September 03, 2016 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.
Now that’s about as concise a summary of Repuglican thinking as I’ve seen anywhere, let alone on the back of a pickup.
1Where’s the gun rack?
Wouldn’t it just be simpler if he left?
2Are we sure that wasn’t in Cut and Shoot? They probly had to go to town for vittles.
3Someone observed that the real threat is that after the taco truck invasion – we’d soon be subjected to SANGRIA LAW.
4Someone observed that the real threat is that after the taco truck invasion – we’d soon be subjected to SANGRIA LAW.
5It’s kinda kewl how all 3 turn options are either Left or Turn Around.
6Or what, a**hole? Huh?
(I will say no more in deference to Momma. Let’s just say it would get me cussing a blue streak.)
7So I’m guessing this glassbowl won’t care if he doesn’t get Medicare, Social Security, clean air, clean water, toys that won’t maim his kids, and a truck that won’t gratuitously kill him… because all of those things were passed by liberals and fought every step of the way by conservatives.
But yes, he is a cut above the average RWNJ sign-maker in that he either can spell or consulted someone who can. Slow clap.
8I’ll make a deal with him:
If Trump wins, he pays my passage to Bonnaire – and first 3 month’s rent while I house hunt – and I’ll go.
If Clinton wins, I’ll pay his passage and first 3 months rent anywhere he wants to go if he’ll stay there for the rest of my natural life.
Just think, if each of us adopted a Tea Partier in a deal like this how lovely the country could be.
9Sigh. Two Crows, you have the right idea. But ya think we could just do what ancient Athens did. We put the names of the RENJ in a large anphora and then just send all of them into exile for the rest of their lives. Ok, ok I know Athens just sent those ostracized for 10 years, but I think life for the tea party is a better deal all around. We just don’t have time for the rapture.
10I would say something but I fear that Moms might read my mind. I hate the taste of soap.
11I’m totally in favor of all the SANGRIA LAW I can get. In fact, it’s my favorite kind of law.
12So where’s his TRUMPENCE sticker? Too cheap to donate, is he? I wonder if he’s even registered to vote. I suspect his wife has one of those cute tea bag hats though.
13I suspicion that truck belongs to a liberal, and some slack-jawed, mouth-breathing drooler left a message.
Nice speling, tho.
14@two crows
You talking Bonnaire, Georgia or Bonnaire in the Leeward islands. I assume you mean Leewards.
@pkm
15Never took you for a sangria aficionado. Although my experience with Yago sangria likely is different than yours. Different times.
Amazing, it must have been an ex-liberal who spelled all 6 words correctly. Damn commie, pinko, leftist “spelling rules”. Alex Jones will ban colleges and replace them with forced Infowars Documentary Viewings when President Trump appoints him Secretary of Education.
16He can’t make me.
17Can’t tell if that’s a Ford F-100 or F-250, looks like a 4WD, have no idea what year.
AKA: a Texass “George W Boosh” Speshul. When news pics of good ol’ boy Dumbya sportin’ around the ‘ranch’ in a white F-250 got on the TV post -2001/2, evveerrybody had to get one of them thangs down here (if not a Hummer). All of ’em white with headache racks and usually brushbars on the front, even though the driver rarely, if ever, went off-road.
A few years later when gas and diesel prices shot up above $4 a gallon (due to the Cheney-W ‘energy policies’ bwahahaha), many of them panicked, couldn’t feed the beasts. The want-ads and craigslist were just eat up with big truck sales ads from dudes and dudesses desperate to get out from under a commuting mega-fuel bill. You could buy those things for pennies on the dollar (I snapped a creampuff up muy cheap).
Ag people who actually use such vehicles also all went out and bought one new, usually an F-250, but they had their USDA ag subsidies that paid for the vehicles (contractors and such do also use a lot of them too). In my rural county an F-250 is likely the most common vehicle on the roads.
TX CRB-5789 (or maybe CRR-5789), somebody look it up…overwhelming odds are the owner is an Anglo, 25-75yo male (barely, IYKWIM), armed, low-avg IQ, 100% certain (R) RWNJ-teabagger-PAYTREEOT (and also the kind of “aggressive driver” to avoid on the road).
18And probably spends much more on his truck+accessories, gunz, huntin’, hats, boots n’ new jeans, big screen teevee n’ beer&munchies, than his kids (if any).
