Archive for August, 2013

And Then There’s The Animal With the Cork Still In It

August 08, 2013 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Mike Huckabee, that bastion of Christian non-judgmental tolerance,  made little Baby Jesus cry today.  He said on his radio show that Muslims use holy days to be violent.

So the Muslims will go to the mosque, and they will have their day of prayer, and they come out of there like uncorked animals — throwing rocks and burning cars.

Uncorked animals?  Really?

He later adds that he didn’t mean “all” Muslims.  I guess he just means the ones who pray.

Thanks to Marge for the heads up.

Oh, Steve Stockman, I Love You!

August 08, 2013 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Texas Congressvarmint Steve Stockman – who is even more crazy conservative than Louie Gohmert – sent out an email this morning asking people to donate to him so he can buy pizzas for his hard working Republican canvassers.

Honey, if they can’t afford their own dinner, they should not be Republicans.  Right?

So I figure that Stockman is just pocketing the money.

I need to warn you that Steve is only vaguely familiar with the English language, but he does have one very cool thing in his email about these canvassers.

That’s why I’m asking you to sponsor one extra-large pizza for $19.95, or a pizza and sodas for $23.95, or even two pizzas with drinks cokes for $33.00.

You might ask why they are going door to door in such weather.

Well the answer is quite simple.  The liberals are doing it and they are determined to turn not just our district from conservative to liberal, but the whole state of Texas.

Just last night in Harris County the Voter Register held a class to deputize people the register (sic) new voters.  Of the 50 people who took the class only two were Republican.

Way to go, Harris County.

Nice.

Thanks to Glen for the heads up.

Kinda a Long Story

August 08, 2013 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

This is an absolutely true story.  I promise.

One of my adorable in-laws decided to open a coffee shop.  Her mother, an elderly Southern Baptist woman who has rarely been outside her small town in Texas, simply refused to believe that people would pay a lot of money for coffee when they could make it so cheaply at home.  She was blissfully unaware of the Starbucks phenomenon.

My in-law, let’s call her Jean, tried to explain to her mother that people do, in fact, pay big money for coffee and will even buy it to-go from a drive through window just like the Dairy Queen.  When Jean explained that she would have different kinds of coffee, her mother argued, “There’s only one kind of coffee and it’s coffee.  Then there’s tea.”

Struggling for an answer, Jean said, “Mom, there’s many kinds of coffee.  We will be selling some very exotic coffees that you’ve never even heard about.”

That seemed to satisfy her.

A week later, Jean gets a call from the minister of First Baptist.  It seems that Jean’s mother is excitingly telling fellow Baptist church goers that her daughter is opening a coffee shop and will be selling erotic coffees.

Jean was mortified.  At least until she opened the shop a week later and the line of Baptist waiting to get in was down the sidewalk and around the corner.

And so it goes in other Southern states.  It seems that an unnamed Southern senator was in a closed door meeting and described our president much the same way.

President Obama was described as “exotic” by one senator from a Southern state during a closed-door meeting, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) claimed Wednesday.

Harkin said the remark was made at a private event attended by nearly the entire Senate on filibuster reform.

Now begins the questions:  (1)  Which Southern Senatefool was it?, and (2) how long before it becomes erotic?

My guess is Lindsay Graham and not soon enough.

No, Dear, Grown Men Dressed Like the Easter Bunny Make It Uncomfortabe to Shower at the YMCA

August 08, 2013 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

So back during the march on the Texas capitol over women’s rights, the rightwing bussed in people from across the country to try to outnumber us and keep us out of the Senate gallery.  It, of course, didn’t work.

They had promised these people free housing.  That housing, of course, wasn’t with rich Republicans who won’t share even table scraps.  It was at the YMCA.  Where they got kicked out.  And I’m fixing to tell you why.

Meanwhile, back at FoamAtTheMouthville, Rick Santorium got to spouting off about what a horrible person I am.

Very Uncomfortable

“You see, what the left does, what the pro-choice movement does is they just don’t focus on their little issue, they focus on everything they do and every aspect of their life,” he explained. “They make it uncomfortable for students who come to Austin to shower at a young men’s Christian association YMCA gym.”

“Because they live it. They’re passionate. They’re willing to do and say uncomfortable things in mixed company. They’re willing to make the sacrifice at their business because they care enough… They simply won’t give up. We have the truth and we give up! We have righteousness and we give up because it’s unpopular!”

See, get it?  We made these sweet unassuming kids uncomfortable to shower at the YMCA.  You know, shower means nakkid and we all know what happens in showers when you’re nakkid.  At least Rick Santorum does because he talks about it a lot.  And these kids were just minding their own business when they got “uncomfortable.”

So what’s the real story.  As to be expected of uninformed Santorum and his overwhelming desire to talk about nakkid, facts didn’t matter.  The YMCA issued a statement.

We strive to create an atmosphere that is welcoming to all, where people of all backgrounds are comfortable.

That’s what we were striving to do in accommodating the Students for Life group who were in need of a place to shower.

Unfortunately, in this instance, it caused the political debate to come into the Y.

If any person or group enters our facilities and creates an atmosphere that is disruptive, we have an obligation to our members and program participants to ask that person or group to leave or to refuse them access.

There are appropriate places in which to conduct a political debate, and that place is down the street at the State Capitol, not at our YMCA.

So, exactly who was being disruptive and making people uncomfortable?   In Santorum’s upside down nakkid world, hot is cold and day is night. It was his people who were trouble makers at the Y.

How proud he must be to know that because that’s exactly what he was telling them to do.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Just When You Think It Can’t Get Any Worse Than Ted Cruz …

August 08, 2013 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Oh dear God, you know all that stuff you hear about fracking?  Well, in Texas it is apparently happening to brains.

There is a giant Tea Party movement to get Louie Gohmert to run against John Cornyn for Senate in 2016.   And it’s not a bowel movement.  Okay, so maybe it is but these people are as serious as a double headed rattlesnake.

Louie Gohmert for Senate? That’s what a number of Texas tea-party activists are hoping for. They’re not happy with Senator John Cornyn, and Katrina Pierson, who serves on the Texas Tea Party Caucus Advisory Board, tells me she’s heard from a number of activists pushing for the outspoken East Texas congressman to challenge the senator.

The only reassuring news about this is that “Gohmert told the Washington Examiner that he won’t be running for Senate.”  However, you do have to consider that maybe Gohmert didn’t understand the question.

The result of all this is that it forces Cornyn to move further to the right.  And with Hillary Clinton topping the ticket in 2016 (she is wildly popular among Hispanics in Texas) there’s a dandy chance that Mayor Julian Castro can knock Cornyn cold enough to skate on.  And Gohmert?  Castro would tie his ears in a bow knot.

Y’all, He’s Drunk Again

August 07, 2013 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

I want y’all to watch this video and tell me if this man could possibly be sober.

(Oops, maybe I was drunk. I had the wrong link.)