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Posted By: Hey "Rights": Nobody thinks torture is ok. Especially not against "foreigners." Then again, water boarding is not torture, and terrorists are not just "foreigners" here on a Visa or a tourist visit. Even if it was, if it is practiced on murderers who have vowed to kill millions if possible, then it is ok. Anyone with common sense should understand that. Water boarding broke Khalid Sheik Mohammed in short order and he spilled his guts, revealing a lot of great intelligence that was used to save innocent children. Now that is success; deny that, you are a fool. I seem to remember terrorists sawing off the heads of captives with butcher knives, then showing it on TV. What did they do to Daniel Pearl? When did we do that? Also, what war did you serve in and where were you a POW? Bottom line is, the way some of you think gets people killed. All your theories are great until you are on the plane, or your kids, or in the building that is collapsing, or in the crowd where the bomb just went off. Foolishness
Posted By: Bluebird: Wow! I had not heard that Eisenhower quote. That was great.
Posted By: Gandalf: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hope of its children. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity, hanging from a cross of Iron." Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Posted By: Big Earl: Hello all you good coal miners and there people in WV this is Big Earl did you people see the story in that newspaper about the United Mine Workers of America has put out the vote slate for Election Day and I am proud to say our own Congressman Nick has won the award it is give out to supporters of coal miners and there jobs he has proved his support for the coal miner by jumping out of a moving airplane I remember the stories about the old days did you people know that the Blair Mountain battle and no you hippies it aint Halloween put up your cameras nobody wants you to chase a witch around the woods and take its picture was where the term redneck first come from the miners tied red bandanas around there necks so there friends would know who to shoot at during the battle I heard that was the largest battle on United States soil since the great War Between the States and since then to you kids remember that for the Horseshoe Test.
Posted By: Rights: I see where many think that torture is ok for so called terroist well as a former POW I am here to say you are ignorant and do not have a clue.The basic human rights that we practice as Americans in treating anyone whether it be a citizen of the US or a foreigner is what seperates us form the Hitlers of the world.I was treated harshly but it could have been a whole lot worse and you do not realize that if we stoop to the level of some countries then we are no longer the greatest country on earth and when that happens believe me you will not want to see the outcome.Some of these people will and can make waterboarding seem as if it is a walk in the park they hold back on extreme measures on Americans fearing the reprecussions but if they think we believe that torture is ok they will pull out all the stops and who among you think we would start a war over your mother or grandmother being kidnapped in some foriegn country and being tortured in ways you could never imagine
Posted By: food for thought: I can't even get my name right.LOL. Hey Jesus is more man than I am, he picked up his cross and carried it. Did I justify torture? I think in fact I said it was wrong. Do you all actually read a complete post? Hey I will actually up the ante, the worst thing we do is not let our own family and neighbors know about Jesus, and I am guilty of it too. The drill thing, I don't recall that one; not right either. You ask me if I am for real? You would think that innocent lives lost in the towers and the pentagon and on the planes are lesser than torture of POW"S? It's not sensible any way we look at it. If it's us or them it's happening to. Please, just watch the eastern sky, and when that moment happens we will not have to go through any of this evil anymore. Hey, if you really want a story google Transformation of America,that will get your blood pressure soaring.
Posted By: Keith...well, Just Wondering, it is because...: The Republicans spend most of their time on the D side of the aisle; witness McCain, Graham, Snowe, Collins, etc...where is the democrat who reciprocates? Obama? What a blabbermouth. He talked more yesterday than all the Republicans combined; filibustering to cover up his woeful ignorance and his pathetic plan. Condescending, arrogant, rude, with a god complex, that's Obama yesterday. Go back to 2005, get the quotes from Hillary, Harry, Barry, Robert C Byrd, Chuck, the whole lot; it was pure horror when the Nuclear Option was debated then; why not now? Once again, nobody was tortured. Scaring somebody with a drill is not torture; we are a nation of softies who invite terrorist mayhem with foolishness like this; and "Thanks" there is not one government program you can point to that has lowered costs, stayed within its budget, and done what it was supposed to do. None. I am all for reducing health care costs; one thing is for sure, Obama is not. Yesterday proved it beyond any doubt.
Posted By: to thanks a lot....: if you think obamas marxist takeover of one more private buisness will solve your problem you are mistaken.if you say you cant afford it now,its voluntary,you will be mandated to have it whether you think you can afford it or not.nothing the gov.does works.every social program is bankrupt,medicare,medicade,social security,ssi,welfare,foodstamps hud education etc.remember these wars were susposed to be self sustaining.sorry for your problems but one more government debakle wont help you it will only hurt you.what about the diabetes society,they are always begging and recieving hundreds of millions in dollars.time for them to meet their obligation or people should quit giving.
Posted By: To: Fool for Thought: Are you for real? The worst thing we did includes showing another human being a drill, blindfolding him, and then turning the drill on, all the while giving him the impression that we had done it to others because they were faking him out by pretending it was being done to another human being in the room next to him. You call that nothing? All in the name of Jesus - Lord how his name is used in this day and age - to justify torture - shame, shame, shame
Posted By: justwondering: Why is it that reconciliation is bad when the democrats use it?The republicans have used it over twice as often as them,and have actually praised the the use of it,one republican senator actually stating he hoped to see it used every year.I'm sure he thought they would be the majority in those years(wishful thinking on his part)but he still stated it.As for the "nuclear option"I think that is what they called the filibustering of Judaical nominations a few years back.The republican party has gone seriously far,far to the right,My grandfather was a straight ticket republican all his life,but never did I hear him speak as those who call themselves republican now.I find the majority of the people I know and have just had a casual conversation with tend to be centrists,and willing to listen and discuss ideas without becoming hated enemies of each other.Why is it our political leaders who we elected to represent us can't seem to do that?Who do they represent thier party or our country?
Posted By: : My goodness!! What is the world coming to? Now we are kidnapping our own grandmothers!! This is something else??
Posted By: Bluebird: No one is opposing health care reform. We are all hit with the high costs of medical care. It is just certain parts of the reform some object to.
Posted By: : Kieth,you and the others here who wish to make warriors of the terrorists, instead of treating them like the criminals they are,are just playing into thier hands.And I don't know where,wait a minute,I do know where you are getting your info.personally if I knew the facts to be the opposite of what a person was saying as truth,I don't think I would believe them anymore.The facts are the criminals who have been arrested(under the Bush years also)have cooperated and given us information which the authorities have put to good use.Why some people,including the past vice-president, lie to promote actions we as a people,who hold forth justice and freedom as our beacon,have said to be deplorable and wrong really eludes me.And have you noticed the ones who rant and rave the most the most extreme measures,are those who haven't served,and did whatever they could not to serve in the military?How can you ignore the facts,and blindly follow these people even when you are shown they are wrong,how?
Posted By: Sophie: Earlier in the month I wrote about having a sudden excelleration problem with an '84 Mustang and the problem was diagnosed as a bad computer chip. Now we are hearing accounts that Toyota issues are quite possibly related to "shorts" or "surges" creating electrical problems related to chips. Since cars these days have performance chips, I have no doubt that this is not a problem exclusive to Toyota. If my Ford had it back in 1984....and you know those were caveman computer days... I hate this for the family of those who have lost lives, been maimed physically, mentally & financially. I hate this for Toyota, too. It just goes to show that even the best can fail, but it is in how the problems are rectified that will make them better. We'll see..
Posted By: Thanks a lot: First of all I would like to thank the reps/people who are opposing health care reform. Even though my husband and I work 3 and a half jobs between us and cannot get access to health care you are right IT'S NOT YOUR PROBLEM. I am sure that one day soon my husbands diabetes will not cost us THOUSANDS of dollars in expenses a year and I'm sure one day soon that because of the good hearts of the pharmaceutical companies they will allow both my husband and my son to receive their absolutely required daily medicines at a reasonable rate. I would much rather my country go into absolute debt in two wars with out reasonable end in sight than to worry about the health and care of it's own millions and millions of people. Perhaps Big Earl(aka Keith/Don Blankenship)if he can get off the internet for a few minutes and join the real world would be willing to let me clean up the coal dust around his house. I am free between the hours of 11pm & 5am. Sleep is over rated anyways.
Posted By: chicago thuggery and toyota: sugestions for toyota....you nailed it.obamas agenda cant be accidental!will america wake up in time?obamas so called health care bi partican summit.proud of the republicans truth and response to this chicago thuggery.this was a defination of fair,dems100 min.rep.50 minutes.buteven then the republican outsmarted them.has any one got a set of used false teeth to donate to me,my sister is still living so she wont give me her set?proud of mccain,mcconnell,etc.only 25 per cent want what the dems are offering,that would be everyone working for any gov.entity,everone else makes their own way.
Posted By: roane co is a genius....: only a genius could make the truth too simple to argue with.and to the person wanting to witness for christ.i dont think you get the picture.to them christ is the false prophet and their religon and goal in life is to destroy the great satan.w.n.d. has a good article on obamas safe school czar.if it suceeds it will be in OUR local schools.heads up!also the people who are filling every posible place in o.s administration and the muslim brotherhood.fairness in o.s health care summit,dem,100 min.rep.52 min.but the reps.sure skunked them.hope this is p.c. enough to get past obama news network....free speech?????
Posted By: To: foor for thought: Get off your cross...Jesus needs the wood!
Posted By: Walt: Keith, I have told you this 3 times already, and I'm telling you again: THE CONSTITUTION GUARANTEES THE SAME RIGHT OF DUE PROCESS TO FOREIGN NATIONALS THAT IT DOES TO US CITIZENS. The US Supreme Court affirmed this right over 100 years ago. And everyone taken into custody in the US is entitled to legal counsel, even if they cannot afford it, as affirmed by the Supreme Court in the mid-60's. It's not a "fool idea," it's the law. And in case you missed it, FDR, Truman, Patton, et. al. fought long and hard to protect these principles.
Posted By: Craveontruth: Toyota suggestions was priceless.Thank you.
Posted By: Keith...news flash! news flash! extra, extra! Rush was wrong!!: He advised the Republicans to skip Obama's dog and pony show on "healthcare" today but admitted on the air that it was a good thing after all. So there you go guys, I agree, Rush missed it on this one-it was a good idea to go. I confess, I was waiting on the usual RINO suspects to show up, but it seems this group had their act together. Did you guys know there are 17 Republican M.D.s in the House, and only 2 democrat doctors? Somebody forgot to plug up Dr. Chicago's teleprompter, he flounders W/O it. So, what do we get? In spite of dozens of quotes by Hillary, Harry, Barry, Chuck, Byrd, and Co., in 2005 about how it would be the ruination of the country to get something passed with 51 votes; despite Joe Biden praying to God that the democrat party would never stoop so low; despite denying that ANYBODY is talking about the Nuclear Option, guess what's coming? "Nuke 'em!" by hook or crook, from a lying, scheming, conniving, band of radical, anti-American liberal Marxist radicals.
Posted By: foor for thought: Jeannie, please seek Jesus. This country can't lead when our President bows to the leaders of foreign countries. You ever see them coming here praying to Jehovah God with our president? Won't happen either. I say that because this is a nation based on Godly principles. Torture is not right, plain and simple, but you don't need an applause for making that comment either. God almighty says not to do it. Starts with the fundamentals, Love one another, Forgive, and pray. Keith it's been a while, but I bet this opens up another one. The worst thing we did to those prisoners, is not witness to them the Savior, their Messiah.
Posted By: Some suggestions for Toyota: First off, slow down. There is no reason in the world to sell so many vehicles, open so many factories, and provide so many jobs. What you need to do to survive in present day America is, immediately lay off 50% of your US workforce; idle 40% of your plants; and cancel at least 6 of your models. Lastly, quit exploiting labor with those 60 and 70 thousand dollar per year jobs and welcome in true progress with the UAW. There should be equality among all car companies, no one should have any advantage over the other, even if you do build better vehicles. This will level the playing field and move Toyota closer to the level of GM and Chrysler. You are doing some things right, especially apologizing for growth, groveling, etc...just keep it up, especially when you are called to testify in front of the managers...oops I meant Congress...the owners of your biggest competitors, GM and Chrysler. Of course you will get a fair deal why on earth would they want to put Toyota out of business?
Posted By: Bluebird: I would think there is a difference in "basic human rights" and the rights of a terrorist in any country on earth. When there is absolute proof in front of you that someone is about to commit mass murder (or already has), that person has given up their "basic human rights". Water torture is much different than the painful torment that other countries have practiced in the past. While frightening, it causes no severe bodily harm and may be effective in saving the lives of many citizens. However, there should be absolute proof a terrorist act has happened or is about to. But inflicting physical pain as torture, I feel makes us no better than our enemies. No, they should not be treated as ordinary citizens. To fight terrorism, it has to have above the ordinary consequences or we become easy targets. The safety of a country's citizens should be the most important issue. This is just my opinion, of course.
Posted By: miner49er: Keith, how little you know about the art and science of interrogation. The Abu Ghraib and Gitmo "interrogators" were untrained contractors who haven't been very successful. REAL FBI interrogators are appalled by the contractor's abuse which actually PREVENTED the gathering of useful inelligence. Read: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/coleen-rowley/needed-re-torture-issue-r_b_191030.html From your love for torture in secret prisons it sounds as if you'd feel right at home in Iran, Cuba or N. Korea.
Posted By: To Tillikum (re Big Earl): Tillikum, I appreciate what you've written regarding Big Earl, but "Big Earl" is not a real person...He's what is known in Internet lingo as a "troll." He never responds to any comments, just comes here to ramble his nonsense. The real person behind Big Earl (Keith) is laughing at us as he gets one over on the people who frequent The Yell. In case you haven't noticed, The Yell is othewise known as "Keith's column." Most people have better ways to spend their time, including myself, but just had to give an update.
Posted By: Jeannie: Suppose we travel outside the U.S., then we should not have any "rights" either? Not even the rights countries give their own citizens? Perhaps we'd all better stay home then if we can't even count basic human rights. Due process is the foundation of the greatness of our country and what makes us the greatest country in the world and it is also why we are looked up to by the rest of the world (probably more so in the past - ya know, before we tortured and imprisoned people at Guantanamo without any trial). Standing by one's values even when others practice disdain for you is an attribute supposedly treasured in the U.S. How little this practice gets you in real life is disturbing. Jose Padilla is a U.S. citizen who the Bush administration tried to treat as an enemy combatant on the grounds they felt he was a terrorist - check it out, it's true. An American citizen.. The U.S. needs to be the leader it professes to be - the world still looks to us to lead.
Posted By: Thanks Roane County: I have often admired FDR the war president. All through the 1930s his hands were so firmly tied by isolationists in the Congress he could little to stop Germany or Japan; the Depression certainly didn't help either. The Lend Lease deal with Britain, giving them the destroyers, probably saved England. When war broke out, he went at it with a ferocity all generations should admire. Complete, total annihilation of the enemy = Victory. Even though Germany and Italy did not attack us on Dec. 7th, he led a declaration of war on them, and rightly so, they were allied with Imperial Japan. Domestically, for a time he took some very draconian steps, like the internment of American citizens of Japanese descent, and showed moral resolve by the execution of captured Nazi spies who entered the country from U Boats for the purpose of domestic terrorism. And then Harry Truman; hats off to Harry for finishing the job. Q: What happened to these type democrats? Take your party back, please!!!
Posted By: RoaneCo.: Due to the fact that I am not a law professor maybe it would be best to keep "MY" opinion to myself...but my Hillbilly logic says there is a big difference between someone wanting to wash clothes 124 years ago and someone wanting to blow up an airplane today.
Posted By: Sure thing Walt, but like I said...: Whose relatives are on the plane that blows up over your fool idea? Yours or mine? I certainly hope neither, but that is the scary part; people that think the way you do, i.e., soft on terror, reading them their "rights" giving them taxpayer funded ACLU lawyers, put a neon sign on the back of the USA that says "kill us," and unfortunately, you vote, and empower politicians who enable the mayhem. Can you imagine, and I hope that is all of us ever have to do, what it would be like on an airplane, after the blast goes off, you are almost home for Christmas, it is crashing down, and the thought occurs, "Well, at least the terrorists liked us, because we were stupid enough to grant them legal rights guaranteed only to US citizens by their constitution, but that is not going to help me much right now." FDR would laugh in your face Walt. So would Truman, Lincoln, Patton, MacArthur, and a host of other great war fighters this country once knew. Squarepeg, as far as I know Walt is a US citizen?
Posted By: squarepeg: If you wish to learn about "firmness" and "moral resolve", try making damn sure the person who disagrees with you has the same rights you enjoy. The Constitution of these United States was not written in a day nor without much heated discussion over these two (and many other) points. A gentle reminder: it is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Posted By: Tillikum: Coal Miner People of WV: Big Earl, your leader has misspoke like usual. I never lived with Micheal Jackson and I was not the whale in Free Willy. That was my friend Keiko and he passed away in 2003. You Big Earl should be boohooing for yourself because you are an endangered species in two ways. First, you are human and are destroying your environment. Second, you are a coal miner and because of your destructive occupation, environmentalists are going to destroy your job. If you had half a brain, you could earn a living a different way but after reading your posts, I doubt you have the ability to do anything else but to destroy me, the enviroment and eventually yourself. Good luck buddy! You'll need it! GOD save the WHALES and get a new job miners.
