Bars Breaking Smoking Ban Law in Attempt to Boom Business
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Posted: 10:42 PM Aug 19, 2008
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KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Some Kanawha County bar owners are uniting Tuesday night to make one clear statement about the new smoking ban.

They’re putting the ashtrays back out, allowing smokers to light up once again, and breaking the law.

It’s all to protest the expanded ban, which eliminates smoking in most public places including bars and gambling parlors.

It’s like old times inside the Black Hawk Saloon.

Business is booming for owner Kerry Ellison on this night dedicated to smokers.

Ellison is breaking the law and proud of it.

He’s standing up against the smoking ban and he says it has cut his business in half.

This is not the only bar bringing back the smoke for at least one night.

Customers are lighting up in several spots across Kanawha County.

Two weeks ago, bars owners took to the streets to protest the smoking ban.

Despite all their efforts, health officials are not letting their fumes get to them, and so despite the protests, the ban will stay in place.

Kerry Ellison says he would follow the smoking ban if other bar owners did the same.

He says a lot of them are breaking the rules without facing any consequences, and says that's making it hard for him to compete.

Health department officials say they will fine bar owners who ignore the ban, but they're not planning on making extra checks tonight.

Bar owners could face fines up to $1,000.
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Posted by: NON SMOKER on Aug 22, 2008 at 11:03 AM
I agree with JG!!! nothing smells worse than a cigarette smoker!! except a WET cigarette smoker NASTY!!! I work in the medical field and when you seal this smell up in a room it is nasty!!! why should non smokers have to tolerate this we have RIGHTS too!!! The bar that defied the ban should be fined and the license pulled!!!
Posted by: Anonymous on Aug 22, 2008 at 10:43 AM
If we leave it up to the bar owners than we'd have bars that you can smoke in and bars that don't allow smoking. That way the smokers can smoke and the nonsmokers have a place that they can go to that's a smoke free environment, everyone's happy! How about a well ventilated smoking area that's sealed in where smokers can light up inside so they don't have to brave the cold in the winter or the rain... and it keeps air in the main area fresh! (I don't know...just a thought)
Posted by: VM on Aug 22, 2008 at 10:05 AM
You know Barb, if your husband wouldn't have insulted the woman at the football game she may have noticed he had issues and smoked elsewhere. Most smokers are considerate of others unless provoked by rude remarks such as your husband's. He sounds like a typical bitter reformed smoker.
Posted by: Ashley on Aug 22, 2008 at 10:00 AM
MrObvious said it best. This isn't a question of whether smoking is bad, this is a question of Constitutional rights. These UNELECTED officials made a law banning LEGAL substances from a PRIVATE establishment. What's next? Are we going to ban tanning salons? Everyone knows they can cause skin cancer. Or how about we weigh people as they come into restaurants? Everyone knows that most restaurant food has more calories and fat than anyone should consume in a single meal. Maybe we should institute a maximum BMI and turn everyone over that BMI away. Maybe we should just limit the amount of money you can spend on clothing, or sports gear. You know, Americans are in debt, and if we limit their spending, we can fix it. Yeah, that should fix everything! Do you people really want to live in a society where you don't have the freedom to pursue whatever unhealthy vice you may have? Do you really think no one deserves the freedom of choice?
Posted by: Tonda on Aug 22, 2008 at 06:52 AM
Here they want to lower the drinking age to 18 but I'm 38 and not aloud to have a cig where I want or when I want. This is not about whether smoking is bad for you, it's about the rights that an individual is suppose to have. Next, since WV is the second fattest state, they will tell you what and when you can eat. I, for one, do not like having my rights taken away. I thought it was a free country.
Posted by: JG on Aug 22, 2008 at 12:12 AM
If you notice even from the posts here from smokers they dont care if they are hurting anyone else with their habit. Its their right and according to them they can do it where ever they want. The rest of us can just live with it. I wonder how they would feel if people started packing squirt guns and let them have it.
Posted by: steve on Aug 21, 2008 at 08:55 PM
billy you are exactly why people from wv get made fun of. I'm all for allowing smoking in bars but non smokers have just as much right to be there. Smokers have no right killing other people or causing health problems to anyone but themselves.... son you better back away from the stove cause you just got burnt.
Posted by: Anonymous on Aug 21, 2008 at 06:42 PM
the smokers and non smokers are all a bunch of cry babies. Bars are good for nothing more than keeping jails full of drunks and murderers
Posted by: Anonymous on Aug 21, 2008 at 05:52 PM
yes i smoke were ever i want i would like to see the health department ask me to put it out.
Posted by: Anonymous on Aug 21, 2008 at 05:42 PM
I sure hope that the health dept. does cite these people that think they are above the law. I could care less about the ban in bars I don't frequent them anyway, but I do, however disagree with these tactics. Hope all of you bar owners made enough funds to pay for the fines that should be handed out. The way I see it, they owners had the warning when the law was passed, they should not be getting any additional warnings. Welcome to the future...
Posted by: SP on Aug 21, 2008 at 04:45 PM
I smoke and I feel that it is my decision. People who do not smoke or have quit aggrevate the living crap out of me. You quit so what, big deal if I wanted to I would but it seems I don't. Everyone has the right to smoke if they want to. Don't discriminate just because you don't. I have to agree with most of these people, if you don't like the smoke leave or don't go in in the first place.
Posted by: Dawn on Aug 21, 2008 at 03:02 PM
The way I see it if you smoke outside someones complaining about it and if you smoke inside they are complaining about it. If tobacco wasn't such of a profit to our government as far as taxes go they would make smoking illegal. If you don't like smoking and they allow it in a bar be safe and save money, drink at home. Throw a party in your back yard with nieghbors and let everyone crash at your house. If you go out to the bar you'll be drinking and we all know you didn't grow wings and fly to the bar so we know you'll be driving home. Which is worse, going to a bar with smoke having a few driving home wrecking and killing yourself or someone or staying home where there is no smoke and you don't have to worry about killing yourself or someone. I smoke and I believe to each thier own. I don't smoke in front of doors or any of that but don't be rude if someone is outside smoking. They are already putting a limit to that.
Posted by: billy on Aug 21, 2008 at 12:18 PM
i smoke i vote if you dont like smoke walk away simple
Posted by: KC on Aug 21, 2008 at 12:29 AM
I used to smoke and quit a few years back. I'm all for banning smoking in the park where people have family outings (with elderly and children) and go to exercise... I'm also for banning smoking in places like grocery stores and malls... But bars? It seems odd to me... I don't know. When I think of a bar I think of it being all dark and smoke-filled. If people are there getting intoxicated, they might as well smoke too.
Posted by: Rick on Aug 21, 2008 at 12:10 AM
I have never been to Black Hawks but I will be there Saturday night. My Thanks go out to the owner.For standing up to the the Health Department
Posted by: Paul on Aug 21, 2008 at 12:09 AM
LET FREEDOM RING take that non smokers
Posted by: anonymous on Aug 21, 2008 at 12:04 AM
I don't care if someone wants to smoke. I ask them to understand that I have emphysema and their smoke is further damaging my lungs. So, please try not to start right in a door way so that I can't get past you without inhaling 3 or 4 heavy breaths of smoke. It really does make me sick and causes me trouble for days. I have a right to leave my home and take care of things without being exposed to your carcinogens
Posted by: Barb on Aug 20, 2008 at 11:45 PM
What gets me about this whole smoking thing is my husband had open heart surgery last year, and he was able to go watch our grandson play football,and a woman was smoking and he just said ( oh smoking here too) and she blew the smoke in his face ,Now I think first of all there should be no smoking there anyway and second if he had of punched her lights out he would have done us all a favor. So to all you smokers my husband quit smoking 20 years ago and smoke still bothers him, so blow your smoke somewhere else,and when you do get sick or God forbid get cancer don't expect taxpayers to pay your health care bills, We are paying for too many already!
Posted by: JG on Aug 20, 2008 at 10:05 PM
I could care less if smokers smoke themselves silly. However I do not want their smoke shoved in my face at restaurants, grocery stores and department stores. I paid for gas the other day and even though it was posted no smoking there was a guy in line with a lit cig in front of me. I went to the grocery store and at the entrance is a couple puffing like mad trying to finish their cigs before they go in. But, Im forced to inhale their crud once again to get into the store. Most smokers do not seem to understand that its just not a case of we dont like to smell it. We are allergic to it! It inflames sinus passages causing congestion and headaches. Much exposure causing sinus infections. I cant count how many times I have been in the non-smoking section of a restaurant and here comes a smoker lit up as soon as they finsih their meal to chat someone up in non-smoking. Its ok though according to them cause they wont be long. Smoke all you want just keep it out of my face.
Posted by: baddboyy on Aug 20, 2008 at 09:41 PM
well i see we are number 2 in the country for being fat, so when are they going to start telling us what and when we can eat? losing 1 right at a time.
