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Well, the good news is that she won’t have to buy the family outfits to wear to the Academy Awards.

And then there’s this.  (Work safe if you turn down the sound.)

Thanks to Deb and Big Mike for the heads-up.

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Once again, Credit Suisse, is being investigated for tax evasion schemes.

Credit Suisse is the most high-profile Swiss bank to be targeted by U.S. investigators since rival UBS became embroiled in a tax evasion probe three years ago. Zurich-based UBS admitted to helping U.S. clients hide money on offshore accounts. It ended up paying a fine and giving U.S. authorities details on thousands of American account holders. The case prompted Switzerland to soften its strict banking secrecy rules in response to international pressure.

And, once again, no sweat.  They paid the piper; they call the tune.  There was also a $4,000 contribution to Randy Neugebauer in May of this year.  You remember Yachting Randy, don’t you?  He uses his campaign funds to buy a yacht he keeps in DeeCee.   I love seeing Republicans fight to keep tax evasion a constitutional right.  Somebody has to pay for Randy’s yacht.  He sure the hell ain’t.

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I think I’ve told you guys that two of my Texas friends, Carol and Al,  just got fed up with it and moved to Vermont, where they spend their days reminding me that they have Pat Leahy and Bernie Sanders and I have John Cornyn and Rick Perry.  So far they’ve both been too kind to mention Louie Gohmert.

Carol sent this very cool dealie.  You can print this sucker out and carry it around to hand out to your conservative friends when they say they have never partaken in any government social program. Carol says she got it here.  (It’s a pdf file.)

Click the little one to get the big one.

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The bad news?  God has told Rick Perry to run for President.  The other bad news?  Unlike Rick, God doesn’t speak to me personally so I cannot dispute that.

The folks at the Texas Tribune seem as baffled as I am.

Days after the Houston Chronicle quoted Perry saying he believed “with all my heart that God has put me in this place at this time to do his will,” the governor, speaking to The Des Moines Register, put his hypothetical candidacy in even grander terms.

“I’m not ready to tell you that I’m ready to announce that I’m in,” Perry said. “But I’m getting more and more comfortable every day that this is what I’ve been called to do.”

“This is what America needs,” he added.

But, apparently, God has given Rick Perry a special dispensation on the 9th Commandment because Rick’s buying the Presidential accessories.  And as we fashion mavens know, one does not buy a prom dress until one has an invitation.

This was in the Dallas newspaper on Friday.

And since there’s no Governor’s race in 2012, and I’d be willing to lay bets that he’s not going to run for county commissioner in Travis County, I’d say odds are pretty good that he’s gonna take on Mitt Romney for the honor of getting his butt whipped by President Obama.

Thanks to David for the newspaper scan.

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Fenway Fran mailed a newspaper clipping to the World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc., to let us know that Texas congressvarmints are being laughed at all the damn way to Oregon.

It seems that Louie Gohmert, the smartest man in East Texas, is shoveling dumb as fast as he can.  In the past week, Louie has explained high finance at the federal governmental level by saying that we can simply make money appear and even borrow from the social security trust fund, a “fund” with no money in it, but it does have a real pretty I Owe You note left in the box.

And then there’s this —

Besides, says Gohmert, if the feds need money, they can always sell something: “You have land. You have leases. There are all kinds of assets.”

Well, I suspect drilling rights on Gohmert’s brain wouldn’t be enough to buy a teabag.  Maybe we could sell the Grand Canyon to Karl Rove and he could fill it with bullcorn because Lord knows he needs some place to put that stuff.

Gohmert, as you recall, is also a birther, believes in terror babies and thinks Jesus fed the dinosaurs.  This pretty much sums it up —

President Obama isn’t dealing with the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes four times and led a bipartisan emergency deal following the 1987 economic crisis. He’s not dealing with the party of George H.W. Bush, who made a deal to keep budget deficits from soaring over the horizon.

He’s not even dealing with the GOP of George W. Bush, who raised the federal debt limit eight times, including twice in one year.

Obama’s dealing with the Republican Party of Louie Gohmert, where something doesn’t have to be true if you don’t want it to be true.

This makes it hard for negotiators to be on the same page.

So, I have a personal message to Louie:  Hey Dingledumb, shuddup. We already have a whole team of people working day and night to make Texas look bad.

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Drip.  Drip.  Drip.

Honey, Juanita Jean Herownself will be homesteading Cloud Nine when Roger Ailes is rolled off in handcuffs.

Thanks to my friends at Worldwide Hippies for this charming image.