Comments on: The Mike Brown of MSHA. http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:04:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: hunter http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-383006 hunter Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:43:55 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-383006 The good ol USA is being <em><strong>bushed</strong></em> whacked again The good ol USA is being bushed whacked again

]]> By: big papa http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-382890 big papa Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:09:27 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-382890 I’m going to start believing in God thanks to Bushco. Everything they touch turns to sh*t. Comment by Gus the Loving OBGYN #2 ....the curse is working.... I’m going to start believing in God thanks to Bushco. Everything they touch turns to sh*t.

Comment by Gus the Loving OBGYN #2

….the curse is working….

]]> By: big papa http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-382889 big papa Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:08:36 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-382889 bush is trying to turn the u.s. into a third world country…where lawlessness and corruption are the rule in the state... Comment by bush-b-gone #29 Let's get one thing straight bush-b-gone, the lawlessness and corruption will be tolerated ONLY if perpetrated by the elitist class (Bushiva, L'il Dick and co.), NOT the little people. Do not try lawlessness and corruption at home, as it is for professional (corporate/political) use only. Any attempts to engage in lawless, corrupt behavior by any individual earning less than twenty million a year, or is not politically connected, or performing "official' services for same will cause said offender to garner severe legal sanctions... bush is trying to turn the u.s. into a third world country…where lawlessness and corruption are the rule in the state…

Comment by bush-b-gone #29

Let’s get one thing straight bush-b-gone, the lawlessness and corruption will be tolerated ONLY if perpetrated by the elitist class (Bushiva, L’il Dick and co.), NOT the little people.

Do not try lawlessness and corruption at home, as it is for professional (corporate/political) use only.

Any attempts to engage in lawless, corrupt behavior by any individual earning less than twenty million a year, or is not politically connected, or performing “official’ services for same will cause said offender to garner severe legal sanctions…

]]> By: Lisa http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-380508 Lisa Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:57:13 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-380508 I bet the Kool Aid drinking Mandible feels so proud is itself because it could write a response in the middle of the night while most were asleep, thinking it got the last word in. Like kickin a dead dog; getting the rush of taking on something when it's down. Yeah. The epitomy of spinelessness; a slithering reptile in the mud. Good work, Mandible; you make the Republican Party proud! You are the shining example of their representation and mentality! I bet the Kool Aid drinking Mandible feels so proud is itself because it could write a response in the middle of the night while most were asleep, thinking it got the last word in. Like kickin a dead dog; getting the rush of taking on something when it’s down. Yeah. The epitomy of spinelessness; a slithering reptile in the mud. Good work, Mandible; you make the Republican Party proud! You are the shining example of their representation and mentality!

]]> By: Mandible http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-379578 Mandible Sun, 08 Jan 2006 05:36:00 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-379578 Steve: "I can’t wait for another 3 years to pass so I can finally hear the end of you frickin cry babies complaining about Bush. And I can bet if a Republican get elected to office we’ll be listenming to you cry some more for at least another 4 years. Get a life Bush haters." A-hahahaHHAAAA!!! Sucks to be you, hahaHAHA! BBUUUSSSHHH B-u-u-s-s-h-h.B-u-a-a-a-.... baaaaaa. baaaaaa Steve: “I can’t wait for another 3 years to pass so I can finally hear the end of you frickin cry babies complaining about Bush. And I can bet if a Republican get elected to office we’ll be listenming to you cry some more for at least another 4 years. Get a life Bush haters.”

A-hahahaHHAAAA!!! Sucks to be you, hahaHAHA! BBUUUSSSHHH

B-u-u-s-s-h-h.B-u-a-a-a-…. baaaaaa. baaaaaa

]]> By: Lisa http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-378491 Lisa Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:35:50 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-378491 I agree bbg. I also believe that we should have a healthy mixture of conservativism with liberalism. A friend's husband said years ago we would be a third world country within 10 years and the way it's looking now, he could very well be right. Rather than being a 'superpower', I would much rather see this nation be the 'super example' in human rights, ethics, and justice to name a few catagories. But I really don't think we're mature enough, as a society, to accomplish that. Given the rampant corruption, I'll settle for ethics at this point! I agree bbg. I also believe that we should have a healthy mixture of conservativism with liberalism. A friend’s husband said years ago we would be a third world country within 10 years and the way it’s looking now, he could very well be right.

