Massey Energy - double metallurgical coal sales !

Great news for my friends at Cumberland Resources!

Mine operator Massey Energy says this week's $960 million acquisition of Cumberland Resources will advance its goal of doubling sales of higher-priced coal used to make steel by 2012.
Massey, like other coal producers, has moved aggressively to capitalize on surging demand in Asia for metallurgical coal, with the U.S. and Europe still recovering from the recession.
Massey told analysts Wednesday the company is pushing for 20 million tons of metallurgical sales.

Virginia-based Massey plans to ship 10 million tons this year and says Cumberland should contribute 5 million more within two years.Link

Jobs and security for our miners and our country.

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Ronald Reagan on Socialism & Liberalism

"Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people would adopt every fragment of the socialist program."~ Ronald Reagan

Boucher’s $140,000 franked mail tab - seventh-highest in House

What a waste.

A new public radio station. A cultural heritage center for Bristol’s Birthplace of Country Music. A veterans cemetery that would be the first in Southwest Virginia.
U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher has made all of those projects possible by securing $10 million in federal money, and he wants his constituents to know.
A recent mailing to Bristol residents from Boucher might be self-promotional – it is studded with references to the 9th District Democrat’s role in procuring the money, and features him in four photos – but it is not campaign literature. The italicized print in the upper left hand corner designates the mail as “official business,” prepared and mailed at taxpayer expense. Last year, Boucher was among the most prolific congressional users of franked mail, a legislative privilege that allows lawmakers to send mail through the U.S. Postal Service with their signature in place of a stamp.

Noooo, it's not campaign lit...Heh. Ole Feckless Rick is on the ropes!

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Nikolaus Johnson - Death Row Cop Killer on Facebook - He needs your Comments

Amazing.

Convicted cop-killer Nikolaus Johnson may be on death row, but he’s still finding a way to communicate with the outside world using Facebook. Although Johnson is not allowed access to the internet inside the Nashville prison he currently calls home, through Facebook he is staying in touch with his family and friends.
“Inmates don’t have access to the internet,” Tennessee Department of Correction Communications Officer Dorinda Carter said. “We don’t allow them to go on the internet and post whatever they want. He’s likely talking to someone on the phone or by mail and they are posting the messages for him on Facebook.”
Nearly three years ago, a jury convicted Johnson of the 2004 killing of Bristol, TN police officer Mark Vance. Despite that murder conviction and subsequence death penalty sentence, Johnson has 232 Facebook friends.
“A lot of people love him,” Johnson’s mother Kathy Bunche said. “You can see that. They understand that the story that he is a monster can’t be right. Everybody knows that’s not the case.” Read it all

His facebook page is here. I guess it comforts his family...or something. I'm waiting on that Ride the needle comment.

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Snow Devil

C'mon over!