Posted By: Walt: Keith, let me make this perfectly clear to you: everyone in the US is protected by the Constitution. It's not a proposal, it's not an idea, IT IS BLACK LETTER LAW! The US Supreme Court ruled on this in 1886, in Yick Wo v. Hopkins. You and your hero Rush Limbaugh may say different, but neither of you know what you're talking about.
Posted By: RoaneCo: This may be a first but...I have to agree with Keith on this subject. In my opinion either you are a legal citizen of the US or your an illegal alien. If you are an illegal alien you should not have any rights.
Posted By: Keith: What you propose is foolishness; just because you wander into the country does not make you a citizen and does not give you rights under a constitution for American citizens. Your attitude is testimony to a softness and lack of moral resolve to deal with terrorists. EX: The underwear bomber tries to kill Americans. AG Holder gets involved, and orders him to be given his Miranda "rights." The first thing that should have happened in this case was, take him to a secret location, hook up a water hose, and see what you can get out of him, i.e., who sent you, how many of you are there, what are your other targets, when are your friends planning on coming back, etc...instead, Obama, who calls terrorists "folks," that's right, the President refers to these murderers as "folks" and his AG read him his rights, an ACLU lawyer is provided, and when he is asked about further plans to murder, he flips the bird to his interrogators. Q: Whose relatives are on the plane next time, yours or mine?
Posted By: Walt: Keith, the right to due process of law applies to everyone who sets foot in the United States. It's not me that says that, it's not the Liberal Left that says that, it's the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Read it, you might learn something.
Posted By: Keith...congratulations are in order: To the Wall Street Pig Brokers who netted 20.3 Billion dollars in bonuses in 2009. It is good to know fairness has been restored and Main Street is ahead of this den of thieves. Also, check out Dr. Thomas Sowell's column today, "Blaming 'predatory lenders,' 'greed' for economic woes." Good stuff.
Posted By: Big Earl: Hello good coal miner people of WV and there kin did any of you people see that story on here about that whale that Michael Jackson used to own the one they used in that Free Willie movie he kept it in a big fish tank at his Never Never well maybe sometimes land ranch well apparently it went crazy and killed somebody what was trying to make it behave you people remember that next time you here these PETA and greenie types boohooing about the poor polar bears and there iceberg is melting on account of the evil coal miner when it takes a mind to a wild animal is a wild animal and if it dies off then that is just natures way of keeping the food chain straight I seen on the news to where there aint going to be no more Hummers built they tried to sell them to China they should have got that 7 foot 5 Chinese basketball player Yo Ming to buy the factory Hunners has plenty of leg room his family used to run China last century and has plenty of money.
Posted By: Blah blah blah....: What did Scott Brown do that was so bad? Before you make an A** of yourself, perhaps you should ask if I support the bill he voted for, instead of assuming I don't? The bill did contain tax cuts did it not? Weak, but still tax cuts, a definite step in the right direction? Scott Brown campaigned to be the 41st vote against Obamacare, to take away the super majority. He has held firm on that, so far, and I hope he continues. Sigh...more mindless prattle, ex: "People like you...people like you...etc..." Lastly, you may be a "sad soul," but please, speak for yourself.
Posted By: Keith, I agree: "My heart, my choice": So says the Prime Minister of Newfoundland, who came to the US for medical care even though he is from Canada...will wonders never cease? I saw where former Clinton adviser Dick Morris has listed Nick Rahall and Alan Mollohan on his website as swing votes on the latest incarnation of Obamacare. Isn't is amazing what quality opposition in an election will do to help Nick and Alan see that they represent WV and not Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama? Call as soon as possible and let them know you agree with a clear majority of Americans in opposing this. Did anyone hear all the democrats from back in 2005 screaming about using 51 votes, the so called "Nuclear Option" to pass bills in the Senate? Biden, Clinton, Schumer, Reid, Feinstein, all rose to call it underhanded, cheating, violations of Senate protocol, outrageous, why even Mr. Conscience himself, Robert Byrd, spoke against it. Funny how that works-watch them now, by hook or crook, trying to pass "healthcare," sneaking, cheating, lying.
Posted By: Bluebird: No, Mr. Sunshine, politeness is not too much to ask and should always be used. My apologies and thank you.
Posted By: Blah: Hey Keith what do you think about Scott Brown now? You came on here after the election going on how it was a step in the right direction. I beleive I pointed out to you that he shared alot of the same views as liberals. I guess you just had to hear it from Rush or Fox to believe it. He has a mind of his own, how dare him voting for a Democrat bill. People like you are what is wrong with this country people like you would rather vote for somebody just because they are Republican or Democrat rather than voting for who YOU think will do the better job. That is the reason these so called represenatives stay in office for years and years. My advice people do not listen to what a party says or a comentator or a sad soul like Keith or me,listen to the candidate and research his actions then decide.
Posted By: To Keith: So what part of the new proposals dont you like,is it the part to rein in the insurance companies from raising rates up to 39% when the are reporting billions in profits,or is it the part where they can not deny you coverage because of a pre-existing conditions.The new proposals are from the debates and includes ideas from both parties and bridges the gap between the bills that were passed in the house and the senate.Maybe you hold shares in big insurance companies and cant stand to see your profits drop but most of us dont and we are tired of the abuse,fraud and waste.I have a feeling that just like the jobs bill there will be backers from the right and there will be a health care overhaul whether you or Rush like it or not
Posted By: Mr. Sunshine: I suppose politeness is a lot to ask.
Posted By: Keith...the only danger in that is...: You get the exact opposite of what you want. Perot made Clinton possible; Nader made W possible. Down with 3rd parties-take back the 2 we have from radical, America hating, socialist, communist, progressives and get back to the war fighting of FDR and Truman, the tax cutting of Kennedy and Clinton, and the big thinking world changing results of Reagan. Walt, no they are not American citizens and have no rights. But, it is good you write this; folks, behold the Left: Constitutional rights for madmen who fly planes into buildings and murder thousands of Americans whose crime is going to work. Geneva Conventions for the same. Priceless. Remember in November; Obama, Nancy, and Harry are just like Walt; but, this is what we are currently doing. What do we get for it? A Muslim fanatic at Fort Hood goes on a killing spree; a lunatic with his underpants stuffed with explosives tries to murder thousands in the air over Detroit on Christmas, AND our AG Holder says, "Read them their RIGHTS?!!!"
Posted By: Walt: Keith, let me tell you this about 9/11 terrorists and their lawyers. If the terrorists are going to be tried in a civilian court i.e. as individuals acting of their own free will, then they are protected by the US Constitution (like any other foreign national), and must be afforded the same rights and protections as anyone else, which includes the right to legal counsel. If however, the terrorists are going to tried in a military court i.e. as enemy combatants, then they are protected by the Geneva Convention, and as such also must be afforded the right to legal counsel. As an American, I for one cannot think of a more patriotic act than to stand up for the rights of the accused, and to make sure that EVERY person brought to trial in this country is treated FAIRLY.
Posted By: Rita: Ashley, you nailed it. Our country needs the intelligence of a Democrat and the nads of a Republican. We are ready for an Independent! I am sick of both parties and plan to change to Independent as soon as I can.
Posted By: RoaneCo.: I agree with you Craveontruth, it all goes back to money. People can bend statistics, use inaccurate polls and outright lie to place blame, but it still goes back to money. I'm sure "United we stand, divided we fall" is a saying that most all have heard. And considering our current situation I think it rings very true. Both parties have lost sight of their duties and the last thing this country needs is a few pompous people in the media acting as a wedge dividing this country even more. Did I sugarcoat that enough for you Keith?
Posted By: wsaz is: wonder no longer wsaz is so into obama they re waiting for the prez to give them permission to change the date on here.
Posted By: where: we know where the prez is.but wheres al gore?has he convinced himself that the sky is really falling and is in a safe hidding place?maybe hes with barry,barry knows we people cause climate change and they,re plotting against us.
Posted By: Bluebird: Gandalf, I laughed until the tears rolled when I read your post. I think the person was trying to get us to scratch our heads and say, "HUH?" Whether it was intentional or not is anyone's guess, but what we have seen was the perfect example of politics today. Someone can go on and on and say absolutely nothing, but as long as it sounds good, someone will agree to it.
Posted By: Big Earl: Hello good working coal miners and there families this is Big Earl did you people read that story about that creek over on the McCoy side of the river getting coal mud in it well I have got some news for you tree huggers and greenie types how do you think the Coal River got its name every time it rains the mud gets stirred up the water turns brown and the milk jugs float down the middle makes good target practice apparently some of these people are boohooing about some creek chub or hog molly getting washed off downstream well to bad they aint smart like Salmons and know how to swim backwards they aint good to eat like a Cavier fish what lays expensive eggs hey you PETA types if you want to kill the fungus that’s amungus on them bats hose them down with Lysol.
Posted By: Craveontruth: To Mr.DJC.Your post seem to be quotes of someone from our past.Neverless I will respond to your question of "Why"? The answer is money.No matter how you want to slice it,the answer is almost always ....money.
Posted By: Keith: Well, here we go again-Mr. C SPAN Transparency, Barack Obama trying to ram his "health care" bill through by hook or crook. I would almost wish he would succeed-with such a huge amount of the public, by any/every poll, opposed to it, it would just about guarantee a house cleaning in November. But, I wouldn't wish that abomination even on liberals. Same rationing boards, same fines, same jail time, a Trillion dollars spent, huge tax increases, still millions uncovered, great "health care." Hey did anyone hear that Obama has 9 lawyers working in his justice dept. that have represented Al Qaeda terrorists? Is this borderline treason, or what? I saw where the NAALCP is giving an award to Van Jones, the radical, 911 truther/communist Karl Marx. Great move, NAALCP. What in the world has happened to consumer confidence? I think the President needs to go on TV more. His message is just not getting out, otherwise people would be dancing in the streets singing Happy Days are Here Again.
Posted By: Darlene: well I agree with Mr. DJC. he knows what he's talkin about. these people get in there and change their minds and expect us not to change ours and we don't know what to believe anymore. This issue has gone on long enough and i believe we need to see some form of change. what he meant was that it takes knowledge to know the truth about these issues and these issues are important to us all. so knowlegde is important but it's being tossed around and no one knows whats' goin on big earl- i like sonny bono and groundhog day
Posted By: Gandalf: Mr.DJC; What in Jupiter are you trying to say? You wrote a nicely structured paragraph with absolutely no topic.
Posted By: Mr. DJC: I write within the bounds of possibility, that I may not have understood all that one has conveyed. I now recognize that one must clearly comprehend what one has said, in order to be accurate in responding to what one has meant.
Posted By: Jacee: Someone at WSAZ needs to look into the ticket fiasco that is going on at Marshall University in the football department. My family has had season tickets for over ten years at Marshall and we find out today that the ticket prices are going to go through the roof, and for what? Was the empty stadium last year not enough. This is atrocious and WSAZ needs to look into it.
Posted By: To Mr. DJC: I know you think you understand what you think I said but what you think I said was not what you think I meant.
Posted By: miner49er: Those dirty hillbillies should quit complaining about COAL! The people that live up the hollers is stupid and lasy people who should move away and let hardworking miners make money digging COAL. Clean water won't pay my bills or buy my wife her TV and make-up or X-boxs for my kids, we need money for the important things in life! Anybody who wants to Save Mother Earth" is an idiot. A little coal dust won't hurt you and "Black Lung" is a lie, cigarettes cause cancer, not COAL!!!!
Posted By: Mr. DJC: As I look back now, I have to say it has been extremely difficult to understand why circumstances have been handled in such an irresponsible way. Though I understand it’s not exactly the fault of one, the idle have stood by while those around us once again have gotten their way. Why does one think that situations that are brought on by certain actions of others will suddenly change the mindset of all? I agree on one hand that the position with regard to conditions and circumstances can influence the person in question regardless of the fact. The real issue is here is understanding what one assumes to be the correct response, that ultimately, comes from the knowledge gained from the process of coming to know the truth behind the real issue. Understanding the position one holds is vital in knowing what one truly believes is the logical solution. So I leave you with this important question…..Why?
Posted By: selling deals beside of action: whats going on at the coachs in right now anyone heard
Posted By: Kris: YEAH!: Yeah to the slurry spill! That must mean that "Clean Coal" really does exist!!!! Keep up the good work coal mine companies! We don't need those pesky fish and clean water is over rated anyway! As long as Big Earl has a job, nothing else matters! Peace to ALL!
Posted By: Don't want bad blood: Amen Tim!
Posted By: Michael: Whose feelings are hurt? Just making an observation...Blood is tested before it's used in transfusions these days. Just stating that a part of the population who could potentially give blood can't. Personally, I'm a 4 gallon donor over my lifetime....
Posted By: Big Earl: Hello WV people did you people see that story on the TV 3 News Channel and no you hippies put up your groovy Sonny Bono record it is not Ground Hog Day that movie about waking up to see the same day on the clock day after day after day about the city of Huntington trying to run the riffraff out of town there is a couple of things to do did any of you people ever see that Movie about Sheriff Buford down in Tennasee somebody tell the Mayor to walk over to the train tracks find a big Spike show up with a few of the Huntington Police Departments finest officers and restore a little order some Saturday night if anybody sees some cars heading out of town without doors you know what happened next get those people down to the furniture store to call Ted Nugent in for a concert and have a dopehead safari after the music it always worked for Marshall Dillon them shows was based on real life you know.
Posted By: bob: It is what it is.
Posted By: bob: Ok Keith and the rest,from reading all these posts of which there is severe disagreement including me the US will implode because we as Americans are arrogant,and self centered.That in turn will bring us all together as Americans.It seems that by the time we are taken over from within which is happening as a direct result from our own govt,and illegals then we will pull together.Question is will we make it as a nation or be defeated by all the other countries as a result of them living here.A foreign language is already required in our schools.That is fine,but it isnt specific to learning.It is required to communicate with the illegals and even the ones who come here legally.The point is we are changing our way of life to suit them. When we self destruct the countries that are already within will divide then us Americans will see how few we really are.So throw all your facts out,demand them,say show me as everyone does to show intelligence or maybe lack thereof and we will lose.
Posted By: Tim: Hey, Michael: Keeping from hurting someone's poor widdle feelings isn't worth endangering the health of everyone who has to get a blood transfusion.
Posted By: To Michael: So why don't they just lie if they want to donate blood so badly? Can't a drug addict that needs the money do the same thing?
Posted By: Michael: How interesting that you'd do a story about gays being discriminated against when it comes to housing, and then do a story about the Red Cross needing blood donations. Did you know that gay men are probhiited from donating blood by the Red Cross?
Posted By: Resident: I see Bayer had another leak. It also looks like residents were the folks to tell them about the leak.
Posted By: Clyde: The smell in Flatwood is one of two things. One, it could be as you stated AK, Two, the wind could have shifted and you're smelling McDonald's, either one can turn your stomach!
Posted By: Big Earl: You people down to the TV station how about change the channel on the Yell to Febuary.
Posted By: Samantha: No new The Yell?
Posted By: to rod: we dont.
Posted By: Rod: It doesn't bother me that people have their opinions, what bothers me is that they think I care!
Posted By: Ed: What is that smell in Flatwoods??? AK???
Posted By: Jim: Well I guess we will see just where the health care reform problems lies we all know we need reform and I can't help but think maybe with the discussions being televised will have an effect in making something happen.The first and foremost change needed is the price control.We can not afford to continue as we are these insurance companies raising rates anywhere from 10% to 39% while recording record profits is outlandish,and my feeling is that no representive should have govt paid health care paid for by the people that is any better than the tax payers themselves have.I dont have the answers but I do know right from wrong and stonewalling just keep someone else from doing something because you have no plan yourself and being satified with what we have is wrong.The mere fact that the president has wanted thes procedings televised goes a long way in my book to think he is wantiong to be open and is willing to compromise but both sides need to participate and the next election is looming
Posted By: : Kieth,the majority of Americans want a govt. option so why do the republicans fight against it if like you say they are just following the will of the people?Do you really think the majority of Americans want tax breaks for the rich while our wages stagnate and shrink?How about deregulation your party preached about forever,things would be so much better for the people,that worked out real good didn't it.Do you think anyone who has been reading these posts for any time at all can't how upset some get when confronted with the truth(you).That seems to be the far right way,all one has to do is look back to Germany in the 30's to see the same rhetoric.And who were these people doing it?That's right people with extreme far right-wing ideology,which are called "fascists".I think Graydon was spot on and I'm sure when he clicks on this site,no matter how long it will be just as he stated.
Posted By: Big Earl: Hello good working coal miner famlies of WV this is Big Earl did you people ever hear about the time President Harry S. Truman told a newspaper man to go see the Devil you know what I mean and not to pass go or collect 200 dollars he had gave guff to Harry’s daughters paino playing well it reminded me I went in the Kroger store the other day and I say the Buck Stops Here quit throwing in with these tree hugger greenie types have you people seen them seeweed bags sitting on the counter what says I hope I am saving the world from the evil coal miner or some such nonsense well I seen in that newspaper where the Caterpillar Heavy Equipment company has told these hippies to go take a nature hike and leave us alone we don’t believe in your global warming story no more by the way if any of you people need a good snow shovel go down to the True Value store in Danville.
