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June 30 - Because he's good enough, smart enough, and doggoneit, people like him.

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June 29 - Just a little fun update on Cap'n Randy Neugebauer that you might enjoy.
     According to his most recent financial disclosure report (page 13), Randy is a member of Empowerment Enterprises, LLC, a Texas LLC, which owns a watercraft worth between $500,000 and $1 million and which generated between $1,000 and $2,500 in rental income in 2008.
     But, even more fun?  The name of his yacht ... prepare yourself ... is ... Fun Raiser.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Certificate Status:

VALID

Certificate Issue Date:

10/12/2008

Certificate Expiration Date:

10/31/2009

Hailing Port:

LUBBOCK

Hailing Port Address:

TX

Vessel Name:

FUN RAISER

Vessel Official Number:

1216213

Trade License Type:

RECREATION

Vessel Service Type:

RECREATIONAL

      Just a tad too clever, don't ya think?

     And now that we have identified what yacht Randy owns, we can get pictures ---

     and the interior ain't shabby either ---

 

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June 29 - Damn, Oklahoma State Republican Sally Kern has uncovered our secret plot to destroy the economy and she's .... fighting back with a well-armed resolution!

In Rep. Sally Kern's Proclamation for Morality she blames the nation's current economic and other problems on gays, abortion, divorce, and all around lack of Christian faith.

WHEREAS, the people of Oklahoma have a strong tradition of reliance upon the Creator of the Universe; and

WHEREAS, we believe our economic woes are consequences of our greater national moral crisis; and

WHEREAS, this nation has become a world leader in promoting abortion, pornography, same sex marriage, sex trafficking, divorce, illegitimate births, child abuse, and many other forms of debauchery; and

WHEREAS, alarmed that the Government of the United States of America is forsaking the rich Christian heritage upon which this nation was built; and

WHEREAS, grieved that the Office of the president of these United States has refused to uphold the long held tradition of past presidents in giving recognition to our National Day of Prayer; and

.... Oh Lord, it goes on and on ....

     So if you guys would just quit debaucherying around, God would feed little hungry children again.  But because you're misbehaving, God is punishing that little old lady down the street who never hurt a flea but now can't afford her medicine because the economy went to the pits because .... well, you know who you are, Mr. and Ms. Lack of Christian Faith.  
     And, if that doesn't scare you enough to quit your philandering ways, Sally bills herself as a Kernservative with Kerncerns. 
     Personally, that alone scares the poop outta me.

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June 29 - I love the Bluejays.  I do.  Many good folks live in Needville, but it has become increasingly obvious that the Needville Independent School District has waaaaay too much money.

Six months after a federal judge ruled they violated the constitutional rights of a kindergarten student for not letting him wear his hair according to his Native American religious beliefs, Needville Independent School District officials have appealed the ruling before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

In a recently filed appeal brief, Needville ISD’s attorney said the judge’s ruling “hijacked” the district’s authority to “regulate its population.”

The decision by the district marks the latest move in a nearly year-long dispute pitting the district and its strict student dress code against a 5-year-old boy who wishes to wear his hair long as an expression of his American Indian heritage.

     Outside of paying for this silly fight using little children's education money, the school board should also be ashamed of themselves for being control freaks.  "Regulating population" sounds like something they do in Iran, not the United States of America. 
     If you need to regulate the population, then you're not leading very darn well.

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June 28 - Some of you have been following, with no small amount of glee I might add, the story of West Texas Republican Congressman Randy Neugebauer and his yacht.
     It seems that Randy wanted to use his campaign funds to cover the cost of his 52 foot yacht.  Now, this gets funnier when you realize that there no bodies of water in Randy's district that would hold a 52 foot anything, and the thought of parading that sucker around on a tow is just too weird to imagine.
     No, Randy keeps his yacht in waters of the evil place - DeeCee. 
     Well, there's a ruling ---

Lubbock's congressman must pay himself to use a personal yacht for campaign events, federal elections regulators have ruled.

The ruling allows U.S. Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Lubbock, to legally use the boat for campaign events under certain conditions and look into chartering the 52-foot yacht to others for the same use.

     Randy's done gone into the yacht renting bidness, y'all!
     If you have some spare time, you'll enjoy reading the comments after the article in the Lubbock newspaper, with the liberals wondering why a guy who was almost bankrupt can suddenly afford  a yacht on a government salary, and the conservatives hollering that the liberals just have yacht-envy. 

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June 27 - My friend Robin thinks it might have something to do with global warming.
     My theory -- and the cool thing about theories is that they don't have to be correct -- is what I call Susan's Third Law of Uptight:  there are universal limits to the amount of uptight a person can contain.  When those limits are exceeded, they go to the Safeway wearing nothing but a Davy Crockett cap and a grin.
     Another Republican exceeds the limit ---

Naked time got a little too public for a former Georgia mayor.

Authorities arrested Mark Musselwhite and charged him with public indecency last weekend after state Department of Natural Resources officers found him sitting nude at his Rabun County campsite.

Officers had received a complaint about a naked man walking along a nearby road earlier in the day, but the 43-year-old Musselwhite said he was not the same man. Musselwhite told the DNR officer he had been swimming in a nearby creek.

The Republican was elected to the Gainesville City Council in 2000, where he served for six years, including a stint as mayor. He lost a bid for a state Senate seat in 2006.

Musselwhite could not be reached for comment by The Associated Press on Saturday.

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June 26 - We get some very cool email ---

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June 26 - Thank you, Jim Morin ----

.... and Signe Wilkerson.

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June 25 - Better than a thousand words ----

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June 25 - Since I have declared this to be Do Something Nice for Someone Else Dammit Day, this is something you might consider.
     We're having a string of temperatures in the double digits.  It is killer hot.
     Meals on Wheels has an emergency need of fans for senior citizens who cannot afford to turn on their air conditioning, and most of them don't even have air conditioning.  Please consider donating a new or a gently used fan to Meals on Wheels.  They will also accept monetary donations to purchase fans.
     I know times are tough, but a $15 fan can save a life.  Call Kristin at 281-633-7057 or email her at kweiss@fortbendseniors.org  You folks from foreign states can send a check. 
     If you want to save a life AND improve the world, write "Vote Democratic" on the fan.

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June 25 - Oh dear, it's worth a look.  (Work safe if no one is looking at your screen for a minute or two.)

