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“Now I understand where we got the name ‘knee-jerk liberals,'” Juanita laments as she combs out Missy Sue’s new perm this morning.

A black former Agriculture Department official who resigned under pressure after a video clip surfaced of her discussing a white farmer said Wednesday the agency’s decision to review her case is “bittersweet,” but said she isn’t sure she would accept her job back if it is offered.

“You’ve got the NAACP saying it was ‘snookered’ by Fox News.  Well, somebody alert the media!  (Is there a font for sarcasm?)  Honey, Fox News is the business model for snookering.  If there was a Nobel Prize for Snookering, Fox News would have had their number retired years ago,” Juanita told everybody.

“Shirley Sherrod deserved a medal for what she’s been through.  We here at The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc. want to offer her a free wash and set any time she’s in town!”

“And, dammit, we liberals need to quit jerking our knees when Fox News jerks our chains.”

Juanita is serious about that.

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Heads Up!

Tony has magnanimously decided to auction off his tee-shirt to the higher bidding donation to the Fort Bend Democrats Club earmarked to help local Democratic candidates.

It is one slightly used (worn once for a photo) tee-shirt, size XL.

We take checks, cash, and credit cards.

The opening bid is $25.  Bidding will be in $5. increments.

You ain’t likely to get one anywhere else.

This is a once in a lifetime offer.

You better jump on it with both feet.

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Since Sarah Palin has left us all trying to figure out how to “refudiate” (I personally think it’s a cooking method, as in “refudiate the beans until they are cold and hard”), there’s always time left over to have fun trying to imagine Sarah as Shakespeare.

Twits (people who Twitter) have tried to imagine how Sarah would Twitter were she Sarah of Avon, and I don’t mean the makeup.  We know she’s already that.

My favorite?  “Double, double, toil and trouble; drill, baby, drill, and gulf oil bubble.”

Click here to enjoy them all.

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Okay, so the next time a Republican whines about the national debt, here’s one for ya.

BERLIN — Credit Suisse’s offices in Germany were searched Wednesday as part of an investigation into accusations that its employees might have helped clients evade taxes, prosecutors in Düsseldorf said.

And what does that have to do with Republicans.  Or, Texas Republicans in particular?

Well, it appears that Pistol Pete Sessions and the GOP Alamo PAC each took $5,000 from Credit Suisse, the very place that helped other rich Republicans avoid paying taxes.

So, that’s why we’re already buying them a handbasket and a map.

UPDATE:  By the way, I just found out that Pete Sessions has joined the Tea Party Caucus.  I suspect that’s because the Sleaze Ball Caucus was full.

So, Pete supports rich people not paying taxes by hiding money is Swiss bank accounts, but enjoying the benefits of roads, a military, the FDA, public education, and the National Weather Service.

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Juanita has a big ole crush.  It’s Congressman Alan Grayson from Florida. She’s bought a ring and plans to ask him to marry her.

Even through he represents a conservative district, Grayson took to the House floor and threw a punch at Republicans that will cause them to have to unzip their pants to see out for months to come.  He said that Republicans want to return to the America of the 1930’s.

“There was no unemployment insurance back then,” Grayson said, in one of the more colorful speeches on the issue. “There was no State benefits back then. There was no help for the people who had no jobs. All they could do, like my grandfather, in desperate straits, supporting a family of seven, was to go to the dump and desperately try to find something he could sell.

“That, my friends, is the America that the Republicans are trying to revive. The America of desperate straits, and for them cheap labor. The America where people have nothing, hope for nothing, and are desperate to live to the next day. That is what the Republicans are trying to resurrect by blocking unemployment insurance day after day, week after week, and now month after month.”

“Cheap labor.  That’s what they want.  If parents are living out of their cars, they will work cheap to feed their children.  He’s right – that’s the goal.” Juanita says. “If Republicans could do away with child labor laws, they would do that, too.”

“Those Republicans are so cold that they could freeze a bonfire,” Verdelia interjects.

“And don’t give me that hogwash about them caring about the national debt.  They didn’t care about that as long as their fat cat friends were getting government money to hide away in offshore banks to avoid taxes.”

“Grayson also said that he hopes God has mercy on their souls.  He’s a nicer person than I am,” she admits.

After Grayson spoke, Republican Peter King had a comment   —-

“I am awfully glad he’s not been appointed to be St. Peter. If he could make that call at the pearly gates, I am pretty convinced that every single Republican would be condemned to the fires of hell by his judgment,” said King.”

Not a bad idea.  Not a bad idea at all.

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Not only do we have dead skunks.

We have dead skunks with rabies.

We also have a couple of county commissioners with rabies.  They aren’t dead.

Doesn’t seem fair, does it?