Oh Debbie, Thanks For Keeping Louie-Crazy Local
Most of you have met Republican State House member Debbie Riddle around here at one time or another.
Debbie Riddle: Not Smarter than Cattle
Every place she looks, she sees terrorists, illegal aliens, outer space aliens, feminists, Kenyans and oh dear God it’s a black person in my town.
She is also well known as being opposed to “free” public education and once said, “Where did this idea come from that everybody deserves free education, free medical care, free whatever? It comes from Moscow, from Russia. It comes straight out of the pit of hell.”
And nobody knows the pits of hell as well as Miss Debbie.
Today, she takes on a law school student. It should be noted here that Miss Debbie has a Master’s Degree in Slaughtering the English Language. The law school student had the audacity to suggest that American soldiers in Afghanistan be given some sensitivity training about the Afghan people. You know, since we’re in their country and all. The law school student’s name is Abdul Pasha, an American citizen.
“Our soldiers do NOT need to be taught how to be sensitive to radical Muslims. They do not need to be worried about blowing their nose wrong or using their left hand and offending someone. . . . They should not be bothered with being sensitive to people who want us all dead! We need a true leader in the White House — a vote for Obama is a vote to destroy our country.”
“Abdul, if you are so offended by our soldiers then you don’t need us or our money in Afghanistan. As an American I am greatly offended that we have had American soldiers killed by the very ones we were attempting to train and help — Afghanistan soldiers. Get a grip fellow — if you want to be an American act like one and be proud of our country and stand up for our military. If you can’t do that then go where people are sensative [sic] enough for you – I guess that would be Afghanistan – where they still live like they are in the Stone Age – but still very sensative.”
In Texas, that is what is known as a walleyed snot nosed hissy fit. By a freekin’ crazy woman with more snot than hissy.
Thanks to all of you who sent the heads up.
There is a reason I go by Deb……
1I have no words.
2@Miemaw
3I on the other hand have lots of words, and not a one of them is polite! Since my mother insists that she raised me to be a lady, I will refrain from using them in public. 🙂
She’s one of those people that when I run across them I have to ask,
4“Were you born that stupid or did you have to take lessons?”
Her son was just appointed to head up the disgraced Harris county housing bunch. Watch out, she’s building a dynasty.
5Debbie is ignorantly offensive. She seems capable of offending all beings with more cells than algae.
6My very own aunt, who spent time in our state mental hospital, was nowhere near this bat guano crazy. Just sayin’.
7I think the sad thing is she is so full of hate she really believes this. When did hate get to be a Republican value?
8I guess if she’s against American soldiers in Afghanistan getting sensitivity training about the Afghan people, she probably wouldn’t consider Texas State House members getting some for their interactions with the American public?
9Debbie does dunce very well.
I understand the Pentagon has ordered Muslim sensitivity training for the troops. There are a number of things men from the USA do that are considered insults to Muslims. Debbie apparently would prefer to see the troops be shot rather than be a little sensitive.
10This new-fangled word, “sensitive”, has corrupted our minds. What we’re talking about is common courtesy. The outrageous actions by some people are nothing but plain, old rudeness. If we called it by the right name, they would have less wiggle room.
11She’s crazy even by Tomball standards aka ‘East Texas Crazy’.
12To grammy97 – you are so right. The Republicans intentionally like to corrupt words. For example, I am proud to be liberal, which, according to Webster, means:
131. Showing or characterized by broad-mindedness;
2. Having political or social views favoring reform and progress.
3. Tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition.
So who would want to be the opposite? Close-minded, intolerant, someone who favors regressiveness?
@granny97
14You’re absolutely right. What has been missing in this country for years IS common courtesy, in all areas of life and public discourse. I’m afraid it’s been on the “endangered species” list for too many years.
I can do no better than to quote Samuel Johnson’s remark on Thomas Sheridan: “It must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in nature.”
Came across that again the other night and knew this site would soon give me a chance to use it.
15It certainly is absent from the DRIVING public! I miss the drive friendly campaign! It was uniquely Texan and dang good advice too!
