Alabama state officials: We won’t comply with the EPA because God gave us coal

[Roy Serohz]

Source: Salon

Tuesday, Jul 29, 2014 04:03 PM EDT

On Tuesday, Alabama state officials said they refused to comply with the EPA’s new carbon pollution measures because God gave them coal.



Read more: http://www.salon.com/2014/07/29/alabama_state_officials_we_wont_comply_with_the_epa_because_god_gave_us_coal/

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Here's a link to a lenghthier report on alabama.com:

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/07/post_14.html

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. God also gave them hemlock and cyanide.

Don't be a heretic! Drink up!

[lunasun]

3. +1

[geardaddy]

7. +1

[theHandpuppet]

9. Don't forget marijuana!

Sounds like they could use some.

[billhicks76]

40. Hypocrite, Greedy Southerners Again

They claimed God gave them slaves before too. God actually did give us Camnabis and it's seeds and these lowlifes have the worst incarceration penalties for marijuana in the country. Frankly, these lawless freaks should be arrested. The Feds should get rid of them...how insulting to hide behind religion...they are just debasing Christianity by doing so. These people need to be taken to the wood shack and taught some manners. Time to play hardball.

[volstork]

57. Don't paint with such a broad brush.

There are many Southerners here, myself included, who are NOT hypocrites, nor greedy. True, many who live in our region of the country say and do stupid, non-progressive things, but do not assume that we are all that way.

[cordelia]

62. Thanks.

[billhicks76]

64. Of Course I Don't

We are all one family under the stars. But the majority or at least those in control in Alabama are racist religious crackpots.

[KurtNYC]

61. Genesis 1:29

"Behold I have given you EVERY herb bearing seed"

[theHandpuppet]

67. There ya go!

The Biblical seal of approval!

[BrotherIvan]

18. DUzy!

[Hugabear]

22. They should drink them from goblets made of lead

Go full monty

[valerief]

46. DUzy!

[randr]

68. My thoughts exactly

[Nightjock]

2. and as the future weather becomes nightmarishly worst

and people lose their homes (and hopefully not their lives) please let me know which of the future victims voted Republican so I know who to feel sorry for.
I realize that is harsh and I am sorry, but I am sick of the R voting, global warming denying chickens who vote for Colonel Sanders

[Louisiana1976]

26. +1000

[Kelselsius]

65. They already have a religious explanation for that too

I have already heard extreme religious zealots announce that the bad weather is a sign of the "End Of Times!"

[CurtEastPoint]

4. We should complain to their PSC president: "Twinkle"

Here she is campaigning for Mittens! Surprising? Are you kidding me...

[bluestateguy]

17. I won't take seriously anyone named "Twinkle"

nt

[BlueJazz]

27. LOL!..I was thinking exactly the same thing just before I read your post.

[starroute]

25. I remember that name! (Who could forget it?)

She was the head of the Alabama branch of Citizens for a Sound Economy (the Koch-founded group that later split into FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity), then was Governor Riley's deputy chief of staff, then chaired the Alabama Republican Party, and then joined a lobbying firm that worked for Indian gaming interests.

A very busy lady.

[CurtEastPoint]

43. Yeah. In other words, a grifter out for herself. Twinkle away, missy. Twinkly away...

[Art_from_Ark]

69. Ugh, "Americans for Prosperity"

They're currently "swiftboating" Mark Pryor, among other Democratic candidates:

http://www.factcheck.org/2014/07/stretching-the-truth-in-arkansas/

[billhicks76]

41. Brainwashed, Self-Serving Liar

They want to ruin my world to get rich? If their actions only ruined their lives that would be great especially since they are still in their Neanderthal stage. But coal pollution affects the rest of us. Honestly, some of them deserve to be convicted of assault and homicide and done away with.

[conservaphobe]

5. When are we going to send in the Natl. Guard to make states comply with federal law? nt

[End Of The Road]

19. Never, I hope. nt

[freshwest]

45. It's already happened:

Nicholas Katzenbach, Kennedy’s Civil-Rights Envoy, Dies at 90

In September 1962, Robert Kennedy dispatched Katzenbach to Oxford, Mississippi, to oversee the federal marshals protecting James Meredith, the black student who had won a court order to be admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi. As thousands of protesters gathered and the threat of violence rose, Katzenbach told Kennedy, from a pay phone, that soldiers would be needed to keep the peace.

