30 day sentence to Facebook Jail (Again)

I have good news and bad news.  The good news is that I may be publishing more on this blog for a while.  I usually post all my best work on Facebook because the posts are so mutable and interactive.  People seldom if ever send us a comment and readership actually comes from the few people who visit this blog when they see another blog post announced on the Brownsville Station Facebook page but very few.  With the exception of the late great Diego Garcia III of the Brownsville Beacon who could express himself much better than I can, no other Brownsville bloggers acknowledge this page exists which is fair - I do my own thing separate from them.

To "them" blogging means reporting news that the local Herald refuses to - truth or half-truth or complete hidden truth. So the ignorant people who are new to the term "blog" think it is all about criticizing our corrupt city.  In truth, that is what it has come to mean locally.

Diego bought some respectability and dignity to blogging in Brownsville.  That is, he didn't exaggerate the truth or misrepresent the issues of the times or shock his audience with outrageous headlines, pornography or bore his readers to death.  I am not mentioning names, just stating a perception I get from looking at the other blogs.  I do enjoy Rrun Rrun for some of the entertaining comments but not he trolls who make the readership appear to be the same complete morons who live to hate on Trump, Biden, city officials, each other or me.  Yes- I have anonymous haters in this small town and no - I do not care.

Bronsbil Estacion does not try to sell you anything or advertise or shamelessly self promote itself.  If people enjoy something they find here they share it.  That is how this blog gets "hits" -- each number of readers per day.  The posts here are not about current events so f I post a historical brief it can be shared years later for someone to enjoy reading about the past for the first time.

I have a few blog posts I have been working on but never seem to complete or "find" all the pieces I need to complete them.  Now I have some time hopefully to do that which brings me to the bad news.  

I was suspended from my Facebook account for making a bad joke about a post I shared from Valley Central about tacos and Brownsville being ranked #65 (below) McAllen which was ranked #42.  Wait, the real shock is that Austin was in the top 5!  

Here is the original post with headlines at bottom which link to Valley Central website

I was almost immediately notified.  I think they have "bots" that detect these words or offensive phrases but it is probably some type of little lily liberal pricks who are all up in people's shizz waiting to stick it to them as soon as they slip-up or in my case, make a bad joke.  I mean really, do they think I am serious??

My past offense was for giving a lady bad advice on how to get rid of predator birds (hawks to be exact) by using a slingshot to scare them away.  I mean really, she would have missed!  But no, that was on June 30th and I got suspended for 30  days.  On April 19th some racist asshat was offended about a post I made that put Uhura (you know, Nichelle Nichols from Star Trek) on a pedestal.  Basically, it was a joke that stated the Enterprise would be nowhere without her.  So this guy made some remark about wanting to know how she was more important than Kirk - Spock and McCoy.  I replied because "women were smarter than men."  That got me a hate speech ban.  Yes the guy was being racist.   He was posting photos of Yeoman Rand (blond blue-eyed) on my post because I had included a photo of "Hispanic" actress BarBara Luna from the famous episode, "Mirror, Mirror."  The guy just took offense at my acknowledgement of minority women on the show.  His page had pro-Trump garbage and Confederate flags so don't argue with me.  Almost done here....

Yes - Facebook is really Facistbook.  Free speech is not free,  I stated years ago on Brownsville Station it would come to this.  Hate to say I told you so.  Stay tuned for more posts and don't be a brown crab - share our posts with your friends.  The good stuff - not this diatribe.