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01 Feb ' 19:24
We've moved over to the Beauty Salon.
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27 Jan ' 12:47
Okay, some of you have asked if I'm going to shut down this website. Probably not. I like this URL and I've put a lot of work into this to just let it disappear. I'll keep it up for at least a year because there's some local history here that need to be kept. However, I probably won't post here, so get your minimum daily requirement of sass at Juanita's.
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26 Jan ' 12:11
January 26 - Come on over, grab a cup of coffee, chat with us for a while, and change your bookmarks.Okay, some of you have asked if I'm going to shut down this website. Probably not. I like this URL and I've put a lot of work into this to just let it disappear. I'll keep it up for at least a year because there's some local history here that need to be kept. However, I probably won't post here, so get your minimum daily requirement of sass at Juanita's.
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25 Jan ' 13:28
January 25 - And this is why I love El Jefe Bob. Jefe writes about Gov. Rick Perry taking rightwing bloggers out to gun practice ---
In what can only be termed as really bad timing and bad judgment, Governor Rick Perry, sell-out to teabaggers and secessionists to keep his job for life, took a group of right wing bloggers to...wait for it...shoot guns at a range in Austin yesterday. The event was part of some "online conference" which was apparently a gathering of conservative bloggers, Perry, his hair, and his handgun. The ill-conceived field trip occurred 24 hours after a gunman fired shots from a handgun on the south steps of the Texas Capitol, stopped by state troopers. The shooter, Fausto Cardenas, had just visited Dan Patrick's office and had been asked to leave. There are no metal detectors in the Capitol and Perry opposes them even after this incident. Patrick has admitted to regularly carrying a concealed handgun in the Capitol himself. Jesus.
Jefe then posts a picture of blogger standing in front of her Christmas tree aiming a gun into the camera. Sweet Baby Jesus would be so proud. Gold, frankincense, myrrh, and your cold dead body.
Remember Joe the Plumber Wurzelbacher from John McCain's campaign? He came to Dallas/Ft.Worth for the teabag rallies where he was paid to speak, however they asked if he would make one quick stop in Bedford, between Dallas and Ft. Worth. 150 supporters showed up to cheer their local Repub wannabe's, who were supposed to just say hello, but 15 of them rambled on while Joe crouched in the corner. When he got irritated he finally spoke. Here are some excerpts from the Star-Telegram of what he said:" Elected officials are failing the country but neither party has the answer".About Scott Brown of Mass.:" If you really studied him and know anything about him he's not a true conservative, but he is in the Rep.party and he's there with Michael Steele and Newt Gringrich, yada, yada, yada, so what?"" We need true Americans. It doesn't matter if they're Republicans or Democrats. Now Liberals, yeah, we need to get rid of them."------This ole boy lost the shine in his line. Maybe Sarah needs to give him a big red whop upside the head and some new talking points. Just maybe, he found a place crazier than he knew existed.Esther WomackGranbury
Concerning Andre Bauer's "modest proposal"
A real South Carolina patriot, James L. Petigru (1789-1863) said that "South Carolina is too small for a republic, and too large for an insane asylum."
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24 Jan ' 15:54
January 24 - Dear Lord, until you make being mean and stoopid be painful, this kind of stuff will continue to happen in South Carolina. I'm not telling you what to do, Lord. I'm just saying .....
GREENVILLE
- Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer has compared giving
people government assistance to "feeding stray
animals."Bauer, who is running for the Republican nomination for governor, made his remarks during a town hall meeting in Fountain Inn that included state lawmakers and about 115 residents.
"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better," Bauer said.
In South Carolina, 58 percent of students participate in the free and reduced-price lunch program.Okay, for today, Texas cedes the rights to "Ignorant Vicious Politicians" to South Carolina.
Gov. Rick Perry, the ball is in your court.
Susan,
Oh, the STOOPID! It HURTS!Our (in)famous public school Chancellor has done lost her mind.
I'm not a lawyer, but I play one on the internets, and even I can count 266 defamation law suits. And, the police are wondering who didn't report the (alleged) abuse.
Dear God, make it stop.
Barbara
Susan. A bit of blasphemy on this grand football day. With respect to Old Abe’s memory, when the Union was reformed in 1865, South Carolina should have been sent on their merry way. Misfits, and the voting public who support them, should be excluded from our club.
