Jonathan Miller

Read the article & thought it was so compassionate of Sarah to want to recognize her teachers. There is a National Teacher's Day & most schools observe it. I'm certain Sarah will organize something for her lucky teachers on that day.
Is Sarah the granddaughter of the pediatric surgeon? He was my daughter's surgeon when she was a child.

Thanks so much for your comment, Karen. Sarah is starting to discover that in fact, more than a few others have thought of her "good idea". And to answer your question, the pediatric surgeon is indeed her Grandpa Bob! (I hope your daughter is doing well since her encounter with him.)

The exploitation of Eastern Kentucky's God given resources is a horific crime against the Earth and the communties that get little in return for their resources.



While the future demand for natural resources such as coal, sand and rock for concrete, as well as wood for new construction or the nation and the world little is given back to our communites that share the God given resourses. ... See More



There is a real need for new constructive leadership with vision and persistance that can shape these two God given Earthen elements and others into new city and county planning and zoneing projects to economicly spur growth and beautification of our communties.



These elements with vision from community leadershiip and land developers can build structures, parks, pedistrian prominades, and beautiful facades that awe those that but glace upon them...



Eastern Kentucky has been refered to as "Gods Country" by my dear friends and colegues. I'm sure they would agree that, it is a shame that these two abundant elements have been so economically exploited for profit. While the elit and wealthy benifactors of the exploitatin are leaving little in Eastern Kentucky to show for their capital gains.



For so many years companies have exploited our natural resources, tearing off mountain tops and filling vallies with acres of trees and other valuable resources that Kentuckians could process into goods.



The get rich quick with coal, and pillage the lanscape has become the accepted norm of Eastern Kentucky and we are now uniting to say it has to stop... It isn't like your filling in swamp land like Disney to make the land worth a couple million dollars per acre more valuable... The Coal companies look at it as just dumping millions of dollars in resourses into a hole that they paid less than $1000 per acre for. In the quest for black gold the companies monopolize all Earthen elements and disreguard our other vaible resources as if they were throwing out the trash..



It is up to us to us to remind them that these elements are not their sole devine right to destroy and in the process contaminate our drining water, and not replant trees to filter fresh clean air as God intended. No longer can they take from our region and give little in return...



Yet, people of Eastern Kentucky have wised up. We know this is not what God would have wanted much more in return for such beautiful resources. We demand that our resources be used more affectively in our own local economies..



We need timber to boards for more local construction and the materials for concrete turned into bricks, sidewalks, footers, multi story structures, and more... With the resourses so redily available our land owners should be more willing to participate in more public/private partnerships so we can expand industrial processing of the resources as well as build and enhance our own communties...



Though there may be a "Divine right of money; be it paper or gold" I feel that those that have been fortunate enough to hold deeds and title in land with such God given resources are the real Appostles of faith that can beutify and economically change our communties...



Such people of faith don't need payment in mere mortal money, but in common or preferred stock in the projects built on the Devine corner stone of faith.



This faith based economic inititive will marvel and inspire the Christ inspired Carpenters of the region to particicipate in the simple, but magnificent construction... With vision, faith and persistance our communities will rise out of this economic hardhips much stronger than before; threby, creating a communtiy that looks like a millionaires resort retreat...

NOTE: Many Green Jobs could be created out of waste products such as mulch, arts and crafts, and even building structures with "Chord/Fire Wood" construction used like Bricks... This would add millions of dollars to each and every park in Kentucky and/or for sure Eastern Kentucky parks and recreational facilities with abundant wood stock...
Thank you,
Harvey Carroll, Jr.

Email me a power point as I'm out of the country...

My grandfather, still living independently at age 91, served as a machinist on a ship in the South Pacific in WWII and in the Korean conflict as a Seabee. Thanks, grandpa!

WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWETH, THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP: A GOP Congressional comeback... Wow, I can't believe people have such short memories...
While I consider myself a "Moderate and feel that we have just had 8 years of GOP Neo-Conservatism rule, with their boastful leaderhip of fear and force which has deminished America's internal and external economic statecraft. Proven polices of failure that has created widespread unemployment. So high in fact, that the only wages one can expect is the Biblical reference "wages of sin is death"... "The economic flu" from the GOP and a Commissioned Congress created world economic crises...
A crises caused by trying to reap without sowing in the quest to take Iraq's Oil; A war sold to the American people as if the oil was a Devine loan in exchange for billions in Defense spending...
Now we as a nation are reaping what leadership has sown. The only thing that the Neo-Conservative push for war has sowed in the quest for oil in Iraq is the dead bodies of a lot of proud men and women now burried in their uniform.
Make no mistake about it; the blame was clearly from the lack of constructive leadership from the Bush Presidency; along with corrupt Defense contractors and the Shaddow Insurance and Banking industry too well conected to fail as they have the Commissioned Congress in their pockets... ... See More
All were warned with positon papers, news interviews and such, by myself and other intelligence specialist who worked on the 1st Gulf War and had some insight and reason. Yet, it didn't take an expert to watch the news reports, UN WMD hearings and realize that it would be unjustified to prosicute a war in Iraq that would lead to profitering that would benifited only a few well connected Defense contractors...
Now the country and the world is "reaping what poor leadership has sown"
My heart goes out to those men and women who are in the service of our nation, and are not in a position to question leadership. We will continue to do what we can to protect and serve you, and your family needs; as you have been willing to protect, and serve ours.
In closeing, my commitment to you is to be a voice of reason and to encourage the development of new empathetic leadership idologies, which is willing to sow seeds of diplomacy, and supports constructive trade and commerce as apposed to fear and destructiveness...
Thank you,
Harvey Carroll, Jr.

