Phocidaea wrote:A prayer, you say?
I'm praying to have Jesus bust into this asshole's mansion and give this guy a good smacking over the head with that book of his.
I am a staunch atheist but that would make me a believer alright...
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by Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f » Sat Nov 10, 2012 4:01 pm
Phocidaea wrote:A prayer, you say?
I'm praying to have Jesus bust into this asshole's mansion and give this guy a good smacking over the head with that book of his.
by Straughn » Sat Nov 10, 2012 4:43 pm
Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f wrote:Nice to see that people on the right are not sore losers. Oh...wait...scratch that..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ ... story.htmlAfter Obama reelection, Murray Energy CEO reads prayer, announces layoffs
By Steven Mufson, Published: November 9
For the chairman and chief executive of Murray Energy, an Ohio-based coal company, the reelection of President Obama was no cause for celebration. It was a time for prayer — and layoffs.
Robert E. Murray read a prayer to a group of company staff members on the day after the election, lamenting the direction of the country and asking: “Lord, please forgive me and anyone with me in Murray Energy Corp. for the decisions that we are now forced to make to preserve the very existence of any of the enterprises that you have helped us build.”
On Wednesday, Murray also laid off 54 people at American Coal, one of his subsidiary companies, and 102 at Utah American Energy, blaming a “war on coal” by the Obama administration. Although that charge was repeatedly leveled during the election, energy analysts say that the coal-mining business is suffering because of competition from low-cost natural gas and rising production costs of coal, especially in the Appalachian region.
Murray Energy is the country’s largest privately owned coal mining company, with about 3,000 employees producing about 30 million tons of bituminous coal a year, according to its Web site.
The company was the subject of an article in the New Republic that said the firm forced miners to attend a Romney campaign speech in southeastern Ohio in August. Murray denied the account. The New Republic also reported that Murray Energy employees have given more than $1.4 million to Republican candidates for federal office since 2007.
Murray has been a target of environmentalists. Notably, the company has spilled coal slurry into a creek on seven occasions.
Murray’s prayer from Wednesday first appeared on the Web site of the Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register. The newspaper said Murray supplied his text. The Washington Post confirmed its legitimacy with a company spokesman, Gary M. Broadbent.
Here is the full text of the prayer:
“Dear Lord:
The American people have made their choice. They have decided that America must change its course, away from the principals of our Founders. And, away from the idea of individual freedom and individual responsibility. Away from capitalism, economic responsibility, and personal acceptance.
We are a Country in favor of redistribution, national weakness and reduced standard of living and lower and lower levels of personal freedom.
My regret, Lord, is that our young people, including those in my own family, never will know what America was like or might have been. They will pay the price in their reduced standard of living and, most especially, reduced freedom.
The takers outvoted the producers. In response to this, I have turned to my Bible and in II Peter, Chapter 1, verses 4-9 it says, ‘To faith we are to add goodness; to goodness, knowledge; to knowledge, self control; to self control, perseverance; to perseverance, godliness; to godliness, kindness; to brotherly kindness, love.’
Lord, please forgive me and anyone with me in Murray Energy Corp. for the decisions that we are now forced to make to preserve the very existence of any of the enterprises that you have helped us build. We ask for your guidance in this drastic time with the drastic decisions that will be made to have any hope of our survival as an American business enterprise.
Amen.”
I vote for asshole.
by Seangoli » Sat Nov 10, 2012 4:56 pm
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by Lackadaisical2 » Sat Nov 10, 2012 6:07 pm
Khadgar wrote:Warinemachine wrote:I consider myself a conservative and I don't get why obama gets so much flak. I mean he killed Osama deported illegals, and prosecuted some rogue CIA agents ( not 100% sure about the last one). So his one healthcare law makes him into ?
It's the D beside his name. It means he's evil, Satan incarnate, and the Republican party is just looking for their Michael to kick his ass back into the pit.
The Republic of Lanos wrote:Proud member of the Vile Right-Wing Noodle Combat Division of the Imperialist Anti-Socialist Economic War Army Ground Force reporting in.
by CVT Temp » Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:02 pm
Wikkiwallana wrote:Can we get a physicist in here? I want to measure that spin.
by Pope Joan » Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:07 pm
by Liriena » Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:18 pm
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by New Sapienta » Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:20 pm
by Liriena » Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:39 pm
New Sapienta wrote:Because putting a gun to your workers head in a temper tantrum is such a good idea.
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by Greed and Death » Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:47 pm
by Greed and Death » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:06 pm
Pope Joan wrote:Obama has been a friend of coal. he has not done nearly enough to regulate mountaintop removal
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/s ... -move.html
Gassification of coal was an important part of his original energy independence agenda in 2008.
by Minnysota » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:29 pm
Charles Montgomery Burns wrote:It is nice to see this thread is filled with adolescents who have no true understanding of how the economy works, or how Obama's policies are destroying the energy industry in America.
by Straughn » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:39 pm
Minnysota wrote:Charles Montgomery Burns wrote:It is nice to see this thread is filled with adolescents who have no true understanding of how the economy works, or how Obama's policies are destroying the energy industry in America.
Except for damn near every fact checker (if not all of them) have disproved this.
by Dyakovo » Sun Nov 11, 2012 4:03 am
by The TransPecos » Sun Nov 11, 2012 6:57 pm
Khadgar wrote:The TransPecos wrote:Whatever you may think of Murray, he isn't the only one or the only company doing this. I understand that several companies have announced closures or moves to China because of rising regulatory issues and mandated costs. Locally most (and eventually all?) restaurants are putting everyone on part time so they can avoid health care and other benefits costs.
Here's a fun game. Link me 10 anti-business regulations Obama has passed. Him being such a fucking anti-business communist this ought be easy. Feel free. Obamacare only counts as one.
by Minnysota » Mon Nov 12, 2012 9:25 pm
The TransPecos wrote:*snip*
by Wintersun » Mon Nov 12, 2012 9:28 pm
by Hippostania » Mon Nov 12, 2012 10:16 pm
by Tmutarakhan » Mon Nov 12, 2012 10:36 pm
The TransPecos wrote:3. GM is moving to China.
by New Rogernomics » Mon Nov 12, 2012 10:47 pm
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