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The last mine and one of the biggest, Mountain Maid, closed in 1878, and is now managed by the National Parks and Wildlife Service as a tourist attraction and education facility as part of Copeland Tops State Conservation Area. 

Further proof of Obama’s counterproductive policies regarding oil can be found at: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42432.pdf

 In 1995 it became the most played song of the year on US modern rock radio and set the band on the way to 21 ARIA awards – more than any other artist in history – fi ve studio albums that all made it to No 1 in Australia, the sale of more than six million albums worldwide and concerts such as Rock in Rio on January 21, 2001, before 250,000 people – the biggest show of their lives. 

I stood on the porch at Dale’s horse farm and soaked up the view. It was deep springtime in west Tennessee. The grass was so green it hurt your eyes. The dogwoods were in bloom and two sleek and shiny horses grazed in the picture. It looked like a cover off the Quarter Horse Journal.

Join the club. My old dog was favoring his left front. Considering his long history of bein’ shot and run over, I wasn’t surprised.

Then the new baby sniffs, or blinks, or sneezes, or wiggles an ear, and at that moment it feels as though a burden has been lifted from our shoulders. We did it. We did it again. Just regular common people like us, engaged in that age-old profession of stockman, have participated in a miracle; life being passed from one generation to the next.

Commenter: Kristi NelsonThis is a big problem! I wish I knew then what I know now. I would have made an entire different decision. No one told me then that they can garnish your wages, take away social security and put liens on anything you own and hunt you down forever making sure your life is oppressed! I wonder why that was not told to me when I signed up for college loans?? Yes I signed on the dotted line, but I feel there should have been more education on these loans. All my college was thinking about was the money they will make off of me. Shame on them for not telling me ANYTHING!! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!! I feel they should be partly responsible for not reveling these things to be. I have an art degree, actually a full bachelors degree, and have emailed my college and posted on their website about having an art show regarding "How student loan affects one’s life." Have I heard back? No way! I feel a bit like I was taken advantage off and I shouldn’t be responsible for the total amount of these loans. Why will they not even respond to me???!! It really makes me mad that they took advantage of me. VERY MAD!!! They stole my life away from me!!! There needs to be in place more education before taking out these loans, before a $1 is given out. When one goes through bankruptcy there is all kinds of classes that are required. Why when one takes out a $100,000 student loan not one minute is spent on educating you on the outcome of this, but yet you are punished as much as a murderer!! I don’t’ understand. I am a citizen of this country but yet refugees are treated better! Lately my total commission sales jobs to businesses has taken a nose dive because of the economy. I have used all my forbearance’s and everything I can do to forgo the monthly loans and give me time to get my financial life and job situation more secure–but the loan company does not care–actually that would be our government. Now because of the very unreliable income I have, I can’t afford the monthly payments. When I call my loan company to talk to them about it, all they say is wait until the collection company calls you. By the way, these are private collection companies cashing in on government loans. I ask them if I can talk to the collection company now. They say they have no idea who it will go to. I have to sit and wait for the outcome of my entire life and wait until the collection company calls. I am now about 50 days to collections. I have an appointment with, I think, the only bankruptcy attorney in the State of Minnesota who has actually done a undue hardship case for Chapter 13 in two weeks. I have no idea what my specific case will bring. Most attorneys tell you it can’t be done. The only cases that are forgiven is if you are in an iron lung or incapacitated. I don’t understand why other circumstances can’t be taken a look at. I guess I will find out in two weeks when I talk to the attorney if she will take my case. If she won’t take my case, I will be looking at a life time of garnished wages, no opportunity to own anything and no social security when I get old. I wonder where I will live with no credit. Basically I am looked at as a murderer or traitor who also has no statute of limitations on their crime. I can’t seem to find any financial adviser either that can advise one for their future with this problem. Maybe I should just be put in prison right now. At least I know I will have a roof over my head and several meals a day–right now that is a mystery. I guess the government wants you to be a criminal if you try to educate yourself–didn’t that happen in medieval times? Hey, I guess they have art programs in prison! That is my degree, I am too stressed out trying to make money to think about making any art right now, maybe that is what the government wants me to do as my option, or should I try to incapacitate myself?? Doesn’t seem like there are too many options at all. I feel a bit taken advantage of but yet I feel I want to try to make these payments or some of them. I wish they could give me a grace period of 6-12 months, but there is nothing left for me. I don’t know what to do. There is no hope for people like me. It is very sad. I feel my life is very oppressed and there is nothing to look forward to for my future. Depression overwhelms me as life is never any fun. I made the biggest mistake of my life that now I have to pay for forever. It is so hard! I made the biggest mistake of my life. I wish I would have bought a house, owned a bank, or a car dealership–at least there is some way out for them. There is no way out for me but an oppressed hard life. The way the laws are set up is that I am a very bad person..lower than low. Why don’t’ they just line us up and shoot us. Life is no fun anyways!

I don’t cross my legs, I don’t lift anything heavier than a bag of flour, I don’t row boats, I have to tell my daughter that no, I can’t carry her, no matter how tired her legs are. I even forgo the pleasure of sledging.

Commenter: Dale PavichOur two kids owe a combined $300,000 dollars in student debt. We have taken over $100,000 of debt, in addition, which has resulted in refinancing our home. Our daughter is a 2nd year emergency medicine resident and pays two thirds of her take home pay for her s.l. payments. Our son has a B.A. in chemistry and must pay an equivalent amount of his monthly earnings. The private lenders for some of these loans have interest rates in the double digits and severe penalties for late/delinquent payments resulting in rising pricipal balances. Consolidation to lower rate loans is not available at this point, so there is a growing sense of hopelessness and despair in our family as a result, to the detriment of all. Another legacy of the Bush administration we cannot afford.

 When a group of sailors decided to have a little boat race from Sydney to Hobart in 1945, nine yachts lined up to face the starter’s gun.

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Two years later the jack showed its true colors. I was comin’ south outta Grouse Creek in a brand new 3/4 ton vet truck. The high mountain road was snow packed and I was testing my traction. I missed a turn and slid off a ditch, high centered. “No sweat,” I thought, “I’ll just jack it up and pile some wood underneath the tire.” Once again I engaged the Combination Handyman Post Puller and Fickle Finger Mangler.