TVA and the toxic sludge spill!

Thank you, TVA, for spilling 100 billion…yes, that’s right, I said 100 billion gallons of toxic coal fly ash sludge into the river. View Nasa pics and read about it here. It seems that a toxic sludge retaining pond broke 77 miles above Chattanooga, at one of TVA’s coal burning plants, in Harriman, Tn.  Harriman, Tn  is…or should I say was…a beautiful, mountainous, river town north of Chattanooga. But now, over 300 acres of land have been destroyed from the toxic sludge flood. Some people’s homes were lifted off of their foundations and moved down the road. People in the town are having to wade through toxic sludge with their children. They are afraid to drink the water due to the massive amounts of arsenic, lead, and other cancer causing agents within the sludge. Farmers are worried about their animals. People are worried about their families health. Everyone is worried about the Tennessee River. I know I am. I know that I’m not gonna be drinking any of my tap water, ever again.  Here’s what really pisses me off. This supposedly happened on Dec. 22, and I am just now hearing about it! Not only that, but there has not just been one spill…but two! WTF? Now, they’re worried about when this toxic sludge dries out, and floats up into the atmosphere causing respiratory problems, possibly cancer, major air quality damage, and God knows what other type of health problems. I am MA-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-D AS HELL! Now that I’ve got that off my chest, I would just like to say this..Mr. Governor, don’t you find it completely stupid to enact laws where people can’t SMOKE A CIGARETTE in a public building, but you don’t do anything to keep us safe from..oh I don’t know…DEADLY, CANCER CAUSING TOXIC SLUDGE! Here in Chattanooga, thank God we have to go pay 10 dollars of our hard earned money to have our emissions checked! I suppose that what comes out of the muffler of my car is way worse than TOXIC SLUDGE FLOATING IN THE AIR! You can kiss your improved air quality GOODBYE, Mr. Governor. You know how we fail the emissions test just because our check engine light is on? Huh? Do ya? The last 20 years of check engine lights staying on, cannot compare with this disaster! So much for strapping our kids in the car like Joan Crawford, to save their lives! Now I’ve gotta worry about even taking them outside to ride in the damn car! I’m gonna have to worry about what my child eats, drinks, breathes, touches, EVERYTHING! Peoples lives are being destroyed right this minute, and it is being treated like spilled milk on an elementary school cafeteria floor! These people can get on TV all day and tell me that the water is fine. The long term damage that this will cause is catastrophic. While I’m writing this billions of gallons of god knows what kind of chemicals are sinking deep into the ground right now! I’m sorry, I hear that they are busy dropping grass seed to keep the TOXIC SLUDGE IN PLACE! What genius came up with that one? And by all means, let’s dredge the river up around Oak Ridge that contains mercury and radioactive cesium that was dumped there back in WWII that no one ever bothered to clean up! GRRRRRRRR! After this, I think that it would be SAFE TO SAY THAT OUR RIVER IS PERMANENTLY DESTROYED! You tax us to death, and claim that we as citizens are the ones polluting the air! You impose outrageous fines on us for SMOKING A CIGARETTE IN PUBLIC, FOR GOD SAKES! Now, look!…thank God people can’t die from my second hand smoke, now! Because if the second hand smoke doesn’t get ya, THE FRESH AIR YOU BREATHE WILL! Ahhhh….I love the smell of toxic fly ash in the morning! Don’t you honey? Yes Judy, I do! Will you hold my locally produced beef and tomato sandwich while I strap the kids into their car seats? Thanks, Sweetie.