November 28, 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.
A poke in the eye to all the iowa Hawkeye haters in the world. iowa football isn’t pretty,but they have gotten their jobs done. 12 and 0 with another game next week for a chance to play for a natty.
1e platypus onion, Iowa who? “isn’t pretty” is that similar to Canadian football where they kick on 3rd down ‘just because’?
2Personally, of the two “eyes” I prefer the Hawk over the Buck.
3The Bucs pay their players better and have a good 401k plan
4Yeah and Urban Meyer looked bewildered like a goat on astroturf last week. I have waited a long time for my Hawks to be relevant again. Coach must have seen the torches and pitchforks headed his way last year. He is an entirely different coach,one who actually acts like winning is okay.
5Iowa was for suburban Chicago kids who couldn’t get into Illinois. Illinois was where kids went if they couldn’t get into Notre Dame. Holy Cross Hall was my dorm on Notre Dame campus in the early 80s.
Go, Irish!
Now I live in Columbus, and the closest thing we have to a pro sports team here is OSU. Everything I have that’s not Blue and Gold is Scarlet and Grey.
Go Buckeyes!
6Hey guys, the ladies have abandoned us. Maybe we should spice up the football discussion with our favorite recipes for working our way out of the Dog House, after we’ve watched too many games. My peace offering this morning was slicing fresh peaches to be served over crepes with fresh whipped cream. And, I cleaned up the kitchen too, as I was deep in the Dog House.
7PKM-
Too many football games, how is that possible? What’s your preferred method to attempt the football fan’s Holy Grail?
Multiple and concurrent screens?
DVR time shifting?
CFL?
Division 2?
Division 3?!
Still, that can’t be more than 18-20 hours.
8Rick, I’m a wuss and dare not indulge in two games or ten hours on the couch. The thought of said couch becoming my final resting place is not a comfortable thought. Jane is wonderful about the time I spend shooting hoops or playing some baseball with the guys. However, she does not encourage me into early coronary territory with fat snacks and couch potato athleticism. Yes indeed; I am a wuss, a healthy & happy wuss. 😀
9Hey Chipster, grew up in Elkhart late 50s & early 60s. Don’t get back much anymore being now from the same metro area as Juanita.
10I didn’t have much feel for Notre Dame as I went to IU & Perdue. But my parents were big fans.
As Garrison might say, “They are all above average”.
Perhaps one day we can get to more depth from our hint exchange a while back regarding quantum, Einsteinian and Bible world.
This woman loves football…but have no dog in your fight. Couldn’t care less about either of the eyes, being a Georgia bulldog alum. They’re as big a disappointment as the Packers this year, because I was dreaming of another natty match-up between the Dawgs and Notre Dame, like we had 35 friggin’ years ago…a girl can dream, can’t she?
11But it sounds like you’re a wuss with a wonderful, loving, caring woman. Advantage, wuss.
12Hahahahahahahaha! Look, I’m in MN. We have great DII and DIII teams, but Gopher football sucks.
On the other hand, our women’s teams KILL! Volleyball is winning the Big 10. Basketball was in the Big Dance. Softball went to the World Series. Diving won the Big 10. And our pro basketball team?!! MN Lynx have won 3 of the last 5 WNBA championships!!!!! GO LYNX!!!
Of course, due to the EXTREMELY SEXIST CULTURE of sports on all levels in the good ole US of A, few people know about what awesome athletes populate the plethora of outstanding women athletes in this country.
Case in point: Your local newspaper’s sports pages cover Hawkeye/Buckeye/Irish/etc, basketball in the headlines, regardless of how bad they might be. Below the fold is a brief couple of paragraphs (no photos!)about the Hawkeye “Women’s” Basketball game. Am I right? It goes without saying that Illini Basketball refers to the boys, while the women’s team is clearly ‘the other’ and must be designated as such.
Actually, liberal MN is a bit better. World Champion Alpine skier and native Minnesotan Lindsey Vonn gets a pic nearly every time. So does Gopher Women’s Basketball, and the Lynx get big headlines when they win another championship. But not until the playoffs begin. On the other hand, the pitiful NBA team, the Timberwolves, get big stories with photos daily because they are boys. That they stink, and have for many years, is secondary.
As a lifetime athlete and starring member (she says with all humility) of my pre-Title IX college basketball and softball teams, I want to thank you all for this opportunity to vent. Now I feel more like I do now than I did before. Gracias, from the heart of my bottom.
13JAKvirginia, I consider myself the world’s luckiest wuss with three “luckiest days of my life” already and b-4 my 30th year. Jane agreed to marry me, she married me, and she gave us a healthy baby boy. It doesn’t get luckier than that.
