June 16, 2021 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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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.
I’ll have to sleep with both legs out because I don’t think I could ever give up Mexican food on demand!
1I understand that fixing the electrical grid problem in Texas wasn’t the priority that abortion and guns were. What will it take to wake up the voters of Texas? Apparently, freezing in the dark didn’t do it. The rest of the country wonders.
2Evening J.J.!
3I know others have said it, and maybe I haven’t.
But it ferdamnsure is good hearing from you.
And now to business.
Tex-Mex is good 24/7.
Never understood why folks called cokes sodas, or pops.
I mean hell, you just have to specify which type. Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, Sprite.
Pfff.
And I can deal with the ketchup thing as long as it’s still Fancy.
(:
Solutions to air conditioning:
Living in your refrigerator.
4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioyU_sZufC8
A couple of other suggestions —
* turn off your home air conditioners and gather in communal spots, choosing among churches, bars, sports arenas, shopping malls and hospital waiting areas.
* take a trip in your RVs and yachts — they all have generators to power your air conditioning, so there is no danger to the electrical grid.
5john, I don’t know if you have a dog, but the separation anxiety dog owners share with their canine family members is nothing compared to the discombobulation experienced by Texans when they realize that the pumpjack every Texas family has in their backyard is deprived of it’s daily affection by at least one family member for more than 3…. no 1 1/2 days at a time.
6Just talking about it gives me the willies.
One wonders whether ads showing pictures of folks freezing in the winter and broiling in the summer, with the caption “Walls don’t help keep Texas running” would help.
Even with the new anti-voting laws, the idea of bazillion dollar electricity bills so Abbott can build his Presidential Prop may get Texans grumpy enough to vote for Democrats.
7Alright, there’s enough Texans (and honorary Texans) here for me to wonder who is going to say it?
BLASPHEMY! Adding beans to your chili violates every principle known to decent people (and Texans also).
Unrelated: ERCOT stands for “Electric *Reliability* Council of Texas”. Are they taunting us? What’s next, the Ministry of Truth?
8I thought the wall was supposed to keep the heat waves from coming up from Mexico?
9We learned to deal with the hot Texas weather by moving into the national forestorest in Northern Wisconsin.
GOP should members of the legislature should consider ice water enemas. It may not make them cooler but it would be a really good way to keep them from talking at their ass for a little while
10JJ, just for you.
Thom Hartmann has a great article today in Raw Story “One of them has to go: The GOP or America as we know it”.
He talks about the Texas situation and how corrupt Abbott and other officials are.
Just thought you might could use it or something… Love your column, Live in Austin – am 4-5th generation Texan on all sides. Can’t understand why people keep voting for R’s…. Stay cool!
11OK, tell me this is a joke.
12OK, here ya go-
https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/06/16/ercot-heat-meme/
13“Forget the Alamo” is actually the name of a new book that reveals what really happened at the Alamo.
* Most “defenders” of the Alamo ran away.
* Davey Crocket probably was executed after he surrendered.
* The entire thing was basically about preserving slavery.
So: the TX origin story is mythical BS.
“Forget the Alamo” book review:
https://t.co/lAotZxG2I5
14What BarbinDC said.
Abbott’s solution to ERCOT’s multitude of problems keeping Texans cool (and it’s only June!) is to spend $250 million on a “down payment” on a totally useless wall? Why haven’t the voters of Texas strung him up, yet? What are they waiting for?
15BS out of Fled Cruz’s mouth shows up on an old Social media tweet and covers him once more in a ~ reeking, ~ foul, ~ fecal fragrance.
Header: Ted Cruz Haunted By Old Tweet As His State Suffers Through Heat Wave !
Edit: As Texas suffers through a major heat wave that has once again strained their energy grid to the breaking point, an old tweet from Ted Cruz has come back to bite the Republican Senator right on his backside. The tweet came from last summer where Cruz mocked the state of California for having to force residents to conserve energy, the same thing Texas is having to do right now. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.
