February 05, 2015 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's 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. This is a professional political organization.
Hooboy. Think that will be in any textbooks? Maybe a good novel or movie?
1Jon Stewart nailed it – “in a war between TX and FL, the rest of the country wins.”
In a war of wits, FL Rep Hastings won! Where was Loopy Louie defending his asparagus? Texas has 36 varmints in the House, surely they could muster more than one to bluster.
Sure. It was a committee meeting. But damn, in the electronic age surely they could summon the TX troops to defend the bull. No?!?
2I have to admit feeling a guilty pleasure in seeing a Democratic Representative, even from Florida, give that Republican Rep., from whatever state, what for.
3In a battle of wits with a typical 3 year old Rep Burgess would get pwned. He’s from Lewisville. And he’s supposed to be a medical doctor. Poor Lewisville. Poor patients.
4Oh my .. I saw this last night and practically fell out of my chair, I was laughing so hard! I loved Alcee’s parting quip about apologizing: Well, you’ll wait till Hell freezes over then!
Jon Stewart lost it!! I loved it!!
5I used to say, “At least we’re not Mississippi,” but then I saw Mississippi’s vaccination rate is 99.6%. Sigh.
6I’m not from either state and the majority of voters in both of them are nuts so I thought this was fun. Next step is back to the pre-Civil War days when they used to cane each other almost to death.
7A thing of beauty is a joy forever!
8I saw this yesterday on CSPAN, live… and just about died laughing. Poor ole Pete Sessions, who also came forward to defend the honor of Texas, must be feeling very left out. Oh, to have your defense of THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS ignored by Jon Stewart… oh dear… the humiliation of it all…. Burgess will be running his soundbite for fundraising purposes among his constituency for years…. just not the “until hell freezes over” part.
Kudos Jon Stewart.
9The Florida Democrat outlined other Texas laws that he said were “crazy,” including one stating “that you can’t shoot bears out of the second floor of a window,” a law allowing citizens to carry guns in bars and also, “one of their cities has a law that says that women can only have six dildos, and the certain size of things.”
“And if that ain’t crazy I don’t know what is,” Hastings added.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/05/politics/alcee-hastings-frozen-texas/index.html
Okay, someone from Texas has GOT to enlighten me– is there really a city law limiting women to six… what he said, Mama… and is the “certain size of things” limit applied to them or to something else?
10Surely I’m not the only person with an opinion about this, esp. since I really don’t hear very well. Yoohoo?!
11Wow. That’s enough to make this proud Texan send a huge donation to Alcee’s re-election campaign! I wish more Dems in Congress treated the Republicans with this much disdain!
12rhea@10:
Google ‘molly ivins dildoes’ and you too can know the truth about some crazy Texas laws.
13Those wacko regs Rhea mentioned are the spiritual offspring of 17th and 18th century laws that are still on the books in some states. Now is where I bring up Canadian regs about which door women can use to enter a public house and where they can sit, almost like it was a synagogue!
14@Rhea
15I just read in Texas PC 43.23. Obscenity. I think the six device count is to draw a line between personal use and merchandising.
Gracious.
16Hahahahahahahaha! That was the best fun! Thank you Mama!
17Oh I forgot. The GOP is reminding us that we don’t know how to think and do good things so they’ll do all of it for us so it won’t matter that the Dems in the Texas Lege won’t need to bother with showing up and representing their constituents. No need at all. The kindly GOP will do it all for us.
18Oh, I can’t even finish it before rushing back to tell y’all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaUl6x1YXpg
Molly Ivins says that having six is illegal because you’re presumed to be selling them, but with five or fewer you’re just a hobbyist.
And then the filmmaker goes to a sex shop in Austin and is told they don’t sell dildos because they’re illegal in Texas (despite having a case full of them) but “we have these educational models for safe-sex demonstrations… and if you want something that vibrates, we have personal massagers.” And the other things you can call the other things, because the body part they’re designed for “is not defined as a sexual organ in Texas law….”
I can’t wait for it to get even sillier.
On the other hand, even places like The Vermont Country Store catalog sells “personal massagers.” Hey, it gets cold in Vermont, and those flannel nightgowns go only so far.
19Didn’t Betty Bower used to look more uh, matronly?
20I thought I had read everything by Molly Ivins. Well, shoot. I guess I have. But this DILDO DIARIES is unbelievable. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it. Laughing in Austin. See, we need to approach legislators more, ah, educationally. Get them laughing about the same things. We can’t? Sigh. Well. It was an idea.
21As a legal intern, I was farmed out to Alcee Hastings when he was on the federal bench. He was the best boss I ever had, and I paid for the privilege. Well he hasn’t lost his touch atall.
22“Now is where I bring up Canadian regs about which door women can use to enter a public house and where they can sit”
Used to be so in some places, but not for a long time now.
Deflecting Texas “crazy” our way, is undeserved.
Regards,
23Canadian drinker.
Here’s an update on the war between the “crazy states”.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/05/alcee-hastings-dildo-laws_n_6627174.html
24Republican members of our Texas congressional delegation just take themselves too darn seriously.
25I remember my ex-husband once telling me that Texas tends to feel there is no reason to remove a law once it passes [this was long before Obamacare]. And because of that, there are any number of laws about things like spitting on sidewalk, how close you can have your horse to the door of a public establishment, and apparently limiting Dildos…. throughout Texas municipalities.
26I wonder who keeps track of who buys these dildoes and how many dildoes are bought. Are there search committees that go door-to-door to count the devices or are the owners on an “honor” system? And why in the world would anyone require more then a couple … you know … one and a spare!! LOL
This is all just too funny!!
27Unfortunately I got here too late, and when I clicked on the magic window, I got only a razzberry saying that the video had been “removed by the user.” C’mon JJ, what did it say?
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