Comments PearlFizzberry has made

  • Masters of War

    What they should have done BEFORE now is treat this issue as seriously as it is.  People in West Virginia and Kentucky know the times are changing, recognize the gravity, and naturally are anxious about it.  This is not a peripheral, side-bar issue.  It features the constellation of social, labor, and enviromental issues that must be addressed.  Tossing in a vague mixed message about coal's future is ridiculous when the constituents are painfully aware they live at ground zero.  Between MTR and lack of jobs, West Virginians are weary of sacrificing for the rest of the country and consistently, historically, being viewed as an afterthought.  Politicians have been no friend to the persons of WV(a friend of coal, yes).

     On Learning from the gas tax episode, Obama could treat rural whites like adults posted 1 year, 6 months ago 13 Responses

  • Infestation

    Somewhere in the back of my pea brain I want the Democrats to say "no, you leeches, we won't be sponsored by you".  Then the front of my pea brain remembers how capitalism and politics have coelesced into the dire situations we have today.      

    That said, remember you can always flood your local newspaper with more accurate information about coal, truth about sequestration/gasefication, whether or not local power co.'s buy from mountain top removal sites, and maybe, just maybe, prevent a few people from buying into the flimsy propaganda served up by the ABEC.

    Leaving comments on their retarded youtube videos is less productive but man does it feel good. On Ragtag youth and ABEC face off in South Carolina posted 1 year, 10 months ago 3 Responses

  • Almost Level WV

    To the person who suggested coal might or could be mined without mountain top removal, I suggest reading up on the history of mining, labor, general industry and even capitalism.  The coal industry has already broke (I use that word loosely) the union in order to increase profit margins and are not going to spend more on underground mines.  As a native West Virginian, there will be no shift away from mountain top removal until people no longer need coal.  Likewise there will be no relief for the people and diverse flora and fauna who make their home there.  

    I have heard the marketing fellow from WalkerCat (they make equipment,etc) explain, to West Virginians, that we need to sacrifice for "our urban brothers and sisters".   If I need to elaborate on that I can.

      On Cheap coal and $100 oil posted 1 year, 11 months ago 13 Responses

  • woops

    I meant to say Blankenship deserves the special spot in hell, not Massey.   On Bush appoints mountaintop-removal mining exec to key DOE position posted 1 year, 11 months ago 6 Responses

  • help is on the way ?

    Wanted to say that the hope things will REALLY change after the Bush administration is a longshot.  It will improve, and I can't wait for that, but the history of West Virginia is such that both Democrats (Rockefeller, Rahall, Byrd) are as lovey dovey with coal as any uber capitalist Republican.  A real live revolt will have to happen and I can tell you that people there have been indoctrinated to either work in the mines (back in the old days when it was dug out, not that that's good either, but it is less heinous) or move away.  I remember when Massey's first operation Elk Run Coal came to town and an intense battle ensued. Union days.  After I left to go to college something happened there, Massey is everywhere (seriously), there's no union, and an already deeply corrupt political system seems to have fully rotted.  Worse yet, the propaganda works to keep people at one anothers throats in defense of the few squatty ass jobs left.    
    Yeah, Massey is a shameless, shameless, ho-bag and I hope as an athiest there is some circle of hell appropriate for him.  For those of us broke in half by the quagmire, it's hard to not be fatalistic about it.On Bush appoints mountaintop-removal mining exec to key DOE position posted 1 year, 11 months ago 6 Responses

  • Overburdened

    I get an F.

    I thought the people of West Virginia might see through the propaganda, vote out their friends of coal politicians, finally freak out in unison about their health, safety, and terrible labor situation, and come up with something to de-parasite themselves once and for all.   Oh, I also thought the ecological devastation there would warrant some slick media coverage.  I tried to give Anderson Cooper a head's up for "Planet in Peril" but I think his show was sponsored by the clean coal for america's future folks.  Hilarious.

    Maybe next year.On Assessing my predictions from last year posted 1 year, 11 months ago 6 Responses