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November 30 - Well, apparently a  honky tonk moon was up in Las Vegas on the campaign donor dollar.
     Texas Governor Rick Perry and his son did a little boot shining in Las Vegas while Rick was there ---

The governor's Oct. 24 political trip to Las Vegas to meet with Brian Sandoval, a Republican candidate for Nevada governor, included a bachelor party for Perry's son, Griffin, spokesman Mark Miner conceded Thursday.

He initially declined to call it a bachelor's party, saying he would describe it more as a dinner. He confirmed, though, that it was a celebration of Griffin Perry's upcoming nuptials joined by a number of his male friends.

     I wonder if Rick's Super DeLux Brand Christian friends know where he takes his son for a bachelor's party?  I would think the proper place would be the fellowship hall of the Greater Mount Utopia Baptist Church, Footwashing Division.  And it would end by 8:00 p.m., a proper time.



November 30 - What El Jefe said.
     No, really, you have to go look.
     The Fort Bend County Teabaggers are taking Christ out of Christmas and Christmas out of America. 
     I seriously wonder if they will file with the Texas Ethics Commission in January in as a political organization.  If they support and/or endorse a candidate, they have to file with the ethics commission.  This "non-profit" crapola doesn't abide with the statutes. 
     It seems to me that they are a specific purpose political committee and they have to publicly account for all raised and spent monies.  As greedy and self-serving as these sons of motherless goats are, I wouldn't trust them with a dang dime.
     Woo woo - this could be fun.  They cannot hide behind anonymous names anymore. 


Susan, there is something very wrong with those that want to use the Christmas Lighting  in Sugarland for a political rally!  I have written to the Mayor and to the sponsors telling them - in a nice way, of course, what jerks I think that they are....idiots!
 
I am changing my name here as we have 2 Carols on the books...
 
Carolsb


November 29 - If I ever need reminding about why I cancelled my subscription to Newsweek Magazine, I will try to re-read this without bleeding from my eyes.
     John Meacham, the editor of Newsweek, is like a catfish - all mouth and no brain.
     And he wants Dick Cheney to run for President. 
     Dick Cheney.
     Yes, that Dick Cheney. 
     The Dick Cheney who came within a six months and two undisclosed locations of totally destroying this country's economy.  Why don't we just forgo an election and gleefully give the country to Dick's buddies at Halliburton?  Now, boy howdy, there's an idea that Newsweek can get behind. 
      Meacham thinks Dick Cheney on the ticket would pull Obama to the right.  Honey, the only thing iock Cheney can pull is shenanigans. 
     President Dick Cheney?  Honey, been there, done that.  Ended up in hell.  He makes a hornet look cuddly. 


Susan, I have subscribed to Newsweek for most of my adult life but have just let my subscription expire.  At the time I thought maybe it was just me but I think you have confirmed my point about Jon Meacham.  The magazine no longer serves my needs or interest but I will really miss the OLD NEWSWEEK.  It is so hard to take this desktop or my laptop to the bathroom for really errr ahh "deep" contemplation of the days/weeks events.
 
Jerry C.


November 29 - If you're ready for a fun read on the Monday morning following Thanksgiving weekend, I've got a deal for you.  The Houston Press is doing it's Turkey Awards.
    And, of course, Rick Perry is the Double Grand Prize Winner with a Cherry on Top.  Hell, he's the winanator!
    To know just how gosh-awful Houston, Texas, can be, here's who did not win ---

The HISD geniuses who sent a drug-sniffing dog on a rampage, resulting in the highly publicized arrest of a popular teacher from a ritzy elementary who was the poster child for not doing drugs (charges were later dropped as surely as Steve Slaton fumbling on a Texans' run); the law-enforcement officers in Galveston County who ran up a string of arrests for people who happened to curse in public (WTF?); the BARC officials who seemed unable to wash puppies without sending a few down the drain to their wide-eyed puppy deaths; the Bellaire police department and mayor, who refused to apologize when they mistakenly shot a minority kid in his own driveway;

     The Houston Press reminds us, and Lord knows we need it that Rick Perry is an electoral amazement --

Perry is the longest-serving governor in the state's history; the strange thing is that people don't seem to like him much. He won his last re-election with 39 percent of the vote, which is about what George McGovern managed to scare up against Richard Nixon in 1972.

     By the way, Allen Sanford doesn't even make the list until page 4. And Tom DeLay, who led the list 12 years ago, ends it this year.



November 28 - Thanks to Elizabeth for this guide of what NOT to get your child for Christmas
     I, of course, would include "Gleefully Gay Dancing Tom DeLay Doll" and the "Bubble Head Sarah Palin."  Also, look out for the "Complete Works of the George W Bush Library in Pocket Book Form."



November 27 - I'm really glad that Tiger Woods is going to be okay.
     But, if someone in my neighborhood came up laying in the middle of the road face up, unconscious, with his wife standing over him holding a golf club at 2:30 in the a.m., and the back story is that she heard him crash into a fire plug and came running out and smashed in the back window of his Cadillac with a golf club to get him out, uh, I'm just warning that there wouldn't be a soul in four zip codes who would buy that story
     We'd suspect that the back window was out before he left the driveway because most, not all, but most, women don't run outside with a golf club at 2:30 a.m. unless they are teed-off, not teed-up.
     Bubba says the whole thing doesn't shock him, what with the way Tiger has been driving lately.


The Clone was reading me updates on the Tiger situation this afternoon, and at one point she found something that said alcohol had been ruled out as a cause of the accident.  I said that was good, but pointed out there were other substances we hadn't heard about yet. Not to mention that they NEVER check for excess testosterone. Which now looks like something they might want to consider. :)

Neon Susan


Susan, it looks like your hunch about Tiger and the Mrs. was right.

Carol


Susan, the Tiger Woods story reminds me about our former football star Warren Moon and his estwhile "accident" in his driveway when his wife smashed up a new Mercedes which was delivered to her by mistake--
wrong wife!

Then our esteemed District Attorney John Healey insisted on prosecuting him for bopping her one for smashing the car, even though she refused to press wife beating charges against him, saying instead that she had beat him. Several months, hundreds of headlines, and thousands of tax payer dollars later, Mr. and Mrs. Moon walked free into the loving  arms of a divorce court. The divorce court is where they should have been in the first place, but our DA wanted to get re- elected. Beware of what you do now, as he is up for re-election and looking for another cause.

Tiger has said this is a "private" matter. Hell fire, he ought to know there is no privacy for media stars, but I don't blame him for trying. It IS no one's business. I say let 'em fight it out in private.

Aunt Bee



November 27 - Sam lets us know about a great Christmas present.  I've already ordered a few copies for my friends who can read. 

From AP to the Washington Post, the Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, everyone is talking about the Rogue Coloring Book that skins Sarah Palin’s policies like she would a rogue moose. (Check out our media links and sample pages!) We couldn’t let her book pepper the bookstores and media without a fight. While there are two sides to every story, let’s first get something clear here – Sarah didn’t write this book either.

