July 04, 2015 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Welcome to The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc.
My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
Have a Fabulous Fourth, JJ … you, Bubba, Momma and whoever else shows up!!
1Thanks for all you do to help preserve our beautiful America! Happy Birthday, y’all!
2Go Astros! and be careful with your sparklers!
3We have extra reason to celebrate this 4th, but beware of drunk, gun-wielding good ole boys.
4@maryelle: don’t forget those confederate flag waving fools!
5Thanks, and y’all do the same!
6And this year the red, white and blue has been joined by rainbow hues. One more thing to celebrate.
7Happy Birthday to US. Happy Birthday to US. The UNITED States of America and me. The US is 239 years old today. I hit the big Seven Oh. If I’d known I’d last this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.
8Just in time for the “Left Coast” to let loose with fireworks-
http://boingboing.net/2015/07/03/relax-sarah-palin-just-solved.html
California has got a whole ocean just offshore. They shouldn’t have any drought. Whata dippy,dappy,dopey,double-disconnected dumbbell.
9Happy Birthday, USA and The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc.!
W. C. (Pete) Peterson, Happy Birthday to you, sir! 70 years young and a great time to begin taking great care of yourself.
It’s barbecue for our wonderful ranch staff, neighbors, friends and family today. We love this holiday and have great plans for celebrating. No fireworks for us; too much of a fire danger and probably wouldn’t be too popular with the ranchies and livestock. But for our guests who enjoy fireworks we have the big screen on the patio to display some of the best from around the country. Without a doubt we’ll play some baseball this afternoon, then devote the evening to music and dancing with the ladies.
😀 Celebrar la diversidad! My special gift to Jane for the occasion will be the improvement in my salsa dancing with many, many thanks to the men and women who make our ranch successful, who also devoted their time to my private lessons.
10I’m so glad Sarah Palin is so smart about water. I think I’ll go slice tomatoes for our picnic. Y’all drop by! (Imagine our family/friends’ surprise when we have 50 more of my best friend show up.) Just bring a cooler chest and a dish of something. We’ll have fun!
11cooking shows on pbs, good book and streaming dripping springs solar.
12Hey, enjoy yourself! Don’t forget sunscreen, don’t launch fireworks at anyone (including yourself), and drink water before you go to bed to avoid the “burn”!
13Happy Fourth to everyone! I’ll spend the evening trying to convince the cats we’re not being shelled. Be safe and don’t play with fireworks. Especially don’t do anything with fireworks that involves dropping your pants and bending over; I’ve heard of that but only gunhumping homophobes would be that stupid.
14Some genuinely patriotic music for y’all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvI7NHAEqCU
15Ben Sidran, “Free In America”
Enjoy your celebrations, one and all! We’ll be partying at home with the kitties and a nice batch of sangria. Second celebration of the week since Canada Day was on the first. Cheers!
16Happy Fourth of July to JJ and all of her family and clients at the salon! I’ll be celebrating with a 7-pound dog stuck to me like velcro, but it’s also way too dry in Eastern Washington State to even think about lighting a “sparkler.” I’ll raise a glass of sweet white wine tonight to celebrate our hard-won freedoms.
Happy Birthday, Pete Peterson! You’ve still a young critter!
17Happy 4th to all. Enjoy your day and all the festivities planned. Yes, do be careful with fireworks this year, particularly in all the parched areas of the country.
Rubymay, even Western Washington state is totally dried out this year. Simply too hot for us folks on the “wet side” of the mountains! I don’t remember it ever being this hot for so long or this dry either.
18I was in the Northwest Hills Parade Ladies Lawn Chair Brigade. What a blast. Rhythms and chairs. Moves and grooves. I wore a rainbow lei. A red tiara. One big blue star earring. And one big red star earring. And blue clothing.
Way Happy Fourth to Juanita and Bubba and all the Customers here at Beauty Salon Central.
19Marion, I wish I’d seen you! Did anyone take video?
20As I saw the latest version of Mrs Ross’ flag of rebellion flying over the Old Capitol on my way to work today, it occurred to me that if we hadn’t rebelled against our King, we would now all have universal healthcare and slavery would likely have been outlawed before 1863. Plus, Fox news would sound way better with British accents.
