Comments on: Aerial Footage of the Retaining Wall Failure

By: Assumpsit

Assumpsit — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:07:34 +0000

Rylands v. Fletcher; is that the law down there?

By: pajarito

pajarito — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:55:52 +0000

“Clean Coal”

No such thing!!!

By: eggroll

eggroll — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:43:51 +0000

The Three Mile Island of Coal.

By: Kassandra

Kassandra — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:21:43 +0000

We are reaping the fruits of Reagan’s decision to cut spending to the bone on infrastructure…obviously, the chickens are coming home to roost on a lot of things the righties have managed to screw up with their “supply side” bullcr*p.

That said, I find myself agreeing with ol’ Markus here, in that I used to think myself pretty moderate and now, find that being for a Constitutional government/society which actually adjudicates fairly…makes me a tinfoil hat wearing screaming far-leftie (communist)!

It still baffles me sometimes.

By: ekunin

ekunin — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:15:57 +0000

It isn’t Bush, it’s capitalism and the disconnect of the individual from the community. My profit at the expense of our community. There will be more episodes. Those people who feel Tennessee somehow deserves this because of its conservatism had better hope toxic waste doesn’t come to a neighborhood near them. We are in this together except most of us don’t see it that way. Problems, we’ve got. Time to start speculating about solutions.

By: MarkusQ

MarkusQ — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 07:44:56 +0000

I’m glad I’m not the only one. I spent a few years out of the US and when I came back there were a number of things that I just couldn’t get my head around. Reality TV and LOL cats, all the pay phones gone, and NPR as a Bush Administration Tool Shed.

I mentioned this to some people and was assured that, no, NPR was pretty liberal.

But it’s not.

I’m what used to be considered moderately conservative, which puts me to the left of most of the US today. The thing that really got me was when someone (on Talk Of The Nation, I think it was) said that Barry Goldwater was a liberal and everyone agreed.

I guess that would make Mussolini a centrist by NPR’s standards.

–MarkusQ

P.S. The other thing that freaked me out was when I realized that the host of Marketplace sounded the same it was really someone new (Kai Ryssdal), and before getting into radio he was a Pentagon staff officer.

By: Larue

Larue — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:28:31 +0000

Geez, I’m just a lifer jr. college and undergrad (at age 55) . . . I’m NO where at the masters or Ph.D level of stuff . . . and yet I love your descrip of what it means to hone your thoughts and craft of things worldly and try and bring them to to toobs . . .

What a perfect description . . . it greatly appeals to my radio/tv/journalism background and the influence my pops had on me . . .

The narrative of life, the telling of story to enable truth.

I’m suddenly misting up about Studs Terkel . . . and U. Utah Phillips.

Dang.

By: Lisa Derrick

Lisa Derrick — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:26:32 +0000

This is a national tradegy and a great disgrace. My family is from Tennessee,he family settled there before the Revolutionary War, and to see such a lovely area despoiled..
Clean coal indeed. It’s too bad the wake call about that falsehood has to come with such destruction.

Here’s footage from the October 2000 Martin County coal spill in Kentucky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related

By: Larue

Larue — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:16:51 +0000

Thanks Pups one and all . . . yer a benevolent bunch for indulging all my rantings. *G*

And Suz Is God, in case some of ya don’t know it . . *G* It was on that wall in London next to the Clapton graffitti . . .*G*

Here’s a XMAS Revolutionary bit of protest from long ago I can NEVER get enough of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related

May Our Chimes Of Freedom Flashing Sound Forever . . . that song just tears me up and has done so since what, ‘67? Whew.

Back. To the future! *G*

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:01:04 +0000

late late upstairs