Harris was never a Florida Senator, she got punked in 2006….thank the good Lord.

@ 7

Good! You wrote about it. I think this is incredibly important and EVEN MORE SO after watching the AFL-CIO Prez Forum last night.

I knew you’d get much more coverage here at firedoglake than at my teeny-tiny blog amongst my blogmates.

Thanks, Tula, you’ve tied it all together (again). Since it’s pretty clear there was no earthquake, is Murray gonna blame aliens or Hillary’s black heliocopters? What a wonderful representative he is of W’s Ownership Society: Have you been assigned an Owner yet?

(Nice upside down flag waving you’ve got there, LeftMoon.)

The thing I notice that most others on this blog wouldn’t is that it happened in Huntington, Utah and there was a mention of Collis P. Huntington here on fdl just a day or two ago.

I responded with a bit of background on him and mentioned that he was the kind of guy who would respect the use of violence. Now this in Utah. It makes me wonder what really happened there.

From reading between the lines, my guess would be that they are using undocumented workers and using high risk mining practices. Worker safety, lethal drugs, poisoned food supply..corporate murder needs to be prosecuted as a capital crime.

I can’t recall where I read this info, but of the miners involved only one’s name is verified, and there are reports that 2 or 3 others are Mexican nationals. It’s possible this company is using undocumented workers in mines that have repeatedly received citations for saftey violations. Has anyone else come across this story?

OldCoastie @ 80

N=1 – I think Sandia also makes photovoltaic cells for solar power – perhaps we just have an interested reader.

I don’t blog about renewable energy much, and the hit was for my nursing archives (I’m referring to visitors on my own blog, not FDL – sorry for the confusion).

N=1: how do you know it isn’t someone surfing at work who’s got a personal interest in nursing or health policy or is considering changing careers or has a family issue that’s driving their own investigations?

hackworth @ 66

The Space Shuttle program is a huge waste of money and should be ended immediately. Plans are in the works to replace it with a system not unlike the Apollo missions used (read rocket and capsule with parachute).

We can’t feed the working poor, pay them a fair wage, give them health care and birth control but we can spend billions on this crap (and wars).

The reason we’re not feeding the poor, paying a living wage, or providing healthcare isn’t because we have a manned space program. I’ve got no problem with disagreements on whether we ought to be doing it or not, but I’m not interested in insinuations that it’s a bad thing because there are higher priorities our government doesn’t have the political courage to deal with.

You got it. I’d much rather be watching Congress vote to end the war this minute. But I don’t have the power to make that happen or *even* to change the course of the American Space Program which is (to me) as much a part of our collective history and culture as the Constitution. And I’m not saying the Space Program is *more* important than the Constitution … hardly.

We should be able to do it all … or as much as we deem important to do. INCLUDING keeping miners safe. I followed the Sago aftermath and from what I’ve read today NONE of what was said would be done has been done, even in VA.

Oh, and I’d trade the whole current Space Program to fix NOLA but I don’t have that power either.

Thanks for your wonderful work, Tula.

n=1 at 52 says=”I just put on my tinfoil hat, and I may get out my tinfoil body armor, too: I regularly get blog hits from the Pentagon and the Army (occ the Navy and AF), but today, I got hit after hit from the Pentagon, followed by the Office of the SecDef, and then immediately after, by Sandia National Laboratories, which searched the archives about the tag, “nursing”, and which I didn’t recognize, so looked them up. Am I about to be disappeared? (only half laughing)”

not everyone there is a ‘baddie’…there are policy and research people who are career people that do care about what they are doing…….if they’re doing research, why not come to you for it? word gets around if something is reliable……i was going to say that to you the last time you posted that, but was in a hurry that day.

Thanks – important point, and I do realize that. But there’s no way of telling, and I sure don’t write anything on that complex or high a level where I could begin to imagine that someone doing research would find it of value. And I’ve been slammed with a lot of wing nut spammers, so I’m probably reacting to that, as well. I guess I should iron my shiny hat and store it for future use. *g*

not everyone there is a ‘baddie’…there are policy and research people who are career people that do care about what they are doing…….if they’re doing research, why not come to you for it? word gets around if something is reliable……i was going to say that to you the last time you posted that, but was in a hurry that day.

LTV worker at the debates last night on Hardball.

The same guy who asked the health question? Christ, I started crying when he was talking. When I was in Ohio a few years back, my boss’s husband worked at LTV in Cleveland, had for 27 years, and then one day, that was it!