     Y'all remember back when Tom Delay was being asked a question about something in his book and he denied ever saying something like that.  When the interviewer read Tom the direct quote from his own book, Tom was bumfuzzled.
     It became clear that Tom hadn't read the book he wrote.
     I'm thinking the same thing about Sarah.  I'll betcha she didn't read it.
     And speaking of Tom DeLay, his career has peeked at failure once again and his website chronicles it



November 26- Bubba, Jr. has changed his theory about health care.  I'm starting to agree with him.
     He used to be for single payer, but has shifted to the public option as being the truly progressive position.
     His reasoning is that the public option will put the insurance companies out of business because a non-profit can operate cheaper that a profit hog.
     However, all the far right-wingers will not go with the public option because they fear "Obama Care" and the government running things.  They have to stay pure to their ideological beliefs and spend far more money for far less care.
     So, they will stay with private for-profit insurance, and - hot damn! - they will get screwed even worse than they do now.
     If that ain't a liberal blessingfest, I don't know what is!


November 24 - Susan has asked me to tell you that her internet connection is down and she doesn't have time to go to the coffee shop what with Thanksgiving and family and pecan pie and all.
     So she says to have a Happy Thanksgiving and she'll pay attention to your emails after the holiday.

Your Friend, The Hey Zeus

 

November 23 - Well, it's all the news.
     It appears that Texas Democrats are going to try their hardest not to hand a victory to the GOP in 2010.  That alone gets front page coverage in Texas.
    DINO Tom Schieffer dropped out of the Governor's race and endorsed Houston Mayor Bill White.
     I am hoping that Hank Gilbert will decide to run for Lt. Governor.  The Texas Governor is a manager and Bill White is a great manager.  The Lt. Gov. sets policy and I like Hank's policies.
     Mega successful businessman Farouk Shami would make a perfect candidate for Texas Comptroller. 
     We've got a line up and deep bench.  Let's just hope we can find the goal posts.


Why do people outside of Texas always use the word "bizarre" when talking about Old Rick?

Shack



November 22 - I was in Dallas today on the anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy.  Bubba was on the parade route that day and waved at John Kennedy five blocks before the shooting.  Bubba still cries at Dealey Plaza.  It is a memory that haunts him.
     Diane gave me a heads up about an article in Esquire Magazine that that stunned me.  It's about John Kennedy and fools from East Texas continuing to be fools from East Texas - Louis Gohmert, in particular.

Characterized chiefly by the blankness behind his eyes, Gohmert has the face of a hooligan and the politesse to match. Stinking of contempt, no greater reactionary is to be found in the Congress today. And certainly it is people like him who have abetted the toxic atmosphere that holds in our current politics. He has screamed that the president is a "socialist!" perhaps louder and longer than anyone else in his caucus (which is quite a distinction), he is a birther who believes that Obama is an alien Muslim, and he has said that the president’s health care plan will "absolutely kill senior citizens."

     Mark Warren, the Texan who wrote the article, wonders aloud about a letter a found from an East Texas woman in the days following JFK's murder. 
     It's certainly worth your time.


I still remember the hatred of Kennedy in the part of Texas where I grew up, and I experience the even worse vitriol and hatred of East Texas regularly, as I work up there.  They don't even try to hide it, it's taken for granted that all 'real Americans', meaning white males, hate everyone who isn't pure white, whatever that may mean.  I don't know why they don't just wear their bedsheets and pillowcases full time.  Naturally, they're all teabaggers, and any attempt to reason with them is completely useless.  I'm certain there will be deaths resulting from this, and probably fairly soon. 

Mah Fellow Merkuhns


Hello Susan,

Today Kay Bailey Hutchison was on Meet the Press. Wimpy host David Gregory was asking her if Tim Geithner should resign, but since she, along with all the other Republicons, most of the Democrats, and Tim Geithner, have sold out to Wall Street, there wasn't much she could say. Inadvertently, Gregory actually got her to say something truthful. I'm certain he didn't mean for her to do that (we all know he's been carrying water for the Republicons since he got this job). He asked Kay, "Do you think he should keep his job?" KBH replied, "Well, look, we shouldn't keep our jobs either." For once, a Republicon told the truth.

Mary in San Antonio


November 22 - Okay, Cowboys, mark your calendar and watch out for flying bullets.

Dallas public television station KERA reports that Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison have agreed to debate on Jan. 14 -- statewide, televised, one hour, questions from journalists.

     Boy howdy, they should put this on pay-per-view like the rasselin' match it is. 
     That's a Thursday night, following prayer meetings on Wednesday night. 
     I can hardly wait. 



November 22 - If Blanche Lincoln and Mary Landrieu don't get their heads on straight over health care, they can kiss my big blue butt. 
     And that's not all. 
     Look, I see Republican men act selfish and stoopid, it doesn't curl my hair because I expect it.
     I see Democratic men act against the needs of their country and it hacks me off.  But, I know they're on the take and crave power more than doing the right thing.  Blue dogs are just a shiver looking for a spine to run up.
     But, when I see a Democratic woman act like an nincompoop, then she has seriously got on the one nerve I have left.  I react horribly. 
     Mary and Blanche come from two of the poorest states in this country.  What is wrong with them?
     Girlfriends, I am going to send a dipstick to Mary and Blanche so they can do an estrogen level check.  Something is seriously wrong with both of them.
     Blanche, Mary, don't make me have to come over there. 



November 21 - Uh, I think I need to find a new Chinese restaurant   -----

     It's the "some sort" thing that has me worried.


For years my friends and I have been adding the phrase "between the sheets" to all of our fortunes from the fortune cookie.  That makes the one you got even more disturbing!
 
James
 

Miz Susan,

Do you think that maybe the alien is one of those two Republicans from foreign states planning a visit to the great state of Texas to stump for Gov. Goodhair and the one who won't retire from her Senate seat? I dunno about you, but Republicans are already pretty alien to me; especially Darth Cheney and Scarah Palin. If you apply James' formula of "between the sheets," and add either Cheney or Palin, that would be really scary. Just sayin'
...

Mary in San Antonio

 

The alien you were to meet was probably either the waitstaff or the busboy.  Not necessarily illegal, indeed probably not, but very possibly alien. 

Stan



November 20 - If y'all remember, I told you about one of the founding members of our Belles of Heaven Republican Women's Club, Terese Raia, being the grandmother of the chick who played a prostitute on the ACORN sting.  If you don't remember, please feel free to catch up right here.  It's the second half of the story at the bottom.
     The short take is that Ms. Raia, who is totally obsessed with s-e-x (she's against it), was running around being oddly boastful that her granddaughter fit the role of a prostitute on a sting operation.  Ms. Raia even had our local Congresscritter issue a formal press release about how proud he was of it. 
     I dunno know about you, but if my granddaughter looks like a prostitute, I'm shutting up about it.
     Well, thanks to Judy K, we know that that Ms. Raia's granddaughter, Hannah Giles, has continued her quest for fame.  Apparently she's just one pit stop short of putting her kid in a balloon and calling the authorities.
     Here Granddaughter Hannah Giles posing with white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain ---

     Alert the media, Grandma. 


