Kentucky Coal Miners Strike Back at Ashley Judd
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
Last month, in a speech to the National Press Club, actress Ashley Judd took a break from taking on Sarah Palin and set her sights on business practices in her home state.
Judd referred to the mountain top removal of coal in Kentucky as “environmental genocide,” called the process “the state-sanctioned, federal government supported, coal industry operated, rape of Appalachia,” and said the miners should be retrained to take “better jobs” (unfortunately the “vacuous actor” career field is full up at the moment).
On Wednesday, the coal industry sponsored a golf tournament at StoneCrest Golf Course in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, and launched a return salvo by way of a poster displayed at the tourney:
Checkmate.
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
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What gives this typically brain-dead liberal the right to determine what someone chooses as a career? I will grant you that coal mining is not in my top 100 list of jobs; not even in my top 1000.
And just what is a “better job?” Acting? Liberal poltician? Community organizer?
These morons want to kill coal and oil without anything to replace them. And you can’t explain to them how stupid that is. Since they aren’t feeling the bad effects of their lunacy now, they think their ideas are worthy of mention.
STFU
A million years ago these morons had me fooled. Now, I’d drive the bulldozer to peel off the top of the mountain myself if it means power, jobs, and quality of life. Besides, this has been going on for a couple hundred years now, and Kentucky is still a very beautiful state. So, who was lying to me? The liberals!
didn’t M.O. tell new grads not to takes jobs that make money??
they won’t be happy until we are all “volunteering” to cook and clean for each other and do each others laundry and living off of subsistence payments from her husband.
hahaha! Great comeback – love it!
….at least until such time that another liberal determines those jobs to be bad.
As Michelle said, vacuous.
Never a thought to how those in the north will heat their homes in winter, or drive their cars to work in rural areas so they can be taxed heavily.
Meanwhile her husband drives an open wheel race car!
Oh but that runs on Ethanol so it’s exempt. Good try idiot how about all the petroleum it takes to transport all the equipment?
Hypocrisy thy name is Ashley Judd. Shut up and don’t even sing.
Yeah, someone who produces nothing even remotely useful in her career has something to say about the men and women who help this country produce the power it uses to be the great nation it is.
Shut up Ashley.
Written by Mr Powers not Michelle.
You’re right. My bad.
Maybe all the coal miners can become race car drivers like Ashley’s husband Dario Franchitte.
Now that’s an evironmentally friendly occupation.
There’s an easy way to avoid that mistake in the future, RepVet. According to the hate mail Michelle gets, Michelle is black. Doug is the white guy.
Good one ‘Peeps.
Without all the coal, oil, etc these libs wouldn’t be able to fly around the world to tell us how we are destroying the world by driving a SUV or using a incandescent bulb.
Ashley,
What an arrogant, condescending, self absorbed, ego-centric, vindictive, full of herself, nacissistic, nasty person you are.
Your acting isn’t very good either, and the movies you are in are terrible.
You are fortunate, financially and career wise, that you can make a decent living getting by in such a field where talent is not necessary, and good scripts are not necessary, to collect big pay checks and become famous.
What a pity. I always liked her acting and found her extraordinarily attractive. I guess like so many other actresses, though, she’s hot but stupid.
It seems the Judds have definite leftist bent…
In many parts of Eastern Kentucky and Southern West (By God) Virginia, you either work in the coal industry, the lumber industry or go sustain the incredibly high rates of generational welfare on the taxpayer’s dime. Perhaps she would volunteer to replace any lost taxes if they shut the mines down. If you really want to help, try shutting the unions down and leaving the mines open … the coal mines with their company stores and company towns were the proverbial example of why unions were once needed but these days …
I dunno about y’all but what I’m really looking forward to is Lindsay Lohan’s insights on Chaotic Inflation theory.
And by better jobs she means…”green” jobs. Examples include unicorn trainers and minimum wage solar power panel installers at one of her KY mansions.
Unfortunately, this green jobs thing is going to become a euphemism for not having one.
Example:
“Hey man, I heard you got laid off from the coal mine.”
“No way, I got green-slipped and now I don’t work. I have reduced my carbon footprint to that of one of Ashley Judd’s poodles and my self esteem has never been better.”
We need a site that post the Hollywood and music crowds phony,pandering ideals and causes on a daily basis.We could have a blast with it.After all,some people don’t have maps.
The good news is that shutting down the coal mines means no electricity. No electricity then we wont hear from these clueless people.
I wonder if she got her grand ideas from talking to, I dunno, the coalminers of Appalachia themselves? What a guttersnipe.
Whazat Ashley? Didja say sumpin’?
Sorry, I didn’t hear you. I was too busy listening to Leonardo DiCaprio lecture me about global warming as he was getting off his private jet.
I’m not usually a conspiracy theorist, but the recent mining disaster and the oil rig explosion occurred very close together, one right after the other. Anyone else believe government sabotage is a possibility? (Considering who is running the government right now.)
