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Juanita suspects they heard the cocks were really, really mean.  And armed.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio rolled out the tanks to take down a man suspected of cockfighting. West Valley residents in the neighborhood are crying foul after armored vehicles, including a tank, rolled into their neighborhood to make the bust.

And then under the category of No Shoot, Sherlock ….

“When the tank came in and pushed the wall over and you see what’s in there, and all it is, is a bunch of chickens,” Ross said.

The owner of the home, a Mr. Jesus Llovera, was alone and unarmed.

Thousands of dollars in damages were made to the property and 115 birds were euthanized on the spot. Llovera was convicted of a misdemeanor last year of attending a cockfight and has no history of owning weapons.

The kicker to all this?  The aging Hollywood almost-star Steven Seagal was riding in the tank.  He gets to use the tape of the incident on tv.

“Yep, there were some cocks fighting that night.  However, they were in a tank, fighting for attention,” Juanita said.

Juanita said that; she really did.

(Thanks to Ralph for the heads up.)

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Juanita is in Laredo, Texas, at the South Texas Democratic Summit, home of  Sergio Mora’s Best Margarita in Texas and some damn smart people.

There’s one thing Juanita wants you to know.

It is March 26, and it is 101 degrees in Laredo, Texas.

We Democrats did not cause that, at least as far as we know.  Juanita says that if you come to South Texas this summer, and Lord knows you should, come nakkid.  And if you can wear less than nakkid, do it.

I would like to personally thank Webb Democratic County Chair Sergio Mora, Michael Barnes, Rose Harrison, State Rep Richard Raymond, Judge Gilbert Hinojoso and mi chica amiga Cindy, my buddy Tom Walker, and fifty other Democrats who braved the weather to try to figure out how to win.

Do not count Texas Democrats out, Honey, because Juanita wants to win this time.  Doing it the same ole way doesn’t work.

If you live in Texas, please contact your State Democratic Executive Committee member and urge them to gut up and go for exercising their responsibility to the people who elected them to set a message and determine how that message is carried out.

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I met a fairy today, who said she would grant me one wish.

“I want to live forever,” I said.

“Sorry,” said the fairy, “I’m not allowed to grant wishes like that.”

“Fine,” I said, “then I want to die after the Texas Legislature gets their heads out of their butts.”

“Oh, you crafty witch,” said the fairy.

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(With thanks to Cary.)

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Juanita says the Legislative Budget Board has more bad news than a Libyan crime report.

Hundreds of thousands of Texas jobs would be lost in the next two years under projected revenue and spending levels in a budget proposal approved by a House committee, according to a new analysis.

The “dynamic economic impact” analysis by the Legislative Budget Board predicts nearly 272,000 fewer jobs in 2012 and 335,000 in 2013. That includes government and private sector jobs.

It’s just simple math – you cannot fire people and expect more jobs to create themselves.

Texas Democratic Rep. Mike Villarreal from San Antonio voted again the Republican budget, and said —

“The voters did not elect us to eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs. We have to be smarter than this. We can’t grow the Texas economy with a budget that destroys jobs, hurts neighborhood schools, and makes college more expensive.”

To be honest, we haven’t pushed the panic button in Texas yet, but we are having one installed.

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Harold Cook, who is one of the funniest men in Texas, sent around an email today that pointed out … well, come to think of it, Harold’s email pointed up, down, in, and around too … that as much as Republicans in Texas are hollering about voter ID and “ballot security”, they sure ain’t on top of the pile when it comes to insuring that we have motivated people working the polls.

We used to pay poll workers $8.50 an hour.  Republicans want to lower that to $7.00 an hour.  Dairy Queen pays better.  So, you would work from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. for $84.

So, at least in Juanita’s opinion, that whole voter ID debate was not about ballot security.  Nope, it was about screwing people one more time.