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(Fancy Farm KY, August 4, 2012) – The great majority of the content of the speeches at the 132nd Fancy Farm Picnic can be summed in four words: “They bad. We good.”

With the exception of Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes whose speech was so red meat free that even the most vociferous hecklers made only half hearted efforts and local candidates who took their first appearance at the political stump speak to introduce themselves, the other speeches shed little light on what is going on in Frankfort and Washington. 

(Mayfield KY, August 2, 2012) - Graves County Schools teachers, staff, administrators, school board members and guests were treated to musical and reading presentations by students and encouragement from Ed Massey, a Kentuckian who will soon take the reins of a National School Boards Association, during a back to school program at Graves County High School gymnasium on this Friday morning.

(Fancy Farm, KY. August 4, 2012) -Speeding along a two lane country back road, past large fields of burnt corn and soybeans, an aging school bus with fading yellow paint flaking off races past by a solitary figure.

A tall man, hands crossed before him, dressed in a black suit with a thin 1950’s style black tie, he watches sadly as the school bus, letters down its side spelling out “Kentucky’s Future”, careens down the old blacktop highway.

With eyes that have traveled up and down the river of time, the lone figure comments slowly on the scene unfolding before him.

“Somewhere in the realm of reality, at a crossroads of common sense and ignorance, a busload of leaders struggle to define their past, present, and future. Each individual on the bus is but a tragic figure in an ancient battle over the control of history. Each of these individuals has a part to play, out on a stage of illusion and power, where reality is always for sale.”

...Extreme weather is rapidly becoming a major force which is reshaping our lives in this early period of the 21st Century. And yet, many in our public leadership positions or in academic centers seem incapable of responding to these events.

With the American economy down and looking worse each year, can we as a civilization pretend “all is calm” when in fact strong forces of nature are moving to rearrange wind, rain, water, and heat patterns?

The time is past on the debate of climate change. We are now living it. Do we have time to correct the problems or can we move fast enough to learn new patterns of adaption and co-existence between man and nature?

(August 3, 2012) - The 2012 drought and heat storm has inflicted over $1 billion dollars in damages on two million acres planted in 26 counties of far Western Kentucky. A vast region stretching from Owensboro, down through the Green River country over to the lakes and down to the Mississippi river are the fertile gems of West Kentucky agriculture...

...In good times, this part of Kentucky is flush with bumper crops of corn, soybean, winter wheat, and hay. Now after 11 weeks of blistering 100 degree plus heat has reduced this area to a economic disaster zone...

To see a breakdown by crop and livestock follow the jump..