Actually, Ashley is correct in many respects. The “Holding Ponds” where the water used to wash coal, to make “Clean Coal” tend to leak over time. When they leak, they leak into nearby wells, streams, rivers,etc.
I saw a documentary on this. They showed many people who’s tap water is red or black, all from the leaking ponds. Many are sick from this.
I’m all for coal mining. I’m all for coal in general. But this strip mining is an honest problem that many want to sweep aside.
Um, Ashley, Unemployment’s at 10% nationally. There are no “better jobs”.
By the way, I look forward to hearing your plan for providing electricity without coal. Do you support more drilling? Or maybe nuclear?
Actually, I was engrossed in trying to understand how Jimmy Buffet is blaming Bush for the oil spill.
The way to get the attention of elitist like Judd, Buffet, et al is to stop supporting their music and movies. They don’t live in the real world.
And I agree with the above post “shut up and don’t sing”.
BOB –
Spot on.
Where you can do it, surface mining makes a lot more sense – the environmental regulations now in place require restoration of the approximate contours of the landscape and clean-up of the area. I’ve seen this in West Virginia and it can work well. Plus it is much safer to work on the surface than underground, just a little added benefit for those who do the work of helping power our civilization.
I guess liberals choose either no coal at all which is stupid, or that miners risk their lives in dark, dirty and dangerous underground mines where your life and health is always in danger.
Why do the most inconsequential people in our society (actors, musicians, etc.) continue to think their opinion matters to us?
These baffoons are OUR entertainment – no valuable to me than my television…in fact, I would probably be more hurt at the loss of my TV than by that of a major actor
Hey. Ashley!
Where’s my sanctimonious moral authority card??
Oh. Wait.
I’m not a ‘vacuous’ @ssw1pe with a pretty face who simply shows up on a movie lot to earn millions of dollars, and then makes self-righteous pronouncements from my energy hog mansion.
I actually have to work for a living.
Never mind.
That picture you posted pretty much says it all; that is what God gave her instead of a brain or any kind of common sense.
A gorgeous bod with an empty head is a waste of skin (literally).
OMG, just went back and saw how the miners are using the picture in their counter-attack – awesome!
I’m always for calling out someone who gets by using their feminine (or masculine) “assets” for pretending that they have a brain to go with it when they’ve shown that they don’t.
There has to be some self esteem issues at the bottom of Judd’s pretentious posturing. Back where she comes from they would say she is “putting on airs” No one is impressed with her self important “preaching”
Roger that. Absolutely positively exactly zip-zero-zilch to see here. Move along.
Another pompous, arrogant, egotistical, anal retentive, self absorbed and utterly clueless actor who thinks people actually care what they think. Huh. I see.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn. Neeeext please.
TOuche’ TOuche’ TOuche’
I would tell her to shut up and sing…BUT it’s her mom and sister who can sing…she just swooped in on their coat-tails with limited talent and Zero brains!
Love that ad!!!
Open coal mines don’t cave in, or trap gas.
Snort — and after she shares her insights, can it really be considered just a theory, Peep? I mean she used to be on TV!!! Can it, Peep?
I’ve come to believe that Hollywood loves these uneducated, fifteen minutes of fame loving, bimbettes. They don’t know anything, work for very little just to get started, are interchangeable if they get even a modicum of fame, and realistically make their living on the pages of People and US magazines.
Is that like Britney Spears getting chubby and trying to make a sexy video? Chaotic inflation indeed!
No kidding, one of her minors as a UK student was “womans studies”.
People who do “gender studies”, “gay studies”, “ethnic studies”, it generally doesn’t speak well for them.
I feel a little sorry for NASCAR failure and Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti if he wanted children, but I’m pretty sure her biological clock is winding down towards zero, and at least the world will be spared her idiot spawn.
(I wholeheartedly approve when smart people breed. I have 4 kids myself).
So where does Ms. Judd thinks the money that keeps her relatively wealthy comes from? People who have jobs who pay to see movies, watch television, buy DVDs.
LOL, Swede. One of the funniest headlines ever from the NY Post from about 4 years back, my screen got sprayed with coffee that day:
“Three Bimbos Of The Apocalypse: No Clue, No Cares, No Underwear”
(Spears, Lohan & Hilton)
Here’s a pic of a NYPost headline:
Deep thinkers meetup
I don’t know about Hilton, but Lohan and Spears are the product of horrendous parenting skills.
Drew Barrymore has turned out halfway decent, after years of goofy and drunken behavior, for having a mother who drank and did cocaine with her as a pre-teen.
Back in the drunk and goofy days, my sister, who works for American Airlines at DFW airport, and was responsible for the VIP lounge there, above and beyond the Admirals Club (she got a present every year from Ladybird Johnson at Christmas, Smokey Robinson hit on her) once has to get a drunken Drew Barrymore from an airport bar, settle her bar tab for her, and pour her onto her connecting flight.