Love the logo!

OIL IN EASTERN KENTUCKY:
the market controls much of Eastern Kentucky's Oil industry... When Gas/Oil prices are down so is the price and jobs in Eastern Kentucky. I've written articles attempting to influence the State to invest in oil/gas futures and to broker deals with Ashland Oil to put investments into the market to aquire oil reserves...
Yet, this is an international level issue... Ashland and other large companies can buy from international markets cheeper than most Eastern Kentuckians can pump it from the ground and deliver it to Ashland...
Perhpas there is a need to take a huge coal company mine and build Eastern Kentucky Oil/Gas caverns like the strategic oil reserves in the Salt mines... This would stabalize and produce some steady investment opportunties... A simple joint venture with a defunk mine and Ashland oil purchasers of Eastern Kentucky could make this happen via joint ventures with funding from the Defense/Energy Departments...
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Harvey Carroll, Jr.

MIDDLE EASTERN KENTUCKY:
A fear campaign has basically comparing many citizens of Eastern Kentucky into OIL backed Terrorist.

While neo-conservativescontinue to spread the FEAR campaign that is treating Eastern Kentuckians like "Terrorist" envoking Drug War and Homeland security thinking that you can invade anyones privacy and kicks the doors down... See More of hard working Eastern Kentuckians. Probably even use the Patriot Act to take Kentuckian's guns and perscription medications away.
I say lets discuss important issues and economics that is increasing the crime in the region... Let's provide each city and county with "Comprehensive Planning" tools that will help each and every governement spur economic growth via public/private partnerships...!!!

Johnathan,perhaps you can read Edmond Burk the fatehr of conservatism as all these GOP guys have been suggestion... Like yourself, I actually read and do research as apposed to getting my oppinons from people like Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh...
The father of the GOP Burke didn't export the revolution he tried to surpress it according to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke>.
Burke in fact stood with the hard liners in favor of the Monarchy over Democracy during the French Revolution.

Again, Burke tried to surpress the French Revolution standing with the French hard liners in favor of the Monarchy over Democracy and inalieble rights... ... See More

Much like the Neo-Conservatives in the GOP today who feel they should take democracy and civil liberties out of the hands of ordinary citizens...

According to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution> Burke the GOP's conservative founder and GOD of GOP poltical philosophy actually tried to surpress "Enlightenment principles of citizenship and inalienable rights"...(Hum, INALIENABLE RIGHTS; Sort of sounds like much of the American Constitution doesn't it)...

THEREFORE, I CONCLUDE THAT THE 18th CENTURY FATHER OF GOP CONSERVATISM IS ACTUALLY "ANTI-AMERICAN CONSTITUTION" AND HAS ANTI-AMERICAN PRINCIPLES that contradict the American founding fathers Constitutional intent... No wonder the GOP has tried to take so many civil liberties from Americans in the past, it is ingrained in the conservitive foundation of Edmund Burke the Lord of Conservatism...

Burke didn't express stability and continuity he expressed opression and status quo over new ideas of enlightenment and citizens rights. The very same thing that the 1776 American Revolution was started for as well as being Tirantly Taxed; hence the "Tea Party"...
A TAX burden that this country will face as the GOP has pilled on nearly 12 trillion in debt; 6 of which came as direct result of the previous Bush administrations failed policies of fear, and the other 6 trillion from the prior Reagan/Bush, Sr's parinoid race with Russia to see who could squander their citizens resources on corrupt Defence spending and go broke first...
Let us not forget that "Lady Liberty" stands in the New York harbor today as a symbol of French support and belief in America's quest for democracy and freedom during the American Revolution; (Granted we returned the favor during WWII with the liberation of France from Hitlers army).
It was actually, the strong French Revolutionist that helped American claim their victory over such neo-conservative idiologies...
Burke trying to capitalize via words of the post war struggles failed to sell the American supporters/French Revolutionist on a defunct French Monarchy that mirrored the Tyranical King of England that we claimed our independence from...... See More
I've visited Paris several times and traveled throught the country and I have great respect for the French and what they did to help American succeed in gain our independence during the American Revolution...
Yet, today still the GOP fails to listen to reason when countries like France and others ask us to use common sense in Diplomacy and International Commerce... The "Your either with us or against us" attitude has deminished America's economic and political statecraft abroad...