BTW, We already have a place to send the US’s “RWNJ-teabagger-PAYTREEOT” population next year.
It’s a nice Caribbean island paradise called Navassa Island:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navassa_Island
An absolutely perfect place for all those whackjobs. Navassa is currently unpopulated, has very difficult sea access (both landing and leaving), but a helo shuttle, or air drops…is sufficient for the purpose.
19No roads, so no taco trucks fersure.
Navassa is only about 2 square miles of high land, not that much area, remote from other islands (Haiti is closest, heheh). But if we sequence the wingnut ’emigration’ properly they will fortuitously self-manage their population density quite nicely…(of course they may take their small arms along).
I love the concept of “Sangria Law”. As for this crank, sigh, some people will remain unrepentant forever.
20Hey, mom never loved him. She was always involved with the other kids. This is his way of getting back at her, a totally inelegant “FU”. He’ll feel good for a few minutes, then go right back to sucking his thumb.
21@Sandridge
22Chances are the truck was made in Mexico as well.
You know people like that are breeders. Probably 8 kids at home and a WICK card in his wallet.
Micr, pasar esa sangría de más a Debbo.
23@pkm
Gracias, no hay sangría. Una cerveza mas por favor.
or if you prefer
Vielen Dank, keine Sangria. Noch ein Bier, bitte.
24Micr, I love Mexican food; Mexican bartenders, not so much. Especially the one that served my scotch with a lime wedge. One ice cube is a frill; the fruit was an assault.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m4dUx9gsFY0/V8xH5Jr8EWI/AAAAAAAAQ9w/IHX0blMQJXAcTheVM0Xrfzgg-4AKm2XDgCLcB/s400/cartoon12-lk090216_color.jpg
25OK, better spelling than the average potatriot, but that’s the only thing in his favor.
26Oh, God, didn’t we get this “love it or leave it” garbage out of our systems in the 70s?
27Good news: He lives in Conroe. Better news: I dont!
28@pkm
I feel your pain. My little bride enjoys eating at a chain Tex-Mex place near out home. But the bar staff there goes heavily on orange slices in drinks, even drinks that should not share a table with such. My standard drink order now includes, in my best Jeffrey Wright voice, “… and keep the fruit…”
29Friday is toon day here at the WMDBS, but in case you want more:
http://bradblog.com/?p=11824
30I even prefer trucknuts to help identify that an idiot is driving in front of me, to this.
31@TrulyTexan, Those F-150’s and -250’s seem to all be US made currently, some were made in various US and Mexican Ford plants in the past (info from Wikipedia).
I called the F-150 (from 1975) an F-100, dating myself there I guess.
I used to make frequent trips to Monterrey, NL, and Saltillo, Coa; remember when Ford* was building their big Saltillo plant, a very many years ago. So the job drain was happening even long before WJC & the R’s NAFTA-SHAFTA deal (which made it worse for sure).
*I remember a Ford plant, but maybe it was GM or Chrysler, Wiki doesn’t list a Ford one in Saltillo.
” 37.4% of cars and 62.6% of trucks produced in Mexico are assembled in Saltillo.[14]”
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And for all the whiny hard likker purists, choke on a rind.
I’ll drink most anything, straight, iced, and the more “fruit” the better, I immediately take it out and savor it separately.
Sure, I drink the good stuff neat if possible (w/ ice this time of year), but don’t sweat it if not.
Besides I much prefer Dos Maderos 5+5, Bacardi Anejo, Mount Gay, or Pussers rums, Glenore or Springbank single malt scotch whisky to any mere bourbons (although an Old Fashioned is still great).
Ruh-oh, I think I’ll mix a custom upgraded Painkiller right now, mm.mmm, with supper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painkiller_(cocktail)
Here’s a fantastic resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cocktails
or this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_liqueurs#Fruit_liqueurs
There are thousands of ‘fruit’ based drinks/beverages, some pretty dang good.
I used to get cases of this Yugo pear drink for a co-worker (used a Wiki history link because somebody butchered the page): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kru%C5%A1kovac&diff=375816549&oldid=375816244
..hic..
32@Paul,
33Conroe is about the center of Texas’ ‘long-itudinally challenged’ male habitat, kind of a downmarket Woodlands…lots of richard-measuring, overcompensating lekking 24/7, ludicrous (apart from Lubbock, or Hondo, Round Rock or lots of otros lugares).
Been years since I was in that area, probably worse now.
