I Know You Want To Talk About This.
Okay, here’s the deal. A&E hires some religious right gun totin’ self-professed rednecks from the back bayous of Louisiana and then acts shocked, shocked I tell you, when they say something religious right gun totin’ self-professed redneck.
Have you ever seen a person of color on that show? No, you have not. And how do women have a say in family matters? By hoochy only. And why does that one brother never appear on the show? Uh, maybe he’s in the closet?
While the Dixie Chicks are not entitled to the First Amendment, rednecks are. You gotta keep the rules right.
This is not a first amendment matter. This is a free enterprise matter.
If this family thinks gays are going to hell and blacks were perfectly happy to be slaves, then they are going to be mighty lonely in the great hereafter. Nobody is gonna wanna be around when Sweet Jesus gives them a talkin’-to.
By the way, today is Momma’s 88th birthday and we’re having a big ole party. Here she is last month meeting her new great-grandson Ben for the first time. She’s pretty in pink, isn’t she?
She’s a fourth generation Texan and comes from a long line of strong women, all of who lived unhindered into their nineties. Last month someone asked her if she had lived in Houston all her life. “Not yet,” she replied.
Happy Birthday, Momma.
I’d rather talk about your Mama than the business decision of a teevee network and an ignorant, yet entitled, clod.
Happy Birthday to your Mama! May she continue to be a smart, classy, and sassy Texas lady until well after that darling Ben is taller than she is. It is such a blessing to have four generation pictures. Please take loads of pictures!
1Happy birthday to Momma! She looks absolutely beautiful…guess that means she’s a regular at the salon?
2Happy Birthday to your sweet Momma and a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to her, as well!
3Duck Dynasty, meh.
My thanks to Momma for raising a great child like you.
Happy Birthday!
4Blessings on your mamma and you, strong women indeed.
5“Not yet” is the best possible answer to that question.
6HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMA!!
Your Momma looks great at her age!!
I hope you all have Very Happy Holidays and a Blessed New Year!!
BTW~ I love this blog!!
7Happy birthday, Momma! Thanks for giving us Miss Juanita and may you have a beautiful holiday and blessed new year.
8Well happy birthday to Momma from another old Jonathan Winters fan!
9Your Momma is lovely! I love her comment, too. She sounds like my kind of gal. Happy birthday and many happy returns of the day—in Houston or anywhere she chooses. We’ll all be the better for it.
10They are not red necks, they are very wealthy and before the show sported short hair, Izod shirts, and golf clubs…
11That said, happy birthday to your lovely mom.
HBD Momma. Many many more.You done good!
12What strikes me is that the duck flap is taking over the news at the exact same time that academic freedom and tenure are under assault. Tenured professors are being fired for opinions expressed on Facebook. Where is the “spirited” defense for their right of free speech. Chirp crickets chirp tumbleweed. Because the righties agree with the racist misogynistic entitled white bigot but they hate academia, academics, and critical thinking. The HIPOCRACY is just mind boggling. One set of rules people. You don’t get one set for you and the people who agree with you and another for every one else.
13Happy Birthday to Momma!
14(She keeps my mouth cleaner all the way down in Houston).
She must be a fine woman.
What a beautiful picture! Happy Birthday Momma! May you have Many More!
And folks ought to see the “before reality tv” pics of the duck people at Daily Kos, here: http://tinyurl.com/mtbvacy
Pictures are safe for work and Momma..no promises about the comments though.
15Duck Dynasty is a fake. Definitely NSFW due to fowl (heh, heh) language:
http://aattp.org/duck-dynasty-is-fake-and-thats-a-fact-jack-video/
16Happy Birthday, Momma and I wish you many more! It’s my Momma’s birthday, too. She was also a strong southern woman. She lived to be 98 and I will always miss her. May you be blessed with health, happiness and prosperity throughout the holidays and the new year.
17My congratulations to her as well, and to you for having such a wonderful Mom.
18@ Mary K- “not yet” is the ONLY possible answer to that question.
Happy birthday to your mother
19Happy Birthday, Momma!
And many, many more.
20First things first, God bless your mother on her birthday and always.
21Now, as to the Duckers, if it’s a reality show then you get the good the bad and the ugly.
There’s more than enough ugly to go around and A & E is trying to cover it’s behind by suspending the foul mouthed patriarch. Predictably, the Fox hypocrites jumped excitedly on the first amendment issue right away.
Happy Birthday to Momma from me and my Momma. May you celebrate many more!
22Maybe there should be free speech in all of our workplaces, but I don’t recommend testing it. This is no different. He spouted hate and gets canned.
23Happy Birthday, Momma! Thanks for raising up Susan and sharing her with us, and thanks for being part of Texas’ tradition of strong, smart women.
24Momma is looking mighty good. Happy Birthday Momma!
25Happy Birthday, Momma! Enjoy that cute little great grandson all you can over the holdays.