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June 24 - Talk about great marketing!  Go get you one of these buttons right now because this ain't going away.  I've already ordered mine.  Click the picture and part with a whole dollar for this one!
     I watched the press conference and it was just flat creepy.  That guy is creepy.  They should use him as a mental health poster child. 
     This was an internet machine romance?  Oh dude, that's so creepy.
     And best I can figure from his ramblings at the press conference, he was real concerned that people not think he lied to his staff and to reporters.  Wait a minute - you're getting your sausage smoked on a foreign fire and you're worried about a little fibbing? 
     I also think he's pondering on what Jesus thinks he should do.  Good Lord, Sweet Jesus thinks you should zip your damn pants and be with your kids on Father's Day. 

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June 24 - Thank you, Don Wright!
 

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June 24 - Okay, so I go to lunch with my friend Sara and by the time I get back, Mark Sanford has admitted to shredding a couple of commandments and has resigned as head of the Republican Governor's Association.
     I cannot imagine why having unwed hoochy-koochy would keep anyone from being head of the Republican Governor's Association - in fact, I thought it was one of the qualifications.
     But then I read what has to be one of the damn weirdest news stories ever put to words:

UPDATE: Sanford apologized at a press conference to his family, and his staff at a press conference for "the way that I let them down." He said he had a conversation with his father-in-law a few weeks ago about where "my heart was ... laying my cards on the table."

"There are moral absolutes, God's law is indeed there to protect you from yourself. There are consequences if you breach that. This press conference is a consequence."

At first it was not clear what Sanford was referencing.

"I've been unfaithful to my wife and I've developed a relationship with what stared as a dear, dear friend from Argentina," he finally said. The affair has been going on for a year, he later explained.

Sanford announced that he is resigning as head of the Republican Governors Association.

"I spent the past five days of my life crying in Argentina," he said, "so I could come back and cry here."

     Don't cry with me, Argentina? 
     The only question left is - what gender is the "friend?"

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June 24 - I still think it has to do with Barack Obama being magic.  How else can you explain his possible Republican opponents dropping like spit off a tall building?
     So now, Governor Mark Sanford says he was in Argentina, which is a tad south of the Appalachian Trail.  Maybe he gets his head together by standing on a balcony and pretending to Eva Peron.  Maybe he lost his compass and wandered off.  You'd think he'd notice when he got along about the Panama Canal that this wasn't Tennessee, but it was National Nude Hiking Day and I can see how that could be distracting.
     You know what's in Argentina?  Cowboys and Nazis.  That's what in Argentina.  And, personally, after George Bush, I don't trust either one. 
     You know, if we women need to get our heads together, we go into town to the spa.  We turn off our cell phones for a couple of hours and threaten the staff with very poor tipping if they attempt to bring us a message from anyone other than our children or our husbands, both of them having been lectured of the possible consequences of bothering us while we're at the spa unless there's imminent death or a 30 minute sale on Godiva dark chocolate. 
     After a couple of hours, we emerge at peace with God and the world.  Which is why South Carolina's next Governor needs to be a woman. 

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June 23 - Just in case you needed any additional proof that I am one hot chick, the first 100 degree day comes on my birthday.  It's official now.
     And now it's becoming obvious why I have to wait two weeks to get my birthday present.  I have the original iPhone, which is going to Little Bubba when I upgrade from 8 gigs to 32. 
     My iPhone is the best toy I've ever had - even better than Barbie or a pony.  I am an ap fool.  I spend more money on iTunes than I do at the beauty shop.  (And the first fool who says, "Well, that's obvious," get a whack upside the head.)

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June 23 - Thank you, Stuart Carlson ---

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June 22 - Okay, I wanna tell you guys about something damn weird.
     Waller County is right up the road from me.  Waller is battleground county with a sizeable African American population due to a major black university in its boundaries.
     Out of the clear blue, voters in Waller county got a letter from the voter registrar.  Click the little one to see the big one.

     And inside was legal-sized sheet of paper dated May 11, 2009.  With the stated purpose of "to bring our voter registration list up to date we would appreciate your cooperation with the following request." 
     The first request is for your name. 
     Now, you would think they could get that off the front of the envelope, but apparently there's a shocking shortage of rocket scientists at the Waller County Voter Registrars Office.
     There follows 6 questions:
     1.  Precinct (commissioner/voting) per your understanding
     How many people in Texas know what commissioners precinct they live in?  6.  I counted.
     2.  Complete physical address in Waller County
     I'm just taking a stab at this, but probably where I'm registered and where you got my name.
     3.  Complete mailing address
     Okay, so Waller is rural so I might pick up my mail at the PO Box in town.  However, I had to provide my physical address when I registered and that's how you got my name in the first place.  And you mailed this to me so you probably have a pretty good guess what my mailing address is.
     4.  If you live on a FM, HWY, or dividing line etc., we need to know which side of the road you live on.  Please draw a map or give us actual directions pointing out any markers and or cross roads.
     Draw a map?  Okay, this is a joke, right?  The government wants me to draw a map to my house for them? 
     And, think about this:  The minute I send this back to the voter registrar, it becomes public record and anybody has the right to see it.  I'm not in the habit of drawing maps to my house in bathroom stalls or open government records.
     However, just in case you're going to revoke my voter registration if I don't send this back with a map, here's mine.  Have fun finding me.  I'm pretty sure I live in Commissioner Precinct 4. 


     And this is just out of personal curiosity, but is a cross road a very grouchy street?
     Now, along about now you readers are starting to think that I'm making all this up.  I ain't.  Here's a pdf of the questionnaire in life-size living color. 
    There's more.
     5.  Please include a phone number and or e-mail address for possible questions.
     The voter registrar has no right to my e-mail address or my phone number.  However, if you live in Waller county and need some help in this delicate situation, every please feel free to use my domain name and list yours as yourname@KissMyBigBlueButt.com.  You're very welcome. 
      6.  Please return this letter with your answers to the Waller County Voter Registration 730 9th St Hempstead TX 77445 or fax it to XXX-XXX-XXXX
     Your immediate attention to this matter would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks again for your help.
    