Posted By: Everyone, educate yourself in economics, it is not that difficult: Buy and read Dr. Thomas Sowell's book Basic Economics. Competition always lowers price, in healthcare, cars, pencils, anything. The producer/seller simply cannot set a price arbitrarily, the market won't allow it. This is the fallacy of the "corporate greed" argument. Stop lawsuit abuse; doctors DO NOT pay their insurance costs, they PASS IT TO US!! IF the Govt. successfully takes over the HC system, people will react; medical practitioners will leave the field, they said so to the tune of 40% in a poll; employers will do the rational thing and drop coverages, pay the pittance of a fine for doing so, and we will have nowhere to go but to the Govt. So what happens in economics when there is a surge in demand with a corresponding scarcity of supply? Rationing of scarce goods, aka "death panels." That is why in every country with the socialist system, there is a board appointed to decide who gets what treatments, plans, costs, etc..Obamacare is no different.
Posted By: Keith...welcome back Garydon: Jam, please pronounce for us the word "corpsman," then please tell us, how many states are in the United States? Just curious if you know, since you want to play that game. Thanks for keeping an eye out for those old "faceists" Garydon. They are the types that don't believe in allowing others to express an opinion, censor things, shut down their opposition, oh wait, that describes your post! RC, perhaps if you would lighten up on the rudeness, nastiness, vulgarity, meanness, that you regularly exhibit, you would get farther with your "ideas." You're obsessed with Rush. Folks appreciate facts, logic, rationality, etc...but it is clear from the Yell, when Liberals lose an argument, they name call, impugn others' motives, "you are this, you are that," etc...now I don't refer to philosophies, i.e., someone can come on here and say yes, I believe in the wasteful spending of trillions of dollars, higher taxes, inflation, interest rates, weak military, etc...and properly be called a liberal.
Posted By: bob: I guess so
Posted By: Bluebird: I am trying to stay out of these discussions, but I have to agree with Roane Co. But Jim gave a good reply as well. To speak truthfully, I don't know the answer to where we would have been without the stimulus money. But I would like to add that I don't ever feel it is a good idea to spend money you don't have. I think that is true as individuals and also of the government. Sooner or later someone has to "pay up" or go under. Can we ever climb out of this debt that is reaching sky high? I wonder.
Posted By: Jeannie: Scott Brown did not win because he was against health care reform. Brown campaigned that he would be against Obama's plan because Massachusetts already had health care reform and Mass. should not be penalized for having solved its problem by having to share its solutions with the rest of the country, which would cost the people of Massachusetts the health care reform that Mass. currently enjoys - passed by a Republican, Mitt Romney, with mandates. That Romney - who knew he was a socialist?
Posted By: Jeannie: People reject what the health care bill has become. People do not reject the Public Option. You cannot mandate that we all buy health insurance and not provide for a method to cut costs. If you don't have public option, our tax dollars will be subsidizing worthless (but expensive) health insurance policies with extremely high deductibles, making sure we still can't go to the doctor when needed. I know what private insurance costs a family. My health insurance purchased through our employer costs myself and my husband $783 a month for $5000 deductible policy. Does the public really think that employers are going to continue to pay the high cost of health insurance policies when good insurance costs an employer anywhere from $1500 to $2000 a month right now per family. What is going to bring the price down? It's not buying policies across state lines. That idea will only erase what protections individual states have managed to institute in this era of "regulation is bad" ideology.
Posted By: Keith: Bob could you be more specific. Do you advocate that we not trade with other countries? That we cannot sell to them? What about the idea of Comparative Advantage in relation to economics? How would that fit in? Would what you describe be efficient? Would we pay more, or less for goods and services? What historical examples can you point to where that method worked? I read once where we had a positive trade balance all the way through the Great Depression, but, one of the huge mistakes Hoover made was the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which not only limited what we could buy, it closed markets to our goods abroad, resulting in massive unemployment here as factories shut down, as other nations retaliated for the tariff. Do we buy inferior, more expensive products just because they may have an American label? Don't get me wrong, I am with you in spirit but I wonder what consequences it would have and if it could ever really work that way.
Posted By: Jim cont: unemployment numbers not only in WVa and Ohio but nationwide.We are the #1 producer of asphalt in the country and they are looking to hire several hundred plus put everyone back to work that have been laid off do to the seasonal shut downs.As for the 3rd part of your question I know everyone have seen homeless people and if not for the stimulus the people you see along the street could have been many of your neighbors or relatives,I have 3 adult children and 3 adult step children and have been able to help them thru but had it not been for the unemployment extensions and their willingness to take any work they could do 3 of them and their spouses would have lost their homes.Luckly my son and step son have been called back to work and my son inlaw just got a new job last week.I have voted for both parties and have seen the good and bad in both I think Obama really means well and is trying.And I am watching the actions of all politicans and I will vote accordingly as will my children
Posted By: To Phoenix: We would have nearly $900 billion dollars less debt; Yesterday the President announced spending had to be cut; what is a stimulus, except spending? The Obama Administration announced last year that the maximum value from this stimulus would be felt by the Fall of 2009. VP Biden noted that if the Stimulus was passed, unemployment would not exceed 8%. Senator Evan Bayh of IN said the other day that if he could create ONE job in the private sector, he would have accomplished more than Congress in the past 6 months. Can anyone tell me how you measure a "saved" job? What is the criteria? The White House announced a few weeks ago that they anticipated unemployment to be at 9.8% by the end of this year, exactly where it is now. Are they anticipating success? The clear path to make an economy boom is to cut taxes and reduce spending dramatically. This has been proven by JFK, Reagan, and Bill Clinton. The Keynesian, spend to stimulate does not work, and I challenge anyone to give an example.
Posted By: Craveontruth: Phoenix,the only economy we have right now has been propped up by our government.Take away the government spending and we would have imploaded.Not a recession but a depression,which is actually what is needed to correct this mess.So unless people have been getting out of debt and stockpiling food and supplies,they should not be critical.Both republicans and democrats have tried to stave off this correction for no one wants to be in office during a depression,it is political suicide.Bob,there is a reason why we can not just buy American.We have made a deal with three countries.China,Japan and the oil producing nations of the middle east.They are 1,2 and 3 in who buys our T Bills and therefore supports our deficit economy.Stop buying their goods and they stop buying our debt and the U.S. is done.There is a reason why we import 70% of our oil,why everything at walmart is made in China and why Honda and Toyota's are all over our roads.Hard to believe but not hard to understand.
Posted By: Keith...well, because...: Well Bob, we don't all agree. For instance, why don't liberals drop the so called "health care" bill since a clear majority of the country rejects it? Over 60% reject it, and the same number say start all over. What margin did Obama win by? 53-47? Was that a mandate? The answer is, the majority wins; they vote for persons who espouse certain ideas, sometimes they are true to the ideas, most times not. Compromise is fine, but who does the compromising? I would be happy to see a health care bill passed that would truly address costs, lawsuit abuse, portability, preexisting coverages, interstate competition; but I know liberals simply cannot abide that. Why don't they compromise and quit trying to shove something a small minority wants on the vast majority of folks? Dunno. One thing is for certain, Scott Brown ran in MA as the 41st vote against Obamacare, and won handily the seat formerly occupied by the number one pusher of a Big Government takeover of the health care system.
Posted By: Jim: Ok Pheonix here's my take 1 unemployment rates would probably as a whole would be down if not for the stimulus,you have to figure the rates have stayed up because of the extensions the stimulus has funded,but with the lower rates if the people would have been out of benefits after 26 weeks you would have had a depression and that leads to the next 2 parts of your question bankrupties would have been double to triple or more of what they already have been.Many parts of the stimulus is not perfect but the basic concept was the right thing to do and things are getting better we have to realize that most of the infrustructure money has not been used and I know people quote it was to be shovel ready but the delays made it impossible you can't do road work in the winter months asphault does not work in cold weather.The company I work for has done a lot of stimulus work and has so much more to do that I know things will get better.The highway work we have lined up will make an impact in the
Posted By: RoaneCo.: Well Phoenix, in my opinion, the only thing so far that has keep this country from falling deeper into economic crisis has been the unemployment extensions. I don't feel that anything else has really had that much of an impact. As I have stated may times in the past, if the middle class working man/woman doesn't have money, be it from a pay check or an unemployment check, the economy will only worsen. Giving bailouts to big business has proven to be a joke. For example, GM stated awhile back, when they were making a bailout payment to our government that they could have paid more back but they used some of the money to sure up their overseas factories. And don't even get me started on bailout funds given to a company that still gives their CEO a multi-millon dollar bonus. Again Phoenix, this is only my personal opinion but until we as a country find a way to bring an end to corporate greed I do not see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Posted By: RoaneCo.: That is a great idea bob, but how are we to do that when most of the greedy companies in America left years ago in search of cheap labor and relaxed regulations in order to increase their profits. Their greed is now coming back to bite them, sad part of it is, like always, the working class are the ones that continue to suffer.
Posted By: Phoenix: I have a question that I want serious answers to please don't go off on a rant and I want answers from both "sides" please. If the 2009 stimulus had not passed where would we be as a country today? I know it will be clearly a matter of opinion but be as realistic as you can be. I would like your thoughts on unemployment rates, bankrupties, social impacts etc.
Posted By: Bluebird: Bob for president!!!
Posted By: Walt: Obama gave the Dalai Lama cufflinks? Care to prove that?
Posted By: bob: Why can't we all just be American, pull together, buy American, sell American, and again be American.
Posted By: Keith...hey Graydon, 10 to 1 makes it about even by my estimation...: I share information; RC, you show your true colors by your consistent rude, snide, and in times past vulgar (sexual innuendo) remarks. Take care of the beam in your own eye. Jam, what opinions do you refer to? If you want to play that game, please pronounce "corpsman." Way to go Graydon; you tell those "faceists" nobody gets an opinion but you. LOL, you're a real stand up guy. No, Walt, the statistics are correct. Those folks were as good as unemployed; when the trees were planted, the trash picked up, the building built; what job did they have? FDR's handouts. Every $$ taken by the Govt. for handouts is taken out of the private sector, taken away from entrepreneurs, businesses, investors, etc...even if I grant your premise, that the jobless figures were lower, you are left in the unenviable position of defending 10%-15% unemployment, FOR 8 YEARS! How many of you out there would tolerate that today? The jobless rate under Bush was often 25%? In 1940, >20%? Why did the rest of the world emerge from depression, but we did not, until 1941? (run up to WW2)Why did we have the NRA, WPA, CCC, etc...and 20% unemployment the entire decade? Clearly, FDR hindered, not helped, recovery. The record is the record. Why, when some of his Programs were declared unconstitutional, did FDR attempt to increase the size of the Supreme Court, the infamous court stacking scandal? For information, read "The Forgotten Man" and "FDR: New Deal or Raw Deal," also, check out Dr. Thomas Sowell's "Basic Economics" for answers. Time will tell-the projections for this year are that unemployment will be at 9.8% by years end. Since it is presently at 9.8%, why no forecast for improvement? I CHALLENGE ANY LIBERAL ON HERE: NAME ONE THING OBAMA IS DOING, RIGHT NOW, TO HELP. ONE THING.
Posted By: Smoke and Mirrows: Ashley dont buy into the rightwing lies FRD's spending save the country and the stimulus spending has had positive effects and more will come as spending picks up the infrastructure part of the stimulus has not even got started much yet,the republicans know this but as usual the spout off then when proven wrong they recant but by that time they have planted the seeds of doubt and many have heard the gibberish so many times they believe it there are still people harping on the birth certificate and many still believe Obama is a muslium.Just today Youngstown Ohio announced the building of a new steel mill the first in over 20 yrs in the state and the company stated the stimulus money as the reason 350 permanant high paying jobs on top of 500 construction jobs.here's a fact that you will not see the right speak of one of their very own the best in history they say was in office when unemployment was higher than it is today the Reagan yrs were no better than today check the facts.
Posted By: Walt: Keith, Obama is proposing cap and trade for a different standard of emissions. Same idea, different pollutants. Also, the Heritage Foundation link you suggested contains an INTERPRETATION of the EFCA by a conservative think-tank; it does not accurately reflect the contents of the bill.
Posted By: Bill: The Herald-Dispatch is the worst excuse for a newspaper ever ! From the advertising department to circulation is a huge srew-up. Who owns the paper now ? Maybe they need to do a little micro-managing. Really, any managing would help.
Posted By: MS: Jeannie: We actually didn't climb out of the Great Depression until WWII. It wasn't the spending it was the war.
Posted By: To Ashley and Keith: Maybe you should do a little research,people claiming the stimulus didn't work need to realize that most of the stimulus money has not even been spent yet and what has been spent has helped us from being worse off ask the people who recieved extra unemployment benefits where they would be without the extensions they got that came from stimulus money,Keith says it has failed but yet just today out of the 641 million that Ohio got for highway infrastructure only 12% has been spent that leaves 88% and out of that 12% it created 618 jobs so with these numbers we can see another 4500 jobs by the time the other 88% is used if you call this a failure then tell me how you would have put that many people to work,matter of fact figuring the new way the republicans want it figured the stimulus created 24,694 jobs in Ohio in the fourth quarter of 09 alone,as for other help ask the poor and disabled where they would be without the preservation of medicaid funding with the stimulus money
Posted By: Jeannie: Ashley: You need to check your facts. Most economists do agree that FDR's spending got us out of the Great Depression. What you are hearing is just right-wing spin trying to re-write history.
Posted By: RoaneCo.: Keith why do you even bother posing a question when you have proven time and time again that you believe you and your idol Rush are the only two people on the face of this earth that has the "right answer". I just keep waiting for you to say... Keith here "with talent on loan from God".
Posted By: Ashley: Mary Margaret: How can you be so blind as to think that without the stimulus we would have sunk into a "great" depression? I mean, what in the world are you basing this off of? I mean, really, economists can't even agree on whether or not FDR's spending helped or hurt during the Depression. That was 80 years ago!!! How can you be soooooo sure that this stimulus helped, barely after a year???? You might want to contact the nations top universities, they are in dire need of your certainty.....
Posted By: Jeannie: "Even the conservative American Enterprise Institute found that the stimulus had boosted the U.S. economy by 4 percent." Another quote - "But they don’t cut spending,” he said, citing the administration of President George W. Bush when Republicans also controlled Congress. “Don’t forget the Republicans never vetoed a single bill in six and a half years. How is that for cutting spending?” “To say that all we have to do is take care of waste, fraud and abuse, and foreign aid is a like a sparrow’s belch in the midst of typhoon,” he said. “That is nothing, less than 1 percent of the budget" - Alan Simpson - Chairman of Republican Budget Commission. All you guys do know that Obama and Dems reduced taxes on 95% of all of us, right? It was in the stimulus...
Posted By: MeAGain: With all the recent bad weather and subsequent auto accidents I would just like to say one thing, SLOW DOWN. I just dont get it. Why people dont seem to have a clue about driving safely in unsafe conditions. Just last night, 2/16/10, I was driving on Rt 60 East in icey conditions when someone decided I wasnt going fast enough. This guy was busy picking his nose and talking on the phone and ridding my tail. I wasnt going extreamly slow, about 40 - 45 actually, and I was keeping up with traffic. Had I needed to stop or slow suddenly he would have certainly hit me. People...please slow down...everyone wants to get there safely and everyone has someone who cares about them...dont be stupid.
Posted By: Mary Margaret: To Keith: How can your views be so narrow not to see without the second stimulus (Bush did the first) that we would have gone through the second "Great Depression"...you get so hung up on trying to use "so called facts" that you don't use common sense to evaluate them. Please get a life and use the Yell a little less. Also, using "facts" from FOX (Mostly Made Up News Station) is like taking driving lessons from a ten year old.
Posted By: Ashley: To Jeannie, Gandalf, Keith, and that mindless idiot Big Earl>> There are 3 sides to every story: yours, mine, and the truth. I think it's ignorant for anyone of you to claim that your "side" has the "right" answers. Democrats just want you to focus on the immediate surroundings and say, "See! We made this better! Don't pay attention to that other stuff." Republicans want to you pay attention to everything outside of the immediate surroundings so they can say, "Look at all the bad stuff the liberals did!" Both are right, but not as much as they think they are. And something to think about: As long as those who vote are so entrenched by party lines and stuff that doesn't matter, it distracts us from fixing what is really wrong with America and allows the politicians to continue playing us as pawns. Am I the only one who sees this?
Posted By: to...happy now: clean coal,dirty coal,nuclear,what some people dont want to know or choose to believe,is every day working people,tax payers get all the fees,building, taxes,every cost to the dot at the end of their sentences paid for by the consumer.35 percent rate increase onelectric bills.we can all laugh with glee at the elec,gasbuisnesses raising taxes as being a good thing,but trully intelligent people know those are our bills not theirs.dont worry about obamas nuclear building lie,he did away with the waste program that has to do with nuclear energy,therefore cant build nuclear.o.is determined to do away with coal.jealsous obama and obama motors is out to get toyota ,they are to be hauled before o,s gov.tribunal next weekas if there hadnever been vehichal recalls before.do i see india,mexico,some other foreign country sayingbring toyota to their ecconomy.o,s agenda cant be accidental and call this america first.wake up america oris it still bushes fault?
Posted By: Keith...a question of major importance for everyone: JK Kennedy, Democrat; Ronald Reagan, Republican; and Bill Clinton, Democrat; all had Administrations that CUT taxes for Americans, and tax revenue to the Federal Treasury INCREASED. How and why did this happen? Conversely, when tax INCREASES are passed, revenue to the Treasury actually DROPS, the opposite of what is "supposed" to happen. How and why does this happen? Come on guys, weigh in. These are desperate times, and getting worse, and the folks in power in Washington appear utterly clueless on how to help the economy. Can anybody answer my two questions? Consider two words when mulling your answer: "Costs" (not Prices!) and "Behavior."
