A Whirled Yarn

It's b-a-c-k!!!!

This is a lovely picture of the belching coal towers of the Jeffery Energy Center that both pollute my air and power my home...

Yes, I am back to the whole coal-fired power plant thing.  Our, thankfully enlightened, goddess of a governor continues to veto all the stupid legislature's stupid legislation.  However, last night the house just missed over-riding the veto by four votes!  FOUR!  So please, stop by here, and use the handy form to send those four legislators an email congratulating them on their good judgment and encourage them to stand strong.  So what if your not from Kansas?  If our state wins against big business coal, your's has a better chance too.  While you're at it you can remind your Kansas legislator what an idiot they are ...if they're not one of the good guys. 

Come on, we can win...and won't that feel awesome... It's like the power of the people, man!  Make love not war!

Peace.

The grass may be dead...

But the roots still live! (Grassroots?...get it? heh,heh,heh...ya, well...)  Fueled by Chai tea and 85% cocoa extra dark chocolate (and believe me I have a serious buzz), I have been scrounging the back alleys of the Internet all morning, reading more (and more, and more) about the Kansas coal fired power plant proposal.   Along the way I found a very interesting and alarming fact ..."Less than half the Kansas State Legislature has a college education".  And we are supposed to trust they have any clue what they are doing?  Why is being as dumb as the rest of us supposed to be an admirable quality in a political figure?  I kinda would prefer they were smart and could think for themselves.   But I'm funny that way...

Anyhoo, I got an email response from Senator Pyle in which he said:

"Don't you worry your sweet head little darlin', we need coal fired plants in order to provide energy to build those nice wind thingamagingys all you nutty, silly, crunchymommas want in the future. "

Okay, so I may have paraphrased...a little.  I wrote back:

"But Senator Pyle, why then will we be sending 3/4 of the power to Colorado and Texas?"

And I got back:

"Don't you worry your sweet head little darlin', we need coal fired plants in order to provide energy to build those nice wind thingamagingys all you nutty, silly, crunchymommas want in the future. "

So then I asked:

"But Senator Pyle, why would you remove power companies from any CO2 regulations, setting up our state as a mecca for coal power plants that the other states don't want?  Are our children's lungs somehow more expendable than those of children in other states?"

And I got back:

"Don't you worry your sweet head little darlin', we need coal fired plants in order to provide energy to build those nice wind thingamagingys all you nutty, silly, crunchymommas want in the future. "

And then I wrote:

"But Senator Pyle, why are you destroying our beautiful state and endangering the health of children for a measly 200 hundred possible jobs? (and why are you taking our Christmas tree, Santy Clause, why!...sorry, we may have watched the Grinch a few too many times this season...)"

And I got back...well for gosh sakes, you can guess by now.

Do you think he is not taking me very seriously,...hmmm...

Let's show him that, although we may be just sweet little darlins' in his opinion, we vote and we count.  Let's fill their inboxes until they remember that we elect them to their office, not the coal companies. 

Hey, and if your not from Kansas, you can fill their inboxes too.  Why not, give them something to think about...heh, heh, heh,...ya, well...

Find your legislators at http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-legisportal/redistricting.do or call the toll free Kansas Legislative Hotline (doesn't that sound so important! Hotline...) at  1-800-432-3924.  The person at the end of this number is extremely nice and will answer all your questions... even if you forget to ask them all the first four times you call...

And for those of you who are bored with my political activism and want to get back to things like pictures of my manure pile...(hmmm, pile...Pyle...I'm not going to say it)...I close with a gratuitous cows on the frozen prairie picture.

Enjoy, little darlins'...

Are you a mother in Kansas?

  For some reason Typepad insists on removing my paragraphs, so sorry!!

I am (and I've got the goofy picture to prove it! By the way, the Absentminded Prof put Sam's hat on backwards, not me.)!

My family and I work  hard at recycling, keeping our heat down and turning off our lights to help the environment  But our state legislature is doing exactly the opposite.  Both Senator Pyle and Representative Carlson of Pottawatomie County voted to allow the creation of new coal fired plants in Kansas with little to no pollution guidelines.  Only a small portion of the proposed coal plants would supply Kansas with power, the rest will be sent to other states.  However, all the pollution, cancers and other health problems will be left here for the people of Kansas.  Does this sound like good common sense?   The current legislation promoted by Pyle and Carlson would make is very easy and even encourage companies to build even more coal fired plants in our state and send the power elsewhere.   We will become the air pollution dump of the Heartland!  How can people who were elected to serve the best interests of the people of Kansas give in so readily to the demands of big business?

Please let your opinion be known to your elected officials!  If you live in Pott or most of Wabaunsee your representative is Richard Carlson, carlson@house.state.ks.us , 785-296-7641.  Your senator for Pott (also Brown, Jackson, Atchison and Doniphan) is Dennis Pyle, pyle@senate.state.ks.us , 785-296-7379 (bizarrely enough he is on the Natural Resource Committee, obviously not doing a very good job).  If you live somewhere else, you can call the Kansas legislative hotline (1-800-432-3924) for help in finding your legislator and to ask how they voted.  Or you can get an email address by going to www.kslegislature.org, clicking on the link for House or Senate, then clicking on the link for Find Your Legislator.  Both methods are very easy and don't take very much time. Giving your representative your very important opinion is the only way we have to stand up for our family's health and our beautiful, clear blue, Kansas skies.

Please feel free to copy this post and send it to all you know in Kansas.  This is my one women/mother stand against poor judgment!  Please join me and show our legislature we care about this issue and that we refuse to be pushed around by the big businesses who want to destroy our state and our health to line their pockets!  We are Moms and we rock Kansas!!!

If someone wants an emailable copy, just let me know and I will send you one!