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Blankenship Shows His Good Side

Posted by Denny Tyler, on April 6th, 2008

Blankenship to reporter: ‘You’re liable to get shot’

(2min video) ABC News

My favorite person in the whole world.

Smile Don Blankenship, you are on ABC News.

ABC News World News With Charles Gibson and Nightline. – Monday 7, [...]

Attitude Adjustment

Posted by Denny Tyler, on March 31st, 2008

Be forewarned – this is a rant post.

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I think the entire planet could use an attitude adjustment.

Something that has become painfully apparent recently and it is something I have thought about in the past. The general I don’t care mentality of the public. If it is not happening between home and work [...]

What we’ve got here…

Posted by Denny Tyler, on March 26th, 2008

… is a failure to communicate.

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I look at mountaintop removal as this giant beast with teeth that can grind boulders into valley fill. I look at all the grassroots and the environmental groups as a bunch of bees swarming the beasts head. As long as the beast can keep swatting them away he [...]

Ignorance of the people…

Posted by Denny Tyler, on March 24th, 2008

… brought to you by the coal industry.

The more I talked with people in Drews Creek the more it became obvious they didn’t have a clue about the new mountaintop removal site. It was just like one day there is peace and quiet and the next day your picking broken picture frames up off [...]

Now It’s Personal – MTR

Posted by Denny Tyler, on March 23rd, 2008

A few weeks ago I wrote a post entitled Bolt Mountain, Under Attack!! That may have been a little dramatic at the time. Mainly because I wasn’t 100% sure if what I was seeing was a mountaintop removal site. It was too far in the distance. Friday, with my friend from Ohio, I went searching [...]