Posted By: Big Earl: Hello again all you good coal miner people of WV and there kin do you people follow the weather on the TV 3 News I could set my clock by when Tony says it is going to snow and by the way thank you people at the Department of Highways to for throwing salt all over the road and helping us get to work I can just hear all the PETA types boohoo over all the poor slugs what got melted into Elmers Glueall you people lighten up on the Governor you see what happens when he leaves the door unlocked up to the Mansion trying to have a jobs meeting with serious people next thing you know a bunch of greenies and treehuggers busts in waving signs and screaming about polar bears and owls maybe get there a little early next time and by the way tell them people I am a happy WV coal miner I still have a job.
Posted By: What ???: Keith there you go again with the half truths AP did not say stimlus has failed they said it has not had the effect it was thought to have had {so far} I work in highway work and many of the states have not even started using the money and will not till spring,see that is the problem many of you people think the stimlus money is gone,some places are just now recieving it.The company I work for is gearing up for more work than they can handle they produce materials and do road paving in Ohio,WVa,Co,Az,Wa Nev,Or,Mi,Il.They had a month early shut down which contributed to the unemployment numbers to prepare for the up coming season which will be the busiest in their history which dates back to the early 30's.As soon as the weather breaks they will be hiring more people and calling back the thousands they have laid off nationwide.You would do yourself more good if you actually investigated something rather than believing everything you hear on Rush's show because he doesn't have a clue
Posted By: Austin:To Jeannie: Are you kidding me? Republicans have been out of the way for a long time. Democrates have controlled the Senate and the House for years, then Obama is in the white house. Guess what the left still cant get anything done, why? They could have passed any law they wanted if they had all of the answers and the only ones getting in the way where those pesky rebublicans. Oh yeah thats right the people who voted them into office, democrates who voted them into office, dont wont their radical socialist agenda! Just like any other politician these DEMOCRATES are worried about being re-elected. Bush did screw up with his stimulus package, no doubt, but the leader of the free world, OBAMA, needs to man up and take responsibility for what is now his economy. People need to understand it is no longer a Dem or Rep. thing, people are tired of extreme liberalism and socialist agenda's whether its Democrat or Republican. What a shame those pesky free citizens stood in the way of the democrates.
Posted By: to..happy now,,,jeannie: obama has promised that he will build a nuclear power plant.remember piketon ohio promise?o.is making fools out of o.followers.he knows e.p.a.,clean water act wont let it happen.didnt he reverse bushes policy on coal.president can get a lot done or destroyed.o,s agenda is to wreck this country,ecconomy.there can be no other explanation.remember he believes in manmade global warming.i didnt get an answer from jeannie about what made deserts,sand not food.she knows how to name call and call that a fact but what about deserts,sand not food.and why is that coooold place up there called greenland?is it the color of ice?wait for name calling not fact.facts,keith,rush.hannity,beck etc.jeannie and jeannie clones,blame bush ,al gores a genius,harry reed and nancy pelosi really care etc.world net daily has a piece on a school book for parents who are intrested in what your child is taught,i ont know how many schools its in but im sure it will be in all schools soon.obama czars agenda.
Posted By: Back by popular demand (and necessity): Conversations with a liberal. Q: Did you hear that President Obama is seeking authority for the government to track citizens, WITHOUT A WARRANT, by their cell phones? Is he trying to top that old Bush as Snooper-in-Chief? A: Rush is a pillhead. Q: Since Obama promised numerous times that CSPAN would cover all the "healthcare" negotiations, and that he would have bills posted for 3 days for the public to review, and neither of these has happened, can we trust what he says about health reform? A: Fox news lies. Q: How do you, as a liberal, feel, when you hear your VP Biden bragging that the Iraq war may be the biggest accomplishment of the Obama Administration? A: Glenn Beck is a drunk. Q: With Club Gitmo still open; and troops still in the field, with the liberal congress still funding the wars, do you feel betrayed? A: Bush lied kids died. Q: With clear majorities in both Houses, how come Obama hasn't gotten anything of value done to help people out of work? A: Rush is a pillhead.
Posted By: Keith...how much "fixing" can we stand?: Gandalf, I am disappointed in you, writing such mindless tripe. Can you refute Heritage? They are scholars and well documented. I have never been to WorldNetDaily. Slanted? During the 2008 campaign, Fox had a 50-50 split between positive/negative stories on both candidates; MSNBC had a 80-20 negative to positive against McCain. Facts, is using Google bad, to educate oneself, on an issue? Are unemployment and the hoax of man made global warming now trivial? Really? Again, my loyalty is conservative; I say, throw out every RINO. Bush did make mistakes; he is long gone; but, the Congress turned liberal 4 years ago, and as I have noted, (2/14, 10:15am) things got decidedly worse in a hurry. How is Obama responsible? He has done absolutely NOTHING, in 13 months, to help. Name for me ONE thing. Easy enough? The "Stimulus" failed, AP said so. AND, with a supermajority (RIP) and a huge majority in the House, HOW can Republicans stop Obama from "fixing" us? They cannot; Obama & Dems have failed
Posted By: What Now: I'm am wondering since cap and trade is dead and Obama just announced funding for a nuclear plant and pressing for more nuclear plants just how long it will be before the coal industry climbs into bed with the tree huggers they loathe so much to derail these plans.I think he should halt all funding for clean coal and use it for nuclear,no need to beat a dead horse and the coal industry has stated that clean coal does not and never will exist.So wouldn't it be wise to go in another direction rather than waste money studing something that does not exist,by the time we spend money trying to find better ways to use coal and the time spent fighting the permit process and the epa on coal lets just invest that money in nuclear.The one new plant they are proposing will provide electric to over 1/2million homes with 0 carbon emissions and guess what no need for cap and trade with 0 emissions its a win win,we have power and no emissions so the tree huggers are happy and the lights are still on
Posted By: Happy Now???: Are you happy now since with all the arguing about global warming and the fight over carbon emissions has led to the starting of nuclear plant talks and no one could agree to do anything to save the coal industry that the end is near.With the coal fired plants needing replaced because of age and upgrades being so expensive they will not be replaced by new coal fired plants the future will be nuclear so just stick a fork in the coal industry its done,no sense in studying clean coal technology anymore but as many of you said all along clean coal was a myth so lets shift to nuclear and be done with it.Im glad it will end all the bickering about MTR.Wonder what big daddy Don thinks of the lastest news.And Keith Walt is right the first cap and trade was for sulfer emissions and that turned out just fine even though it had its naysayers too.Check the power companies they are for it and they are the ones using the coal that keeps WVa alive but now we may not need coal much longer GO Nuke
Posted By: Jeannie: Reading Keith's posts is just like listening to Rush, Glenn, Hannity, and the rest. Keith is brainwashed with utter devotion to Republicanism. Heritage only has cred with the Far Right and Keith knows it. 60% of the public was against what the health care bill became - not what it was in the beginning. Public option is the only way to go. I've said it before - you can't require me to buy insurance without providing me with an affordable option. Anything less is a giveaway to health insurance co's. I have what Keith lacks - the ability to see beyond political speak - I am a Democrat, but I do not always accept their word as if spoken by God; however, it is very clear that Keith worships Republicans. How, without busting a gut, can you say that Obama is responsible for this horrible economy? Yes, Bush and Republicans did this to us. You can pretend like these words are just poking at our last leader - but they are the TRUTH. Repub's need to get out of the way & let Obama fix our country.
Posted By: Gandalf: It is easy to understand why Keith is so confused. Heritage Foundation, World Net Daily, Fox News are all mouthpieces for the Republican National Committee. Their agenda is not for the advancement of America, but the advancement of Corporate Greed.
Posted By: Anonymous: You get your paper everyday regardless of the weather.
Posted By: Facts: Hey Walt it will be awhile before Keith replies,it takes him some time when you throw a subject other than unemployment or warming his way he has to google a response it will take him a while to go thru the farm bill of 2002 to try and prove it has no effect on unemployment and when he cant he will not respond at all.Much like he dodged the question on what part of the health bill he didn't like he has never read the bill just going on hearsay from Rush many of his posting comments have been aired in the past on either Rush's show or fox
Posted By: Randy: Can't believe the Marshall students whining like babies about not having classes canceled. Grow up. College prepares you for real-life and in real-life we all have to go to work. Our jobs don't get canceled because it's snowing outside.
Posted By: Well, no, actually we did not: You must pay attention, it is vital in the times we live in. Bush was not a conservative, I have listed many disagreements with him and will not do it again simply because Bush no longer matters, he is gone. Obama does. What would life be like with me? Probably a lot like Reagan, low taxes, a booming economy, a strong military, opportunity everywhere you look, respect, and much more importantly, fear, for the USA, strong military, security, etc...I understand why you liberals don't like that; after all, you stand for unemployment, government food lines, soup kitchens, groveling, apologizing, destroying your own country, falling for hoaxes, high inflation, high interest rates, Carter's misery index, etc...I do appreciate the prayers, but pray more for the country and the people who were duped with promises of "hope and change," who cannot find a job, etc...and it probably wouldn't hurt you to ask for wisdom and discernment. AND, OMG, if it is so irrelevant, why did you post? LOL!!
Posted By: Keith...if Bush already signed Cap and Trade why is Obama doing it again?: There is no misunderstanding on my part. Go to Heritage Foundation, under Domestic Policy Issues, scroll down to Labor, then click on a summary of the Employee Free Choice Act. Heritage does their usual fine job of summarizing Bills. As for Obamacare, the "final version" is a moving target; the House bill was/is so atrocious, it contained at different times jail time for non-buyers; direct debit by the IRS of your bank account; forcing everyone to buy it, needed or not; allowing Obama to appoint a board to determine plans and "benefits;" it is easy to see, this is dictatorial and tyrannical, totally against the American spirit. IF this bill is so great, why did they have to use taxpayer money to bribe Senators from LA & NE to gain support; why does over 60% of the public reject it; why do Pelosi and Reed keep scheming on ways to secretly, backdoor the bill, i.e., "Reconciliation" if it is so good? Why was public scrutiny promised, but never allowed? CSPAN??? 3 day online review???
Posted By: Bluebird: Well, even though OMG had no useful info to post, just the usual stuff, I have to agree that is right. I leave the Yell. "Grand Plan" sounds good to me. I have quit trying. I hope all the ones who yell Global Warming are right. So much is at stake. As for myself, I prefer normal occurring CO2 which I feel is not a threat, and trust God to care for all our needs as He has promised. But we get more nuclear plants with its radioactive gas potential disasters whether we want them or not. I just hope for all our sakes you are right.
Posted By: Walt: Sorry Keith, but... 1. Card Check would not strip union employees of their right to a secret ballot. It would strip EMPLOYERS of the right to demand a secret ballot re: whether the employees favor unionization. That's a misunderstanding on your part. 2. Under "Obama-care" (your words) you would NOT be jailed for failing to purchase health insurance. You'd be jailed for not paying the surchage tax levied on those who don't have any health insurance at all, under the existing Internal Revenue code. And in any case, the possibility of getting jail time for non-payment was dropped before the Senate Finance Committee voted on the bill. It's not in the final version. 3. "Cap-and-trade" as a concept was put forth about 40 years ago, it didn't just fall out of Obama's brain. And the first cap-and-trade legislation was signed into law in 1990 by then Republican President George H.W. Bush.
Posted By: Grand Plan: Election time not far off we will all be better off to vote everyone out of office if an independent is running vote for them trade all dems and repubs out its time to end the gridlock and partainship if they want to fight let them fight to survive like the average Joe.Cut all govt benefits for everyone pay no taxes do away with law enforcement and go back to the days of the wild west close the borders and leave the country to the strongest and most ruthless,works for me and mine but where will the rest of you be
Posted By: Thank you Mildred: You and myself included could you imagine where we'd be with the likes of Keith in power,oop's we just went thru 8 yrs of that with Bush didn't we my bad guess we {misunderestimated} his knowledge.Bet he knows where that word came from
Posted By: Sophie: When is the Yell going to fix the Yell week date? I keep having to go under the wrong week to get the current yells.
Posted By: OMG, Get a Life: The people who write into the yell must be some of the most uneducated morons in the world. Nobody cares what any of you think. People think they're smart because they're a republican or a democrat, they think thier view is always correct. Who cares, they are all corrupt and you all are wasting your time. Instead of making a difference all people do is whine. Find a hobby and a life.
Posted By: To roger: Dude, you forgot to mention what city you were in.
Posted By: roger: I was watching the other day it was friday and seen what looked like when i seen it came down from the road a car slid on ice from the snow that came down and i turned on the side street but nobody seemed to got hurt it hit the side of the curb where the sidewalk was a carry-out and people inside come to look to see but I had to get to work. any body know?
Posted By: Amy: I have never done anything like this before, but felt compelled to write in after hearing Tom Brokaw's negative comment about West Virginia. He asked Matt Lauer where he was when the US Hockey team took the gold medal in 1980. Matt replied that he was in his living room in Charleston, West Virginia to which Mr. Brokaw stated, "At least we got you out of West Virginia". This was totally inappropriate and made me, at loyal NBC listener, not want to watch the station any more. It certainly doesn't help our negative image when a veteran, revered newscaster comments like that.
Posted By: Bluebird: I am sorry. I meant to say Harry Reid has trimmed $70 Billion from the jobs bill. Sometimes my mind has difficulty grasping thoughts of money in such huge amounts.
Posted By: Bluebird: I would like to correct my statement about the Jobs Bill. I now see Harry Reid has trimmed $70 thou. from the original bill. My apologies.
Posted By: : Yes it so much better letting ins. co. control your health care,many suffer and die in the name of profit,but that's OK because it hasn't effected Kieth,or Buck,and others on here that fight for private ins.And what crap is this about jail?You are listening to the wrong sources,and has anyone else noticed how a republican idea is no longer any good once the President offers to go along with it?Good to see many of you calling these people out on thier half-truths and far-right propaganda.
Posted By: Mildred: Thank GOD!: I thank GOD every Wensday and Sunday that Keith has No Power other than the power to write on the yell. GOD Bless you Keith, you need it!
Posted By: food for thought: Jeannie, facts? You can reading the errors of man and believe them if you want, I am guilty as well. On the other hand it is a crying shame that most likely you and others deny the truth in the Divine Word of God. No matter how you look at it that is the history book that has been right and has the best proven track record. I love this Earth God has given us, but you tell me if you have the facts, what was the reason God wanted to destroy Earth the first time? What was the reason for the flood? What is the reason for the fire? I love how you and the rest play the ignorance game and change your terming of this. Global Warming, Climate Change, Global Chaos, etc. Make your mind up before you destroy others. Seek Him and he will help you.
Posted By: Keith....hey Walt, Facts...: Walt, I am still waiting, but I did hear Fred Barnes say yesterday that the 6 Republican seats being defended this year all have R candidates ahead of their D challengers at this point. AND-this is fantastic-look at what is happening. JD Hayworth challenging McCain in AZ; the new guy in FL ahead of Gov. Crist; nice trend. Way too early to tell, but I hope this holds. I think when the smoke clears we have an R House and an R Senate, mainly because the liberals like Pelosi and Reed cannot learn. I still hear of them trying to back door and sneak Obamacare through. Way to govern for the people...Facts, "What Happened in Nov. 2006?" I am citing Congress, not Bush to Obama; that is why I used 1/07 figures, when the liberals took over, vs. today, after 4 years of their pillaging. I will revisit the other point later today, it is just as striking and provides not much difference. As for subsidies, extensions, protecting illegal aliens, all these are liberal ideas, not conservative.
Posted By: to jeannie...: i,m afraid i didnt make myself clear when i asked you how deserts were made.i meant sand not food.how did the 37 flood happen,was it caused by too much water,rain?fossil fuels?please splain.keith for president!!!!!!!
Posted By: by by bayh..: hes going to leave his cushy job and take his 13 million with him.wouldnt you think he would use his own advice to us and donate it to the treasury.after all he will get a kings ransom in pension,perks and health insurance compliments of taxpayers.but he they arent selfish just the honest hard working people of america.glad to see you back jeannie.i guess there was only one cause in the dust bowl,lack of rain couldnt have had anything to do with it.i need a description of how a desert comes about.were they the cause of poor farming practices?evidenly you have never raised a garden,only the inexperienced would give such a simple answer.give a man a fish,he,ll eat for a day,teach him to fish he,ll eat for a lifetime.true also of gardens.i know,i know al says the sky is falling.wonder what his thermostat is set on?i hope the earth is warming think how many more places could garden earlier.gardening 101.
Posted By: Bunny: I love snow!
Posted By: So what do we do?: I would much rather do nothing than wreck what we have, which is exactly what Obama seems intent upon doing. Of course we can do better, I would suggest reforming the lawsuit abuse for starters. Costs skyrocket, tests are performed to protect against litigation, etc...everytime you see a huge settlement doled out by a jury, or a tax placed on a provider, it always comes to you, these entities do not pay it, they pass it along. We pay for all this. Another good idea is allowing interstate competition among insurance companies; competition increases supply which decreases price. Another idea to pursue is getting more control over your own costs. You mention the two aspirins. If you had to pay for that yourself, would you do it quietly? I sure wouldn't. What did you say when you saw that bill? Do you even care, since there is a third party involved? Then we wonder why insurance costs so much? Partisanship is necessary; I do not want compromise with bad ideas, I want them defeated.
