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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.
Scary. I was a speaker at a photography convention in West Virginia in 2000. Some of our friends from WV were worried we would run into trouble on the drive down there because of our Vermont license plates (the Vermont lege having just passed the country’s first civil union law).
1We were fine, though and had a wonderful trip.
What do all the black people in Tennesee think of those signs? It’s pretty depressing. I keep reading that all them good ol’ boy racist mouth breathers will be dying out soon. My questions is: when?
We voted their Hooters girl Tea Party state representative out of office and all we got was this lame billboard that embarrasses us in front of the whole country. Welcome to Roane County Tennessee. My home town.
2I’ll take Obama. That’s an easy choice because their America is greedy, hateful, and unfair in so many ways. That’s not my America. Obama’s America is my America.
3And THEIR flag is the stars and flippin bars…I had a serious negative reaction to the Bellamy Bros last nite. After happily singing along to “Let your Love Flow” for several miles they queued up “You ain’t Just Whistlin’ Dixie” which has some beautiful imagery, BUT I am NO HEIR to any stupid Confederacy, the South that thinks it’s gonna rise again is a bunch of cretinous morons that are happily dying out (@VG, albeit too slowly!), and secessionists are TRAITORS not PATRIOTS! Bring on the firing squads, dammit!
Earlier this year I had to attest to the signatures of an elderly couple I had worked for so their estate could be probated. The LAWYER handling the case -Larry Holt, I could never hire him now!- prosed on to the judge about the executor not being able to attend because she lived in “our sister state in the Confederacy, Alabama” only he had to be corrected, because she lives in Mississippi. TO THE BENCH, y’all!
Thanks for providing a venue to rant, this has been festering for about 12 hours now. Sometimes I just want to hug Old Glory and cry. 🙁
4I wonder how they can post billboards like that and still claim to be American? Such hatefulness on full display … It’s shameful and disgusting! It just hurts!!!
5Pretty sad. But what I find amazing is that the republican line is “Obama is divisive – he’s splitting the nation”. Hmmm, I think it’s just getting easier to tell who’s the biggest village idiot and the idiots don’t like it
6I just watched the Daily Show show from last night.
Jon made a great point about the chair that Clint Eastward used in his speech. And that the republican see POTUS Obama and the US very differently then we do.
The signs above show that better then words.
7I’ll take the so-called “other”…
•The Other has shown himself to be decisive
•The Other has shown himself to be cool and deliberate,
even in a crisis
•The Other is a very likeable person, and has shown himself
to be both a great intellectual (Harvard Law Review) and a
“regular guy” (likes basketball and beer)
•The Other has made every effort to accomodate his
his political detractors
•The Other executes his difficult duties despite unparalleled
vitriol, hate and threats of violence levied against him
•The Other is the very definition of what is often called
“family values”
•The Other has a compelling life story, and has overcome
great odds to become what is the very quintessence of
the American Experience
The folks who spent good money on that ridiculous billboard are all wrong…we CAN have both…and we are a better nation for it.
OK, time to put my soapbox away and make my little girl breakfast.
8@ Kellybee–Well said; very well said.
9Juanita,
You must be on I-40 – you need to see the CONFEDERATE CRAPOLA on I-65 – there is an actual statue of some moronic imbecile with the all the “flags” of stupidity flying – been there for years. Sickening. Please feel sorry for me.
10Ya’ll can come jump on my soapbox with me anytime. I include @marshablackburn and @BillHaslam Guv in most of my tweets, just cuz this state is Baggerville and totally ruint.
11Yes, we can have both! The stupid people cannot tell us whom to elect. No sign is big enough to do that.
12Oh my, I actually saw this one. I was in Nashville last week for a project, and remember this from the drive back to Boston. (that, the pawn shop billboards “thousands of guns in stock, always”, the fireworks stores everywhere, and all the places offering “title loans”)
13Of course we can have both! We already do!
