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Squire Al, one of my three favorite Texans living in Vermont, sent me this in the United State mail today – an autographed copy of Bernie’s book.

You can get your own (not autographed because Al doesn’t like you as much as he likes me) right here.

I will read it gently and then auction  it off at the next Democratic fundraiser to raise funds to elect some good people.

Bernie’s the kind of guy you can shoot craps with over the phone.  Al?  Not so much.  But, I still adore him.

Thank you, Squire.

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Bubba was walking home from the courthouse yesterday and found a black Suburban a block or two from the courthouse with these two bumper stickers in the rear window.  He stopped to take a picture or two and sent them to me, asking, “Does this disturb you as much as it does me?”

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Disturb?  Honey, that scares the peewadoddle ever-livin’ get-down-on-it screamin’ crap outta me.

That right there looks like one of them “Loner” headlines to me.  I mean, that’s got “innocent bystander” written all over it.

Here’s the website they link to.  It, of course, is in Texas.

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Yesterday, on April Fool’s Day, with no warning, Fort Bend ISD  riffed fired 332 teachers, 114 of them were high school teachers.  On the upside, they were allowed to take the rest of the day off.

No word on how many administrators were riffed, yeah, like that would happen, or if Superintendent Dr. Jenny took even a tiny cut in his obscene salary. When I an Queen of Texas, and believe me, I’m just one glittery sash away from that position, no public school superintendent can make more that 3 times the salary of the lowest paid teacher. I’ll make it the damn law.

.Thanks to Rachel for the heads-up on this one.

This past weekend at the Texas College Republicans convention in Austin, this incident occurred at an after-party.

During the festivities the newly elected Chairman, Charlie McCaslin of Southern Methodist University, decided to give a very inebriated toast to Alex Schriver– the Alabama College Republicans Chairman who is currently running for Chairman of the College Republican National Committee (CRNC) as a part of the “Move CRNC Forward” team.

McCaslin, who was first elected midterm as Vice-Chairman of TCR after the previous Vice-Chairman resigned due to a controversy stemming from his sexual orientation, gave a speech which slandered Schriver’s opponents, calling them “nerds and fags”. McCaslin also implies that his loyalty to Schriver’ team stemmed from a CRNC event in which Schriver and McCaslin used alcohol as a means to participate in unspecified sexual activities with unnamed females in College Republicans.

How proud SMU must be!

The job of Vice Chair of the Texas College Republicans is open.  The qualifications appear to be higher than the average Republican congressman.

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And, now you understand.

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Juanita thinks we should parachute Rev. Terry Jones into the heart of Afghanistan buck nakkid with “The Quran Stinks” tattooed on his butt and a “Where Are The Wild Women?” party hat.

Jones is the Florida yahoo who threatened to burn Qurans on September 11th.  After he quit getting headlines about it, he went ahead with his plans last month.

After a six-hour trial on Sunday that featured a Christian convert from Islam as a prosecuting attorney and a Dallas imam as a defense lawyer, a jury of 12 church members and volunteers made the judgment, Jones said.

He said the punishment — burning the book after it had been soaked in kerosene for an hour — was determined from four choices on his organization’s Facebook page. He said “several hundred” were polled and voted for burning over shredding, drowning and facing a firing squad.

“Okay,” Juanita asks, “can we get those choices for Jones?  If not, how about shredding, laughing at, or – the worst punishment for him of all – a media blackout?”

So, USA Today gave Jones the attention he so desperately wants and the result was predictable.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan officials say eight people were killed at a United Nations office in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif when a protest turned violent in response to a reported Quran-burning in the United States. At least two of those killed were beheaded, Reuters reported.

You know, there has got to be a real special place in hell for Jones.

People willing to let innocents suffer for their beliefs are evil.  That’s all there is to it.