Rather than being a ’superpower’, I would much rather see this nation be the ’super example’ in human rights, ethics, and justice to name a few catagories. But I really don’t think we’re mature enough, as a society, to accomplish that.
Given the rampant corruption, I’ll settle for ethics at this point!

]]> By: Debbie Dee http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-378384 Debbie Dee Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:08:01 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-378384 No bid contracts are a red flag for corruption. They should not be allowed and legislation should be passed to address this big hole in our democracy. The excuse for Halliburton was that "no other company could do the job." No kidding, would you compete for a job when you knew it was all about "no bid contracts" it drives the honest people away and leaves crooks. It was amazing to see hard working people vote these guys back in to office. Wake up. They only have themselves to think about - rewarding friends and leaving the public with more arrogant imcompetents to run important positions. No bid contracts are a red flag for corruption. They should not be allowed and legislation should be passed to address this big hole in our democracy. The excuse for Halliburton was that “no other company could do the job.” No kidding, would you compete for a job when you knew it was all about “no bid contracts” it drives the honest people away and leaves crooks.
It was amazing to see hard working people vote these guys back in to office. Wake up. They only have themselves to think about – rewarding friends and leaving the public with more arrogant imcompetents to run important positions.

]]> By: bush-b-gone http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-378335 bush-b-gone Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:00:01 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-378335 bush is trying to turn the u.s. into a third world country...where lawlessness and corruption are the rule in the state...i happen to believe in conservativism but he believes and practices is a bastardized version. The guy cant even come up with coherent sentences and he's out there trying to be the education president. Everything he comes up with smells of double speak. step one....give control of house and senate to democrats..step two impeachment proceedings..step three...war criminal court at the hague.....thats the legal procedure to remove this clown bush is trying to turn the u.s. into a third world country…where lawlessness and corruption are the rule in the state…i happen to believe in conservativism but he believes and practices is a bastardized version. The guy cant even come up with coherent sentences and he’s out there trying to be the education president. Everything he comes up with smells of double speak. step one….give control of house and senate to democrats..step two impeachment proceedings..step three…war criminal court at the hague…..thats the legal procedure to remove this clown

]]> By: Peter Jones http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-378038 Peter Jones Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:52:33 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-378038 What can you say? I'm from the UK and we're seeing the same kind of cronyism and total contemptuous disregard for any kind of reaction/uproar/backlash from the electorate. We too have a government which was elected on promises of "cleaning up the sleaze" of the previous lot, yet whose performance is just as tainted by scandal and deals. It seems par for the course now: business leaders, politicians etc of whatever persuasion seem to have worked out that the best way to feed from the trough is to ensure they get to control it and they seem to believe they have some God-given right to a bigger share of the cake than anyone else and that it is fine for them to use whatever means possible to ensure the gravy train keeps going for them and their cronies. The mine disaster was in all probability an accident in that it was not a deliberate act of sabotage or terrorism. Unless it turns out to be one of those "acts of God" that all too conveniently let the culpable, the corrupt and the inept off the hook, no doubt it will turn out to be the case that it was an accident that could have been prevented, or at least mitigated, by proper actions/decisions/safety spending etc. For those posters who feel that the "common" people shouldn't winge about politicians or business leaders perhaps they might like to do a search on Google for "Buffalo Creek Flood" (just another example of many of what happens when a company appears to operate a culture that says "we don't give a s**t for your citations about safety"). We had the Aberfan disaster a few years before Buffalo Creek. Seems nobody learnt from it, or at least deemed it necessary to apply the lessons. I've just been watching a rerun of a programme on the Challenger disaster. You could weep for the sheer waste of those bright young lives and the hopes they carried. Why did they die? Same old story: sloppyness, industrial/political/management pressure overriding the clear signals of a problem and the huge concerns of the engineers. Did any heads roll? Did they hell! A few "early retirements" (bet it didn't crimp their pensions too much), but nobody actually blamed for closing their eyes/blinkering themselves to a very real danger. NASA forced hold a 2 year review to teach itself to do what it should have done in the first place. Don't hold your breath guys: this culture of sleaze and contempt for the "lower life forms (ordinary people)" runs deep in those who would rule us either directly through political means or indirectly through industry/commerce. They don’t dig coal, they don’t till the soil, they don’t work in auto plants, hospitals, marts etc because they were made for better things. They “work” in those parts of the economy/political arena where you can create vast personal wealth and influence by moving paper/fixing deals/creaming commissions/arranging self-rewarding pay and perks schemes etc and all done without having to go anywhere near real ordinary “sweat of the brow” work as is expected of the rest of us to keep the system running for their benefit. You think any of them who climb onto that system have any interest in bringing it down? How to fix it? God only knows and just at this moment He ain’t telling. Peter What can you say?
I’m from the UK and we’re seeing the same kind of cronyism and total contemptuous disregard for any kind of reaction/uproar/backlash from the electorate.

