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(3) The precocious children in the endlessly repeated LearnAboutCoal.org commercials have been pimping the benefits of clean coal for months now and deserve “like, a 250 year supply” of STFU. But of course it’s not their fault that they’ve been lassoed into reciting this ridiculous drivel about the benefits of coal energy — the most dangerous and polluting form of energy on the planet — so it’s unfair to blame them. 
Let’s revise that and just say the LearnAboutCoal.org people should STFU. A while back, I did some research on LearnAboutCoal.org. For what it’s worth, here’s what I found:
The “non-profit” and “non-partisan” Learn About Coal organization’s website domain name is registered to CEED, the Center for Energy and Economic Development. CEED’s vice chairman is Michael Ward. Michael Ward is the chairman and CEO of the CSX Corporation. Guess who used to be the chairman and CEO of CSX? Former Treasury Secretary John Snow. Who was the chairman of CSX/Sea-Land under Snow? David Sanborn. In January of this year, David Sanborn was nominated by President Bush as the next Administrator of the Maritime Administration (Dept. of Transportation). Who does Sanborn work for right at this very minute? Dubai Ports World, which acquired CSX’s ports for $1.15 billion in 2004.
Here’s a CLEAN cup of STFU for LearnAboutCoal.org and their butt sniffing corporate cronies.
4) This next one is easy. Pat Robertson said this week:
“When you see L-O-R-D in caps, that is the name. It’s not Allah, it’s not Brahma, it’s not Shiva, it’s not Vishnu, it’s not Buddha. It is Jehovah God. They don’t have a relationship with him. He is the God of all Gods. These others are mostly demonic powers. Sure they’re demons. There are many demons in the world.” (via C&L)
I don’t believe in literal or biblical demons, but if I had to point one out in the flesh, it might be a wackaloon preacher who blackmails God fearing Americans into giving millions of dollars they don’t have to his ministry or they’ll be damned, and whom claims he invented a protein shake which grants human beings the ability to leg press a Toyota Scion (the boxy shape gives it a solid center of gravity for leg pressing). Hey Pat, how’s about a protein shake served in a big cup of STFU?
November 20th, 2006 at 6:08 am
It has always come as a shock to me, how all of these various CEOs and upper level govt muckedy-mucks are brothers, sisters, best friends, sons, daughters, lovers of each other and how they keep popping up over and over in different contexts (maybe not so different, since, if it’s a ‘class’ thing, it’s certain that they’re eminently qualified for any and all positions that might come open). Must be nice. Maybe it’s just my envy leakin’ out.
Heaping piles of STFU to the lot of them.
November 20th, 2006 at 10:28 am
It is going to be tough in Utah to stop coal burning, it is after all your apparant energy future, along with nuclear and poison waste storage.
So much the better that it is clean, as defined by people that have been here less than 15 years. They would know, at least cleaner than their recently deserted diapers. Unconscionable. As is the new big burner down on the swell, but that was built for California, utha just gets the economic benefit, the filth winds up in CO, and points east.
Considering that the triangle from Price, to Grand Junction, to Glenwood Springs Colorado has 2 members of coal, one 13 ft. thick, one 5.5 ft. thick, the resource does exist, and if you think they won’t go get to it eventually, well I refer you to the current Roan Plateau evisceration by energy companies in CO.
BTW, the biggest benefactors of wrecking our public lands, in Colorado is ENCANA, a canadian crown company. 80% of ALL mining companies on Earth are incorporated in Canada. Remember what the crown did to America, and all other indiginous peoples and you will understand what is to become of Utah.
Keeepp belivin’, the rapists love it.