POLITICAL CORRUPTION IS A NATIONWIDE ISSUE AFFECTING ALL OF US. ALABAMA RANKS #5 AS THE MOST CORRUPT STATE. *DOJ 2007 stats
Something is very wrong in the Land of Cotton


PERTINENT ENVIRONMENTAL AND CORRUPTION ISSUES IN OTHER STATES ARE ALSO DISCUSSED


NO OTHER COMMUNITY, RICH OR POOR, URBAN OR SUBURBAN,BLACK, BROWN,RED, YELLOW OR WHITE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BECOME AN "ENVIRONMENTAL SACRIFICE ZONE."

Dr. Robert Bullard
Environmental Justice Movement Founder

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Gone With The Wind On Mescaline--AKA Alabama Politics

"Gone with the Wind on Mescaline" is one of the most memorable lines from the Eastwood film based on John Berendt's book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." It's also an accurate descriptor of Alabama politics because the political system in Alabama doesn't make one lick of sense unless you are under the influence of psychedelics or off the hall without permission from Bryce Hospital. Actually, the original name for Bryce, the Alabama State Hospital for the Insane probably should be emblazoned above the entrance of the Alabama state house.

Here's the latest foray into the brown button haze;
"Hello this is Hank Sanders, Alabama state senator, and I'm still mad as hell. I say hell no! I ain't going back to the cotton fields of Jim Crow days. I'm going forward with Ron Sparks, Jim Folsom and others who will do right by all of us. I hope you are mad as hell and will not go back. You have the power to choose. I will stand until hell freezes over for Ron Sparks for governor and Jim Folsom for lieutenant governor on November the second." 
audio of robo call

In the South we're strangely proud of our crazies. We don't hide them away in some attic room and keep them out of sight of visitors like our Northern counterparts, nope, we bring them on out and set them up in the front parlor with unabashed pride because we don't think there is anything to be ashamed of and that they really are stark raving lunatics. They seem just mildly "off" to us.


But sometimes we vary our routine and instead of adding them to our front parlors we elect them to the Alabama legislature.

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3 comments:

  1. Seems like that's just the way it is in Alabama.

    We have crazy people in politics. And they really are crazy, too.

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  2. Love this!!!
    Sanders has lost what little mind he had. I am sure his intentions may have been, and I use the term loosely, good, but he really comes off looking like a nut. At least he has plenty of fellow nuts to keep him company in Montgomery.

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  3. And I always thought it was just the crappy water that caused the delusions. Pretty damn funny.

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