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Before lao, andy, fez or LaSagna bleat some tourette's-inspired response, I want to ask them a question:

For the life of me, I can't understand why you continue trolling here. Why post where nobody welcomes anything you say, and you take copious amounts of well-deserved abuse for it?

-you have an uncontrollable martyr's complex?
-you suffer from a pathological obsessive-compulsive disorder?
-you're a masochist?
-you have a homoerotic preoccupation with one or more commenters here?
-your'e a parents' basement-dweller who has absolutely nothing better to do, like a job?

I can't see how anything outside of these possibilities could offer any valid explanation.

Excuse my stupidity, but obama is not a dictator. Where is the congress? Planning their next sexting ventures and golf games? They all make me sick.

"Obama is too cowardly to stand up to his political base even if that base is dragging the country down. In the end the American people will repudiate Obama and his fantasies of total socialism, mega-regulations, union supremacy, and unlimited government spending. In time, under the leadership of a conservative president, the nation will awaken from its economic slumber. The only question is how much damage Obama will do before he is sent back to Chicago..."
–- Jeffrey Folks

It makes sense that coal factories need to be shut down to help the earth, although it is sad people will have to lose their jobs for it to happen.

Panday, you missed the true reason they come here. It's simply to antagonize those who can still think for themselves. It's something the useful idiots of the Left are not allowed to do. The poor babies are just envious of us.

We have to stop this administration or it will beggar us all.

Soooo, I'm thinking the first shots of 1776 v2.0 will come from, oh, West Virginia?

Posted by: TheDarkEricDraven at June 11, 2011 9:20 AM

It makes sense? The earth is just fine you freaking moron! And it isn't about coal jobs, this administration is doing everything it can to destroy the real actual environment we really actualy live in: the economic environment.

I've lost all patience with these knucklehead brain-dead moron parrots of the Left.

It may not be popular, but unless we stop the greenhouse effect humanity will be doomed. We have to help the planet recover from the damage we have done. We can maintain a high standard of living without destroying the environment. They didnt have electricity in Game of Thrones but it still looks like a nice place to live.

You might want to listen to your own Doom and Gloom sayers, Dookie. Especially when they come to the truth...

Professor Emiritus Hal Lewis Resigns from American Physical Society

http://my.telegraph.co.uk/reasonmclucus/reasonmclucus/15835660/professor-emiritus-hal-lewis-resigns-from-american-physical-society/

Maybe, but the economic enviroment can take a hit, though I'm pretty sure its doing just fine. Perhaps the coal workers could get jobs like working in a greenhouse or something.

Wouldn't you know, the one campaign promise he kept is the one that will bring about the next revolution or destroy the country.

Obummer and his Weinocrats are doomed next election. If not, our country is doomed.

Posted by: Kevin R. at June 11, 2011 9:33 AM

"We have to stop this administration or it will bugger us all."
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There...I fixed that for you, Kevin R.
Hope you don't mind.
:)

DON'T FEED THE TROLLS!

Yes, destroy away Chairman Mau Mau. Move the fastest and the mostest before 2012 so the World you wish to enslave knows the totalitarian utopia for which you seek.

Without coal, where's the electricity going to come from to recharge the 21st Century Edsel...the Chevy VOLT?

I guess the fake President and his minions didn't think this one through.

I hate communists.
I hate marxists.
I hate liberals.

I hate Obama - who is all of the above.

Yes, you moron troll dipshit idiots - I HATE them. HATE, HATE, HATE. I hate anyyone who would steal a free people's liberty, and I wish them all an unpleasant demise. Very unpleasant.

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Sorry for not waiting for the next Open Thread but there is some naked Moonbattery going on right now in rainy Brooklyn:

http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/naked-bike-ride/

Of course they have to route this through a devoutly Hasidic neighborhood:

http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2011/06/world-naked-bike-ride-to-wind-through-williamsburg-on-shabbos-678.html

If only they could muster up the balls to ride through a mooooozeleeembeh neighborhood.. but OH NO, CAn'T DO THAT!

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He's also a racist.

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Global warming bullshit...IT'S ONLY ABOUT CONTROL...THAT'S ALL THEY WANT TO DO IS CONTROL YOU....THEY DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE PLANET.

IF US HUMANS SPEW SO MUCH CO2 INTO THE AIR AND YOU WANT TO TAX/PUNISH US...FIRST GO AFTER TERMITES THAT SPEW 10TIMES MORE CO2 THAN ALL THE FACTORIES AND AUTOMOBILES IN THE WORLD COMBINED!

OVER 97% OF CO2 EMISSIONS IS NATURAL ANYWAY....EVEN IF WE STOPPED ALL OUTPUT NOT MUCH WOULD CHANGE.VOLCANOES,COW,TERMITES AND UNSTOPPABLE COAL FIRES WOULD STILL RAGE ON NOW WOULDN'T THEY?

TAKE YOUR CARBON CREDIT BULLSHIT AND SELL CRAZY SOMEWHERE ELSE...I AIN'T BUYING.

(yelling off)
p.s. better hurry and punish the burping moose too...about 4600 pounds of co2 is burped into the air annually....about twice as much as a trans-atlantic flight from oslo to chile....and back.

Go get those moose and termite rat bastards...they're killing Gaia!!!

ASSCLOWNS! (yelling back on)

STAMP OUT ENVIROMENTALISM,SMASH THE GREEN SWATIKA,STOP THE ECO-NAZIS,ABOLISH THE EPA,AND RUN THE UN OUT OF AMERICA AND REVOKE ALL THEIR WORLD HERRATAGE SITES AND BIOSPEAR RESERVES

Doesn't West Virginia have two Democrat senators? And didn't one of them win his seat just last November, when pretty much the entire rest of the country was going Republican?

