Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 04/24/18 > Half staff and soup of the day…

I happened to pass by our church on Sunday afternoon and at the east end of the building are three good size flag poles. Our church flies the American flag, the Texas flag, and another flag that has to do with the church itself. All the flags were at half staff, which the flags should not have been at.

I’ve gone over this before in one of my daily dose columns about lowering the flag to half staff. The fact is I used that column to try and help all those people who are trying to oust President Trump from office, but I guess they weren’t paying attention to me.

Well, everything I said and pointed out in that daily dose still holds true today, except now those people can add a second charge against the Donald J. if they choose too. Lowering the flag to honor the memory of Barbara Bush is not authorized by the flag code but that isn’t the subject for today’s column. It did however spark a thought that would become the spark that lit today’s fire.

Years ago in the United States during the time of the great depression it was a pretty common thing in cities around the country for soup kitchens to pop up and serve soup to those who couldn’t afford food. I wasn’t alive back then so everything I know about soup kitchens comes from things I have read or from the stories my parents had told me growing up. My mother was in her early teens back then and my father was in his late teens when soup kitchens were popular.

It struck me on Sunday that the constitution of the United States of America has been treated just like the soup cooked in the big pots in those old soup kitchens from way back when. I know, “how in the hell can you come up with that?”, I can because I actually think about things.

Back in the soup kitchen days they used the biggest pots the kitchens could come up with to cook the soup. There were serving lines at the soup kitchens and the people who ran the kitchens tried to make sure that everyone who was in line for soup got a least a cup or maybe even a bowl of soup. Sometimes the lines for the soup extended well down the sidewalks of the block that the soup kitchen was located in from pictures I’ve seen. It was a very common occurrence that someone from the kitchen would walk the line during serving time and take count of how many people were in line, the reason was to try and calculate if there was going to be enough soup for the demand that day. That person would then go back to the kitchen and they would do some mathematics, some days they would have enough and nothing would need to be done but continue to serve soup.

Other days when the line had more people than the soup that had been made would feed, the folks in the kitchen would start adding ingredients to the soup pots to try and increase the amount of soup on hand for that day; the most common ingredient added was water. If you happened to be in a long line on a heavy demand day and were at the end of the line you might not have gotten anything or what you got was a warm bowl or cup of water with the hint of the taste of soup. The kitchen folks just tried to keep everyone happy and fed.

Our constitution has in a way become the soup for the country in that when it first was created it was full of the ingredients needed at the time to be a robust soup. The people running the kitchen, our founding fathers, made sure to measure each ingredient and made sure that just the right ingredients were used in the recipe. They even wrote the exact recipe down at signed it with their signatures.

It seems though that over the course of the last couple hundred plus years the people in the kitchen have decided to change the recipe. The soup that was once robust and flavorful has been changed to the point it no longer tastes anything like the original soup being served back in 1776. If the founding fathers had a taste of today’s soup I would almost bet they would spit it out as soon as they got a taste of it and ask, “WTF is this?”

The more this country has grown the more the recipe has changed, now it seems that a bunch of little groups of people have finagled their way to get the seasoning they want added to soup, and each time they do the people in the kitchen not only add the seasoning, they add more damn water too.

I’m not saying that the original soup was the best recipe, but it sure as hell would have tasted like soup. What we have now is very suspect as for what the ingredients actually are; and the board that over sees the kitchen, that would be the supreme court of soup, is always jacking with the recipe and the kitchen help. You can’t even trust the vegetables in the soup now days because the people who grew real vegetables were foreclosed on and now we have the corporate farmers who came up with these GMO veggies.

Did you know that GMO was originally GMOKP? You didn’t know that? It sure as hell was, but they had to change it up in order to get people to accept it, Good Method Of Killing People(GMOKP) just wasn’t right to label their produce with and get people to eat them. So they opted for a less truthful but still accurate name in Genetically Modified Organism(GMO).

I may be old, you could even call me old fashioned if you like, but people like me are going to be hard to find in the future. People won’t make it too “old” eating GMO, laugh all you want at me, while your kids are coming down with more illnesses than you can shake a stick at. I’ll save that for another daily dose.

Right now I could go for a bowl of 1776 soup made with real vegetables, how about you?

Until next time,
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