Lone surviving miner, Randal McCloy Jr. said 2 air packs did not work!

[Tim4319]

This is breaking news, no link yet.

[WilliamPitt]

1. Wow

I've never been more confused in my life.

[bigmonkey]

2. Perhaps he meant to say

"lone surviving miner"

[Tim4319]

6. Okay,

Thanks for the English lesson. I guess DU needs to add a grammar check function.

[EstimatedProphet]

3. Do you mean the WV miner that was trapped?

And that 2 of the survival air units didn't work?

[Tim4319]

7. Thanks for the corrections!

Yes, I meant all of that.

[meegbear]

4. All that and under 18 years old ...

damn

[IndyOp]

5. Miner - guy who works in coal mine. Minor - someone under 18 years.

My grandpa was a miner with Peabody Coal from the time he was a minor until he retired at age 65.

;-)

[Tim4319]

8. Okay all of you English teachers, I have a link!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/27/mccloy.letter.ap/index.html

[tsuki]

10. Thanks for the report. I appreciate it. nt

[npincus]

12. gotta watch the DU Spelling Police!

they've nabbed me more times than I'd like to admit!

[tsuki]

9. I watched CSpan hearings where Sen. Harkin kept holding

up safety devices invented in Australia and Canada while that POS Specter made fun of him. It would cost a $100,000 to outfit a mine with the devices. And how would those fathead CEOs pay the lobbyists and news reader if they PROTECTED their employees. And the UMW are a shadow of their Sullivan days.

This is a national disgrace. We are back to the Sixteen Ton days that Tennessee Ernie Ford sang of.

[Ian David]

11. Think of all the GOOD publicity the mining company would have gotten...

if all the miners had been rescued alive, saved by the safety equipment they bought for under $100,000.

It would almost be worth staging a cave-in just so they could "rescue" their workers!

[tsuki]

14. What do they care about good publicity? Just buy a bionic

eyeliner for 75 million and they kill the story.

[moondust]

13. BushCo nailed!

Last paragraph of story:

The Bush administration is reviewing air packs and other safety equipment used in the nation’s mines after previously scrapping similar initiatives started by the Clinton administration.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12515482/