Retired VIP wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:00:44 -0500, "Mike hunt" >
> wrote:
>
>> What facts? You once again demonstrate you penchant to comment on every
>> subject, even though you apparently know little or nothing of the subject on
>> which you choose to comment.
>>
>>
>>
>> Obviously you know noting about the Anthracite and Bituminous coal fields in
>> Pennsylvania. They are not on the mountain tops. The coal is all in "U"
>> shape veins between the mountains. For the past fifty years, ALL coal wash
>> water has been collected, sediments removed and the water REUSED. Any water
>> release is treated for acids before being discharged. After the coal is
>> removed the area is restored to grade. Even old areas, mined before
>> federal and state reclamation laws were passed, are being reclaimed and put
>> to use LOL
>
> You might as well talk to a wall for all the good it does Mike. These
> guys have sucked down all the "America is rotten" and "It's all
> America's fault" socialists crap and they are not going to listen to
> the truth.

What does this have to do with the issue at hand? The fact is that in
some areas, mountains literally have their tops blown off and the rocks
from the blasts end up in the valleys.

http://www.ohvec.org/galleries/mount...007/index.html

What you're making is a straw-man argument. The fact is that one think
that America is a great country, but can be made better.

> I don't understand why they don't move to a country that
> matches their hate of freedom and capitalism.

You mean like the freedom to enjoy the valleys? Oops, the valleys were
filled in with mountain top.

> That's not true, I do
> know why they stay in the country they hate. They don't want to give
> up their easy chairs, wide screen TVs, HD DVD players and Big Mac's
> for an unheated shack and cold goat meat.

You've got the strawman argument style down pat!

> Jack