     Here's my concern.
     If somebody in Waller County got this, they are going to think that they will be removed from the voter rolls if they don't send this back.  No where on this questionnaire does it say that this is voluntary. 
     Secondly, are they going to remove voters who don't answer the questionnaire?  Are they going to remove people who can't draw a map for the life of themselves?
     Third, why are they spending taxpayer money to mail this to every registered voter in Waller County?  Next they'll have to hire someone to input all this information.  Wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to hire someone to go to those few rural addresses on a precinct dividing line and figure it out?  That couldn't possibly take more than a day or two. 
     And, lastly, what are they going to do with all this information?  Is one political party going to get all these email addresses and phone numbers, and hot damn - maps!

     If Thelma gets this questionnaire and doesn't know what commissioner's precinct she lives in, she won't return it for fear of looking dumb.  Then she'll figure they took her off the voting rolls and Thelma won't even bother to go to the polls at the next election.  We need Thelma's vote in a battleground county.

     If you know anyone in Waller County, call them and tell them that whoever approved this sucker is three curls short of a perm.  And that all their tax money is going to end up going for lawyers.

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June 20 - A car in front of me in Richmond this afternoon, just in front of the library.

     Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz. 
     All my friend drive Porsches, I must make amends. 

     I'm trying to decide if it's a very, very good Janis Joplin joke, or a very bad religious thought.  Considering this is Richmond, I'm going with door #2.

     I think Janis Joplin is giggling somewhere.

 

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June 19 - While he was a judge in Houston, Congressvarmint Ted Poe was fond of making shoplifters stand in front of the mall as part of their punishment, wearing a sandwich board saying, "I am a shoplifter." 
     You will be happy to know that I am at work on a sandwich board for him saying, "I am an ethics violator." 
     Click here for a PDF of the $25,000 fine the Federal Election Commission just levied on Poe for wildly under and over stating both his contributions and expenditures for several years. 
     It appears Poe cannot book keep nor understand the theory of money in and money out, which is a major shock considering he's a rabid conservative. 
     No, wait, considering the mess the conservatives have the country in, this is not a shock at all.  In fact, they shouldn't even fine him for it.  It's expected.  It's kinda like blaming a blind man for not being able to see. 
     Ted Poe:  Serial Ethics Violator.  Hold up your sign, Ted.

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June 19 - According to Harvey Kronberg, Texas unemployment rate hits 7.1%.

...the job losses are nearly double what Comptroller Susan Combs predicted earlier this year.  Combs revenue estimate to the Legislature was predicated on 90,000 job losses by October of this year.  The actual combined losses from January through May hover around 170,000.

     Think about that before you ever, ever vote for a Republican again. 

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June 19 - Well, John, I might ask you the same question.  It seems to me that you've represented old rich white men for a loooong time now.

A GOP senator said Thursday he will use hearings on Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court to ask whether she intends to be a justice "for all of us, or just for some of us."

     Yes, that GOP Senator was Texas' own John Cornyn.
     Let's take count here.  Since the formation of the Supreme Court, we've had exactly two women and two minorities. 
     I guess we can't be having a female minority on the court because that would roll the fairness wheel right off the cliff.
     Shuddup, Cornyn, I've only got about one nerve left and you're getting all over it.

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June 19 - From the We Don't Like Activist Judges crowd, we get this ---

The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday that a convicted rapist has no constitutional right to test biological evidence used at his trial in the state of Alaska years earlier, leaving it to states to decide when prisoners get access to genetic evidence that might prove their innocence.

In a 5-4 vote, with the conservative justices in the majority, the court said it would not second-guess states or force them routinely to look again at criminal convictions.

     Okay, so now you have no constitutional right to all the evidence that would prove you innocent. 
     So, Boys, you don't want to second guess Mississippi?  Or Florida, who can't even hold a proper election?  Or Texas, where we just wanna watch 'um die? 
     Good thinking.  Not.

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June 18 - Hey, Tom Daschle -- Kiss My Big Blue Butt.

The firm that houses two of the three former Senate majority leaders who proposed a comprehensive health care compromise bill on Wednesday has been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby on behalf of key players in the health care industry. In addition, the company that presented those findings, the Bipartisan Policy Center, counts as a major fundraiser one of the country's largest pharmaceutical companies.

Former Sens. Tom Daschle, Bob Dole and Howard Baker joined forces this week to put out a health care plan 15 months in the making. The three political gray beards, who co-founded the Bipartisan Policy Center, called for an approach to reform that included state-operated public insurance options as well as individual and employer mandates for coverage. Their proposal was pitched as a bi-partisan effort at solving one of the most complex legislative issue facing the nation.

     I have a question: why did we work hard and win this election if we're just going to let Bob Dole and Howard Baker run things? 
     Hell, those two boys could run things if we'd lost, so why the hell did we work and do mailings and register people and go to rallys and donate and organize and phone bank and drive people to the polls and - dammit - bother to vote.

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June 18 - I swear that Obama has some sort of magical powers.
     Seriously.
     I've been feeling a tad peeved at him lately over health care and a few other things.
     Then, like magic, he gets George Bush to talk and remind me how really, really bad it was.

Former President George W. Bush fired a salvo at President Obama on Wednesday, asserting his administration's interrogation policies were within the law, declaring the private sector -- not government -- will fix the economy and rejecting the nationalization of health care.

     George Bush was 8 years of a butt-kicking with me supplying the butt. 
     Think about it:  how bean dip mud fence ignorant does somebody have to be to still believe in the private sector?  The mere fact that George Bush thinks he's an expert on anydamnthing is proof that he's on drugs.  And not even good ones, at that.
     I gotta figure out how Obama does that.  Does he just call Bush and Cheney on the phone and say, "Y'all, look, Susan's a little hacked off at me so could one of you say something?"
     It's magic.  I swear it it.

 

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June 18 - Thank you, Ben Sargent ---

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June 17 - Damn, y'all. 
     One of my friends in Texas Congressional District 22 sent me this. The pickup was parked in a workplace parking lot.

     Keep it up, Rednecks.  With your help, even in the South, Obama has a 52% approval rating.  I think people seeing your bumper sticker bumped him up at least 3 percentage points.

     If I say it's Christmas, you better go buy some little twinkling lights, and I say that you should just keep that dumb percolating, Mr. Bumpersticker.  You're gonna have yourself a big old heaping cup of backlash.  Mark my word.

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June 17 - I think my hearing is failing me.

