WW1, there were Germans involved.
PS. They were the evil ones.
They were simply misunderstood.
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
> Someone needs to remind our government of the meaning of NIMBY.
Yeah, all this crap was supposed to be buried in New Jersey.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
What about bailouts? The free market can't provide that.
Just think of the news story in a few hundred years when they halt the Yucca Mountain shopping center project.
Have gnu, will travel.
There is quite a difference between http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_(condiment) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_mustard (or mustard gas).
Well, technically, mustard the condiment is a chemical agent, in that it has chemicals and it isn't completely inert. But it's only been used as a weapon in food fights, as far as I'm aware.
The condiment - especially the spicy brown type - causes my uncle Milt to generate some mighty potent mustard gas...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Also, I was surprised to see the article actually did refer to "smoking glassware", I had assumed that was an alarmist mis-interpretation of "smoked glass",
I thought that it meant that they found some bongs and/or crack pipes.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Jahid? Is that when Jamaicans storm the country and distribute weed everywhere?
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.