Riding on a waning crest of bringing change to the United States and cleaning up the environment, Barack Obama is going head to head against Barbara Boxer on a big issue. There are 44 coal ash dumps that have been designated as a "high hazard" to the public. They contain arsenic and heavy metals from coal plants. Barbara Boxer has seen the list and wants to make it public, whereas Barack Obama essentially told her "No, ma'am." It's important to know if you're in the path of one in case it regurgitates a billion gallons of hazardous waste on you.
Green groups are seeing red over this betrayal of campaign promises to bring a new era of openness. In fact, the average Earth-conscious moonbat is going to do a chai tea spit-take when they read about this in the newspaper. (And just wait until they read about Obama deciding to let Big Coal blow the top off 42 Appalachian mountaintops to strip mine.)
But that's where the problem lies. Jump on over to Google News and search for the term "Obama Coal Arsenic". You'll find that you won't really find anything. Anything. In fact, the only mention in the entire vast United States media is a short little editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
No other newspaper decided that this might be an important thing to mention, and no broadcast news shows have interrupted their regular programming to bring this breaking news about a new rift in the Democratic party. And with that, I leave you with Obama NewSpeak:
"For a long time now, there's been too much secrecy in this city... That era is now over. Starting today, every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information but those who seek to make it known." - Barack Obama, Jan 21, 2009
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"Call Me Senator!"
Sat, 06/20/2009 - 06:17 ET by P.J. Gladnick...Barack Obama essentially told her "No, ma'am."
"Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it."
DAMN
Sat, 06/20/2009 - 06:40 ET by jacktheripperyou beat me to it !
'ma'am?
Sat, 06/20/2009 - 11:45 ET by pickerseniorMore appropriate would be to substitute "bitch" for either "ma'am", or "senator".
Let's call her what she really is!
As a person most unfortunate to have this aberation represent our state on environmental issues which she knows nothing about, there is no love lost here.
"If liberals didn't live it, it doesn't exist."
Jive talking
Sat, 06/20/2009 - 06:29 ET by 10ksnookerIt's for the children.
Rush said it best: "All
Sat, 06/20/2009 - 06:47 ET by HockeyKidRush said it best: "All Obama statements have expiration dates."
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
What's good for the goose
Sat, 06/20/2009 - 06:58 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsIt really is the era of NewSpeak.
Transparency = opaqueness
I see where Obama is going to block access to the White House guest list, an action Bush also did which Obama cried foul about. Seems Obama is quite enamored of many of the Bush policies he called 'unacceptable' while running his campaign.
Liar, liar, pants on fire.
D
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(And just wait until they
Sat, 06/20/2009 - 07:19 ET by MidAmerica(And just wait until they read about Obama deciding to let Big Coal blow the top off 42 Appalachian mountaintops to strip mine.)
As a person who lives in a rural area I could not support the mining practice called Mountain Top Removal (MTR). It's a process that destoys the entire eco-system not just disturbs it. Here's a video that illustrates it. This process is allowed while off shore drilling, nuclear power, or windmills in the kennedy's sailing waters are denied. But hey... it's only some backwoods hillbillys being shafted.
Back the truck up!!!
Sat, 06/20/2009 - 07:47 ET by motherbeltWait a minute!!
I thought Joe said "No coal!!!"
Are we mining this coal to send it to China?????
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
Get your coal
Sat, 06/20/2009 - 07:53 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsHere's an article about it. Love the quote at the end: "It makes us wonder what standards -- if any -- the administration is using." This guy not only straddles the fence, he walks on both sides of it.
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The hypocrosy of
Sat, 06/20/2009 - 08:46 ET by MidAmericaThe hypocrosy of subsidizing 'green energy' like wind, solar and ethanol and then turn around and destroy whole mountain regions because it is more cost effective to blow the mountain away than tunnel into it is mind boggling. Another tragedy is that this process also destroys jobs because it needs so few workers compared to underground mining.
Speaking of Kennedy's sailing waters
Sat, 06/20/2009 - 08:49 ET by BlondeDid this give anyone other than me a moment's pause?
I think I should be the Ocean Czarina.
Is there anything young Master Barry doesn't want to control via his czars? I suppose he thinks he can tell the ocean not to have hurricanes or somesuch? Rather, I suspect he wants to control transportation routes, resource areas, etc. Obama's finger-in-every-pie approach is really starting to freak me out.
I hope he fails, too.
Holy War?
Sat, 06/20/2009 - 08:03 ET by acumenThe Won issues fatwah to Boxer rebellion. Media takes vow of silence.
Just like
Sat, 06/20/2009 - 08:46 ET by KellyRall the other politicians after all . . .
Had this been a conservative administration, the press would have been all over this. The media are truly lapdogs for this man.
Re MTR
Sat, 06/20/2009 - 09:49 ET by slickwillie2001I have no problem with MTR. Our country is huge and rich with resources, and those resources are what have enabled our level of civilization. Coal provides 55% of the electricity generated in the USA. If you look at the MTR process in the proper long-term, forty or fifty years after MTR begins, the land has been restored and is back to normal, indistinguishable from previous without reference to topographical mapping. Even if that was not so, how many 'mountains' does our country have, and would we really miss a few of them?
Forcing traditional coal mining increases the cost of coal, and the cost of electricity which is just another reason for industry to leave America for friendlier hosts. When we look at our level of energy independence, we need to look at coal as well.
Going further and shutting down coal mining altogether is Luddism. Critics of MTR are also very quiet when miners die in mining accidents.
These coal ash dumps are managed by the government
Sat, 06/20/2009 - 10:01 ET by Andrew_M_GarlandTennessee Sludge Spill, Government Disaster
These coal ash dumps are entirely regulated by the government. Maybe that is why the government will not release lists, it is protecting its own bad management practices.
[edited excerpt] The Tennesee Valley Authority (TVA) is a government agency created during the Great Depression, and the nation’s largest electric utility. Their earthen dam in the town of Kingston, TN held more than one billion gallons of thick, black coal sludge. This is coal ash mixed with water, enough to fill more than 550 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
About December 22, 2008 the dam collapsed. Sludge spread out over hundreds of acres, fouling waterways, and burying homes while people were sleeping.
News reports portrayed the disaster as a failure of the coal industry, not of a government agency. Left-wing environmentalists called for more regulation of the utility industry, instead of blaming the government for failing to police itself.
Andrew_M_Garland
I get joy when Obama and another Demonrat butt heads
Sat, 06/20/2009 - 10:32 ET by WorriedEspecially with the maam Boxer.
I hope she heard from her constituents about her thinking she is Marie Antoinette.
Let them eat cake.