Maybe we Democrats are getting a little too touchy.  Maybe Republicans are just jerks.  But, for the life of me, I don’t know if this sign is godawful or I’m just getting too old.

Sign on 6 near Briarforest on West Side of Houston

I know it’s an advertisement for a haunted house but isn’t kind of a strange image?  Dead darke?  Really?

Maybe the guy standing in my driveway screaming the N word at my Obama banner just made me weird.

Dear Customers, I have to run up to the Democratic headquarters for a couple of hours this afternoon, so I am putting up the open debate thread now.

Say whatever the spirit moves you to say and I will check to approve comments throughout the afternoon.

Meet ya here tonight.

We’re good for the stock market.

How soon they forget.

Wall Street may seem more often aligned with the Republican party but according to several studies, it’s the Democratic party that’s been the best for investors. Since 1929, the stock market has seen real gains of 300 percent while its net gain has been 0 percent during the same period under Republican administrations, The Economist reports.

And Ralph just sent me this —

My Certified Financial Adviser, who has a sense of humor, just sent me a note with this message:

DJIA up 26.52% in the last 12 months
S&P 500 up 30.20 % in the last 12 months
NASDAQ up 30.53% in the last 12 months

“Who ya gonna vote for?”

Oh, I dunno.  I think I’ll vote for the man in the clean apron washing clean dishes.  He seems to have a clue.

Thanks to Karen for the link.

And no, by Handy Little Tool I am not  referring to Paul Ryan.

Customer Brian sent us this very cool little widget he found where you can see who owns your congressman, senator, or candidates for those offices.

That ought to keep you busy and out of the bars for the day.

Thanks, Brian!

Okay, so I understand the job of Vice President isn’t very important, but we can rest assured that Paul Ryan is ready and able for the job of washing clean dishes.  That certainly takes a load off my mind.

The head of a northeast Ohio charity says that the Romney campaign last week “ramrodded their way” into the group’s Youngstown soup kitchen so that GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan could get his picture taken washing dishes in the dining hall.

Brian J. Antal, president of the Mahoning County St. Vincent De Paul Society, said that he was not contacted by the Romney campaign ahead of the Saturday morning visit by Ryan, who stopped by the soup kitchen after a town hall at Youngstown State University.

Hey, dude, calm down.  It’s the first honest work the man has done in 20 years.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Our local politics is always the best damn show around.  And I have a doozy today.

Let me bring you up to date:  Bruce Fleming is the GOP nominee for County Commissioner, Pct 1, a seat currently held by a popular Democrat, Richard Morrison.  It was recently discovered that there is solid proof that Flemming voted in two states in the 06, 08, and 10 general elections.  That’s a felony.

Bruce Fleming: Loves to Vote

Fleming was recruited and groomed by former GOP county chair Rick Miller, who is currently running for an unoccupied state representative seat.  Miller appointed Fleming as precinct chair on May 4th, 2010, knowing only that Fleming voted in the 2008 Democratic primary to vote for Hillary like Rush told him to do, not that we expected a felonious serial fraudulent voter to have any respect for the electoral process to begin with.

Miller then awarded Fleming the first ever “Precinct Chair of the Year” award over chairs who had worked much harder for far longer.  Eyes rolled and people couldn’t understand why Miller and Fleming were becoming close enough to share a buttonhole.

Fleming (second from  the left) and Miller (on the far, far, way out there far right) the night the first Precinct Chair of the Year was awarded.

But they were and it became more apparent as to why.  They are thug twins.

I’m gonna share with you something that fell into my hands from two different people.  It is an email exchange between Bruce Fleming and Sharon Roberts, who assumed the duties of county chair once Miller stepped down.  In this exchange, Fleming was upset because a 4th candidate in the GOP primary for county commissioner dropped out, so Fleming wanted to re-draw for positions on the primary ballot because he didn’t get the first slot, something that means “alot” to him.

You’ll understand better if you start at the bottom and read up, but you’ll be tempted to start at the top once you see his first sentence.  But, open the PDF and read it all.  It’s just charmingly horrifying.

Sharon,

Let me be frank with you. I do not “feel slighted” which is a predominately female reaction.
Do not assume you know my reactions or assign me a female response to events.
Whereas women get hurt (slighted), men get angry. I am pissed that the ballot drawing for the commissioner race got screwed up by you.

WARNING:  Momma, do not read this stuff because Fleming is vulgar man and you’ll get angry like, well, a man.  You’ll also get angry like a man because he quotes scripture right along with his vulgarity.

I haven’t heard yet what happened last night but I hope a couple of the women got angry like a man  (you need to remember this term because I am told that it will have even more meaning in a few days) and sat Rick Miller and Bruce Fleming down for what we call in Texas “a come to Jesus meeting.”

I love Texas Republicans.  They are so darn entertaining.  And for the most part they are also whiny ninny babies who stomp their feet and make threats when they don’t get their way.