Posted on 07/08/2010 10:00:20 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Last month, in a speech to the National Press Club, actress Ashley Judd took a break from taking on Sarah Palin and set her sights on business practices in her home state.
Judd referred to the mountain top removal of coal in Kentucky as “environmental genocide,” called the process “the state-sanctioned, federal government supported, coal industry operated, rape of Appalachia,” and said the miners should be retrained to take “better jobs” (unfortunately the “vacuous actor” career field is full up at the moment).
On Wednesday, the coal industry sponsored a golf tournament at StoneCrest Golf Course in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, and launched a return salvo by way of a poster displayed at the tourney:
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Wasn't a Shakamak State Park like they have in Indiana where reclamation, and public use, have been underway since the 1930s, but it'll get there.
If you don't like folks disagreeing with her on this issue...
..you should hear her opinion of abortion...(it ain't pretty--she's for it!)....
..Ashley hasn't met a photo-op she doesn't like, especially if it puts her front & center.
Yep, my uncle (my mom's brother) was killed in 1957 when a large rock fell on him deep in a mine, crushing his skull flat like a pancake. For some strange reason (which I'll never understand) my Grandma insisted on an open casket funeral.
My dad worked underground for 10 years, and then after slipping three disks in his back, spent the last 25 years of his working life running a D-9 Caterpillar bulldozer along strip mine high walls.
Very dangerous work, even at that, since several of his friends misjudged their clearance space and ran their dozers clear off the cliff, plunging to their deaths 300 feet below.
bttt
We have a winner! I think you have that scenario down to a “t”. If only these Hollyweird types would act, sing and then shut the he!! up. Please.
We have a winner! I think you have that scenario down to a “t”. If only these Hollyweird types would act, sing and then shut the he!! up. Please.
No, but Emmylou Harris, who was also mentioned in the article,does.
Well boogers. I really liked her acting. The list of people whose movies I refuse to watch just got longer again.
It doesn't rise to the level of rape rape. - Whoopi Goldberg
It’s a time honored tradition on FR to knee jerk a reaction than to actually spend some effort researching it.
I hear ya. I was very disappointed when Alan Rickman signed on with the anti-Zionist crowd.
Aaaaarrrrggghhhh! NOT Alan Rickman. Sigh... Remember the one where he played the whiny, clinging ghost? He was so funny in that one. Sigh...
I’m sorry. I really am.
Who's going to retrain them and what are these ‘better jobs’ to which she alludes? Working in call centers????”
No, the girl's right, sort of. Coal mining is a dirty and dangerous job, and removing the tops of mountains to get to it is damaging to the environment. Where she fails most is in her simplistic “re-train them and find them better jobs” idea. As you ask, who is going to do the retraining, and where and what are those “better jobs?” We've already got enough telemarketers, and then some! I'm sure coal miners are tough enough to be successful in new jobs. After all, my dad has done reasonably well. Besides, if modifying or changing the environment is so bad, why do so many libs live in cities? Those are a seriously unnatural environment, and unhealthy to boot! What she has is a sound-bite, not a plan. If she actually had a plan, and backers to help make it happen, it might be a good thing. As it is, she just leaves herself open for the smackdown.
The answers are easy. Making them happen is not.
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