Y’all, it’s not that Paul Ryan lacks confidence, it’s that Paul Ryan … Oh hell, lacks confidence.

Lookie right about here .

Rep. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney’s running mate, will begin airing ads defending his House seat in Wisconsin, the Associated Press reports. The ads will begin airing Wednesday.

Hey, a guy’s gotta make a living, you know.

Thanks to Barb in DeeCee for the heads up.

This is so disturbing.  All this time I thought Sheldon Adelson was a man of great integrity and plentiful show girls.  I mean, he looks so spiritual with that lovely comb over that starts just above his ear, and he lives in such a holy place.

And what a classy chick he’s married to.  And remember when he bought and paid for that famous holy man, Tom DeLay?

Imagine my shock when I discovered that maybe, just maybe, Mitt Romney might be an investment, not a candidate. The $100,000 million that Adelson is investing in Romney’s election could result in a $2.3 Billion tax savings. Billion.  Money that the middle class has to make up.

Damn, I am just shocked.

Thanks to Stephen for the heads up.

When those Associated Press people interviewed me, I also said that I didn’t think that all the GOP hatred of Barack Obama was due to racism.  “Look what they did to Bill Clinton,”  I said.  “Hell, they accused him of killing people.”

Ta da!

It’s here.

It seems that there was a giant Birther rally planned to celebrate Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s loss of cognitive thinking.  But, it got cancelled.

We’ve just been informed by the organizers of the Sheriff Joe Event at the Celebrity Theater that it has been cancelled due to inadequate ticket sales.

Well hell, even Pat Boone was coming.  And several other empty chairs.  I can’t imagine why that didn’t sell tickets.

But, here’s the part you’ve been waiting for.

One theory could be found on the Facebook page of Linda Bentley, an Arizona tea party activist who had been promoting the event. A visitor to her page wrote that it had been doomed because Arpaio was unwilling to take his probe even further and investigate the president for murder.

“The REASON the EVENT by Sheriff Joe & his Cold Case POSSE was CANCELLED is because the Sheriff & others are TOO DUMB to SEE the MURDERS Barack Obama had his Security Adviser John Brennan commit on Obama’s Gay Lovers in Chicago,” the visitor wrote.

No, seriously.  Heck, I even made a screen shot of it so you wouldn’t have to go there and get Hanta virus.  Click the little one to get the big one.

We’re having big fun now!

Thanks to Brian for the heads up.

Remember when I shamelessly begged money from you to buy plastic bags for our block walkers?

Well, baby, damn these suckers are dandy!  They arrived last night and I already have volunteers stuffing them with Democratic information for voters.

And since you guys were so generous and donated almost 4 times what I asked for, I was able to add and extra 5,000 of these vote by mail applications sent to Democrats over the age of 65 in the county.  They will hit mailboxes today.

We sent out 14,000 all together.

You da man!

Turn around so I can pat you on the back.  You did good.

Once again, thank you.

Ms. Susan D. Bankston
Richmond, TX
susan@brazosriver.com

Dear  Ms. Bankston,

I am writing to you in response to comments carried in the AP article of September 10 release headed on-line as, “Does Racial Bias Fuel Obama Foes? How to Tell?”

The logic or illogic of “playing the race card” or “liberal guilt,” or even “implicit bias” is maddening and I think it played a role in 2008 that many on the left, in particular, would like to see repeated in 2012.

My paraphrase of the present paradigm is as follows, “Anyone who votes for the white Republican is, by definition, racist. If someone votes that way and believes they are not racist, it is because they are unaware of their own racism. Anyone who votes for the black Democrat is certainly not racist. Since I am not racist and do not want to be perceived as racist, I will vote for the black Democrat.”

This is absurd! But it is an effective way to appeal to liberal voters’ guilt and put conservatives on the defensive. In the process, however, of labeling every conservative political point of view as “racist” this or “racist” that, we as a culture are watering down and actually distorting true racism. How each of us live our everyday lives, in harmony with people around us, people of a range of races and ethnic backgrounds, seeing others as valuable individuals rather than within a class or race or label, should be an indicator. The fact that our lifestyle and values are secondary to who we vote for and the color of who we vote for seems repugnant to me.