16The idea that the state should provide free, public education is stated in the Texas Declaration of Independence, which listed Mexico’s failure to do that as a reason justifying the split from Mexico, and explicitly tying public education to a functioning republic. This was penned in 1836, when Marx was an unknown college student. Forty years later, that principle was codified in the state constitution, Article VII, Section 1: “A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation of the liberties and rights of the people, it shall be the duty of the Legislature of the State to establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools.”
17I’m with Granny on using good old-fashioned traditional, conservative values; i.e., common sense & politeness… especially when facing possibility of death if I don’t.
18How un-Ladylike of her!
19I always thought the key attribute of a Belle was good manners and being polite.
Looks like that Southern Hospitality is gone.
Some people are born without brains and use the wrong part of their anatomy to speak.
20english teacher, You are ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. Married to a Mexican woman, I have really learned what “polite” means. We dated for a couple of years before she introduced me to her family. When I finally got up my nerve to ask, “Why so long?” she replied that it took her that long to teach me to be polite enough to mix with her Mexican family.
Believe me, I was raised by an educated, strict pair of women. My Grandmother and my Mother, and always thought I was quite a lot more polite than most of my friends. Boy, were my eyes ever opened when introduced to Mexican society. I discovered that most Mexicans only dislike Americans because they are considered far too RUDE!
21I guess Riddle’s idea is that if you’re born poor, you just deserve to be illiterate and stay poor. Her god probably decided that, or she thinks so. She didn’t get it out of any religious book I’ve ever read.
22@Rhea, thank you for that quote! It’s a keeper that I hope to use as well. Goodness knows it applies to a lot of people these days.
@Russell, I appreciate the lesson. It has been many, many years since I studied Texas history.
23Goodness! I can think of a number of people and groups of people who could benefit from some “sensitivity” training . . . . or just being taught some manners. My mama raised me on the saying, “when in Rome, do as the Romans do”, a way of applying courtesy that gives new dimension to the term.She wanted me to learn to fit in, to be willing to adapt to my surroundings, to learn the customs, languages, and beliefs of people different from myself, and to honor those differences. She believed that all people should offer that courtesy to others . . . . a way of respecting and honoring the stranger at our gate or of being respected and honored as a stranger at the gate of another , perhaps in another land.
24Kind of sounds old-fashioned in today’s context, doesn’t it? But oh, how we need that kind of respect and honor today in a world that seems about to collapse beneath the weight of anger and hatred and mistrust and rejection and fear that is growing unbearable . We can no longer offer the world a vision of leadership, democratic principles, strength and peace. We are at war with one another right here in our own country, a war that probably will not end with the election.
Why hasn’t Rick Perry appointed this woman to the Texas Supreme Court? They are two leaves in the same teabag!
25Every Western country that tried to invade and control Afghanistan has limped home bruised and (temporarily) wiser. It’s not called “the graveyard of empires” for nothing.
So I wondered when I heard that the US was “training” the Afghans, exactly what they could learn from us. Then I realized we are teaching them to use the advanced weaponry we’re buying in bulk from war profiteers. That’s probably going to come back and bite us.
As far as respecting the culture, in WW II GIs got booklets explaining how to behave in Britain, and some helpful information about German and Japanese culture. Knowledge is more helpful than ignorance, though the Republicans don’t think so.
26Russell, all of the Constitutions of Texas, from the one with Spain (1519-1685; 1690-1821) on, have contained free public education. Here’s a link to the 1827 Constitution of the State of Coahuila and Texas [http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/constitutions/text/1827index.html]. Here’s the section on Public Education [http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/constitutions/text/BT6S1.html]. Here’s the one from 1833 for the State of Texas [http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/constitutions/text/cah3gp.html#gp]. Free education is Article 26.
So, whether it was implemented or not, it was codified in the Constitutions for 300 years before the Declaration was written in Texas. I worked on the project that digitized these for the UT Tarleton Law Library, typing every word of every constitution in. I was amazed at the forward thinking of these early Constitutions, not having before realized how long free education had been codified as a right in Texas.
27I’ve seen that shirt before…only it was stretched tight across a much bigger person. It that the GOP Texas uniform?
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