So, in other words, they voted for unemployment and expensive electricity. Nice work.

Joe BIDEN hates wild birds!

I don't know if stupidity or sheer arrogance that makes the left believe that us pissant humans can do irreparable damage tithe planet.

Maybe it's me (and I wish I could find supporting documentation), but I distinctly remember during his (1st) election campaign that Obama was saying things that were PRO-coal. Or, at least what info we got here in Virginia... of course a state which borders W. Virgiania & PA, both coal mining states.

Did anyone else ever hear or read this??

You're right Ex-bat. Obama tells the coal states that he is pro-coal and others that he is against it. Here's what he told Colorado during the election campaign:

"Obama's campaign insists he does support the use of clean coal.

'Senators Obama and Biden are committed to investing in clean coal and developing five 'first-of-a-kind' commercial scale clean coal-fired plants in the U.S.,' he said.

This matters in Colorado because we are a large producer of coal.

Colorado produces 36 million short tons of coal per year, ranking it seventh in the country. About 70 percent of the state's electricity is generated by coal, according to the federal Energy Information Administration. Wyoming is the country's leading producer of coal, and Montana is the fourth-biggest producer."

http://www.5280.com/blogs/2008/09/29/colorado-republicans-attack-obama-coal-position

Does it also make sense that government and military weather modification programs should be stopped to help the earth?

EPA appears to be more of a selective political arm, rather than a true unbiased environmental protector. Too many harmful politicized things are given a blind eye by EPA that deserve intense unbiased scrutiny.

Many normal sensible people claim, as evidenced by EPA approved labs testing of soil and water samples and other research believe that our skies are deliberately aerosoled daily with lingering trails which expand, fouling our air, water, soil and damaging human health. The spraying of particulates in to the atmosphere is only one part of complex ongoing weather modification programs and other "unaccountable to no one" projects.

With all the EPA regulation being exerted, why are alarmingly high levels, well beyond considered normal occurence of aluminum, barium, sulphur, lead and other chemical toxins in our environment skyrocketing in the past couple of years? Huge increases in Alzheimer cases and respiratory illnesses in adults and children go without investigation.

This country is blessed with so many natural resources which were put here to be used, COAL being one of them. Yet rather than apply money, brainpower and advanced technologies to create super clean, low emission use of our natural resources..it's far more chic and lucrative to some to demonize and destroy in favor of costly, unsustainable "green" energy schemes operating in the background.

"electric rates will skyrocket 11 percent to over 23 percent"

According to the following article, you are being overly optomistic on the rate change numbers.

CONSUMERS' ELECTRIC BILLS LIKELY TO SPIKE AS COAL PLANTS CLOSE

As stricter environmental regulations approach, some power generators are choosing to shutter their coal-fired plants.

June 11, 2011|By Julie Wernau, Tribune reporter

Consumers could see their electricity bills jump an estimated 40 to 60 percent in the next few years.

The reason: Pending environmental regulations will make coal-fired generating plants, which produce about half the nation's electricity, more expensive to operate. Many are expected to be shuttered.

Read the rest at: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-06-11/business/ct-biz-0612-rates-20110611_1_generators-electricity-illinois-power-agency

"gracie at June 12, 2011 7:25 AM"

Who ordered the fruitcake?

"electric rates will skyrocket 11 percent to over 23 percent"

whoa-a-a there, I think you left off a zero on each of those numbers

"coal factories need to be shut down ..."

Wow! And I always thought we just dug it out of the ground. Factories. Who knew...??

Thanks for the confirmation Jodie!

sheesh, that is very weird behavior.

"Who ordered the fruitcake?

Posted by: KHarn at June 12, 2011 9:51 AM"

There is one free with every chemtrail order !

Posted by: Persephone at June 11, 2011 10:54 AM

Will bugger us all? I feel pretty buggered already. ;)

It will be interesting to see if he carries West Virginia in the next election, or if the idiot liberals in that state will wake up and realize what an incredibly stupid mistake they made supporting him in the first election (well, not sure it was a free election with all the crap ACORN did)...

I wish the story had more details. Both in the story and in the comments there is a focus on west virgina coal. How about the "low sulfer" coal from the powder river basin of Wyoming. The railroads haul at least 60 trains equal to three quarter of a million tons per day out of the mines. There is no way west virgina coal comes close to this kind of production. The majority of new coal fired electricity plants in this country built in the last 20 years use this type of coal. Regardless it's a bad bad bad bad idea to add more cost to people's utility bills. What the government should be doing is helping to find ways to LOWER the citizens utility bill. What are policies that can help utilities lower costs make a fair return on their investments, research for the future, and still allow them to lower the cost of electricity to uses

I wish the story had more details. Both in the story and in the comments there is a focus on west virgina coal. How about the "low sulfer" coal from the powder river basin of Wyoming. The railroads haul at least 60 trains equal to three quarter of a million tons per day out of the mines. There is no way west virgina coal comes close to this kind of production. The majority of new coal fired electricity plants in this country built in the last 20 years use this type of coal. Regardless it's a bad bad bad bad idea to add more cost to people's utility bills. What the government should be doing is helping to find ways to LOWER the citizens utility bill. What are policies that can help utilities lower costs make a fair return on their investments, research for the future, and still allow them to lower the cost of electricity to uses

RE: Posted by: Persephone
There...I fixed that for you, Kevin R.
Hope you don't mind. :)

Actually, it was correct as Kevin had it. :-)

Consumers' electric bills likely to spike as coal plants close

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-0612-rates-20110611,0,7432941.story

Lib's won't care if there aren't any coal plants to provide electricity until their iPads won't recharge. Then there will be a WTF moment.

So does Anthony Wiener ask his secretary to take some "dicktation"? Oh sorry, I just couldn't resist.