Posted by: jen on Aug 20, 2008 at 08:57 PM
smoking kills, cars kill, guns kill, fire kills, motorcycles kill, people kill, fat kills, should all of these things be illegal? nobody makes a nonsmoker go into a place full of smoke if they dont want to it is and should be personal choice. we are all going to die from something nobody gets out of here alive.
Posted by: SMOKER on Aug 20, 2008 at 04:34 PM
If you don't like smoke stay away from it. The businesses in Ashland is losing a lot of business because of the non-smoking law. I prefer a cigarette to liquor. If smoking is killing me, then it is my option not yours. So quit griping and stay home.
Posted by: What next on Aug 20, 2008 at 04:22 PM
Well it looks like some people still don't get it why should smokers just go outside would it not be easier for non-smokers to not come in and yes i do know people that enjoy smoking.we do not need people telling us that it will kill us maybe it will but it our choice to do it just like eating at mcdonalds will kill people they still do it. if we let the health dept stop us from smoking next they will close mcdonalds. they are already telling resturants what they can serve in california where the smoking ban was started. so it is just a matter of time,how will you feel when you go to a steak house that is not allowed to sell steak bet they wont be in business long and its the same with bars.im sure there are plenty of places that are non-smoking for the non-smokers and it should be the business owners right to set the policies that best fit his business be it smoking or not.will the health dept reimburse him lost money from this ban or have they thought about the lost tax base bet not
Posted by: to charlie on Aug 20, 2008 at 03:44 PM
Hey how bout you just dont come in. We like to relax when we smoke non-smoker in disagreement with bar going against the ban go to office max and get a stapler and put it on your lipsand clamp down.
Posted by: KRAKEE on Aug 20, 2008 at 03:38 PM
Smoking causes cancer. So. If I want cancer, then you should leave me alone and let me get it. The world is severely overpopulated. Smoking kills people. Problem solved. Now leave me alone. Fascist!
Posted by: kristin on Aug 20, 2008 at 03:35 PM
For all the non-smoker you all need to open your own little smoke-free bar and grill. Stay out of the smoking bars because if your complaining about the place we dont want you there anyway.First of all if u dont like smoke dont come to a smoking bar so just dont go to the smoking bars and shuttttttt uppppppppp quit running your cancer free chops. My grandparents died from cancer and neither of them ever touched a cigg. nor would they let people smoke around them. Cancer happens to so many people who dont smoke now tell me, what caused thier cancer?
Posted by: Hank on Aug 20, 2008 at 03:32 PM
When I light up a Virginia slim, I don't want my partner or anybody to tell me what to do. So now, the government won't let me marry or smoke!
Posted by: Debbie on Aug 20, 2008 at 03:23 PM
Diana, do you know how much second hand smoke you would have to breath for it to cause cancer? Do you? From everything I have read about second hand smoke, it would take several lifetimes of second hand smoke to cause the big C. And from what I understand, most of the studies were twisted to make those holier than thou make the claim about the whole second hand smoking. Please do some research before posting.
Posted by: Mike on Aug 20, 2008 at 02:47 PM
Maybe the county needs to give back they make from the state that goes to the sales tax on cigs. If you want to smoke light them up and if you dont whine about it. The air you breath outside is probably worse from all the power plants putting off the smog and everything else they let off. SO I SAY SMOKE IF YOU WANT AND IF NOT SHUT UP AND LEAVE THE SMOKERS ALONE CAUSE ITS THERE CHOICE TO SMOKE.
Posted by: ED on Aug 20, 2008 at 02:28 PM
I went with some friends to the BEARS" DEN in downtown Charleston and it was packed even more than when they had smoking!! So I guess the NO Smoking isn't hurting them
Posted by: CHECK IT on Aug 20, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Well if everyone would switch to the alternative Crown7 then you wouldn't have to worry about the bans anywhere or even 2nd hand smoke.
Posted by: Anonymous on Aug 20, 2008 at 12:38 PM
True Liberals would defend smokers' rights.
Posted by: Jeannie on Aug 20, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Smoking is bad for your health. Smoking is addictive. This ban was enacted to protect the health of smokers and nonsmokers. I am a former smoker of 20 years; clean for 3 years now. The government does not want bar owners to profit by allowing smoking. This is supreme hypocrisy. Our government allows cigarettes to be sold, knowing the destruction to our health. Our government allows alcohol to be sold, knowing the destruction to person's bodies and potential destruction of others' through drunk driving (harm to others - the defense given by nonsmokers). Our government profits greatly from sale of alcohol. Our government profits greatly from the sale of cigarettes. These bans are driven by our Big Brother government. Why should our government be allowed to make money off addictions but limit others' rights to do so? As I stated, I smoked for 20 years. Smoking cigarettes is a horrible addiction, but my government should not be able to make this decision for me.
Posted by: Jeannie on Aug 20, 2008 at 12:17 PM
Just shut up Dianna.
Posted by: Jerry on Aug 20, 2008 at 11:28 AM
How is it politically correct to prevent thousands of people from dying of cigarette smoke inhalation (i.e. cancer)? Saving the lives of people is not a liberal or politically correct idea.
Posted by: MrObvious on Aug 20, 2008 at 11:08 AM
As a Freedom loving individual, I have the right to do anything with my body that I choose. This includes things which may not be in my best interest. Our Government was founded on the principals of freedom. But, over time, the busybody types have weaseled in and turned our wonderfully conceived type of government into a semi-socialist type that wishes to rule like a unquestioned king. Do as I say or you will pay. This is wrong. There is no argument for these types of laws that do not pass the Freedom question. It doesn't matter how smart you think you are because you don't smoke and you don't like it so nobody can smoke. Truthfully, the ones who do that act like 5 year olds. They throw a whiny temper tantrum and tell us that they know best. I've got knews for them, they need to re-read the Constitution and the commentary that our founding fathers made. They need to respect Freedom. Of course the dumb ones will counter with, "wah, what about me? I don't like it", just like a 5 year old.
Posted by: MrObvious on Aug 20, 2008 at 10:55 AM
Y'all keep putting people in office that believe that THEY are the messiah and have a duty to push rules down our throats that we neither want nor need and this will continue. There are three simple questions I ask about a candidate that tell me everything I need to know, 1. Do they believe that I have a god given right to own and carry a firearm? 2. Do they believe that life must be protected, especially life in the womb? 3. Do they believe that they can treat us like their own piggybank? Those three questions will tell you exactly what character a candidate has. Just look at their voting record and make the decision yourself. They cannot hide from their voting record no matter how hard they try.
Posted by: Shari on Aug 20, 2008 at 10:35 AM
Way to go!!!! You need to stand up for your rights. The government sticks their noses into things that they shouldn't be concerned with. We are not a communist country yet. But we're becoming one the more that the government dictates to us where we can and cannot smoke. It's really getting ridiculous. The government tried to take the guns away from us, but the Supreme Court upheld the right to bear arms. Now we need to get them to uphold our rights to smoke. Keep up the good work, Kerry. We're rooting for you!!
Posted by: jen on Aug 20, 2008 at 10:25 AM
If the bar owner does not like the ban shut your bar down and move it to another county or open a new business....stop your complaning....just like everyone keeps telling the non-smokers if we don't like it to find another bar....if the bar oweners doesn't like the ban they can find another place to operate!!!! Thank you to the Health Dept. now I don't come home smelling like an ashtry after having a night out.
Posted by: Charlie on Aug 20, 2008 at 10:22 AM
Probably ,guessing you gals kill me.
Posted by: jon on Aug 20, 2008 at 09:53 AM
I personally think the bar owners should go to jail or be fined for breaking the law. The law is the law. If smoking is hurting their business, then find another business or close the doors. I am 44 yrs old and have never smoked a cig. However, with all this attention, I might try one to see if they are really that good.
Posted by: KimmyLou on Aug 20, 2008 at 09:34 AM
I do not drink and I do not smoke. I have been in a bar a couple of times and people who drink a lot of the time also smoke. If you do not smoke and do not want to be around it; DONT GO IN!
Posted by: Scott on Aug 20, 2008 at 09:32 AM
Sigh...this issue drives me nuts. What gives the government the right to dictate a private business' policies? If a privately-owned establishment wants to allow smoking, it should be allowed to do so. I don't care if it's a bar or an ice cream parlor! Then, the public can decide whether or not they want to patronize that business. All this is doing right now is hurting businesses in an already hurting economy.
Posted by: Charleston on Aug 20, 2008 at 09:23 AM
Just go outside for three minutes, I dont see what the big deal is. No one is taking away your right to smoke just go outside so other people dont have to be affected by it.
Posted by: Jim on Aug 20, 2008 at 09:11 AM
There is no more obstinent, surly, contrary, nor 'ornery bunch in the entire world than smokers who have had their smoking privileges taken away. Let 'em smoke. A smoker will make any excuse in the world to get a nicotine hit. If you give them the excuse of fighting for their individual rights then they will be as rabid as the Muslim extremists who are fighting for Jihad (their holy war).
