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Tonight's LEVERAGE Features Corrupt Mining CEO "Dan Blackwell" (aka Don Blankenship?)

by: Wabi-Sabi

Sun Aug 15, 2010 at 20:55:37 PM EDT


Apparently tonight's episode of Leverage, starring Timothy Hutton, could be ripped from the headlines in West Virginia.  "The Underground Job" features the Leverage team infiltrating the coal mines of West Virginia to take on a corrupt mining company in the aftermath of a deadly mine explosion.

The explosion is caused by a deadly build-up of methane gas, just as the Upper Big Branch explosion earlier this year.  The mine owner "Dan Blackwell" (interesting choice for the character's name) also funded the election of his hand-picked Attorney General through corporate campaign contributions.  (Doesn't this sound eerily similar to the election of our WV Supreme Court Justice Brent Benjamin?)

Check out this preview.  They even mention Massey Energy's practice of appealing violations to prevent paying fines. The episode premieres Sunday at 9:00 p.m. on TNT.

Wabi-Sabi :: Tonight's LEVERAGE Features Corrupt Mining CEO "Dan Blackwell" (aka Don Blankenship?)
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I'm tivoing Thurday.  Thanks for the heads up.

Joe Manchin is my personal hero, like Don Blankenship (1.00 / 1)
Vote Joe Manchin for U.S. Senate because he values teachers and education, children sitting on school busses for two+ hours,  supports pay raises (not in the form of food stamps) for public workers and their struggling families, cutting PEIA subsidies for new hires, including teachers; alternative energy (what is renewable?), including investing in clean coal technology, more clean coal technology, and did I mention clean coal technology and that cost effective carbon sequestration stuff that is proven to work? Vote Manchin because he loves the environment and valley fills and understands flooding is most certainly caused by acts of God, not mountaintop removal mining. Vote for Manchin for all that economic activity taking place on reclaimed MTR sites (meth labs and whore houses don't count). Vote for Manchin because he hearts the EPA and all things regulation from environmental (MTR, coal slurry injection/impoundments, mercury in the water/fish, fairness for Dupont in the court system) to workforce safety (Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster). Vote Manchin because he "reformed" Workers Compensation and doctors all across WV love taking BrickStreet, and most importantly, do it for Jesus!

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