Make Up Your Own Mine

OpinionJournal.com ^ | August 21, 2007 | JOHN FUND

[gpapa]

An impoverished town strikes gold. George Soros and foreign environmentalists say, leave it in the ground.

The recent tragedy in Utah has brightened the spotlight on mining, already under assault by environmental and anti-globalization activists world-wide. These activists have produced several documentaries, and the anti-mining campaign has attracted the attention of billionaire George Soros and actress Vanessa Redgrave--and enough charges of greed or hypocrisy to fill a mine shaft.

Tonight, PBS will air "Gold Futures," a film by Hungary's Tibor Kocsis. The film focuses on residents in Romania's Rosia Montana, a rural Transylvanian town, who are divided over the benefits of a proposed gold mine. It also features Gabriel Resources, the Canadian mining company trying to convince them to relocate so it can dig for a huge gold deposit estimated at 14.6 million ounces, worth almost $10 billion. PBS describes the film as a "David-and-Goliath story."

[Frwy]

OK, we can't mine coal. We cant drill for oil. We can't cut trees down. We have to drive more expensive little electric cars. We can't use more than a cup of water a day. Milk isn't good for us but if we leave it in the cow she'll blow up. We can't, we can't, we can't.... What the heck can we do. We can moan about it all on FR until

DUNCAN HUNTER IS PRESIDENT IN '08. A MAN OF IMPECIBLE PRINCIPLES.

[tubebender]

Yes he is and I will certainly support him when he runs for GOVERNOR of California...

[mazza]

and the anti-mining campaign has attracted the attention of billionaire George Soros

He has his nobody else deserves any? Keep your nasty Hungarian face out of our politics.

[Nervous Tick]

I don’t get any pleasure out of playing “spelling cop”, but you really ought to learn to spell “impeccable”.

As in, A MAN OF IMPECCABLE PRINCIPLES

Because, the way you spelled it (IMPECIBLE), it looks way close to “imbecile”. I had to do a double take because at first glance I thought you said Duncan Hunter is an imbecile!

[Frwy]

I am glad you caught me. I’m pretty good about checking spelling because spelling isn't my strong suit. In fact, I don't know if I even have a strong suit but I do have opinions about a lot of things, right or wrong, I usually have an opinion. Feel free to let me know any time you catch me (as if you needed my permission). I don’t like putting errors out there. I love it that someone named Nervous Tick did the catching. Seems appropriate. : ) My grammar isn't perfect either but I'm too old to fix that too.

I certainly want to get it right when I post for Duncan Hunter.