The casting of Ms Giles was dead spot on.  She certainly looks like a professional to me and may not have had to resort to the "casting couch" to get that role, and if family has anything to do with it, she'd make a good one.  

 Squire Al



November 20 - Thank you, Don Wright ---



November 19 - We get email from hell ---


Sue Duq. B.
 
OK, even for Texian Repugs. this guy is out there. Oh, yeah, he was "joking".
 

 

Rep. Louie Gohmert: Democrats want another terrorist attack so they can pass a new jobs bill.

Recently, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other terrorism suspects will be tried in U.S. courts in New York City, which has prompted outrageous reactions from conservative politicians and pundits. One of the most extreme reactions came last night during an exchange between Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Fox News Host Neil Cavuto. When Cavuto questioned Gohmert about whether we should try 9/11 terror suspects in New York City, the Texas congressman “joked” that Democrats who support bringing the alleged terror conspirators there for trial are hoping for another terrorist attack so they can “create a new jobs bill” to rebuild the city:

GOHMERT: You’ve got millions of New Yorkers that would be put at risk [by trying Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York City] … Unless they’re trying to create a new jobs bill by allowing terrorism back in New York, this is insane. And even that would be insane.


“GOHMERT: You’ve got millions of New Yorkers that would be put at risk [by trying Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York City]” 

Millions will be at risk by holding a trial, he says.   A trial that will probably be much like those held for the other dozens of Islamic fanatics now in the long-term custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. 

The only logical conclusion to be drawn from Rep. Gohmert’s argument is that we have lost.  Fanatical Islamic fundamentalists are apparently Supermen, capable of overpowering the massive law enforcement capabilities we have in this country.  

All is lost. Islamic fundamentalism won.   A Republican congressman just told us so.

Dennis


Dear Susan,
    Those terrorists are not just ordinary people -- they have super powers which are activated by the mere act of crossing the border and setting foot on the ground in the U.S. of A.  Why else would the Republicans be so worried about having them housed in a maximum security prison or confined in a NYC lockup while being tried?
    What makes it so absolutely insane is that if one of them were placed in the general population of an ordinary federal prison like the one down the road in Lewisburg, he would be treated so poorly by the rest of the inmates that being contaminated by contact with the sweat of a camel would be considered a pleasure by comparison.

Don A in Pennsyltucky.



November 19 - Our friend Mike says that a very brave soul has read Sarah Palin's book for us so we don't have to.  I appreciate that.  I do.  (Momma, do not click this link.  It has some bad words in it.)
     And our friend USexpat sent art with the comment

The Second Edition of "Going Rouge - An American Lie" was released this afternoon.  
 
Palin's ghost writer insisted on having cover credit this go-round.

And Kellybee adds this bumper sticker ---



November 19 - Well, this is kinda fun in a hippie kinda way.
     Come to find out, Bubba and I have been living in sin.  In their Super DeLux Brand Christian zeal to ban gay marriage, it appears that the rightwing in Texas has banned all marriages. 

Texans: Are you really married?

Maybe not.

Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of all marriages in the state.

    We're gonna see if the hoochy-koochy is any better now that we know we're doing it sinfully.
     I pondered on sending letters to all our local steeple people informing them that there will be no sparkin' in their households until this matter is settled.  It was then that Thelma reminded me that the steeple people don't spark at home.  At all. 


Dear Susan,

I am sorry to hear that you and Bubba are living in sin thanks to the bright lights in the Texas GOP. I hope you look at the good side of this. It is irrefutable proof that when God made people he made the Republicans last, and was clearly low on brains at the time.

Does this make all their young'uns illegitimate and unable to enter a church?

Love your work,

Tim Strong


I'm kinda worried about you and Bubba livin' in sin... think of the tragic effects on Little Bubba!  He'll be scarred for life (once he stops laughing).  Maybe you should slip down to Coahuila and regularize the situation.  After all, even folks of the same gender can get married there. 

Richard Grabman


November 18 - Thank you, Don Wright ---



November 18 - You poor folks from foreign states are going to miss a ringside seat for a heckuva battle royal.  I think we even get to be in the ring with them for this fight.
     Darth Cheney and Sarah Palin are fighting out over who is going to be Governor of Texas. 
     And it looks like this ---

"We Westerners know the difference between a real talker and the real deal," the former vice president said. "And when it comes to being conservative, Kay Bailey Hutchison is the real deal."

     And in the other corner ---

Last February, Palin endorsed Perry against Hutchison. She singled out his opposition to abortion rights and the federal financial bailout. Palin called him "a true conservative," in a letter the Perry camp mailed to 10,500 members of the Texas Federation of Republican Women.

     So we get to see the blood fest over what's a TRUE conservative:  dangerously selfish and hateful or proudly and goofily dumb.  Those appear to be only choices when it comes to defining conservative.
     No, seriously, think about it.  You've got Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney fighting over the remnants of the Republican Party.  Damn, that's kinda sad.  You get to hide in a bunker or field dress a moose.  And that there is the Republican Party, my friends.



November 17 - Oh lookie, y'all.  The Congressional Frat House is no longer tax exempt. 

Residents of the C Street Christian fellowship house will no longer benefit from a loophole that had allowed the house's owners to avoid paying property taxes.

Previously, the house -- despite being home to numerous lawmakers -- had been tax exempt, because it was classified as a church. That arrangement had allowed the building's owner, the secretive international Christian organization The Family, to charge significantly below market rents to its residents. In recent year, Senators John Ensign (R-NV), Tom Coburn (R-OK), Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Jim DeMint (R-SC), and Reps. Zach Wamp (R-TN), Bart Stupak (D-MI) and Mike Doyle (D-PA) have all reportedly called C Street home.

     A church?  A church? 
     Well, I guess paying taxes and extortion fees is just asking too much, huh?
     The boys of Sigma Epsilon Chi are going to have to pay their taxes just like everybody else. 
     (Thanks to Carl up north for the heads-up.)


Susan,
Call me cynical, but I wonder if those fine Christian politicians who rented rooms at C Street made their rental payments to the "Church" and then deducted the money as a donation on their tax returns.  
june
 

Susan,

Snark from Al Kamen's "In The Loop" column in today's WaPo:

"It was there that Coburn, an obstetrician and gynecologist, met with Ensign's friend and former top aide, Doug Hampton, the husband of Ensign's mistress, for an emotional chat about forgiveness. Coburn reportedly advised Ensign to stop the affair but has said he would never reveal the details of those discussions, citing his religious privilege as an "ordained deacon" and his medical privilege as Ensign's OB-GYN. "

Barbara
 



November 17 - Governor Rick Perry attended our chamber dinner.
     Rumor has it that he did not attempt to hump a table leg or declare war on Washington, DC.  So, I suspect they're calling it a successful evening. 
     On the other hand, we've had a rabid skunk problem in the county since he was here.  I'm just saying. 



November 17 - I got an email from E Claire this morning that smacked right in the middle of something that's been troubling me for a few days.

Why to Republicans think combating terror is best achieved by shouting out their fears and diving for the fainting couches.