"Last year I had an affair. I violated the vows of my marriage. It is the worst thing I have ever done in my life."
-- Senator John Ensign

"I came to that conclusion recently, and frankly it's because of what he has put the country through. He has no credibility left."
-- Ensign, calling for Bill Clinton to resign over the Lewinsky affair

     Thanks to Slate and Doonenbury.

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June 17 - Guys, if you're on the internet tubes, this story will be of interest to you.  It's about forcing campaign finance reform using the internet. 

Lessig got tired of just thinking and writing, and after deciding not to run for Congress he decided to try to clean it up from the outside.

His organization, ChangeCongress.org, is claiming its first "major victory." In early June, Nelson backed off from his comment that a public option for health insurance was "a deal breaker" and let it be known that he would not join any filibuster against the president's health-care bill.

     Go give it a read.  It won't hurt your eyes at all.
     We cannot fix this country until we fix campaign finance.  It is the simple most important issue we have because everybody's for sale.  Everybody. 

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June 17 - This has nothing to do with politics, but I played with HUNCH this morning while waiting on hold.  It's kinda fun.  It picked a perfect vacation spot for me - Monterrey Peninsula, but didn't even come close on what fashion designer I like.  It did pick what Coen Brothers films I like, but nose dived on what rock group I like. 
     If you are in the mood, it's a time sponge.

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June 16 - Rosenberg's own Bob's Taco Station is going to be featured on the Food Network's Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives at the end of the month.  I'm not sure which one Bob's is, but I can assure you that more than one political deal has been shaken on or hatched at Bob's.
     In fact, I was at an official undercover  cahooting there today.  Among the ponderings was whether or not local Republicans have any idea what's headed their way in 2010? 
     Most of them are going to have to survive a Republican in-house fight in the primary while I watch and hoot laughing at them gnawing on each other's paws.  I'm already getting excited about it.  I adore watching them eat their own and, God love 'um, they like having an audience.
     But, meanwhile, I'll call for more cahooting as long as Bob's keeps serving up some lunch like this.
     I'm wondering where political deals are made in other states. 
     If you're even in town, ask me to take you to Bob's. There tamales are the best but they had run out before I got there today.  So, whoever's hoggin' all the tamales, quit it dammit.

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June 16 - I've been a little distracted because we're working on the new Fort Bend Democrats Club website.  It's not ready for prime time yet.  We're working out the kinks this week, because, in the precious words of Thelma, "It's still a tad kinky."
     One of the really cool things the website has is a random rotating header.  We have about a dozen headers right now and are working on some higher quality ones from our members who are far more talented at this stuff than I am. 
     But, if you want to see some Democrats in Fort Bend, head over there and take a gander.  You can also check out what local offices are up for election in 2010 and get information about the webinars offered by the Texas Democratic Party.
     Let me know if you encounter any problems.  Thanks.

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June 16 - Oh, yes.

     You know, we need health care, there's still a war going on, the economy is too painful to look at, and the Republicans think the biggest problem in America is David Letterman.  Something is real wrong with them.

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June 15 - Unless you've been under a rock, you've heard about this ---

South Carolina GOP activist and former chairman of the state elections commission Rusty DePass has apologized for saying a gorilla that escaped from a zoo was an "ancestor" of Michelle Obama.

After an aide to state Attorney General Henry McMaster detailed the escape of the gorilla from Columbia's Riverbanks Zoo, DePass responded with a comment: "I'm sure it's just one of Michelle's ancestors - probably harmless."

     Well, Mr. DePass, let me assure you that Michelle Obama's friends are not harmless.  We are so mean and spiteful that we will post pictures of your ancestors.

 

 

Your parents, I believe.

 

 

 

 

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June 14 - Caca del Toro like this always happens during an election year.
     Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry knows that Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson is coming home to run against him
     To make himself look all "I Hate Obama" and "Kay's No Sarah Palin", Perry rejected $550 million in federal stimulus money.
     Now we're having to borrow from Obama.

Gov. Rick Perry’s Texas officially became beholden to the Obama administration this week, borrowing $160 million from the government to keep the state’s unemployment trust fund solvent — even after refusing to take $550 million in federal stimulus dollars.

     It's going to cost us $100 million for interest on the bonds to re-pay the loan.  Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. 

Rep. Mark Strama, D-Austin, said the stimulus money would have eliminated the need to borrow $550 million and would have saved $100 million in interest payments on the bonds. He said Perry should add the unemployment insurance legislation to the call of an expected special legislative session, but admitted that would require “a pretty dramatic turnaround” of the governor’s position.

     Rick Perry would spend $5 to save a penny, and I think he just did.  However, it was my stinkin' $5.

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June 14 - In case you missed it last night on Bill Maher, the next time someone calls us Democrats a socialist, show them this ---

     Full story here.
     Thanks to Susan in Washington for the heads-up. 

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June 13 - You mean everybody doesn't have a donkey planter in their backyard? 
     Well, they should.
     Bubba bought this from a local side-of-the-road entrepreneur.  My friend Kati spray painted it a proper color and I grew a plant for it.  It's metal.  It'll last forever.  Bubba says it wasn't a purchase; it was an investment.
     It doesn't have a name yet and that's a shame.

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June 13 - Just so you know who has a bit of that thing called good judgment ----

     Here's our friend Liz Mitton, also known as the Anonymous Verbal Bandit, at the Sugar Land Teabag powwow, which one of my friends described as Disneyland Minus Everybody Except Goofy. 
     Liz is giggling over Janet Napolitano's warning about rightwing domestic terrorism.    

 

     And here's a cartoon today from Steve Benson ---

     Janet 1, Liz 0. 
     Ya know, the doctor murderer and the museum guard killer both considered themselves patriots, too.
     Napolitano is vindicated.  Mitton is still a nincompoop. 

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June 12 - As my friends know, I have a bit of a crush on Paul Krugman.  Bubba says it's okay because the odds of me actually running into Paul Krugman down at the bowling alley or over at Junior Janochek's Fine Liquors and Bait Camp are pretty slim.  Bubba's willing to take the risk in order not to start a rumor campaign that Paul Krugman is in love with Ann Coulter and hates redheads.
     Anyway, Krugman did a fine piece of thinking and writing at the same time on this one. 

Yes, the worst terrorist attack in our history was perpetrated by a foreign conspiracy. But the second worst, the Oklahoma City bombing, was perpetrated by an all-American lunatic. Politicians and media organizations wind up such people at their, and our, peril.

