To Don Blankenship, just the cost of doing coal business
On Thursday, a Senate committee took testimony on coal mine safety after the explosion last month at a West Virginia operation run by Massey Energy that killed 29 men.
In his first testimony since the accident, the worst coal mine disaster in 40 years, Don L. Blankenship, the chairman and chief executive, came out swinging. The 23 miner fatalities at Massey mines in the decade before the Upper Big Branch explosion made his company “about average,” he said, and Massey was a leader in safety innovation but had been forbidden by the Mine Safety and Health administration from making some safety improvements….
At the hearing, another witness, Cecil E. Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, challenged Mr. Blankenship’s assertion that Massey’s safety record was average.
“I can’t come up with another coal company that’s had 23 miners in 10 years die,” Mr. Roberts, seated next to Mr. Blankenship at the witness table, said. “This isn’t average. This is deplorable.
“This is the worst fatality rate in the industry either way you look at it, either before the explosion or after the explosion.”
… Robert C. Byrd, the 92-year-old West Virginia Democrat, took a tough stance with Mr. Blankenship. “Twenty-nine men are now dead, dead, dead, simply because they went to work that morning,” he said.
The very next morning:
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – Another Massey Energy coal miner has died as a result of on-the-job injuries.
State of West Virginia spokesman Hoy Murphy says 55-year-old James Erwin of Delbarton died about 6 a.m. Friday.
Murphy says Erwin was pinned between a piece of heavy equipment and the wall at Massey’s Ruby Energy mine in Mingo County on May 10.
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Pogo
May 22nd, 2010
4:27 pm
Obama wants to form a new “worldwide system” of diplomacy to solve our problems. Perhaps now his megalomanic personality sees him as not only the leader of the US, but the leader of the rest of the world as well. Quite a lot of ambition for an arrogant, rather lackluster and unintelligent politician.
The dude has lost it. The world has absolutely no respect for the USA’s current leader. Manipulating Obama is in many ways getting to be like shooting fish in a barrel for our enemies. They see a country with a weak, ideology driven leader who will capitulate to anyone or any body except the will of his own countrys citizens. Our enemies worldwide know that they have nothing to fear anymore from the
USA because of “Obama the Weak”. He believes only in the progressive/socialist malarky he was taught at Harvard and which he cut his teeth on in the corrupt sesspool that is Chicago politics. He is a radical socialist and social progressive of the type that this country did not need at this particular time in history. We can only hope he doesn’t do so much damage that it can’t be fixed.
larry
May 22nd, 2010
4:44 pm
And Bush’s foreign policy solved problems? Started a war based on lies and cherry picked intel while the war he should have focused on languished because of lack on manpower. Created terror alerts just to help himself get re-elected (the last one was five days before the 2004 elections.There was not one the rest of his time in office). And you call Obama weak ? His adminstration has killed more Tailban leaders and terrorists in a year and a half than Bush’s adminstration did in the last four years.
N-GA
May 22nd, 2010
4:46 pm
Pogo – Just because we have a president who doesn’t go around kicking sand in everybody’s face doesn’t mean that he is weak. It means that he respects other countries. It means he respects their sovereignty, their right to govern their own way. It means he is not a fascist trying to impose a new world order dominated by corporations and the greedy megalomaniacs who run them.
It means he has the strength of his convictions, and a rodent like you can’t begin to understand him. It means that he is strong and you and those like you are really the weak among us.
larry
May 22nd, 2010
4:55 pm
To the topic at hand, my great-grandfather on my father’s side died at 40 from black lung diease from working in the coal mines of Kentucky. Coal has always been an unsafe business and will not voluntarly enforce safety regulations. Government oversight of this industry needs to be stepped up and fines increased to protect the workers.
