[Mr.Kimball]

A republican that has nothing intelligent to offer to any discussion, only ignorant, snide, half witted comments, congratulating another republican. What else is new in your world?

Who ever said that I was a republican to begin with? Never once have I ever, ever at any time stated my party preference. I am more along the line of advocating just plain simple common sense politics. I dont care if someone is green , blue, democrat , independent, republican ,or whatever. If what they say and do makes sense, then that's my choice of polititian. But lets hold on here for one more moment and let me make this 100% clear. I detest career polititians. I tend to go for these guys that dont care if they get re-elected or not. They are in there to do a job, get it done, and get it done right. I am not the least bit interested in the guy who doesn't want to make too many waves for fear that he wont get another term. I want a guy in office that is there to serve the people and our country's best interests and who is looking out for all of our well beings, not a guy that does this because it's a heck of a lot easier than getting a job and going to work. So just be sure to recognize that nothing I post is party affiliated. Do you understand that?


Now to address your uncalled for personal remarks. While your post was quoted along with my response, I was not necessarily aiming anything towards you personally. First off, I was not particulary even talking about burning coal, and I was not the lame brain that brought carcinic issues to the whole conversation. Did you help with that one? I just mearly expanded on and/or dispelling on the other posts made on the subject. I was however, makimg mention of the environmental issues of the mining process and how it effects the environment. The point I was trying to make is that while yes there are aspects to mining coal that does have to be addressed, and I am 100% for doing what it takes to be responsible enough to not permanently destroy our habitat, I want to make sure that everyone realizes that all of the other stuff that I mentioned , has the exact same effect whether it be aesthetic scars or is personal heath hazard related.

Does it take a rocket scientist to be able to figure out from which angle I was coming from? I hardly doubt that you or anyone else could not figure out the direction from which I was coming and which I was heading in. It's just interesting that some are telling how bad the coal industry is and the awful evils things that the industry does, yet nobody wants to be responsible enough with their critical posts about what the effects are of all the other minable resources that I mentioned. There is no difference in any of them. How about someone admitting the scars and environmental issues that the miles and miles of huge pits that are created when they mine copper. Is that not a permanent scar on the land. Is is not a permanent scar on the land when we quarry limestone to make roads or use as building material. How come we dont have to return those areas back to their original contours? How come we can blast the sides of mountains away to extract granite or marble for building purposes and not return those areas to their original contours too? Why is is only brought up concerning coal. Ever see what clear cutting a forest does to the environment? Ever see the silt runoff and what it does to streams, not to mention the ugliness that it leaves? Talk about hypocritical. How about the stip mining that is done when bauxite, iron ore, lead, and all of the other metals. Is the damage it creates any different than what stripping coal does? No it is not. Trust me, there are chemical compounds that dilute the water streams at the locations that they are extracted too? Before some Einstein gets on here and wants to go the nuclear route. How in the heck do they think that plutonium and uranium are obtained to make nuclear power anyways. It is strip mined just like coal is, with the ores extracted. How come no one wants to talk about potential radio active runoff with that bad boy?

Yeah, you can get on here and unjustly call me every name in the book. You can try to undermine whatever political preferences I may or may not have, but the one thing you cannot deny and change is that everything I said is all true and if you or anyone else is not able to look in the mirror and not agree with what I said in my original post, then there is no other conclusion than to say that they are a true hypocrit, because there is not one single person that will give up what I stated needed to be given up to avoid being cast in that category.

Lastly if you felt I was being personal towards you only then for that I apologize, but under no circumstance will I change or sugar coat what I said. It is all 100% truthful.