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wandy

(3,539 posts)
1. If Rep. McKinley can lobbie for further use of coal.............
Sat May 24, 2014, 04:27 PM
May 2014
He either grew up an a very different part of the world than I did........





Or, he is very well paid......

wandy

(3,539 posts)
7. I tried to git pictures from NE Pennsylvainia..............
Sun May 25, 2014, 05:48 PM
May 2014

Although I don't know the exact area, pretty much that whole part of the world looks like that.
Note the burning clum dump at the following link......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scranton,_Pennsylvania
Ahh. my home town. We had more than one of those.
Common occurrence........
https://www.google.com/search?q=coal+slag+piles&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=HmSCU_iPPNOUyATB44L4Dw&ved=0CDIQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=935
Not to mention the occasional town killing mine fire.

Centralia Mine Fire, at 50, Still Burns With Meaning
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/01/pictures/130108-centralia-mine-fire/
HULU no longer has the documentary The Town That Was. The trailer can be found here.
http://www.fandor.com/films/the_town_that_was

Can there be any question that I had a strong dislike of the Koch brothers long before I knew of their existence?

Prophet 451

(9,796 posts)
2. We have got to stop humouring these assholes
Sat May 24, 2014, 06:27 PM
May 2014

Denialists should be treated the same as teh creationists they so resemble.

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
3. You can read him as thinking about what he is going to do with his supplementary coal pay after
Sat May 24, 2014, 08:25 PM
May 2014

the speech.

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