Just a Note
Y’all, you know your state is screwed when it’s getting harder and harder to recognize satire.
Hey, it could be true.
Thanks to Sharon for the heads up.
August 15, 2013 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Y’all, you know your state is screwed when it’s getting harder and harder to recognize satire.
Hey, it could be true.
Thanks to Sharon for the heads up.
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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.
Cuz its so damn close to the truth! And for some folks, close enough is an exact number!
1Tell me about it!
2And my first wife’s slave owning ancestor had real compassion for his property. Why he waited until his daughter was 13 before selling her to a sporting house.
3A very smart person saw this and forwarded it on because he thought it was actual news. That’s as depressing a commentary on our State Board of Education as I can imagine.
I do believe they’re actually trying to change the curriculum to say that slavery wasn’t so bad, so it’s not that far off from reality.
4Not surprisingly, these folks will believe the article:
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/12/ten_conservatives_who_have_praised_slavery/
A wise man once said, “Their reality has lapped our satire”.
5Iz our children learning? No,dumb bass dubya. Thanks to you and the reli…..er… ridiculous right,your children isn’t learning.
6Woot! Sadly, I think I know a person who would nod along with this— agreeing with the sentiment of the article.
I love parody sights. But it is a testament to how the crazy is all around that the GOP probably now has tutorials with their incoming freshmen congressmen about not quoting from The Onion or The Daily Currant or this site, Newslo.
7I hear tell that the Onion is going out of business because it is just to hard to tell between truth and satire. Sad, that.
8The line between the truth and satire is becoming more and more blurred. Like the line between fact and fiction.
We live in a “gossip” society. Facts do not matter. Sensationalism gets clicks, and hits, and that’s all that matters. People say outrageous lies, and they are reported as “headlines” in some blogs.
Let’s face it, when Louis Gohmert became one of the “voices” of the Republican Party, it all went in the crapper.
He does not speak truth. He wouldn’t know a “fact” if it slapped him upside his head. He speaks outrageous lies. And he gets headlines, and media coverage.
Y’all want to know why I watch baseball. That’s it. There is no such thing any more as “news”. It’s sad. But true.
9Also saw the linked story that Sen. Inhofe opposes the Theory of Gravitation and wants schools to “Teach both sides of the controversy!”
Also very hard to tell from actual news. Inhofe is a leader in Congressional denial of climate change reality.
10Sadly the Texas Board of Education has already changed the Civil War to the War of Northern Aggression. That’s what is being taught all over the South. History is being re-written, regardless of the facts.
11If I weren’t hanging out here and saw that article, I wouldn’t have realized til about halfway through that it was a spoof. It looks way too believable. They’re going to have to upgrade their satire. Maryelle, you ARE joking, aren’t you, about the War of Northern Aggression? See what I mean?
12Another topic: malware. When I just looked up war of northern aggression I got a loud notice that a distributor of malware had inserted (something bad–I’m not going back there) and if I went ahead it would infect my computer. A tech guy spent about 5 hrs today cleaning up my computer and installing expensive new software.
If this weren’t so damn funny, I would be scared because it is all closer to the truth than anyone wants to admit. Thanks Juanita, you brightened my day and at the same time woke me like an ice cold shower
13Note that source site, Newslo, understands the problem of satire versus actual news. They have a section “#NoNeedToSatirize”!!!
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