By: robertdsc-iPhone 4
And here I thought it would be a post on Tunch & Lily being their irrepressible selves & Rosie being crazy.
View ArticleBy: mainmati
I grew up in Pittsburgh, which is not the same thing as SW West VA but there may be some similarities. The Pittsburgh industrial unions of which my Dad was a member were totally integrated into the...
View ArticleBy: JWL
West Virginians understand coal, if it’s understood anywhere. Which means they understand energy markets. How can a Madison Ave ad campaign dissuade them from their own understanding?
View ArticleBy: Sly
They’re probably distributed by a PAC affiliated with Murray Energy. They’re the largest mine operator in the U.S., and Bob Murray is a major Romney donor. Organized a few events for him in Ohio,...
View ArticleBy: JoyfulA
There’s a rich western PA coal mine owner who won the Republican nomination for the Senate to run against Bobby Casey. He’s a possibility, although figuring out why he’d do that is convoluted (fewer...
View ArticleBy: Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
If this were 150 years ago, they’d be flapping on about whale oil.
View ArticleBy: Buffalo Rude
Lately, my job – in the coal killing natural gas business – has had me working in Middle-of-Nowhere, WV (go to Morgantown, continue south for an hour to an hour-and-a-half, hang a right and drive...
View ArticleBy: Robert Sneddon
@MikeBoyScout: Coal soot was regarded as a cheap fertilizer in times past. It contains sulphur and nitrogen but modern fertilizers made for the job are vastly better than simple soot ever was.
View ArticleBy: cmorenc
Obama’s chances of winning West Virginia are near-zero anyways, and so whomever is behind financing the pro-coal anti-Obama signs in West Virginia, it’s wasted money that fortunately isn’t going...
View ArticleBy: Ben Franklin
@cmorenc: I think this is true. But I think it’s because Dems have not shown the necessary intestinal fortitude these hard-luck cases look for in a candidate. Mebbe, we can slow down that perception,...
View ArticleBy: Mike G
@MLRjr: And after UBB for anyone WORKING in coal mining to be complaining about the enforcement of safety regulations is just…is just I do not know! Stockholm Syndrome. Corporate serfdom.
View ArticleBy: Little Dreamer
If they have no markings showing who sponsored them, are they protected signs under campaign laws? They look like a blight. If they are in general locations and not protected, I’d toss them.
View ArticleBy: Hal
War on Christmas, War on Caterpillars, War on Coal…temporal cold war, oh wait, wrong show.
View ArticleBy: Caz
If there’s a war on women, why can’t there be a war on coal? I guess the liberals are the only ones that can make up wars to use for political purposes. What a bunch of fucking hypocrites!
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