Every hurricane season around here at The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc., E. Claire and I tell you what we do do when we hear the first hint of a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.  We go buy a couple gallons of Blue Bell ice cream.

That way, when the power goes out, and it will, we are forced to eat all that Blue Bell before it melts.  Forced, I tell you.

My personal favorite is Homemade Vanilla with Peaches, but it’s seasonal, so Homemade Vanilla  is my usual choice.  You can fancy it up with pecans, a few chocolate chips, some fresh strawberries, or bananas, but it stands on its own powerfully tall.

The editors of Bon Appetit magazine know their ice cream.

Thanks to Mike for the heads-up.

It has been said that Rick Perry has never knowingly been rude to anyone, but that’s not saying much because he never does much of anything knowingly.

Rick Perry has been so pampered by the lazy Texas press, especially Paul Burka of Texas Monthly, that he truly came to believe that the press all over America was incapable of doing a little research.  The Texas press would rail against him for refusing to interview with them, because that’s easy pickin’s.  Perry, even with a double digit IQ, was smart enough to know that an eye-rolling refusal to speak to newspaper editors is high on everybody’s bucket’s list.  He was applauded for it. Hell, I’d love to do that myself and then stand back and watch them make themselves look self-important and arrogant.

Perry came busting out of the chute, making all the noise of a restless mule in a tin barn, saying that with a prayer meeting and just a little help from Jesus, he could walk on water.

And, I’ll be damned, somebody had the nerve to question him.

You’ve heard most of …. his investments in pornography, his remarkably handy economic development slush fund, that he used federal stimulus money to keep Texas afloat, and the simple fact that he turned Texas from the Great State to the …. Hey, We’re Slightly Better Than Mississippi State in every imaginable social, educational, and economic measure.

We have known for some time that Rick Perry’s limits are limitless.  It’s gonna be fun watching him shoot of his mouth for another week or two before it becomes very obvious that the only political future he has is selling reverse mortgages on teevee.

I was at a Democrat function yesterday and some folks there were plenty excited.  They see this national attention on Perry hurting him in Texas, too.  For the most part, Texans hate folks who embarrass us in public.  And by “in public,” I mean in foreign states.  George W. Bush couldn’t get elected hide inspector in Texas anymore.  It’s one thing to make a fool of yourself in Waco or Abilene or Lufkin,  in fact it’s kinda expected, but when you make a fool of yourself  on national news, we don’t like it.

It would be nice to think that Rick Perry finally bit off more than he can chew and spit out.  I imagine that’s the only thing that Karl Rove and I have in common.

Rick Perry is eating the lunch he cooked for himself.

… for showing you this.

100 Things You Can Say To Irritate A Republican

Print it out .  Carry it around with you.

Kary sent it to me with this comment, “In my experience, you get to # 9 or so, and their heads spin around and green pea soup spews from their mouths….as they try to reach for a gun,  whilst making the sign of the cross and/or reaching for their “Bible for Dummies”. It’s highly amusing for about 30 seconds.   Then time to order another drink and change bar stools.”

I told you last week about crazy Robert Morrow running ads looking for strippers who have done the wild thing with Rick Perry.

I, for one, am convinced that the ads are disinformation.  Team Perry nudged crazy Robert Morrow into running the full page ads so it will look like more insanity when true Perry honeys come forward.

I could be wrong.  But, I’m not.

Anyway, the Washington Post had a ball with the ads.

Go take a look.  Here’s a little preview —-

Remember how Rick Perry’s Hallelujahpalooza was not, absolutely not, are you listening to me?  NOT, a political event?

Yeah, right.

You know, no matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.

The organizer of The Response, the massive Aug. 6 prayer rally initiated by Gov. Rick Perry, is calling on attendees to help register millions of conservative Christians, prompting questions about the group and Perry’s claims the event was not political.

Don Wildmon, founder of the American Family Association, sent an email Thursday thanking recipients for registering for The Response, which drew thousands of people to Reliant Stadium.

“Today, I want to introduce you to Champion the Vote (CTV), a friend of AFA whose mission is to mobilize 5 million unregistered conservative Christians to register and vote according to the Biblical worldview in 2012,” Wildmon wrote.

It’s edging up but not touching a violation of campaign finance reporting laws.

You know, I think all these churches just ought to give up their tax-exempt status and just go ahead and become a political party.  I mean, that only seems fair to Sweet Jesus.  They could leave him out of it.  Maybe Sweet Jesus would start listening to them if their prayers didn’t start out, “Dear Hottest Endorser.”

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