Go Home Dewhurst, You’re Drunk
Poor David Dewhurst. First he loses to Ted Cruz and then to Dan Patrick. That’s got to bother your head and other vital body parts.
So, David is seeing ghosts. Scary ones. On the border. You know, no man’s land.
Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst (R) warned that “prayer rugs” have been found on the Texas side of the Mexican-Texas border and suggested that states have both an obligation and a right to act independently of the government on border security.
“Prayer rugs have recently been found on the Texas side of the border in the brush,” Dewhurst said during a speech Friday at the Values Voter Summit, echoing a claim reported on Breitbart and thought to actually be an Adidas soccer jersey.
The way we figure it, Dewhurst’s prayer rug is probably missing from Jaime Slimy’s Tavern and Bait Camp down near Lajitas.
You just ain’t lived until you’ve bargained with Jaime that he’ll throw in a cerveza with the purchase of a prayer rug. In fact, Jaime has been known to double the price if you call if a prayer rug.
By the way, the velvet Elvis is a priceless original by Diego Rivera. Well, it is a common name, you know.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
So the Americans pay big bucks for Persian rugs and the Persians (Iraqis and Iranians) pay big bucks Mexican/American Indian rugs to use for their prayers.
1“Hey, you don’t find things that last anymore, like an old woven Navajo”
2Is a “prayer rug” kind of like a serape?
3These fools have eyes rolling around in their heads so wildly that I’m waiting for them to proclaim the presence of actual aliens crossing the border. You know, from outer space. With death-ray eyes and photon flippers and stuff.
4Because everyone knows that devout, fanatical Muslims routinely abandon their prayer rugs.
5Just remember there are millions in the Repuke base that lap this toxic swill up, and jes’ luv it whenever it’s slopped out to them.
6You’re amongst them wherever you go, my rural county has voted 70%+ Rescummie for the last decade. It used to be fairly Democratic once, it could be again if we weren’t bathed in that steaming slimy slop the RW media exudes.
The per capita income isn’t very high, so they are voting against their own interests; doesn’t seem to matter…
Don’t tell Dewhurst and the teabaggers anything, but there are a lot of prayer rugs in downtown Houston. There are more than 3,000,000 Muslims in the US all over the place already and in downtown Houston they have a humongous Mosque. If you tell these fanatical crazy lunatic self called “Christians” they may do something crazy, like the same thing fanatical crazy lunatic self called “Muslims” do.
http://islamicdawahcenter.org/
7To almost quote a famous distinguished Texas politician, “Dewhurst, I know prayer rugs when I see them. Prayer rugs are a friend of mine. And you’re no prayer rug.”
8I’m not sure, buy I believe I saw similar Muslim prayer rugs in Tucson many years ago, but then I’m not the expert Dewhurst is.
9@OleMayfly … I was going for the serape route, too! I’d think maybe even a poncho, but I think the serape fits the description so much better!!
What a bunch of stooges at that Values Sideshow!! The Repukes have no values!!
10Does Screwy Dewhurst know you all have some of those home grown Muslim people there in Texas? Quick check of the google shows several mosques, so there must be some prayer rugs there already.
But the textile in question, isn’t it a soccer jersey? And wasn’t it found in Arizona? Did Texas go and annex AZ? Cuz if so, I gotta get my family the heck outta there.
And isn’t Dewhurst the same guy who personally saw bottles and jars of potty materials that no state trooper noticed in all those handbags they searches when Miss Wendy was doin that filibuster? Feller needs to see an eye doctor about those hallucinations.
11Marcia in CO, my wife calls it the “GOP attachment to failure syndrome.” The old rinse, recycle and repeat nonsense is their ‘solution’ to everything, despite decades of failure.
Reaganomics, bombing for friends, rolling back the US Constitution to win the fundamentalist vote. What Einstein said; repeating the same failure expecting different results: INSANE!
Wish the “fiscal conservatives” would try this; include everyone in economic growth, education and prosperity. Really. Imagine if women received equal pay, children received equal education and every American had access to health care. It boggles my mind how fiscally st00pid the conservatives can be.
