You load 16 tons and what do you get?

These days you get more absurd crap from this guy: Yep, that's the guy who owns the mine in Utah where those six miners are buried now and where some rescuers died when they tried to dig them out. But have no fear, those brave miners and rescuers did not die in vain, or would it be vein? The memory of those brave men will live on because Mr. Murray wants to reopen the mine in question! That's right, the bodies of those dead miners are still warm but that's not going to stop the relentless march of disaster capitalism!


From Think Progress:
Yesterday, Crandall Canyon mine co-owner Robert Murray said that while he plans to “abandon any effort” to mine at the site of the initial collapse where six miners were trapped, he believes “that other parts of the mine remained safe for work and that mining should resume.” An MSHA official said he was “shocked that the subject was even brought up.”


Don't get the wrong impression about all this though, Mr. Murray is suffering as much if not more than the miners and their grieving families.


From the AP:
Coal mine boss Bob Murray said he is hurt and stung by criticism that he operated an unsafe mine and wasn't doing enough to find six miners trapped more than two weeks ago in a cave-in. "I didn't desert anybody,'' he said early Wednesday, responding to victims' relatives who say officials have given up on finding their loved ones. "I've been living on this mountain every day, living in a little trailer.''


My god what a heroic sacrifice! He's living in a little trailer! Do I smell a Time Man of the Year award for his noble sacrifice? Nobel Prize? MacArthur Genius Grant perhaps? When you stop and think about what this man has lost in the past few weeks it should make you weep. He's lost valuable exploitation of the workers time, he's lost money due to his mine being closed, and now he tell us he's given up living in one of his luxury homes! I am on my knees worshipping this selfless human being. Move over Gandhi, step aside Mother Theresa, get off that cloud Martin Luther King, there's a new humanitarian in town!

If there is any justice in this world or the next then Murray the Mine Owner will be locked in a prison cell with Michael Vick and they'll both die long painful deaths.