November 10, 2015 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.
Thanks, but no thanks. I’ve had my overload of crazy and I’m not going anywhere near that Klown Kar.
1I’m Googling at the library. I don’t hate myself that much to watch. Sorry.
2Not a chance in this house.
3In spite of my position that one should know one’s enemy as well as one’s self, I’m sitting these out until the GOP somehow, someway nominates candidates.
I’m trying to reform a bit. I don’t hate snacilbupeR just because they are snacilbupeR. Some I like and am related to. Sadly. But I disagree with EVERYTHING they believe and understand about the world in which we both live.
4Well, they couldn’t name one Democrat they admire. So much for healing the divide in Washington. aNd what the hell happened to Rich Santorium? There were little spittle things running out the sides of his mouth as he screamed.
5I tried my best to watch it. I couldn’t make it 30 seconds.
6But there are football games on.
7It usually pays to NOT have cable. Tonight’s one of those times . . .
8I’m watching Iwo Jima: From Combat to Comrades. Very moving to see former enemies becoming friends and standing for peace. Sadly, lessons likely lost on the Rs.
9Been at board meeting for my church’s pre-school. Headed home to watch MSNBC’s coverage of debate. Can stand only the brief snippets. Even that requires gritting my teeth.
10Once about 2001 I was slow to turn off the TV after a program I’d watched, and they said that Bush was going to make an address. I thought, well, maybe I’ll listen. But when the announcer said, “Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States,” and that smirking twerp walked out… I couldn’t hit the off button fast enough. Haven’t heard many Republicans since who are more worth listening to than that, especially when they’re trying to out-RWNJ each other. I’m sure I’ll read their “highlights” tomorrow with gap-jawed incredulity.
11I agree with Micr. I’m waiting until there is an actual candidate. Think I’ll go watch NCIS then Chopped. At least Chopped is sort of informational.
12As I said earlier, I’ve never watched a Republican debate yet and I don’t see any reason to start now. Our oldest son, who enjoys political shouting matches about Uber with me, says Cruz will get the nomination. Is that kind of like the horserace where the good horse(s) are held back until late in the race? Unfortunately, Cruz isn’t a good one but then what do I know.
13Besides, I’ve been thinking evil thoughts toward my cell phone which suddenly will not take a charge and neither will the iPad2 we have and never use. Help!
I got as far as Ben Carson saying his three-year-old granddaughter was in the audience and she thought the debate was “cool.” Now I’m sure he’s on Quaaludes.
14Tried to watch. When I woke up they where in commercial and now I am here. So much more interesting.
15I had enough punishment today with an epidural steroid injection in my lower back. I certainly don’t need worse with another farce of a GOP debate.
16Correct me if I’m wrong, but does anyone else who is watching feel like the questions have been pre-screened? Meaning, they all had the questions before the debate. I haven’t been watching all of it, just tuned in at 9:45(est). No one seems to be debating, just presenting the GOP platform. I know, I know, it’s Fox.
17You can’t HAVE questions. It might offend the sensibilities of the er, participants/cardboard cutouts. Oops, dropped some grape jam on the keyboard. See you later, assuming my laptop doesn’t go on the fritz like my cell phone.
18It’s easy to stay sober when you can’t keep anything down.
Perhaps a bottle of Pepto-Bismol would be the correct cocktail for the debate.
19damn my husband made me watch. Convinced him to leave for NCIS after Rubio blamed Hillary for all the ills in the world and the country.
20I’m not watching, but some of the comments remind me that hundreds of years ago it was considered entertaining to go to the asylum and watch the insane prisoners and listen to them rave. I guess this is the 21st century equivalent.
21Marge Wood!!! You were watching that debate AND eating at the same time?!! Are you crazy? That’s a very dangerous thing to do. Think of your health.
22I watched PBS. The same program on Iwo Jima (Marine. You have to watch an Iwo Jima program on the Marine Corps Birthday or you feel like a traitor to the Corps and your DD214 will spontaneously combust) and then the program detailing how veterans have been treated/mistreated in every war starting with the Revolutionary War. And how the wonders of modern battlefield medicine combined with the wonders of modern military materiel mean many fewer deaths and many more shattered lives, as the ability to keep a body breathing outstrips the ability to restore an injured brain.
And I thought the Republican loudmouths should be forced to watch those programs and a few others over and over and over until finally they got it, and then put in some hours in a VA hospital and a rehab center. And then I started writing something not nearly as good as what Primo wrote but it’s what I needed to write. The start of what I needed to write.
23My excuse is that I have the plague. Chicken soup and hot tea with lemon make more sense than the Foaming, Combing, and Quaalude party on TV tonight.
