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The Geeks who handle my email moved my email account to a new server.  For some damn reason, it took 48 hours for the DNS to propagate.  Now, I have no idea what all that means, and personally I think they just make that stuff up to make us think they are actually working instead of playing solitaire, but the bottom line is that all my email from the last 48 hours can only be accessed by Julian Assange and I ain’t willing to make bail.

So, if you sent me an email in the last 48 hours, which includes the Tell Juanita thingy, you have to send it again.

I am sorry, but apparently my DNS is very cranky.

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Juanita may have told you that she’s going to be in Austin for the first day of the Lege.  They are swearing in her brand spankin’ new State Representative and she worked too hard to help get him elected to miss seeing him get to work.

And, as some of you recall, the first day of the Lege is the day after Tom DeLay’s sentencing.  “If it is true that bad things come in threes, then good things have to come in threes, too,” Juanita announces.

She just found out what it is.

The “Conservatives” are planning a rally on the first day of the Lege.

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“Look, I do not have anything against white males.  I married one and gave birth to three of them.  However, contrary to what they may think, they are not the only humans on earth,” Juanita begins this morning with a line out the door of women getting spiffied-up for the big VFW Holiday Dance tonight.

“Apparently, the only winners in the last election were white males,” she sighs upon discovering that the chairmen of every House committee are white males, except for one.

“It’s kinda dazzling to think that it’s 2010 and apparently we have not come a long way, Baby.”

The only ta-tas at the table

The sole female’s role is kinda stunning, too.  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the loopy lady from Florida who openly encourages the assassination of Fidel Castro, now chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee.  “Oh Good Lord,” Juanita says, “somebody give her a row boat and pistol.”

“So,” Juanita says, “once again, the Republican idea of diversity is a tall white guy, a short white guy, a fat white guy, a bald white guy, a …….”

“Yo, Juanita,” Thelma interrupts. “You forgot John Boehner.  He’s not white.”

She has a point there.

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It appears that Texas is not the only state with very frightening Republican State Representatives.

This story right here will make you go hummmm……

It appears that they have a state rep in Minnesota who hangs out in Planned Parenthood parking lots with a loaded gun and extra ammo while claiming that he was merely stalking a woman he met at an online dating service.

No, seriously.

No charges were filed.

No, seriously.

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Juanita has always enjoyed watching Libertarians try to govern.  “I mean, the whole point of being a libertarian is that you believe in anarchy so why the hell do they bother to run for office?” Juanita wonders.

So, when she saw this morning that the Republicans put Ron Paul as chair of the committee overseeing the Federal Reserve, she damn near exploded in laughter.

Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul is poised to chair the House Domestic Monetary Policy Subcommittee, putting the gavel of the panel overseeing the Federal Reserve into the hands of one of the central bank’s most outspoken critics.

and then there’s ….

Paul has been a harsh critic of the Federal Reserve and has pushed for measures that would audit the central bank or abolish it altogether. The subcommittee also has jurisdiction over “precious metals,” and Paul has advocated a return to the gold standard.

The decision to allow Paul to chair the committee, which was done in response to the Tea Party threats, is gonna a delight for Juanita to watch.

“Ron Paul is smart.  Crazy as a bedbug, but smart.  You can bet your best pair of pink boots that he’s gonna be the smartest Republican on that committee and it’s more fun than recess in heaven to watch him tie up Republicans in their own rhetoric.”

“It’s easy to be a philosophical purist when you don’t have to govern,” Juanita reminds the ladies of the Political Book  Club and Intense Cooking Society.  “Watching Ron Paul, who lives just down the road from me, try to do anything other than say NO real loud, will be something to watch — safely from a distance.”