12When I read this through the first time, I wondered why no reporter asked him to show one of the “prayer rugs” and reveal who found it. Then I clicked on your link and saw where he made that insane claim. That Values Voters bunch probably lets no media in except Faux News and company. Perhaps this is why the Texas public schools don’t teach critical thinking. They’d be sure to lose votes if they did.
13“Serape” is an old Islam word for prayer rug, I guess? Have people been sniffing the Gohmert glue again?
14Elvis was a Muslim? Whowouldathunkit?
15Conservatives sure freak out over a lot of things, don’t they? Let’s see now…prayer rugs, coffee cup salutes, logic, science, common sense. The list goes on and on.
16A lot of non-muslim US citizens (especially from TX…oil execs…republicans…) travel to the middle eastern countries. Many have picked up rugs as remembrances of their trips or as examples of fine art. How many ‘prayer’ rugs are in TX that don’t belong to Muslims? Bet a lot.
Are Texans now expected to ‘burn’ the rugs? Kind of like when all the Japanese cherry trees were cut down in DC in the late 30s…just before they interned all the Muslim, err Japanese.
17And now the nutcase in OK who was fired from his job; went beserk and killed the one lady co-worker and stabbed another multiple times. Oh, mah deah … Ms. Lindsey is gonna have a field day with this one! Oh, the Muslims are coming, the Muslims are coming and gonna kill us all!! Can’t you just hear him screeching now?
They’ve been here for a long damn time and they aren’t the killing kind … unlike ISIL who are the terrorist brand of rotten!!
18They abandoned those prayer rugs right after they threw their “qurans” along the road.
19One thing the Republicans learned after the Soviet Union collapsed – they need a boogieman to wave at the electorate in order to have any hope of winning elections.
There was a Far Side cartoon where the father presses a button to make a thumping noise in the basement, and tells his son that the son’s behavior has angered the monster in the basement… controlling voters by giving them the choice of voting for crooks and con artists, or being eaten alive by monsters; people usually choose the crooks and con artists.
<a href="“>Far Side Monster in the Basement cartoon link
20Mel, the cherry trees were destroyed because a disease or parasite had come along with them from Japan, and they were replaced with disease-free trees. Nothing at all to do with interning the Japanese-Americans, or “freedom fries.”
RepubAnon:
21“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to do the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
—- Hermann Goering, Nuremberg Trial, 1946
I guess the Guatemalan wall hanging in my living room would match Dewhurst’s idea of a prayer rug. The only prayer is that my cats don’t tear it down.
22I guess the Guatemalan wall hanging in my living room would match Dewhurst’s idea of a prayer rug. The only prayer is that my cats don’t tear it down.
23Holy Cats!! I have me a prayer rug and just now found out. Been hanging on this wall for 15 years and I’m still a backslid Methodist. Boogieman struck out here.
24Lynne @19 — You’re right, of course! It never occurred to me that they probably changed their religion immediately after crossing the border. I hope they didn’t convert to kkkristianity.
25I guess he never saw a serape, because he never ventured down into that “Third World” part of Texas where people have them (or did when I was a kid, and I’m sure they still do in parts of Mexico.) Also, he never walked miles and miles and miles to get away from a hopeless situation and into a better one, and thus never realized how useful it is to have something to sit and lie down on other than the bare ground, or wrap yourself in on a cold night, or hang over a bush so you can get a bit more shade from the hot sun or a bit of relief from rain when it comes down.
There’s a lot people don’t know when they haven’t in their lives lived without an air-conditioned house to live in, an air-conditioned car to ride in, and minions to do a lot of the necessary upkeep and support. God knows I”m thankful that I do have a house and a car and money enough to buy groceries and pay the electric and propane bills, and clothes to wear that aren’t full of holes, but I’m not confusing prayer rugs with towels, serapes, Mexican rugs, Guatemalan rugs, Navajo rugs, etc.
26“Jihadi” beheaders are to Reconstruction era KKK as Muslims are to Christians.
There, make sense now?
27Uh, oops…
“Jihadi” beheaders are to Muslims
As
Reconstruction era KKK are to Christians.
Maybe we should’ve sent U.S. history texts to Iraq to tell them what they might be in for…
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