     Give yourself a Friday treat and go read the whole darn thing.

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June 12 - Thanks to my friends Carl Whitmarsh and Zada True Courage (yes, for you folks from outta state, that is her real name.  Very cool, huh?  She's kinda famous here in Texas.) I can bring you a morning laugh. 
     It was almost 140 degrees in Houston yesterday, so this started making the rounds ----

YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN TEXAS IN JUNE WHEN. . .

The birds have to use potholders to pull worms out of the ground. 

The trees are whistling for the dogs.

The best parking place is determined by shade instead of distance.

Hot water now comes out of both taps.

You can make sun tea instantly.

You learn that a seat belt buckle makes a pretty good branding iron!

The temperature drops below 95 and you feel a little chilly.

You discover that in June it only takes 2 fingers to steer your car.

You discover that you can get sunburned through your car window.

You actually burn your hand opening the car door.

You break into a sweat the instant you step outside at 7:30 a.m.

Your biggest bicycle wreck fear is, "What if I get knocked out and end up lying on the pavement and cook to death?"

You realize that asphalt has a liquid state.

The potatoes cook underground, so all you have to do is pull one out and add butter, salt and pepper.

Farmers are feeding their chickens crushed ice to keep them from laying boiled eggs.

 The cows are giving evaporated milk. Ah, what a place to call home.

     And it don't even actually get hot here until the end of July.

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June 11 - Well, this certainly means more fun for me!  It appears that the Texas GOP is going to have a nasty fight over who their Party Chairman will be.
     One of the candidates to challenge Tina Benkiser is a fella from right here in Fort Bend County named Mark McCaig.  He's the 26 year old founder of TXIR.  It appears that, unlike the majority of us, he didn't get over Ayn Rand by his junior year in high school.  His blog died.  I didn't even know it was sick.
     McCaig is also a member of the State Republican Executive Committee, and fancies himself a wildly popular CNN commentator.
     Also running is Amarillo's pride, Tom Mechler. 

"I have a new vision for our party," Mechler said Tuesday. "We need to go back to our conservative roots and explain to people who we are and what we stand for."

     Mechler is 52 years old and a member of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice.  Most importantly, he's from Wasilla, Alaska, where they grow Crazzzzy Republicans.
     He has proper Republican hair.  That's a plus, for sure.
     This is gonna be fun what with all manner of finger pointing, like this:

Smithee said he does not have anything against [current GOP Texas Party Chair Tina] Benkiser, but under her leadership "the state party has made itself irrelevant."

     Dude, I could be wrong about this, but I think that's something against her.  I dunno, maybe it's a compliment in Republican circles nowadays.

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June 11 - More fun email about John Cornyn!

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June 10 - So, I'm internet machine-chatting with my friend Ibis who has moved to Paris, France.  I miss her a lot. 
     Ibis and I were both listening to the news as we typed to each other and are both shocked at the shooting by a white supremist today at the Holocaust Museum. 
     I was listening to CNN and Ibis was listening to Fox because Ibis likes to punish herself.
     She suddenly becomes unglued, typing gibberish - which is what she does when she can't jump up and down in person. 
     Some commentator on Fox had just said that this kind of behavior "was expected" because of "having a black President."
     No. 
     I'm gonna flail the hail outta something. 
     So, it's Obama's fault that one of the rightwing goes down to a public museum honoring those killed by Nazis and starts shooting security guards?
     No.  No.  No.
     I, for one, did not expect this.  I, for one, believed that America is better than this.  I, for one, think having a black President is a good thing - not a justification for  violence.
     I think the folks on Fox have a right to say whatever they want to, as long as they are willing to accept the consequences.  They have a right to be wrong and to be mean, but they do not have a right to justify unacceptable behavior. 
     If you see smoke coming from the direction of Paris, France, that's Ibis pitching herself a snot-nosed hissy fit, too.

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June 10 - Texas Republican Congreesvarmint Ted Poe is such a doofus.
     He doesn't care if what he's saying is a discredited lie.  No siree, he's gonna say whatever it takes to try to make President Obama look bad even if it's totally made-up.
     Poe is trying to say that the Obama administration closed only those Chrysler dealers who contributed to Republicans. 

A Southeast Texas U.S. Congressman says Chrysler auto dealership closings appear to be chosen based on what party a dealership’s owner donated money to in the last election.

An Auto Task Force is charged with deciding which dealerships should be closed. U.S. Rep Ted Poe (R) is asking if political donations played a part in closing 789 Chrysler dealerships around the country.

“Did this group of auto task force individuals discriminate against Republican dealerships in Chrysler-style or in Chicago-style paybacks? We don't know.

     Yes, Ted, you ignorant slut, we do, in fact, know.
     What we do need to investigate, Ted, is how come Texas Republican Congressmen are hoggin' all the stoopid.
     And, trust me on this, "Chicago-style paybacks" ain't got nothin' on Texas style good-ole-boyism. 

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June 10 - More fun email ---

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June 10 - All the news about Fiat and Chrysler has me on memory lane this morning.
     My first car that I bought on my own, right out of college, was a used 1965 Fiat 850 Spider convertible.  It was bright blue and the hottest little number you've ever seen.  It had the coolest little shiny chrome luggage rack on the back.
     My Aunt Jimmie, who was a damn near perfect aunt, loved to tease me about my car.  Even before I bought it, when I was just thinking about buying it, she called it my Fascist Limo.  It was a used car, so she would tease me that Mussolini's fingerprints were still on the armrest and his pants were in the trunk. 
     The day I drove it over to her house for her to see, she sat in the passenger's seat and told me that the Italian writing on the dashboard was Italian for "Screw Americans."  I can still see her finger pointing to the words and trying to keep a straight face.  I could never look at the dashboard again without grinning.
     I drove that car for 6 years, but had to give it up when pregnant with the second baby.  I think I still miss it.  It was a pretty good car for a girl with a wonderful aunt.

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June 10 - There's bad news for Republicans.

As the Republican Party struggles to regain its footing following the November elections, a new survey shows that a majority of adult Americans sees no clear leader for the minority political party.

Even more problematic for the GOP is that one-third of Republicans hold an unfavorable view of their party, according to the USA Today/Gallup poll.

     And then there's worse news ---

When it comes to naming a “main person” who speaks for the GOP, 52 percent of Americans were unable to do so.