But I think Barrymore is on the wagon now. I think.
Oy. Probably one of the worst ways to inform oneself, Steve. Think “Michael Moore”.
Anytime you view a “documentary” you have to ask whose product it is and what axes they have to grind. Emotional manipulation via propaganda is a science and an artform of sorts.
I’m too lazy to provide a link, but I’ve read that because the use of ethanol requires more corn to be grown, the fertilizers used to grow the corn are draining into the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, and that the concentration of these fertilizers in the water is killing much of the aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico. They refer to these areas as “dead zones”. Thus, the use of ethanol is likely more detrimental to our environment that the enviro-weenies would care to admit.
Ethanol works in Brazil because they have a good climate for growing sugar cane, and the sugar is easily converted to alcohol.
Corn produces starch, which has to be converted to sugar before alcohol is made. Corn ethanol is essentially oil neutral, it produces about an equal amount of energy as the oil products used to produce it. And Brazil has abundant rain and tropical sun. Good for growing an energy dense crop. Iowa, not so much. Because alcohol is hydrophilic, it is difficult to ship by pipeline. Only EPA requirements for oxygenated fuels in some markets, like here in Houston, and government subsidies, keep corn ethanol in business.
Gasoline has better energy density, a full tank of gasoline will take a car 15 or 20% farther than a full tank of E-85 (85% ethanol blend). Older cars are not designed for ethanol and will have fuel system problems.
Of course, acreage for corn for ethanol is acreage not planted for corn or other grains for human or animal consumption, and thus is a driver of food price inflation.
As I understand it, ethanol kills engines in cars. NO THANK YOU! I’ll spend more for the better grade gas with as little ethanol as possible.
Not real popular in Minnesota, even tho the state is a major grower. Winters are a little on the cool side (heh) and ya end up with a gummy mess that needs to be cleaned out. Buses that are required to use it (public transportation) as fuel are much more frequently taken offline for cleaning than those using regular fuel. High maintenance.
Reminds me of the wind turbine debacle there. It gets so cold in the winter that the lube on the gearing freezes (or something to that effect). The Greenies need more Grey-matter.
hit these fools where it hurts, in the pocket book…i admit it will cut down on your selections of entertainment, so what…you wanna support dumb a$$es like this?
Yeah, Dexter, I’m all for using working renewable energy resources but the problem is that what they’ve come up with so far doesn’t work. (On paper it might, but not so much in real life.)
Ashley Judd is a dolt and has been a dolt for a while.
I normally wouldn’t mind, lumping her in with the hundreds of other leftie Hollywood nobodies whose opinions don’t matter, except she stands in the way of my enjoying IRL racing. Normally, I root for Ryan Briscoe, but I don’t mind Franchitti… until I realize that his win would mean having to hear about his “famous” wife yet again.
Anyway, I hope this fight expands. Get all of the miners riled up against leftists and thinking in the direction of putting a Republican in the Senate this November.
Meh. Not my cuppa tea. The novelty of watching guys drive cars in a circle wears off after about 15 seconds for me.
It’s a good thing Ms. Judd lives in a tree and not some big house that raped the countryside on which it was built.
What…?!
The IRL raced the scenic road course in Watkins Glen last week.
Franchitti finished third.
He seems a nice enough guy, other than looks, not sure what she has going for her. She isn’t bad looking, but having heard her shrieking at a pro-abortion rally in DC once, I just knew that was someone I wouldn’t want to hear on a daily basis.
So, Ashley, what is the total “carbon footprint”, pray tell, from all the films you have made? How much “juice” does it take to run those cameras and all that lighting equipment . . . and what about a scene involving a car . . . hmmmm?
*crickets chirping*
THose miners should each send her a lump of coal for Christmas.
“Here’s a new top for you. Hope it fits!”
“…and said the miners should be retrained to take ‘better jobs’”
Ah yes, perhaps as nuclear physicists designing thorium reactors or doing research on superconducting energy storage rings. Strong backs are especially useful for that.
Back to the point that very few actors hold advanced degrees, some never finish high school, they learn to read lines that some other genius wrote, and once they’ve made a few bucks think they hold the secrets to world peace/all environmentalist issues/ political….actually, there is not an issue/subject they can restrain themselves from mouthing off about.
Be nice to Ashley, some of that silicone has obviously leaked and gone to her brain. Poor dear…
I obviously takes a lot of brain power to be an actress.
I’m actually surprised that brain generates enough juice to move those little feet.
Ever notice that, when the career tanks and the looks go away, many thespians turn shrill(er)and out themselves as full blown Marxists? Is that some form of overcompensation for the lack of talent they displayed when they were milking money from the capitalist system they so abhor? Just wondering.
What in the hell does this have to do with the subject?
Like they say in most parts of the country where people actually have to work for a living: “It looks (or smells) like money to me.“