W.V. coal miners stay home to protest anti-Obama NRA coercion

OMG!! a one sided documentary!! whodve thunkit!!??

I guess in W V they haven't heard of bombarding e-mail addresses with their bias bullshit.

There is a new one out by the McCain Campaign Headquarters, e-mailed by Network News, called "Shock and Awe".

Nice! Too bad they don't permanently quit... Coal sucks. I know I know, it's not that simple, they don't have choices in the places they live... blah blah blah... They still look in the mirror every day and see someone who's raping the Earth in the interests of big, filthy, greedy corporate energy though...

the NRA and the ACLU are all about our freedom.ive backed them and i vote pro-freedom.wayne la pier for president!!!

GO United Mine Workers of America! That's got send chills down some necon spines.

Hell yeah. Fist in the air in solidarity!

I'm so sick of the GOP fighting unions endlessly then when it's election time, they bring up unions as if to say, see we care about the working class. It was a Washington insider trick that Palin used in her debut speech before she was sequestered.

Well I'll be a coalminers daughter!

I'm from coal country, Indiana and Kentucky where the bulk of my family is from are safely in the coal belt and are firmly democratic because it was progressive legislation that sought to improve the safety for miners, protected the right to organize, and thier families remember the dirt poor days of the depression and FDR's fireside chats. These are the type of values my grandparents instilled in me and it makes me proud to know that these people would not be talked down to or coerced because of the sad geographic stereotype the NRA was clearly trying to promote.

onechance you are just as bad- by buying all the things coal go into. if you have turned the lights on, took any meds to stop your head ache, or used anything made of steel you are not only supporting coal but advocating its use!

until we all find away to stop our dependence we should try not to judge others.

It's time we take America back from the rich folks who have been screwing us for decades.

It's time to get ride of everything that is old and bring in fresh new people who will understand they too are serving The People of America.

Its time for a complete flush of the RepubliCrats. Vote New on election day.

I know the real problem is the companies and the Government that supports them.

These ppl do these jobs because they are the jobs available to them.

Still though, I'd try to work somewhere else...

Yay! There's hope for WV after all!

The working man has finally figured out who is on their side. The have to know that the Republicans ignore the mine safety. Good for them.

I am just happy to see the American people get behind my muslim brother. The wars will be over and we can say we won.

At least, they are not mining coal!

The coal miners aren't stupid. Any union that backs a Republican GOP is like "Jews for Hitler in 1939" Unions are not a plank of the GOP platform I assure you..........

Too bad they won't protest the coal companies that are killing them and that Obama and McCain support. According to the story they went back to work yesterday. Amazing they don't care that this planet is being destroyed by coal.

I've got a gun and have been trained by the U.S Army's
best, but I don't think the NRA speaks for me. And should stay the hell out of politics.

Right on West Virginia, Democracy is a participation sport and you guys are doin it right, we need more participation like this nationally.

We are going to be seeing more and more of this sort of thing until the military is forced to step in and protect we the people from ourselves.

@isnamthere, .... you see, for @Jan4, it's a religious issue with only one side: everyone should stop producing carbon dioxide, no matter what other effects it may have on their lives.

yes, WV comes in low on the totem pole in many measures. if they had the money to spend on education and the time and energy to do it, more kids could move out of the region.

figure out how to break that cycle and you'd have something, Jan. other than making coal illegal world-wide...

Speak for yourself about offering ideas. All you ever offer here are personal insults and criticism which only hurts your own cause. Lose a loved one to cancer and then tell me about a cause that comes from the heart. Some of you I suspect only come here to shoot the breeze and prop up a person over a principle and to be honest it is becoming very redundant. There is a plan to move us forward in a decade off fossil fuels. Perhaps you should look that up and read it.

@JanforGore.... i've lost three or four VERY close and LONG-time friends over the past two or three years, so you, too... don't assume things about me, either.

and when you start accusing ME of being redundant, take another look in the mirror, ma'am... i cover a WIDE range of topics here.

plan to move us off fossil fuels? not here, there isn't...
just a whole herd of people whining, "we need to stop using oil NOW" and objecting when i suggest that we could and should use oil to POWER the TRANSITION to wind, solar and all the rest..... no, they just say "stop now."

if that's "logic and thoughtful" to YOU, you have my deepest sympathies.

and as i've said before, i am an early adopter OF new technologies. i bought MY hybrid in '04 when there was a 2-4-month waiting list and paid about $3000 over list to get it sooner, rather than even wait for my order to be delivered! i started using CFL-type lamps in the early years, paying $15-20 for 40-watt equivalents of incandescents, which are now going for $2-3. i've replaced many of my home lights with CFLs AND LED lamps. my LEDs burn a watt or two for all of them when they're on, and cost me lots of time and money to buy and install.

early adopters pay more for new technologies than anyone else who waits for them to become "mainstream and cheap."

so you should be thanking me for my contributions to YOUR goals, not ripping me a new one every time i make a comment here. a "plan" to get somewhere in ten years is pure bullcrap if it isn't being implemented NOW. i'm implementing things NOW. i'm pragmatic, not religious about it. you do your part your way; i'll do mine my way. thanks.

i've also started a book to describe how EVERYONE can begin to "make their home green," even if they're on a low budget.

hugs, anyway.... you always challenge me to research, support and defend my positions.

@Jan and @isnamthere.... gee, i'm sorry... isnam, i thought Jan was ripping ME the new orifice, not YOU!!!

please, both/all of you, when you reply here, EITHER by clicking "reply" OR "add your response," PLEASE IDENTIFY whom you're replying to or rebutting!

many here, as i, use the @ sign followed by the handle of the person they're addressing.

without it, the way this software is designed and implemented, connection and relevance to any one thread or sub-thread is completely LOST.

thanks! :))))))))

Wouldn't it be something if WV went democratic? I never understood why poor union workers thought repugnicans were their friends anyway.