Archive for November, 2014

Big D, Double L, AS

November 08, 2014 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Right here in Dallas, the heart of Texas, there’s some goings-on among Republicans.

Last summer, The National Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas’ most prominent conservative think tank, “erupted in personnel and management squabbles.”

Here’s the deal.

President and CEO John Goodman, who has led the center since its creation in 1983, was fired in a unanimous vote of the board of directors, according to a statement issued by the center.

At the time this happened, Goodman announced …..

“It is a coup,” Goodman said. “There’s a huge disagreement about the management of the organization, with board members threatening to sue other board members, and threatening to sue me.

“This is terrible,” he added. “Dallas needs a think tank. But Dallas is proving that it’s not ready for it.”

Well, it wasn’t quite that simple.  A couple of weeks later, it was announced that Mr. Goodman had been boinking one of the employees and was also fired for breach of fiduciary duty.  He was being paid half a million dollars a year and still couldn’t afford to have his zipper welded shut.  Her name is Sherri Collins and she’s probably not who you want representing the Temple of Free Markets.

In early June, Collins, then 47, was arrested at a house in Frisco for assault and criminal mischief. According to Frisco police, Collins had assaulted a “boyfriend” (not Goodman) by trying to hit him with a fake plant and throwing things across the living room at him. It wasn’t Collins’ first brush with the law. Texas Department of Public Safety records show she had been arrested four times in North Texas between 1997 and 2009, on charges ranging from assault and theft to criminal mischief.

So who could see trouble coming with this woman?  Well, certainly not the top thinker of the Libertarian movement.

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So, if your organization is trying to recover from a nasty little squalid office love affair and some fiduciary irresponsibility, what do you do?  You bring in intellectual gravitas.

Or not.

allenwestTea party favorite Allen B. West was named Friday to be the new CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a Dallas think tank that has focused on market-based solutions for health care and tax and fiscal policy.

Oh hell, yes.

Allen West.  Head of a think tank.  Will the ironies ever cease?

By the way, Dallas has a Democratic mayor and a Democratic County Judge.  Allen West ain’t getting no damn key to the city!

Thanks to Jean and David for the heads up.

 

Most Of The Time, It Pays To Advertise. This Is Not One Of Those Times.

November 08, 2014 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

In Kentucky, 37 year old Deborah Delane Asher was arrested for trafficking of a controlled substance and possession of methamphetamine.

Which came as a shock to everyone!

Her mug shot.

 

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Thanks to Brian for the heads up.

Here Ya Go

November 08, 2014 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Through the miracle of modern big time journalism, I am able to bring you a photograph of the arrival of the new Republican congress in Washington Dee Cee.

 

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Thanks to Shorpy and Fred Farklestone for the heads up.

Welcome to Dan Patrick’s Texas

November 08, 2014 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

On election night, a Dan Patrick supporter attacked a live-on-air local reporter for broadcasting during a prayer at the Dan Patrick victory party.

No, seriously.  Physically assaulted reporter Foti Kallergis.  And when a fellow female reporter came to his defense, one of the women present called her a f-ing bitch.  You know, just like Jesus would do.

Click the little one to get the big one.  This is long-time Houston reporter Deborah Wrigley stepping in to stop the attack.

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And here’s a camera phone picture of someone else trying to pull the Christian off the reporter.

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It’s gonna be a looooong four years, y’all.  They are gonna be using Jesus as their own personal weapon.

Holy Cow! Three Cases and It’s an Outbreak.

November 07, 2014 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

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What the hell are we going to do with an Ebola Czar?   Well, I guess that’s one appointment the President made that Republican can’t whine about.  That sucker eradicated damn Ebola.

I cannot tell you the number of Ebola-Eradication-and-Remediation signs that are on pickup trucks all over Texas, cashing in on the small business boon that Republicans promised.

Well, it was a boon for the sign printing business.  And spacesuits.  Hell, there’s a mess of spacesuits in Texas now.  If it snows in Dallas, half the city can disappear into the background.

Let’s hear it for 24 hour news hysteria!

Here Come the Zealots!

November 07, 2014 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

You’ll be tickled to know that all the shuttered Planned Parenthood facilities in Texas have new tenants.

BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION, Texas /Christian Newswire/ — The worldwide 40 Days for Life movement is moving its headquarters into a former Planned Parenthood abortion center in Bryan/College Station, Texas. The pro-life initiative began outside that same facility ten years ago.

“This news shows what God can accomplish when His people pray,” said Shawn Carney, campaign director of 40 Days for Life. “More than 6,400 children lost their lives in this building, but God is making ‘all things new.’

Now see, I have a question about the Rightwing God.  Why do people have to pray to get him to do what they want done?  Doesn’t Rightwing God know the right thing to do?  Is Rightwing God just waiting on a teevee preacher to say what needs doing?  If so, I think the Rightwing God is kinda a jerk.

Now these rightwing goodie-two-shoes are going to Bryan, Texas, to chew nails and spit rivets.  They are going to put on their war paint and force 14 year olds to carry incest results to term and then abandon them in the street because it’s such fun to point at them and call them lazy.

I think they’re kinda jerks, too.  So I suspect you could say that they made their God in their own image, to the other way around.

 

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Thanks to John for the graphic.  And thanks to Frank for the heads up.