keeping "cracker" in cracker barrel, jailing the sick, and catholicism's selective humanity...

a running joke in the crowd I run with involves a rather amusing mental image of younger versions of myself locked arm and arm within a giant blastic yellow cylinder with an etching on the side..."cracker barrel"...just like the old fashioned barrel of monkeys, only with crackers. turns out the good folks at cracker barrel corporate had much the same idea...making it an apparent corporate policy to hate black folk. it's one thing to take "Denny's" and make it a racist pit, but to be so brazen as to actually call your racist establishment "cracker barrel"...well, you would think the feds would have noticed the problem a little sooner. seems the good folks at cracker barrel didn't really want to serve black folk (although it seems the crackers would pawn off black customers on the rare black employee), or have them browse their store, and god forbid they touched anything. the barrel-o-crackers ran into some trouble with the reds...and still has a plethora of suits out there...and I imagine with the disasterous tuesday the Republican Party had recently cracker barrel celebrations were put on hold. with that in mind...go to grab yourself some Denny's.

Jeb Bush's boys got a little jealous of George W. Bush's boys in thumbing their nose at court orders (how nice would it be if normal people could just tell the courts to go fuck themselves? must be nice to be insanely rich and born into the military-industrial-intelligence complex)...so they are telling the courts in Florida to fuck themselves. well, maybe not the courts to fuck themselves, but they are saying that the mentally ill being held in prison unlawfully can fuck themselves (or do anything else to themselves apparently...as long as it doesn't include getting treatment...and if they want help hurting themselves or dying, well the authorities are all over that). so now, keeping with the trend created by the Republican surge in the 1980's and "personal responsibility" at all expense (especially if your mind has no concept of reality), they are having folks that are incompetent to stand trial waste away in prison without any treatment for their mental illness. and yes, you may be thinking "who cares...they are melingering anyhow"...but then you obviously have no concept of just how incredibly insane you need to be to be found incompetent to stand trial (especially in a state run by a Bush)...trust me, these people are crazy with a capital crazy. (side note - these brilliant folks put the suicidal ones in tiny cells with no access to human interaction and only let them out to shower...because that will help a suicidal person with mental issues). but maybe they are right...I mean, it seems apparent we don't give two shits about domestic law and little "technicalities" like, oh, the bill of rights. and just like if you aren't a terrorist you have nothing to worry about with the demise of your rights and torture, if you aren't crazy you have nothing to worry about with the demise of your rights.

it has gotten so bad that Florida officials are going to find themselves in jail on contempt soon (remember, like Judith Miller who wouldn't talk...at least she wasn't illegally jailing people) and the state is being fined in a big way. that sibling rivalry used to be cute until it became a contest to see which Bush brother's government could abuse the constitution and laws they "execute" more while signing the most death warrants and wasting tax payer money.

the Catholic Church in this country had this brilliant idea on "dealing" with homosexuals...you can be gay, just don't be gay. see...there is nothing wrong with being gay...only with being gay. but then I guess that is in line with the ten commandments and not coveting your neighbors wife...so as long as I covet him rather than his wife I am good...as long as I don't go so far as to commit adultery with him. guess lesbians are just fucked.

the Catholic Church did get something right though...the proposed and approved wall on the southern border is an un-American, immoral abomination. cardinal renato martino put it best when he stated simply "I must unfortunately say that in a world that greeted the fall of the berlin wall with joy, new walls are beign built between neighborhood and neighborhood, city and city, nation and nation..." so while Reagan stood there and yelled at Gorbachev (who, oddly enough was way the fuck ahead of the curve) to "tear down this wall!" his party has now responded by yelling to the world "put this wall up!" but then what do you expect from the folks that live in gated communities who ignore certain exits and "those" neighborhoods while on their way to a nice meal at the cracker barrel.

and here I thought I remembered something about all being equal and entitled to certain inalienable rights...must be that failed liberal education I got in the public schools overrun with drug-crazed hippies.

I got pulled over in west texas so they could look inside my car...he said "are you an american citizen"...I said "yes sir...so far." they made sure I wasn't smuggling someone in from mexico...someone willing to settle for America cause there was nowhere else to go...