Earth Day? How ’bout a Sane Day?

Earth Day really isn’t really about saving the planet so much as saving its inhabitants.

The planet will survive – it may be a dead rock – but it will survive.

It’s the people and animals and plants we have to worry about. And we especially have to worry about the people…’cause it appears half of ‘em are crazy.

Maybe it’s Earth Day. Maybe it’s all this talk about, maybe, soon, perhaps throttlin’ Wall Street down a notch or two.

But we got a bunch of crazy folks runnin’ ‘round, it appears, and they’re bringin’ with ‘em the politics of crazytown.

Take the Arizona Legislature – please.

These yahoos passed a law requiring police to check every brown skinned person to make sure they’re legal in the USofA. No proof of documentation? In the hooskow you go and back to Mexico. Native-born Arizonan? Forgot your driver’s license? In the hooskow you go…and back to Mexico, from which you did not come in the first place.

Needless to say, sane people are urging Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to veto the bill.

Then there’s the Virginia yahoo who painted up his Ford F-10 pick ‘em up truck with nice art and slogan reading, “Everything I need to know about Islam I learned on 9/ll.”

Nice…and he coupled that with a coded white supremacist license: 14CV88. The tag, we’re told by soothsayers and code breakers, can be interrupted thusly: 14 translates into 14 words: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” The letters, CV, stand for Confederate Veteran, which would be quite a trick. The double 8 signifies the 8^th letter of the alphabet, H, and doubled means: Heil Hitler.

Whatever…it’s just plain crazy.

But don’t it’s only redneck crazies who go after the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. Nope, it’s mainstream crazies, too.

Poor Franklin Graham, son of long-time TeeVee evangelist and celebrity prayer Billy Graham, found himself kicked out of the Pentagon Prayer Breakfast because he said some crazy things about the world’s most popular faith.

“True Islam cannot be practiced in this country,” Graham said in December to CNN. “You can’t beat your wife. You cannot murder your children if you think they’ve committed adultery or something like that, which they do practice in these other countries.”

Whew! And while we’re at it, shouldn’t we be askin’ the Pentagon, if they’re prayin’, to be prayin’ that all wars should cease and we beat swords into plowshares? Just askin’.

But Islam is not without its crazies, too. A Muslim website in New York vowed revenge on South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone after they showed the Prophet all dressed up like a stuffed bear…on their cartoon show. Website doods, lighten up. Don’t even think about killin’ Kenny.

Then there’s the anti-immigration leader who the other day asked South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham to come out of the closet and admit his homosexuality. Maybe he wants a date, I dunno. But maybe, someday, we’re gonna stop being crazy and thinkin’ there’s something wrong with being gay – maybe.

Finally, we don’t want to forget about the Republican Party of Florida, which is now being investigated by the FBI and the IRS for allegations it may have used the contributions provided by decent, upstanding Republican contributors to party on, Garth.

Included in the probe are allegations teabag darlin’ and senatorial candidate Marco…Polo…Rubio used a party-owned American Express card and spent $100,000 on good times while speaker of the Florida House of Representatives.

Maybe we don’t need Earth Day to save us. Maybe we need Sane Day.

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