We too have a government which was elected on promises of “cleaning up the sleaze” of the previous lot, yet whose performance is just as tainted by scandal and deals.

It seems par for the course now: business leaders, politicians etc of whatever persuasion seem to have worked out that the best way to feed from the trough is to ensure they get to control it and they seem to believe they have some God-given right to a bigger share of the cake than anyone else and that it is fine for them to use whatever means possible to ensure the gravy train keeps going for them and their cronies.

The mine disaster was in all probability an accident in that it was not a deliberate act of sabotage or terrorism. Unless it turns out to be one of those “acts of God” that all too conveniently let the culpable, the corrupt and the inept off the hook, no doubt it will turn out to be the case that it was an accident that could have been prevented, or at least mitigated, by proper actions/decisions/safety spending etc.

For those posters who feel that the “common” people shouldn’t winge about politicians or business leaders perhaps they might like to do a search on Google for “Buffalo Creek Flood” (just another example of many of what happens when a company appears to operate a culture that says “we don’t give a s**t for your citations about safety”).

We had the Aberfan disaster a few years before Buffalo Creek. Seems nobody learnt from it, or at least deemed it necessary to apply the lessons.

I’ve just been watching a rerun of a programme on the Challenger disaster. You could weep for the sheer waste of those bright young lives and the hopes they carried. Why did they die? Same old story: sloppyness, industrial/political/management pressure overriding the clear signals of a problem and the huge concerns of the engineers.

Did any heads roll? Did they hell! A few “early retirements” (bet it didn’t crimp their pensions too much), but nobody actually blamed for closing their eyes/blinkering themselves to a very real danger. NASA forced hold a 2 year review to teach itself to do what it should have done in the first place.

Don’t hold your breath guys: this culture of sleaze and contempt for the “lower life forms (ordinary people)” runs deep in those who would rule us either directly through political means or indirectly through industry/commerce.

They don’t dig coal, they don’t till the soil, they don’t work in auto plants, hospitals, marts etc because they were made for better things. They “work” in those parts of the economy/political arena where you can create vast personal wealth and influence by moving paper/fixing deals/creaming commissions/arranging self-rewarding pay and perks schemes etc and all done without having to go anywhere near real ordinary “sweat of the brow” work as is expected of the rest of us to keep the system running for their benefit. You think any of them who climb onto that system have any interest in bringing it down?

How to fix it? God only knows and just at this moment He ain’t telling.

