Ashley Judd Compares Strip Mining to Spousal Rape (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, June 10, 2010, 5:04 PM
So pretty and such a loon…
Actress Ashley Judd spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on Wednesday June 9th discussing “the horrors of strip mining.” During this speech Judd compared strip mining to spousal rape.
Via The Blast and BreitbartTV:
Ashley ought to be tickled pink to hear that the Obama Administration is working to destroy the strip mining jobs, too.
The Prowler reported:
The White House and some Obama Administration staffers at the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency have been coordinating with left-wing environmental groups to launch protests in West Virginia over such techniques as “mountaintop removal mining.” This enabled the EPA to cite such protests as support for their new rulemaking. Earlier this month, the agency imposed rules sharply curtailing that form of strip mining in such states as West Virginia. The rules may end up costing several hundred West Virginians their jobs.
The miners will be poor, broke and unemployed but at least they won’t be strip mining.
Does that make you feel better, Ashley?
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James commented:
If you can’t grow it, you have to mine it.
Strip mining is chosen because it is the most economical method for a given deposit and, importantly, has a very high recovery rate (compared to underground where you generally leave support). It’s also very safe compared to other methods.
Don Rodrigo commented:
I wonder how many BTUs of energy we could get from rendering down the Rosie O’Donnells and the Ashley Judds? Rosie and Michael Moore could light up a small city for a week, but most of the other celebritards won’t provide much energy. However, they would be gone, and we could do what we needed to without being encumbered by their mindlessness.
jonyjoe101 commented:
I wouldn’t call liberal’s pretty. Liberals would be the first to join the facist party if there was one. Hitler and his whole regime where all liberals. Never underestimate liberals.
For liberals, they have different definitions for rape. What polanski did wasn’t “rape,rape” in their twisted world. They like to throw the word around but even they are confused what it means.
Strip Mining is what made America what it is, it’s what won “world war 2″. It’s what seperates us from the 3rd world countries who don’t have the capability of using it’s natural resources.
ice commented:
Without strip mining how would Ashley’s husband be able to race cars and fly his helicopters? Metal is mined Ashley.
Paying to see a movie that Ashley has acted in compares to raping my wallet.
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portlandon commented:
I am sure Ashley’s first thoughts after a mine collapse are for the feelings of mother earth, rather than the human miners or their families that are trapped down there.
WSG commented:
She is really hot. What was she saying again?
John Gargano commented:
And anything she says is relevant because…..
J commented:
She is also very vocal about constipation….another “pet” interest of hers (seriously).
And don’t forget she has willingly mired herself in the much of harvard.
What a combination….physically AND mentally constipated!
bill-tb commented:
Where is it written that actors have brains? I mean, just because you can read a teleprompter with the right voice inflections obviously doesn’t qualify you to do a real job.
bg commented:
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well that doesn’t even live up to all
the other stupid liberal distractions..
but here’s one that Obama himself has been fueling from day one..
Hawaii elections clerk: Obama not born here
of course all that needed to be done to stop the fiasco is for him to PRODUCE HIS BC LIKE EVERY OTHER AMERICAN MUST WHEN APPLYING FOR A SECURITY JOB (at least i sincerely hope they would have to, else why would there be such a great need for forgery’s.. like the one Barry posted at his own website way back when).. gah!!
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Michelle commented:
These people really have no shame. Her husband, Indianapolis 500 winner, Dario Francetti probably has one the MOST wasteful and ecologically unfriendly careers in the world. Yet she dares to blather on about mining. Sickening!
xxx commented:
take Ashley’s money and make her poor, also make her a prostitute to work for the government, then be thrown into a trash can.
so cal chick commented:
and I compare Ashley Judd’s skewed perspective to that of a brain washed Nazi sympathizer
Fred commented:
Another “celebrity,” supposedly speaking up for “Mother Earth,” who wants to rearrange the lives of the no-account “little people” and move them around, just like pawns on a chess board, regardless of the cost to these pawns.
Yet another clueless Leftist Hollywood “star” living the high life, who thinks that because she has lived in Kentucky and Tennessee, and has sometimes been around them or played the role of a strong, working class women, that she understands such people, and has sympathy for them, and has their best interests at heart.