I can not think of a comment that is bad enough to make the pick up sound good!!
34@Sandridge
10-4 on the Pusser’s Blue Label. Pusser’s is a Very recent discovery to me. Never been a rum drinker.
35This is hilarious! Since I’m monolingual, I used Google Translate for your Spanish. Here’s what I got from the first statement by PKM:
“Pass that bleeding more Debbo.”
That was followed by, “No more bleeding. One more beer please.”
Oh my oh my.
36@Debbo
My German is rusty so I use google translate to fill in the mind blanks or head me in a direction.
I’m not sure about how sangria, the drink, translated to Spanish. My favorite part of New Mexico is in the Sangre de Cristo mountains, which I translate as Blood of Christ, so i see the blood/bleeding part.
37@Micr,
38If you are liking Pusser’s, try Bacardi Añejo (if you can find any) and Dos Maderos, great stuff. Dos Maderos ranks in the top 5 rums worldwide by most online drink ‘connoisseur’ websites (never knew there were so many). It’s pretty expensive rum though.
Top rums have all the complexity of scotch and bourbons, people tend to think of rum as just a bland base for a mixed drink.
I grew up practically surrounded by sugar cane and there’s a certain smell and taste of the raw cane that enhances and holds in a good rum, IMO.
Go to your grocery and see if they might stock a ‘cast’ cane sugar product called “Piloncillo, or panela” (in the Mex food section), it’s usually a truncated cone-shape about 3″ high, of raw sugarcane. Used for many recipes.
I make a tasty syrup with a strong cane flavor by heating a piloncillo with about 2-3+ parts (by vol) of water, mixing until until the sugar is all in a very dark solution; good stuff (it might be an acquired taste), but then I’m a maple syrup nut too. Put it on anything needing a sweetener (this is not lo-cal stuff though…). A few drops in almost any rum drink amps it up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panela
” …this smoky, caramelly and earthy sugar is produced.[1] It has far more flavor than brown sugar…Unrefined, it is commonly used in Mexico, where it has been around for at least 500 years. Made from crushed sugar cane, the juice is collected, boiled and poured into molds, where it hardens into blocks. ”
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http://www.rondosmaderas.com/en/
http://rumdood.com/2010/05/04/rum-review-dos-maderas-px/
http://rumdood.com/2009/07/16/cocktail-recipe-the-painkiller/
http://www.palmbay.com/dos-maderas.htm
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Dos+Maderos
Oh yeah, that piloncillo syrup is great to sweeten a very strong ice tea.
39For us social drinkers, Sandridge, can you recommend a good milk? 🙂
40First time I went to TX, it was to show off the first male baby of next generation……first bumper sticker I saw….”Welcome to Texas, now get the hell out of here”
41While working the Monroe County Beach HobieCat concession back in the mid-80’s, I often patronized the Key West Bar and Grill opposite the city marina.
The bartender and I were discussing the ranking of aged rums, and somehow six shot glasses appeared, unlabeled, each with a different rum.
Hilarity ensued, and Bacardi Añejo won, 6-0.
I think I remember this correctly, but like the 60’s, if you remember, maybe you weren’t there…
42My Spanish always improves greatly under Sangria law…rum and coke law too.
43Good milk? Keep a goat and don’t let it near weeds or, er, manure. Feed it oats and really good alfalfa hay. Keep it fenced in and be ready to cut the fence when it sticks its head through and can’t pull it back the other way. Remember it will head for the neighbor’s winter wheat on Thanksgiving and has forgotten the way home.
44@Fran. Sign on I-10 crossing from Las Cruces to El Paso: “Welcome to Texas. Set your clocks back to 1836”
45@e platypus onion, milk?
As a matter of fact, yes indeed. There is a very premium brand of milk called “Promised Land”*, both regular and flavored milks (and maybe ice creams, etc., used to be).
H-E-B stores carry the line, may be in other grocery stores too (lots of others, there’s a store locator on their website, below).
The absolute best you will ever taste, especially the chocolate milk. It was packaged in old fashioned-style glass milk bottles, even with paper lids**. Quite expensive too, ~$3-4/quart bottle, but worth a treat.
*The drawback is that the Promised Land dairy and production plant was started and owned by Dr. James Leinenger, one of the most wealthy, influential Texas Republican power brokers of all; and IIRC, he’s a Cruz-backing Dominionist too. He may have sold the company by now, I know parts of it were closed or scaled down a few years ago.