Peter

]]> By: Lisa http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-377840 Lisa Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:13:08 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-377840 Well, ya know big papa, it took 22 previous entries before he found it in the dictionary. Let's see, there's A, B, C,...hmmmmmm; that gives me an idea M! It's hard to use the dictionary when the cerebral cortex is lacking! Well, ya know big papa, it took 22 previous entries before he found it in the dictionary. Let’s see, there’s A, B, C,…hmmmmmm; that gives me an idea M!

It’s hard to use the dictionary when the cerebral cortex is lacking!

]]> By: big papa http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-377639 big papa Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:05:38 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-377639 You people kill me. I imagine the lightening strike was his fault too? It was a freakin accident you MORONS! Comment by Eddie #23 I'm astonished that you spelled the word "MORON" correctly. But then you've probably had a lot of practice with it since Bushite inbreds like yourself have adopted it as your surname... That mine had (depending on whom you're listening to) btwn 100-to- 208 safety violations. Because the Bushite regime is so anti-labor, anti poor/middle working class, anti-regulation, anti-union, anti-environmental and ANTI-AMERICAN, those violations were ignored- even though this mine has changed hands at least four times within the last few years. Hey Eddie, do you own your own home? If you did you'd know that you couldn'tsell your home with minor safety violations, but corporate scumbags were allowed to not only buy and sell this mine with again upwards of 200 safety violations, but were allowed to send workers down into that death trap... how would you feel if one of those 12 dead was your father, brother, or son? Oh that's right it probably wouldn't even faze you, as long as your gods Bushiva and l'il dick are safely ensconced in your white house from hell atop their inbred inspired pedestals... Eddie, why do you hate our democracy? What makes inbreds like you betray your country in order to worship and serve two of the most vile, undeserving, cowardly, corrupt sh*theads like Bushiva and L'il Dick? Are you serving in Iraq? If not, why not? Why don't you move to a country where you can live under a facist king? I'm sure there's room for you... You people kill me. I imagine the lightening strike was his fault too?

It was a freakin accident you MORONS!

Comment by Eddie #23

I’m astonished that you spelled the word “MORON” correctly. But then you’ve probably had a lot of practice with it since Bushite inbreds like yourself have adopted it as your surname…

That mine had (depending on whom you’re listening to) btwn 100-to- 208 safety violations. Because the Bushite regime is so anti-labor, anti poor/middle working class, anti-regulation, anti-union, anti-environmental and ANTI-AMERICAN, those violations were ignored- even though this mine has changed hands at least four times within the last few years.

Hey Eddie, do you own your own home?

If you did you’d know that you couldn’tsell your home with minor safety violations, but corporate scumbags were allowed to not only buy and sell this mine with again upwards of 200 safety violations, but were allowed to send workers down into that death trap…

how would you feel if one of those 12 dead was your father, brother, or son? Oh that’s right it probably wouldn’t even faze you, as long as your gods Bushiva and l’il dick are safely ensconced in your white house from hell atop their inbred inspired pedestals…

Eddie, why do you hate our democracy?

What makes inbreds like you betray your country in order to worship and serve two of the most vile, undeserving, cowardly, corrupt sh*theads like Bushiva and L’il Dick?

Are you serving in Iraq? If not, why not?

Why don’t you move to a country where you can live under a facist king? I’m sure there’s room for you…

]]> By: big papa http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-377618 big papa Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:45:28 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-377618 ...the curse is working... …the curse is working…

]]> By: Pam http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-377609 Pam Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:40:02 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-377609 Eddie, don't think anyone is disputing that it was an accident. Rather they are saying that if proper actions had been taken to see that if the more than 230 violations that the coal company had last year had been remediated, perhaps the OUTCOME of the ACCIDENT would have been different. If the working men and women of this country have no union (and that mine I am told had none) then who is to be looking out for them? By their actions, the people in government who were overseeing the safety of these fellow Americans should be under the microscope for scrutiny of dereliction of duty it would seem. Eddie, don’t think anyone is disputing that it was an accident. Rather they are saying that if proper actions had been taken to see that if the more than 230 violations that the coal company had last year had been remediated, perhaps the OUTCOME of the ACCIDENT would have been different. If the working men and women of this country have no union (and that mine I am told had none) then who is to be looking out for them? By their actions, the people in government who were overseeing the safety of these fellow Americans should be under the microscope for scrutiny of dereliction of duty it would seem.