Thus, in the past, we had the actor playing “Ben Casey”—who had no real knowledge of or training in medicine–testifying before Congress about medical issues, and Sally Field, who once played a farm wife, testifying before Congress about the plight of the small family farmer in America, and now we have Appalachian dwelling Judd deciding what is best for the environment and coal miners.
David Johnson commented:
Oh, but you can bet that she just loves her some Oilbama. No problem with all that oil floatin’ around in the Gulf of Mexico, no sir-ree… Dats Oilbama’s stash!!!
Charlie commented:
But is strip mining like being in a hot tub with Roman Polanski?
xxx commented:
I think OilDonkey is having a crack-blast partying it up at the White House in Hot Tubs and not calling on BP’s head, while trying to find some dope and blame everything on Republicans.
Subadar Lal Kukhri commented:
They think they can get energy from sunbeams and zephyrs.
They’ll run up the cost of fuel oil and gasoline to $10 a gallon.
We’ll all be unemployed, swelter in summer and freeze and starve in winter.
We’re screwed.
I blame Bush.
ogee commented:
Gee. Depraved posts today. Blowing off the top of the Appalachian mountains for greed and money is not in God’s Plan. Google the before and after pictures and come back and tell me how you feel then. The people living downstream from the mountain are being ravaged by the tailings and poison-run off seeping into their properties. They are dying from cancer and other horrible diseases. Think before you speak.
The Appalachian Mountains are the most beautful rainforest in North Amercia with wild flowers galore and an artists paradise. It’s a vital ecosystem that affects the world. With the tops blown off it’s an ugly mess…pitifully resembling the surface of the moon and the effect on the weather and ecosystem would be devastating. Oregon had to stop their chief income of logging in the forests during the early 1980′s. People were out of a livelihood and many were destitute. The state plummeted into a 10 year depression because of it. BUT it’s back ever stronger because they got new job training to get into new lines of work. This is all for the better. No more raping of the forests leaving ugly ‘stumps for miles and miles…hopefully no more raping of God’s Rain Forest Appalachian Mountain Tops either. The people can recover with job training but the mountains cannot recover if the tops are blown off. I dutifully disagree on this issue. And that’s my 2 cents.
kansas commented:
I live in strip mine country and have actually worked a summer job in one in the 70′s. Drive by them now and you can’t tell they were there. It’s all been reclaimed and looks like the same field it was to begin with.
kato commented:
Another day, another dope. But the Hollywood dopes are generally harmless. It’s the dopes like Barbara Boxer and Maxine Waters we need to fear.
wanumba commented:
Yeh, but try and get a cell phone signal in VW and then see what ya’ll think of those mountains.
Hollywood razes mountains, blows volcanos and throws meteors at the earth to create tidal waves a thousand feet high – to slosh up against … West Virginia in collosal environmental destruction and genocidal porn all the time, then gets all weepy and snarly at everyone else for just working.
wanumba commented:
Stop going to movies, stop renting or buying movies. The environmental degradation of trilllions of plastic DVDs and CDs dwarfs any strip mining.
Tax the Hollywood rich who obviously are not paying their fair share – tax by the house square foot, by the pool square foot, by water, electrical, quadruple tax for any residence over one.
chewydog commented:
A real beauty here:
http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/ashley_judd-feminist.jpg
Militant Conservative commented:
Can’t Understand Normal Thinking.
AuntieMadder commented:
What a ding-dong.
Red commented:
Judd peaked when she appeared on Star-Trek TNG. After that, she lost any appeal.
Joanne commented:
Ashley Judd is a feminist – enough said.
aprilnovember811 commented:
“During this speech Judd compared strip mining to spousal rape.”
Listening to her, is like spousal rape. Another hypocrite. Her race car husband should give up his career, if she’s serious about Co2. How much of a carbon footprint does one race of his blow off. Someone please tell her, she’s insignificant. She’s an actress, no one that matters takes her seriously. She’s pretty on the outside, but once she opens her mouth, the outside turns ugly.
Andreas K. commented:
Another “educated” child of Hollyweird.
Estragon commented:
Well, since Ashley Judd is such an eminent expert on energy policy and economics, it only seems . . . what? What’s that? She’s NOT? She has NO background in ANYTHING remotely related?
