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#11
10-07-2013, 11:45 AM
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Obie's anti-coal you know. 1st Appalachia, next the cities?
 Pete
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#12
10-07-2013, 11:51 AM
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Happens here also. Some of the most ardent fan of repubs right wingers are unionized workers with high paying jobs. Some of them were jolted when the right wingers voted down funds for their area which was devastated by Sandy.
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#13
10-07-2013, 12:54 PM
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#14
10-07-2013, 01:00 PM
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Everything about coal is dirty, from the way old Rockefeller (iirc?) screwed the poor folks to the way it can be mined. My neighbor worked for one as a welder/fabricator (the equipment is impressive!) and he quit because of their habits (he's an avid outdoorsman), he said 'you've got all this digging equipment, it's too easy to scoop a hole and dump your waste oil in it'. Probably worse than the mountaintop removal.
Pete
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10-07-2013, 01:09 PM
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Another thing interesting about WV is that when you drive through the mountains and hollows of the state (and I've been all over it, many times over), you see countless clowns flying the "Stars & Bars" oblivious to the fact that WV was created during the Civil War when Union-sympathizing western Virginia split from Virginia to create West Virginia. West Virginia made a conscious and deliberate choice to be a Union state and I'll bet most, if not all, of the Stars-n-Bars flyers have no clue about this history.
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#16
10-07-2013, 01:18 PM
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We used to have people flying the "Stars & Bars" in OHIO, when I was a kid, Pat.
But then, I'd guess half of the people in Ohio were from W. Virginia at the time. Which might explain a thing or two....... 
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10-07-2013, 01:20 PM
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So cheap natural gas is killing coal and it pollutes the ground water, ironic no?
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#18
10-07-2013, 01:21 PM
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LOL!
I had a mountain man wish me a happy earl ray james day once, I asked him if he knew why his state broke off The rebel flag means different things to different people though. Pete
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10-07-2013, 01:22 PM
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Pete
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#20
10-07-2013, 01:29 PM
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I know a guy, back home, whom I'm sure still proudly displays his rebel flag. He has bitched about life in Yankeeland since he was a kid. He constantly whines about "Obama" and the "Commiecrats". He should be turning fifty soon.
He could have returned to the holler and it's limited gene pool whenever the fancy struck him........ But he can't retire from his union job at General Motors until he turns 55. I'm sure that if the plant closes before he gets to 55, he'll go back to W.Va. and develop a sudden case of Fibromyalgia........... But, that's perfectly okay. You see....He's "earned" it. Dave
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