After the arrival of 25,000 Army troops, Meredith managed to register. Katzenbach called him “a brave man who received perhaps the most expensive public education in our history.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-09/nicholas-katzenbach-kennedy-s-civil-rights-envoy-dies-at-90.html

I can't find the link right now, but there was a running battle on the campus and some troops and a French journalist were shot and killed by the locals. Later, Katzenback was stonewalled by Wallace in Alabama and asked Kennedy to send in troops:



In 1963, the governor of Alabama was George Wallace. He had run for and won the office on the slogan of "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." In June of 1963, a federal court barred any state government interference with the enrollment of two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, at the University of Alabama. Despite this order, Governor George Wallace appointed himself the temporary University registrar and stood in the doorway of the administration building to prevent the students from registering. In response, President Kennedy federalized the Alabama National Guard. One hundred guardsman escorted the students to campus and their commander, General Henry Graham, ordered George Wallace to "step aside." Thus were the students registered.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4818169

Although that was to protect human life at the time, disobeying the EPA mandates to protect Alabama's health and safety is a dangerous precedent like the Bundies. We didn't see troops called out there even though the gunmen were pointing their guns at federal agents. The only difference is the stopping of blood being shed.

But it builds and it's wrong. Alabama like other states say they want to secede. Will we stand by and let the country be cut into easily ruled fiefdoms for the Koch brothers and the local oligarchs, and forget the rights enshrined in the Constitution and the Amendments?

The dissolution of our government will not protect those rights.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. God Gave Dumb and Coal to Ya, Alabama

A shit-load of both.

[Shrike47]

8. God's coal is in the ground. They're digging it out and selling God's work. Shame on them.

Do you think God will do their jail time for contempt, or pay their fines?

[bl968]

10. As i posted on the article...

A simple Solution

18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

[Warpy]

11. Yeah? Well, god also gave us cannabis, opium poppies and coca leaves

and I don't see any puffed up, shifty eyed conservative speaking out in favor of them.

[iandhr]

12. Wow

[americannightmare]

13. From the same people who give us a Repug-controlled...

House of Representatives. I have zero sympathy for them, particularly because they are essentially taking everyone else down with them. It'll be interesting to see how many Alabamans will be climate refugees in blue states (or cities) like mine in the future. Too bad we can't keep them out like many of them want to do with the Latin American refugees.

[IggleDoer]

14. I forgot ...

Who created sunshine?

[sakabatou]

15. Seriously?

[bluestateguy]

16. Hope they don't come to Washington asking for aid if Alabama has a tornado

Tornadoes. God made those too.

And they feds don't owe disaster aid to anyone.

[cynzke]

51. Tornados are common....

in the south. 2011 was a very bad year.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/massive-tornado-hits-alabama-storms-leave-16-dead/story?id=13465028

[SwankyXomb]

20. Two things

1. We should let them have their way if they can show the exact part of the Bible that mentions coal and Alabama together.

2. Five bucks says we can get them to rail against the evils of dihydrogen monoxide.

[lobodons]

21. Where is The Onion link?

I can't seem to find the link to The Onion. hhmm?? Gotta be on here somewhere.??

[Glorfindel]

23. You'd think Alabama would have learned its lesson by now.

What with the Civil War, Wallace standing in the door, etc., etc. Evidently God also blessed that lovely state with ignorance and hate.
May they reap exactly what they're sowing.

[safeinOhio]

24. I have this old advertising card from the 30s

enjoy

Did you know that in coal there is cocaine, creosote, and aspirin-to relieve your pain and many other chemical and medicinal compounds valuable to mankind?

Every load of Regal Coal is packed full of the qualities you always hoped to find in any one coal....ignites quickly-burns steadily-burns up clean

The Glendale Coal Co. Toledo, Ohio
Phone walbridge 2620

[Swede Atlanta]

28. Alabama is full of idiots....

They generate a lot of revenue from their beaches and resorts along the Gulf Coast.

As sea levels rise those resorts will be underwater. The rising temperatures are going to make Hurricane Katrina events more common.

They are hurting everyone but just like the decision not to expand Medicaid they are hurting their own people. But the voters in Alabama will go and vote the same idiots into office again.