Posted by: Ken on Aug 20, 2008 at 08:53 AM
Smoking kills. If you smoke, sooner or later it will kill you. If you smoke, please get help to quit. By fighting the smoking ban, the bar owners are only helping people to die young.
Posted by: brian on Aug 20, 2008 at 08:30 AM
Why don't we settle this the easy way? Leave it to a majority vote from VOTERS! I'm a former smoker & now prefer not to be in a smoke filled room but it's not my right to deny someone else their right. Shall we deny drinking in any public place? Sorry people, second hand alcohol has killed more people than second hand smoke. I am a vereran who chose to fight for this wonderful country so people would have rights. Please! Don't make my tour of duty be a foolish venture.
Posted by: Pothead on Aug 20, 2008 at 07:51 AM
How come cigarettes are the #1 killer in the world and as John McCain said 'we should export more to Iran' and we have laws against other addictive drugs but not Nicotine?Don't people realize they are hooked on a Legal Dope that kills more than Crack,heroin,pot combined!Make all the excuses you want but it's still a fact,you are a dope addict as bad or worse as the rest.
Posted by: Dave on Aug 20, 2008 at 07:46 AM
The government and liberals attempt to shove PC down everyone's throats as often as possible. It is time to throw it back in their face. Good for these local bars.
Posted by: Charlie on Aug 20, 2008 at 07:31 AM
Dianna, By your own admissions you are just guessing. The main concern here is the loss of our liberties & rights not the fact you don't like cigarette smoke or your personal opinions. Some of us don't want the gov. making laws to satisfy one small group or another. This different population you speak of are the very ones that are to ignorant to understand whats at stake here ,yes I do smoke but I am trying to quit & I hate the cigs. more everyday but I am not so naive as to believe giving up rights & liberty's Americans have fought for and enjoyed since this country was founded is for the best.
Posted by: Donna on Aug 20, 2008 at 07:19 AM
WAY TO GO! My opinion, its not the Health Dept.'s job to be My nanny. HELLO! these are BARS... the place people go to DRINK ALCOHOL. If we sit back and allow them to take away the right to smoke in a bar; the next thing that will go will be the alcohol. Jeez, I think business owners, if they decide they want to allow smoking in their business, should just put a "SMOKING ESTABLISHMENT" on their door; then those people that feel cigarette smoke will turn them into the crypt keeper can turn around and go to a NON-SMOKING establishment.
Posted by: Paul on Aug 20, 2008 at 06:55 AM
I dont smoke. I think that its really unfair to not be able to smoke in bars. When you go into a bar your going in knowing that there is a chance that there is someone going to be drinking or smoking. Whats the difference between the bars and the Milton Flea Market, My family and I was there Saturday and there was at least 25 to 30 people smoking on the inside and the vendors them selfs.
Posted by: Janie on Aug 20, 2008 at 06:19 AM
All of these bar owners are probably smokers and standing up for their "right" to smoke more than anything else. Smoking kills people. Plain and simple. If you dont have the brains or willpower to quit on your own then maybe the bans will encourage you to stop. I have never met one smoker who says they enjoy smoking. It is an addiction.
Posted by: Lee on Aug 20, 2008 at 05:56 AM
If you own a business, the owners should have the right to go or not to go smokeless. I don't smoke, so it's my decision to enter or not, there are many smokeless places to go. Laws go to far when they try to tell an owner how to run his business.
Posted by: Bartender on Aug 20, 2008 at 05:49 AM
To Dianna, People like you get on my nerves. Since "time began" smoking and booze go hand in hand. Smokers and non smokers alike know that. So..... if you don't want to smell it then stay out of the bars (where you know it is) and leave the smokers alone. I would have to help you by opening the door for you, so it wouldn't hit you in the backside on your way out.
Posted by: D-Bo Ice on Aug 20, 2008 at 05:34 AM
Hey Diana, Your safe from our smoke all the way up there on your high horse looking down on all of us cancer causing lowlifes. You need a Marlboro and a big glass of STFU.
Posted by: gene on Aug 20, 2008 at 03:58 AM
business owners should be able to make their own rules not the health dept. the owners pay taxes and employ people creating jobs. if an appliance breaks down is the health dept. going to fix it. no. get the government out of business owners hair.
Posted by: Dianna on Aug 20, 2008 at 03:54 AM
Smoking causes cancer. A cigarette is a known carcinogen. By allowing smoking, these managers are saying they have no problem with their customers (those who smoke and those who have to inhale it second-hand) getting cancer and having chronic health issues or dying young. I personally would walk out of a bar if people were smoking inside. In time, if these managers would abide by the law, they would likely see a different population come in instead of the nasty smokers. But, I'm going to guess that the managers are smokers themselves!
Posted by: MIKE on Aug 20, 2008 at 03:37 AM
Good....stand up for your right's.......anyone who invest thier money for a leagal buisness should be able to make a choice of smoking or non smoking enviroment.Those who do not wish to patronize because of second hand smoke are welcome to use their right's to go eleswhere,Many make choice's daily whether to enter where alchol is sold or gambling machine's are. Even in employment we choose were we apply to work. The choice should be up to buisness owner's and not an over reaching goverment office on a power trip.
Posted by: na on Aug 20, 2008 at 03:26 AM
yeahhhhhhhh see you at the Hawk. bout time someone stood up to the big shots and told them to mind their own biz. If they dont like smoking they dont have to come in. WTG bar owners.
Posted by: MrObvious on Aug 20, 2008 at 12:02 AM
Now now sheeple...we can't have anyone disobeying the great master. Now, do as your mighty government says and put those smokes out. Freedom? Hogwash! You get the freedoms that we say you get. Don't like it? Tough, we are unelected bureacrats that cannot be removed from office. Yep, ain't that sweet, not elected and making laws! Gotta love it. Constitution? Who cares...nobody can challenge us, we're the Health Department and you better watch out cause we're coming into your homes next! Got kids? No smoking in the house or within 100 feet. Oh, and don't smoke in the car anymore either my pretty. Heee Heee Heee, phew, the power just rushed to my head. Gotta go, need to think of more rights I can trample on... Sincerely, your Health Deparment (WE REALLY DO KNOW BEST!)
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  • Posted By: ProudAmerica: On this holiday, I want to send out thanks to all the soldiers, veterans and their families. Without your service, this holiday would not be possible. Please know that you are very much appreciated.
  • Posted By: Anonymous: My comment is about the WV Unemployment office. The people who work there must be the most incompetent baffoons imaginable because it seems that they can never get anything right. It is bad enough that you have to wait in line for hours with all the other people who were unfortunate enough to lose their jobs due to the bad economy but when you finally get to see someone, they always manage to completely mess things up. As if to add insult to injury, they also seem to take great pleasure in denying someone because of their mistake which forces you to appeal their "decision" and go through it all over again. These people are far worse than your typical state employee, they are morons.
  • Posted By: Eve: Has anyone had people soliciting at their homes for "Cabell County schools"? Had a female come to the house this morning (on the July 4 holiday) from "University of Georgia" on behalf of Cabell County to talk to local parents. She had no list of student names and made the assumption that we had kids by the toys/bikes in our yard. She had a notebook with "local parents" names that she had talked with, but I didn't recognize any of the names. She asked about the neighborhood and if any other kids lived there. I didn't disclose any info except that lots of kids live in the area. Didn't let her in the house. Just suspicious because of the holiday and local home robberies. Called Huntington Police to inform them. Wanted to post to get more info out to other families. Have a safe holiday and if anyone else has similar info, please call the Huntington Police Dept. @ 696-4470.
  • Posted By: : To By?? Sounds to me like your doing some bashing too. Let's keep our feelings about each other to ourselves.
  • Posted By: : Seems to me the more than one person has too much time on their hands. I don't understand why people get on here and bash each other's comments. Why don't you all get jobs. WOW, don't think I will return to this section of the webpage anymore.
  • Posted By: Big Earl: Hello working people of WV this is Big Earl and people there is nothing wrong with eating good wholesome foods like bacon sausage eggs lard flour and the like all these PETA types are ganging up on our good food like you cant go to a baseball game now and get a hotdog without a PETA nut bothering you boo hooing about the poor little pig that turned out as a hotdog. Now my favorite restaurant in the world Kentucky Fired Chicken has thrown in twith these nuts and is grilling chicken now. Chicken was never meant to be grilled only fried regular or extra crispy. So people I say get busy we have work to do they is two states in front of us we in WV have to reclaim our top spot as best fed in the whole country go down to the foodland or kroger and get a cube of regular mountain dew a sack of Lays chips and some good ball park big red smokeys with a big bowl of chili and have a grill out tomorrow to celebrate the fourth of July in style and may I say God bless the USA and coal miners too.