The dairy itself isn’t far from me (probably could see it with a drone or telescope), about 800ac, 6-700 cows long ago, (now?).
They also had an excellent restaurant there, a kids petting zoo, and giftshop on site too (it was damned good food, reasonably priced too). There was a slight religious theme/feel, but not overwhelming, just good people there. The milkhouse is right at the entrance, next to Hwy 97, so you could watch your milk getting milked…(BTW, it looked to me like much of the dairy help were illegals back then, as are most TX dairy ops).
They have a milk processing plant on S. Presa St. in San Antonio. Again, I don’t know if the local facilities are still operating (I know the restaurant & zoo was closed some years ago, damned shame), Promised Land may have outsourced it all now.
Just Binged it, they are still going, they too claim to be “the best”, I agree:
http://www.promisedlanddairy.com/
http://www.promisedlanddairy.com/our-story/
http://www.promisedlanddairy.com/our-products/
Kosher also.
Jersey cows too, which my kids raised for 4H/FFA (wish I could post a pic here ;] ).
**Hollee mollee, a Bing search indicates that those old PL glass milk bottles are even on Ebay as ‘collectables’, have to check prices. I’ve got a box full, might be worth a fortune eh?
46@Ormond Otvos, you worked with a Hobie Cat dealer? Kewl. Did you ever meet Hobie Alter hisself?
I bought my first Hobie Cat (H16) at Chick’s place on South Padre Island. Regattas and the Ruff Rider* endurance race to Snoopy’s dock in Corpus, those were the days. When I did a TDY in Orange County, CA, I kept the cat at the Dana Point Marina and hung out at Hobie’s original surf&beachcat shop there.
*The Ruff Rider was/is a Labor Day weekend ~120 mile, two day catamaran (mostly Hobies, others allowed) regatta from SPI to Corpus Christi (Fleet 99). Depending on the weather it could be brutal.
47It was an “extreme event” before they hit the teevee bigtime. It was one of the first long distance cat races (like the Worrell 1000), I did a number of them in the ’80’s, killer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worrell_1000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobie_Cat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobie_16
@Sandridge
Well you sure called out Texas public enemy number one, James Leininger. His wealth plus his energy and commitment to beating back social progress takes one’s breath away.
48Sandridge. thanks for the info. Chinatown(walmart) stores in several iowa cities sell PL milk. The closest would be Fort doge which is better than a hunnert miles from here.
My first brush with South Padre Island was through a purloined leading men’s magazine with a young lady named Gig Gangel, if memory serves. Robust(ed) young lady. Looked rather nice all wet or with top hat and tails. Unfortunately she shared the cover with Brut Reynolds, which ruined the whole experience for me. Ah, those mam….er…. memories.
49@Micr,
Urg, the way you put it I may not be around much longer (these wiseguys play hardball too…).
I looked at JRL’s Wiki page, the “Reference” section is a goldmine, like the TT link below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Leininger
https://www.texastribune.org/2011/08/26/who-perry-supporter-james-leininger/
“…became one of the most prolific political donors to Republican candidates, conservative causes and Christian ministries in Texas. …To his supporters, he is a philanthropist who mixes a free-market business philosophy with Christian beliefs to promote a better Texas. His detractors portray him as the state’s premier financier of “religious political extremists” whose agenda is shaped by the Christian Coalition….Last month, the Tribune’s Jay Root wrote about Perry’s success in land deals. He also noted that Perry had made money when he sold his shares in Leininger’s company, Kinetic Concepts. …There’s also been new interest in how the governor’s Texas Emerging Technology Fund aided firms with ties to his donors, including Leininger….What makes Leininger one of the most powerful people in Texas politics is less the amount of money he has given over the years than the broad reach of his spending and his commitment to a conservative agenda. …He has, moreover, established an entire politics and policy conglomerate in Texas. He founded and provided seed money for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, an increasingly influential conservative think tank, in 1989. He has invested millions in private school voucher programs in San Antonio, the first of which he initiated in 1993. Some regard the state Republican party as an extension of his empire;…Perry might never have been governor — nor now be a presidential candidate — but for James Leininger….Leininger also was the No. 1 contributor at the time to the Texas Republican Party…Perry opponent John Sharp said at the time. “He wanted to buy the reins of state government. And by God, he got them.”
Gulp, nice knowin’ ya…
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