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POPSDeath Panel Will Save Lives In Long Run Says VP Biden "Make no mistake, President Obama is as compassionate as any other man of color. Just because his grandma is here illegally doesn't make her any different than your granny or mine. As far as he is concerned, when her time is up, she's toast."
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POPSThe WV Mine Disaster: Where Was the "Canary in the Coal Mine"? These song birds were pleasant and faithful guardians of miner's until just a couple decades ago and people might be surprised to find out just why canaries were replaced by modern sensors, which apparently were little help at the recent mine disaster and explosion due to gas in West Virginia. One of the leading reasons for banishing these feathered friends of miners was this: New electronic detectors will replace the bird because they are said to be cheaper in the long run and more effective You read that right. Modern technology is "cheaper in the long run" than canaries. Cost-cutting is only justifiable if mine safety is not sacrificed. One wonders if the 29 who were killed would have suffered that fate if canaries were singing down there with them. Modern technology apparently gave no clear alarm. Should the "canary in the coal mine" be restored?
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POPSUMWA President Rebukes McCain
Despite what the McCain campaign and some far right-wing blogs would have Americans believe, Sen. Obama has been and remains a tremendous supporter of coal and the future of coal. “I noted that Sen. McCain even went so far yesterday as to say he has always been a supporter of coal. I wonder, then, how he can justify his statement at a Senate hearing in 2000 that, ‘In a perfect world we would like to transition away from coal entirely,’ and his leading role in sponsoring legislation in 2003 that would have wiped out 78 percent of all coal production in America? “Fortunately, UMWA members, their families and their friends and neighbors in the coalfields know all too well what is going on here. They’re not going to fall for it, and we urge others throughout America who care about coal to review what the candidates’ records on coal actually are. We are confident that once they do, and once they see the many other benefits to working families of voting for Sen. Obama, they will make t
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POPSWV Governor Accused of Affairs and "No Morals" Governor Joe Manchin (D) is now running for a second term. These articles are from credible investigative reporters in West Virginia that are sparing no one in government. Recall the previous democrat governor confessed to an adulterous affair and left the state at the close of his office.
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