Bud
The ball is indeed now in Perry’s court. And he lobbed a quick one with his “more guns will make us safer” response to the shooting at the state capitol. Give them credit - Rick Perry and South Caroline Lt. Gov. Bauer clearly – and I mean CLEARLY – understanding the average GOP voter.
Dennis
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23 Jan ' 20:16
Hi Susan,Well I guess the SCOTUS ruling on Thursday will clear up one controversy. The pledge for little school chidren.Now every morning they can say:I Pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of WalMart and to the Corporation for which it stands.One nation under Goldman Sachs,divisible,With Liberty and Justice for a select few .Brought to you by the ones that cannot support Health Care Reform because it is unfair to small business, but rejoice at the Ruling that will destroy Small Business.CL
Carl
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23 Jan ' 01:53
January 22 - I am completely convinced that the people will rise up and revolt against the Republican view that a person's worth is directly related to the person's net worth.
And Signe Wilkinson is in agreement.
Dear Susan,
Lucy Parsons said "Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth."
Given the increasing power of corporations, I fear that this decision means that we should never be deceived that corporations will allow anyone to vote away their wealth and power.
Don A in Pennsyltucky.
January 22 - Being funny on purpose is a little harder, ya know.
Texas Republican Governor and UnMensa member, Rick Perry wants you to know somehting.Looking over campaign finance reports can tell you more than who is giving and what the candidate is spending. Sometimes a mis-type can give insight into a campaign's real thoughts. Or maybe not.
For Gov. Rick Perry, two little misprints within a page of each other seemed pretty telling. On a section outlining his political travels, he listed a trip to New York, where he was joined by Texas business leaders for the, as explanation read, "NASDAQ Closing Bell Ceremoney."
And on a separate entry, the governor attended an NRA breakfast in our nation's capital, which he has vilified as the seat of waste and sloth throughout the campaign. As his finance report states, the breakfast was held in "Washington VD"
January 22 - Local Republicans have been in power for so long that they walk buck butt nakkid down the street and dare anyone to say a danged word about it.
I take that dare.
We've got a guy running the Sheriff's Department as the
Chief Deputy. His name is Craig Brady. He
runs the department because the sheriff is so old that
we have to carbon date him every year to figure out how
many candles to put on his birthday cake.
Brady announced four years in advance that he's gonna run for sheriff when the current sheriff retires or goes to that great gun rack in the sky. I'm not saying that Brady runs up behind the current sheriff and loudly hollers BOO every chance he gets, but we do often see him looking at the sheriff, rolling his eyes, tapping his foot, and looking at his watch.
Brady has already started raising money for his campaign. He held a golf tournament and, from the looks of the pictures I recently saw, it appears like the whole trailer park showed up.
Well, next thing you know, Brady arranges a PR bond for one of his major ($75,000) contributors through a buddy judge of his and everybody is wondering how the dickens stuff like that happens right out in the open. I mean, we know how it happens, but you'd think the good-ole-boys would at least try to keep it under raps.
But, nooooooo.
Brady left his old wife after she slaved raising his kids and ran off with a little cutie-pie subordinate at the sheriff's office when she got pregnant. In short (no pun intended), he's John Edwards with less class, hair, money, and likeability.
And then this shows up on Commissioner's Court's agenda for next week.1) Sheriff's Office: Ratify travel by Craig Brady and Vanessa Brady to Las Vegas, Nevada, January 19-21, 2010, for extradition of prisoner back to Fort Bend County. (Fund: Sheriff, Enforcement, Travel)
Brady and his baby bride went to Las Vegas to pick up a prisoner and it appears it took them 3 days to go to the county jail, get the prisoner and put his butt on an airplane, which is about a 3 hour process on a bad day. This is an early morning flight out and late night flight back.
It doesn't bother me if they want to be Angelina and Brad, scooting around together. It doesn't even bother me that they want a second Honeymoon. Everybody should have a second Honeymoon. What bothers me is that they want me to pay for it.
It does not take a Chief Deputy to pick up a prisoner. That's a function of the warrants division. And, it does not take 3 days.
Commissioners will approve it and even think it's cute because that's what good-ole-boys do. Right in the middle of the street.
Okay, Commissioners, the ball is in your court. Now it's your feet that'll be held to the fire. Make them pay for their own hotel room for at least one of the two nights.
January 22 - Okay, so it's been a rotten week for Democrats in Massachusetts and Americans in America. I qualify as both.
Democrats gave away Ted Kennedy's senate seat and The Supremes gave away democracy. I came within half an inch of turning out the lights and locking the door here.
