Where's An Invisible Sky Wizard When You Really Need One?

If you were hoping that Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear might put actual emergency responders and security experts in charge of ensuring the safety of the Commonwealth's citizens in case of disaster, you're shit outta luck.

Gov. Steve Beshear's administration plans to continue supporting a state law requiring the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to acknowledge "the dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth."

I think Stevie boy is failing to take full advantage of Kentucky's legally-mandated reliance on an invisible wizard in the sky.

Kentucky is facing a $457 million budget deficit for the fiscal year that ends in less than seven months. Closing that deficit is going to require one or more of three things:

• Enormous emergency tax increases that rapidly accelerate the very recession that is causing the deficit.
• Deep, severe cuts in state services that will close schools, hospitals, prisons and state police posts, thus rapidly accelerating the very recession that is causing the deficit.
• A huge gift of federal funds the federal government doesn't have from a new president who has every good reason to tell cowardly, racist Kentucky to go fuck itself.

But don't worry! Kentucky's security depends on Almighty God - the invisible sky wizard will fix it! Surely a windfall of $500 million is a snap for a wizard who can handle security for an entire state.

C'mon, Stevie boy: why wait for a disaster before getting that wizard to show his stuff? Make him put out now.

$500 million, your almightyness. By Friday. Or we'll have to start looking somewhere else for solutions to our problems.

Cross-posted at BlueGrassRoots.