NIMBYism draws out the hypocrisy

For those of you that don't know, NIMBY is an acronym for Not In My Back Yard. Got it? Good, because it's going to play a big part in this post.

So the news story you should get if you click on the title for this. Six thousand suburban Salt Lake City citizens had to be evacuated because a rail car that was carrying corrosive acid though this pristene, white bread neighborhood was not appropriately equipped to contain this acid. I'm not saying that these folks don't have the right to complain about this distribution of deadly chemicals into their neighborhood...but...

Consider that the margin of victory for Bush in Utah. Slightly over 71% of Utah citizens that got out to the polls voted for George W. Bush and his corporate croney administration that just cut back on EPA spending by 500 million dollars for the next fiscal year. Now the EPA would have been one of the government agencies responsible for checking this rail car to see if it was suitable to carry highly corrosive acids such as nitric and hydrochloric acid.

So congrats to Utah, for voting for looser domestic environmental protections because they didn't want gays and lesbians to marry or thought that this puppet, George W. Bush, would keep them safe from the terrorists. C'mon Utah, you've got desert, rocks, a land locked salt lake, and mormons. In the country of the terrorists origins, they can get three of these four easily. Expansive deserts, rocks are common the world over, the Dead Sea makes the Great Salt Lake look like a mud puddle. That only leaves Mormons, and I don't know about you, but I just don't trust stealthy cultists that look like they came from The Villiage of the Damned.

Ok, so I'm generalizing about Utah. Sorry, progressive Utahites, I know that there are a handful of you out there. I have to defend a similar kind of flack here in Texas. The point is, those that vote to give away their freedom in exchange for safety are ultimately bound to lose both freedom and safety.

Enjoy.