This post brought to you by the Patty Dumpling Endowed Chair for Coalmine Explosions, Oil Spills, and Dick Jokes. Don Blankenship is the kind of capitalist who gives robber barons a bad name, and the sort of guy you can point to when Fox News wonders why Hollywood could ever get the idea that
I highly recommend the History Channel's "Hillbillies." Terrible title - very interesting content. Much on the battle (as the "conservatives" love to say, "literally" a battle!) to unionize the coal fields of West Virginia and Virginia.
The question that should have been asked: "When you calculated the cost-effectiveness of complying with the law, what did you figure a miner's life was worth?"
<i>he insists that the single greatest factor in the decline of American heavy industry and manufacturing was the 1970 Clear Air Act</i>
Fuck you, Ghost Richard Nixon, you business-hating, weed-smoking, ghey-butt-sex-having liberal commie bastard! And the Lincoln stretch-limo you rode in to your innauguration on!
I only caught a few moments of that program, but I can tell you that Hayes made the classic blunder: he assumed the person sitting across from him was capable of feeling shame or regret. All that guy can feel is the size of the bump his wallet makes in his pocket.
Haha &quot;should&quot;.
&quot;[Expletive deleted] !!!!&quot;
You load sixteen tons of high-grade bull...
<i>he insists that the single greatest factor in the decline of American heavy industry and manufacturing was the 1970 Clear Air Act</i>
Both wingnuts and capitalism-fetishists seem to agree on this point.
I highly recommend the History Channel&#039;s &quot;Hillbillies.&quot; Terrible title - very interesting content. Much on the battle (as the &quot;conservatives&quot; love to say, &quot;literally&quot; a battle!) to unionize the coal fields of West Virginia and Virginia.
Check it out the next time it is on!
The question that should have been asked: &quot;When you calculated the cost-effectiveness of complying with the law, what did you figure a miner&#039;s life was worth?&quot;
As I understand it, mine switchgear and lighting should be explosion-proof, so that they can&#039;t ignite methane or coal dust.
And acid-washed jeans were simplicity itself.
Actually there is... it&#039;s down in one of that motherfucker&#039;s mines.
<i>he insists that the single greatest factor in the decline of American heavy industry and manufacturing was the 1970 Clear Air Act</i>
Fuck you, Ghost Richard Nixon, you business-hating, weed-smoking, ghey-butt-sex-having liberal commie bastard! And the Lincoln stretch-limo you rode in to your innauguration on!
I only caught a few moments of that program, but I can tell you that Hayes made the classic blunder: he assumed the person sitting across from him was capable of feeling shame or regret. All that guy can feel is the size of the bump his wallet makes in his pocket.