Rand Paul: I Love Mountaintop Removal

it enhances the land, he said. He doesn’t think Kentucky has any real mountains, since it isn’t like Nepal. Those are just knobby hills in sorry ole Kentucky. It would be better if it weren’t there. Who cares what one does with their land, right? It would be better if it were enhanced by strip mining. This is from Dirty Coal’s Favorite Candidate. A new article from Details magazine portrays
The Rise and Fall of Rand Paul

Paul believes mountaintop removal just needs a little rebranding. “I think they should name it something better,” he says. “The top ends up flatter, but we’re not talking about Mount Everest. We’re talking about these little knobby hills that are everywhere out here. And I’ve seen the reclaimed lands. One of them is 800 acres, with a sports complex on it, elk roaming, covered in grass.” Most people, he continues, “would say the land is of enhanced value, because now you can build on it.”

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“Let’s let you decide what to do with your land,” he says. “Really, it’s a private-property issue.” This is a gentler, more academic variation on a line he used the evening before, during his speech at the Harlan Center: “If you don’t live here, it’s none of your business.”

Here is some more stupidity from Paul:

Rand Paul and I are trying to remember why Harlan, Kentucky, might be famous. That’s where Paul is driving me, on a coiling back road through the low green mountains of the state’s southeastern corner, in his big black GMC Yukon festooned with RON PAUL 2008 and RAND PAUL 2010 stickers. Something about Harlan has lodged itself in my brain the way a shard of barbecue gets stuck in one’s teeth, and I’ve asked Paul for help. “I don’t know,” he says in an elusive accent that’s not quite southern and not quite not-southern. The town of Hazard is nearby, he notes: “It’s famous for, like, The Dukes of Hazzard.”

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Dear God and People of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, stop this crazy man. Let’s help these two organizations this year:
i love mountains.org and help Jack Conway for Kentucky via act blue .

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