Blogs @ The Charleston Gazette - » Manchin calls for calm in the coalfields
Posted on 01/26/2010 12:55:20 PM PST by Maelstorm
“Sit down, shut up, and let them destroy your life and all you have worked for.”
Now, getting beyond that, the comments on the referenced blog are kind of strange ~ not really focused ~ but one guy wants gay marriage because, he claims, it will provide economic advantages to West Virginia.
I suppose marrying off some of those FBI people to each other might be a good idea (FBI field ops is headquartered there courtesy of "Sheets" Byrd). On the other hand, if you don't have comprehensive marriage reform there, you'll just make all those guys who want to marry their sisters feel embarrassed, and they'll just start shooting weapons, and next thing you know it'll be too wild to go camping over there.
Yup!
Why should it take a dummy from California to provide these essential relevant facts? Free Republic is not only a national forum, but an international one. There is a reasonable amount of information needed to decide whether a post is worth reading or not.
Yes, I know I can decide to skip it, but it's irritating.
As far as Manchin is concerned, I do notice that he went out of his way to cause most of us to infer that the coal minors are the only ones resorting to violence.
Yes, I am also aware that historically that has often been true, but if advertaries in a fight need to be admonished, both sides should be evenhandedly warned.
While you and I seldom agree on anything, I've got to say, that there is a funny response.
Pretty much sums it up.
The folks from Appalachian voices and ilovemountains, etc. are risking their lives.
“Sit down, shut up, and let them destroy your life and all you have worked for.”
That seems to be the quoted Blog’s position, but if I’m reading this correctly, it’s not the governor’s position. He’s taken a definite position pro-mining.
What I suspect he may be doing is giving himself a lot of rhetorical distance from what may be coming in short order. By this time next year, if Congress doesn’t repeal EPA’s “endangerment finding” on carbon dioxide, or if Cap and Trade passes, all West Virginia miners will likely be out of work, or facing that status. At that point, an environmentalist’s life expectancy in West Virginia would be measurable in days, if not hours.
It’s certainly their State’s history.
We saw Richard Trumka yesterday at the Whitehouse.
Trumka is a terrotist. He ordered his striking mineworkers to blow up things, burn autos and occupy mine property with guns.
He is the High Tone Boy’s buddy and is a genuine American enemy
>Reps. Rahall and Capito of West Virginia both attended, but Sen. Jay Rockefeller (who did have time to meet with the industry executives) didn’t show up. Rockfeller sent a staffer. (Senate records indicate there was just one floor vote yesterday in Washington, D.C.)<
You elect a Rockefeller, you get what you deserve.
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