All they've got left is fear itself.

Rudy Guilliani is so damn outspoken about Homeland Security.  Does he think we don't remember he was the one who tried to get W to appoint his pal, Bernie Kerick to head up the new agency. 

Bernie is now in prison for an extended stay.  Why is anyone listening to Rudy?

EClaire

     I wanna tell y'all something.
     I live within hiking distance of three prisons and the county jail.  One of these prisons houses the most violent of the mentally disturbed in the Texas prison system.  Do you realize how dead solid crazy you have to be to be considered crazy in the Texas justice system? 
     These dudes make the Taliban look like a girl scout troop.  We have signs on our highways that say, "Don't Pick Up Hitchhikers with Chain Saws."  Okay, so maybe I just made up the chainsaw part, but we do have the hitchhiker warning for those just passing through.
     I have lived here 30 years and I am not afraid. 
     Heckfire, we're tried mass murders at the county courthouse, which I can walk to.  We even tried several coyotes whose buddies kept threatening to shoot the prosecutor, who at that time was Bubba. 
     You cannot be afraid.  But, even if you are, you don't show it.  It's unbecoming and sissified.  We need to codify that into law.
     One day get me to tell you the story about seeing a five foot, 90 pound female deputy bring down a guy the size of Brewster County without even stopping to plan a strategy.  I looked once and saw that he was intent on barbequeing a judge.  I blinked and the next thing I saw was that he was face down, cuffed, and had Deputy Mary standing on his back like she'd scaled a mountain and was claiming it for the sheriff's department.  She never even pulled her gun. 
     What is wrong with this country?  When did we become a cistern of sissies? 
     Look, I think George Bush was a giant idiot when he said, "Bring it on."  That's not courage, that's showboating and you don't have a right to do that on behalf of a whole damn country. 
     There's a difference between showboating and gutting up, and it's time to gut up.  Hell, it's way past time.
     Like Deputy Mary, it's time to do what we do best and bring that sucker down. 
     When my friend Barbara showed me that a guy we admire had tripped the scardy cat cord, I was heartbroken.  Barbara sighed heavily that Democrat Jim Webb has joined the BOO! crowd.  I know Webb's not a chicken so why is he encouraging others to be? 
     If we had a half-way decent district attorney, I'd tell Holder to send those guys down here for us to try.  We ain't scared.  Hell, we've faced down Ross Perot, Henry Lee Lucas and Rick Perry.  Khalid Shaikh Mohammed ain't no championship rodeo for a riding cowboy. 
     This is America, dammit.  Gut the heck up and quit letting politicians control with fear. 
     And just one more question. 
     Why is it that it's the Super DeLux Brand Christians who are the most afraid? 
     I know for a fact that courage is not the absence of fear but the presence of faith. 
     Christians, my patootie.  They are just crybabies.



November 17 - Carl Hiaasen is one of my guilty pleasure favorite writers.  In fact, I just ordered his newest collection of columns last week from Amazon.  I hope this is in it
     Here's a peek, but you really need to read the whole thing. 

Dear Sarah,

Thank you for turning in the manuscript so quickly. I thought only Stephen King could crank out 400 pages in four months! Seriously, there’s some terrific material here, and all of us at Harper Collins are thrilled to be publishing your life story.

Before we move ahead, the fact-checking department has asked me to pass along a few notes and comments that might require some revisions on your part.

  1. Eric Clapton spells his last name with a C. More significant, his publicists tell us you were not the inspiration for “Layla” and that he doesn’t recall ever having an affair with you. Is it possible you’ve got him confused with another rock star?

     Hiaasen fights developers in South Florida.  His books are raw, nasty, violent, and hysterically funny.  I am absolutely in love with some of his characters.
     Give yourself a treat and read his take on Sarah Palin.



November 16 - Well, the Republican Party built a monster in their basement and now it's threatening to come upstairs to have dinner with the family. 
     And, the family is the dinner.
     The Teabaggers are eating the Republican Party

“We need more John Wayne and Jesus in Washington,” the Marble Falls rancher and businessman declares.

Clowdus is just the kind of grass-roots activist that national Republican leaders sought to fire up in the Tea Party movement that has spread across Texas in energetic rallies and heated town hall confrontations. Now, the 40-year-old Army veteran is seeking to unseat an incumbent congressman whom he calls a profligate spender.

Just one problem: Clowdus, an avid Tea Party loyalist, is running in the Republican primary against a Republican incumbent, Rep. Mike Conaway of Midland.

     More John Wayne and Jesus?  I guess Ole Clowdus thought the only problem with George Bush was that he wasn't plenty enough stubborn and religious.  Pour some more kerosene on that forest fire and everything'll be jim dandy, huh?
     Next thing you know, the Republicans, a none-too-bright bunch, is thinking that poking a stick at the monster is the wise thing to do ---

At this point, Republican Party officials don't seem too concerned.

“I don't get the feeling that those particular candidacies are going to have a great effect,” says Bryan Preston, director of communications for the Texas Republican Party.

     That's about a minus seven on the smart meter. 
     That's gonna rile up Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin and they're gonna come feed the monster spinach and Olive Oyl. 
     This might be just a guess on my part, but it seems to me that these teabagger people are upset because they feel unimportant and unappreciated.  Yeah, tell a bunch of old white men and the Dorcas Sunday School Class at Greater Mount Zion and Utopia Independent  Missionary Baptist Church that they don't matter and, Honey, you got yourself not only a monster, but a monster with a splittin' headache and a sore paw. 
     This ain't gonna be pretty.
     It is, however, gonna be fun.

     By the way, in keeping with today's theme of Don't Piss Off The Wrong People, a friend reminded me of a great homemade road sign right outside one of my favorite Texas towns, Alpine.  Alpine is 250 miles from any place with a name.

     If that ain't a message to the Republican Party from the Teabaggers, I don't know what is. 


Hi, Susan,

Perhaps the first act of this Clowdus chap, if elected, might be to place Jesus and John Wayne as the new wedding cake topper at the Texas Capitol building?


 

Regards,
Eileen



Susan,
I just read a lot of those comments of the Teabaggers in the Chronicle..  Girl, those people are ten ways of crazy.  They deny it, but they sure sound like Republicans to me.  To prove they're not, they'll have to retool their signage and learn to spell (I can tell a typo from a misspelling).  They remind me of some of those crazy political groups in Germany in the early 1930's I've read a lot about.  John Wayne was a cowboy actor and Jesus would never approve of what they're doing, so I don't know what in hades that man Clowdus is thinking.  I bet he gets agricultural subsidies! 
 
june


Hello Susan!

Don't you just love how the Tea Partiers are going after the Republicants? With any luck, we'll see more Democrats elected since the Tea Party candidates will be siphoning off votes from the Republicants. And Clowdus thinks we need more John Wayne and Jesus? Whatever happened to separation of church and state? Oh, right...George Dubya Bush was selected president and the right wing fundamentalists went even loonier.