Among those who did name a speaker for the GOP, 13 percent identified conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh, while 10 percent named former Vice President Dick Cheney. Arizona Sen. John McCain and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich were each named by 6 percent of Americans in the poll.

     Oh, please chubby old white guys who haven't had a new idea since Elvis died, keep yammering on for the GOP.  And, by the way, keep spatting with each other, too.  That makes you look very adult.

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June 10 - We get great emails--

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June 9 - Here's how this works in Fort Bend County and probably in your county, too:
     The county judge, who is up for re-election this year, does not want to raise taxes during tough economic times, but he's given tax abatements to all his corporate buddies and now he needs money to run all the things he's expanded in county government.
     With a failing real estate market, higher home evaluations for the tax base aren't likely.  Unless ....
     The county judges sends a loud and clear message to the Central Appraisal District, where he also has some buddies, that property valuations in Fort Bend County have - are you ready for this? - gone up 10%.  Ten percent.  He says this in March to give the CAD plenty of time to make his dreams come true.
     Damn!  In one of them miracle type things, the Central Appraisal District comes back and - you guessed it - evaluations are up exactly 10%.
     That means you pay more taxes because your property is supposedly worth more even though it's really not.  But, the county judge can say that he didn't raise your taxes.  Phony real estate values raised your taxes.
     That ties up the package very neatly.  You get screwed and only the Central Appraisal District - where the members are appointed, not elected - is at fault.
     So what does the CAD get in return for saving Hebert's substantial butt?
     A new $6.4 million building.  Fancy digs.
     I ain't kidding you. 
     And everything would have gone along just fine if not for one thing.  Last November, Precinct 1 elected a Democrat - not a good-ole-boy - to commissioner's court.  Democrats have watched this snuggling for 15 years and we're mad enough to hit them on the head so hard that they'll wear out bouncing. 
     Commissioner Richard Morrison is fire breathing mad.  Good on him.  He's a speed bump on the road to taking all your danged money.
     There is one especially funny thing to this event.  After they raised evaluations up to 1,000% on some folks, the CAD released photos of the long lines outside their offices of people wanting to protest their property evaluations .... 

     ...and then they used this photo to justify the need for a new building.  No, I'm serious.  They did that.  No, really; they did.
     Let me get this straight:  you treat us unfairly, we show up to complain and you rob us  while we're waiting in line?
     Dude, there just has to be something in the annals of irony about this. 
     Hey CAD, don't over-evaluate people's property and then they won't show up to protest and then you won't need a bigger building.  This ain't rocket science.  Hell, it ain't even government work.

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June 9 - Thank you, Don Wright ---

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June 8 - Some people watch teevee.  Some people watch sunsets.  Some people watch their weight.  My friend Alfredo watches the Supreme Court.  That's good for us because he sends a heads-up when necessary.
     The Supremes have ruled that buying your buddy a seat on the State Supreme Court with campaign contributions violates due process. 
     Alfredo sardonically asks, "Can the Texas judicial  system survive?" 
     I doubt it.
     Here's the decision in pdf format for those of you who like to read Latin or have a writ twit attack.
     Meanwhile, here's the important part ---

     Oh, my goodness, you mean that Bob Perry can't buy the Supreme Court any more?

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June 8 - Newt and Sarah sitting in a tree, k-i-c-k-i-n-g.
     Let the games begin!

Sarah Palin’s on-again, off-again appearance at Monday night’s gala GOP fundraising dinner is off — again.

The reason given for the snub, said a Palin aide, was that NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions was concerned about not wanting to upstage former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the fundraising gala’s keynote speaker.

     It appears that the Sarah snub is just the beginning of a catfight between the two biggest prissy witches of the GOP - Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich. 
     Treat yourself to reading the whole article, and understand why tea parties are the only thing Republicans can manage right now. 
     Hey, thank God they're still not trying to come up with solutions for this country.  We spent the last 8 years seeing how un-well they do at that! 
 

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June 8 - Hot time, summer in the city, back of my neck is gettin' hot and gritty.
     Ho boy, we're in for some summertime free entertainment.  The angry white people, who are feeling so put-upon because there's actually some empty seats at the back of the bus, are planning more tea parties in Texas.

Joe Shehan hopes the Tax Day Tea Parties — when taxpayers nationwide gathered to protest taxes, federal bailouts and big government — were just the beginning.

The next step, he hopes, is America’s Awakening, a gathering planned for Thursday at the NYTEX Sports Complex in North Richland Hills.

     To add a little proper distastefulness to this whole thing, they're calling it the 912 Project because ... well, hell, because they haven't exploited the victims of 911 quite enough yet.

Shehan said the 912 Project Fort Worth, a grassroots effort based on talk show host Glenn Beck’s 9-12 Project, is a nonpartisan group created recently to continue this effort. The name is based on nine principles, such as America is good, and 12 values, such as honesty, reverence and hope. It also reflects the national unity that occurred the day after 9-11.

     America is good?  I mean, they have to say that out loud to remind themselves?  Now, I hate to be mean, but that's just dumb.  If you gotta run around hollering that America is good, then you probably don't truly believe it. 
     And they are non-partisan?  Uh huh, Sweetie, they are indeed.

State Rep. Leo Berman, a former Arlington mayor pro tem, will be the featured speaker. Berman, R-Tyler, was among the lawmakers this year pushing a sovereignty resolution.

     Oh yeah, you're gonna find a whole lot of Democrats who want to secede and start a civil war because there's a black man in the White House.  I bet there's a mess of Democrats who woke up the day after the election and said, "Holy crap!  You mean he's black?  Damn.  I didn't know that.  Well, we just gotta secede.  Somebody call Leo Burman and tell him that all is forgiven."
     Steve Maxwell, the Tarrant County Democratic Chair is one cool guy.  He says --

"This is a bunch of . . . nuts who are not doing this country any good, standing up there in the way of getting the country’s economic status corrected and getting our people back to work," Maxwell said. "They should go out there and demonstrate and have a great time.

"But I would prefer they come up with some constructive ideas to get this crisis under control and get our people back to work."

     Where the hell were all these angry people when George Bush and Alberto Gonzales were pouring milk over the constitution and eating it for breakfast?  Where the hell were they when George Bush and Dick Cheney were stealing this country blind and running it off a financial cliff?  Listening to Glenn Beck, you say?  Finding a whiter guy than Leo Berman?  Sitting on their butts listening to accordion music? 
    Anyway, I have some wonderful pictures like the one above that were taken at the last tea party in Sugar Land.  I'm looking forward to using them.     