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16https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQTsiryxozU
Outside of Boston, it’s under 80(F), and this weekend should stay the same. So Happy Juneteenth from a place where the AC works when we need it…
17Dining on Italian satellite Cheese & Salsa
Fugazi ~ (fake) ~ Italian conspiracy
The craziest conspiracy theory out of Trump’s White House Jun 17, 2021
Wild conspiracy theories coming out of the Trump White House was common practice for four years, but details are emerging from emails sent by Donald Trump’s chief of staff to the Department of Justice that put one of them in a whole new light. In the latest episode of The Point, CNN’s Chris Cillizza unpacks Italygate, a conspiracy theory that Italian satellites influenced the 2020 election.
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video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgXUTMQlSjg
Aw, c’mon. It wasn’t Italian satellites. It was Jewish space lasers. Everybody knows that.
19As a proud member of the Secret Jewish Space Laser Corps (see, that’s what it says on my new cap) I must endorse slipstream’s comment. We did it.
Mazel Tough
20John in Denver,
21You reminded me of a long-forgotten memory when we newlyweds had no AC so would take our evening paper down to the local Chinese restaurant Medford (or M’f’d as they say in those parts near Boston). We’d eat and read and eat some more, and not leave until it was cool enough to sleep.
How do Italian satellites work? Well, when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie…
22G Foresight @14, ” “Forget the Alamo” is actually the name of a new book…”.
Yes it is.
https://www.texasobserver.org/forget-the-alamo-unravels-a-texas-history-made-of-myths-or-rather-lies/
In addition to the slavery issue, the dominant historical effort, in schools and Texas academia, has been to downplay the huge influence of the Tejanos, Mexicans in Texas, in all of the conflicts with Mexico [and Spain].
I live surrounded by this early history. One very prominent figure, and also his father and brothers, was Juan Seguin.
His father Erasmo’s house, Casa Blanca, is/was within throwing distance from mine; my property records transcribe once being part of his 9,000 acre ranch. Juan Seguin later built his own house adjacent to it.
Stephen Austin and many others spent time here. A then major road connecting San Antonio and Goliad [Presidio La Bahia], the Camino Real de la Bahia, used by everybody from the 1600s, crosses my property.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmo_Seguín
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Seguín
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/seguin-juan-jose-maria-erasmo-de-jesus
Juan N. Seguin Ranch House:
https://www.loc.gov/item/tx0234/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidio_La_Bahía
23Holy Crap!
I was just mapping around checking some history and found this Nat’l Park Service link to the ‘El Camino Real de los Tejas’ segment mentioned above:
https://www.nps.gov/elte/planyourvisit/maps.htm
The detailed zoom-in “GIS Interactive Map” at link below, actually shows the very old ‘Camino Real de la Bahia [San Antonio to Goliad]’, when highly zoomed, –passing right through my house, from the NW to SE corners–, yikes!
Runs right through the middle of my effing house, damn SMH…and amazed.
There is old roadbed from the later highway[s] that exists some yards N and NE of my house, so there are a few feet differences, understandable over about 300-400 years of travel I guess…
Man, I’ll have to start looking for ghosts of some of the hundreds of thousands of travelers that have passed over this ground going back and forth from San Antonio to the Gulf Coast and even Mexico [an alternate route]. From conquistadors, settlers of every stripe, military forces in many conflicts from Mexican strife, Texas revolution, US-Mexican Wars, even the Civil War, over centuries of history.
There’s a strategic geographical reason why these continuous sequential road[s] pass –exactly– here too, due to the terrain and the very close San Antonio River just down the ridge; from which you may deduce partially where my ID derives.
https://nps.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=24fc463363f54929833580280cc1a751
24Hey, it is about Texas…
From the link above, a brief description of the Camino Reals and the later roads that followed:
” ¡Hola! Bienvenidos Welcome! El Camino Real de los Tejas (The Royal Road to the Tejas) is a remarkable historic trail that linked Mexico with Texas and western Louisiana during the Spanish Colonial Period 0f 1690-1821. The Spanish expeditions first used this American Indian-blazed trail late in the 17th Century to fend off French encroachment but over time established a series of missions and military posts between Mexico City, Mexico and Los Adaes, Louisiana, the provincial capital of Texas from 1722 to 1772.
25Later, in the 19th Century, a network of roads associated with El Camino Real evolved to facilitate immigration and settlement. Today you can trace the history of Texas and northwestern Louisiana through remaining trail segments, river crossings, campsites, historic sites and communities. “