  • Posted By: food for thought: Yes I am a Christian. I do need to understand the book of Revelation more and the end time prophecy. Like most I have the concept of it. Just to make it short, government dependence(happening more than ever) and is almost being forced for the citizens of this country to rely on. Cap and trade?(sign of the mark of the beast?)I don't know. I am ready. You that believe in science is fine, I do too. I do not go as far as to believe every report they give out. I pose this question. if you are so worried about global warming that means you don't like heat or burning:correct? Hmmm, think on this of what in Revelation I do understand. The lake of fire is where the worm dieth not and the fire is never quenched. Eternity is forever, on this Earth we are just passing through.
  • Posted By: to why: no ,hetrosexuals wont go to hell any slower than gays.adultry fornication,stealing lying murder etc,are all sins.every one sins,it just that you cant say you want to be a christian,and keep on with bad habits or not want to change and expect god to say thats all right.life is a struggle for all of us.we are expected to repent and try our hardest to do whats right.god respects that.you are not in any more danger than any other sinner.i know that homosexuality is a sin but so is adultry.would we tell an adulter that its all right to keep on hurting their marriage and spouse and thats alright,no.i would rather live beside an honest caring,productive gay person than a dishonest evil selfish nosy buissybody any day.we are only responsible for our own sins and actions.you sound stressed,lighten up.but homosexuality is a sin,like adultry and fornication,nobody gets a free pass.
  • Posted By: Patty: Good points, Htiek, but the status quo with coal mining, which is a dirty business, no matter how it is marketed, i.e., "clean coal" (coal is dirty, period), will remain till the resources are depleted, the land and environment of the coal fields are destroyed, which is pretty much the case at present.
  • Posted By: bonn: One more thing and I really will stop. Why does the weather cycle? I do not know everything-no one does. But everything has its purpose. Sometimes, more cold is called for. If we don't have hard winters snakes and mosquitoes thrive, for one. Mosquitoes are a large part of fish diet. And snakes keep rodents in check. But too much cold hurts other things that call for warmer temps. Quail is one thing that comes to mind that suffer in the frigid temps. We just don't understand all of the workings of these things. But it is all to keep a balance-many times in things we ourselves have killed off, such as bear and wolves. Even if we don't like some species, they all serve a purpose and nature helps keep that balance. Our world really was wonderfully made. With all the changes in temperature, we still have seasons. You can know it will be cold in winter and hot in summer. The excesses serve a purpose we sometimes can not see. Strive to learn of all of her wonders, not follow blindly.
  • Posted By: bonn: I would like to apologize if I have been short and critical. I really am sorry. It is no excuse, but I have a very sick child who may be dying and I get so upset at the state of our world. I do have to quit reading these comments. But I hope I have caused a few people at least to think with their own common sense instead of blindly following whatever. Some theories may be correct. But many ARE for monetary purposes. We each were given a mind to think with. Question everything before taking it as it appears. And be sure and thank a veteran for the freedom we celebrate this weekend. Too many have died to protect it to just give it up willingly. And whether or not you are religious, lets try to love one another. Love can fix so many things! Try to keep our world clean, But that doesn't have to bankrupt us. We can all do our part in whatever ways we can. The old saying "Give a hoot, don't pollute" should not have gone out of style. And use your wikipedia to read "Ice Age" to see cycling.
  • Posted By: Follow up on cap and rape: CNSNews.com) – The 1,400-page cap-and-trade legislation pushed through by House Democrats contains a new federal policy that residential, commercial, and government buildings be retrofitted to increase energy efficiency, leaving it up to the states to figure out exactly how to do that. This means that homeowners, for example, could be required to retrofit their homes to meet federal “green” guidelines in order to sell their homes, if the cap-and-trade bill becomes law. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, directs the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and implement a national policy for residential and commercial buildings. The purpose of such a strategy – known as the Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Performance (REEP) – would be to “facilitate” the retrofitting of existing buildings nationwide.In other words all your appliances-heating-stove -fridge-windows-would have to meet green standards before we sell SOCAILISM HAS ARRIVED YESWEDID
  • Posted By: ANOTHER YES WE CAN: First you paid to insure your car. Soon you may have to add health insurance premiums to that stack of monthly bills as well. In a revamped health care system envisioned by senators, people would be required to carry health insurance just like motorists must get auto coverage now. The government would provide subsidies for the poor and many middle-class families, but those who still refuse to sign up would face fines of more than $1,000. The details were unveiled Thursday in a health care overhaul bill supported by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.SOCAILISM IS HERE The Congressional Budget Office estimated the fines would raise around $36 billion over 10 years. Senate aides said the penalties would be modeled on the approach taken by Massachusetts, which now imposes a fine of about $1,000 a year on individuals who refuse to get coverage. Under the federal legislation, families would pay higher penalties than individuals
  • Posted By: bonn: Good grief! The brain washing has gone so far it will never get better. Some of this way of thinking makes me physically ill in my stomach. All of one mind! Mindless devotion to whatever is contrary to common sense and whatever theory is being passed around. Most families have both parents working, some two jobs, just to make it now. Soon you won't even be able to work enough to carry your family, the government and the ones who won't work. Then you will be disposable and they will start killing you off because you can't give them enough money. But you will blindly keep following. It is easy to see how Hitler took control and how it is being set up for the antichrist to take control. I quit. I will never read another comment. And Kris, did that nut not know the sky has always appeared blue? Hahaha Goodbye. I know you will reply, but I won't be reading it. Never again. Either you believe God or the scientists. I choose God. And freedom!
  • Posted By: cap and trade: world net daily has an informative article on home ownership and all buildings in u.s.it is about total government control of everyone.you will have to answer to the gov.or else.
  • Posted By: Jane Doe: To Pearl: Thanks for the comment. I try to be an adult and make the usual comments and complaints, But how would you feel if every time you wrote something, Someone would respond back with their own opinions and say that you are wrong! Just the other day I wrote how my child was injured at Camden Park! Of course RoaneCo. had to write something and attack me about my decision to get angry about the situation. Yes, I agree that I should just turn the other cheek but I was raised to stand up for myself!! Why I'm a target I'll never know but I think that I have a right just like everyone else on here and to say my opinion on things whether people agree or not.
  • Posted By: Why?: EVERYONE SINS! Why is being gay the worst sin that sends you "straight" to HELL? Heterosexuals can do all the "sining" they want and still go to heaven but LGBT can't.
  • Posted By: Justme: Coal mining has been around for years and years. I'm sick of all these nuts that are griping about mining. You nuts are always griping. Maybe you need to get a life. If your so against it.. Then turn your lights out. And stop using the power. Move on, and stop taking jobs away from our miner's.
  • Posted By: Htiek: What always amazes me about people in WV is their slavish devotion to coal mining even though it is killing the planet, costs more jobs than it creates, poisons the water, destroys the mountains, scars the land, kills the snail darter, and other horrible things. Things are all so backwards in this country why dont we switch over to something that lasts and is free like the sun and wind? Even if the president said that stuff and I doubt he did and even if he did you are misquoting him or taking him out of context he is right if there is one sure way to get people to stop turning their air conditioners down to 76 it is to raise the price, just like gasoline. People we can learn to ride bikes and walk again, just like they did in the old days, that will help give us exercise and decrease the obesity rate in WV. Food is another area, the slop that people eat like MacDonalds, trans fats, regular soft drinks, anybody with half a brain knows the intelligent thing to do is tax regular soda pop.
  • Posted By: Gandalf: A tea party? Oh my! I must relay this information to my friend Alice and the Mad Hatter. Door Mouse and Rabbit too. They will be thrilled! Oh my bad, must have picked out the wrong book today. Ta Ta!
  • Posted By: Pearl: Roane Co why dont you and Jane pursue your romance elsewhere the yell is for complaints.
  • Posted By: Kris: Just throwing this out there. I'm sitting on my couch wearing sweat pants and short sleeve shirt. I'm thinking about shuting my windows and turning on my heat. Shouldn't I be turning on the air conditioner instead? It's the 2nd of July. Not saying it's global warming but it doesn't seem right. Haven't heard of any heat warning anywhere is the US so far this summer. Great for us but doesn't feel right.
  • Posted By: Kris: Hi Bonn, it is true that these cycles do occur over time. Scientists have taken core samples from the earth and the ice to show these cycles. However, none of the samples show such a dramatic change in such a short period of time. I am a smoker and I will admit that my second hand smoke can and probably will effect the lungs of a non-smoker. The tons of carbon monoxide and other pollutants that we release into our atmosphere HAS TO have an effect on our atmosphere. True story: there was a scientist that day after day after day couldn't figure out why the sky was so blue and clear. Then it struck him, there hadn't been ANY planes in the air for three days. That was 911. What you put out, is what you get back. If you put love out, you will get love back. If you put out negativity, you will get negativity back. For every action, there is a reaction whether it's good or bad. It's in our hands to do our best not to cause an adverse impact to our planet. Peace to ALL!
