Archive for October, 2012

Local Republicans Again

October 15, 2012 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Our local Republican Party is meeting tonight.  Only Executive Committee (elected precinct chairs) members are invited.  The announcement says, “no spouses, no campaign managers, no media.”  I guess trust is running mighty thin in the Fort Bend County GOP.

The meeting is probably illegal since the party is quasi-governmental body and they take state funds to hold their primaries. But, hell if I’m gonna read Texas law to them until after they do it.

A bunch of white people holding a secret meeting in a closed room.  What could possibly go wrong?

Okay, It Made Me Laugh.

October 15, 2012 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Thanks to Marge for the heads up.

You Wanna Know How Much The Rightwing Hates Obama?

October 15, 2012 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

I will tell you how much.

They are spreading a story that makes Hillary Clinton look like the real hero of the bin Laden take down.  They would rather make Hillary look good than President Obama, and Lord Have Mercy!, they hate Hillary.

The decision to raid Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan and kill him was made without President Obama – and actually was kept from him until after the helicopters already were in Pakistani airspace – according to a new report from a retired major general who cites a senior intelligence source.

The raid was handled by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Director of Central Intelligence Leon Panetta and others in this way because Obama had vetoed multiple earlier opportunities to attack the man behind the 9/11 terror attacks, the report said.

The report comes from U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, who retired in 1993 as deputy commanding general, Pacific Command, and has served as a senior military analyst for Fox News. He is now chairman of Stand Up America, which calls itself the standard bearer for the conservancy of the U.S. Constitution.

Okay, Paul Vallely, who hasn’t been in the military in 20 damn years and is a birther, would not be stable even if you mounted him on a tripod.

He is calling President Obama “oblivious” even though Obama does not even own a copy of My Pet Goat.

“This tremendously serious and sensitive information was relayed by a source who has been very frustrated with the continued dishonesty within the White House,” Vallely reported.

Yeah, right.  And the source speaks to Vallely in voices no one else hears.

Thanks to Barbara N for the heads up.

This Just Flat Ain’t Right

October 15, 2012 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

First, a little story.  I went into one of those month-by-month cellphone places which are outrageously expensive but are generally all poor people can do because they have no credit or bad credit.  I needed cell phones for a month for phone banking so I bought some and got a one month plan.

The young woman behind the counter, who was holding down the fort on her own, was efficient and pleasant.  We, of course, got to talking politics.  She confessed to me that she got paid $7.50 an hour and worked 10:00 am until 8:00 pm six days a week.  No overtime, no benefits.  And she had held the job for three years with no raises.  She gets Christmas Day and Thanksgiving afternoon off, but she gets paid for neither.  She said she doesn’t complain because her boss says that cheap labor is easy to find.  “I need the job,” she shrugged.

She is working 60 hours a week and she is the 47% Mitt Romney doesn’t care about.  Screw Mitt Romney.  Screw this woman’s boss.

Screw the Koch Brothers.

Koch Industries, the Wichita, Kan.-based company run by the billionaire Koch brothers, sent a voter information packet to 45,000 employees of its Georgia Pacific subsidiary earlier this month.

In it was a letter, dated Oct. 1, from Koch Industries president Dave Robertson implicitly warning that “many of our more than 50,000 U.S. employees and contractors may suffer the consequences” of voting for President Obama and other Democrats in the 2012 elections, a list of conservative candidates the company’s political action committee endorses and a pair of editorials: one, by David Koch, supporting Mitt Romney, and the other, by Charles Koch, condemning Obama.

That’s political extortion.  It’s economic terrorism.  It should be illegal.

Republicans are the only people on earth who never have to be worried about being threatened by compassion.  Well, them and maybe Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Y’all, I hate these people.  I do.

Thanks to PolishSpring for the heads up.

Phoney as a Three Dollar Wig

October 15, 2012 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

You know that lying thing that Mitt Romney does?  It’s contagious.

The 6 Studies Paul Ryan Cited Prove Mitt Romney’s Tax Plan Is Impossible

Romney’s tax plan is a three-legged stool that doesn’t stand. Here’s how it works — or doesn’t. Romney wants to 1) cut tax rates across the board by 20 percent, 2) cut tax expenditures to pay for these tax cuts, and 3) maintain progressivity. The problem, as the Tax Policy Center pointed out, is there aren’t enough tax expenditures for the rich to pay for all the tax cuts for the rich. Romney’s plan only works if he cuts out the tax cuts for the rich, raises taxes on the middle class, or explodes the deficit.

No wonder Ole Joe was grinning from but butt to this eyebrows.

If the three choice for Romney are:  cut taxes for the rich, raises taxes on the middle class, or explodes the deficit, I’ll give you one dollar down bet on which one it will be.  Hint:  It won’t be the rich.

I hear Romney is holed up getting ready for the debate.  Getting his batteries changed and transplanting Dick Cheney’s old heart into his chest.

Excuse Me, But Did I Hear Republicans Saying Something About Rude?

October 14, 2012 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Fulshear, Texas.  An Obama sign that I helped raise the money to buy.

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Yes, the police were notified and took a report after we assured them that we would prosecute if the rude jerk vandal was caught.  We replaced the sign and put a camera on it.

If I hear one more Republican in this county talk about personal responsibility, I am going to spit.

Thank you, Linda, for the heads up.