kayaker 71
May 22nd, 2010
5:06 pm
N-Ga,
It must be the respect of heads of state like Israel, Venezuela, No. Korea, Iran, Iraq, China, Russia, the United Kingdom, most of the middle East and most if not all of Islam that Bozo thrives on. He is intent on making our country part of some “new world order” or some BS like that The leaders of all of the above countries are strong nationalists. You don’t see any of them giving up the farm for some silly idea of a big happy international family. The only one who does that is Bozo. Do you think that that garners respect from people who run these countries? They respect only one thing. Power. And if you don’t have it, you quickly become a third world excuse for a leader trying to catch up with those who would do you harm. You have some naive idea that this clown is respected throughout the world. Nothing could be further from the truth. You don’t see long lines of would be citizens lining up at the borders of any of the above countries. We have something that they want and if we are not careful, they are going to take it from us. The latinos already have a pretty good start. And Bozo is the architect. He has two years and just a little over 6 mos to go to finish this social experiment that he calls a presidency. Let’s hope that this country survives.
@@
May 22nd, 2010
5:07 pm
It means he has the strength of his convictions, and a rodent like you can’t begin to understand him. It means that he is strong and you and those like you are really the weak among us.
AmVet has, errrr N-GA has, NO! make that Vladimir Lenin
has spoken. ALL HAIL!!!!
Weird! jay’s leftists are the weirdest bunch of people I’ve ever encountered. RW assures me that your numbers are small. Gawd! I hope he’s right.
Now ’scuse me while I stick my fingers down my throat.
It means that he is strong…
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
5:09 pm
K’chak
Plenty of words from me on that one, BTW, that is when I’m present and accounted for and he does it. I’m given to understand that he has done it plenty when I’m not around and I’m also given to understand that it has been some of the more conservative of the lot hereabouts who jumped his case for it. Like the Bruin, I’m not here 24/7, though some might argue I am!
Secondly, I never said that I based my vote on that 30 or so words. All I said was that it told me everything I needed to know about his world view.
You say:
“He said it ten days before the Pennsylvania primary at a fund raiser fer chrissakes while Hillary held a double digit lead over him in Penn. Sure, it was supposed to be a closed fund raiser, but these kinda things always leak out—a consummate politician such as he would have known that.”
This is something of a two-step, in my opinion. Are you saying that it would have been okay to think this way so long as it wasn’t made public or are you saying that he knew it would be leaked and went ahead and said it any way? If this latter is the case, then he should have manned up and said, “yes, I said it and, yes, that’s what I think, and here and now, I’ll say it again.”
And as for the coal miner relatives, who sparked this exchange to begin with, no small few of them, Yellow Dog Democrats to the core, voted for him that comment notwithstanding. The same as with him and California’s Prop 8, they knew what they were getting and what he thought of them. He’s lived up to expectations.
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
5:12 pm
kayaker
“…you don’t see long lines of would be citizens lining up at the borders of…”
You do Israel and the UK.
kayaker 71
May 22nd, 2010
5:16 pm
joseph,
Possibly so, but Israel and the UK are not threats of this nation like all of the others. Probably should have left those out…. wonder how much respect that Bebe has for our sorry excuse for a leader?
AmVet
May 22nd, 2010
5:18 pm
Kamchak, would you take the leg humper back? Please.
Kamchak
May 22nd, 2010
5:18 pm
Plenty of words from me on that one, BTW, that is when I’m present and accounted for and he does it.
Nope. From you zero, zilch, nada—yet you continue to bang the snicker-snicker drum.
Normal
May 22nd, 2010
5:19 pm
Josef, St. Elsewhere…
As some of y’all know, I was born in the coal country of southeastern Kentucky. Strip mining was the thing there. My Mother’s family had to buy the mineral and property rights to the mountains surrounding our ancestral valley. I remember that everybody chipped in and it’s in the writ(?) that if ever the last family member dies with no heir, then the land goes to a charity of some sort that can not sell it. It’s more complicated than that, but it saves one of the prettiest valleys in Appalachia from ruin.
I’m not against coal per se, but it is a most dangerous job and if ever there was a need for healthy regulation, this is it.
@@
May 22nd, 2010
5:34 pm
AmVet:
I’ve come up with a new name for ‘ya. It’s close to what you aspire to be…Hercules. Instead I’ve decided that you will, from this day forward, be known to me as Heraclitus, philosophical leader to your communist stars or czars, whichever the case may be.
