“The President discusses the retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and coming appointment of his successor before offering condolences to the families of the those who died in the recent mine tragedy in West Virginia.”
UPDATE: More proof that Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is a sociopath.
To some extent the fact that there were more survivors than those that are lost suggests that the mine was in pretty good shape relative to what mines would have been in the past and hopefully by today’s standards.
This @#$@#$ should be in jail, his company’s charter revoked.


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