Everyone in the progressive blogosphere is on to this money-grubbing, insensitive, nasty boss and his transparent attempts to shift blame from himself to mother nature for the collapse, and his shoddy treatment of the miners working for him and the miner’s families.

As usual, it will take awhile for the MSM to catch up, but sooner or later the hard questions will be coming, and Murray will be revealed as the total fraud he is.

Just like in bridges collapsing, this Utah mining disaster should not have been turned into some type of political photo-op. I don’t care if Republicans or Democrats do it, because disasters tend to be non-partisan. Hurricane Katrina. 9/11 attacks. Airplane crashes. Whatever. Turning a tragedy, in which Democrats, Republicans, Independents, or whomeve have died, into a partisan political circus is demeaning to all the victims.

This is why what BushCo and Rudy Guilliani have done politically regarding the 9/11 attacks is so obscene.

-GSD

Color me stupid, but why is a mine that earns 850 cited violations in a year still open for business? That’s like the Coast Guard refusing to yank a master’s license even though he repeatedly runs his passenger ferry aground. Pretty soon, he’s gonna sink it, along with all aboard.

Sounds like another example of the Bush administration outsourcing the price of safety onto workers, never, heaven forfend, onto owner/operators. That might lower profits.

In all fairness, this guy has donated more to the rethugs and shrub than he’s paid in fines, according to that article linked above. He.. and virtually every other coal industry exec.. have bought themselves a country that worships on the altar of King Coal and Big Oil.

Everything comes back to this with shrubco.. our national addiction to hydrocarbons. Why shrub’s family got rich, why shrub got where he was, why shrub got elected (or didn’t), why thousands of our soldiers are dead or maimed, why West Virginia and much of Kentucky no longer have a breathable atmosphere, why the seas are rising and our cities are sinking, why hundreds of miners lose their lives every year. It’s all about the same story.

As I understand it, they leave pillars of coal to hold up the mine. If you want to squeeze the last dime out of your mine, you remove those pillars as you withdraw and the mine collapses in on itself (if the earth drops 10 feet, yeah, sure, there’ll be a seismic reading!). It’s extremely dangerous, for obvious reasons.

I say, keep the microphone in front of Murray. He’s an egomaniac, a greedy fuck, a liar, and now a murderer. And yes, as pointed out above, a likely recess appointment to the agency reviewing mine safety.

Will even one Republican candidate come out to condemn this 19th-century capitalism?

Let me join in the appreciation for this fine post. The MSM coverage of this situation has been abominable…..yes, even for them.

What do people expect from the MSM? Do you actually think that they will at some point have an epiphany and realize they have been complicit and compliant in the morphing of the United States into a fascist nation. How about a name change to say The Homeland States of America. Has that Motherland echo that Republicans swoon over.

Doesn’t the CEO owner taking the lead on this tragedy just floor you. To me that is just amazing that he is acting as the lead spokesman for providing information to the masses and the media. Murray reminds me of someone else that was a member of the gov’t…. Apparenly our gov’t spokesman in charge of this industry safety is no longer um, running things or is so incompetent prefers someone else who is just arrogant enough not to realize just how foolish and embarrassing he really is do it. Maybe it’s by design and takes away any appearance Bushco’s gov’t should be playing a role in it and might be responsible or held accountable for this failure. Anyway..

Heckuva job Murray!

I’m so glad you’re keeping a vigilant watch on this matter and keeping us updated.