Suffice it to say you’re lacking his flair for the dialectical flourish, but what the hey! ‘Ya can’t have it all. One day you might make it over the hump, although, still, not to be believed.
kayaker 71
May 22nd, 2010
5:38 pm
@@,
I think that Bed Wet is a pretty favorable logo for our anti corporate, anti business know it all. But I like yours too.
@@
May 22nd, 2010
5:41 pm
kayaker:
AmVet’s got a HUGE ego that needs to be fed. Heraclitus, it is. Every time he sees it, he’ll mistakenly see HERCULES. Maybe it’ll lift his spirits.
Here Lies the Truth
May 22nd, 2010
5:41 pm
Weird! jay’s leftists are the weirdest bunch of people I’ve ever encountered. RW assures me that your numbers are small. Gawd! I hope he’s right
And I hope that your numbers are small. Please resume sticking your fingers down your throat. Farther. Farther… .
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
5:44 pm
normal
Gotcha…
K’chak
If you’re referring to the most recent, I wasn’t here for that one. I heard about it. I didn’t go through it, but from what I did see, it was pretty much what he and I crossed wires on a long time ago. If you recall, he and I have a running joke about a certain tattoo…another drum I tap with considerable frequency…
The second aspect, snicker-snicker, has to do with it coming from those who otherwise would want to be considered “liberal” or “progressive” in their views. I don’t expect different from the poster at point here. He has made it abundantly clear that he bases his perspective on his religious beliefs. They are not mine. That’s how he feels as a matter of faith, not as a matter of secul*r bias and prejudice.
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
5:50 pm
kayaker
Thanks for that…and, yes, these are both stable, democratic regimes with the attendant standard of living therewith associated.
As for Bibi–oh, he got his deal, all right, that “spat” is a PR ploy in my opinion. He’s just waiting for Uncle Sam to turn loose the feist to take care of the dirty work…Bibi is lots of things, but a fool he ain’t…
@@
May 22nd, 2010
5:55 pm
Farther. Farther… .
Even ^^^ that’s weird! I work with kids who will intentionally gag themselves. Some of the others will sit perched on the edge of their seats in anticipation….kinda like you, Here Lies.
I’ll usually distract them with a favorite toy while I address the negative behavior discreetly.
What’s your favorite toy?
Scout
May 22nd, 2010
5:56 pm
There are a lot of tough, dangerous jobs out there. Coal mining and U.S. Marine Corps 0311’s (infantry) are just two of them.
“OFF TOPIC #1″
Serious questions for any of you.
I have “heard” (but don’t know if it’s true) that the Russians and maybe the Chinese have had several undersea oil drilling disasters with leaks as bad or worse than our current one. Supposedly, the plugged/sealed the leaks by using a low yield underwater nuclear explosion. One, does anyone out there know anything about this and two, would the U.S. ever consider doing that if all else fails.
AmVet
May 22nd, 2010
5:56 pm
Gang banged by leg humpers.
A new level of right wing embarrassment has been reached on a Saturday eve.
Reminds me of the old days at Luckovich’s.
josef, I see where you wrote “I’m also given to understand that it has been some of the more conservative of the lot hereabouts who jumped his case…”
??????????????????????????
I’d LOVE to see the link of whom you speak.
Understand that the three card carrying members of his posse commode-atatis will never, ever, ever say anything about the loathsome, hateful things Andy writes regularly. Including his repulsive equation of homosexuality with pedophilia. Find me ONE instance where one of his sycophants have EVER done so and I will buy you the most expensive meal imaginable. They worship him.
So who does that leave? Pogo? Yacker? RB? Corporal?
Yeah, riiight. You’re kidding yourself if you think these people have the integrity to speak out against his venom.
It is ALL about their shared ideology which trumps EVERYTHING.
So I await any of this supposed evidence.
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
5:59 pm
Okay, Scout, you’re here! Are you ready to rehash what we’ve already been through so Kamchak will be better informed on what we think about this subject? Just keep your tattoo covered and I’ll not turn my back on you!