]]> By: Eddie http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-377578 Eddie Sat, 07 Jan 2006 16:16:06 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-377578 You people kill me. I imagine the lightening strike was his fault too? It was a freakin accident you MORONS! You people kill me. I imagine the lightening strike was his fault too?

It was a freakin accident you MORONS!

]]> By: Pam http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-377479 Pam Sat, 07 Jan 2006 14:53:29 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-377479 Bill and Steve.... take off your blinders and join the rest of those who can see what is going on without the prejuidice of politics or religion coloring their glasses. Bill and Steve…. take off your blinders and join the rest of those who can see what is going on without the prejuidice of politics or religion coloring their glasses.

]]> By: Steve http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-377415 Steve Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:51:51 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-377415 I can't wait for another 3 years to pass so I can finally hear the end of you frickin cry babies complaining about Bush. And I can bet if a Republican get elected to office we'll be listenming to you cry some more for at least another 4 years. Get a life Bush haters. I can’t wait for another 3 years to pass so I can finally hear the end of you frickin cry babies complaining about Bush. And I can bet if a Republican get elected to office we’ll be listenming to you cry some more for at least another 4 years. Get a life Bush haters.

]]> By: Bill Bryant http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-377359 Bill Bryant Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:42:46 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-377359 <strong> All of the comments on here sound like a bunch of bullshits from people who just blurt things out w/o any thinking. That's one of the reasons the country is in the shape it's in now.</strong> All of the comments on here sound like a bunch of bullshits from people who just blurt things out w/o any thinking. That’s one of the reasons the country is in the shape it’s in now.

]]> By: Randall http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-377341 Randall Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:25:29 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-377341 As an African-American, who has been "made it" in corporate America, by my own hard work/merits, I've heard comments about being a quota and reverse discrimination. Exactly what do you call it when Bush appoints people like Harriet Miers, Mike Brown, and dozens of other political appointees who are far from qualified? I'm no fan of affirmative action. I think a person should sink or swim, based on their education, intelligence, merits etc., but when I hear conSServatives attack affirmative action and or C+ GPA president speak of hard work, the importance of education, patriotism, etc.....it makes me want to vomit. As an African-American, who has been “made it” in corporate America, by my own hard work/merits, I’ve heard comments about being a quota and reverse discrimination.

Exactly what do you call it when Bush appoints people like Harriet Miers, Mike Brown, and dozens of other political appointees who are far from qualified?

I’m no fan of affirmative action. I think a person should sink or swim, based on their education, intelligence, merits etc., but when I hear conSServatives attack affirmative action and or C+ GPA president speak of hard work, the importance of education, patriotism, etc…..it makes me want to vomit.

]]> By: For Truth http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-376696 For Truth Sat, 07 Jan 2006 05:34:49 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-376696 #11, Excellent idea, but unfortunately it is not realistic. Most of the poeple who patronize those businesses have no idea, and don't want to know. Maybe the new credit card laws will get some people interested. #11,

Excellent idea, but unfortunately it is not realistic. Most of the poeple who patronize those businesses have no idea, and don’t want to know. Maybe the new credit card laws will get some people interested.

]]> By: Marie http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/comment-page-1/#comment-376374 Marie Sat, 07 Jan 2006 04:07:46 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/the-mike-brown-of-msha/#comment-376374 #14, Lisa and #15, Spudgeboy -- Jeezuschrist!! I just read the news report. Bush&Co are totally out of control -- as you say, they make it up as they go. They are whores. Corrupt perverts who must be taken down. #14, Lisa and #15, Spudgeboy — Jeezuschrist!! I just read the news report. Bush&Co are totally out of control — as you say, they make it up as they go. They are whores. Corrupt perverts who must be taken down.

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