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This is a story I have been trying to get the media interested in for a solid year.

Tom DeLay’s home for foster children was a ruse to paint him as a nice guy before his trial.  People fell for it and money was wasted like buying pearls for a pig.

Of the 8 houses built, seven stand empty, rotting in the Texas sun for two years.  And apparently Tom likes it that way.

I applaud the courage of Bev Carter to do something about it when local Republicans tend to believe that Tom only built the fishing pond to prove he could walk on it.   The story ran on the front page of her newspaper yesterday.

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“As you’ve learned here, Rick Perry’s Perfect Texas doesn’t have enough electricity to survive a freeze, and not a monumental freeze at that,” Juanita smiles through slightly bluish lips.

“We’re all walking around with flashlights under our blankets,” she admits.  “We are a hardy people, we Texans,  having survived hurricanes, fire ants, the occasional tornado, and some really bad UT football teams.  However, you wave cold in front of us and we immediately start building a fire in the middle of the living room.  We are not at peace with cold.  We leave that to the Yankees.”

“So, where do Texans go for help when we are desperate to quit shivering?”

“Uh …. blush …  The Tea Party’s Number One Evil … Mexico,” she reports.

No kidding.  Mexico.

While the Tea Partiers are down on the border trying to keep Mexican people out of Texas, Rick Perry’s Texas is trying like the dickens to get in.

Mexico will provide electricity to Texas to help the U.S. state weather an ice storm that has forced rolling blackouts.

Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission says it has agreed to transmit 280 megawatts of electricity to Texas between Wednesday and Thursday night.

A commission statement says the electricity will be transmitted at interconnection points in Nuevo Laredo — across the border from Laredo, Texas — and Piedras Negras, which sits opposite of Eagle Pass, Texas.

Apparently, Mexicans can only come into Texas if they’re carrying a Van de Graaff generator, some jumper cables, and a couple of gallons of oil.  And, we’d prefer if they would deposit it anywhere north of Corpus Christi and then go home.”

Juanita has an idea.

“You know how you can make any fortune cookie better by adding ‘in bed’ at the end?”

“Well, from now on, anytime Rick Perry starts bragging about Texas he has to preface it by saying ‘with Mexico’s help.’  Like this:  With Mexico’s help … Texas is a leader in job growth.  With Mexico’s help … Texas has pretty darn good standard of living.  With Mexico’s help ….  Texas can be a first world state.”

Good grief.  This is funny.  Texas is getting foreign aid.

But, on the upside for Rick Perry, at least it ain’t from our own federal government.

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Several months ago, I told you this was coming.  And it did.

It’s gonna get bigger.

Not Boehner.  The story.

Momma, forgive my friends, their minds are in the gutter.

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Squire Al in Vermont says — “The opportunity exists for a kid to go necked on our screen porch, but you could zest a lemon with his/her goosebumps.”

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Ever since we deregulated energy in Texas, it’s been nothing but trouble.

We get a hurricane and we’re without power for 10 days.  We get a freeze and we get this.

ERCOT, The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, has requested CenterPoint Energy perform “load shedding” Wednesday.

Power outages should last 30 minutes each as CenterPoint Energy alternates outages across the region. If your power stays out for greater that 60 minutes, please notify CenterPoint energy at 713-207-2222.

The first outage occurred at 7:00 am this morning.  It lasted 40 minutes.  The second outage was at 9:10 am and lasted until 9:40.  It appears that we’ll be getting power about every other hour.

Do I live in freekin’ Baghdad?

Somebody is getting rich off deregulation but I’m getting cold.  In the damn dark.

Don’t get in any elevators today.

Thelma just reminded me that it’s colder in Richmond than it is in Czechoslovakia  right now.  Except in Czechoslovakia, they have electricity.