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
6:01 pm
AmVet
@@ will, I trust, respond to you on that one…Del being another, Dusty has been a friend in my absence, just for starters…
@@
May 22nd, 2010
6:02 pm
josef:
You do know that we’ve opened the door for Russia to sell their S-300s to Iran, don’t you?
WASHINGTON — As it sought support for international sanctions on Iran, the Obama administration gave Moscow two concessions: lifting American sanctions against the Russian military complex and agreeing not to ban the sale of Russian anti-aircraft batteries to Tehran.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/world/22sanctions.html
What now?
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
6:03 pm
AmVet
I’m not talking about Andy here…he’s a case all unto himself and, well, as we found out one Friday night, kinda likes me…
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 22nd, 2010
6:03 pm
A tad off the topic, maybe, but let’s not forget how those mineral rights in the coal regions were acquired. The big financiers held all the cards. They knew what that there was a large amount of coal there and they knew that it would be worth millions. They came into an area, where most people had little in the way of material goods and education and offered them what seemed like a lot of money, to somebody who had none (often $100 was the price so I’m told), knowing they would make millions from that $100. The same can be said for timber rights and many other things. Granted, they spent a lot of money on equipment and the like but these people remained in poverty for decades. Maybe to some “caveat emptor” applies to the seller, too. (I know that’s not correct but I don’t speak Latin). But in my view, they could have given 10 times or 100 times what they did for the rights and still made millions. Was it legal? No argument that it was but what is right and what is legal are often at odds.
Maybe I’m just a silly dreamer.
That’s my $.02
@@
May 22nd, 2010
6:05 pm
AmVet:
‘Twas I and many conservatives who had never even heard rumors about Crist’s sexual orientation until jay brought it up. Leftists knew all about it.
Go figure!
@@
May 22nd, 2010
6:08 pm
Hillbilly:
They knew what that there was a large amount of coal
And no! You do not need to put yourself in a home. I do that kinda thing all the time…just go back and type IHB (I Hate Blogging).
Scout
May 22nd, 2010
6:08 pm
josef:
Sorry, I’m not in the mood to read “Kamchakian” today.
You want to give me the short version?
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
6:09 pm
@@
I’m not so sure how I feel about Russian-Iranian relations. Theirs is a long standing and not always very friendly relationship. It’s one to keep an eye on. I think it’s pretty much a relationship based on “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Something the United States and post Soviet Russia are still trying to come to terms with…
@@
May 22nd, 2010
6:10 pm
DANG! I’m gonna start putting my 2 cents down as $.02. It looks more valuable with a dollar sign in front of it.
Thanks, Hillbilly!
Normal
May 22nd, 2010
6:10 pm
Favorite toy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MLBfwblps8
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 22nd, 2010
6:11 pm
Scout
I have heard a little about the Russians using nuclear explosives in the past to seal undersea wells. According to what I heard, it was a bigger device than either of those that were dropped on Japan. Haven’t heard about the “low yield” part of it. That’s the extent of my knowledge about it.
I’d think the odds of the U.S. using that method would be in the million-to-one range or more.
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
6:11 pm
Scout–
I’ve been accused of taking a zero, zilch nada stance vis a vis you and your views on homosexuality and pedophilia…
Scout
May 22nd, 2010
6:12 pm
“OFF TOPIC #2″
Headline: “After 9 Years of War, Obama Tells West Point Cadets the Challenge No Less Important”
Didn’t he promise during the campaign to sit down with our enemies and have this all solved by now?
@@
May 22nd, 2010
6:12 pm
josef:
Russia needs to buy time to get back on their feet. What better way than to keep us on the defensive. They love the fact that we’re tied down in the Middle East. Like you say though, it’s one that needs watching.
Putin is an accomplished strategist on the global chess board….far better than is Obama.
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
6:14 pm
@@
Looks more valuable…took the words right out of my mouth. ISH
Normal @ 6:10
Ooooh,,,you baaad!
Scout
May 22nd, 2010
6:14 pm
josef:
Well that’s crazy. You and I disagree but have had many polite reasoned debates on those subjects.