And I have to agree with June about the way the tea partiers misspell words. The link below is for a picture taken at one of the tea parties (not sure which one), and not only did the sign carrier misspell "information," but if you look really closely at the God Bless America on the sign, it actually says "God Bless Amercia." Maybe that's the country they're always shouting that they want back. Anyway, here's the link

Mary in San Antonio, where the temp has dropped so much today that I'd be turning blue if I already wasn't
 


November 15 - Thank you, Nick Anderson (and Mike for sending it) --



November 13 - Well, dayum.

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) will announce she is delaying her resignation from the Senate so that she can continue to represent Texas in the Senate while pursuing the Republican nomination for governor in the Lone Star state.

     She will forever be known as She Who Got Whooped By Boy Fruitcake.



November 13 - Well, sure, now that Michael Steele has already purchased supplemental abortion insurance --

"The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent human life.”

Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna. Two sales agents for the company said that the RNC’s policy covers elective abortion."

     Which proves once and for all: this ain't about abortion, it's about riling up the wackos, hatemongers, and flat earthers.


I’m sure the right is already screaming that this is just another example of the media “gotcha game.”
And...can’t find absolute confirmation, but word is that Focus on the Family also had abortion-enabling insurance.

Eileen


 “…word is that Focus on the Family also had abortion-enabling insurance.” 

People who work for Focus on the Family had sex?  With other people?  

Dennis


Enjoy!

Wanda



November 13 - Okay, y'all, it is getting kinda scary.  Governor Rick Perry has moved from Fox News Nuts to Overnight Talk Radio Nuts.
     Apparently Rick Perry has come to believe that Barack Obama Hisownself is dumping illegal aliens in Texas. 
     No, I'm serious as a heart attack. 

Texas GOP Gov. Rick Perry accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of "punishing" Texas and being "hell-bent" on turning the United States into a socialist country. [...]

Perry ... accused the Obama administration of intentionally dumping illegal immigrants from other western states in Texas, recalling a conversation he had with local officials notifying him that illegal aliens that were caught in Nogales, Arizona were being dropped off by federal authorities in Presidio, Texas.

        I think Rick is envisioning Obama driving a pick up truck load of Mexicans every night in the cover of darkness from Arizona to South Texas, obviously taking the scenic route for their viewing pleasure, just for his desired goal of being a damn socialist or pissin' off Rick Perry, whichever comes first.
     Verdelia says that this is all very entertaining since Texas has a weak form of Governor to start with.  "Holy Guacamole," she says, "if George Bush could do it, it don't take much to be Governor."  
     My money says that he's gonna get crazier and crazier as the election gets along.  Hell, he'll probably get breast implants, shoot a moose, and French kiss Glenn Beck before it's all over with.  Conservative credentials come at a price now-a-days.



November 13 - We get emails with good news about my vote last year ---


Looks like the Pentagon boys who thought leaking would corner the President just found out what it's like to run into the unrollable.

McCrystal may be about to do a reenactment of McArthur with Obama doing a tall version of Truman.  None of the above is the option none of them thought he would think of.  Too damn bad.

Looks like he regards the troops as American people who have been given eight years of guano loco assignments.  Obama wants them to be able to not be pawns in somebody's macho posing.
Good on him.

EClaire


Susan,

I don't know if you saw this on the Huffington Post, but it goes waaaayyy beyond what was reported

It' soooo nice to have a Commander in Chief who takes his job really seriously.

I'm beginning to believe that Obama is playing three-dimensional chess while everybody else is playing checkers.

Barbara

 


November 12 - Oh please let this be true!

The sudden resignation of Lou Dobbs from CNN might have surprised a lot of his supporters, but it was less of a shock to some of his closest business associates. Dobbs, multiple sources have told AllYourTV.com, has been quietly testing the waters for a presidential run in 2012.

     Sarah Palin, Lou Dobbs, and Mike Huckabee. 
     Okay, you know all those people who think the world is going to end in 2012?  This is why.  No, seriously.  That's the Psychotic Trifecta that will cause the Seventh Seal to be opened.  I know about these things.  Look it up. 


Susan,

My prediction on Lou Dobbs:

He will appear as a regular on Fox News within a week or two.  He disappeared from CNN as suddenly as  Glenn Beck and Bill ( can't remember his last name and was too good looking for his own good but was well aware of his appeal to women) were given their own program hours on Fox within a few days.  Can you imagine the hoopla from Fox running their own candidate (or candidates) for President?  Dobbs & Beck Republican Candidates.

Marsha



November 12 - I think I've explained her before that I am a member of Bimbos Anonymous.  It's a 14 step program - oh yeah, 12 steps aren't near enough to correct Bimboism - that begins with: 1. I am powerless over the lazy intellect of being a bimbo.
     It is powerful easy to be a bimbo.  And it looks so danged attractive to be so intellectually lazy and emotionally fragile. 
     I think a bunch of us recovering bimbos need to go do an intervention on Carrie Prejean
     Carrie, Honey, when you don't get your way, it makes all hooter toters look bad for you to take off your microphone, sit like a lump on a log, and call someone's behavior inappropriate.  Especially Larry King's.  Cripes, what the heck is wrong with you?
     Girl, get a dipstick and measure your estrogen level.  I think you're about a quart low.

 

     And, Girl, your heroes, Sarah and Michelle can use an intervention, too.  They can dish it out, but the sure can't take it.
     Not all Republicans are bimbos.  But all bimbos sure the hell are Republican.


Oh Susan,

Did you see the part where Carrie-Lou said she was being silenced because she is a conservative Christian woman who knows policy, just like Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann.  I can't remember if this was before or after news of her multiple sex tapes was released..........hmmm.
I expect many uses of 'inappropriate' from you in the next few days.

If she and Mark Sanford could get together I would swoon and never, ever ask for anything else from the universe!  He could cry and she could smile and tell him he was being inappropriate..........sigh

Sybil



November 12 - Well, I ordered my Thanksgiving wardrobe today ---

           

     You can get yours, too, right here.



November 11 - Thank you, Jim Morin ---


The RNC's insurance policy allows abortion , imagine that!  The Obama administration is seizing Mosques and assets tied to terrorism.    

Can't wait for Fox News to respond to that.

Kathy



November 11 - I not only have cool and generous friends, I have smart friends, and they can use the email.


Dear Susan,

    A couple of interesting items crossed my path courtesy of the Warshington Post.  The first was Mr. E.J.Dionne's discussion of the ballot questions in Maine and Washington (state of) where so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights measures were roundly defeated which he interprets as support for government as a force for good in the 19th century liberal tradition.  The other was the neologism which makes "Scozzafava" into a verb describing what happens when the neo-ultra-con-tea-bagger crowd decides to put their own candidate up against a not-conservative-enough Republican.
    Now I've long been of the opinion that drawing conclusions about the mood of the nation on the basis of a few state and local elections is right up there with examining the entrails of a goat when it comes to predicting what's going to happen in the future.  The person doing the divination generally seems to draw whatever conclusion suits their fancy at the moment. This is just another version of what Doug Smith used to say about how "any pretext will serve as long as it can be used to justify your intentions."  So I'm not one to give a lot of credence to either one of the aforementioned electoral results.  MY favorite story from the recent elections is the one where the Monty Python people are considering suing the governor-elect of New Jersey for copyright infringement.