Posted By: Keith...what did the insurance company say when you told them about the $83 aspirins?: Another huge govt. bureaucracy taking over 1/6 of the economy. They always overrun cost projections; they are always inefficient; I don't like the threat of jail if I don't buy it; I don't like not being able to choose my doctor, or the care I want. I don't like being forced to pay for everyone else and their bad choices; I don't pay my neighbors grocery or electric bill, why should I pay his doctor visit? Costs: one survey found up to 40% of health care professionals would leave the field if this passes; what happens when you have a decrease of providers, along with an increase in demand for care? Shortages. One solution to a shortage is rationing. I do not think highly trained and motivated professionals who have sacrificed years of hard work and study to become what they are, will sit still for a community agitator stepping in and telling them where they can practice, how much they can make, etc...that is a cost of this bill not often recognized or discussed.
Posted By: Battle of the VPs: Don't you guys think Obama should show a little gratitude to GW Bush? I mean, Bush has given him a ready made excuse for his total failure on the economy; all Obama ever says is "blame Bush, he did it, we inherited it." How about Iraq? VP Biden said winning the Iraq war could be Obama's biggest accomplishment. Funny, there aren't many accomplishments to speak of, but wasn't it Sen. Biden, D-DE, who said Iraq should be divided into three regions? Didn't Biden and Obama oppose Sen. McCain's (R-AZ) troop surge, that swung the tide of the war? Didn't Sen. Harry Reid, D-NV, say publicly "This war is lost," while troops were fighting the war, lending psychological aid and comfort to our enemy? How does the Left feel, listening to their anti-war guy, as he boasts about winning a war "based on lies, half-truths, etc...blah blah...as Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-MA, said, "concocted in TX for political gain." A war is his biggest accomplishment? Nice to finally have Libs on board, for the troops sake.
Posted By: Jim: Hey Keith I see where you are still going on about Obama care tell me exactly what part of the health care bill you do not like and why you think the current set up is so great.I just saw my insurance billed $83 for 2 aspirin's and wonder what could be any worse than that,can you honestly say that the system we have is good for the people and you think it is the best we can do or are you part of the group that would rather do nothing than to see something positive from the democratic party,either way when politics gets as screwed up as they are now the only people who suffers are the people the elected officals are to serve.I have never voted a straight ticket and have voted for as many republicans as democrats but when I see the game playing at the expense of the people it makes me lash out at the players and I'm not alone in these feelings so all the partisanship will come back to haunt the politicans of both parties at all levels
Posted By: Keith...yeah, you tell 'em: They also said Medicare, when it was passed in 1965, would cost around 20-30 billion by 1990; today I believe it is over 400 billion. Not a good track record; point is, it is a crying shame that the electric bills and other services for older folks, poor people, working people, etc...the ones who can least afford it, have to rise over a total hoax. Sure climate change is real, it occurs naturally, and has occurred for thousands of years as the earth goes through different cycles. But to suggest, as members of the Church of Man Made Global Warming do, that the USA is the worst offender, most responsible, etc...the green movement is destroying our economy, putting people out of work, creating destitute families, children without proper clothes and food, harming us all. I heard the other day that Glenn Beck's show was now the #1 show in all of cable news, all categories, all channels. Congratulations Glenn, you and Bill O'Reilly beat all the others combined by 20X over-great work.
Posted By: Bluebird: Shortened truths. The dust bowl was also due to an extended drought. 6 to 10 years in some areas.Your facts are always missing a crucial element or a dozen. And Reid is trying to sneak re-instating the Patriot Act through with the Jobs bill, along with tons of pork. Let's face it. There is anti-citizens bills in both parties. I don't see wings on either one.
Posted By: Jeannie: The "dust bowl" in the 30s was caused by improper farming techniques that eroded the lands of natural resources necessary to maintain topsoil. Just look it up.... Manmade and solved by man - FDR...
Posted By: Jeannie: You tell 'em miner49er. Many of you are selling your souls to the highest bidder. All it takes is a minimal amount of research to discover that climate change is real. Sure glad the Supreme Court has unleashed bucketloads of industry dollars to help "educate" the rest of the population that has not already been brainwashed. There are so many of you who have lost the ability to reason and judge for yourself. Quit going along with things because Fox News tells you so. Seek the truth for yourselves. It's out there on everything. Our freedoms were under far greater attack the eight years of the Bush administration. Wiretapping, sneak-n-peeks, secret letters to employers, even businesses have set up their own system to help the govt in case of so-called "national emergency." If the threshold had not been abused so much, perhaps more trust could be given; however, we must constantly guard against. Check out InfraGuard...
Posted By: Big Earl: Hello again good WV people did any of you people see Junior Earnhart almost win the Daytona 500 race yesterday does anybody know anybody who knows anybody who could tell him how to put somebody into the wall maybe go back and dig out some films of his daddy the late great Dale Earnhart Number 3 maybe one of them times when Darrell Waltrip got in his way by the way nobody what has any sense would ever paint the number 13 on a race car that would be as bad as breaking a mirror having a black cat walk across your path on Halloween or walking under a ladder set on a sidewalk crack it was a good run but I still threw a Mountain Dew can at the TV one of the new cans with the Mountain Dew Hillbilly on them then I took my better half down to the Colonels in Danville for Valentines dinner just to irritate the PETA types.
Posted By: living on less: Just seen that the state workers want a raise.Why!!There is a lot of people out there like me who do not have a job because we were laid off.Now i am bringing in only 1/3 of the money i was making THAT IS A 66% WAGE DECREASE and also i lost ALL my INSURANCE for a family of 5.Luckily the company i worked for qaulified for taa and i am going to school and i qaulified for some foodstamps and the kids got the medical card.Think of the people who have lost ALL OF THIER unemployment and benefits.SUCK IT UP STATE WORKERS AND TIGHTEN YOUR BELTS LIKE ALOT OF US HAVE TO.
Posted By: The facts: Keith more of your partials facts,you always qoute Jan 07 on unemployment 4.6 then jump right dtraight to today.How about stating Jan 09 Bushs last days in office rate was 7.6 so as we can see it was already on a dramatic rise.Now you figure the extensions which keep the rate up rather than take all those folks off in 26 weeks and you will continue to have high rates that would have dropped.Next lets add in one of the biggest boondoggles that add to the national ranks that have we have recently started experencing the farm bill of 2002 {Bush era}.The mere fact that farm workers can draw unemployment has added thousands to the totals,this bill has been a screw up form the start the mere fact that the govt pays farmers to use migrant workers has destroyed the local jobs for younger workers and with the increase in pay the mirgrant workers do not migrate they just stick around and then draw unemployment in the off season so instead of just stating # how about stating facts and effects
Posted By: Keith...quick, Obama is spying on my pizza order!! LOL Some of you are too easy...: No, but since you brought it up surely you heard that Obama's attorneys are arguing for warrantless cell phone tracking? Google "Obama attorneys argue cell phones tracked." He wants the authorities to be allowed to track citizens through their cellphones without first obtaining a warrant. Now if we speak of terrorists, no problem at all. IF you want to go there, why don't you just say "The Patriot Act," since both W, Cheney, and Obama, apparently, (I love grouping them together, especially with O with Cheney) all support the same stuff? Club Gitmo is still open; the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are still being fought; Wall Street pigs are still getting their bonuses; the economy worse; the debt, greater by 4 Trillion; the Patriot Act, with a super-majority in the Senate and a huge majority in the House, NOT overturned; Jobs? What jobs? Read what you just wrote, magnify it a 1000 times with the EPAs war on coal and everyone will soon be in line for ObamaCheese and ObamaButter.
Posted By: miner49er: So it's truth you want on cap-n-trade, eh? "Inflated Cost Claims: The GOP drastically overstated how much proposed cap-and-trade legislation would affect the average family’s energy costs — Republicans said costs would increase by $3,100 a year, more than twice the estimate of the conservative Heritage Foundation. On NBC’s "Meet the Press," House Minority Leader John Boehner cited a figure closer to the Heritage Foundation’s estimate — $1,700 per year — attributing it to the Treasury Department. But that number really came from a back-of-envelope calculation by a CBS News blogger. The Treasury Department has called the figure "flat-out wrong," and the Congressional Budget Office’s much lower estimate is $455 per year over the 2012-2050 period." FactCheck.org
Posted By: miner49er: When you say "The destruction of liberty and freedom" are you talking about Bush's Patriot Act or his illegal wiretapping of American citizens? You demand "just leave me and my family alone. Stop destroying our heavy industry, i.e., coal, oil, steel, etc" Your "coal, oil, steel, etc" is poisoning my family with mercury and selenium. You are all too willing to poison the air & water that our children need just so you can turn a profit. Childhood asthma is at an all-time high and WV's rivers are so polluted the fish are too poisonous to eat thanks to your "industry, jobs, and economic freedom".
Posted By: buck: Science in a lot of cases is govt. funded. The govt. is using science to grab a hold of people who are unsure and also the people who think they have a clue about nature through science and are very sure. Once again Global warming, climate change whatever is a hoax, man made crisis. God is, always has been, and always will be. That is all.
Posted By: Oh Lord...: I am so proud to be humble!
Posted By: lindak: KEITH, yes mighty relious, God 1st always...and yes I always think of others, I give and give, and hardly ever think of myself, not only of my time do I give to others, but clothes, food, money, and my own shirt sometimes! We all need to do better...we have 1 shot of this, then we die, and are at the judgement seat of the Almighty...it is something sobering to think about...think about it today Keith....and others....(personally I hug the trees with the little thorns all on their bark)....
Posted By: Keith...thanks for asking Walt: I never mentioned "bills" but here goes. 1. Card Check-would abolish the secret ballot in union elections. This is one of Obama's pay back bills to his favorite special interest group, Big Union. Just as employees deserve to be free of management interference, they deserve the same concerning unions when voting. 2: "Healthcare" show me a worse freedom stealing, liberty destroying idea than this. Penalties such as being jailed if you don't buy Obamacare sounds more at home in North Korea or Cuba, certainly not in America. This bill is an abomination. 3: Cap and Trade. Based upon a hoax, liberals are determined to destroy our industry, jobs, and economic freedom by imposing onerous regulations, taxes, limits, etc...upon our entrepreneurs while nations like China and India have wised up and chosen real jobs over non-existent "green" jobs, producing inefficient products very few want short of Govt. mandate and force of law. All three of these are straight from Obama, Pelosi, and Reid.
Posted By: Hey Walt: You had plenty of space why didn't you tell us?
Posted By: Walt: maybe you could name some of those freedom and liberty killing bills that came from the left, Keith. And before you get too exctied about Evan Bayh, you should take a look at the number of Republican senators who also are not pursuing re-election in 2012.
Posted By: Keith...bye bye Evan Bayh bye: I am happy to listen to science when it is not a tool of unscrupulous hucksters who use it to perpetrate a complete hoax on people who are apparently quite easily fooled. They drive huge SUVs, you drive a popcan; they live in huge mansions, you live with your house half covered in dirt; they fly private jets all over the world, you ride a bike. And you call me an idiot?? The destruction of liberty and freedom comes from the left; you know, the group that when they lose a debate the resort to name calling and the like, that's all you have. If you wish to practice your religion, fine, go to it, just leave me and my family alone. Stop destroying our heavy industry, i.e., coal, oil, steel, etc...stop destroying good paying jobs that provide shelter, food, and education for the children of honest, hard working parents in Appalachia, folks who find it more rewarding to actually get a job and pay taxes to support all the giveaway programs for mostly deadbeat liberals who don't/won't work.
Posted By: Bluebird: What is truth? I have no objection to using a common sense approach to keeping our planet livable. Phil Jones of the IPCC has admitted that there has been no significant warming to our planet in the last 15 years and that it has in fact been on the cooling side since 2002. My ancestors were the Vikings. Archaeologists have found proof they colonized a moderately warm Greenland during the Mid. Warming Period until they were frozen out during the 1400's. What does it harm to promote the green movement? It is taking over education, detracting from more important studies. Try buying a book for your child that will actually be entertaining. It is all about our green earth. Some are sick of it.Go check it out. All this info is out there for you as well, but we are "idiots" to say enough already. When it goes further and you are unable to support your families, just saying, "wow, I didn't think it would cost this much" is not going to help. You have already thrown away your freedom. Truth.
Posted By: : You are correct squarepeg,most who post on here don't care for the truth,and have no intention to seek it out.They cannot have a open discussion for they have no desire for truth,they actually fear it,to have to admit being wrong in thier beliefs/viewpoints is a fate worse than death to them.As seen by thier posts they are quite willing to destroy the freedoms of our country,the future well being of our descendants,even destroy the only planet, to our knowledge,capable of supporting our species.I just can't understand why these people act like science is our enemy when they couldn't enjoy the lifestyle they have without it.Yes ,"idiot" is the word that seems to fit.
Posted By: tree hugging is: mother earth is a religion.we have certainly found this out thru the bad mouthing about GOD.but we have also found out the mother earth religion is all about money and every one butthem sacrificing.a good article in world net daily about cambridge mass.and their coming mass taxes and fees.i think all true believers should have their own towns and cities devoted only to their religion.its a free country i dont see why these people wouldnt be happy living in them without our confiscated resorces.they take care of their own,we take care of our own to live as we please.simple solution.and since most of these mother earth fanatics believe in infanticide,the slaughter of the unborn,euthanasia etc.they can keep their carbon foot print at a minimum and if that doesnt take care of it they can mandate numbers to forbid exhaling.thats what some religons require.amen.
Posted By: Dont forget to change the date: For the new week of the Yell.
Posted By: Misleading #'s: Come on who are you people trying to fool.You quote these high unemployment numbers but you fail to realize that many of these peopl would be off the charts if it had not been for extensions and many of these people are not looking for work as long as they can continue to draw,I know manywho have not worked for over 18 months and still have 40 some odd weeks coming to them by the time all their extensions are exhausted and many say they will not go to work until the get all they are entitled to.Their favorite saying I paid into it so I'm drawing it out,until we stop the extensions and make them go to work the rate will stay high used to be 26 weeks and you were out of benefits and went back to work doing something.I know people who worked min.wage seasonal jobs who have drawn benefits for 72 weeks and have no desire to return to work,but you will not find a politican who will refuse them benefits be it democrat or republican for fear of not being re-elected.
Posted By: Hey COT: Well, turn on CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, PBS, they can help you. I would suggest Air America but they finally went bankrupt, George Soros apparently got tired of subsidizing it and it's 3 listeners.
Posted By: Keith...Amen, Brother Lindak; "shall we gather at the pine tree..": "Judged in the end..." that sounds mighty religious to me. Hey, BTW, do you ever think of the CHILDREN w/o food and clothes, thanks to you guys? January of 2007: Unemployment in the US stood at 4.6%, statistically, full employment, i.e., everyone who wanted a job could find one. Today, unemployment is 9.8%. The Dow Jones, in Jan. 2007, stood at 12,400. Today it is at 10,100. The Federal Deficit stood at 162 Billion in Jan. 2007, today it stands at 1.5 Trillion, which if you are counting, is around 15 times higher than Jan. 2007 levels, although I confess I am lost with such numbers. In January 2007, the federal debt was 8.7 Trillion, today it is 12.3 Trillion. What happened? What happened in November, 2006? Who took over the spending in January, 2007, and controls it to this day? I know all we hear from Obama and Biden is, "we inherited all this..." Well, 2 points: Bush no longer matters. What is/have Barry & Joe done/doing to solve it? Absolutely nothing. Stimulus? LOL.
Posted By: to lindak: i assume you mean people who believes man can or cant change weather.if you believe mans use of fossil fuels etc cause weather change and GOD will judge us for our selfish use of it,lets analyse americas sin as compared to every other country on the planet.but first lets compare floods and oceans rising to blame modern man for these.how did the ice age come about and then tropicl weather or vise versa.i will bring up yhe ultimate flood.noah.what fossil fuel,tree destroying product ,water poluting product did he use.remember if thats true he caused the ultimate genocide,ignorance cant be excused.only 8 people survived.remember thedust bowl in the west in ,i think the 30s,remember the 37 flood.very few people had cars.what happened then,oh i know GOD ALMIGHTY caused weather change and lack of rain and then too much rain.its really HIS doing so go insult HIS plan.oh and dont forget,since u love this earth more than us,please dont exhale,that only makes u a hippocrite.
Posted By: lindak: We were all put here to take good care of God's resources, to to exploit, use up, damage the Earth, as we have. People have become selfish, greedy, caring only for themselves, the rest who are trying to help, are called, tree huggers, hippies or worst...but it is your kind who will be judged in the end.
Posted By: to anon 3;12 p.m.: i think u have a solution.only the educated,super smart,non christian,or religous people believe in infanticide,killing of their unborn babies,uthenasia,for sick and old people.who,s left?that would also take care of the man made global warming crowd by stopping their carbon footprint.you,re right you are a genius!now back to moral living.
Posted By: Craveontruth: Thank you for reminding mr Squarepeg.Actually,I am getting very tired.I can not compete with nine hours of talk radio a day.I need some help.
