Posted on 08/23/2007 11:48:17 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
LOL.
See ya all later.
As rescuers drilled a final hole into a Utah mountain Thursday to search for six missing coal miners, the U.S. Senate added its voice to a growing chorus of questions raised over the safety of the mine.
The Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees labor issues announced plans for a hearing on the mine collapse when Congress returns from its summer break Sept. 5.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, also demanded a list of documents Thursday from the Labor Department about the Crandall Canyon Mine and its operators.
Kennedy wants to review several petitions the mine’s co-owner, Bob Murray, made to the Mine Safety and Health Administration for changes in his mining plans at Crandall Canyon, among other documents. Experts have said the proposed changes were risky and could have led to the Aug. 6 cave-in that trapped six miners.
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I don’t get it with the baggy pants. I mean when ‘dey runnin’ from da po-po ‘dey trip on ‘der baggy pants and fall down on ‘der face!
They have this law somewhere else.
Texas or New Mexico maybe?
Bill Cosby - “When students who attend colleges and score more than 1,200 on their SAT’s walk around with baggy pants, “like they do in prison,” and wear revealing clothes, it’s a sign, he said.
“These children are telling us something with this behavior,” Cosby said. “We’re not paying attention. We’re not parenting.”
Been bad west and south of here. We only got 2 in. here but 6-10 in. near here.
In the past 3 weeks, the rainfall deficit is gone and now we are over normal a bit.
My favorite time of year is just around the corner.
Higher taxes, welfare spending through the roof at the expense of Social Security, 0 hour workweeks, 7 day weekends, 52 week vacations, workers health premiums out of control, illegals and the lying.
That is my list, and I’m gonna stick to it.
I’m a redhead! LOL!
I don’t get it... why was it that MNF had him praising progress (like the libs did btw), now Warner gets here and flips? Show me the money.
Let’s see:
Novak: Hillary supporters think John Warner would be better VP pick than Obama
(Strange, Hill was just calling for Maliki’s ouster... coincidence?)
A lot who came out of the woodwork on the left are spouting drop Maliki and put in Allawi... why is that?
Before Allawi was Mr. Corruption, now he’s a saint to the left?
Another 9/11 Apostasy
The Guardian, of all places, runs a first person account by a liberal writer, mugged by reality after 9/11. Sometimes they’ll surprise you. Here’s a slice from the longish piece by Andrew Anthony:
Drinking in the devastation, numbed and intoxicated by the scale of what had taken place, I struggled, like everyone else, to make sense of it all. And in my case, as with many people from the liberal-left side of the political spectrum, that job was made more difficult by the fact that the United States was the victim. From where I came from, the United States was always the culprit. There was Vietnam, Chile and the dreadful support for repressive and often debauched regimes right across Latin America, Africa and Asia. I was a veteran of CND anti-cruise missile marches in the 1980s. I had gone to Nicaragua to defend the Sandinista cause against American imperialism. America was the bad guy, right? America was always the bad guy.
Clearly some basic moral calculations needed to be performed. Which vision of the world represented more closely my own liberal outlook? The cosmopolitan city of New York, a multi-racial city of opportunity, a town where anyone on earth could arrive and thrive, exuberant, cultured, diverse, a place I had visited and loved for its liberty and energy and excitement? Or the people who attacked it, those arid minds who wanted to remove women from sight, kill homosexuals, banish music, destroy art, the demolishers of the Bamiyan Buddhas who aimed to terrorise everyone they could into submission to the will of their vengeful God? It was, as they say, a no-brainer, or should have been.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2151530,00.html
Do As I Say,
Not as I do.
It is just sweet when they get caught:
http://www.miamiherald.com/804/story/211086.html
LIHUE, Hawaii —
Bette Midler cut down more than 230 trees around one of her properties on the island of Kauai without a permit, and the state has recommended she be fined.
The staff of the Board of Land and Natural Resources recommended $6,500 in fines for having the trees felled and for building a graded road without permits required for the land zoned for conservation use.
The singer and actress will pay the fines and will follow a replanting program, her attorney Max W. J. Graham said.
She said that she cut them down because they were nonnative species... Well, and plus, they were in the middle of the road she wanted to build.
The reason it’s so easy for the rich to demand change is because they expect their money to insulate them from any personal sacrifice. Sure, she needs a road, so she builds a road. And she has lawyers to negotiate the fines. She has PR people to plant stories about how it was always her intention to replant every tree that was cut down. Fact is, she’ll still fly private jets, she’ll still own more homes than she can live in, and know what? Nothing is wrong with that. What’s wrong is to live like that, to belch carbon with every step, and then to demand that the average middle class joe change his way of life to accommodate her silly belief in an urban legend.
http://arewelumberjacks.blogspot.com/2007/08/do-as-i-say.html
it’s easier to get Forgiveness, than it is to get Permission ... any govt agency can teach you that .. LOL
re: Iran flogging
Iran Releases Photos From Public Flogging in Qazvin
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/08/iran-releases-photos-from-public.html
Not pretty warning.
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