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June 7 - If you ever  want to feel very sanctimonious and self-satisfied, just remember that Newt Gingrich (a serial adulterer), Ollie North (a guy who overtly committed treason), and Mike Huckabee (who is just goofy) all say you're just not Christian enough ----

On Friday, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, and Oliver North visited Rock Church in Hampton Roads, Virginia to give a three-hour long lecture on “Rediscovering God in America.” The speakers warned the audience about the “continuing availability of abortion, the spread of gay rights, and attempts to remove religion from American public life and school history books.” The Virginia-Pilot reported that Gingrich argued that, while Christianity is the foundation of American citizenship, Americans are experiencing a period where they are being “surrounded by paganism”:

     Newt is about one hallelujah away from foot washin' and snake handlin'. 
     So if I believe that government should stay out of my bedroom, nobody should be able to forcibly tell my children what God they must pray to, and that gays are human, then I'm a pagan? 
     Oh hell, I was hoping he'd go for wicked witch or smoldering harlot or Pharisee sympathizer.  Pagan just seems oh so 1980's and Stonehenge. 
     Come on, Newt, you can do better than that.  If you're going to call me names because I believe in the Constitution, come up with a better one than pagan.  I kinda liked it when you were calling me a socialist.  Why did you quit that one?  It wasn't scaring people enough?

"Not Christian enough" is churchspeak for "You don't totally agree with every single word I say", and is precisely why I've pretty much given up pursuing that religion. One of my kids this year asked me if I was Christian and I told her "no, not really". You would have thought I had shot her puppy! She was totally shocked.  Hey, don't ask the question if you're not prepared for the answer. Don't get me wrong, there are some great ideas in Christianity, but if you have to throw out all the billions of people in the world that don't believe that way and then say "they are all going to hell", well, that's not the religion I'm looking for. The area I live in is crazy. There are 9, count 'em, 9 churches within 2 miles of my house. Every time someone gets mad at someone else they take their tithes and go build their own place. Pretty soon everyone around here is going to to have their own individual place to worship.   So I am not really looking at religion anymore, but looking more at my own spirituality, which is so much harder to pin down and define. And, I like it that way!   James Shoot, most every body I care a flip about feels the same way as James - regardless of having been "fetched up" going to church every Sunday - plus some more. All good, spiritually mature folks - just sick of the holier-than-thous such as Newt and Sarah and Beck, to  name just a few.  Yechhhhh! Marie

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June 7 - I knew it all along -- Sarah Palin is Newt Gingrich in drag!
     Think about it - have you ever seen them together?

Sarah Palin's speech delivered in Anchorage on Wednesday -- the one in which she declared "screw political correctness" and wondered why "we have to pussyfoot around our troublesome foes" -- repeatedly lifted from an article written four years ago by Newt Gingrich and Craig Shirley without attribution.

While Palin twice mentioned Gingrich in the speech (she never acknowledged Shirley), she frequently mixed her own remarks about Reagan with passages that appear to be pulled directly from the Gingrich-Shirley article.

     And maybe Ann Coulter is Dick Cheney is a skinny suit.
     This could make for some fun on the campaign trail. 

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June 5 - Okay, so here's the deal why Texas Democrats should run somebody tough for Governor.  I continue to be totally unconvinced that Kay Bailey Hutchison is going to be the GOP nominee.
     I know that Rick Perry is nuttier than squirrel poop, but the pubbies love him.  A lot.
     According to Harvey Kronberg this morning, the Republicans are in a dead heat over Rick and Kay.  The battle of the hairdos is tight.    

Interestingly, in anticipation of the possible 2010 March Republican primary between incumbent Governor Rick Perry and Senate Kay Bailey Hutchison, their job approval scores are virtually identical among self-identified Republican primary voters, Republican voter subgroups by ideology, and even regular “Rush Limbaugh” talk radio show listeners.

     If we end up with Rick as the GOP nominee and then don't have a strong candidate to whip him, I'm gonna be real mad at some Texas Democrats.  That's a promise.  There will be name calling.

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June 3 - Texas Governor Rick Perry just can't seem to leave secession ideas and drug addicts alone.

 

     Yes, he did say God Bless Rush Limbaugh.  Remember why Rush wanted to move to Texas?  Secession and drugs from Mexico.

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June 3 - Okay, so we exterminated the mail box.  Newt Gingrich's been there.  Eck!  I found a snake in our mailbox once, which was a far more pleasant experience than finding Newt there. 

     Okay, this says "Hon. Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the House." 
     In a pig's eye!  I worked my rump off to keep Newt Gingrich from being Speaker of the House.  Notice that in small letters underneath, it says (1995-1999).  Heckfire, I've got record albums that age.
     I know for a fact that Nancy Pelosi ain't sharing her House, or anything else for that matter, with Newt. 
     So, you're asking yourself, "What is Newt doing in Susan's mailbox?" 
     It wasn't to offer to help with the housekeeping or clean the tops of my ceiling fans or anything else Newt might possibly be useful for.
     Newt has the unmitigated gall to lecture me about God.  God, for pete's sake.  And Newt.
     It starts off -- (you know the drill, click the little one to get the big one.)

     I'm sending you this enclosed "Citizen's Survey" today because I've been told that you are an American who agrees with me that God should not be driven from the public square.
     The Founding Fathers wanted it that way, too.
     Yet for the last 50 years, ACLU lawyers and left-wing judges have been outlawing God in our culture."

     Huh?  What you say?
     First off, Newt, my God is way too big to be driven from anywhere.  I'm sorry that your God is subservient to writ twits.  Maybe you should get a better God.
     Second off, I haven't been married three times, served divorce papers on my spouse while they were in the hospital with cancer, or boinked my secretary.  If I wanna know about God, you'd be the last Pharisee I'd ask. 
     Newt's letter goes on for 7 darned pages.  Honey, Newt keeps talking but he ain't saying nothing. 
     It appears that my "invitation" is to take a survey and then send Newt some money so he can send me a DVD.  Heck, I've been to more exciting Tupperware parties.
     So, here's the front of the survey - click it to read it.
     Yeah, it is as cheap and sleazy as it looks.  And you open it up to take the 4 question survey. There's not any questions you'd have to study-up on, so I suspect that Newt thinks I'm pretty stoopid.  I mean, the last two - "Have you ever visited Washington, DeeCee?"  and "Would you like to receive information about other conservative documentaries from Citizens United Productions?" - seem kind dumb.
     And the best I can figure from the form, you gotta send them $35 or they frankly don't care what you think or even if you've ever been to DeeCee.  How's that for polite?
     So, if you see Newt, tell him to stay the fool tarnation outta my mailbox and it wouldn't hurt my feelings at all if he'd stay outta my politics, too.  We done threw him out once and it seems unnecessarily time consuming to have to do it again.  But, if we need to do it again, I'll lead the parade.