Posted By: Keith...lets talk economics for a while: My new economic plan involves passing a law immediately to force all small business to immediately hire 70 new workers. Salaries will be paid for by allowing IRS credits to be extended to the small businesses to qualify for no interest loans to meet payroll. All banks will be required to make these loans, at 0% interest, on penalty of A: takeover by the Bank Czar or, B: be closed down. The loans will total $3 Trillion, and be backed by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. All loans will be made electronically for 2 reasons: no new paper money will be printed, saving ink costs, and without paper money being printed, there will be no increase in money supply, thus inflation will be held in check. The best Obama can come up with is 95,000 jobs per month, mine will easily go over 100,000.
Posted By: Squarepeg: If you argue with an idiot, you become an idiot.
Posted By: decon54: funny thing about climate change Vancouver which usually has plenty of snow is having a hard time getting enough snow for the winter olympic thingi guess god didn't want them to have winter olympics
Posted By: Big Earl: Hello good working coal miners of WV and there kin to did any of you people read that story in the Logan paper about the WV Younguns for Coal that is organizing to give guff back to the junior hippies and treehuggers what has snuck into out taxpayer funded schools I have even heard about teachers from places in Ohio come in here get jobs and throw in with treehuggers boohooing about polar bears and penguins I for one say bring Tennesseee Tuxcedo down here he would get along fine down by the creek with all this hippie global warming going on hey Congressman Nick if you want to make some good coal commercials walk down the street and to the White House and tell them to make out the check to the Channel 3 News Station they’ll help you if anybody gives you any flap tell them Senator RC Byrd sent you.
Posted By: Bluebird: The sad truth is man is little more than an irritation on the surface of this earth. Put all of us in one spot and rise above the earth, we would be little more than a blemish. We can pollute the air and water around us, but if we disappeared in no time the earth would cleanse itself. The things that affect the ocean are nothing to do with us. The moon, sun and possibly planets and meteors even, affect it. But mostly it is our molten interior. Have you not noticed the increase in earthquakes? When those plates shift, which float on that molten core-that would affect the ocean temp. Of course the theory is our actions also cause that. It is just not so. These people are putting too much importance upon our existence in relation to the working of the universe. We are nothing in the big scope of things. Little more than a rash the earth has developed. But more than anything is man's increased technology that allows them to see things that were unknown before. And some gain wealth from it.
Posted By: Keith: Well, Anonymous, that sure sounds like the theory of man made global warming to me; that is a perfect description of AlGore; there are millions of gullible folks around the world believing in M.M.G.W., on less evidence than Christians have; so what is the point of your post? You agree with me on everything. No, COT, but I am saying it is endlessly amusing to read the posts of the so-called atheists/agnostics on here, who mock and ridicule Christianity, but themselves have a religion with priests, sin, atonement, etc...there is corruption anywhere there is humanity, but, AlGore is perhaps the biggest huckster of them all. Imagine, a hoax, a movie filled with inaccuracies, force-fed to school age children; propped up by a lap dog media; lauded by socialists, communists, even Osama Bin Laden, & tax happy UN bureaucrats, and, he will even sell you carbon credit indulgences to assuage your guilt, at a profit to himself, of course; and, Rev. AlGore NEVER takes/answers questions. Why not?
Posted By: : Kieth,rambling on a little more than usual aren't you?But as to question of religion or science that is very easy to answer,religion is a belief in mythological beings and stories of which there are no facts to back them up,just people telling you it is so for thier own personal gain,or sense of power and/or feeling of being better than another.While science is based on the facts which are studied and compiled to reach an understanding of an event or thing.While all religions mix enough truth(facts)with the myths to sell itself to as many persons as possible,it is still mainly false and flawed information with more harm than good for society,the best thing ever to happen for a society was the separation of church and state.Hopefully the more educated the world becomes the less religion will influence things and a better world and life be left to our descendants.
Posted By: buck to miner49er: It seems as though you might be a hypocrite. Here is what you said to me on on Feb 9, 2010 at 03:27 PM (Buck, you are such an idiot!) You can dish it out but you can't take it. At least Austin admits to making mistakes. I have a feeling you are the 'a year later' person who posted a while back. I will ignore from this point forward as I imagine the rest will also, unless you change names and chat to yourself.
Posted By: : Why is it so hard for some people to understand that no president had czars and that it is only what the news media calls the heads of different programs and/or departments because they are either to lazy to write or say the whole thing,or more than likely figure to catch peoples attention with certain phrases and catch words.
Posted By: Craveontruth: Keith,are you saying religious leaders are as corrupt as Al Gore? Or as you put it "The REV.Al Gore".
Posted By: Arts Patron: If the MU Artists Series programs had the reputation for starting on time, people would arrive on time. This has become a vicious cycle--late shows, late patrons. What if schools operated on the theory that they would not start till all students arrived? Would you really want to start classes when all the students decided to roll out of bed and get themselves to school? I know several senior couples who no longer purchase Artists Series season tickets because the shows run so late.
Posted By: Craveontruth: It is not about air temperature.It is about the temperature of the earth's oceans.There is a big difference.All of the references to weather and temperatures being made on this site are always about air temps.You must know the difference.It looks to me the right has stated the democrats have invented this to collect more taxes.Well then reduce the co2 emissions and don't pay the taxes.Simple.I am happy because of reduced co2 and you can be happy by no new tax to pay.
Posted By: buck: Hey COT can't you see that you as well as others are jumping in on this man made crisis. This is not global warming. The Gov. is banking on people analyzing weather to further their agenda. We could sit and analyze all day long about any subject ya want and make an argument. Mother nature just can't be analyzed. Its weather and its normal (common sense)
Posted By: Keith...hey WSAZ I have a poll question: "Do you think the Man Made Global Warming Movement is a Religion, or Sceince?" Lets examine: Original Sin? In MMGW's case, humans breathing, exhaling Carbon Dioxide. Atonement? Driving pop can, plug in cars; eating veggie burgers, etc... Ever heard of indulgences? Same thing as Carbon Credits. Priesthood? Is there a group of leaders who may feel they are exempted from from laws and standards covering everyone else, self-important, who are afforded special status and privilege? Absolutely, look at AlGore and RKF Jr. One common charge directed at religions is, they are closed minded and dogmatic, not open to debate. Q: Who said that the MMGW issue was settled, that further debate was unnecessary? A: Rev. AlGore. Another charge leveled is profiteering off the supplicants. Q: Who gains financially from a company that sells indulg...er, I mean Carbon Credits? A: AlGore. Some charge that religious leaders won't answer questions; just "take my word for it." Sound familiar? Yep, Rev. AlGore.
Posted By: Bluebird: If I might join this discussion without someone calling their mom on here to make me look like a cyber bully, I have to agree with Keith and like. Craveontruth, you made some excellent points, emissions do need cut-for our health. But earth is not warming any more than in times past. Data was doctored to make it look like it was by the power elite who control the world. We have always had periods of unexplainable weather. Who can explain the Dust Bowl of the 30's? I remember times growing up that the temps were in the 100's in summer. And we had huge snowfalls. But not every year of each. Now that the facts are coming out, and most countries are realizing they have been had, our "good" country has decided to make their own studies. I guarantee it will make it look like the earth is warming. It is too good of a crisis to throw away. Storms have always been caused by evaporating water and directed where the air flow and ocean currents guide it. It was a perfect design by a Perfect Maker.
Posted By: Questions, and those irksome facts...: Who said, here on the Yell, last year, that Swine Flu, or was it Bird Flu, I have forgotten now, was going to shut down the entire country and make it unsafe to leave your homes? Also, who, in the course of conversation, sent emails to one another describing how data had been manipulated, lies had been told, truth had been stretched, on man made global warming? Was it Rush and Sean, or the global warming "scientists?" A: MMGW "scientists." True or false: for thousands of years, the earth has been going through natural cycles of warming and cooling. A: True. Before industry, before the modern economy, yes, the earth cooled and warmed, naturally. The warmest year on record in the last 100 years was in the 1930s, since the 1990s the trend has been cooling. In fact, Time magazine, in the late 1970s, published a story about the coming global ice age. I also heard the UN took the word of ONE STUDENT who wrote a paper on MMGW, ran with it, proclaimed it, when it was totally false. Wow.
Posted By: Keith...man made global warming is a hoax: The USA is one of the few countries in the world that has a % of its population willing to commit national suicide for a man made hoax. Developing nations, the ones that wish to create and maintain thriving, growing economies that provide good jobs and actually build things scoff at this nonsense. More drought means the world is getting more wet; more water means the world is getting drier; more snow means we are getting warmer; alarmists in the Church of M.M.G.W. proclaim every hurricane, tornado, flood, to be part of the giant catastrophe. Then, when the fraud is revealed on a grand scale, (England) oops, lets call it climate change, only, let it be for thee and not for me, thus say the Apostles of the Church, like Brother AlGore and RFK Jr., as they fly all over the world in their luxury private jets, drive huge SUVs, live in mansions, and fight windmill installation in their neighborhood, because it will block their view of the bay. What kind of deluded people fall for this stuff?
Posted By: haha: Roger are you kidding me? Seriously? I think perhaps you should go to science class again... Or even history for that matter. Look over the last several years, there are years that are wetter, dryer, colder, warmer, the whole sha-bang! Growing up somewhere where it actually snowed anyway, this winter is really no different. Of course in southwestern wv people freak out over an inch of snow, yet there truly hasn't been "that" much snow. Global Warming by your theory means that every single year we will have deeper snows and wetter forecasts. In fact, next year we probably will face another drought. All of this is mother nature's way of fixing the problems. (one year not enough rain, next year plenty) Its not a conspiracy but instead the Natural Process. Just think, millions of years ago the world was ice, then it gradually warmed! Its going to do it without us.
Posted By: Roger: Quite frankly, the current weather supports global warming. More moisture in the air from the evaporating oceans = more snow. Several places on the east coast have broken records this year for snowfall.
Posted By: Austin:to Miner49er: I admit I make mistakes, like everyone else but it's funny how you proved my point by continuing the attack on my intelligence and not by responding to my questions on your theory. Thank you.
Posted By: Craveontruth: Buck," There is really nothing happening"? If the earth is getting warmer then you bet your life it's a crisis.Let's just say I could be wrong or you could be wrong.So if I am wrong it will cost a lot of money and possible economic hardships.If you are wrong it will cost our lives.One way companies can avoid paying taxes on co2 emissions is to lower co2 emissions.Of course that would cut into profits.Lower emissions and lower taxes would seem to meet both sides needs.But industry has decided it would be cheaper to buy politicians and use Rush and Hannity to muddy the water.No matter what you say or think Buck there is one thing you can not deny.The earth is getting warmer.Call it global warming,call it Climate change,call it peanut butter,I don't care.But don't deny it!
Posted By: Keith...one of the many problems with liberals is...: Free speech, just not if you disagree with me. So what is wrong with Exxon lobbying to have their point heard? Nothing. Not a word about the liberals #1 favorite special interest group, Big Union. They shakedown millions from their members annually and endorse and support candidates that a great deal of the membership disagrees with, and the membership has absolutely no recourse or power to stop it. That is what needs to be stopped; or, if they can do it, so can business groups. Hey did you guys hear Obama is trying to snoop on your pizza orders you make on the cell phone? Apparently so. Why that dirty, liberty abusing, civil rights hating, privacy bashing Bu..er, oh yeah, Obama. AND, I heard Obama say he didn't mind those pigs on Wall Street getting their bonuses? Has the world turned upside down? Lastly, our NY genius, Jay Rockefeller, said Obama couldn't be believed. Well welcome to the real world Jay. Too bad you and Nick Rahall have had pom-poms in your hands for him since '08
Posted By: miner49er: Austin, you said "always amusing how people like you cannot prove your theories so you just degrade anyone who disagrees" then you attack me over spelling... That seems hypocritical of you, I hadn't mentioned your frequent spelling and grammer errors such as your post on Feb 12, 2010 at 09:01 AM "Inteligent Design" Austin, I think that should be "Intelligent".
Posted By: buck: There is really nothing happening. It is what has always happened. It is nature. Nothing man made. The government is creating a crisis.
Posted By: miner49er: It seems as if some of you are believing the oil/coal propaganda. ExxonMobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, has given hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past several years to groups that repeatedly attack climate-change scientists. In 2008, the company reported giving $100,000 to the Washington, D.C.-based Atlas Economic Research Foundation, which co-sponsored a conference in New York that March titled "Global Warming: Was It Ever Really a Crisis?" That conference was sponsored by the Chicago-based Heartland Institute, which has also received money from ExxonMobil. Atlas has supported more than 30 other self-proclaimed think-tanks that espouse climate-change skepticism. The London-based International Policy Network, which has also launched repeated attacks against climate-change scientists, including researchers of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, has likewise received money from ExxonMobil. ExxonMobil has plenty of money to run propaganda and buy Congressmen, Americans will always buy their gas to run to 7-11 for a pack of cigarettes
Posted By: Craveontruth: Buck, your comment on global warming not existing is most alarming to me.You see the debate is not over wether the earth's waters are getting warmer or not,it is wether man is causing it or it is a natural occurrence.All you have to do is take a temperture and you can find out the earth is warmer today than it was last year.So for you to say global warming does not exist I find to be inaccurate.Are you saying it is a natural occurrence?
Posted By: Austin:To Miner49er: Sorry Miner if I dont meet your high intellect,although I do have have the "tools" to spell anyalyze, and bottom correctly, anyway I do understand that higher temps can and do cause more energy in the system resulting in more extreme weather. My point is that the earth has been doing this since its begining, long before electric power plants and gasoline powered cars. Even before mankind was at the large population it is now. How is it that these changes that according to those highly educated scientist have been happening for millions of years are suddenly mankinds fault? Did they not begin before we crawled out of the ooze? Not that I believe that but it is always amusing how people like you cannot prove your theories so you just degrade anyone who disagrees. If the theories about climate change, global warming or whatever the catch phrase is this week are so rock solid why do they have to manipulate the data? Please feel free to ask me any question about int. design you wish.
Posted By: Curious: I wonder why Valerie Friend is back at South Central Regional Jail?
Posted By: buck to miner: It is simple, Global warming does not exist.
Posted By: food for thought: i said it once and I will say it again. HOAX! hey Keith I told you I haven't posted in a while but as always I get 'em stirred up. Hey more of that Global Warming is coming I will have a fresh supply to load out, anyone interested? OK, If I am ignoring the facts, how come "deep sea/ocean life is and as always exactly that? Deep? You see the sea/ocean life is still maintaining their typical locations in the water. If the water is "warming" more than normal, that life would ascend. You know like a catfish here on the good ole Big Coal River. In the summer, you fish shallow, as it gets colder you fsih deep. Ah, heck who am I kidding, you people are led to belive the Coal River does not have fish life. Maybe I can get my co-worker Earl to explain it better. Big Earl, can you help the ol' grease monkey? You think Gore cares? As of 2 days, there has not been a word from him about the President he served under. Yup, self righteous. Have fun, when I was a kid we called it treasure hunt.
Posted By: climate change..yes,yes,yes.: any moron who doesnt believe in climate change is uneducated.its called spring,summer,fall and winter.so we need to quite argueing and keep on making gore,hollywood,country singers etc more millions.the sky is falling.
Posted By: miner49er: Austin, you're oversimplifying a complex system. You don't seem to have the tools to logically analyse the data. To think that Global Warming will just raise the ambient temp a few degrees with no ill effects is to ignore the complex weather dynamic. The bottam line is increased temps mean increased energy in the system mean more extreme storms and weather events. Yes, record highs and lows as the total energy in the system goes up. So, intelligent design? How does that theory go?
Posted By: jam6972: Mr.Keith, Those doggone liberals said there was global climate change,....it HAS to be wrong,...correct Keith?
Posted By: verrrry intrrresting..: i see racism is still alive and well.reverse racism that is.naaa they cant be racist against white people.what was i thinking.
Posted By: the perfect climotologist: And that will be GOD ALMIGHTY.HE is all thru the bible with weather forcast,ocean levels,tornadoes,volcanoes!what man can and cant control weatherwise!only an arrogant self loving person thinks himself more powerful and smarter than his CREATOR.the sky is falling,gore,j.carter,any kennedy etc.they just worry all the way to the bank.has anyone seen al gore lately?
Posted By: Austin:to miner49er: So lets get this straight, record highs=proof of global warming.Record lows=proof of global warming.Huricanes=global warming. Record snowfalls=global warming. Global warming scientist manipulate data=change global warming to "climate change". Who's ignoring the facts? No according to all of the scientist who say I am a fool for believing in Inteligent Design say the earth has gone from ice age to tropical climate over and over again say I am foolish for not believing in man made climate change. Now can someone get the story straight, did the dinasouars flagelance cause the last round of climate change or is it just a naturual occurence. I dont mean to ignore the facts but since the "facts" keep changing to suit what they want to say, its kind of hard not too. So when all of the "experts" like Al Gore decide to stop running around in their SUV's and living in energy sucking mansions, paid for by carbon credits, make up their mind maybe we will discuss it.
Posted By: Nashman: I agree. The record snowfalls are evidence of Global Climate Change. I'll bet this summer will be a scorcher and next winter will be snowy again. You can't tell me that all the crap the world pollutes into our oceans and atomsphere is not having a warming effect on our polar regions. No Earl, I'm not a tree hugger. I just know the facts of what I've seen, read and reasoned. I just don't know how to fix it.
Posted By: Camel Lot is finally over: Teddy passed on to that great welfare state in the sky; RFK Jr. discredited; Patrick Kennedy not seeking re-election; Caroline, you know, like, not electable in NY, looks like the Kennedy era is finally over.