I do think we need to know the highlights. I’ll read them tomorrow when my head doesn’t hurt. Oh, hell, you know my head’s gonna hurt worse when I do.
You can only expect so much from chicken soup.
24Marge Wood:
25A large percentage of problems with electronics are magically solved by turning them off for at least 30 seconds and then turning them back on. Honest. I hope that helps you.
Nope, sorry, no way. I have enough problems in my life without devoting time to idiots on the tube. I’ll read the highlights (lowlights?) tomorrow. Perhaps a three-year-old would find them to be “cool,” but not I.
26the Republican loudmouths should be forced to watch those programs
No. They’re not equipped with the kind of empathy that would allow them to learn from that kind of second-hand experience.
Only when the loudmouths and their children are the ones to actually fight the wars they demand will they learn.
27I just finished watching a few clips from the debate. Every candidate was bracketed by a WSJ billboard on one side and a FOX billboard on the other side. This was not a debate it was an advertisement.
28Gasp! No. Not just No. Hell No! Paid a few bucks to watch “Mr. Holmes”, one helluva good movie, completely devoid of car crashes, chase scenes, wars, etc. Very, very enchanting and relaxing, none of these virtues which I could posit about the “debate”.
29I watched the Muppets. God I missed them.
30There are certain things we don’t allow in our house. At the top (above affairs, murder, and drugs) is Faux News.
Ew! I just took a break and checked out some news sources. Maria B. asked a good question but the general IQ of the Repubulicraze audience couldn’t take it! As for Rubio, I translate his back-handed response about “generational” to mean that this is a contest between older v. younger. It might be for him but there were others on stage who are closer to Hill’s age, close enough to blow out the candles on the birthday cake. Rubio, little man, don’t pat yourself on the back! That was an insult and all of us who are even a day older than you are not going to forget it!
31Don’t have cable. Don’t watch.
However, I do have a Kindle. If y’all want to read a really delightful book (you DO NOT have to be a country music fan, but it helps). All you have to be is a Democrat.
Read the new book by Willie Nelson “It’s a Long Story”.
Outstanding!
My really, really good reason for NOT watching tv.
32Luckily, several years ago, U-Verse decided the Fox “News” gaggle would no longer be part of our basic cable package so we weren’t even tempted to watch this idiocy. Between MSNBC, the Late Show and the Daily Show, I’m sure we’ll get the high points (and I use the term quite losely) today.
33There was a great documentary on Frontline about the rise of the NRA and the efforts of some Democratic presidents to pass gun control measures. The whole thing went to hell under Dubya who allowed the assault rifle ban to elapse and destroyed every effort to close the gun show loophole and universal registration. Another example of Jeb?’s brother keeping us safe. We need another Bush?(or any republican) in the White House like a hole in the head.
34There was a Republican Debate? And I missed it? GOOD!
35That darn Mental Ben. He ruined our whole evening by sharing his Quaalude with the Outlaw Jersey Whale. We had pinned our evening to the pre-lim event, expecting Gov Cartman to engage the Huckster in a heavy weight battle of secular non-human versus religious fear mongering. But no. Christie emerged pretending he had attended kindergarten, learned to play nice with others and learned to share. Our hypocrisy meter tapped out and the snooze effect won.
We woke up this morning well rested and secure in the knowledge that we didn’t miss anything.
36Just another reason I’m glad I don’t have cable TV.
37Taco Tuesday…. why ruin it?
38I don’t know if the Klowns had the questions in advance or if the questions were formed to fit answers the klowns had been asked and answered previously on Faux News. (For the record, I wouldn’t be caught dead watching Faux, but see clips on MSNBC.) Most answers, particularly Rubio’s, were obviously memorized. Snarly repeated the same answer several times. They played a little nicer than usual with each other, which made it very boring and not really a debate. Of course, Obama and Hillary are responsible for everything wrong with the country.
39I figured I’d just read the worst quotes and watch highlights on MSNBC, but my husband came home partway through and turned it on out of a sense of civil obligation, to see how bad it was, I guess. I sat through about 5 minutes, on banking I think. Heard Carson sounding like he was reading picture books at bedtime (and about as factual), Rubio trying to sound like a grown-up, and Cruz in his Princeton debate team mode (only without the constraint of relying on facts). I gave up and retreated to the study to review an appellate letter for a promotion case. My husband only lasted another 10 minutes or so, and he turned up lying on the carpet outside the study door, hugging the samoyed for comfort.
Please tell me that we are not going to have to say “President Cruz” – please… (or any of the other Klowns.)
40The most disturbing part was the audience reaction…..
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