21Happy 4th, all y’all.
Had a blast with the World Famous Watauga Democratic Party Kazoo Band in the local parade. Happy Birthday, USA….and thanks to Juanita Jean for a wonderful place to drop in a chat with friends!
22Rhea, yes! I have a couple of photos up in the last two posts on my FB page:
23https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=674009223
The 4th does not hold lots of fond memories for me. In fact I can only clearly remember one – July 4th, 1976 – the bi-centennial. I watched some fireworks from my 4th story window in a big city hospital – right after they told me I had about a 50-50 chance of even lasting 2 years. Needless to say, my mood was not what one could call good! But 2 major operations followed by 2 years of radiation & chemo, 2 more major surgeries and I managed to out live my chest cutter! Of course, survival come at a price… 1 operation to fix problems caused by the first surgeries, spinal degeneration (caused by radiation), Aortic Valve replacement (I am part pig now – “th..th..th..that’s all folks”) followed by a bypass consisting of 3 feet of Gore-Tex garden hose (Auxiliary bifem bypass) causing compartment syndrome with emergency surgery to save my leg followed by skin grafts.
As I said, the 4th holds no good memories with me.
HOWEVER… you all a very good one. Hoist an 807 for me!
(807 = ham talk for beer)
24For more than 20 years I lived in a border city that had the unique opportunity of celebrating Canada Day (called Dominion Day then) and the 4th in one non-stop glorious package with all kinds of ruckus and what not on both sides of the river. As a special 4th of July treat I am going to leave it to Loopie Louie and Cantaloupe Calves Steve King to figure out the name of the river inasmuch as they have made way too much about rivers and sides and crossings and being ‘Mericans and not being ‘Mericans. It will probably be the one truly useful thing they do today. In the meantime, rock on!
25All’s quiet here on the farm in sorta dry NW iowa. Haven’t had fireworks for ages. I’ll be curled up either reading or snoozing before any illegal fireworks go off around here. Don’t let me stop you from celebrating and having fun.just be responsible and safe. The only fireworks I is hoping for are iowa’s notorious nighttime thunderstorms. Could use some rain,but we aren’t hurting for moisture like so many others. Morning will be on time,barring a miracle. Sleep tight -don’t let the bedbugs bite.
26@mb, wow, congratulations on surviving! You must be tough! I’m reminded of a dear friend’s family motto: “He conquers who endures.”
On July 4, 1976, I was flying back from Greece, where my parents had taken me as a treat. Partway across the Atlantic, the pilot announced that he had okayed it with the airline that in honor of the occasion, drinks would be free for the rest of the flight. I was underage, but by the time we got to NY, most of the passengers didn’t care how long it took to get their luggage. I wish you’d been with us instead of in the hospital.
@Marion, I don’t do Facebook and only part of your page comes up for me, but I’ll get my husband to send me your no-doubt-stunning photos when he gets back in town.
27Did we really, really need La Palin on the 4th? Here in OK, just north from y’all, I have enough trouble with La Falling, just saying.
Re. the note above regarding not having dumped the Brits and King George, that is like the anecdote from one Berlin Jew to another, if Moses had stayed in Egypt they would have had British passports and life would have been better. Of course how can someone be considered great when he leads his flock through the desert for 40 years, only to locate the only acreage without oil or natural gas in the ‘hood?
28If the French surrender monkeys hadn’t so graciously stepped in and helped out during the Revolution,us ‘murricans would be speaking an altogether different type of English,quite. That is a lesson in history wingnuts forget or have never learned.
As for Ms Quittybritches,ex half-guv of Alaska and grifter deluxe, most any day is a good day for a deep belly laugh at her and her red,white and blue hightop sneakers.
29Our July 4 was spent watching three generations of folks move through the house and back yard with their food and chatter. Grandbabies were reaching for melon and chasing each other around the furniture while one of the musicians riffed on the piano. I assume some of them watched fireworks somewhere after dark. We read ourselves to sleep while hearing firecrackers. Highly satisfactory. Cloudy today.
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