14Debbo, you go girl! Pioneering women are awesome. It really burns that the many advances made in the 60s are under attack from the snacilbupeR. Women are still underpaid, people of color are still underemployed, etc., yet those nut bags want to conserve some non-existent 50s culture.
Yeah. “Leave It to Beaver.” Willard Romney as Ward, Carly Fiorina as June on meth, and Marco Rubio as The Beav.
15A pioneering woman,quite an artist.too. She has also been this,that and several other things that benefit actual humans and is witty,funny and loves asparagus. No,I’m not being paid to tootle her horn.
For Debbo-eyes only. Is the eck chay in the ail may?
16daChipster.I watched some of Ohio State’s thugs beating up on outmanned Forty Whiner’s Michigan team. The Buckeyes could stand to watch a classy team like iowa play. No self congratulations,no showboating.no taunting opponents,just good clean hard fought football and even better sportsmanship.
Urban and his thugs-not so much.
17pkm – fresh peaches on November 28th? Who do you know? And from where? And why exactly wasn’t I invited?
18Marion (formerly known as MM), there are some advantages to being a border state with CA. Even little Kool was located in his high chair away from the table; he’s too young yet to learn the art of groveling one’s way out of the Dog House.
But I will be sure to invite you next time. It was a bad idea to sit little Kool that far from Daddy’s reach. Kid and kitchen needed a power wash.
19I watch some pro football, though it helps if any of my teams are winning, but I’ve considered paying more attention to college football. So, since my college doesn’t play intermural sports and the local U of MD isn’t hot stuff, maybe y’all can advise me: which college teams have the best “backfield” in tight pants when they bend over…?
Amen to Debbo’s rant about women’s teams getting a paragraph for a championship when men’s teams get big headlines even when they suck. My husband much prefers women’s soccer because the players have more contact with fans and they don’t fake an injury every five minutes to try to get a foul on the other team. But they get about 1/4 as much money for a World Cup as the men’s team gets for losing in the first round. (Soccer player of any sex who has scored the most goals in international play is Abby Wambach– not one of the boys!)
20Football bores me, but I’d challenge anyone to a weaving marathon or a sew-in.
21Anybody wanna play?
Hey Rhea and Debbo, No football in this house today as lazrguy was watching the UConn women, as always. The men’s team wishes it had such a loyal following. Personally, I hate watching the women- you know they’re gonna win, it’s just by how much. And my motherly heart goes out to those poor kids being slaughtered by the blue machine.
22Rhea, the day is coming when boys will come to their senses to realize Abby Wambach and the ladies are da bomb in soccer. And, on a sexist note, the ladies look so much better in shorts. I’ll even watch the WNBA. Olympic softball isn’t too shabby either.
JanK, thanks but no thanks. The pain of sewing my thumbs together or wrapping myself Rumpelstiltskin style in a loom is outside the range of my talents.
23PKM, on another sexist note, I have long been saying that if the NBA wants more fans, they should go back to the skimpy shorts of yore instead of the clown pants the players wear now….
24PKM. No man was ever criticized while working in the kitchen
25Rhea, in the battle of the shorts, the ladies are a clear winner!
paul, thanks for the sage advice. Trust me, I pay attention when the ladies of The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc. post recipe and cookbook suggestions. Yesterday I was hoping some of the guys would share their get out of the Dog House favorite recipes. Seems those are either state secrets, or they’re good with a weekend on the couch.
26Only two possible responses when my bride speaks: Yes, dear and How soon?
27paul, the “How soon?” is good, very good. The “Yes dear” requires finesse and voice control. If not articulated with perfect pitch, that could lead to WWIII. Or, as my Daddy taught me, “speak with the sincerity of the hounds, or sleep with the hounds.” (his country way of how to avoid being banished to the couch)
amirite ladies?
28For epo eyes only – oonsay.
29lazrgrl, you are right about Breanna Stewart and crew at UConn. I don’t watch them for the same reason. BS will be picked Even Before #1 in the April 2016 WNBA draft.
I agree with epo about humble teams. They’re much more enjoyable to watch and appreciate than the arrogant showboaters. I especially avoid the semi-pro SEC games. Big 10 is about the same. Except Iowa, of course.
30PKM, what’d you do that was so bad? My husband doesn’t watch football but he listens to and records operas. Fine with me. Gives me time to read or write or go somewhere. It makes both of us happy.
31Marge Wood, sticking my toe in the sand and stating “I didn’t do anything.” Actually I really didn’t; Jane even agrees I was “mostly correct.” But my Dad taught me well; if you don’t start out on the same page and the wife comes to agree with you, be ever so humble and gracious. (his way of saying winning in a discussion with a woman is a Pyrrhic victory) I’m a little more evolved than that and give a definite down vote on the concept of ‘winning’ in a discussion. Fixing breakfast is my way of admitting I’m not perfect. It’s all good! 😀
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