Don A in Pennsyltucky home of the almost-2-in-a-row World Series almost Champions and the perpetual also-ran Pirates who exist to make the Astros look good.


Dear Ms. Susan,

I was at the Rice v. Navy game last month to see Pete Olson  grammstanding over the moon rock that the Kennedy family donated to  the university. I heard him promise to support NASA so that he could  come back and give Rice a mars rock someday.

Tonight I was catching up on The Daily Show and saw video of Michelle  Bachmann's tea party on the Capitol steps last week, the one with the  big picture of stacked holocaust victims labeled "national socialist 
health care." Pete Olson was there too, pandering to Dick Armey's  stooges.

This got me wondering, are we going to be stuck with Olson for twenty years like we were with DeLay? Who have we got to run against him? I like Richard Morrison, but question whether he can win. Besides, Fort Bend needs him on the Commissioner's Court. Who else is out there for us? I can't see running Nick Lampson again, there's too many republicans in the Democratic Party already. Is Ginny Matranga rested 
and ready?

Regards,

Charly Hoarse



November 11 - It is a scientific fact that I have the coolest friends on earth.  And the most generous ones, too.
     She Who Cannot Be Named presented me with this upscale fashionista formal footwear at lunch today.

         

     Eat you heart out!



November 11 - We get great email!


Today I've decided to eschew my usual irreverent contributions to KMBBB and exhort its readers to remember that today is Veterans Day.

  It's been more than 30 years since I enlisted in the United States Air Force; a lot of water has passed beneath the ol' Kellybee Bridge since then, but I still recall the days when I wore that green uniform with blue stripes just like it was last week. I acquired skills that still use to this day, saw a huge chunk of the world, and made friendships that are going strong decades later.

  Funny, I didn't think much about "sacrifice" back then, and while I can't speak for all those who've worn a uniform of the Armed Forces, I suspect most past and present servicemen and servicewomen don't spend much time dwelling on things like that...we were (and are) too busy doing our duty.

  To all the Flyboys, Grunts, Leathernecks, Swabbos and Coasties out there, former and present...thank you!

"Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others"     -ANONYMOUS
                                                                                        Kellybee
 

      
                      

  And I would like to thank my two favorite veterans ---

    


November 10 - I've often said that if I had really done all the things that local rumors have accused me of doing, I'd be a much happier woman. 
     One friend suggested that I should go ahead and misbehave because I'm gonna get accused of it anyway.  There's some great wisdom in that.
     Olympia Snowe should have listened to that wisdom.
     She might as well vote her conscience on health care and run as Democrat next year because Republicans are going to primary her anyway.

A new survey of Maine from Public Policy Polling (D) has some dire news for Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME), with the moderate Republican potentially losing her 2012 Republican primary against a generic conservative challenger -- and by a landslide, no less.

The numbers: Conservative challenger 59%, Snowe 31%, with a ±4.8% margin of error. It is of course a long way from the idea of a generic conservative challenger to having an actual candidate, but the potential for success by just such an insurgent is certainly there.

     Olympia, do the right thing and I'll send you money to help you get elected as a Democrat.  I've got friends who will, too. 



November 10 - So the Republicans have a plan ----

U.S. Rep. Michael Conaway of Midland was among 16 Texas Republicans who sailed to renomination last year, unopposed in their party's March primary.

But in March, Conaway looks to be among half a dozen members of the state's GOP caucus, including Rep. Michael McCaul of Austin, facing challenges from people inspired to run, in part, by tea party rallies.

     They are going to primary each other.  Helluva plan, Boys!  That is one bright light idea if I do say so myself. 
     Take anyone in your party who isn't a bat crap crazy and defeat them in the primary.  Make your party "pure" and then try to win in November with 25% of the vote.
     Far be it from me to remind the Republicans that's what they did in the the New York 23rd and the result gave Nancy Pelosi another much needed vote for health care reform. 

     Oh, this is going to be a fun election season.



November 9 - So I spent an odd amount of time this weekend planning for a damn hurricane.  It's November.  There's a damn hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. 
     That creeped me out.  Seriously. 
     I've planted my pansies already and I've never had to worry about protecting my pansies from a damn hurricane.
     I visited my friend El Jefe Bob over at The Daily Hurricane, thinking maybe he punched a hole in the cosmic karma by naming his site in a predictive fashion, but he was silent on hurricane this weekend, unless you count the hoot between Kos and Tancredo, which you won't want to miss.
     Well, my pansies will be fine, but Florida is gonna get a lot of rain.  The Gulf had cooled down to enough to keep that sucker from forming up good.  Phew!

     On a more frightening than a hurricane note, there's Phil Gram.
     Alfredo sent us news of this little movie due out soon.  It seems that Gramm is the pit boss in the American Casino.

You want a villain, a bad guy you can blame for the financial crisis that’s torn a hole in the American economy? The gripping new documentary American Casinojust released on DVD like to nominate Phil Gramm.

The opening credits have just stopped rolling when Gramm, the former Texas senator who chaired the Senate Banking Committee for five years, makes his brief appearance in the film. “This is a mental recession,” Gramm says, in footage taken from his 2008 video interview with the Washington Times. And then, a moment or two later, comes the now infamous kicker: “We’ve sort of become a nation of whiners.”

     Okay, get the popcorn.  Phil Gramm is the man I love to hate. 


I would like to show Phil Gramm what real whining is by kicking his big butt across the country and back again. The man makes me crazy!!!
 
Carol


November 8 - Okay, Guys, I watched a lot of the House debate on health care today and it just hacked me off. 
     And, Bubba, God love him, was screaming plays at the Democrats on tv like other guys scream at the refs or coaches during the big game.  I have come to believe that Bubba hates Blue Dogs worse than he hates Republicans.  I suspect that's because at least Republicans will stand and face you when they're gonna hurt you, but Blue Dogs will sneak up and stab you in the back.  Bubba has had some personal experience in that area.
     I think I might agree with Bubba about the Blue Dogs.  I think Blue Dogs are as worthless as a four card flush.
     But, overall, I had a different take on the session yesterday.  Every time I saw a white boy Republican take the speaker's podium and almost spit out the words "the Pelosi health care plan" or occasionally "the Obama health care plan," it reminded me what this debate was really about. 
     It was about the white boys having to share some of their power.  This was not about health care or America's future.  This was about white boys and their power. 
     So, just to make themselves feel better, they just had to get between a woman and her doctor.  They added an amendment that hurts women. 
     I think they're a bunch of poopie del pollos.


The only Republican who voted for the measure said it was a "decision of conscience".  I seldom see the words Republican and conscience used in the same sentence.  I love the ad on Huffpo that says, "Being a woman is not a pre-existing condition."   I wish Republicans and Blue Dogs understood that fact.

Sam


Susan.

Sorry about this.

Bud


Don't worry. God will take notice of them, the blue dogs and the republicans and all those that hate women.