  • Posted By: Big Earl: Hello again good working coal mining people of WV this is the coal miners friend Big Earl with news of yet another hippie plot to stick there big noses further into our business now some of these people in Congress has throwed in with the tree huggers they are trying to make it so you cannot sell your house without some nut from the hippie EPA coming in and inspecting it to make sure you are green enough to suit there tastes. This so called cap and trade bill that these busy body do gooders are pushing on us will destroy our jobs and run up the electric bills so that everybody will have to live like the Waltons with 27 people under one roof just to keep warm. Now the average hippie longhair don’t care noway because they would have us all living in mud huts riding mules wearing sandals and weaving baskets to load down with califlowers and arougalas tofu and alfalfa to take up on some worthless mountaintop as an offering to there windmill god instead of having nice homes, cars, a job and cool air in the summer and heat in the winter ALL THANKS TO THE COAL MINER. Anything to bother people attracts these hippies like flies to a cowpie.
  • Posted By: to hteik: hteik has 2 comment .the global warming one was hillarous.it was june 30.he must not have gotten the same public education i did,he was taught that we had satellites in colonial time.but then again he think algoe is really smart,he doesnt know al didn,t really invent the innernet.i think fox news and conservative talk radio would do him a world of good,he,d be shocked at what he doesn,t know.
  • Posted By: Amy: Hey Keith, I must have missed that interview because I was busy clinging to my guns and religion. No, really, I did see it. It's kind of strange how people become so shocked when this stuff is introduced in the House of Reps. Obama outlined every plan he intended to get pushed through and a lot of people just didn't listen. Next time I hope people vote for the best candidate not the best slogan. Yes we can....bankrupt the nation!
  • Posted By: Patriot1: Tea Party: There will be a tea party in Grayson, Ky on July 4th. It will be held at the City Park from 4:00-6:30PM
  • Posted By: Dave: The seat belt law is no law. Its nothing but a deliberate attempt to extort money off the American people,use communist law and control the populace. THE PEOPLE HAVE NEVER VOTED ON IT, BUT THEY ARE TRYING TO GET YOU BELIEVE THAT IT WILL SAVE LIVES. TELL THEM TO GIVE YOU THE FIGURES ON ACCIDENTAL OPERATIONS.And if that doesn't satisfy you then why are we allowing our young brave soldiers to be killed,and for whom? WHY AREN'T THESE NEWSPAPERS BRINGING THIS INFORMATION TO THE PEOPLE? Because the nations 96% are owned and controled by the WEALTHIEST.
  • Posted By: bonn: I was trying to make a point. Perhaps not in the best way. I get so discouraged seeing what is happening around us. One group of scientists call for us to spread soot on all the snow up north to absorb heat to counter the coming ice age. Another (more popular) group calls for painting our roofs white to reflect the heat that is melting our ice caps. Which group is right? Neither. Our earth is doing exactly as it has been doing all along. Cycling naturally. Did it plan it all on its own? Hardly. But no one wants to hear that. It reminds me of "chicken little" yelling "the sky is falling". Only this is not so funny-this is control. And what is even sadder is-people seem to WANT to be controlled. This earth will continue as always until one preplanned day it all comes to a screeching halt. Then a new earth will be created. I will not be caught off guard. I read The Book. I know where I will be. Do you? And do you really enjoy giving those schemers your money that much? I hope one day...
  • Posted By: Keith: A few questions for the Yell audience: Does anyone remember when Obama gave that interview in SanFran Cisco and said that he would not prevent the construction of a coal fired plant, but his policies would bankrupt anybody that tried to build one? That policy was cap and trade. I heard O say that energy prices, under his administration, would "necessairly skyrocket." Is this the hope and change you guys voted for? How will you afford your electric and gas service under this man who cares so much for the poor? Obama said once that he was not bothered that the price of gas had risen so high, just that it happened so fast. How does everyone feel about the gas price? Obama raked John Pablo McCain over the coals for suggesting health care benefits be taxed as income, now he is going to do the same thing to pay for "free" care to illegal aliens, deadbeats, etc...but union workers will be exempt from this tax. How does that make you feel if you work for a living and are not in a union? H&C
  • Posted By: Amy: Hteik, "all is well" because people like us! Give me a break. If all were well, we would not have the largest unemployment rate in 26 years. The stimulus package would prevent it from going above 8%, remember? How is Iran not our business but Honduras is? The people of Honduras have a Constitution very similar to ours and we should support the people not an extremist who is trying to take over their country. The 22nd Amendment does a great service for our nation. IF it would be reversed that would be O.K too. At the rate Obama is going W. could beat him in 2012. At least I would sleep better at night.
  • Posted By: Just Me: Wow Jane Doe, give it a rest. I really don't think God would be please with this going on and on and on...healthy banter is fine, but this is not healthy banter. Christians absolutely can and do get angry, it's what they do with that anger that counts. It doesn't matter where, when, or even IF you go to church...what matters is that you have accepted Christ into your heart and asked for forgiveness of your sins. God didn't save us to judge others, he saved us to lead others to him. I've said many times...what if the person you just yelled at, told off, or whatever showed up at your church on Sunday? Would you be proud of your behavior?
  • Posted By: Sophie: Roane County is a beautiful place. The country roads snake along past fields, farms and old homes we wish could talk. Looneyville is indeed named after the Looney family, so is Gandeeville. My father was from Roane Co. & graduated from Walton High School in the 40's. He told me tales of his school days, friends, boyish pranks, old cars and the fun they had at the 4-H camp. Spencer was a big place to them. Roane Co. gave us many war veterans and kept distant family & friends together with the annual "Roane County Reunion". I don't even know if they still have it, but we used to go. I remember seeing Sen. Robert Byrd play his fiddle there. The Black Walnut Festival in October(?) is a good time to visit Spencer. They usually have a parade, arts & crafts and a museum. You can enjoy a slice of Americana, along with a slice of homemade pie.
  • Posted By: Craveontruth: The great Dale Carnegie once said "You never win an argument".Most of you know he wrote" How to Win Friends and Influence People'.Some of you should put this on your Christmas List.I think I will dust it off and revisit this old classic.
  • Posted By: cap and trade: welcome to ''before tax and tax'bill going thru the powers that be.look at your electric bills this monthe there is an enviornmental tax at 2.2cents for every kilowatt you use.can we even imagine what our electric bill will be,not to mention every thing we consume,food water ,every necessity that cant be done without.we in easternky have good reps.in washington,every one in surrounding states should put your so called reps a lot of pressure to defeat this tax and tax bill that is being pushed by a few people to make them richer and control every aspects of productive peoples lives.look at your gasbill also,you will see only a very small portion for gas but the rest in fees and taxes.look at your phone bill you will see a 100percent markup in taxes and fees.its time to put pressure on politicans to protect the citizens and not the lobiest.
  • Posted By: justanotherfly: sounds like jane doe is looking for an easy way out ie a lawsuit
  • Posted By: to bonn: i couldn,t have said it better myself.some things have to be explained like you are talking to a 5year old.but like some 5year olds that are stubborn and spoiled rotten they dont listen.wait till the cost of every thing sky rockets and they will be the first to rant and rave that nobody told them.
  • Posted By: Jane Doe: To my biggest fan, RoaneCo: Ummm! It's sounds to me like you have a lot of anger. You have to pick on everyone's comments! I think I speak for everyone when I say (Get a Job)!! Cause you obviously have none! You have all this free time on your hands! Why don't you spend this free time helping others instead of puttin them down! You know..WSAZ has job postings...Maybe you could find one on there!!!!I'm not a negative person. Maybe I'm just like everyone else that has a job and three kids and a lot of things to do! I get stressed out, I know that goes way over your head,You don't get stressed. But because you go to church doesn't mean you can't get angry about stuff!!LOL My father-in-law is a Deacon at my church and even he has a temper!! Look out craveontruth! Looks like RoaneCo. has found someone else to pick on!Good Luck!! Have a perfect day ( I know you will)!!
  • Posted By: RoaneCo.: Yes Craveontruth, there is a place named Looneyville.(no Jane Doe that isn't where I live) It is on Rt.36, nothing there but the Looneyville Post Office, and I am not joking. There is also a Lefthand Post Office on Rt.36, always wondered why there wasn't a Righthand also. Our County seat is located in Spencer, (middle of nowhere) which for years was only known for its State Mental Institution. (no Jane Doe this isn't my Alma mater) It was closed years ago and now a Wal-Mart is on that location. I guess the only other thing to speak of would be the Black Walnut Festival which is held in Spencer every October.