Here Lies the Truth
May 22nd, 2010
6:14 pm
My favorite toy.
You[r own words], little girl:
Now ’scuse me while I stick my fingers down my throat
Look familiar.
@@
May 22nd, 2010
6:15 pm
Geez, Normal! Did you just accuse, Here Lies of playing with his ding-a-ling?
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
6:15 pm
@@
I agree with you on Putin and that part of the world…it’s Byzantine…and Russia is the master among the superpowers there…
Here Lies the Truth
May 22nd, 2010
6:17 pm
DANG! I’m gonna start putting my 2 cents down as $.02. It looks more valuable with a dollar sign in front of it.
Actually, No. It doesn’t help. Unless you stop after putting down “$.02″, all verbatim like.
@@
May 22nd, 2010
6:18 pm
Here Lies:
It’s a figure of speech. I will avoid throwing up at all costs, even when the need is overwhelming. Crying, shaking, rocking, cold compresses, ANYTHING to avoid the inevitable.
Only three times in my life and that’s when I was a child. I don’t even have a gag reflex.
Whiner's Man Crush
May 22nd, 2010
6:20 pm
Josef,
you stay away from my Whiner!
theyeshaveit
May 22nd, 2010
6:20 pm
Briefly puttin, Putin is to Medvedev as Cheney wanted to be with W.
And to all would be dingalingers, I say, “Ne postavte khui v chai.”
Here Lies the Truth
May 22nd, 2010
6:21 pm
Now ’scuse me while I stick my fingers down my throat
You attributed those words to no other in your 5:07 post, @@.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 22nd, 2010
6:21 pm
@@ 6:08
My brain moves faster than my hands (insert your own punchline here). I just like to think my typing mistakes and sometimes tortured phraseology a sign of high intelligence. (IW&SH)
Maybe I get close enough that everybody can figure out what I meant whether it makes any sense or not.
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
6:22 pm
Scout
“Well that’s crazy. You and I disagree but have had many polite reasoned debates on those “]subjects.”
The operative words here, between you and me, “polite and reasoned.” I guess because we don’t descend to “dimwit, moron, idiot, liar” and the like, we don’t disagree. BTW, you won me over with the shared joke at each other’s expense on the tattoo! I know I keep bringing it up, but that one was fun! Hoo-rah and semper fi from mine and Del’s foxhole!
@@
May 22nd, 2010
6:25 pm
Here Lies:
You attributed those words to no other in your 5:07 post, @@.
Whatever makes you happy. Just the though, eh?
———————————————————-
a sign of high intelligence.
Take my word for it…it comes thru regardless, even when I may not agree.
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
6:26 pm
Hillbilly
Already told you about that high intelligence claim!
Whiner’s Man Crush–
I still maintain he’s a Jay plant! But he was really sweet to me that night and I haven’t forgotten it!
Scout
May 22nd, 2010
6:27 pm
josef:
Exactly !
BTW it’s not a “foxhole” as that is the term the Army uses (foxes hide in their holes).
In the Corps, it’s known as a “fighting hole”
Ooo Rah !
P.S. You remember what A.R.M.Y. stands for right ?
Here Lies the Truth
May 22nd, 2010
6:27 pm
Whatever doesn’t make you happy, @@:
Weird! jay’s leftists are the weirdest bunch of people I’ve ever encountered. RW assures me that your numbers are small. Gawd! I hope he’s right.
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
6:28 pm
Hillbilly
Before I forget, I really, really, really like your close out post last night! Thanks…
theyeshaveit
May 22nd, 2010
6:28 pm
@@, said, “a sign of high intelligence.
Take my word for it…it comes thru regardless, even when I may not agree.”
Would a sign of high intelligence be the signs atop Manchu Pinchu?
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 22nd, 2010
6:29 pm
Already told you about that high intelligence claim!
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it, as Alex Hawkins said.
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
6:29 pm
Scout…
“P.S. You remember what A.R.M.Y. stands for right ?”
Yep, but fear I would get it wrong…repost please!