As for the sign below:
Having been a registered voter since the age of 18, I’ve always voted for the American. Not hard to do since I’ve never voted in a foreign election.
14They spelled America incorrectly.
Should have been Muraka
15Hmm. Obama has been President for three years now and last time I looked America is still here. (So is the auto industry, by the way.) These bill-boarders follow the radical-right meme of “loving” American while hating 80% of the people in it.
16Guess what? I saw the same sort of signs while visiting Lubbock County, Texas not three weeks ago. (Hello there, Tom Head.) And, I bet I’d see similar signage all over our great nation. Meanness, ignorance and fear are poisoning the good sense of a whole generation. Why not put down the technology for ten seconds and talk to your neighbor? It’s a whole lot harder to hate a flesh and blood person than it is to hate a cartoon. Also easier to acknowledge another perspective when you step out of the echo chamber.
17Oh, man!! Just when I thought I had seen it all…Got only one thing to say: OBAMA/BIDEN 2012!!
18Back in 1860 they probably had a sign in the same spot, constructed out of logs and plaster that said, “Confederacy or America, you can’t have both.” It probably didn’t work out the way they thought it would back then either.
19I have to say that my husband and I have been somewhat puzzled by the lack of Romney/Ryan signs and bumper stickers around here. We’ve only seen one “Romney” yard sign and that’s been up since the primaries.
Four years ago there were McCain/Palin signs all over the place immediately after he picked her. And there were many just “Palin” bumper stickers. What does this mean? Lack of enthusiasm for this ticket? Are they just going to hold their noses and vote for the usual suspects? Curious….
20Tennessee went both ways in the Civil War. Mountainous east TN, where farms were mostly small due to the terrain, was 1880s Republican–for the Union. Slavery was not an economic asset in those areas.
In the bottom lands such as Memphis, etc. slavery meant big profits, and they were mostly for the Confederacy.
Political beliefs often follow the dollar. Should add, because African-Americans were so unknown in the mountainous areas, there also was prejudice against them there. Apparently prejudice can result from fear of the unknown/other) as well as from the profit-motive.
21I would like to tell you I live here in rural, Tn for over 20 yrs now. I want to let you know that not all people here in Tn are wackadoodles. I think teabaggers are down right stupid.
22Okay, okay, I got it. Here’s the plan. Sneak up there and add an “F” in front of the OR, and quick-like paint out the “can’t have both” line. Then if you have time, write in “Fixed that for ya.” Heh……
23@Kay, ‘Shop it girl, ‘shop it and repost!
24Easier fix: Change the c to a k. “Amerika”
25Liz, I don’t have photoshop, wish I did! But by golly I did make it work in both a Word 2003 and a PDF file, though without a way to post it here. If anyone knows how to create a link or to post a file, let me know (email to koolbeans (at) dfn (dot) com); I don’t have a way to create a link.
26Went into the Fischer and Weiser store in Fredricksburg, TX today and found products with Rush Limbaugh’s picture all over the store. Found a framed letter from “Fox and Friends” thanking the company for their support. I’m pretty sure these people are TEA Party members who don’t have the best interests of our country at heart. I won’t be buying any more of their products. Pass this along and let’s put a hurt in their bottom line.
27@Kay Carrasco, google “change PDF to Jpeg” and you will get several links on how to do that. If .jpeg’s can be posted here (I don’t know) then you’re set. Plus, you’ll have a .jpeg to post to facebook and send around.
Good luck!
28I need to send in a picture of the lovely sign I see each and every day at my intersection. It’s all about “taking your country back” and it quotes Bible verses too!
Have only seen one Romney yard sign but am inundated by teabag Cruz for Senate yard signs.
29I love Kay Carrasco’s plan of changing “or” to “for.” And you don’t have to white out the whole last line. Either just the word “can’t” or the first two words for either “You…have both” or “have both.”
Not inciting vandalism, but love the thought of being able to change a sign with one letter.
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