Posts Tagged ‘kentucky’

Honoring Ronald Reagan

February 6th, 2013 | No Comments

Source: rightwingthinking.info via Robert on Pinterest   On Ronald Reagan’s birthday, let it be known 40 states choose to recognize his birthday.  It’s not a holiday or anything.  It’s just a note that someone very important to this country was born on this date.  Eight states choose to intentionally ignore his birthday.  It’s kind of [...]

Forbes Takers vs Makers

November 29th, 2012 | No Comments

Forbes Magazine just ran a rather awesome, if not damning, article.  I loved it.  It listed the states where there are more “takers” vs “makers”.  And, it very quickly condemned those states, as well as advising anyone investing to steer clear of those states. One of them, being my own.  They chide those states for [...]

Stupid laws – The Elephant ride ban

November 30th, 2011 | No Comments

OK, this is where this all started: A hearing was held at the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife in Frankfort on whether or not new regulations should be passed allowing elephant rides in the Commonwealth.  Both sides spoke at Tuesday’s hearing on the proposed regulation change that would allow elephant rides as part of a circus [...]

Stomping on moveon.org

October 27th, 2010 | 1 Comment

A lot has been made of the video where a woman gets her head stomped on at a Rand Paul/Jack Conway debate. A lot.  Before rushing to judgment, and before making incendiary comments in my presence, take into consideration some facts first. Her original story was she was simply handing Rand Paul an employee of [...]

Where to try the terrorists

January 31st, 2010 | No Comments

Barack Obama, when campaigning, promised he’d try international terrorists in civilian courts.  Holding up to that promise, he decided it should be downtown New York City.  You know, that place with something like 10,000,000 people living within the federal courthouse.  To be blunt, that’s just stupid.  It was the fact a terrorist was going to [...]

Swine Flu’s not contagious enough

December 11th, 2009 | 4 Comments

I work with a program that provides services to indigent elderly in Kentucky.  Mostly in rural Kentucky.  Now, by nature, indigent elderly are not the healthiest population.  As such, we’ve been very prone to being exposed to every infectious disease known to man.  You name it, we deal with it.  AIDS, flus, TB.  If a [...]

Health Care reform and program funding cuts

November 18th, 2009 | No Comments

I’m dealing with this right now: Most state agencies could face additional 6 percent budget cuts to help offset a projected $161 million revenue shortfall. Kerri Richardson, spokeswoman for Gov. Steve Beshear, said the administration is now gathering information on the potential impacts of the budget cuts. State Budget Director Mary Lassiter sent letters to [...]

Pat Quinn and the SEIU

November 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Rod Blagojevich, among other things, was accused of pay to play with SEIU.  He got ran out of the governor’s office. On September 14, 2009, Pat Quinn released this video: Quinn immediately signed an executive order allowing collective bargaining for in-home workers. Most of these workers are family who live in the home in the [...]

Economy, federal rules challenge Kentucky banks

October 28th, 2009 | No Comments

I get the newsletter from the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission.  It’s full of all kinds of neat stuff that doesn’t make the news a whole lot.  In fact, more often than not I have to just paste the text in here because no media feels like fooling with it.  So far, this has been the [...]

The Kentucky Poverty Task Force

September 22nd, 2009 | 2 Comments

I read a lot.  I work in social services.  I also live in the poorest Congressional District in the United States which is in one of the poorest states in the nation.  So, needless to say, I’ve seen poverty and deal with it rather regularly.  So, I took particular interest when I received this newsletter: [...]