Morrison’s Drive Inn
126 Stollings Ave.
Logan, WV
Socialists like Barack Obama hate people who work for a living.
I mean, if you are one of those folks who has a job and can afford to provide three meals a day for your kids, scrape together the rent or mortgage every month – and pay your own cell phone bill…
…who the hell needs Obama?
And that’s a problem…
…if you’re Barack Obama.
Which is about the best conspiracy theory I can come up with to explain Obama’s War on Coal.
West Virginia is the only state in the union that can be utterly destroyed by killing just one industry.
Come down here to the hills and hollows of Logan County, West Virginia and you’ll understand what I’m talking about.
Except for the carhops at Morrison’s Drive Inn, a few McDonald’s burger flippers and Wal-Mart grocery baggers, coal is the only source of cold hard cash for the hard working folks in Logan County.
So naturally Obama wants to destroy coal and the people of West Virginia. They gave him barely one-third of the vote last year.
His EPA regulations have already shut down 411 American coal-fired electrical plants. Through these rules, regulations and carbon taxes, thousands of West Virginians will be put out of work — and onto the welfare rolls.
And it’s exactly where Obama wants them.
This is Obama’s final strategy to win them over – destroy their livelihoods and force them to be dependent on food stamps, Obama phones, and welfare checks signed by Obama and his minions in Washington DC.
Now, I know what you’re thinking.
“Enough with the Sean Hannity anti-Obama rant and get on with telling me about those famous chili slaw dogs. Besides, all Obama is trying to do is save the world from global warming.”
But if you really believe that, I have one thing to tell you…
…as they might say down here in Logan County…
…“bless your heart.”
Dude, get a clue.
Do the math.
The United States of America has roughly 300 million people. That’s only 4% of the population of the world.
If Barack Obama could shuttle every last one of us off into a FEMA extermination camp and wipe America off the face of the earth, it would hardly put a dent into global carbon emissions.
China and India alone account for over a third of the entire world’s carbon emissions.
China burns five times as much coal as the U.S.
And guess what? They ain’t going to comply with the same rules and regulations Obama is imposing in his own country.
Oh, and by the way, even with a glut of domestic natural gas and rock bottom prices, coal is still far and away the cheapest way to boil water and churn the massive turbines that create the electricity to power the lights in your house — and in the White House.
And it always will be — if Obama would just let the miners, truckers, and engineers of southern West Virginia do their jobs.
But it’s not all work and no play in Coal Country.
A highlight of any trip to West Virginia is a tray full of chili slaw dogs.
Yes. Slaw.
As in coleslaw.
I know it sounds weird. I thought so the first time I ventured into West Virginia down in Mercer County.
You are going to put coleslaw on my hot dog?
Yes.
I haven’t regretted the decision yet.
And Morrison’s Drive Inn has been serving them to the hard-working locals since 1948.
Morrison’s still offers up efficient, old-fashioned car side service.
From the moment I put my rental into park, to the moment I honked my horn and the friendly carhop took my empty tray, my experience was a grand total of eleven minutes.
Which was good because that’s about all the time I had if I was going to make my flight out of Charleston Airport over an hour away.
But it was the best eleven minutes of my day.
Wrapped in clear cellophane, the hot dog buns are steamy soft, with a nice wiener topped with mustard, chopped onion, spicy chili, and creamy slaw.
Morrison’s dogs are a perfect kaleidoscope of flavors and textures. Crunchy, creamy, sweet, and savory. In every bite.
You get the feeling that the exact ratio of ingredients and condiments is a carefully followed formula — and a closely guarded Logan County secret.
The homemade onion rings were crunchy with the ideal batter-to-onion ratio.
As one of the only non-chain restaurants around, Morrison’s looks like it has a loyal clientele of hard-working locals.
These are the folks who are going to save West Virginia from a man who has never held a real job in his life.
The folks here in West Virginia want work — not welfare.
In fact, workers in Logan County have died for the right to work. Literally.
Just ask the family of Eddie York.
When the United Mine Workers forced their members on strike here in Logan County in the 1990s, Eddie York wasn’t even a member of the union.
He was just doing his job. Driving a truck. Making a delivery into a mine just a few miles from here. Providing for his family.
For that, he was shot in the head by a UMW militant.
And the union thugs pelted rescue workers with rocks when they rushed to Eddie York’s aid.
But it didn’t matter. Eddie York was killed instantly.
Murdered in cold blood in front of hundreds of UMW witnesses — for the crime of just trying to work for a living.
Thanks to an exemption in federal law for prosecution of union violence, the only charges brought against the murderer were for “incapacitating a driver.”
When asked about the incident, the president of the UMW was quoted in the Virginian Pilot newspaper stating, “If you light a fire and stick your finger in the flame, common sense says you are going to get burned.”
So who was this unsympathetic union boss condoning murder?
His name is Richard Trumka.
He is now head of the AFL-CIO and is Barack Obama’s largest benefactor. He has visited the White House more than any other American.
In the last election, Trumka funneled $1.7 billion (yes, billion) in union dues taken from the paychecks of workers in places like Logan County to help elect none other than Barack Obama — the man trying to put all those workers out of a job.
And to add insult to injury?
Because West Virginia is not a Right to Work state, all those union mine workers are required by law to pay those dues as a condition of employment.
What a freaking racket.
As Travis Tritt once eloquently sang, “They’re billing me for killing me.”
As you can tell, I get pretty fired up about this stuff.
If we lose our cheap domestic energy powered by coal, we lose the whole state of West Virginia.
And while my personal feeling is West Virginia never should have yielded to the threat of federal firepower and split from the Commonwealth of Virginia in the first place, I still respect folks who are willing to work hard for a living.
And I love West Virginia chili slaw dogs.
So I think West Virginia is worth fighting for.
What do you think?
Rating: Bought the Shirt!
