Thursday, March 21, 2019

circle of life


From the day we arrive on the planet and blinking, step into the sun
There's more to see than can ever be seen, more to do than can ever be done
It's the circle of life.  And it moves us all. Through despair and hope
Through faith and love. Till we find our place. On the path unwinding
In the circle. The circle of life (‘Circle of Life”/Tim Rice)

There are so many reasons to become irked, irritated, at times even trying to select five items to write about. Life in this nation has become mind-boggling. Hypocrisy, be it Christian ISIS Evangelical motivated/ Republican Russian interference motivated/FOX Propaganda related, or just the sheer arrogance of never including the welfare of the constituents when laws are either forced upon the citizens, or laws are ignored just for the convenience of a self-serving politician. There is this promotion of fear somehow that doing the right thing for the majority of people is socialism, while protecting a religious  bias, and basing government on the writings of a Bible, only preferred by a select group of citizens (that is Theocracy, as in many Muslim nations, for whom  the Christians in this nation find so offensive) is the truest interpretation of why America was founded! 

Matthew Griswold Bevin is an American businessman and politician serving as the 62nd Governor of Kentucky since 2015. This Christian zealot has no idea how the Circle of Life is constructed or the wondrous ways it actually works…In actuality, Governor Bevin is confused between playing God/becoming an Emperor/ indoctrinating his flock of Kentuckian citizens into his cultish beliefs, and has little to no respect for “…life liberty and the pursuit of happiness…” This Egomaniac, so typical of the new species of Christian Crusaders trying to create a revolution within this nation, has decided that abortion is bad, but once you are alive, it’s up to you to survive the best you can. Governor Bevin’s thinks it NOT socialism to demand a woman relinquish all rights to her body, but once the baby takes its first breath outside the womb, it becomes socialism to expect any assistance from the government.

The governor signed into law a fetal “heartbeat” law that would have banned abortions six weeks into pregnancy.
Judge David Hale from the Western District of Kentucky ruled that the law was potentially unconstitutional and delayed its implementation for at least 14 days until a hearing can be held.
The law, one of the strictest pieces of anti-abortion legislation in the country, bans the procedure after a fetal heartbeat is detected. The ACLU filed an additional lawsuit over that measure, arguing that many women don’t even know they are pregnant by six weeks into their pregnancy.

Why is anyone surprised that a guy who thinks it’s OKfor kids to stand outside waiting for buses in wind chill temperatures that are 20 degrees below zero also is an anti-vaxxer who'd rather send his kids to the chickenpox party than get a safe and effective shot in the arm? It's even sadder that he would risk his nine children's lives to indulge whatever he was indulging — his mistrust of science, his disdain for the government or a mixed-up belief that using the vaccine would somehow show support for abortion. A lawsuit that challenges Gov. Matt Bevin's Medicaid overhaul says the plan would cause "irreparable harm to the poorest and most vulnerable" Kentuckians by imposing work requirements and other changes on some enrollees. 
Acting on behalf of 16 Kentuckians they say would suffer direct harm, health advocacy lawyers returned to federal court in Washington, D.C., asking a judge to strike down Bevin's plan for a second and final time.
More than 10,000 low-income Kentucky adults were removed from a federal program that helps them buy food after they failed to comply with newly reinstated rules requiring them to either get a job or do volunteer work to keep their benefits. Some eastern Kentucky counties hit hard by the declining coal industry, have always had a waiver. And following the Great Recession in 2008, the entire state was exempted from the rules, known as work requirements. (Courier-Journal) The stupid, the grandiose, the hypocrisy, the complete disregard for the Constitution have become endless…when will it end…or worse how will it end?