SHE will take care of them.

It is almost 80 on our deck and sunny. I still have a hanging basket full of flowers. And I live 20 miles south of the Canadian border.

Diane



Susan,
 
Pete Sessions disagrees with Sam. He said yesterday that women ARE a pre-existing condition, because they're different and have all that stuff that he doesn't want to know about and it scares him. Now if they had simple plumbing like a man he would be more comfortable with that. 
 
Did any Republicans disagree? Maybe even one of the 17 Republican congresspersons? ( At this point I would have a hard time calling them congresswomen)
 
I guess their health care doesn't discriminate like normal people's plans do.
 
Brian
 

Good morning..

Perhaps we should remove Viagra from Congress's  drug program, until they remove the Stupak amendment.

Carl


Dear Susan,

The Stupak rule only allows abortion in the event the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest or life of mother.  This only proves that they are not concerned with the baby, but only with punishing females. If they consider abortion killing babies, why is it alright to kill them if they were conceived by rape or incest?

It is time we wimmin fight fire with fire.  I am enlisting all pro-choice men and women to demand that no federal funds can be used "Erection Pumps", or "Erection Enhancements", or "Impotence Drugs" and "Treatments for Erectile Dysfunction"

What do you want to bet that at least half of the anti-choice men are on at least one of those ?

Wanda
 



November 6 - And for your Friday entertainment, this is an actual picture taken of an actual car on an actual parking lot in Richmond, Texas, yesterday afternoon, actually  ---

     Need a close-up?

      Fab, Inc?
     Meh, not so much.
     By the way, the old guy driving it was wearing Bermuda shorts and knee-high black socks.  I don't think it was actually Tom DeLay, but I could be wrong.


Susan,

I read your blog regularly and gotta admit that you often make me smile.

Don’t the words FAB and DELAY cancel each other out?

Sincerely

Eileen



November 6 - On a rare personal note, congratulations to Lil' Bubba, who is now Lil' Bubba, Attorney at Law. 

     On the downside, I now have to admit the fact that I gave birth to a writ twit.
     On the upside, don't mess with me.  Seriously, don't mess with me.

     (The cake is from Kroger's Grocery Store - the only bakery in town open at 7:00 at night, where you can drop by a pick up a cake on your way to a celebration dinner.  I didn't say a good cake, I just said a cake.)



November 5 - Steven just emailed to remind me about T.J. Huntley, the handsome official notary public, who was running for mayor of Houston.
     It's unlike me to forget some like T.J. - especially his amazing photo in his War on Crime section. 
     T.J. believes in the Bible when it comes to abortion, but the US Constitution when it comes to guns.  I call it Pick and Lose politics. 
     Since, according to T.J., okay I can't help myself - one last photo, Houston is wildly liberal, so he withdrew from the race and threw his full support behind Roy Morales.  Roy came in dead last.  I suspect he would have come in worse without T.J.'s endorsement. 
     So here's to T.J. - living proof that a cool website and a drunk hairdresser can't win a political office in Houston.


Susan,

I must admit, this TJ Huntley character fascinates me...I mean, isn't it just THE perfect name for one of those TV cop shows from the '80s or '90s?

Kellybee


Is it just me or in this picture, does he look like the bastard child of Tom DeLay?  Seriously.

Also, I don’t get the “handsome” thing.  He’s dressed well, but… 

David



November 5 - We get email to rev up your thinkin' mechanism --


Now, read this and tell me how we allow referendums to decide if gay people can marry each other.  This is from our government:

    Democracies understand that protecting the rights of minorities to uphold cultural identity, social practices, individual consciences, and religious activities is one of their primary tasks.

If somebody could please flesh out the case for marriage only being between a man and a woman a bit more, I might have respect for the argument.  Otherwise I can only see it as discrimination.

Here's a wacky 2-part idea that would take care of everybody: 

    1. We let gay people get married
    2. If you aren't gay, don't get gay married

Now what's for lunch? 

John


“1. We let gay people get married.
2. If you aren't gay, don't get gay married

How could the argument be any more obvious?   I apply the same standard to abortion, as in “if you are opposed to it, don’t have one.” Aside from that, the old “mind your own business” answer seems to fit quite well.   

You’d think conservatives, people who are always up in arms about an intrusive, all-powerful government, would kinda get that point. But they don’t.  

Dennis


Oh, yes, letting the electorate decide who should have civil rights is a great idea.  Wonder what year Jim Crow would have been struck down in Mississippi if it had been left to the voters???  Don’t we have something called the Bill of Rights to protect minorities?  I can’t wait for this one to make its way to the Supreme Court and listen to the reasoning of those guys (think I know how the gals would rule).  Since they are not “activist judges” surely they will rule on the side of the Constitution … wanna’ bet?   

Deborah


Susan,

These wags in California have a new "Rescue Marriage" act that they are working on to get on the ballot as a referendum:  outlawing DIVORCE in California, no less.

http://rescuemarriage.org/

Hee Hee.  Let's hear it for Hipocrisy!!! Yah!!!

Barbara
 


Dennis is so correct about the conservies. For all they scream about wanting smaller government, it all boils down to: "'We don't want an overbearing, intrusive government.....except when we do."

Lefty


November 5 - It's nice to know that I'm a member of a socialist organization hell bent on destroying America and killing grandma.

     News is coming ---

The House is steaming toward a historic vote on President Barack Obama's remake of the U.S. health care system, with Democratic leaders increasingly confident and the powerful seniors' lobby AARP about to get on board.

A debate and vote are expected Saturday on the 10-year, $1.2 trillion bill that would extend coverage to 96 percent of Americans, require employers to insure their employees and bar such insurance company practices as dropping coverage for sick people.

     Yes sireee, still a hippie after all these years.  So, Glenn Beck and Michelle Bachmann, I just want you to know I'm a card-carrying member of a commie organization.

     Do y'all suppose that Glenn and Michelle are two people who say NO so often that they have extras N's in their names just to remind themselves?


Dear Susan,
 
I am 51 and have avoided joining AARP - "I am not that old" I keep telling myself. I am joining this commie group today!
 
CL
 

Dear Fellow Commie,  

 I joined this organization when I was 45 and became (get this) a “Junior member”  of the AARP .  One of the best lines I heard was from a comedian who proposed that we give them the job of finding Osama Bin Laden  “the AARP finds anybody over 50” he said makes sense to me.

Carol


Susan,
 
I'm a proud 20-year member of that commie organization, AARP.  That makes me 70, so what, when I feel and some say look and act much younger.  Everyone should have the same medical benefits I have.  I get real disgusted with these older people who feel that are "special" and entitled to special benefits while others do without, and I have, on occasion, told a couple of geezers they aren't entitled to anything special just because they are lucky enough to live beyond 65.  Those who think there shouldn't be "socialistic" medical coverage for all should give up their Medicare and Social Security because they've probably already received way more than they put in.
 