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June 2 - It appears that it's coming at me from all directions. 

Two Fort Bend County industrial plants reported unusual discharges of air pollution last week, according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Nalco Holding Co.’s Sugar Land plant, on U.S. 90A near State Highway 6, reported that the liner inside a storage tank caught fire on Thursday during a “welding project” on the “man way” of the tank.

The resulting fire created a “smoke cloud” for no longer than five minutes, the company reported to TCEQ.

     and then .....

Meanwhile, the 610-megawatt Unit 6 at the W.A. Parish Electric Generating Station near Thompsons discharged opacity emissions for 18 minutes on May 25, at up to 93% opacity. The unit’s permit allows for 10% opacity.

     This is the fifth "emission event" reported at the Parish plant since April 11.  It's becoming more of a habit than an event.

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June 2 - If nothing else good happens in Texas the whole rest of the year, at least Texas Democrats had to power, guts, and determination to defeat the Voter I.D. bill. 
     In case you haven't gotten around to it yet, play Texas Twister. 

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June 2 - My running buddy Judy is eating her way through the deep south just like I did last fall.  This came today from Natchez, Mississippi. 

     She claims it's Fat Mama's Tamale House.  She gets bragging rights for this picture from Fat Mama's ---

     I need me one of those!

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June 1 - Some of you have been following our story on West Texas Republican Congressman "Captain" Randy Neugebauer's wanting to use his campaign contributions to rent his own yacht.  He wants to pay for his Washington DeeCee yacht with campaign contributions, and this is the way he's going to try to finagle it. 
     Well, the draft opinion is in and here's a copy of it in PDF format for your reading pleasure.
     In case you left your reading glasses at home or you've been listening to Kanye West, here the jest of it" 

     It says that the use of the boat is an in-kind contribution to Neugebauer by the Texas LLC that owns it, so that the campaign can only use $2,400 of the boat's time without making an illegal contribution to Neugebauer.  That's not the result Neugebauer wanted.      
     On theother hand, the FEC says that the LLC can rent out the boat for fair market value - so Neugebauer's leadership PAC can rent it for fundraisers and Neugebauer can put money in his own pocket.      
     What a deal!
     So, if you've been thinking about running for Congress just to get yourself a yacht, it can be done. 

     Potential Congressional Candidate Junior Janochek, Jr., at the Brazos River Yacht Club and Bait Camp.
 

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June 1 - The religious right is back in the news.  First for getting their dude rejected as head of the State Board of Education, and now for their role in the slaying of an abortion doctor.
     So, the email just keeps on coming ---

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June 1 -  Those of you who have been around for a while know that June is my favorite month after November (when I travel) and December (I flat love Christmas) and October (baseball playoffs), which places June in the top tier of my favorite months. 
     June means flip-flops, swimming pools, the beach, and Blue Bell Ice Cream. 
     Also, I have a birthday this month so start shopping.  Size 7 1/2.  Flip Flops.  Shiny.
     June is also a month when most politicians behave because you gotta get done what you gotta get done before hurricane and heat season. 
     Let's start off the month with a cartoon.

     I want to be honest with you.  I like Judge Sotomayor plenty.  I think her story is grand and I stand of awe of it.  I wear my ta-tas a little higher because of women like Judge Sotomayor. 
     However, she's not liberal enough for me.  She certainly is not as liberal as the judge she is replacing.  With the far, far rightwing tilt of the court, I think we need a fire breathing liberal on the court to start balancing that sucker. I think her opinions on the rights of defendants are not in keeping with the fine liberal ideas of the framers of the Constitution. 
     I am also concerned about her position on minority  rights. 

An analysis of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's most recent appeals court decisions shows that nearly every time, she voted AGAINST people who were claiming illegal discrimination, according to a lawyer who appears frequently before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The analysis, done by DC lawyer Tom Goldstein for his legal website SCOTUSblog, looked at her court's 50 most recent cases involving the issue of race. He found that the three-judge panels on which she participated upheld claims of discrimination only three times. In 45 other cases, the discrimination claims were rejected. Each time, the judges -- including her -- were unanimous. And the three panels that upheld discrimination claims included at least one Republican-appointed judge. 

     On the other hand, the main thing she's got going for her, in my mind, is that she makes Tom DeLay shiver in his tiny little boots.

DeLay add that "in my mind" Sotomayor is not qualified for a seat at the Supreme Court.

"She's an activist," he said. "She's a judicial activist, and I've worked my entire career against judicial activism. And if Obama -- Obama couldn't have appointed a more activist judge, and, therefore, I don't think she's qualified. I don't want somebody writing law from the bench.

     No, Tom, you've worked your entire career to enrich yourself, Honey.  Besides, Babe, I have a better website than you do.
     So, even though she's not liberal enough for me, I do not think Judge Sotomayor should apologize or backup on the statements she made that has the far rightwing all aghast with phony outrage and charges of racism. 
     If you read her entire speech, which I have, the only thing she might apologize for is using thoughts, language and ideas far above the comprehension of dufus right.  The entirety of her speech, not the 30 second sound bite the right can understand, is brilliant. 

My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston.
I live in Richmond, Texas, in heart of Tom DeLay's old district.  It's crazy here.  No, seriously, it's triple z crazzzy.

I used to be an independent voter, but that all changed when I got to know a few local Republicans.  They are meaner than 10 acres of snakes and have the ethical compass of a bank robber. 

So, I decided that they could just Kiss My Big Blue Butt.

A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.

This ain't a blog.  Blogs are way too trendy for me.  I've been doing this since 1992, so I'm used to it even if you ain't. 

Email me and I'll find a place to put it if I like it.