Just then, an amazing thing happened. One of our local young, energetic, and highly qualified Democratic candidates asked me to help her put out yardsigns last night. Being with her reminded me that Democrats will always work harder to be a vital part of their community. She also reminded me that grassroots work makes you feel better.
I hate to be corny here, but if you're depressed over the past week, find yourself a local Democratic candidate - for Justice of the Peace, Commissioner's Court, District Court or District Clerk, put on your walkin' shoes and never give up hope.
And if that doesn't work, have a Margarita with them.
Either way.
Susan,You couldn't be sicker than me over the ruling handed down today by the activists on the Court. A lesser woman would have checked herself in Mayo Clinic by now. Didn't Roberts say during his confirmation hearing that he wouldn't be activist judge, or make laws, but would rely on precedents, or did my hearing or memory fail me? All this on top of Texas Monthly received today has Gov Hirsute on the cover and a long story by Paul Burka about how Hirsute could be our next president! I'm a strong Texas woman, but I just couldn't read passed the first paragraph. Why is God punishing the good people of Texas this way, or does He just have a sense of humor I don't get?june
Activist judges? Surely not! I thought - according to the teabag mentality - that only liberal judges were "activist". So surely, these damn fools who voted in favor of destroying America could not be "activist judges". The teabagging morons and talking heads said so!I feel sick. George W. Bush and his ilk have ruined this country. I just sent a letter to Justice Kennedy which stated why he was wrong and at the end, I said I had one honest question for him: "Are you f******* crazy?"They've all been bought and paid for by big business. And we are so screwed.Lefty
Carl
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22 Jan ' 06:31
January 21 - Me? Bitter? Naaahhhhh. Okay, so maybe a little.
January 21 - I feel like a hen at a coyote convention.
The activist judges on the Supreme Court just ruined
democracy. They have sacrificed America to please
their corporate buddies.
I am not exaggerating. Dick Cheney must be drooling because now he and his buds can buy whatever political office they want.
Lord, I'd have to feel better about this to qualify for clinical depression.
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21 Jan ' 11:42
January 21 - Yes, I am a happier woman today because the Texas Republicans are splattering like egg on a hot sidewalk. Thanks to my friend Kenneth, I awoke to news that they've got loco camped out in their eyeballs. A whole mess of them held a rally at the State Capitol where they skinned, field dressed, barbequed, and ate their own. It was fine dining.
With rhetoric that was at times reminiscent of Ross Perot's third-party presidential campaign nearly two decades ago, and sometimes echoed the invective hurled during the states' rights movement before the Civil War, speaker after speaker served up their harshest criticism of Obama and Congress.
But Perry and his GOP re-election challenger, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, and state lawmakers did not escape the anger. Other signs read: "Vote 'Em Out," "Perry: The Next Unemployed Texan," Hey, Governor. It's Time To Go!" and "Throw Out Kay Bail Out."
It is more than a tad amusing that Texas Governor Rick
Perry helped start the movement that's now out of his
control and dead set on canceling his free parking pass.
They booed a few Republican State Rep's and made some
wacko remarks about the President. I suspect that
their earlier code of respecting the President only
applies to Presidents named Bush."The time has come for people to rise up and defeat their anti-American, Marxist agenda," he said of the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress, as the crowd cheered.
They did come to one startling realization that most the rest of us have known for a while ---
"The Republican Party tried to use us, but we're onto them now," said Norman Shugar, 77, who drove in from outside Houston.
Hey, Rick and Sarah Palin - check behind you because those you thought you were leading are now carrying tar and feathers. You aren't leading anymore - you're being chased.
Susan,
I am with you on this. I cannot believe the voters in Mass. voted for the pretty one. Howard Dean was on Hardball saying that Democracy for America polled the 18% Democrats that voted for that man and their reasons for doing so were because the health care reform bill wasn't strong enough. HUH? Are the people in that foreign state drinking the stupid? He seems to think that now we can get a stronger bill out of Congress. I'm skeptical because I don't think enough Democrats in Congress, especially in the Senate, have the cajones to do this. But I will wait and see.
On a lighter note, last night someone in Minneapolis donated $1.00 (yes, that's one dollar) in the name of F* You to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. The LOL part is that the thank you to this person stayed on the sidebar on their website for at least 23 minutes. You can see the full screenshot here:
but don't let your momma click on since they spelled it out.
Mary in San Antonio
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