January 09, 2015 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Welcome to The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc.
My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
Je suis Charlie
1And newspaper people everywhere! We forget how good we have it here sometimes 🙁
2Do we (that is, “some of us”) not have such a love/hate approach/avoid relationship with France and the French?
I tell paint peeling jokes about France as a political entity even as my little bride and I plan our next trip to Paris in July, 2015. All the while I cheerfully acknowledge France’s special relationship as our oldest ally. Not only in terms of years but in terms of that relationship has never been broken. Hell, we even bought a used war from de Gaulle.
3For the record, Fareed Zakaria’s column today points out that “blasphemy” is not a crime or offense according to the Koran. Other people came up with that bright idea.
The column includes a photo of man holding up a Charlie Hebdo cover, with a cartoon of “Muhammed overwhelmed by fundamentalists” saying “It’s hard to be loved by fools.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fareed-zakaria-blasphemy-and-the-law-of-fanatics/2015/01/08/b0c14e38-9770-11e4-aabd-d0b93ff613d5_story.html?hpid=z5
4Slight correction: in the cartoon, Mohammed is referring to the fundies as “cons,” for which Google Translate offers numerous options, all of them anatomical (both sexes) and none of which Mama would approve. But I do. Regardless of their religion.
5Drive carefully. Ice no longer in afternoon or evening forecast, but it is cold (!high 30s!) and drizzly.
Still planning a get together on evening before session begins? If so, would love to be there but first rehearsal for Chorus Austin spring concerts is that night and I’ll be there.
(We’re doing Mozart’s Requiem & Handel’s Dixit Dominus in April and performing Carmina Burana with Austin Symphony in late May. Austin-area residents, tickets here http://chorusaustin.org/50th/)
6Nous sommes tout Parisiennes aujourd’hui.
7http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/2-Charlie-Hebdo-Suspects-Killed-Hostage-Freed-288059891.html?device=phone&c=y
Looks like they have ended the current iteration. Let’s hope hard against copycats and other such criminally benighted idiots!
8No S**T Y’all. (sorry Momma).
The pen…… is still mightier….than the sword.
The testimony to that….. is this ….. “non-blog”.
Don’t ever forget it.
9Rhea–Good point. Now if some fundie Xtians would check their book for what’s really in it and what some bozo has tacked on….
10Darth Cheney and his neo con butt buddies are prolly sending the terrorists money for their defense. Payback for the surrender monkeys who knew better than to get bogged down in Iraq.
11Micr: well, KIND of broken, in the Quasi-War, which was mostly the US Navy smacking around some French privateers. It was the undeclared war in which such famous American naval names were first blooded on the high seas, like Constellation, and Constitution and yes, USS Enterprise.
The Quasi-War dribbled to an end as Napoleon consolidated his power. An actual declared war was avoided a few years later when the French Army was decimated by yellow fever and battle while quelling l’Ouverture’s slave rebellion on Santo Domingo. Their next task was to have been to secure Louisiana for future French expansion in the area.
Instead, as you may have heard, they had to sell it.
12@daChipster:
13I heard tell of Louzana being for sale, but I thought that was just the politicos, beginning with the Kingfish!
The killings in Paris were an atrocity, made more so because they were committed for insane ideological reasons. The international response is warranted and I hope it will have good effects.
That makes it all the more sad that our country is not outraged by its ongoing gun atrocities. Per the CDC, the U.S. has 11,068 firearm homicides per year, or about 30 per day.
Star Trek had a line once about how humans could bemoan the deaths of a few while being indifferent to the deaths of thousands.
14If the “ISIS sleeper cells” did open fire on our population, how would we know? What with the constant armed attacks on our citizens BY other citizens???
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