  • Posted By: bonn, the simpleton: Don't we have a smart earth? She formed herself from a dust cloud, they say and planted herself just the right distance from the sun to support the life she would create. She also filled her insides with molten heat to maintain the right temps and if that builds too much she decides to blow some out holes (volcanoes) to keep from exploding. She makes her own rain, knowing whether she needs a gentle soaking rain for her plants, or a gully washer to cleanse the filth. It pours down the mountains, into the rivers and out into the ocean which she just happened to fill with salt (her natural sanitizer). And she knows if she doesn't have ice she will over heat, but too much and she will freeze, killing her life she so carefully made. So she melts some, then as it heats up, she freezes more. All just coincidental happenings? She is brilliant! But not so smart as the humans who are making a fortune controlling the other dumb humans by convincing them THEY are causing her to do these things!!!
  • Posted By: passing by the yell: I met someone from Looneyville once. It's named that after a person's last name from what I was told.
  • Posted By: Hteik: Well it is nice to see that the war in Iraq is ending under President Obama. Who would have thought, it seems the world is backwards right now, huh? Obama gets elected, the world understands our good will, and all is well. Just like history, Republicans start wars, Democrats finish them. Hate to say we told you so but we told you so, I just get fuzzy inside thinking about all the people that love us now that hated us because of that old Bush. Another thing too, leave this Iran thing alone, that is none of our business. I dont recall anybody from Iran coming over here to help us in 1776 so why should we stick our nose in their business? When you get a strong leader like in Honduras, a good strong leader with a military background, everybody goes nuts because the guy takes things over well I support him and Obama. In fact, some people are so needed we better start now to get rid of the 22nd Amendment, it was only put in by jealous radical extremist crazy Republicans to hurt FDR.
  • Posted By: Craveontruth: I don't think I have ever been to Roan County.Nothing against the good people of that neck of the woods.I did enjoy looking it up on wikipedia.Is there really a Looneyville there? If there is then I must visit!Who's with me?
  • Posted By: food for thought: 2-10 years for almost killing a child? Where are our priorities? I know they are nestled in the mountains or wait lying deep in the ocean waiting for anoother person to adopt them and claim rights to the next whale that is proclaimed Shammu or Willy. Get real people lets protest these laws that allow some cook to wanna kill his child and only have to pay his debt of 2 - 10 years. Oh and Kris your right our God won't kill a 1 yr old or a 100 yr old just do to it. He would do it for his glory and maybe take them from being around a half heartened sadistic person that would do this to a child. Oh i love the lights and the A/C and my car, but most of all I love my GOD "Jehovah God" whom i think first and foremost for all I have, then i thank a coal miner and an AEP worker and a so on and so on.
  • Posted By: Kimberly: Raising the WV Toll price? I see a lot of arguments coming from this. Where is all of this money going to? Mansion might be a good governer, but when it comes to things like this, it needs fixed. WV roads are awful and I know after all of these years, surely the toll money has added up to more than enough to fix these roads!!! What an awful awful idea!!
  • Posted By: RoaneCo.: Bonn, people like you are the very reason I have stated that I respect ones right of freedom of religion. Although I have different views, I have no issues with anyone going to church and trying to live according to their interpretation of the bible. I think that is wonderful. I also thank you Bonn for being open minded and seeing the point I was trying make. And for Anonymous on Jul 1, 2009 at 03:11 PM, no Craveontruth and I are not the same person. We do agree on some issues, and disagree on others. And when we do disagree (speaking for myself of course) we do it without anger. Also, for Bob... sorry, it isn't working. I have a two year old that comes up with better jabs than you. But I respect your right to try.
  • Posted By: Sophie: Just a few comments on current Yells: Big Earl - I just can't read you anymore because it's the same things over & over. Yeah, we're with you - there are a bunch on weed-o's coming around these days trying to shut us down for the sake of some owl...We get it. We all hate it. Roane Co/Jane -It appears Roane has been very hurt in their lifetime by family conflict involving belief. Many people get hurt because of superstition & misinterpretation and overzealousness. It has been this way since time began. I hope Roane can someday get past the hurt & retoric to work out his/her own salvation. Simple belief in Jesus Christ is where it starts, the rest as I put it, is just "gravy". Jane: I'm sorry your child was hurt. This indeed must be reported. I got hurt @ CP one time too on "The Whip". It beat me so hard against the side I had a major bruise on my hip. I strained my arms trying to keep from slamming into the side. A fun thing was not so fun. No rides for me, anymore. Not there.
  • Posted By: : I think RoaneCo. and Craveontruth is the exact same person? Who's with me?
  • Posted By: Big Earl: Hello good people of WV this is Big Earl and I for one am sick and tired of all these out of state know it all nosey people bothering us if it is not these smelly hippies trying to run our jobs off or rename the WVU mascot now they are calling the good citizens of WV fat. Well people I am here to tell you that this bunch at the so called CSPI and no you hippies I don’t mean the TV show calling us fat should look in the mirror they look like something off night of the living dead pasty faced scarecrows and beanpoles and what is so great about that. WV has some of the best staple foods anywhere in the world I have eaten paotatoes beans meat flour and corn meal all my life cooked in lard and I am not one bit worse off for it and can mine coal with anybody. People all the good foods we eat are natural growed in the garden or on the farm so it should even make a tofu eating hippie type happy. I am more bothered that two states beat us out in the race for the top so I tip my hat to the people of the great states of Alabama home of the best country music band ever and Mississippi but people of WV get busy we have to reclaim our title to best fed in the USA I recommend the Kentucky Fried Chicken with gravy and biscuits as a good place to start our comeback.
  • Posted By: RoaneCo.: Actually Jane Doe, growing up I did attend church and read the bible. Being subjected to religion for many years I would not consider myself "confused" or uneducated. If one looks at organized religion with an open mind it isn't hard to see who is confused. For example, you have one bible yet there are numerous religious groups ( methodists, baptists etc...) that believe their interpretation is the only correct interpretation. This is understandable because the bible itself is very contradictive. In my opinion the the bible and organized religion is nothing more than a tool created to control the masses. Yet this tool has pitted man against man, brother against brother, state against state and country against country, not to mention the wars, death and destruction it has caused. I have witnessed in my lifetime many family fueds, broken marriages and busted churches at the hands of organized religion. I have heard the words of hate spoken by christians. I am not confused.
  • Posted By: To Fat Earl: You're losing! Ha,Ha!
  • Posted By: Kris: God does not control the weather!If so then he would be responsible for killing hundreds of innocent people every year in America alone! If that's your God, you can have it! My GOD is loving and compassionate. He would never take the life of a one year old nor a hundred year old just because he felt like creating a tornado that day or a hurricane the next. Get a brain and use it simpletons!
  • Posted By: bonn: To Jane Doe: I am afraid RoaneCo's common sense is more attractive than your comments. Read your last post at 8:58 and see if it shows the Light you are suppose to give. We are suppose to control our anger. Yes, we are forgiven, but it is not a license to keep repeating our faults. It is mercy so we can improve. Viciousness does not become a child of God. RoaneCo., may God forgive us for driving you and others away from Him with our failure to shine the Light of Love. And Jane Doe, I am the one you called ignorant just because I was showing compassion (another expectation of a Christian). It is scary about your child. But that person was not attacking your child, nor joking about it, only disapproving of your outburst. Not very attractive in anyone, especially one called to set an example for others to follow. If you must get angry, use it to accomplish something good. Christians are hated enough WITHOUT cause. Love is the answer.
  • Posted By: Bob: I think we might need to contact someone in state govt.about inspecting our amusement parks to many in the public simply dont care if kids get hurt this could have been something really really bad but I guess there is always a few who would crack jokes at anything even a child getting injured.
  • Posted By: cap and trade bill: you wont hear on liberal obama mania news reports whats in the cap and tax bill.only conservate talk radio and conservative news are telling the contents of this country destroying bill.liberal dont want you to be informed,it would be to dangerous for their so called news networks.did you know that,as i somewhat understand it,that every house in the country will have to be at gov.standards before it can be sold,they will be allowed to change therules in mid stream if they want.even if you dont like conservative news,remember only a well informed person can try to stop tyranny.look for facts,have you heard 1 liberal news tell you whats in this bill thats detrimental to this country and freedom.i challenge wsaz to look up whats in this bill and report accuratly whats in it.i dont think thats going to happen.
  • Posted By: food for thought: AMEN Bonn I could never have said it any better, being a Boone county coal miner and all. We do no get a very well reputation anyway.
  • Posted By: Craveontruth: RoaneCo.can hurt but often the truth does hurt.I support RoaneCo.To Jane Doe,I believe RoaneCo.does know quite a bit about Christianity and is not confused at all.
  • Posted By: Jane Doe: Thank you everyone for your support!!You know RoaneCo. Nobody is perfect, That goes for Christians too! Are we allowed to get mad??Yes! But are we forgiven everyday? Yes!Obviously you don't know much about Christianity! That's why you critize so much!!You're confused!! We are not perfect! I guess you are!!
