At 3PM EDT the Barker in the WH will likely mandate a coal pot belly stove in every kitchen, a coal

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furnace in the basement and outlaw solar/wind. I feel like the US is falling down a deep ravine with no bottom. China will become the world leader and the US will be left in coal dust. In short, the US 'ain't going no place' in the 21st century!

[greymattermom]

1. So why do we spend so much on defense?

If we're going no place.

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2. MIC! n/t

[mn9driver]

3. Trump doesn't actually care about coal. Or coal miners.

That was all just part of his West Virginia campaign rally lie set. The miners are just beginning to figure it out. Until the next con man shows up

[RKP5637]

4. Yep! And I sure hope they pay attention the next time around. He totally used them and millions

with his lies and propaganda about many things, yet some still believe in him, what fools.

[left-of-center2012]

5. My grandmother used coal

The pot bellied stove was in her living room.
She had a coal and wood stove in the kitchen.

[MineralMan]

6. So did my grandmother, on my father's side.

I remember visiting her house in the 1950s and seeing it in use. She still lived with her own mother, my great-grandmother, at the time, in an old house in rural Utah. I was an amazed 10-year-old kid then.

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8. Part of me really misses some parts of those days. Similar experience. n/t

[MineralMan]

9. I used to ask my maternal grandmother about

her life from time to time. She was born in the 1890s. She remembered the first time she saw an electric light and the first automobile she saw. She loved talking about her childhood and growing up on a farm in Texas. She had lots of stories to fascinate a kid who would listen to her. But I was the only one in the family who asked about those things.

One of my favorites was the time I asked her when she first voted. She was very proud of casting her first vote not long after an amendment to the Constitution gave her the right to do that.

Oral history is a wonderful thing, but most people don't have time to sit and listen to the old folks.

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7. Those were neat stoves. My great aunt had one like that way up in the mountains and

kept it polished like brand new. The chrome absolutely sparkled. Then next to it was one of the big tanks they used to use for hot water with coils in the coal stove, except they burned wood. Those stoves were really really cool.

[shraby]

10. Problem with coal furnaces, is sometimes when being loaded, the dust cause the

coal to explode. Singed my brothers eyebrows one day, nasty stuff sometimes. We went from a wood stove upstairs to a coal furnace in the basement to an oil furnace.

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11. Wow, I was lucky. In the 80's I put an airtight coal furnace in the lower level of a split level

house and a fan on the stairs. It really worked well, but the coal dust in the house from ash was a mess. No matter how careful I was, there was always fine dust, but the stove itself was incredible. I was lucky on loading it. It was small, so I just shoved the coal in.