where is sane

If you are not scared or just thinking it is just an election year and this too shall pass...if you think this is much ado about nothing, or just pomp and circumstance...if you want to look the other way and not face the force of the wind ready to blow your house and life away...good luck...crazy does not have to happen if sane intercepts it before it goes haywire....

Proponents of Sen. Roy Blunt’s (R-MO) amendment to the Senate transportation bill , which would override President Obama's contraception coverage rule and allow any employer to refuse to cover any kind of health care service for religious or moral reasons, have framed the issue as one of religious freedom that is unrelated to women's health.

Now instead of worrying that the bureaucrats leading the Health Cartels want to save money not lives denying coverage we have to worry that CEO’s of our places of employments are not religious bigots, haters of minorities and more adept in saving the bottom line rather then lives.

And the savvy marketeers of anything anti women, anti free choice, anti American bundle this Blunt Amendment as being a champion for religious freedoms. But as loud as they speak about saving religion they quietly whisper that if there are moral reasons to deny coverage that is “hunky dory”. Moral reasons can be a numerous as the grains of sand on any beach.

This Blunt Amendment disguises itself as a save the Bible, save God (from whom), but is really a wolf in sheep’s clothing to deny women equality, respect and one more attempt to balance the budget at the expense of the employee.

A Virginia law limiting handgun purchases to one per month was repealed (A Virginia law that's been in place nearly 20 years is no more). Tuesday, over the opposition of gun control supporters and relatives of victims who survived the Virginia Tech massacre.

This week, the Virginia state Legislature passed a bill that would require women to have an ultrasound before they may have an abortion. Because the great majority of abortions occur during the first 12 weeks, that means most women will be forced to have a transvaginal procedure in which a probe is inserted into the vagina, and then moved around until an ultrasound image is produced.(Slate)

And in Virginia we are told by the self appointed Christian Crusaders that all they want is to maintain religious freedom and the holiest of the holy that Christianity proposes. Its not about women or their inability to think for themselves, it is about religion damn you so don’t get political on something so God like. And then the same Crusaders who quote chapter and verse of their Bible about the sanctity of life find the necessity to permit as many hand guns owned by any and all Virginians.

Bring the fetus to term no matter how it was created and then when it grows old enough have that fetus carry as many handguns needed to mow down some other fetus.

I am scared by the brazen attempt of the Right Wing Republican/Tea Party to once again provide enough wedge based issues into the the 2012 campaign. They were successful when George W. ran the first time by playing the homophobic wedge issues and for his second term we were worried about an Muslim terrorist under every blanket. There is little value or moral in this lie infested approach but when you hit the insecurities and and bigotries based on religious dogma and bias value doesn’t matter, just hate.

But I am more terrified of the people who thrive on the fear of anything unlike them. I am horrified by the Bible thumping citizens who never read the real words of that Holy Book but just pick out the thou shall hate parts. I am in fear of the folk who need no more than Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, or phony groups like the 700 Club, Focus on the Family to feed them the fire to light their already smoldering UnAmerican, UnConstitution animosity towards freedom and democracy.

Crazy is upon us. Scary, hurt you crazy! Where is sane when you need it, no when it becomes a matter of survival!