I think it is patronizing and disrespectful of the office of president that Barak Obama’s skin color should even enter into the equation. The man brought strengths and weaknesses, good ideas and bad ideas to the office; his performance has had high points and low points and should be debated without racial baggage interfering. I have little hope of this happening, however.

Thank you for your consideration of my views,

Sincerely,

Rick Waldemar

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Dear Mr. Waldemar,

You have no idea how impressed I am that you took all the trouble to find me here in Texas to fuss at me.  I would think there are not enough hours in the day for you to look up the email of addresses of everybody’s names in the newspaper and write them a letter.  What a fulfilling life you have!  Bless your heart.

Honey, I did a 20 minute interview with the Associated Press at the convention and, apparently, one of my sentences was coherent and they used it.  In all honesty, that’s about my average – one coherent sentence in 20 minutes of talking.  After a glass of wine, my average sags a bit, so it’s a good thing they caught me before noon.

When asked about racism and Obama I said –

“Every time they say, `We want our country back,’ I know what that means,” Susan Bankston, a white Democratic National Convention delegate from Richmond, Texas, said at the gathering last week.

And Lord knows, being a old white woman from Texas, I do, son, I do.  I know real well what that means.

Please note that I did not say that all Republicans are racists.  I do, however, say that all racists are Republicans.

I just flat loved your whole Kumbaya thing and the new verse you wrote that goes like this, “ in harmony with people around us, people of a range of races and ethnic backgrounds, seeing others as valuable individuals rather than within a class or race or label…” Darlin’, did you watch the Republican National Convention on the radio or something?  Seriously, where was the harmony much less the range of races?  Babe, the range of races ran from real white to pretty much white.  Republicans don’t even like each other.  They snarl at each other.  I bet they don’t even know the regular words to Kumbaya, much less the ones you wrote. 

I don’t have liberal guilt.  I do, however, have Momma guilt because I live in Texas and our Mommas have the distributorship on guilt.  Boy howdy, my Momma can guilt me into damn near anything so I’m real happy that she never votes Republican.

I’m not happy that you feel it is disrespectful to the office of the presidency for us to notice that Barack Obama is black.  It seems to me that all those years that a black man was excluded from even running for president much less getting elected still puts the scales south of fair and even.

Honey, a man stood in my front yard on inauguration day and hollered the N word so loudly and scary that we had to call the police.  I wondering why you don’t worry about him instead of about me?  I get racist emails all the time and the customers around here can tell you about the crazy man who keeps sending me piles of anonymous racist stuff he prints off the Internet machine and uses the Houston chapter of the NAACP as the return address on the envelope.

I’m not saying that you should vote for Barack Obama because he’s black. I’m saying that there are real live Republicans who vote against him because he’s black and that’s a damn shame and very unAmerican.

By the way, I do not label every Republican point as “racist.”  I pretty much label them as stoopid or mean or greedy or holy crap what are they thinking?

One more thing.  If I’m reading something and it says the word paradigm, I generally quit reading right there so try to put that word near the bottom next time.

But, thank you for what effort it took for you to hunt me down.  I pretty much stay under the radar except for a few customers here at the beauty salon. I used to like it that way.

Love and Fried Okra,
Juanita’s friend Susan

Houston, the eagle has landed.

Bubba is unloading the car and I am glaring at the pile of laundry so hard that it just might get up and wash itself.  I need to go to the grocery store, pick up Truman – boy howdy, I missed that little guy – meet a deadline for one of my paying jobs, work my shift at the headquarters, get out an email blast for Silver Democrats and I seriously doubt  that damn laundry is going to wash itself no matter how much I cuss at it.

I’ve got a bunch of stories for you.  But first I have to go through 2,846 (no kidding!) emails left on my server.  I am highly likely to delete them all and start my life all over again.  So, if you sent me something real important and I didn’t answer you from my iphone, send it again.

See you this evening!