Normal
May 22nd, 2010
6:29 pm
After you play with your dingaling long enough, you shout…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN4DHY_9gOs&feature=related
Scout
May 22nd, 2010
6:30 pm
josef:
“A”in’t “R”eady to be a “M”arine “Y”et ………………….
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
6:31 pm
Hillbilly
Not that “high intelligence” is a contradiction in terms!
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 22nd, 2010
6:34 pm
BTW it’s not a “foxhole” as that is the term the Army uses (foxes hide in their holes).
Knew a man who was in the Army Air Corps in the South Pacific. He said he was on guard duty one night when a Zero decided to make a strafing run. He said he used a slit trench for a fox hole that time and was glad to do it.
theyeshaveit
May 22nd, 2010
6:35 pm
Normal, that one brings back the Friday spirit.
Scout, figure this. My cousin was a Marine, then in the reserves and then enlisted in the ARMY. I wonder if he was thinking that he was going up on the career ladder.
N-GA
May 22nd, 2010
6:36 pm
“Power” only demands respect from knuckle-dragging Neanderthals. What we saw for 8 long years was Abuse of Power. That’s what happens when you give lethal weapons to people who have always wanted to be bullies but never had the c.a.j.o.n.e.s to back up their false bravado. The USA is just now starting to earn back the respect of the western world, including our allies. Only Israel is nervous.
Meanwhile the so-called axis of evil continues to behave much as they always have. Oh well, at least our president hasn’t decided to invade another country using bogus intel and deeply flawed analysis. It would appear that the biggest enemies of the USA have been the best friends of the previous administration – big oil, big banks, big business. They have damaged our country in ways far more lasting than any extremist group or rogue nation. And the right wing posters here are complicit in all that.
@@
May 22nd, 2010
6:37 pm
After you play with your dingaling long enough, you shout…
Normal behavior for you, Normal?
J/K!!!!!
Manchu Picchu? Coneheads?
Scout
May 22nd, 2010
6:38 pm
theyeshaveit:
No. He just felt sorry for them ……………
Time for chow !!
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
6:38 pm
@@
at 6:05
Same here. I was kind glad to hear it though, I could get a major crush on him!
Normal–
That S&D…you jus’ plumb baaad today, no doubts about it…
Scout
Thanks…
Scout
May 22nd, 2010
6:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFVFfKVJ4HA
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
6:40 pm
@@
We’re from a village in France…
theyeshaveit
May 22nd, 2010
6:43 pm
N-GA, while admittedly far from a definitive study on the subject, many of my business associates and friends in Asia (principally, Japan, China and Taiwan) have indicated that they deplored what G.W. was doing in his term. Moreover, it appears that President Obama has indeed recovered some of the international respect the US had in years prior to the Bush administration.
getalife
May 22nd, 2010
6:45 pm
They lost the hearts and minds of the cajuns.
They are angry.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 22nd, 2010
6:45 pm
Scout @ 6:39
Once in an interview, Loretta said that she had several more verses for that song but left them out because of time. She said she was considering re-recording it someday in it’s entirety. I hope she does.
@@
May 22nd, 2010
6:48 pm
I think Dan Akroyd has taken his alien conehead character a bit far.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58uKYuO_yoY
“They’re visiting us, they’re looking at us?”
theyeshaveit
May 22nd, 2010
6:48 pm
Scout, 15 years ago or so, when in the video game biz, I had a product called “Super Conflict”. I put that same cousin (while still a Marne) on the box art. The fellows down at Pendelton took to calling him “GQ, GQ”. I even did an ad for the product that appeared in Soldier of Fortune magazine.
N-GA
May 22nd, 2010
6:53 pm
theyeshaveit – I routinely travel overseas and the change has been palpable. People view the pre-Obama era has temporary insanity. Unfortunately for some of the bloggers here, their condition is not temporary.
@@
May 22nd, 2010
6:53 pm
My husband has just returned from his “palatial estates”. Don’t dare ask how much money he’s sunk into those duplexes, but he’s promised to expand our deck. I’m holding him to it, regardless.
N-GA
May 22nd, 2010
6:54 pm
….”as temporary insanity.”
