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An email from my friend Kary.

Did you know that the words “race car” spelled backwards still spells “race car”?

That “eat” is the only word that, if you take the 1st letter and move it to the last, spells its past tense, “ate”?

And if you rearrange the letters in “so-called tea party Republicans,” and add just a few more letters, it spells: “Shut the hell up you free-loading, progress-blocking, benefit-grabbing, resource-sucking, violent, hypocritical buttholes, and face the fact that you nearly wrecked the country under Bush.”  

Isn’t that interesting?

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As you know, my friend Bob Cavnar has become star of stage, screen, and teevee.  He’s been on Countdown more times than Keith has.

Visitors here have known him over  there in  link box as El Jefe Bob for several years now.

I jokingly told Bob that if he ever got on Rachel Maddow’s show, I’d change his name from El Jefe to El Grande Jefe.

It happened.

Yesterday afternoon he let me know that he was going to be on Rachel that night.  I damn near broke my neck getting home to see him.  TIVO just ain’t the same as  seeing it life.  It was worth the run.  Tell me the size of cajones you have to have to be a Texas oilman calling for a moratorium on deepwater drilling.  Big ones, that’s what.

So, in keeping with my promise – take a look at El Grande Jefe.

I keep trying to get him to steal me something from the green rooms that i can auction off to make money for Democrats in Fort Bend County.  So far, he has not been sufficiently intimidated by my threats of knowing the word pequeño.

Way to go, Bob.  You do Texas proud.

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MONROE, Ohio – A six-story-tall statue of Jesus Christ with his arms raised along a highway was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm Monday night and burned to the ground, police said.

The “King of Kings” statue, one of southwest Ohio’s most familiar landmarks, had stood since 2004 at the evangelical Solid Rock Church along Interstate 75 in Monroe, just north of Cincinnati.

“They called it Touchdown Jesus because of the way its arms were held.  Now they call it ‘This is How You Hack off God Jesus,” Juanita announces.

In related news, the 67 foot statue of General / President / Senator Sam Houston still stands.  I just wanted you to know that.

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Remember back when our Super DeLux Brand Christian Texas State Board of Education (which is better known as The Bored of Education), wanted to take Thomas Jefferson out of our children’s textbooks and replace him with Thomas Kincade?

“Well, see, here’s the problem with that,” Juanita read aloud this morning.

Authorities say California artist Thomas Kinkade spent a night in jail after being arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.

California Highway Patrol officials said Monday that Kinkade was pulled over outside Carmel and arrested by a CHP officer just after 10 p.m. Friday

“Being a painter of light surely has its burdens,” Juanita suspects. “But we in Texas deeply appreciate him taking time from his splattered schedule to make our School Board look even less trustworthy than it already does.”

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Juanita’s friend Kevin visited the beautiful Texas Hill County this weekend and sent her a genuine snapshot of the Kerrville GOP HQ.

“We always knew they were carrying water for corporate America, so maybe the jugs makes the job easier,” Juanita smiles.

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Juanita did not go to the Republican convention in Dallas this weekend.

Mainly because of hats like this.

“They say it’s supposed to be an elephant,” Juanita reports.  “But the term peckerhead comes to mind.”  (Sorry, Momma, but there’s no way to say that without being coarse.  Phallichead just doesn’t cut it.)

You know how we have an international symbol for bathroom or right turns?  This hat is the official international symbol for Rick Perry.

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