Well, that’s different – never mind.
Strip mining does look like hell when it’s going on and just after it is done. So does logging. The Earth is a pretty well-designed place, though, and recovers from the worst humans can do rather quickly.
neomom commented:
Then she will get in her Hybrid car, Oh wait, Hybrid car? Like a Prious? Hmmm. How much mining takes place to make a hybrid car battery?
http://www.newcarpark.com/blog/?p=68
Morons.
bobc commented:
I wonder how movie stars, singers ever got such power to be able to speak to Congress, the Presidents…while we can’t?
She is from coal country, has she ever talked to coal miner families about their jobs?
Many families right now, are fighting the EPA because of over 80 bans on coal mining in 3 States.
I’m in Ky., one of the 3. I retired from a heavy eq. dealer, this has affected not only the miners, but the dealership and their employees..the company already sent out letters to their retirees, that they no longer will subsidize health insurance for retirees.
Our elec. company raised their rates…Nov. we paid $142 in Dec. it was $346! Now they have gone back to ask for another rate increase and stated it was the price of coal.
If we cannot have access to our own coal, and other fuel resources…of course the costs are going up!
Think Ms. Judd will pay our heating bills?
Fred commented:
I am not a coal miner and never have been, but my ancestors were coal miners, first in Wales–for God knows how many centuries–and, then, in West Virginia so, I think I ought to have just as much, if not more, say in how today’s coal miners should live their lives than Ashley Judd, right?
Finally, I am continually amazed as each surgically improved, botoxed and collagen filled, barely literate, ill-educated and propagandized but uninformed, self-important and self-righteous Hollywood “entertainer” floats to the surface of that quintessential, obscenely out of control “consumer society,” the almost entirely Far Left, immoral/amoral, dysfunctional, drug, sex and alcohol deformed snake pit and cess pool that is Hollywood and the “Entertainment Industry”–our very own modern day “Sodom and Gomorrah”–to deliver a usually drunken/drug-fueled, barely literate, passionate and befuddled rant or lecture, during which they condescend to instruct their inferiors–who they obviously view as a bunch of illiterate and incipiently violent peons, mouth-breathers, racists, knuckle-draggers, Christian religious fanatics, and rubes (whose patronage, incidentally, provides these “stars,” “celebrities”and “creative geniuses” with their livelihood)–on how we should live our lives.
oldguy commented:
It must be quite entertaining to sit around the holiday gatherings of the Judd clan.
Liz commented:
I am sick of this twit! I am also sick of Hollywood actors thinking they know better then “Us little folk” Oh please!!! She can stick where the sun don’t shine:)
lara commented:
My father-in-law is a retired coal miner. His mine was a strip mine. I have seen the reclaimed property after the coal has been stripped out and the reclamation was beatiful.
A nasty boggy area was mined and turned into a beautifull vallye covered with grass land and lakes. A few years later it was a very nice subdivision. I see ne problem with strip minning. The restoration done adfter the mining makes the land more useable than ever. I have ssen many frams built on restored land and they are very successfull farms. I see no problem with strip minning. Ashley Judd is a very uniformed youg lady with no clue as to what strip minning is all about.
MochaLite commented:
Well, Double Jeopardy is one of my favorite movies – Judd and Tommy Lee Jones were excellent! That said, I’ll listen to her environmental lectures when I read that her husband has given up his fossil-fuel-sucking racing career and they’ve downsized from their two estates in Scotland and Tennessee. Until then, she’s just another limousine liberal hypocrite.
Carbon Monoxide commented:
First of all, mountain top removal is NOT strip mining. Yes, stip mines can be repaired. Mountain top removal is permanent and is extremely dangerous.
In mountain top removal, the top of the mountain is blasted away and hauled to a nearby valley where they fill in the valley. This causes changes in drainage patterns that have lead to devastating floods in WV.
Next, mountain top removal puts miners out of work. It takes about 1/20 the number of miners to remove the coal after the mountain top is blasted away. The coal miner unions are fighting mountain top removal mining for this reason.
Jack Hampton commented:
Judd is so stupid she makes my ass crave a dip of snuff. What a moron.
Moose commented:
Ashley, shut up and act. I just wish race cars ran on coal. That might change your tune. !