<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Mining CEO so insinuated in W. Va. politics that they can’t find judges to hear his case]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Pompey Road http://www.grist.org/article/massey-incest/ Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:57:48 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/massey-incest/1 Home of the Mountain King

Point of interest Ol Don has a playboy mansion on the top of a mountain in Eastern Ky. Right across the river from WVA. Lords high above the peons in the valley below. Ironically he has not done a montain top removal on this mountain, seems even coal barons don't s*#t their own nest. King of Mountain Top Removal with a castle on a mountain. You can see it when the leaves are off in winter for miles. The lights at night look like the space ship scene from Close Encounters of the Third kind. It probably takes most of the coal he mines to light the place. If its not the mother ship coming down to transport him and all the WVA judges he bought he may get busted back to living in a used mobile home on one of his strip jobs.

The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

]]> Home of the Mountain King

Point of interest Ol Don has a playboy mansion on the top of a mountain in Eastern Ky. Right across the river from WVA. Lords high above the peons in the valley below. Ironically he has not done a montain top removal on this mountain, seems even coal barons don't s*#t their own nest. King of Mountain Top Removal with a castle on a mountain. You can see it when the leaves are off in winter for miles. The lights at night look like the space ship scene from Close Encounters of the Third kind. It probably takes most of the coal he mines to light the place. If its not the mother ship coming down to transport him and all the WVA judges he bought he may get busted back to living in a used mobile home on one of his strip jobs.

The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

]]> Comment #2 by wesrolley http://www.grist.org/article/massey-incest/ Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:33:29 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/massey-incest/2 West Virginia Mountain Mama

I remember John Denver's first sining about Country Roads.  Maybe Dave can resurrect that for his Friday Music Blogging.  I can't think of any set of images that so completely cancel each other. Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains growin' like a breeze. I never paid attention to this at all until I heard Jesse Johnson of the WV Mountain Party speak.  He, and that whole party, deserve a lot of credit for trying to turn this into a political issue.

Wes Rolley CoChair - EcoAction Committee Green Party US




]]> West Virginia Mountain Mama

I remember John Denver's first sining about Country Roads.  Maybe Dave can resurrect that for his Friday Music Blogging.  I can't think of any set of images that so completely cancel each other. Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains growin' like a breeze. I never paid attention to this at all until I heard Jesse Johnson of the WV Mountain Party speak.  He, and that whole party, deserve a lot of credit for trying to turn this into a political issue.

Wes Rolley CoChair - EcoAction Committee Green Party US




]]> Comment #3 by Pompey Road http://www.grist.org/article/massey-incest/ Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:32:46 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/massey-incest/3 Almost Level West Virginia


Cool site, but you may not have heard the rivision of John Denver's song.

Take Me Home Country Roads
Revised

Almost level West Virginia
Cropped-ridge mountains strip job runoff-river
Life is odd there we don't have a tree
Mountain Top Removal Valley's filled with ease

Country roads take me home
To a place that's almost gone
West Virginia mountain mayhem
Take me home country roads

All my memories gather round her
Miner's lady stranger to polluted water
Dark and dusty, dust fills the sky
Mountain Top Removal, teardrops in my eye.

Country road take me home
To a place that's almost gone
West Virginia Mountain massacre
Take me home country roads

I can hear the Dozers in the morning it appalls me
The blasting reminds me of a war far away
Driven' down the road I get the feeling
That I should have stopped this yesterday, yesterday

Country roads take me home
To a place that's almost gone
West Virginia, mountains gone yea!
Take me home country Roads

The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.





















]]> Almost Level West Virginia


Cool site, but you may not have heard the rivision of John Denver's song.

Take Me Home Country Roads
Revised

Almost level West Virginia
Cropped-ridge mountains strip job runoff-river
Life is odd there we don't have a tree
Mountain Top Removal Valley's filled with ease

Country roads take me home
To a place that's almost gone
West Virginia mountain mayhem
Take me home country roads

All my memories gather round her
Miner's lady stranger to polluted water
Dark and dusty, dust fills the sky
Mountain Top Removal, teardrops in my eye.

Country road take me home
To a place that's almost gone
West Virginia Mountain massacre
Take me home country roads

I can hear the Dozers in the morning it appalls me
The blasting reminds me of a war far away
Driven' down the road I get the feeling
That I should have stopped this yesterday, yesterday

Country roads take me home
To a place that's almost gone
West Virginia, mountains gone yea!
Take me home country Roads

The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.





















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