I call it the white trash syndrome....relatively poor, poorly educated whites that believe everything their pastor tells them and do not have the ability to think for themselves and realize they are only hurting themselves.

This will go to court and the federal government will win. Alabama will pay a price for defiance.

[sulphurdunn]

29. Way too much inbreeding

and cultural idiocy spawns Alabama politicians.

[HooptieWagon]

30. Can we exchange Alabamans for Palestinians?

Those ignorant bible-thumpers love Israel... I'd gladly take Palestinians in trade.

[SwankyXomb]

39. They don't really love Israel

They just need it for their End Times wankery.

[packman]

31. You know what's really scary

these are the brightest nitwits that the coal industry could buy. Lord, the stupidity is deep and wide in these officials.
I will bet you my house and my cat that none of these wack-a-doodles live near a coal plant.

[PeoViejo]

32. If God wanted them to burn the Coal

God would not have buried it.

It was only to be used at Xmas to fill the stockings of Conservatives.

[MrModerate]

33. Anyone who wonders why 'America's Greatness' (tm) appears to be waning . . .

Need look no further than this troop of no-opposable-thumb state officials.

[Turbineguy]

34. God, not being satisfied

with giving them coal, denied them a brain.

[Amonester]

35. Well, since these idiots are that much stupid, I say they're wrong: God gave the coal to Natives

and these nutjobs STOLE it from them.

There!

[BadGimp]

36. hhhmmm

[3catwoman3]

37. How I wonder...

...what you are.

Actually, I don't wonder at all -

Twinkle, Twinkle,
GOPer star.
What a big
Ass Hat you are.

[Zorra]

38. Dangerous, tragically stupid conservative idiots. nt

[Rhinodawg]

42. Unbelievable .

Just when you think you've seen it all...

[jmowreader]

44. God also gave them heads...

and they need to quit letting themselves be dropped on them.

[blkmusclmachine]

47. Alabama - home of 10 Commandments judge Roy Moore.

[davidthegnome]

48. God gave them coal?

Really? They must have been VERY fucking naughty.

[davidthegnome]

49. I mean...

When Santa gives you coal, that's one thing. Straighten up, stop pulling your sister's hair or making your brother eat all your spinach... but when it's GOD....

We need to pray for these poor souls - and maybe give them candy canes or something.

[shenmue]

50. Oh dear crimony

They cannot brain today. They have the dumb.

[Mopar151]

52. Didja hear about the new Atlanta Zoo?

The worlds largest open range zoo. Officals stated that crews will begin fencing of Alabama shortly, and note the native animal populations already in place.

[Hubert Flottz]

53. Gawd gave us the clapp too...

So those fucks in Alabama can keep that, with my blessing!

[tclambert]

54. Are they trying to expand on the Hobby Lobby corporate religion concept?

The State of Alabama is not a closely held private corporation. However, I'm sure the Koch brothers would be willing to buy it.

[1Greensix]

55. Alabama wind blows East

Even though I have absolutely NO proof of it, I assume that citizens in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida like to breathe clean air and fish in lakes that Have fish. Maybe they do, and maybe they don't, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. And, since the wind in Alabama blows to the east, those states will receive all the polluted air and acid rain from burning coal in Alabama. I'll just bet those people support more coal burning in Alabama, because hey, who Doesn't love polluted air for their grandchildren and acid rain that sterilizes their lakes and rivers.

[yurbud]

56. I think he meant God rained down fire and brimstone on them...

and he's trying to find a silver lining.

[DonCoquixote]

58. if they want to split hairs

God did nto give them coal, they took it from the natives. If God supported that sort of thing, he is the sort of person that needs to get sent to the Hague.

[wryter2000]

59. God gave us opium, too

Idiots

[hifiguy]

60. Gads. The Stoopid. How it burns.

This applies, I think.

http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/29451i0879AF4E14762D38/image-size/original?v=mpbl-1&px=-1

[ProfessorGAC]

63. God Gave Them The EPA

People are in the EPA. God gave them people. Ergo. . . .

So, what's their point?

If they believe what they believe, how do they avoid the fact that everything comes from God?

[Cal33]

66. God also gave them the sun, wind, tides.....etc.....

[titaniumsalute]

70. God gave us pot

Is that legal in Alabama?