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A billboard seen in Marshall, Texas, yesterday —

Juanita says she’s sorry but after 8 years of George W Bush, she is flat fresh out of embarrassment.  “Used it all up,” she explains.

And, quite obviously, someone else is embarrassed because the person who bought this sign only put their initials, not their full name.  Juanita says that’s understandable.  “You would not want people to know that you spent perfectly good cash American money on something that stinkin’ ignorant when you could have bought these —

— probably for half the money.”

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Texas Governor Rick Perry thinks God really has it out for BP.

“My Governor announced that the oil spill might be an act of God.  I know you don’t believe that,” Juanita reports, “so I will give you proof of a level of ignorant and crazzzy that doesn’t even have a name in psychiatry yet.”

Perry questioned whether the spill was “just an act of God that occurred” and said that any “politically driven” decisions could put the U.S. in further economic peril.

“From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented,” Perry said.

Oh no, he didn’t say that,” Verdelia replies.  “God would strike him dead on the spot for talk like that.”

“Apparently not, Honey,” Juanita comforted.

The women at the salon were wondering if the BP explosion in Texas City was also an act of God.  If so, God really has it in for BP.

And we are also wondering why God didn’t act when a coyote was trying to scare the pee outta Governor Perry.

The re-election of Rick Perry is obviously not an act of God because, dammit, that can be prevented.

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“Virtus is one hot little Roman chick,” Juanita begins.  “She’s also a good person not to mess with because she’s known to do some boot stomping on Tyranny.  She whipped his butt and then posed for a picture. My kind of woman.”

“In the picture, which has been around since Rome wasn’t even Italian, one of her ta-tas is exposed as if to continually remind that jerk Tyranny that she’s a woman to be reckoned with, hooters and all,” Juanita grins.

Well, she’s on the state seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Probably not by choice.

“The attorney general of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli, got himself just a tad too interested in Virtus’s knockers,” suspects Juanita with a wink.

“But instead of just looking the other way, now that she’s not around to defend herself, he re-dressed her.  That’s pretty gay, don’t ya think?”

“He gave her a breastplate.  No, I am not kidding.”

“Have you ever seen anything that unattractive?”

“Good Lord, at least he could have found someone to design something more becoming.  It looks like she’s wearing a bullet proof vest.  Virtus did not need a bullet proof vest.  Even if there were bullets.  She was that cool.”

“I’m so very tired of Republicans and their obsession with nakkid.  Look, it’s just nakkid.  Women are good at it.  Get over it.”

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Danged!  Competition!

Click the little one to see the big one.

On the upside, we DO have overnight and long term parking at the World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc, which is mighty handy for Thelma’s motorhome.

Also, you do not have to pray (as instructed at this beauty shop) before you enter my salon.  We’re pretty much know what we’re doing.

On the other hand, you might have to pray after you leave, depending on what you heard.

Every now and then, I write something serious.  This is now and then.

I was at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, this morning.

While visiting the Museum, tears came into my eyes when I thought about those 9 teenagers who were threatened, spit on, and hated.  I wonder if I would have had the courage and faith to do what they did, or to allow my children to.  It was a different world in 1957.

Or, was it?

On the walls of the museum, I saw Governor Orval Faubus argue about state’s rights.   His call for the white people of Arkansas to come to Little Rock to defend Central High School was not, absolutely not, about states rights.  It was about fear turned into hatred.  It was about racism.

The words of Faubus and his supporters covered the walls of the museum.

And, they sounded oh so familiar.

They were calling it judicial activism and states’ rights back then, too.

Glenn Beck is using the same arguments that Governor Faubus did.

In 1958, a poll by Time Magazine named Faubus one of the top ten most trusted people in the world, right behind the Pope.

The good news is that nobody trusts the Pope or Governor Faubus any more.

And the day will come, yes it will, when Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Bachmann, and Glen Beck are relegated to the status of Orval Faubus: a sore and hateful place in American history.