Thursday April 16, 2009, 9:53 pm
I despise greedy, morally bankrupt people. I especially loathe fence sitters, those who don't care, can't be bothered, turn a blind eye to all the miseries of this world. If each of these people would do just a teaspoonful of something, how much better the world would be. Perhaps places like Appalachia would still be green.

Friday April 17, 2009, 12:04 am
Yellow-dog journalism influenced by both corporations and their political allies tries to convince the public that the people and culture of Iraq and Appalachia aren't worthy of respect, admiration or protection. "Ragheads" and "hillbillies" don't deserve rights when it comes to the extraction of oil and coal.

Speaking as a man who has lived in Appalachia
for the last 14 years......
I was going to make the exact point that's in
the excerpt above. It is the same old prejudice
and bias against Southern people that's been going
on for a very long time. It's been going on since
the end of the Civil War, and it always seems to
show itself in one manner or another.....even in 2009.
Southern people are the salt of the earth, and y'know
what? People I have known from Iraq and Iran are salt
of the earth, too. They both bear this bias with good
grace, but they should not need to bear it at all.
There's no excuse for the prejudice in the fist place.
No excuse for them....us!....to be victims of the
heartless and soulless corporations who are sucking
the earth away for the Almighty Dollar.
The motto of the Confederacy:
Deo Vindice
God will vindicate.

Thanks, Michael!
Outstanding post!
so noted.

Saturday April 18, 2009, 4:03 pm
"a one-quarter-mile-wide road could be constructed from New York to San Francisco with mountaintop removal sites." That is staggering.

Half of all electricity generated never sees a lightbulb.