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20 Nov 2009 13:37
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.
November 20 - Thank you, Don Wright ---
“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.
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.
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19 Nov 2009 19:31
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.
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 commentThe 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
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18 Nov 2009 23:03
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.
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
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18 Nov 2009 06:01
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.)
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17 Nov 2009 13:42
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?
EClaireI 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.
- 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.
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
Enjoy!
Wanda
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16 Nov 2009 22:09
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 -
16 Nov 2009 06:51
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.Canyon Clowdus thinks Americans “have less freedom and pay more taxes than ever.”
“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.
November 15 - Thank you, Nick Anderson (and Mike for sending it) --
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14 Nov 2009 23:54
“…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
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..........sighSybil
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14 Nov 2009 06:03
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.
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13 Nov 2009 13:44
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
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
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
Susan-
To quote Daffy Duck, "It is to laugh!". The poor l'il vapid beauty pageantrejectqueen throws a hissy- fit on national cable TV 'cuz that mean ol' Larry King asked her a QUESTION? I haven't seen acting that bad since Madonna's last movie.
I predict that book of hers will do two things:
1) Inspire lots of other self-righteous bubbleheads with no discernable talents (except the ones under her sweater) to make a gazillion dollars schlepping worthless prose (yeah, nothing
says "family values" like women prancing across a stage in swimsuits and heels), and
2) Wind up in the "bargain bin" for $0.75 at Cut-Rate Books (right next to the epics penned by fellow divas Sarah Palin and Tom DeLay).
Kellybee
P.S. I should point out that, in the spirit of full-disclosure, I happen to like women prancing across a stage in swimsuits and heels; I just don't want them wagging their professionally-manicured fingers at me about my what I should or should not believe. -KBW
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
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