Fun Toy Banned Because Of Three Stupid Dead Kids
“The tragedy is inconceivable,” Wizco president Alvin Cassidy said. “For years, countless children played with the Aqua Assault RoboFighter without incident. But then these three retards come along and somehow find a way to get themselves killed. So now we have to do a full recall and halt production on what was a really awesome toy. What a waste.”
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Officials for the West Virginia Attorney General’s office have worked through a major stumbling block with the state of Texas and approved a concealed handgun reciprocity agreement between both states.
And it’s the middle of January in West Virginia, that ain’t right.
Yesterday I went over to Wyoming county to a community where a new surface mine is being proposed by a coal company. It never stops shocking me how the people who are directly impacted by the issue of surface mining are the ones who are the most afraid to stand up and do something about it most of the time. To really understand why you have to understand the oppression that the people in Southern West Virginia, and all throughout Appalachia have been living under their entire lives. When you grow up in southern West Virginia it’s pounded into your head from a very early age to be afraid of the coal company, and never get on their bad side. This sort-of thinking has been propagated by the coal industry for the past hundred and fifty years, ever since they started stealing land from people to dredge that awful black mineral up to the surface.
To understand what the coal industry is doing to the people of Appalachia today you have to look at what they have done to us in the past. Things like coal camps, company doctors, incredibly dangerous working conditions, and a general disregard for human health and safety. The coal industry still holds to all of these practices. The only things that have really honestly changed from those day is the fact that Child Labor is now illegal and they can’t get away with paying people in fake money any more. Don’t think for a second though that they wouldn’t do both of those things again today if they could get away with it, and if it could save them a penny.
Anywho, back to what I was actually talking about. We had around about 30 doors slammed in our face in the community I went to and no one at all talked to me. These are people who’s homes are being shaken by blasting and their water poisoned every single day, and they aren’t willing to do the slightest thing about it. All because they don’t want to anger the almighty deity of the coal company. If the people of West Virginia are ever going to have the same freedom that people in the rest of the country enjoy they’re going to have to fight for it with all they have.
I suppose you could say this is the first post in what is going to be regular blog posts. I figured some folks out here in internet land may be interested in the goings on of my life, and by extension the movement to end surface mining here in West Virginia. So, yeah if anyone has any suggestions of what exactly they would like me to talk about I’m open to them.