Keep up the good work. 

 june


Susan,

Well now, I need to say, that if AARP is endorsing health insurance reform, I need to get way cynical here.  Being largely an insurance organization with a fancy name (think Bush) they sold folks down the river with big Pharma and arm twisting in the Congress to prohibit government being able to negotiate prices for medications/drugs  for people.  I dropped my membership as did lots of others.  If the Obama administration keeps the bad deal they made with Phrama, maybe its one reason why AARP likes this reform.  Just saying...........

I believe the man in charge of AARP at the time is now heading GM or something like that.  I don't have that info down pat, but I saw him at the hearings ........ Nardelli I think.  He screws up AARP and gets another CEO job!!  Had the nerve to call people who dropped to find out why they dropped, in mass!

Sybil



November 4 - Thank you, Mike Luckovich ---



November 4 - Well, goodness sake.  Sarah Palin came to town and destroyed the Republican Party in order to save the Republican Party. 
     Ya think we could hire her to do that in Texas?

A Democrat running in a historically Republican stronghold won a closely watched special congressional election in northern New York state, capitalizing on a split that emerged between moderates and conservatives for control of the Republican Party.

     It appears that Sarah Palin and Glen Beck can win battles but lose the war.  I dunno about you, but I'm rooting for them! 

 

 

 


Susan,

Please, let's hire Palin to come and destroy the Republicant party here in Texas. Heck, with any luck, she'll do it when she comes to stump for Gov. Goodhair. And with Darth Cheney stumping for Kay, hopefully we will see the GOP implode. We can only hope...

I found it rather amusing that the so-called pundits seem to think that the GOP wins in the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey are a referendum on Obama and his administration, yet they totally ignore the Democratic congressional wins in CA -10 and NY-23, which to me are much more important in a national sense. After all, governors cannot vote on federal legislation and congressmen can and will. And both Congress critters are in favor of single payer or public option in health insurance reform.

The really ironic part part of NY-23 is that Palin, Beck, and Limbaugh's support of the Conservative Party candidate caused the voters in that district to elect the first Democratic congress critter since the Civil War. Maybe with their support, we can get a Democratic governor for the next 100 years or so.

From blue San Antonio,
Mary



November 4 - Momma's candidates in Houston did well last night.  Momma has a knack for picking winners.  She'll be scampering back to the polls for the run-off.
     I know some of the people who ran Peter Brown's disastrous mayoral campaign.  Brown is a good guy but his campaign was run by some folks with a sterling reputation for getting the fewest votes for the most amount of money.  I mean, I'm no fancy pants political consultant, but I think that's backwards.
     Peter Brown spent a gazillion dollars and only got 3,500 more votes than Roy Morales, who spent the change he found in his couch and frontseat car console.
     For the life of me, I cannot figure out how these consultants keep getting hired.  I guess they know which hands to grease and butts to kiss.  I haven't learned that lesson yet.



November 3 - The Texas Tribune - let's hope it lives up to its promise.
     Bookmark it and check it. 



November 3 - Zen Zheng over at the Houston Chronicle got a handle on our Republican County Commissioner Andy Meyers, the greediest man in a 4 zip code area.  It's true; look it up.
     It seems that the county wants to make some rules about reimbursements.  Andy Meyers loves him some reimbursements. 
     If you add up what he pays himself for mileage from his campaign account and what he submits for the county to reimburse him in mileage, it becomes clear that Andy drives from here to Italy twice a month.  In a truck bought by his campaign funds, no less.
     Andy also likes to eat on your dime.  I guess it's getting to be time for me to request his reimbursements again.  We pay for his lunch so often that we should qualify for a free Happy Meal each week.
     But the big new in Zen's article is Andy's loophole hunt in the the Texas ethics rules.  Andy belongs to an organization that fights to keep caps off of homeowner's taxes, thereby giving him a bigger pool of our money to request reimbursements for himself. 
     Andy wants this group to be able to provide him with reimbursements, too.  The sneaky part about this is that this would be unreportable.  We would have no idea how much money and fancy dinners they are giving Andy to fight against our own interests. 
     That's a cause only a rightwing Republican could love! 
     Somebody better start sewing Andy a glittery costume because it's just a matter of time before he's on Dancing with the Stars!



November 3 - If there's anything a Texan hates, it's having to give up knighthood.

Disgraced Texas financier R. Allen Stanford is being stripped of his knighthood in the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda, the head of the government panel that approves the awards said Monday.

The National Honors Committee voted unanimously to revoke Stanford's title for embarrassing the nation by running an alleged Ponzi scheme out of his Antigua-based offshore bank, Chairwoman Jacqui Quinn-Leandro said.

     Now his cellmate, Big Cooter, can drop the whole Sir thing.  I'm sure that's a relief to Cooter because all that bowing was getting tiresome. 


HOT DAWG!  Another "extinguished" Texan!

Mickey



November 2 - Other than a few small money donations, I stay out of Houston politics.  I live in Fort Bend. I know how I hate it when outsiders come here and insert themselves in our elections, so I stay clear of theirs.  I think it's just good manners.
     However, Momma lives in Houston and there are four people she voted for with pride and honor - Annise Parker, Lane Lewis, Ronald Green, and Sue Lovell.  Good folks, all.
     So, don't take it from me because I don't live there - take it from Momma.



November 1 - There's lots of stuff that I don't understand about Republicans but this one floated to the top today.
     Our Republican State Representative John Zerwas sent out this flier.  Click the little one to get the big one.

     It appears that John and his buddy Bill Callegari are having themselves a townhall "to focus on how 'big government' efforts have failed in Washington and California and what those failures could mean to Texas and the local area."
     Pull in on them reins and holler whoa, Big John Zee.
     Doesn't California have a giant ole Republican Governor?  And haven't Republicans been totally in charge of Washington DeeCee for 8 years? 
    Hey, Captain Slowpoke, it was conservative Republicans who bankrupted the government.  Don't be acting like somebody else did it when you weren't looking.  Don't be standing around clueless about what happened. 
     When we had big government, the economy was booming and everything was dandy.  Then you boys showed up and gutted America while claiming that you were just trying to hate homosexuals and protect unborn babies.
     And, Honey, in case you haven't noticed, Republicans have been in power in Texas for two decades.  Y'all screwed that up, too. 
     This whole deal is especially disappointing to me because I thought John Zee was the least objectionable Republican in Fort Bend.  I think he was when he got elected, but they've taken his brain and replaced it with sheep dip.
     John Zee, big guvmint ain't the problem.  Fibbing, greedy, and irresponsible Republicans are the problem.  Wake up, John, before they steal your manliness and feed it to Dick Cheney for breakfast.  That comes next, ya know.  Then ya end up in an airport bathroom taping your foot.  It ain't pretty.
     I'm just saying.


You have to wonder if Republicans have the slightest idea of what they are talking about.   Zerwas warns of “big government” in Texas, where we in fact operate with a minimalist, small budget government.  I’m betting Zerwas doesn’t know – and sure as hell doesn’t want his constituents to realize – that Texas citizens pay the lowest per capita tax burden of any of the fifty states.  Big government?  Where?  

Dennis

 

 


Welcome to the website formerly known as The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc.

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.