To paraphrase a catch phrase from a famous wrestler, "Can you smelllllllalalala what the Jay Rock is cooking?"
Senator Rockefeller goes upside the head of Senator Conrad with some serious smack:
"I'm really very tired of hearing about that from him," an exasperated Rockefeller told reporters. "And it's always'" [...]
by: FDL Action
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, December 7.
1. Marta Evry asks that you consider joining a "One Voice for Choice" phone bank or starting one of your own. As Evry says, "It's easy, it's fun, and best of" [...]
by: heath_harrison
West Virginians and their allies, including Robert Kennedy, Jr., rallied today at the headquarters of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to call for an end to mountaintop removal coal mining, starting with an end to the blasting of Coal River Mountain. [...]
Beds Are Burning - TckTckTck Campaign (time4climatejustice)
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This just in EPA chief Lisa Jackson is explaining in an unprecedented news conference that GHG's are manmade and should and will be regulated by EPA. Great news!
The timing of this announcement is great considering the big rally today at WVDEP HQ in Kanawha City.
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Appalachian author and Huffington Post blogger Jeff Biggers nails it in a column in today's Charleston Gazette:
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- From Copenhagen to Charleston, the world will be watching Gov. Joe Manchin closely today.
This week at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, Google Earth will take world leaders on a [...]
By Clem Guttata
What's on your mind?
Road out of Romney, West Va.
John Vachon (1914-1975), photographer.
[1942 or 1943]
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by: FDL Action
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Friday, December 4.
1. Jane Hamsher points to a new Mason-Dixon poll indicating that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid trails two potential GOP opponents. This doesn't make Hamsher particularly sad, to put it mildly, given' [...]
by: One Citizen
In case you don't recognize her dopey overbite when it's photographed in profile, that's Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Teabagger) playing mommy.
There's an interesting backstory regarding holier-than-thou Stupak's connection to C-Street at this link
' [...]
Charleston, W.Va. - Some members of the military and citizens living overseas will soon have a quicker, easier, and more secure way to cast their absentee ballot.
Governor Joe Manchin signed the Online Voting Pilot Program Bill into law this [...]
Via email from Rainforest Action Network
It's only a few short days before we need you to stand with us to save Coal River Mountain. Please come and join hundreds of Coal River Valley residents and their allies, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the Waterkeeper Alliance.
Join us on [...]
by: FDL Action
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, December 3.
1. Jon Walker reports that "Thomas Carper's terrible new "alternative" to a public option is not winning over progressives in the House," with Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona saying, "I think" [...]
Good afternoon, West Virginia Blue readers. This is your afternoon open thread to discuss all things Hill-related. Use this thread to praise or bash Congresscritters, share a juicy tip, ask questions, offer critiques and suggestions, or post manifestos.
I have been posting this on Daily Kos and Congress [...]
Our fund-raising drive for the Sustainable Energy and Environmental Diversity (SEED) community project at Coal River Mountain Watch is off to a great start. A huge thank you to those of you who have already contributed. I'm going to be writing more diaries on the topic' [...]
by: FDL Action
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Wednesday, December 2.
1. Jane Hamsher announces the launch of One Voice for Choice, "a national phone bank that will launch calls into the districts of the Representatives who voted for Stupak." For more [...]
As a resident of district 31 I hope the Governor will consider Meesha Poore to replace Carrie Webster in the House of Delegates.
She was the primary challenger in the last election and would best represent perhaps the most culturally and ethnically diverse district in the state.
Ms. Poore is [...]
From an email:
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Gov. Joe Manchin today announced he is appointing Carrie L. Webster of Charleston to fill the Kanawha County Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court seat left vacant by President Obama's appointment of Judge Irene Berger to [...]
by FDL Action
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Tuesday, December 1.
1. Jon Walker has some advice "for every potential manufacturer and transnational company looking to expand...don't start a single business-or expand an existing one-in this country until we really try to rein in'" [...]
Excerpts of the President's Address to the Nation
"The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 - the fastest pace possible - so that they can target the insurgency and secure key population centers. They will increase our ability to train" [...]
On May 5th, 2006, a young black man named Ivan Lee II was subjected to a humiliating roadside search by the South Charleston Police Department. He responed by asking for an investigation into the incident and an apology. When the South Charleston Police [...]
Whether it's the failed rock DJs on rightwing radio screaming, Don Blankenship twittering or their fanboys at the Charleston Daily Mail blogging, chances are you've heard the conservative attempts to distort allegedly hacked e-mails and spin them into an imaginary scandal called "Climategate."
