Kentucky Congress

So, so sad tonight, feeling so beaten and disgusted. Cannot believe the legislature has passed a preemptive strike to keep the EPA out of the coalfields of Kentucky. The blindness of the people to the manipulation of the coal companies -- you just have to wonder how many of our senators and representatives are on their payrolls? All of a sudden federal intrusion into our state's workings is a big thing. It wasn't a big thing when the Health Care Reform Act was passed, even though it's already been warned that the Bill will bankrupt our state. We didn't raise hell about it. It wasn't a big thing when Beshear accepted stimulus money that other states with more integrity turned down, and neglected to acknowledge that stimulus money's impact when HE claimed HE had managed to balance the budget (first with imaginary gambling money, then the stimulus). We didn't raise hell about that. Now, though, when it comes to the production of the beloved coal dollar, the monkeys are hooting and hollering in their trees.

We are insane in our foolishness when we can't accept that we can burn our own garbage for fuel. We are insane in our shortsightedness when we can acknowledge we can produce, on our beautiful, now idle fields, plenty of bio fuel (not the corn that strips the soil, but more friendly crops like hemp and switch grass) and that we can cover our barns with solar panels. We are insane in our shortsightedness when we think it is okay to blow up some of the oldest mountains in the world for more Wal Marts. We are insane when we can't seem to see that the coal companies master mine this to keep all other industries out of the Appalachians and that the citizens of Appalachia are cutting their own necks. We are insane, and I'm just having a real hard time wrapping my mind around it tonight.