Federal mine safety official's credentials questioned »
Posted By Alexia 1 year, 1 month ago in NewsThe families of the Crandall Canyon miner's aren't the only ones raising questions about the handling of the rescue effort. Many news organizations and blogs are also now asking questions about the governments role and the man chosen to lead the rescue effort, Mine and Health Safety Administrator, Richard Stickler.
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Sublimelight1 year, 1 month ago
Interesting!!! No wonder mines are having a lot of accidents lately.
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rc225001 year, 1 month ago
We have the very best mine safety money can buy. Millions were spent on George W. Bush's election campaign to insure retreat mining is available for solid profit. Law suits to hold those responsible for miner deaths are regulated to that the dead miners widows get no more than dead soldiers widows. Miners are expendable, but dollars must be protected.
Reset assured, you can still pray the miners will walk from the mine, God willing, and obviously, if they do not, then there must have been some reason God allowed this to happen to them. It is all God's will...
Now, if you have had enough of the BS, why not DEMAND change. Start with the crooks and LIARS in both political parties. Remove them ALL, and stop the rape and plunder. God Damn these bassturd crooks.
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GHOSTWHOWALKS1 year, 1 month ago
I'll let God take care of God's business and I really wouldn't want to be in any of the Shrubs cronies shoes when they face Him.
One should not expect a person appointed underhandedly to anything but another "New Brownie" when it comes to preforming their jobs. To do so would be illogical.
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Obaku1 year, 1 month ago
Incompetence and cronyism, the hallmarks of the Bush administration.
I think nothing like it has been seen since the Grant administration.
The first scandal ... Wall Street manipulators Jay Gould and James Fisk. They tried to corner the gold market and tricked Grant into preventing his treasury secretary from stopping the fraud.
The most famous scandal was the Whiskey Ring of 1875, exposed by Secretary of the Treasury Benjamin H. Bristow, in which over 3 million dollars in taxes was stolen from the federal government with the aid of high government officials. Orville E. Babcock, the private secretary to the President, was indicted as a member of the ring but escaped conviction because of a presidential pardon. Grant's earlier statement, "Let no guilty man escape" rang hollow.
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Obaku1 year, 1 month ago
Other scandals included the Sanborn Incident involving Treasury Secretary William Adams Richardson and his assistant John D. Sanborn. Another was a problem with U.S. Attorney Cyrus I. Scofield. The Crédit Mobilier of America scandal also ruined the political career of his first vice president, Schuyler Colfax, who was replaced on the Republican ticket in the 1872 election with Henry Wilson, who was also involved in the scandal.
President Grant with his wife, Julia, and son, Jesse, in 1872.
President Grant with his wife, Julia, and son, Jesse, in 1872.
Although Grant himself did not profit from corruption among his subordinates, he did not take a firm stance against malefactors and failed to react strongly even after their guilt was established. When critics complained, he vigorously attacked them. He was weak in his selection of subordinates, favoring colleagues from the war over those with more practical political experience.
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Obaku1 year, 1 month ago
He alienated party leaders by giving many posts to his friends and political contributors rather than supporting the party's needs. His failure to establish working political alliances in Congress allowed the scandals to spin out of control. At the conclusion of his second term, Grant wrote to Congress that "Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent."
(Thanks to Wikipedia)
Does any of this sound familiar?
First Republican President - deadliest war in U.S. history, suspends habeas corpus, destroys economy but enriches war profiteers.
Second Republican President - "This is a country for white men,and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government for white men."
Impeached.
Third Republican President - infamous drunk, surrounded by hacks, incompetents and scoundrels.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
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joeblowe1 year, 1 month ago
One has to wonder: How in the wide, wide, world of sports did we let ourselves get to a situation where we have essentially ABDICATED our responsibility to make sure it's OUR government, and not some special group's government? I hope - and it's probably a forlorn one - that the situation has gotten OBVIOUS enough, and the media has FINALLY reported on it enough, and the INTERNET has made the news AVAILABLE enough - that enough people will start taking an active interest to really make a difference.
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hoppy1 year, 1 month ago
The mine owners are doing everything they can to rescue those miners.Just what more can they do to an impossible situation?These men are not miracle workers, they have done the absolute best that they can.The families are having mixed feelings as to the progress of rescue operations .Their anger and fustration is all in vein.The pressure on Bob Murry is very heavy,but he has done his level best to work with what he has.He is to be commended,not critized!
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SheSays1 year, 1 month ago
Who are you, Bob Murray himself??? Commended? Are you certain? If I was a bettin' woman, I'd say there would have been more done if it were one of Bob's own family members trapped down there.
Sad thing is... what the families are feeling, is an agonizing amount of grief that is coming out as anger, but, I do agree that it is in vain... I don't think the 6 are coming home. Ever. One was a very dear friend.
This morning, rescue worker Dale Black was buried, as a hero. Small consolation.
No, the Murray Energy people aren't miracle workers, they are some greedy, calloused sons a b's though... it'll catch up with them too.
Bob Murray has been in hiding from the media since the rescue cave in. Rob Moore, as spokesman for Murray Energy stated doubt that the underground rescue effort would resume, and in the next breath spoke of resuming mining operations as there "is still recoverable coal in the mine." So, no to the men and yes to the coal? He was joking, right?
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Charlson1 year, 1 month ago
Commended? Murray had his miners participating in retreat mining, an extremely dangerous method for extracting the last deposits of coal left in the mine before abandoning it for another. Greed seems to be the operative word here. And don't forget the slew of violations his mines have been cited for safety issues.
When the man got on TV and started politicizing about global warming during the mining disaster, I lost what little respect I might have had for him.
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klr601 year, 1 month ago
A short message to hoppy & SheSays. I worked for Murray, in a union mine for in a Union mine-he dispises the Union-UMWA, & declined their help in the rescue. Yes hoppy, i think they probably(owners) did all they could do-under the circumstances. Murray has no pressure on him, i know him like a book. Commended-not hardly! He is in it for the money & prestige-nothing more, as was said above, the unfortunate miners are expendable. And as far as the dangers of retreat mining are concerned-been there, so why was a miner with 3 Days experience in on it? She, you are correct on the Murray family thing, & this rob moore, i think is Murray's bro-in-law's son-and murray has 3 sons-all in high positions. Sadly, rob was not joking about the coal-that came from Murray. Murray & all his cronies will be answering to God one day-may they all burn in hell for eternity.-klr60
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ROCSWIFE051 year, 1 month ago
my husband is an eastern kentucky coalminer and i couldnt imgagine the pain that those families are going through right now. all i know if it was not for coalminers we would probaly be payin a whole lot more for electricity. so my prayers go out to the families and for those who say let mining stop well they can all kiss butt.
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arcrftmech161 year, 1 month ago
When a country has incopetent leadership (2 Bush's) then you have an incompetent government. It has been proven several times in national disasters and the appointed party favorites in positions of trust that are not suited to the job. Another example is the FEMA group in New Orleans hurrican disaster and the incompetence it showed. Then the 9-11 disaster and the incompentence in that national scandal. It all amounts to incompetent leadership that is more concerned about oil rights in IRAQ and the Middle East, cheap Mexican labor and illegal foreign national destroying the american way of life, than it is with security and safety of the American people. Money talks, our constitution and the american people have no meaning to this group of monopolistic monarchy of a government.
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