Dusty
May 22nd, 2010
7:02 pm
Well, what happened after the nicer discussion earlier today? We didn’t all agree but nobody got vicious.
Right now, I would remind folks that NGA is NOT from NORTH GEORGIA. He brought himself to our lovely part of the country to be happy. Calling others “rodent” over a disagreement is his way of blogging. Perhaps he will become homesick and return to his home state. He must have left his joy there. I don’t think Kamchak is from these parts either.
But,. AmVet?? I am so accustomed to his gutter garblings that I hardly notice any more. I just figure he did not take his meds that day.
So I leave again. Fortunately, @@ never throws up so she can handle some here who induce such things. Josef will remain thoughful and reasonable and HillBilly is the sage of the mountains. How good to hear from them, the sane and sensible. I can always count on them and a few others to keep things stable here. It’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it!!
Gone to feast on oven fried chiecken!! Almost BRAVES time!!
.
Kamchak
May 22nd, 2010
7:08 pm
I don’t think Kamchak is from these parts either.
Born on Peachtree Street.
Just Sayin'
May 22nd, 2010
7:09 pm
I don’t think Dusty or @@ are from these parts either.
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
7:09 pm
@@
The aliens are an international zionist conspiracy…doncha know?
getalife
Thanks for the report from Cajun Country…that’s what I hear, too, but I’m not on the ground and it’s just mine and Unmentionable’s folks down that way and, well, they’re a politicized bunch, so they’re super mad…
Dusty
Aw! You’re sweet…I’m trying, L-rd knows I’m trying, but it’s not easy sometimes…the old knee’s acting up…
AmVet
May 22nd, 2010
7:09 pm
“I think that Bed Wet is a pretty favorable logo for our anti corporate, anti business know it all.”
How many times has somebody like yacker accused Bookman of some equally idiotic and sophomoric nonsense?
And how many times has he made someone like yacker look the absolute fool?
This puerile accusation is in that same category.
Unless of course, yacker has the first scintilla of evidence.
(Sorry, yacker, it’s a blog for grownups.)
And IF Bookman was adamant about mandating that people discuss the issues and not each other Dusty would have been gone from day one.
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
7:11 pm
Yep, K’chak, Dusty and @@ all have roots in these parts along with our Scalawag host…just goes to show you we ain’t all cut from the same mold. As Miz Eudora would say, “there are many ways of seeing a place.”
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
May 22nd, 2010
7:12 pm
The liberals spent decades whining about the “dangers” of nuclear power, one of the safest forms of energy available, they put up regulations and stumbling blocks that make it’s usage next to impossible, so men enter the mines everyday, the most dangerous occupation in the world hands down.
Whose fault is it again?
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
May 22nd, 2010
7:18 pm
I don’t think Dusty or @@ are from these parts either.
Well, they’re both yankees trying to act like Southreners. @@ already said she was from California with a little stop in the state of LA. And Sister Dusty keeps talking about the swamplands of SC before she went out of the country to study at Boston. Neither one would know what a tarpaper shack would even look like.
Let’s keep the record straight. Have a good night everybody. Billy Bob’s is awaiting.
Normal
May 22nd, 2010
7:18 pm
Aliens!!??!! Quick! Close the borders!!!
@@
May 22nd, 2010
7:26 pm
My parts may be rather strewn, but they originated in these here…
Since my Dad was military, it was frequent that he proclaimed “We’re off like a herd of turtles.”
I can only guess that packing up and moving a family of six was a slow process which brought about the oft-used proclamation. Of course, being a boy from Tennessee, he said “Hoid of toitles”. He never much cared for nawth’nahs…only those he met in the service.
AmVet
May 22nd, 2010
7:28 pm
“The liberals spent decades whining about the “dangers” of nuclear power”
Not this liberal. I’ve been pro-nucular power from the beginning.
“…the most dangerous occupation in the world hands down.”
False. At least according to the plethora of contrary info Moderate Line posted earlier today.
But I get and agree with your point.
“Whose fault is it again?”