Rush Limbaugh, for instance, is now bizarrely' [...]
by: FDL Action
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 30.
1. To put it mildly, Jon Walker believes that the Urban Institute's new report "endorsing the idea of a super-hard trigger for a robust Medicare-style public option" is off base. Walker argues [...]
In a great post today, Moloch’s Children: Do Climate Skeptics and Climate Change Activists Need to Agree?, Sharon Astyk is speaking passionately about climate change, but what she says applies to all our ideological battles.
I’ve watched the battles of left and right, the old enlightenment political battles go [...]
by: btchakir
Hopefully, this impacts West Virginia!
Auditions in Shepherdstown, WV, Tonite, for
The Hunting of the Snark.
FULL CIRCLE THEATER COMPANY
113 S. Princess St.
Shepherdstown, WV
December 1, 2, 16 & 17 at 7:00 PM and Saturday Dec. 12 at 1:00 PM
Or by Appointment.
Director: [...]
In response to the Republican purity test, Devilstowers proposes a checklist for Democrats:
Still, the purity test does provide a convenient check list. You too can be accepted as a Republican if you promise to hate gays, poor people, immigrants, and the environment (which, come to think [...]
This Tuesday Obama is supposed to announce his decision on troops and Afghanistan (the last guess I heard was 30,000 as opposed to the 40,000 the General asked for) and we will once again see our middle-east battle commitment increase.
But is there a reason why the President didn't turn' [...]
We're a little over a month away from an election year. All three Congressional Representatives from West Virginia are up for re-election. In state house races, all of the House of Delegates are up for election as are half of the State Senate. Also, there's more than a' [...]
Despite those who have dismissed Obama's visit to China as useless, and despaired of any useful outcome from Copenhagen, Scientific American reports that his programs to advance clean energy in China and India, plus negotiations with Canada and Mexico and his commitment to cutting US emissions, addresses over half [...]
With all the hoopla about the delay in the PATH procedure in WV, I thought it was poignant that the planned receivers of the dirty coal powered electricity from WV doesn't want their power.
The governors of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware have announced a partnership designed to promote' [...]
In honor of our 39th Anniversary* we're having a special Eastern Panhandle meetup tonight, Saturday, November 28, at 7PM at Peking Restaurant in Martinsburg.
You know you're looking for an excuse to get out of the house for a few hours during Thanksgiving weekend, this is your excuse!
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The Secret Service faces an unprecedented situation and the risks are up 400 percent.
And people should not crash parties, particularly state dinners.
But he's OUR' [...]
by: FDL Action
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for "Black Friday" (November 27).
1. On Wednesday, Jane Hamsher asked, "Why is HCAN Defending Blanche Lincoln From A Primary Challenge?" The answer: "[HCAN] will continue to operate as part of the Democratic party infrastructure, try to" [...]
Today is Black Friday.
It has only been in the last couple of years that stores gave actually referred to "Black Friday" in their post-Thanksgiving-sale ads... There was a time that they didn't really want you to know that it was the point on the fiscal calendar when they went' [...]
From It's Getting Hot in Here:
As climate justice movements turn towards the floundering talks in Denmark, people in Appalachia are in the fight of their lives to save Coal River Mountain and end mountaintop removal. On Dec. 7, we'll be rallying and protesting at the WV Dept. of' [...]
By Clem Guttata
Mother Nature is serving up a dose of cold and wet for Thanksgiving, what are you preparing for tomorrow's feast?
* If you're planning to brave the weather for a stroll through the woods, don't forget your blaze orange... the woods are thick with hunters this time of [...]
by FDL Action
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Tuesday, November 24.
1. Jon Walker explains "the difference between really trying and pretending to try" by Majority Leader Harry Reid on the public option. Walker quotes Gerald Seib of the Wall Street Journal, who [...]
Judge Chuck Chambers has ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not give the public enough of a say on two MTR permits.
Sierra Club spokesman Oliver Bernstein says the decision issued Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Chuck Chambers affects most pending surface mine permits in West [...]
- Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, gives an excellent rebuttal to Don Blankenship's latest load of B.S.
While it baffles me that flat-Earthers like Blankenship still exist, my response to the last few deniers is simple.
If you don't believe in the science, that's your problem. But' [...]
by FDL Action
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 23.
1. Yesterday, Jon Walker took on Nate Silver, who "believes progressives should trade the public option away, but what he wants in return is far more useless and an even tougher political" [...]
by: One Citizen
