Okay, dudes and dudettes, I am turning this sucker over to you to make whatever comments you’d like about whatever subject you’d like. Imma gonna be sitting here for a few hours in78 degree weather.

You can discuss the credit downgrade, what plastic surgeon did that to Michele Bachmann, the riots in England, or your grandma’s favorite chocolate pie recipe.

Play nice, ya hear? When I get up to visit the necessary room, i’ll approve comments.

In case you missed it in the comment section, my buddy Glen who I trust in spite of him having been a Texas State Representative, has got the bumper stickers you’ve been asking for. Here’s what he says —-

If you put two green dollar bills in a tightly sealed envelope, to cove cost of the sticker and the USA guvment postage and my time going to the Postal Office, your friend Glen will send you one as soon as the printing place gets the suckers here. (This week). We can cut out the middle woman down there at the beauty shop who’ll mark em up high to make a profit off the Prophet.

They come in a nice red Republican warning color:

“Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president… please pay attention.” – Molly Ivins.

Glen Maxey
P O Box 2505
Austin TX 78768
glen@glenmaxey.com

Rick Perry is all over the place this morning.

First off, he’s headline news at Salon.  The headline?  “If Rick Perry is seriously a presidential front-runner there’s something wrong with all of us.”

Ya think?

Comparing him to Bachmann, Salon writes,

The GOP “establishment” prefers this evangelical nitwit with fringe tendencies to that evangelical nitwit with fringe tendencies, sure. This Dominionist purposefully evoking some of the most radical far-right movements and ideas of the last 200 years is so much more electable than this other one!

I mean, Rick Perry may be a neo-Confederate sympathizer with a recurring tendency to bring up secession, but he doesn’t look as weird in a photograph as Bachmann does, I guess.

My friend Kary says a better comparison with Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann is that they both like to have sex with gay men.

Which brings us to the latest inside the campaign leak from Rick Perry.

Texas Governor Rick Perry’s camp is prepared to tackle what they say are unfounded rumors dating back to as early as 2004 about the Lone Star State Republican’s personal life should he run for president and the allegations resurface

That’s gonna take some stompin’, Rick.

The Austin American Statesman, who reads Politico, has some fun, fun, funny news.

Gov. Rick Perry will make it clear that he’s running for president during a Saturday speech in South Carolina, a Perry source said today.

Politico first reported that Perry will make his intentions clear during a speech at the RedState conservative gathering. It will be his first trip to an early-primary state.

Okay, so here’s a guy who refused to debate his last opponent, refused to speak with newspaper editors, refused to take unscreened questions, and is announcing for President at a private function.

Is Katie Couric anywhere around?

Y’all, I’m telling you – he’s Elmer Gantry.  He’s a snake oil salesman.

But, the upside is this.  When Time Magazine does a cover for him, all they’ll have to change is the picture.

Okay, I realize it’s gonna be hard to keep your comments rigidly clean.

But, this really happened in Texas.  John Kelso tells all about it.

A vicious gang of meat thieves has attacked Austin and made barbeque risky business.

According to Austin police, meat thieves would hit an H-E-B supermarket, steal the meat and then sell it to the restaurants’ employees.

And guess where they put the meat?

Seriously.

If you don’t have any vacation plans for the rest of the summer, Rick Perry has a job for you!

And no, it does not include coming over to his house and cleaning all the chicken bones from under his couch or fixing his Atari.

You can be a bundler for Perry.

Leaders of Perry’s fundraising operation sent information on how to raise money for a presidential campaign to potential bundlers — the people who will be tasked with raising hundreds of thousands or dollars, or more, from their friends and business associates. For example, the guidelines included an explanation of the $2,500 per-person limit on donations to Perry’s campaign for the Republican nomination, according to numerous sources familiar with the instructions.

Just like he’s not gay, he’s not running for President.

And there you are with egg on your face thinkin’ that Rick was going to sit out the summer praying and holding seances with Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater.

No, siree.  Rick’s not running for President but he’s got himself some bundlers.  I wonder if they’re running for President.

Thanks to David for the heads-up.