  • Posted By: VOTE NO ON CAP AND TRADE: I know its a repost but i think its Worthy 'Liberty Or Tyranny?' House Passes Cap-And-Trade Republicans Warn Bill Gives Federal Government 'Virtual Control' Over 'Every Aspect Of The Lives Of The American People. Thank the Dumbocratic controled house as it will raise the average consumers power bill $175.00 This on top of the energy companies already asking for an inctrase will put such a burden on the American people that only the wealthy will survive.Please write or call our Senators they are the only life line we have left and ask them to VOTE NO on cap and trade. Republicans were overwhelmingly against the measure, arguing it would destroy jobs in the midst of a recession while burdening consumers with a new tax in the form of higher energy costs.And there was plenty to work on in a House-passed measure that pointed toward higher electricity bills for the middle class.Budget Office and the other from the Environmental Protection Agency — that suggested average increases would be $175.00 a year.
  • Posted By: cap and trade survey: against cap and tax,85percent.people who work and are productive.15percent for cap and tax,,,people who work for government or live off the fat of the land and dont mind other people being taxed into poverty....
  • Posted By: : If new drivers would slow down and actually pay attention to what they are doing, then maybe WV would'nt have these new laws for teenage drivers. Personally myself I believe that all states should have this law. It would make the roads a little safer to drive on.
  • Posted By: bonn: About global warming- our temperature is (and always has been) constantly changing. GOD controls it. Anyone who thinks we can are puffing themselves up bigger than we are.Are we suppose to believe we are responsible for the Ice Age thawing that is suppose to have happened way back when as well? How did that happen? Certainly not carbon emissions. Use some common sense and realize people are using this to line their pockets and gain support for their pet projects. I know- you don't want to hear this, but it is not realistic. Don't let America be controlled with this, PLEASE!! Let us remain free!
  • Posted By: Bob: Dont worry Jane Doe I have notice RoaneCOs posts are generally always on the rude side I am sorry to hear about your daughter.
  • Posted By: Just wondering: the 3 people that was killed on alt rt 10. 2 being st. joe's students. Did they ever release the cause of the accident?
  • Posted By: RoaneCo.: I do care about the safety of our children Anonymous on Jun 30, 2009 at 09:01 AM, no matter where they are or what they are doing. Our children are our future. What I don't care for is someone like Jane Doe on here week after week preaching her little sermons all the while calling people ignorant and showing her hostility toward others. It has always amazed me how most christians will belittle someone else but the minute you catch them being unchristian like they always come up with the old "we christians ain't perfect". Well I know they are not, but by golly they are the first to judge everyone else. These hyporcitical self proclaimed christians are one of the reasons I turned away from organized religion years ago. I just don't agree with these people shoving religion on everyone else. I respect Jane Does right to religion and I would even fight for her to keep that right, but she, like so many others need to keep their religion in their church and their home.
  • Posted By: Big Earl: Well hello again good working coal mining families in WV this is Big Earl and I for one am very disappointed that this cap and trade bill got passed into law the other day no thanks to our good representatives from WV. People all I can say is get a woodpile and a bunch of cow chips because your electric is going to get real expensive real quick. These hippies has run up to Washington DC and boo hooed to them tree huggers and longhairs in the EPA until they got even worse done to our jobs but then again what do you expect from a bunch that has a leaf from a dope plant on there sign like the EPA does if you don’t believe me look on this very website I seen a picture of it. Birds of a feather flock together that’s why the good working people were kept out and not allowed to talk at that hearing and the hippies let in. People these hippies has slandered our great state and coal miners first they bring in professor moonbeam from NASA to insult us then he tucks his tail and runs back to NASA and wont debate Mr. DB then they attack our state university mascot the WV mountaineer. Well people I Big Earl have a solution to this lets call WV the “Ivory Soap State,” make our mascot a bathtub that’s a sure fire way to get rid of these smelly hippies and longhairs and keep them out forever.
  • Posted By: ME: We christians are most always judged by our actions and that is to be expected since we are not perfect in any way. We all make mistakes every day,we get angry,we say things we shouldn't and act out our frustrations sometimes to those closest to us and our friends. We try to do better and ask forgiveness when we do stumble from our christian path. Actions speak louder than words at times, good or bad. Yes we adults act like children at times and children try to act like adults all too soon. We never know who we are influenceing with our actions and words so we need to always try to act,say and do what is right. As long as we are on this earth we will stumble but we should strive to be the best we can be and treat people with love and respect no matter how we are treated. I have turned the cheek many times and been slapped alot and will keep on doing it as long as I breath. My time will come soon enough to be judged as to the way I have lived and treated people.
  • Posted By: Jane Doe: I love people on the Yell!!! They give me a chance to laugh everyday. Thanks guys!!
  • Posted By: just looking: UMMMM do you people think that christians are perfect??? Do you think we dont get angry?? Only one person is perfect and that is Jesus Christ...And if a christian says they are perfect, then they arnt a very good christian. We all have faults. Alot of you people cant wait to get up and look at the faults of others and criticize what they believe in....
  • Posted By: Patriot1: Tea Party. There will be a "Tea Party" July 4th from 4:00-6:30 PM at the City Park in Grayson,Ky
  • Posted By: Donna: Please! enough of Michael Jackson. He died, now he will appear before God and face his punishment for his sins against children. He was a morally bankrupt person who the media has presented as an icon. It's no wonder children are so messed up today,too much TV and not enough parenting. You too, are responsible for making him appear as a person to be looked up to. He and others in entertainment and sports are not what the children need, they need moral examples to look up to, please stop the glorification of immoral and indecent individuals.
  • Posted By: food for thought: To those of you telling me to watch out for Fox news, please go back and read carefully what I said about the media and the government. I thank each of you for your information. I am not out to attack anyone whether acclaimed or the average joe. I just know what I have read from reports and from different sites. This information is what our scientists, meteorologists and so forth use in reference to report the records of weather and temperatures. Again thank each of you, and at last Fox news was the channel the fine people at our local (American made) dealership had channeled on the tube, personally I just watch WSAZ, at the local level.
  • Posted By: : Roane Co., why are you not concerned about the safety of small children at amusement parks?
  • Posted By: Htiek: Right on Kris you tell em about Fox News. Everyone that watches knows that the dependable networks are ABF, Anyone But Fox. I am just like everyone else in the know, they lie all the time but please dont press me to cite anything specific as I am having coffee right now. I am new to your side, so pardon me if I get something confused. Those photographs of the ice caps are proof positive as far as I am concerned, these flat earth types that dont believe global warming should compare them to the satellite picutres from the colonial period and over the years since for comparison purposes. I once heard the hottest year on record was in the 1930s but what does that prove. And before one of you know it alls talks about Al Gore riding everywhere in a private plane and having such a huge house and running a company that profits from selling carbon credits, some people in life earn their special privileges simply by showing up and enlightening the rest of us, so there.
  • Posted By: polar ice caps: the weather is always changing.sometime it freezes sometimes it melts,thats gods doings,not mans.wasnt it the great mind of ted danson many years ago that explaind that in 15 or 20 years that the oceans were going to raise so many feet that it would destroy and overflo inward to apolipicate level.i guess the people that live on these coast lines dont know they are under water.we americans are so silly.let me explain what a great creator said,it rains but the oceans are never full.ice melts but the oceans never overflo.i think i,ll believe him instead of a.gore or ted danzen.p.b.s last week on a travel show,,i think,,,,the guide said the glacier there had been melting 150years.that was certainly before the industrial revolution.as for fox,world net daily,newsmax,etc.the liberal press has lost it monolopy on liberal so called news.
  • Posted By: RoaneCo.: After you finish showing your true colors, go back and read my post again Jane Doe. Better yet let me cut and paste it for you. "I do hope your little girl is ok. I have children of my own, I know how precious they are." And just for the record, I would never "make fun" of a child, but don't think for one second that I won't point out an adult being hypocritical. Are you not the same Jane Doe that three weeks ago was preaching about God, then in the same breath calling someone "IGNORANT"? So let me say it one more time, I hope your little girl is ok. As for you, thank you for proving once again how kind, loving, patient and understanding some of you fine christians can be.
  • Posted By: Kris: This respectfully goes out to "food for thought" for what they said about fox news and global warming.FOX has great movies and tv shows but their view when it comes to the "news" is so far on the "right" way of thinking that it totally obscures reality in their opions of the subject at hand. They'll twist their views to make sure that it is opposite of "liberals" or people on the "left" and how they feel about the subject.Asf or global warming, we have actual time lapsed pictures of the polar caps melting at an alarming rate. You can actually see it happening. If things are cooling down, then why are the polar caps and icebergs melting at an alarming rate? The evidence is right in front of our faces. I sure do hope you're right because if I am, our planet is doomed. Sincerely, Kris
  • Posted By: Jethro: WHATS WRONG WITH YOU ALL UPDATE THE YELL!!!!!!!!!!WAKE UP!!!!!!