Everybody’s, including you. Presuming of course, you didn’t boycott all coal -generated electricity…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hORaebYWDwk
Just Sayin'
May 22nd, 2010
7:28 pm
Nutgrass has roots. That don’t make it desirable.
Curious Observer
May 22nd, 2010
7:29 pm
Stories in the Charleston Gazette and the Beckley Register-Herald in West Virginia quote family members of dead miners as saying that Massey is offering $3 million settlements, with the condition that recipients will refuse to sue or make adverse statements about Massey. Must be nice to have that kind of money available to spread around.
@@
May 22nd, 2010
7:32 pm
I never lived in LA, if it’s Louisiana of which you speak. Family moved from south Alabama where Dad was stationed at Egleston AFB (sp?) then to Texas, where I was born, Lackland AFB, and then onto California, Travis AFB, then to Georgia upon his retirement.
No LA, RC. Not even the City of Angels.
Just Sayin'
May 22nd, 2010
7:33 pm
What’s not to like about coal?
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
7:34 pm
Redneck
It’s roots, man, roots! Don’t matter where yore ancestors had to go in the Diaspora, if you make Aliyah and come home. yore one of us…and, Sister Dusty, as we say, jus’ cause the cat had kittens in the oven don’t make ‘em biscuits…
@@
May 22nd, 2010
7:35 pm
Egland AFB (sp?)
IHB
^^^ See how it’s done, Hillbilly.
Just Sayin'
May 22nd, 2010
7:39 pm
After all, coal has so much to offer.
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
7:41 pm
curioua observer–
Thanks for the input…
jus sayin
“Nutgrass has roots. That don’t make it desirable.”
Yeah, but it does make it indigenous and that means it’s not going to be gotten rid of and it’s best to learn to deal with it on its own terms…
@@
See my comments on the Diaspora…this part of the country has done far, far more than it’s fair share in the the military…and we need to remember that, be you for it or against it…Unmentionable is from a military family and, pillar to post, he always knew that, unlike many of his fellow brats, had a home to come back to, a place where he belonged with roots pre-Columbian…
Just Sayin'
May 22nd, 2010
7:44 pm
Coal mining even has the potential to change one’s perspective over what a landscape can look like. Eat your heart out, you HGTV landscape designers.
@@
May 22nd, 2010
7:48 pm
‘Ya may wanna turn off your computer, your lights, your air conditioning, appliances if they’re electric. You’re likely contributing to the coal industry.
Just Sayin’
Just Sayin'
May 22nd, 2010
7:50 pm
Yeah, but it does make it indigenous and that means it’s not going to be gotten rid of and it’s best to learn to deal with it on its own terms…
Actually, as my indigenous daddy told us before we started clearing it from the garden, “You have to dig up every last nut or it will come back so get digging, we got work to do.” We got ‘em all and it did not come back.
josef nix
May 22nd, 2010
7:54 pm
jus sayin
Maybe not in YOUR garden, but it’s there in the distance, jus’ waitin’ BTW had to dig the nutgrass, too…
Just Sayin'
May 22nd, 2010
7:56 pm
‘Ya may wanna turn off your computer, your lights, your air conditioning, appliances if they’re electric. You’re likely contributing to the coal industry.
Or I could just continue to push for better ways to generate electricity, if you don’t mind. Does it bother you that I speak out against these things. Perhaps you own stock in Massey or something. Of course, you can have all the toxic emissions and spills and strip-mined earth that suits your fancy. Just look for the fish that are recommended to be eaten very infrequently and they’re sure to be loaded with an extra big helpin’ of mercury. Whatever.
Moderate Line
May 22nd, 2010
8:00 pm
AmVet
May 22nd, 2010
1:55 pm
Interesting, because the very first piece I found when searching for Bush mine safety reads:
…..
Unfortunely that just doesn’t jive with the data from MHSA.
The amount of fines under Bush went up. Unfortunely again under Obama the fines went down 33%.
I typically do not cite FoxNews because they are biased. When I see a website by an organization call CorpWatch I would look for better information.
http://www.msha.gov/MSHAINFO/FactSheets/MSHAbytheNumbers/CalendarYear/Assessments%20data.pdf