This was one crazy muhfuckin' day

[celticape]

So I got up at about 6:30 and then slept until 6:50. Then I got up for real and got ready and rode my bike to meet this guy with KFTC (Kentuckians for the Commonwealth) and we go to Frankfort. See, the whole deal going on is that Louisville has tighter restrictions on air quality now because it sucks so horribly. Valleys and industry and cars make Louisville the land of why can't I breathe, the worst in the Southeast to be exact. So, Senator Seum (from my district!) is all like "My buddies at Ford and some other big compaines and their unions don't like this. As a matter of fact, if they have to clean up, we're gonna lose JOBS!" So he's trying to make it so that nobody can enact stronger regulations for themselves than the state allows for everyone. It came up for a committee vote today and the chair said that they had to delay the vote because a senator who wanted to vote wasn't there because he was held up in court because he's a lawyer. Everybody leaves (and I got interviewed on TV and radio! Holla!) and we go up to this disabled people rally to watch...and the senator was there. Yeah, then we ate lunch and I decided that I wanted to meet this Seum fellow since he apparently represents me when I'm in Louisivlle. One of the KFTC organizers and I go up to his office and he comes out after this interview and greets me all nice and brings me back into his office. We act all nice for a few minutes getting to know that we're both from the same area (we better be). And then the debate on this bill of his starts. He tells me that he can't let "his Ford" be at a disadvantage to other carmakers who don't have these rules and that they'll cut 9000 jobs if they have to meet the new regulations, they already said they're going to go to Mexico. I mention the respiratory trouble in my family and he asks if he should sacrifice all those jobs because of my asthma and I tell him no, but he should consider the 100,000 that could develop respiratory trouble in the toxic environment. I tell him about how the pollution is already bad enough because of the valley and how everything settles in here and he counters that 90% of that is from out of the area. I tell him that the 10% from within needs to be reduced and he said "no". We do a little more back and forth until I mention that fact of Louisville being the worst polluted city in the region. He goes "BULLSHIT!!! YOU MADE THAT UP!" (yes, with the help of the EPA) and he slams his hand on the table and says "it's time to leave" and directs us out. As he's going down the hall I thank him for "representing" us and he tells me to get lost. Now I've met my man in Frankfort. After that we go and tell the other people about it and we joke about it on the way back.

Then I had a few things for work and then went to a convo where Czech people played orchestra music on instuments. Then I came back for House Council and then went over to study German (or listen to a guy ghettoize pizza)

I just wanted to put that all up there for posterity. If you read it all, high-five.

"That's doodoo baby!"