I’m gonna try not to cuss today in Momma’s honor. I just gotta avoid catching the MTP rerun this afternoon.
26Happy birthday, Momma! I won’t even cuss. Well, depending on some football results. My own mother is 94 and still insists on doing yardwork, so I hope this momma can do that too.
27Wishing a very Happy Birthday to your very awesome Momma.
28Many happy returns to your amazing Momma, and many, many more.
29Happy Birthday, Momma.
Those guys aren’t even genuine rednecks. They’re yuppie applying every stupid stereotype in the book to make rednecks look dumb. I know lots of rednecks and some are pretty sharp.
30Whether these clodhoppers are redneck or yuppies ( I doubt this one)…they are not the kind of people I follow nor agree with their philosophy…the whole reality tv is pure junk!
31Momma, you are such a lovely lady … and you raised your family right! Happy Birthday, and thank you for your many gifts to all of us. Enjoy your great grandson!
32Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and most of all enjoy watching Ben as he grows up in your fine family.
33Mamma, what a prize you have in your daughter, grandkids and great-grand! One lucky lady and you deserve it!
Duck who?
I only listen to classical music stations and the teevee I watch is 99% movies with an occasional weathercast. I know there are legions like me out there. Thing is, does A&E realize this?
34“Duck Dynasty is a fake.”
All “reality” shows are fake, to a greater or lesser degree. They all rely on staged confrontations, set-up situations careful image-crafting to make them work. Without that, the lives of “reality” stars would too closely resemble the day-to-day reality of everyone else.
(Note: the definition of a “reality” show in the industry is one that goes without scripted dialogue. So long as the performers aren’t speaking words formally written in a script, it’s considered “reality,” regardless of how much of the rest of the show is scripted/planned/reenacted/per-determined.)
35Happy Birthday Momma!!! And many more!!!!
I hope you and Ben have lots of time to enjoy each other.
36Never watched Duck Dynasty before, never wanted to. But kids I teach told me it was funny, “these crazy rednecks….” Now, Annise Parker, when asked her opinion of the controversy, called Phil Robertson a “redneck wing nut and “who cares?” Which is exactly what I thought, “who cares?” But a lot of people are up in arms. http://twitchy.com/2013/12/21/houston-mayor-doubles-down-phil-robertson-of-duck-dynasty-is-a-redneck-wingnut/ Seriously? Because she called somebody a redneck who makes millions being a redneck? Or because she called him a wing nut, whatever that is? Or because she said “who cares?” Many of them complain about her “attack” without realizing she was asked her opinion, as a lesbian, and basically said it’s no big deal. Stupid, stupid, stupid people we have around here. And I’m so glad she could get herself elected in spite of them.
37Please telll Momma happy birthday and she raised one heck of a daughter.
38Tell Mama Happy Birthday. No way she looks 88, not even 70.
Hippie in the Hollar
39Happy, Happy Birthday to your Momma! She looks so delighted with that new great-grandson, and she looks so pretty in pink.
40Oh goodie! There’s a little bit of birthday cake left even though I’m late. HAPPPPPYYYYYY BIRRRRRRTHDAAAAAAAAYYYYYY! Ain’t parties wonderful! Just ignore the rednecks; they got their own problems. Love you, Mama. Hugs to you and Baby Ben. I was up visiting my new grandbaby who now weighs 5 lb. 8oz and is out of the isolette! Miz Juanita Jean, I wanna look just like your mama when I grow up. (I’m only 73.)
41Ben is one lucky little boy. Happy Birthday Momma.
42Mama is gorgeous and so are you. From a 6th gen Texan to her, Happy Birthday! VM
43Keep on keepin’ on, Momma – you’re the real stuff.
(Unlike the fakes who were only pretending to be rednecks because it would sell).
44Happy Birthday to your mother. She is one great mother if she raised you to be such fine and sassy warrior for justice.Please thank her on our behalf for you. May she many more happy and healthy years to set such a good example.
45What a lovely great-grandson, and the Greatest Grand mom. Happy birthday to you, and welcome to the planet to the babe.
As you can see all of us love what your daughter does for democracy. She must have had good bringing up, as we say in the south. That’s south Kona, you all.
46Duck Dynasty — BAH! Not worth my time.
The real news here is Momma’s birthday — Yahoo! She looks very pretty in pink, but then she looks pretty in every picture I’ve seen. Happy, happy Birthday, Momma, and many, many more. Wishing all of you a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year!
47Sweet! On the Sunday before Christmas and on her birthday, the best Great Grandmother in Texas and her great grandson Ben are leading the discussion 47-0.
2014 May the great state of Texas go BLUE with The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc.
48Happy Birthday Mama!
P.S. I’ve never seen that idiot tv show.
49Happy Birthday to Momma! Stay sassy and show bitty little Ben a thing or two!
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