Ok, lets just compare sources of radon then. There is radon in the air you breath already, before anything has been mined or processed or built by people. Some homes collect radon because the soil underneath is full of it, and building materials are too effective at trapping it. Are we worried now that a negligible fraction of the radon already in the air we breath is going to escape the materials known for being too good at containing it, and that's how we're gonna have problems?
Sorry, I should have been clearer -- my commentary was intended towards heavy element and radioisotope contaminants, opposed to other safety aspects associated with fly ash use. As far as mercury content, a while back here I got into it about the same subject, and dug up an article that found higher concentrations of heavy elements and naturally-occurring radioactive materials in Chinese anthracites (if I remember right) compared to others around the world. Having found that, I wonder if that may be a key piece of the puzzle -- as least as far as China is concerned.
Yeah, we're going to be paying for the ridiculousness of the early- to mid-1900's for a while yet. I still swear if something existed at that time period, somebody put asbestos, lead, or radium in it.
Well, all I know is that since the strict handgun controls came in after Dunblane here in the UK, we've had less than 1 'mass' shooting per 2 years, and only twice in the subsequent 26 years have we had >5 deaths (including the shooter).
I saw the bread(/car) lines a couple of year ago in the US. When did they go communist?
There are far too many North American and European countries for them to be called "outliers". Outliers should be rare: for instance a common statistical definition might be anything beyond 2 or 3 standard deviations from the mean.
Once Australia tightened its gun laws in 1996, not only was there something of a decrease in homicides, but there was also a massive decrease in the amount of gun suicides, without a corresponding increase in suicide by other methods.
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Fucking hell. Don't trust local police there. Get feds in at least. What sparse information released there does not bode well on any level.Black man’s decapitated remains found after he warned his mom he was targeted by ‘truckloads of white guys’
A Mississippi family is searching for answers about what happened to their son after his remains were found in three separate places.
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Republican US congressman George Santos has been arrested in New York on charges of fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds and making false statements to the House of Representatives, authorities said.
The 34-year-old will appear in a court on New York’s Long Island on Wednesday afternoon to be arraigned on charges in a 13-count indictment. He is accused of misappropriating tens of thousands of dollars in political donations and lying about his true income once elected.
Santos was elected in last November’s midterm congressional elections. His victory flipped a Long Island district previously held by a Democrat, helping Republicans to regain control of the House. But he has since faced a series of scandals after he was found to have lied about his education, employment history, ethnicity and family background.
Breon Peace, US attorney for the eastern district of New York, said in a statement: “He used political contributions to line his pockets, unlawfully applied for unemployment benefits that should have gone to New Yorkers who had lost their jobs due to the pandemic, and lied to the House of Representatives.”
The indictment is a blow to House Republicans who have become increasingly embarrassed by Santos’s presence within their ranks but cannot afford to lose him given their slim majority in the lower chamber of Congress. Several Republicans from the moderate New York suburbs have already called for him to step down. "The sooner he leaves, the sooner we can win the seat with someone who isn’t a liar,” Nicole Malliotakis, a New York Republican lawmaker, told Axios this week.
Kevin McCarthy, the House Speaker, has not gone that far and may only do so if Santos is convicted. Santos stepped down earlier this year from the congressional committees he was assigned to because of the pressure on him.
“The party of George Santos and Marjorie Taylor Greene cannot be trusted to govern. Not now. Not ever,” Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the House, said in a tweet, lumping in the indicted New York congressman with the pro-Trump firebrand Georgia lawmaker known for embracing conspiracy theories.
In the 20-page indictment unsealed on Wednesday, federal prosecutors alleged Santos used $50,000 in campaign donations from two people, who were told the money would be partly used for campaign advertisements, to buy designer clothing and pay his personal debts as well as funnel funds to his associates.
They also alleged that Santos repeatedly filed for unemployment insurance during the Covid-19 pandemic, receiving a total of more than $24,000 despite making $120,000 a year as an employee of a Florida investment fund.
Once elected, Santos vastly overstated his income and his assets to the House, the indictment alleged, making him out to be a multimillionaire.
If found guilty on all charges, Santos could spend the rest of his life in prison. A lawyer for Santos did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Wow. In the last couple of days, it could almost give a person hope that the US legal system worked well.
Santos to solitary confinement.
New York congressman George Santos arrested on criminal charges
Republican US representative who flipped district pleads not guilty to 13 counts, including fraud
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Just because one thing occurred after another, does not necessarily mean it happened because of it. I'd be careful to look for other, intervening, variables first, and see if the reduction in mass shootings corresponded to a drop in homicides, violent crimes in total, and for additional context suicide rate, as well.
Don't point this out. Trump doing a positive thing like this will just lead to the GOP twisting his ear to make sure he doesn't follow this in the future
