State Needs Money? Tear Up the Parks!

Never underestimate the ability of the Kentucky General Assembly to outdo its own record-breakingly stupid legislation and find a way to make a bad economic situation worse.

Drilling for oil and gas on state-owned lands — including state parks — could become common under a proposal making its way through the legislature.

Senate Bill 138 would allow the state’s Finance and Administration Cabinet to lease oil and gas rights for state property, including the state’s public universities and parks.

Where to start? Kentucky's endangered natural beauty is virtually its only remaining asset. Our State Parks and the protected lands owned by our land-grant universities are nationally-known treasures. The more popular resort parks actually turn a profit, which is more than the Cabinet for Economic Development can say.

So naturally Kentucky's legislators think it's a stroke of genius to destroy that revenue-producing treasure with bulldozers and monster draglines and giant oil derricks that will never produce a dime in revenue.

But what else do you expect from the bunch of wingnut freakazoids, spineless DINOs and cowardly repug-fellators who are also well on the way to approving;

Senate Bill 79, requiring doctors to rape women seeking an abortion by jamming a camera up their vaginas and then forcing them to watch the results.

Senate Bill 68, which condemns thousands of abused and neglected Kentucky children to life in the streets instead of in loving foster or adoptive homes with unmarried individuals or couples.

What more evidence do we need that these 138 hateful, vicious, inhuman motherfuckers - and yes, I'm looking at you, supposed "Democrats" - are a clear and present danger to the safety, general welfare and prosperity of four million Kentuckians?