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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-08-09 03:59 AM
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Part concert, part political rally...(somebody call the EPA)
Part concert, part political rally

By Davin White
Staff writer

HOLDEN, W.Va. -- Thousands showed up to a free Labor Day rally at a reclaimed mine site in Holden, where musicians and speakers fired up the crowd with one part country music and another part politics at a gathering that highlighted jobs, the working class and the future of coal.


Musicians such as Hank Williams Jr. John Rich, Halfway to Hazard and the Blackwater Outlaws joined Fox News political commentator Sean Hannity and other speakers, including coal industry executives, on the main stage. Rocker Ted Nugent, nicknamed the Motor City Madman, emceed the Friends of America Rally and played a shrieking guitar rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner."


By early Monday afternoon, the crowd was well below the 100,000 expected to show.


Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, who told the crowd he spent about $1 million on the rally, offered sharp criticism of multinational corporations, Republicans, Democrats and "environmental nuts" who are trying, he said, to ship American jobs to China. More...

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200909070222

And then came the rain!

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Adenoid_Hynkel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-08-09 04:12 AM
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1. Don-a-pollute-za
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-08-09 04:18 AM
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3. Not even Non-Union Carbide could ever stink the place up...
Edited on Tue Sep-08-09 04:20 AM by Hubert Flottz
like the "Don-a-pollute-za"(maybe that foul smell was Teds's old war pants)
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vadawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-08-09 04:18 AM
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2. forgot that was today, will have to ask my partner how it was tomorrow
was wondering why i hadnt seen him today...
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-08-09 06:12 AM
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4. What has "200,000" legs and one tooth?
"Don-a-pollute-za"
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