  • Posted By: Keith: Never thought I'd sit around and miss Bush...well the wrecking ball has appointed a racist to the supreme court, one that is inept and incompetent too. Did you notice her latest ruling was overturned today? The economy is not getting better, those of you out of work have my sympathy because this clown is not doing anything to make it better. He never held a real job, never ran a business, just a rabble rouser and agitator. How do you feel about cap and trade energy tax? All over a phony problem that doesnt even exist; WV will wither away to nothing but hey we can all get jobs in the windmill factory, cant we? How do you feel about having your health benefits taxed to pay for Obamacare? How's the hope and change working out for everyone? What do you think card check is going to do the economy? Check out an article about Obama the African Colonialist on the American Thinker Website, dated June 25th. It explains him to a "T." Obama is a wrecking ball, and he's gonna roll over everyone.
  • Posted By: Big Earl: Well hello again good working coal miners of WV this is Big Earl and people I have come to the conclusion that we need some friends in Washington DC that has got some clout. Some people up there has got big names but nobody apparently listens to, that is if they show up at all in court to help you out, those who are sick are excepted. Then there are some people in Charleston who should be in Washington who shall remain unnamed because nobody in Gov. Joes office asked me to say that. But remember who had that bunch from FEMA down here handing out checks before two weeks after the flood water hit and figure out who has clout. You people that went up for the hearing last week should be thanked but the good people never got to say a word but these hippies did, they are apparently now running around the creek with microscopes looking for fish that cant be seen with the eye, something called a microbe, now they are blaming the coal miner for killing off this worthless animal and I sincerely hope Captain D or old Long John will never put some slop like that on my plate when I want good seafood. If you dont see it it cant be of no good use anyway, sort of like a certain US senator with a big rich name who was nowhere to be seen last week.
  • Posted By: Jane Doe: To RoaneCo. How dare you critize my comment. This isn't just some fun arguement!! My child is hurt! Do you think that's funny? Do me a favor, Next time I write about my kids, Don't comment! I hope you don't have any kids because you don't see the harm and worry in my comment, You just want to fight and make fun of someone!! This is really serious!! I don't see the humor!!!
  • Posted By: Big Earl: Did any of you people see those PETA nuts on the TV 3 news last night boo hooing about having to tie there dogs up hello again working people of WV this is Big Earl and I don’t know about you but I always thought it was rude and inconsiderate and just being a bad neighbor to let your dogs run wild all over the neighborhood digging up peoples backyards rooting around in garbage cans and doing there business all over the place. Have any of you people in Huntington ever lost a chicken to a wild dog. Even these back to nature types and hippies up here in Boone County tie up there dog to guard there dope patches but they don’t have no sense anyway if they aint going to Washington DC to try and rook us out of our jobs by carrying signs and yelling about some invisible fish that is no good to anybody they are screaming about the coal miner killing polar bears and other animals that don’t even live here. Apparently this bunch had the bright idea to go down to the park on Sunday down in Huntington when people was out with there families trying to walk around and enjoy things and they chained themselves to trees with real dog chains trying to get people to sign a protest petition to of all people a mayor named Wolf now I don’t know about you but that mayor better forget the beware of dog sign he needs to put a beware of the PETA nut sign up in that park.
  • Posted By: The Seeker: @food for thought: It is indeed important to check facts, and it heartens me to see that you're of the type that actively seeks them (even thought I fall on the side of the debate that believes in climate change, as it has solid science behind it). However, I caution you on taking anything from FOX news at face value. This is an organization that in 2000 won a case in Florida appeals court in which the court ruled that FOX has no obligation to tell the truth to it's viewers, and can misinform the public under the first amendment. This is also an organization that has been proven to have an agenda, and frames every bit of it's coverage to favor one political party over the other. My advice is to seek out less obviously biased news sources, especially in cases such as global warming, which is an issue that transcends political parties and affects every being on the planet.
  • Posted By: Hugh: Hey WVa. Checkin out the YELL. Kind of quiet today. Enjoyed my visit there. Met John Henry at the Big Ben Tunnel,saw the big bridge. Stood at Hawk's Nest and viewed the scenery. If I wasn't so old and crippled, I'd bungee jump from the New River Gorge Bridge. Have folks who live in the Talcott area and some around Hinton. Well won't take much of your time today. Just wanted to check in.
  • Posted By: what is foor for thought?: foor?? for thought, you do know Bush made those he commissioned to study it alter their reports when he found out it supported global warming, don't you? Anyone who just sees pictures of the ice caps 30 years ago and now would have to be mentally handicapped not to know there's global warming, the only thing that's possible to debate is the cause of it. Wonder why Fox didn't mention the Bush fiasco? Well I don't really wonder.
  • Posted By: more p.c at wsaz: gays in usa sounds like it was written by a gay person,so it was printed.it was,nt written by a gay person.it was a second thought,after i commented on other sins,such as adultry,but plainly written by a heterosexual person.it was not printed because im straight and not gay.so goes our country and freedom.
  • Posted By: Lou Ann: Ive had a similar bad experience at camden park several years ago. Havent went back since. The pricing is just another deterrent to doing business locally. I love this area but am very discouraged by the lack of pride in our appearance in several of our towns, the prices of doing business, the attitude towards the customer , the lack of merchandise. I could go on. We definately are not tourist friendly in the great ohio valley area.
  • Posted By: foor for thought: Looks like my comment on June 24th may be right. I have done some reading about this Global warming fad the government is putting on. I was sitting in a local car dealership and FOX news was reporting on the government sitting or "burying" studies by two of the highest ranking EPA officials contradicting this myth. Some of the comments from their studies proves the Global temperature if anything has decreased. Although, you should be skeptical about anything the media reports especially when it involves the government these are facts that have been recorded over time. I ask how come when these bozos as Dr. Hansen whom is from NASA(which has done innumerable amounts of damage to our air with their testing) never mention facts as these when trying to prove things they are claiming is a fact. People we in America have became lazy in seeking the truth, I am not disputing anything these scientists and the government tells us, but as we learned in elementary school check facts of both sides.
  • Posted By: gays in u.s.a.: another reflection on gays.if you think god doesn,t care about you because you,re gay ,he must love you more than you can comprehend,if not you could have been born ina muslim country.islam has no homosexuals ,they are not rehabilitate,just beheaded.as a loving and compassionate god says"GO AND SIN NO MORE".that doesnt mean just you it means all of us.yes god allows you to choose,he must really care.
  • Posted By: City of Milton: I'm glad that the City of Milton has so much money to spend and that they spend it wisely. Every time I drive through town on a nice day it never fails that someone is washing their personal vehicle at the VFD. Good to see that they budget personal car washes into the city budget. I think I'll stop in there today and see if I can wash my car as well...should be a nice day!
  • Posted By: Valorie: About four weeks ago, I sent a letter to Camden Park with a friendly suggestion to open the park to the casual visitor again. As of today, I still haven't had a response from them. There used to be a small fee for admission to anyone who just wanted to visit. Once inside the park, a visitor could buy a corn dog or pay to play a few games or ride a few rides. Now people have to pay a full admission price for all day rides, even when they don't plan to stay all day. A lot of people are grandparents who just want to watch their grandchildren ride for an hour or two. Some are young parents with small children who tire easily. As empty nesters, my husband and I would like to drop by to get a bite to eat, play some games or just walk around. Everyone I have spoken to said they would visit Camden Park a whole lot more if they didn't have to pay the full admission price. I challenge everyone to contact Camden Park and ask them to give the people a choice!
  • Posted By: to gay question: god is not a cruel and unfair god.we all have our faults.is homosuxality a bigger sin than adultry,pornography,lying,stealing, and the list goes on.the clue to these behaviors is wanting to make our lives better.we cant blame anyone but ourselves for what we do.if anyone doesnt change its what they want to do.but as long as it doesnt affect me thats between you and god.but it is wrong,just as cheating on your spouse is sin.would we tell the adulterer that its not sin and not to try being a better person,i think not.celibacy would be better than the same old behavior.these have been struggle since creation.
  • Posted By: RoaneCo.: Losing your religion Jane Doe? What happened to "turn the other cheek"? I do hope your little girl is ok. I have children of my own, I know how precious they are. But next time you read of someone else being "furious" or commenting on their personal issues, maybe you should keep your bible quotes to yourself.
  • Posted By: Jane Doe: I recently went with my church and my family to Camden Park this past weekend. Me and my 6 year old daughter rode the Spider, We thought it was going to be lots of fun, we were wrong! It was a nightmare! It went on for 10 minutes and was going way too fast! My daughter was terrified and was screaming! I was furious when the man that helped us off asked if she was okay and I said what do you think and he laughed!! I have rode this ride for many years and loved it, But this time I could tell it was different! But then it gets worse, A friend of mine that stayed at the park longer than us informed me that after we left, The spider closed down and said they had crossed wires and the ride was malfunctioning!!! My daughter can't hardly walk today and has a four inch bruise down her back! I'm taking her to the doctor in the morning. If there is something seriously wrong, I will be speaking to the owner and this situation will be takin care of!!!!!
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