Posted By: Gandalf: I just saw the condom ad on Cartoon Network. It was at 7:13 am leading into the Robot Chicken show on Adult Swim. The adult programming is ended at 6 am, however the west coast channel is 4 hours later. This means in the east it does not change back to kids programming until 10 am. A hint: Watch what your children watch, listen to their CD's, read books, look at their internet history. Don't disrespect their privacy, but stay informed of their media intake and you will not be in the dark as to their behavior.
Posted By: s.carolina,cracking down..: s.carolina has on its books a decades old law on terrorist.seems to be a growing intrest in renewing it.25000 dollar fineetc.sounds like agood thing til you think of who this obama administration calls terrorist.pro life,christians,tea party people,conservatives are their idea of terrorist.ft hood ,airplane muslim wanna be bombers cant be called terrorist,just the list above pushed by obama news networks.another article on safe school czar in world net daily if parents want to see their childrens future.p.c.wsaz?suffer the little children to come unto me for such is the kingdom ofGOD.sorry i havent read the muslim holy book so i cant quote from it.havent they a time or two strapped bombs on children?but to be fair the safe school czar is,will cause almost as much damage!this is not hate speech,just facts!
Posted By: Keith...don't you guys like how...: The supplicants from the Church of Global Warming now call it "Global Climate Change?" See, us common folks are too stupid to look out the window, see 3 feet of snow along with 10 degree temperatures, record snowfall in Philly, DC, etc...and not realize its because everything is getting warmer. We need to put more than a coal miner on a milk jug, how about Robert Kennedy Jr. and AlGore. Anybody seen them? First the university over in England is caught red-handed in their scam; next we find out some yahoo writes a paper about all the rain forests vanishing, the UN buys it hook, line, and sinker, when it is a total crock. Man made global warming is a hoax; if it were real, the two main milk-jug apostles of the Church would be pedaling around on bikes instead of flying in private jets. Yeah, I understand now...we drive soda pop can cars, they live in 50 room mansions. Hey Gandalf maybe it was on the Courage the Cowardly Dog show that Eustis guy is pretty radical.
Posted By: miner49er: Yes, the record snowfalls ARE evidence of Global Climate Change. As the Earth's oceans are heated, more water vapor enters the atmosphere. This leads to increased precipitation as rain when it's warm and snow when it's cold. Also, higher ocean temps will cause more atmosphereic disturbances in general, such as high winds and "freak" storms. Those who deny the reality of Climate Change are ignoring the facts.
Posted By: Bluebird: Perhaps you are right, Gandalf. But there is an article that I was not happy to see. If any are concerned about what they are teaching children, I would read it and keep an eye open. Letters to lawmakers may help as well.You can find it by doing a search on "Planned parenthood/sex education in the news". Stand and Deliver, I believe is the name on the article.
Posted By: Gandalf: I would like to ask Mom of Three Boys when the commercial mentioned was broadcast? Cartoon Network is hardly Sesame Street. After 10 PM it is called Adult Swim, and content is quite mature subject matter. Cartoons none the less, but for "adults". Commercials too I suppose. Someone may have accidentally programmed the commercial during the day, or if in early morning west coast broadcast may sometimes have late nite programming. Or maybe Ted Turner wants to indoctrinate your kids!LOL
Posted By: food for thought: Keith, you are welcome. I haven't posted in a while but I always stop and read some of your and Bluebird's posts. Many others as well. Hey, if anyone is still interested there is some global warming out in the yard, I will load it for free, and don't worry I have some more coming Sunday and Monday. I love the status on Larry the Cable guy's myspace the other day. Went something like this.Ever since there was 30 plus inches of that global warming dropped in Washington, D.C. that Al Gore has been a no-show. Makes since to me.
Posted By: decon54: Big Earl all you need for saftey precausions at work would be your saftey glasses no need for the hard hat because your kinda like a frog nothing above the eyes and as for the rest of you clusterfox fans what universe are you from DB has done more singlehandedly to harm the image of coal than any treehugger
Posted By: Big Earl: Hello you good coal miner people of WV here is another idea for Mr. DB for his TV commercials have some hippies and PETA types what looks like them car insurance selling cavemen on a trip to the market in the Mystery Machine first off they go by the meat rack instead of hamburger there is nothing but gobs of tofu and ground up greens for there veggie burgers then go by the milk rack there can be a picture of a coal miner on the milk jug that says Have You Seen Me Missing WV Coal Miner Last Seen In Line At The Unemployment Office good luck trying to find a decent lightbulb to last off when you get to the counter there is nothing but cheap greenie grocery bags made out of seeweed and them Green Police they sang about at the Super Bowl call it Nightmare on Your Street coming soon to a town near you.
Posted By: Nashman: I watch the local and national news daily and have yet to see any comprehensive reports of the progress being made in Haiti. Maybe a blip here and there to say they found one more survivor (which is a miracle). What I want to know is are the people getting fed? Are the volunteer & armed forces able to keep order? Is there any progress getting shelters built or tents for people? The rainy season is coming - what is being done to prepare? Why isn't there a network Anchor person in Haiti giving daily updates? Somebody give me a comment - Do you feel we are really getting the news coverage that this deserves? The media did the same thing with the New Orleans disaster - once the water drained out, it was old news. Just how safe from flooding again is New Orleans? Any imput will be appreciated.
Posted By: Bluebird: I am in agreement with you about the commercials. I have not seen the commercials but they are apparently jumping ahead with "educating" the younger kids as is being discussed in the news lately. The only thing parents can do is what you are doing-protest. I will join you. If enough of us do, perhaps we can change things, but I doubt it. It is the end times we live in, sadly, where Christians are the enemy. But He told us we would be. Good luck. Don't let them drown out your voice.
Posted By: kinda like michele.o.: i almost by accident turned to two different programs.15 minutes of a zola levite program and part of a comitte meeting in frankfort.israel is going forward to build and open a school for levite priest .they are making plans to build the third temple.any one intrested in biblical history will find these programs intresting.in frankfort they discussed coal,including power plants,i didnt see the first part but that was my take on it.they voted yes.an opposing view started with this statement"we need to deal with to low energy bills.people are paying too little in his view.he wants carbon taxes.gooch answered him by telling him that manmade global warming in his opinion was a hoax,and read many articles to prove his point.unlike m.obama.i have always loved america and ky but today thanks to mr gooch he has renewed somewhat my hope we wont be turned into marxist!GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
Posted By: wheres al and rfk?: if you havent looked at the washington d.c.house dedicated to al gore,it is hilerous.its a shame the coal meeting between robert kennedy andblankenship cant be held today.
Posted By: is it a obama conspiracy?: toyota was the top selling?vehichals sold in obamas cash for clunkers.is this recall hysteria from government motors a way to get even?intttterrreeestttting!on another note i see wsaz is still stiffling free speech!!!!!picky,picky,pickey.you cant fool intelligent people.
Posted By: Big Earl: Hello you good coal miner people of WV here is another idea for Mr. DB for his TV commercials have some hippies and PETA types what looks like them car insurance selling cavemen on a trip to the market in the Mystery Machine first off they go by the meat rack instead of hamburger there is nothing but gobs of tofu and ground up greens for there veggie burgers then go by the milk rack there can be a picture of a coal miner on the milk jug that says Have You Seen Me Missing WV Coal Miner Last Seen In Line At The Unemployment Office good luck trying to find a decent lightbulb to last off when you get to the counter there is nothing but cheap greenie grocery bags made out of seeweed and them Green Police they sang about at the Super Bowl call it Nightmare on Your Street coming soon to a town near you.
Posted By: czars info.: yes presidents have czars.fact.but the charachter and goals are the problem.the mom of 3 boys needs to investigate the present czars not the past czars.they have lost their power.im surprised that only one person knew who josyln elders was but didnt know who kevin jennings is.parents,grandparents, any one with children in their lives need to know who he is and his agenda is.world net daily and many conservative news reporters have outed his agenda.the road to tyranny,complete fall of any gov.is the total disentegration of its society.then it fall into the hand of dictators.call it marxism,communism totalaterism,socialism,i dont know the correct word for this agenda is ,for these evils.but any president is defind by his appointees,staff,friends,etc.forget g.bush.i dare anyone to look up o.s czars and make a factual comment.mom of 3 you are responsible for your boys let us know what you think of the safe school czar.if this gets past p.c.
Posted By: To Arts patron: Nine times out of ten, when a show doesn't start at the scheduled time, it's because they're holding the performance to allow time for everyone to be seated. This is especially true in cases where there are a lot of children in the audience or it's a large crowd. Charleston is a bit notorious for having a lot of late-arriving patrons who come to the theatre at the last minute, but it happens everywhere. I've never known of a show being held because the performers weren't ready, though of course there could always be something unexpected that delays a performance.
Posted By: mom of three boys: I do not live nor do I qualify for any government assistance. I wouldn't have voted for Obama if someone offered me all the money in the world. I simply asked why a commercial promoting condoms was aired during cartoons. I believe in God and do my best to raise my children by his word. I will not hide them from reality but condoms on cartoons---wow. I don't have all night for an argument about our pathetic government or the anti-christian views of our government. I believe in God and I believe educating on sex should be when a child is a little closer to being a teenager. I never thought that I would explain to a 4, 5, or 8 year old what a condom was. I will be sending a letter to the network because I believe that action speaks louder than words. That is exactly what is wrong with this nation! Too many people whine and wait on a hand out instead of getting up and doing something about it!
Posted By: Keith....ask me, please: I will define Marxism for you. Example: "Share/spread the wealth." Translated: Take from folks who work hard to earn their own money, pay their own bills, take care of their families, i.e., they don't expect their neighbor to pay their bills, don't sponge off people who do work, soak their neighbors, lob up on the public dole, etc.. just the opposite of what made the country great. Many presidents did have Czars, but I challenge you, show me a more motley collection of America-hating, radical, evil, Marxist, Maoist, malcontents than Obama has assembled; you cannot. Socialism/Communism is a horror; just look at anywhere it is tried. Paradises on earth, like Cuba, where comrade Fidel will help you buy a brand new 1959 Chevy; North Korea, where TV and radio is controlled by the state; China, with forced abortion policies, this is socialism. Way to go Food for thought. Speaking of, is that GMO stuff sold at Krogers COT? I have never noticed it on the labels on the back of the box.
Posted By: To Mom of 3 Boys:: Gee, I sure hope you aren't one of the many hypocrites I see that bash "socialist" programs yet take advantage of them yourself. If you ever got help such as medical card during pregnancy, WIC for your boys, or took them to the public library- guess what? You have used SOCIALIST programs! The horror! I love that people throw the word "Marxist" around but then have no clue how to define what that means when asked. Get a clue. Get a grip. Many presidents had czars, including GW.
Posted By: Arts patron: I took my daughter to see Cats which was supposed to start at 7:30 but didn't start till 7:50. She grew quite squirmy in her seat waiting for the show to begin. Then, she fell asleep about half way through the second act. Why can't the Artists Series programs start on time?
Posted By: Craveontruth: GMO stands for Genetically modified organisms.You really need to watch Food Inc.to understand why this is bad news for you.Miner49er,I would like to sit down and have a few beers with you.
Posted By: paul: you took jay last show off for a local show about over weight people. way to go wsaz
Posted By: Keith: Did you guys see the picture of those giant billboards with W's face on them asking "Do you miss me yet?" That's just too funny. Maybe not now, but come back in a few months and people will call your time "the good ole days."
Posted By: : WOW you all are on roll,is the moon full?Oh wait,it's the weather,snowed in nothing better to do.You all are lucky WSAZ doesn't require intelligence to post here or many of you would go unnoticed.And 10 to 1 come on now we can see that's not true so why say it?We all are entitled to our own opinion,but not our own truth.
Posted By: food for thought: I will go out on a limb and say I will declare the Farmers Almanac as what is going to happen each and every season. You Global Warming fanatics can go with these has beens and the rest that are spooked by their claims. Hey, I have some of this global warmimg right here in Boone County for you. It starts with taking your 2 degrees that the government says they will reduce in the coming years and asking them how will they do that when they can't even balance a budget. Next, if you are afraid that the Earth is going to burn up then you know one thing,(Prophecy) so the ones that believe we are going to heat up like Hades will be easier for you to come to the saving grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. You can believe the Gore types if you want, but I do believe it may be some old time conviction, that is doing some work on you. God Bless and if you want I will load some of this global warming in a truck and you can have it. I know my grammar and puncuation is not the best, I had to hurry.
Posted By: Leann: Why is it that Cabell County Schools is the last one to close. Every other school system seems to give plenty of advance notice when closing schools so parents are able to make arrangements. Cabell always waits till the last minute. They call at 5am instead of closing the night before like everyone else!! Please Cabell give us a break!!!!
Posted By: Delbert: Fifth Ave in Huntington has become a raceway. Between 20th Street and 31st Street, some traffic is exceeding 60 mph. Where are the police ?
Posted By: Bluebird: I would like to remind everyone that tomorrow is the day Iran targeted to make some kind of showing against our nation. Whether this is a real threat or so much hot air is anyone's guess. Just be on the lookout for suspicious activities and as always, look out for one another.
Posted By: To Cheryl, Jeopardy, COT...: Just stay tuned, Beavis and Butthead will slip up, when they do the police will be aware and waiting...one thing I always notice in the news is, most criminals are not known for being too smart. Jocelyn Elders was Bill Clinton's surgeon general; best know for encouraging certain solitary sexual practices, extolling drug use, etc...a real whacked out character. She eventually resigned. Don't know the other fellow...maybe kin to Waylon? Hey COT what is a GMO? Is that something like when you go to the doctor?
Posted By: buck to miner: The post that said buck to buck was meant for buck to miner
Posted By: Big Earl: Hello again good coal miner people of WV this is Big Earl and if you know a out of work greenie type direct them to the TV station up to the Capitol in Charleston I have thought up another commercial to run in Washington DC get a hippie put them out in the woods with a frying pan and a pile of sticks then take a nice normal coal miners wife put her in a kitchen in an nice warm house with a frying pan put a jumbo cooked egg and some bacon from down to the Kroger store in the pan and say this is your egg on coal then show the hippie out in the woods rubbing sticks together cause he cant find the plug in nowhere and say this is what you get when a dopehead treehugger hippie with no electric cooks your egg-nothing.
Posted By: buck: I meant the cost would would be great causing mines to shut down. In other words mine it use it mine etc. Global warming doesn't exist so whats the point. Its another man made crisis.
Posted By: buck to miner: Ya don't like America then move. I get the distinct impression that you are not American.
Posted By: Ashley: Keith>> You should watch "Indoctrinate U" it's a very interesting documentary done on the stiffling of opposing opinions on college campuses. I think you would enjoy this.
Posted By: cheryl: Well the headline says let off some steam so here I am.I have a question for all hardworking law abiding citizens of the tri state. Why is that criminals have more rights than victims.On 1/11/10 I was gone for the evening and my 16 yr. old daughter allowed 2 19 yr. old boys into the house although she knew that it was against the rules to have anyone over well when the boys left so did alot of expensive electronics after lots of questioning from the police she finally admitted to having these boys over. Well a few days later these same 2 boys were accused of being at another home where there was also several electronic items missing when they left. The police question these boys and they claim to know nothing and because nothing turns up at the pawn shops they cant prosecute. Well if these boys were the only 2 ppl in 2 seperate homes on 2 seperate days how is it possible that nothing can be done. That just goes to show (in my opinion) that crime does pay.
Posted By: Keith...(BELLS, SIRENS FLASHING) I AM OFFENDED!!! YAAAAAAAAA!!!! MINER49er USED THE WORD "JAPS": What a nice dose of WW2 era bigotry first thing in the morning, geez. Do you also call Germans a certain vegetable name and what do you call Italians? What an outrage!! :) Seriously, Miner, you write like your mind is stuck in a time warp. This is not 1864, or 1898, 1906, etc... Tragic about the 994 Muslims killed in 1906. How about lets weigh that against the ones we helped in the Bosnian War in the '90s, Gulf War 1, Kuwait, the 50 million or so freed in 2003. Q: Were the Philippines better off being an American protectorate in 1944, or could Spain have saved them? Enough said. Haiti and Lebanon would have been much better off today had our Marines stayed, God bless them for the wonderful work they do. Anywhere the USA goes, freedom and opportunity follow; Germany, Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan, etc...as for assassins, depends on who they are planting. There are a lot of folks in this world who need a CIA assassin, i.e., thugs, tyrants, dictators, who murder, enslave, pillage, rape, etc...
Posted By: to bob,2;46 p.m.: how did you get this post past the obama messiah network wsaz?sounds to pro christian to me.u must be a terrorist!!!!to.....miner49,i didnt know there were muslims working in the mines.whose side are u on!if its not americas there are many countries that would welcome u on their terms.we conservatinves have no place else to go.speaking of haity...the other half of that island is under americas partnership,porta rico you need to compare these two governments.haity used to be like them,what happened?i didnt see any muslim help in haitys disaster,where are they?
Posted By: Big Earl: Hello good WV coal miners and there people did any of you people see that story in the Logan paper about our own Gov. Joe and Congressman Nick saying Mr. DB needs to pony up and run some TV commercials in Washington DC to give them treehuggers at the EPA some guff about what coal does good for the USA well that gave me an idea and it could get some hippies off the dole to dress them up like some of them monkey people off that Elvis movie Space 2001 they can live in a cave with no electric heat or lights wear a bunch of bearskin rugs for clothes and draw stick animals on the wall to educate there little crowmagnons we can call it Back to the Future-6000 BC this is what you get if you throw in with treehuggers.
