Saturday, April 25, 2009

Mercury spill clean up in Columbus

Those of us who are a certain age and living in Columbus were probably amused, or not, at the thought of the $300,000 mercury spill clean up at the local Volunteers of America last week. We used to play with that much mercury on a desk top when I was in grade school in Forreston. I'm not sure it was for science class--we probably just couldn't go outside to play so the teacher brought out some mercury.
Posted by Norma at 4/25/2009 06:25:00 PM
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Anonymous said...

Murray sez:
It's the same with the asbestos scare we all experienced a few years back. Asbestos is only a threat under certain circumstances particularly when it's airborne. When I was a youngster we had asbestos wrapped around our furnace pipes. Some of it was falling off. We would use it to form molds that we would pour melted lead into to make sinkers for fishing. Scare tactics has been a favorite for many years from our legislators to spend our tax dollars as a payback to large campaign donors. The scare tactics that they used in the financial crisis allowed them to pump billions of dollars of PORK quickly into the economy before the public could object.

4/27/2009 10:36 AM

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