November 08, 2013 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.
Fabulous cartoon!
1On a day that I needed a belly laugh, this gave me one!!
2Aw, JJ! You needed that!
3Just saw this on another site. It will be 50 years ago this November 22nd that we lost the man who wrote these words:
“Neither the fanatics nor the faint-hearted are needed. And our duty as a Party is not to our Party alone, but to the nation, and, indeed, to all mankind. Our duty is not merely the preservation of political power but the preservation of peace and freedom.
So let us not be petty when our cause is so great. Let us not quarrel amongst ourselves when our Nation’s future is at stake.
Let us stand together with renewed confidence in our cause — united in our heritage of the past and our hopes for the future — and determined that this land we love shall lead all mankind into new frontiers of peace and abundance.”
I was 23 and working as a city employee. Felt as if something I never knew I had, something inexpressibly priceless, had been ripped out of me when I heard the news. Odd thing was that feeling was overcome by a very acute awareness of a hard core suddenly revealed. At that moment I think I irretrievably grew up. 50 years. Its worth looking back with one eye and looking ahead with the other. Wonder what others got out of that heart-breaking event?
4Maggie, I was younger than that and don’t have any memories of JFK as President, but I read much later that someone said on that day that she didn’t think we’d ever laugh again. “Of course we’ll laugh again,” said her friend. “We’ll just never be young again.”
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