Posted By: who are these people?: josyln elders,kevin jennings?
Posted By: to jim...: i have a question i think u can answer if it gets past p.c.i have read that the muslim religion allows deception to get their goals accomplished.for instance...a person could pretend to be christian but be a closet muslim to get to their goals.the ft hoodterrorist,the michign wanna be terrorist certainly didnt advertise violence but tolerance to meet their goal.and u are right about the largest birth rate to meet a goal in usa.i dont think its accidental that americans are encouraged to kill their unborn babies but muslims dont believe their religon will tolerate abortion in their race or religous beliefs.less americans christians,more muslims to force their religion on a weak america.
Posted By: mine permits etc...: louisa ky.a town of 2000 were ordered to pay alarge amount of money to eco.freaks to the tune of 20thousand dollars for each resident.they complied with the clean water act within 6 mo.of the wackos complaint.they are still expected to pay these lawers.are the wackos concerned about getting the problem fixed ,doesnt seem to be their motive.destroying this country seems more like it.world net daily has a ohio story on green manufacturing plant an who are the kingpins behind their movement.obama and his chicago type thugs seem determend to destroy this countries greatness.not an accident ,an on purpose,there can be no other logical explanation.great,great information jim on islam.what color burka do you like?blacks hot in summer,white will be cooler.why do some women wear gloves and some do not?does anyone know?educate me.
Posted By: to...mom of3 boys: how will the marxist liberal comunist socialist agenda be realized?thru the children!endoctrination in school,entertainment,all gov.programs.if u doubt, go to world net daily and read up on obamas czars.i think you will be shocked.did you know these czars can by pass congress,senate,thus have more power to impliment their agenda.also i hope you read bob numerous blogs below.home schoolers are not subject to liberal endoctrination.they are a target though from the liberal lawmakers.bluebird ,im puzzled at your thought that keith has a crush on you,i didnt see any indication of that twisted conclusion.im glad to see jeannie back,she just gives keith and other conservative more proof of obamas,liberals agenda.no facts just name calling.free speech wsaz?
Posted By: buck to buck: Yes I've been to many third world countries. Problem is they don't do for themselves. Some of them have begged for help then when ya get there they refuse. The jobs offered usually were by us not their own. We have oil, gas, and coal so lets use it. Also I did not say stop trade/selling. I said bring our troops home, secure our borders, and trade/sell on our terms not theirs. If we used our reserves against theirs then we have a bargaining chip. Even more so we have the refineries thats make the fuel they don't, another bargaining chip. Keep our way of life Christianity an not even consider another, Islam.
Posted By: miner49er: Buck, we were killing Moslems wholesale in the Philippines, check out the 994 men, women and children we massacred in 1906 in Jolo. No Japs, just imperialist Americans killing villagers. They didn't ask for out help, we just stole the colony from the other invader,Spain. Why did the US Marines occupy Haiti for 20 years? Why did the US Marines invade Lebanon twice? What about US trained death-squads in Honduras, killing priests? How about those CIA assassins in Iran, Chile, etc? You said "They still blasted our towers, we went back again to defend." Do you still believe Iraq was responsible for 9/11? Flash Priority Traffic... It was Bush's buddys, the Saudis. I agree, we need to stop sticking our noses in other people's business.
Posted By: mom of three little boys: Someone please tell me why there is a condom commercial on cartoon network? My children under the age of 8 really shouldn't be coming to me and asking what a condomn is and do they need them.
Posted By: Bluebird: Okay, yes, I am hurt. I have hurt all week since this "R" thing started. My pain is enormous. Does that give you pleasure? But do you know what? I still pray for you all when I lay down at night. And I am not going anywhere.
Posted By: Big Earl: Hello good WV coal miners and there people did any of you people see that story in the Logan paper about our own Gov. Joe and Congressman Nick saying Mr. DB needs to pony up and run some TV commercials in Washington DC to give them treehuggers at the EPA some guff about what coal does good for the USA well that gave me an idea and it could get some hippies off the dole to dress them up like some of them monkey people off that Elvis movie Space 2001 they can live in a cave with no electric heat or lights wear a bunch of bearskin rugs for clothes and draw stick animals on the wall to educate there little crowmagnons we can call it Back to the Future-6000 BC this is what you get if you throw in with treehuggers.
Posted By: Jim: Buck how do you figure clean coal means no coal.Are you one of the nay sayers who rather than do anything or see anything done would just as soon sit back and say it can't be done.Obama is not trying to kill coal do not believe what these coal companies are telling you or who ever you are getting your info from.Do yourself a favor and check out the different power providers sites they all are for clean coal technology and they know that is the future of coal,this from the very people who use coal,they realize that something is not done to capture the carbon emission and dispose of it in a more sensible way than just shooting it into the very air you need to survive you may not survive.The coal companies are afraid they may have to pony up on the price is why they tell people that the enviroment is in no danger and clean coal is a myth.Everyone said the same thing about the sulfer emissions also but we see that the installation of scrubbers took care of that.
Posted By: Craveontruth: Say no to GMO's.Control the food and control the people.Research the company Monsanto and watch the movie Food Inc.Please.
Posted By: Jeanie........To Bluebird: Wow, haha. It looks like one flew over the cuckoo's nest!
Posted By: Patriot1: Bluebird- Be careful. There are people who post on the yell that use more than one name. You are being "played". Don't take what anyone tells you. Seek out the truth yourself. If you want to know what is going on in this country, study the "progressivs". Their movement started over 100 years ago.
Posted By: Bluebird: You have not hurt my feelings at all. I am amazed that either of you thought I was interested in Keith personally which is obvious by your direction at me. What bloated egos. I have a wonderful husband of my own and am not looking for another, thank you. I guess Craveontruth is right. The real Keith is gone. Wow, and I thought he would be a good candidate for office. I will look for new possible leader. Good luck to you both. Rant on Keith impostor.
Posted By: Keith...it was my better half...: I forgot to thank you Gulf War vets too, from Rounds 1 and 2. I read somewhere that you folks freed over 50 million people in three Muslim countries, wow, what an accomplishment! Women and children included, gave them a chance for a decent life, free elections, self government and determination, prosperity; not bad for a bunch of oppressive, oil stealing, baby killing, village raiding, raping, pillaging, corporate toadies who break down doors in the middle of the night and terrorize innocent civilians-right Miner? And while I am at it, I recently finished a book "Nothing to Envy" about daily life in Noble Leader's paradise on earth, North Korea. So thanks to you Korean War vets too, you are often overlooked with the "Forgotten War" tagline but just think, an entire country and generations of people owe you everything; they may not realize it, but that doesn't diminish heroism, sacrifice, devotion, courage, all the qualities I want my children to have you vets have exhibited.
Posted By: Keith's wife: Bluebird, The comment to show my support for my husband was not meant to offend you in any way. I am very proud of him for his efforts to learn all the truths that he possibly can, and to then share his information with others to help them. I, along with his children, are very aware of how wise he is. We live with him on a daily basis and see how he conducts himself, not only at home, but also in the public. I am his number one supporter as he is mine. I am very blessed. You can choose to be mean if you like, but if you notice Keith and I will not turn nasty to retaliate against people on here. Sorry to have hurt your feelings. Mrs. Keith
Posted By: Jim: Question for all are you happy with the health care system the US has and the prices you are charged for services.I have a 90/10 plan where I work with a $300 annual deductible and a $20 co-pay for office visits which is a pretty good deal.Last year they added a well care benefit which covers yearly physicals,pap smears,mammograms and prostrate exams.Here is the part that I can not understand last year without the well care benefit my insurance was billed $614 which they paid for my wifes pap smear and mammogram this year the same procedure was only billed at $148 because it is all they would allow so where did the other $466 go last year.It really doesn't matter to me because I didnt have to pay but the idea that my children do not have insurance really bugs me thinking that the amount that gets wasted and over charged could be used to cover people that are not covered and can not get treatment that is needed without money up front that they may not have.Let me know what you think
Posted By: Bluebird: I doubt that. I think Keith is too smart to have a wife who would do such a cheesy thing. I think you are the same as "hmmm" and I think both are Jeannie. Never the less, the yell is for all who WSAZ approves. Feel free to join in. Keith is very wise in politics and the yell needs that wisdom, which is all I am asking for as well. Don't like me? Don't read my posts. Isn't that easy?
Posted By: buck: Well I see the link I posted for has already been put on here. And Miner49er I highly doubt your a miner, or for that matter very American, but you are one of those who likes to start trouble. It seems you take up for Obama when he is the one wanting clean coal. That means no coal. Ya just don't sound like ya have a full deck and speak/type w/o thinking about what your spewing out or taking in.
Posted By: Keith...welcome home Vietnam Veterans...: Thank you Veitnam Vets, God's special blessing to you all. I believe history has shown us you were right; your sacrifices rank with any American soldiers in any war. Lets look at fact: After we left SE Asia, under incredible pressure from the Treasonous political Left in the USA, i.e., the Jane Fondas, the media, SDS, the hippie Bill Ayers types, etc...only God knows how many were murdered by the Communists from Hanoi. The entire region went into slavery and poverty. When confronted with the choice of living in an Uncle Ho-inspired paradise or boarding a rickety boat and heading to sea, thousands went to sea, and many tragically died. Who knows what kind of a prosperous, free, thriving society Vietnam might be today, if the Left had supported the US soldier instead of spitting on them; perhaps the equal of S. Korea, or Japan, or Germany. Hats off to you WW2 vets too, for freeing the Philippines from imperial Japan. Every free breath we breathe we owe to US service personnel; GBU; GBA.
Posted By: To Buck: Are you for real do you know how long we would stand with out trade to other countries possibly 6 to 18 months and we would be out of oil and the price of a gallon of gas would be would be at least a weeks pay for many,but without exporting who would have a job the rich would take over and the middle class and poor would be doomed in less than 3 months and total chaos would set in.Have you ever been to a 3rd world country if not maybe you should visit one and see if you would like living like that because without the rest of the world that is exactly what the US would be
Posted By: Keith...hey Buck, Bob, excellent posts; Miner, you need to read things closely...: Business diversity training in the U.S. must have been thought up in one of Paul Pot's re-education camps. The Leftist proponents, in both instances, have a shared ideology, i.e., oppression, PC, speech codes, censorship, tyranny. Everything in the world is tolerated, except Christianity/Conservatism. It is the same in politics; the PC Left can say anything, no matter how hurtful, vulgar, rude, a la Harry Reid, Rahm Emmanuel, Bill Clinton, and not a word from the PC apparatchiks. Free and open debate found on conservative talk radio & Fox News, makes the Left froth at the mouth. Buck is, I believe, referring to the battle of ideas, not bullets, in the contest between Islam and Christianity. True, we cannot go to most Muslim nations and freely preach the gospel of Christ, but, they are allowed to come here freely and build mosques and spread their beliefs at will.
Posted By: Frozen: We got four more inches of "global warming" last night and expecting 3-4 more tonight. I wish ol Al Gore would get Bushs weather machine turned off.
Posted By: buck to miner: LOL Last time I was there we were not allowed to have Bibles, or if we did keep them out of sight. We gave Kuwait back. They still blasted our towers, we went back again to defend. I don't see the issue. We buy our oil from them which by the way is costin us a lot. Once again where is the issue. Furthermore I said we need to bring the troops back home, lock up our borders, trade/buy on our terms, leave them alone. If we are stealing the oil then why do they get gas and diesel back from us. So what is your beef and why the name calling. Everyone you mentioned asked for our help in one way or another. So how am I an idiot.
Posted By: miner49er: Buck, you are such an idiot! You sad "We as Americans do not go to other countries and insert our way of life. If we did we would be shot, killed, or jailed." What are 140,000 armed US soldiers doing in Iraq? It's a war of lies, it's all about stealng Iraq's oil, using US soldiers as a corporate army. Just like we have in the Philippines, Lebanon, Vietnam, Haiti, Panama, etc.
Posted By: buck: I have had the same thing happen to me. From the looks of other posts though we aren't the only ones.
Posted By: bob: 3. You could have heard a pin drop as the Imam hung his head in shame. Needless to say, the organizers and/or promoters of the Diversification training seminar were not happy with my way of dealing with the Islamic Imam, and exposing the truth about the Muslims' beliefs. In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the President!
Posted By: bob: 3. He sheepishly replied, 'Yes.' I then stated, 'Well, sir, I have a real problem trying to imagine Pope John Paul commanding all Catholics to kill those of your faith or Dr. Stanley ordering all protestants to do the same in order to guarantee them a place in heaven!' The Imam was speechless! I continued, 'I also have a problem with being your friend when you and your brother clerics are telling your followers to kill me! Let me ask you a question: Would you rather have your Allah, who tells you to kill me in order for you to go to heaven, or my Jesus who tells me to love you because I am going to heaven and He wants you to be there with me?'
Posted By: bob: 2. 'Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that most Imams and clerics of Islam have declared a holy jihad [Holy war] against the infidels of the world and, that by killing an infidel, (which is a command to all Muslims) they are assured of a place in heaven. If that's the case, can you give me the definition of an infidel?' There was no disagreement with my statements and, without hesitation, he replied, 'Non-believers!' I responded, 'So, let me make sure I have this straight. All followers of Allah have been commanded to kill everyone who is not of your faith so they can have a place in heaven. Is that correct?' The expression on his face changed from one of authority and command to that of a little boy who had just been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.'
Posted By: bob: 1. This is a true story and the author, Rick Mathes, is a well-known leader in prison ministry. The man who walks with God always gets to his destination. If you have a pulse you have a purpose. The Muslim religion is the fastest growing religion per capita in the United States, especially in the minority races!!! Last month I attended my annual training session that's required for maintaining my state prison security clearance. During the training session there was a presentation by three speakers representing the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Muslim faiths, who explained each of their beliefs. I was particularly interested in what the Islamic Imam had to say. The Imam gave a great presentation of the basics of Islam, complete with a video. After the presentations, time was provided for questions and answers. When it was my turn, I directed my question to the Imam and asked:
Posted By: Keith's wife: Bluebird, you are not his number one fan. I am! Glad you enjoy the yell so much.
Posted By: jam6972: Keith, my friend, you are right about George W. Bush, I must have misunderestimated him ! And,...I did not vote for him, but I also did not cut him down at every opportunity, he was OUR president, and I supported him.
Posted By: Bluebird: Craveontruth, there are several stories on BBC about GM food. I am still studying that somewhat strange idea.
Posted By: Nashman: Buck: I'm with you! Get our soldiers home, secure our borders, trade only with those who will trade on our terms & get back to minding our own business. I wrote the same thing on The Yell a few weeks ago and they never did post it.
Posted By: Bluebird: Yes! This is what we need! There is plenty we can do until November. Get ideas and be prepared. Discuss the important issues. No matter which side you are on, you can help others by showing what things need fixed and give your reasons so others can see why you feel that way and can make informed decisions. I am fairly new to the political discussion. I depend on hearing what others have to say. Then I can decide if it makes sense. Many of us are like that. Share what you learn with others so when we can do something we are prepared. If everyone thought alike, there would be only one party. There are never wrong ideas, just differing. Discuss, discuss. All good posts today! Thanks to all.
Posted By: Big Earl: Hello good coal miner people of WV this is Big Earl can you people down to the TV station run the number for that Mayor I want to be first in line to volunteer for the police force I can come down on weekends when we don’t run coal I can bring my tractor to it will come in handy for chopping down them 10 foot dope plants the hippies grow in there greenie houses it has a hay baler to has anybody told Ted Nugent about this I say catch all the dopeheads tie a rack of moose antlers on there heads and give them a choice hop the first boxcar back to Detroit or let Ted play safari we can have a cookout to with barbecue film it all and run it on the TV show.
Posted By: a toyota question...: are any toyota manufacturing plants in u.s.union?bluebird ....rush very seldom has non issues for productive hard working,taxpaying law abiding conservative americans!mostly the elites and people who live off the fat of the land are the criticers,are you one of these?also tom roten has some good localobservations.i dont agree with him sometimes onhis methods of getting the message out,but his is a moral and conservative view.
Posted By: buck: What does it take to define a leader? Washington seems to think money and degrees from Ivy League schools. We have so many people out there who have the ability to lead so very well but with no money or connections they will NEVER get a chance. There is so much division and no loyalty within our own boundaries. Americans are hurting because we aren't coming together as Americans. So many people want to come here and then institute their way of life and we have let them. So much so that it is killing us. We as Americans do not go to other countries and insert our way of life. If we did we would be shot, killed, or jailed. Why doesn't that happen here. Last I checked we are America not ameristan, ameripan, americhina, ameriatina, ameriarussia, ameriaeast etc. Bring our troops home, shut down our borders, arm our borders, and mind our own business. We buy, sell, trade on our terms or not at all. That is all.
Posted By: teleprompter or hand?: a few words written on the hand ,a teleprompter does not make?from now on will obamas teleprompter use the first and second grade way to spin his speech?corps>k-or-s Jeanie Anderson Branson, MO, United States Our little family is having a blast in our new home! We love Branson. The people are so friendly, the entertainment is wonderful, the schools are the best in the midwest and my husband loves his job. We have had several visitors already and look forward to many, many more. View my complete profile

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