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Times are tough and rich people are suffering, too.

It seems that someone wants to build an 80,000 square foot house in Los Angeles amid homes owned by Bruce Springsteen, Jay Leno, Michael Ovitz and David Beckham.  So, the neighborhood is fighting to keep the super-mega-mansion away from their regular mega-mansions.

Here’s a quote to help you understand how hard it is to be rich and maintain a quiet, simple lifestyle …

To residents like Sheinberg … who lives in a 7,800-square-foot country-style home, the thought of an even larger complex rising amid the hills is troubling.

“It’s hard for us to understand,” he said, “why anyone needs an 80,000-square-foot compound.”

“Dude, we completely sympathize,” Juanita says with compassion.  “It’s like when Lester got a promotion down at the plant and bought a double wide for Thelma.  It was just ostentatious.  Plus, it made all the other men’s winkies seem smaller.”

Being rich is a pain, Honey.

“However it’s good to know that in these tough times, the rich folks in El Lay are spending their time and money on a cause so worthwhile — insuring that everybody’s winkie is the same size of big.”

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CREW is asking to the Department of Justice files on Tom DeLay.

Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed suit in federal district court against the Department of Justice (DOJ) for failing to provide records related to the government’s investigation of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX).  On October 19, 2010, CREW filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with DOJ and the FBI for records related to the investigation of the relationship between the disgraced former Texas lawmaker, Jack Abramoff and others, as well as DOJ’s decision not to prosecute Rep. DeLay.

The DOJ is claiming that releasing them might interfere with their investigation, but they also said their investigation of DeLay is closed.  They also releasing their investigation would interfere with Tom DeLay’s right to privacy.

No, no, no.  Tom DeLay was a public figure when these acts were committed and the public has a right to know.

Come on, Justice Department, we paid for that investigation.  We get to see it.

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And the hits just keep on comin’ —

Lori Klien, the state senator from Anthem, gives one of the most racist speeches ever heard on the senate floor this last week.

Click the link above and hear Ms. Klein read a racist letter, with no proof that it was true, on the floor of the Senate in Arizona, where hate has been declared the Official State Hobby.

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Haley Barbour is pondering on running for President.

Juanita is very pleased to hear that.  “What you really want in the White House is the Governor of a state that is last in everything” she says with a grin.  “Maybe he could put Rick Perry on the ticket and right there you’ve got last in everydamnthing pretty well covered.”

So why are Republican political consultants so excited about Haley running?  Juanita knows why:  “After a lifetime of selling your soul to big oil and tobacco, the one thing that Haley brings to the Presidential table is that he’s for sell.  And, Honey there is money in being for sale.”

“I knew the Republicans were running pond scum for office with Sarah Palin, but now their dredging for the bottom feeders.”

Juanita said that.  Yes, she did.

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Juanita tries real hard to stay out Democrat business in other counties.  “I hate when when people from another county come here and try to tell us how we should run our county Democratic Party,” she says.

But, a week has passed and she guesses it is time for her to jump on County Chair Dan Ramos in Bexar County.  For you folks from foreign states, Bexar County is pronounced “bear,” and San Antonio is the largest city in it.

Bexar County Democrats have had a dead cat down the well for a long time now.  Their former treasurer is fixing to go to trial for embezzlement, and most of their meetings turn into hockey matches.  But, the newly elected county chair has turned up with his brain missing and made some statements that are as much out of place as a Methodist bell choir at a honky tonk.

“He called Stonewall Democrats Nazi termites that have wormed their way into the party hierarchy,” explained Dee Villarrubia, an openly gay Bexar County Democratic Deputy Chair who was elected in June.

And, bless his heart, he said that just to get warmed up. Now, I gotta edit this next part because Momma would have a heart attack if she read it.

Ramos, who said he opposes being gay on religious grounds, added: “I liken them to the Tea Party – the Tea Party and the f—-ing Nazi Party – because they’re 90 percent white, blue-eyed, and Anglo, and I don’t give a f— who knows that. Just like the blacks … they’re American, but you can’t get your way just because you’re black.”

Goodness, I’m certainly glad he’s a religious man.  No telling what he’d say if he had backsliding blisters on his butt.

Everybody in the State of Texas, with the exception of an oddly quiet Texas Democratic Vice Chair Lenora Sorola Pohlman, has called for Ramos to resign.  UPDATE NOTE:  Ms. Pohlman has just asked for his resignation, too.

He ain’t having none of that.

State law does not allow a County Chair to be removed, period.  Some folks are hoping to get that changed, but Ramos has his heels dug in so deep that he’s liable to hit oil any day now.  He’s making pounds of threats and a bushel baskets of nutty talk.

“I don’t care if they marry each other. That’s not my private business. I do care when they adopt kids that are already traumatized and are coming from orphanages and stuff. And then they wake up in the morning and say, ‘What? My mama is my daddy also?’ That’s my heartburn,” Ramos said.

Now that Dan has given us his opinion of blacks and gays, Juanita is anxious to hear what he thinks about women.  “I’m willing to bet my best pair of pink boots that it’s not going to make me happy, either,” she supposes.

“Resign, Dan,” she says, “even non-religious people know decency when they hear it.”

I was just sent a link of a recording of Ramos.  Momma, do NOT listen to this.  It has bad words in it.