No, The American Public Cannot Make Anything They Want Legal or Illegal

Contrary to much crap being spewed about these days, we do not live on a nation where the majority can do whatever-the-hell we want whenever the mood strikes us. Yes, we hear people bellow “the American people have the power to decide about (fill in the blank here – gays, guns, gynecology, or another Flavor of The Month) and the Gummint and the Courts had better not get in our way”, but they are pretty often full of fertilizer.

Our nation’s laws are based upon a Constitution (as are those of the states), and any law that is enacted must, repeat must be in compliance with said Constitution. Period. End of friggin’ story.

Mr. Blunt and Cranky mentions this because he has noticed lots of confusion around the notion of who can make law, and what sorts of laws can be made. From Southern states trying to reintroduce Jim Crow, to Justice Roberts quaking with fear about public opinion on “gay marriage”, to various religious and political demagogues whipping the ignorant into frenzy after frenzy, these zeebs would have you believe that we can overturn or rewrite established precedent just with a loud shriek of our collective larynxes.

Nope, it doesn’t work that way. And thank God for such small mercies. People can’t just take a vote and then go put chains on black folk, or take away women’s rights to vote, or make it legal to barbecue illegal immigrants, or any of the other crazy-assed ideas one hears in the chaotic and nonsensical noise bomb that we call our national discourse. We cannot. do. that. s***.

So nut up, you “Justices” and Jurists; grow some, you “Distinguished Gentlemen and Gentlewomen” who are supposed to be running the country based on our votes and laws. And most importantly, we citizens have to pay attention, show some spine, and not let ourselves be jerked around by con artists and snake-oil salesmen peddling lies disguised as laws.

Mr. Blunt and Cranky

Stupid Sacks of S*** of The Week: Log Cabin “Republicans”

Mr.  Blunt and Cranky is changing it up a bit this week: talking about stupid people instead of liars. And the stupid s***s of the week are the oh-so-trusting gay Repubs called “Log Cabin Republicans”. These deluded fools actually think that the “Republican” party will someday, somehow, perhaps with pookie magic and and witch/warlock assistance, develop a tolerance for homosexual, lesbian, transgendered,  and bisexual citizens. Indeed, they are so out of touch with reality that they are actively working to elect Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, two people who really, really hate GLBT folk. A few samples:

“A Romney administration will protect traditional marriage and the rule of law and we will provide the Defense of Marriage Act the proper defense in the courts that it deserves.” (Paul Ryan, Focus on the Family, 10/2/12)

“The things you talk about, like traditional marriage and family and entrepreneurship, these aren’t values that are indicative to any one person or race or creed or color. These are American values, these are universal human values.” (Paul Ryan, Town Hall in Cincinnati, OH, 9/25/12)

Oh, and Romney? He spoke at the gay-hating Liberty University back in May.

Please, Log Cabin Repubs – pull your heads out of your arses and see the reality: these people will take your money and use it to take away every single civil and human right you have. And this writer will point at you and laugh when you bitch about it, because it’ll be partly your fault. Of course, he probably won’t have the opportunity: if there is any justice in this universe, the sensible, reality-based GLBT  community will rip the lot of you limb from limb for what you have helped do to them.

Mr. B & C