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July 2 - My buddy Richard has discovered that the Mark Sanford autobiography has already hit the bookstores in a neighborhood near you ---


July 2 - Oh lookie who gave Alan Stanford his money back!

Committee:
 NEUGEBAUER CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE

Disbursement To
Address 		Election Type Date of Disbursement
Extra Description Amount This Period
Text Memo
Stanford Financial Group Co Employees'
1399 New York Avenue NW Suite 375
Washington, DC 200054779
 		 03/04/2009
Refund of Contribution 2000.00

     And, rats!, it's too late for for Stanford to get a free ride on the Fun Raiser!


July 2 - My friend Marita found this sucker and put it on Facebook. It appears that the Republicans are pulling out the big guns to scare everybody about the Democratic Senate -  the metric system!
     Woo -- hide the children!  Tremble in your boots, cowboy.

The metric system is the kind of thing that you can expect from the 60-vote filibuster-proof majority Democrats now have in the United States Senate.

After the Watergate scandal in 1974, Democrats trounced Republicans in the mid-term elections, getting 61 seats in the Senate and 291 in the House.

In the Senate, they adjusted the rules to make it harder for Republicans to filibuster (reducing the magic number from 67 to 60 to invoke cloture, which ends debate). In the House, they passed all kinds of reforms to take power away from senior members and give it to junior members. And Congress mandated that the American people embrace the metric system.

     Well, I know that makes me change my mind about voting Democratic.  Instead of being able to say that something is "spittin' distance" from my house, I'll have to say it's "2 meters and then some."  My life is ruined.


The bozo who wrote the piece at CNN that mentions the Democratic evil plan to put us on the metric system is fact-free.  He also states in his article that Jimmy Carter signed the 55-mph speed limit bill, but that was Nixon.

It’s a typical conservative mind-set to prefer a measurement system that’s complicated, confusing, and puts America at a competitive disadvantage.  But conservatives feel they need to protect us from becoming like the rest of the world.  And they feel so macho measuring in inches.

The American military uses the metric system; what a bunch of liberals they must be!

Regards,
Jim


The U.S. loses millions of dollars each year because of conversion rates (English to metric) between us and other countries. Since everyone else uses it we should to. Its not that hard and we would adjust very quickly to it. Its all based on the number 10, how hard could it be? I still don't get that guys point, he is just making himself look like a fool.
 
James (Physics teacher)
 

Susan Babe -

Does anyone know what happened to Janet Reno's black helicopters that the rightwing used to try to scare us about?  Did they go metric and crash?

HeyZeus


July 1 - Thanks to Jim, we have another adorable interview with Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. 
     Yes, she whines about the way the McCain campaign treated her.  Yes, she poses suggestively with the American flag.  Yes, she works in a jab at Barack Obama.  Yes, she hauls out her kids as fashion accessories. 
     But this time she also works in her thighs throbbing.  No, I'm not kidding. 
     Sarah Palin interviews with Runner's World Magazine.
     She even posed for several pictures, God love her.  Nobody told her that when you get a fake tan on your legs, you should also use some on your neck and your hands because otherwise you look like you have some sort of awful circulatory disease. 
     She's a piece of work and I hope she never shuts up. 
     She challenges Barack Obama to a game of HORSE.  How many times does he need to beat her like a redheaded stepchild before she learns better than to mess with him?


July 1 - Okay, so I upgraded to the new iPhone.  Up until last week, I had the first iPhone they put out, which was cool enough until they came out with the 3Gs. 
     My iPhone, among other very cool things, can talk to me and answer my commands.  I'm narrowing the list of names for the talking chick on my iPhone. 
     I like Ernestine because Lilly Tomlin made her phone skills famous.  I like Blanche because, believe me, my iPhone depends on the kindness of strangers.  I like Thelma Lucille because that's my Aunt's name and the quintessential Texas name.  And, no I cannot name it Hal or Dave because I have friends by both those names who would get dialed when I was just trying to talk to my phone.  There's a couple more names on my list, so this is a decision that might take some time.
     Anyway, for a couple of years now I have been signed up for the CNN New Alerts.  I like it because it lets me know when I needed to make a mad dash for a teevee or internet machine.  I admit it - I'm a news junkie.
     However, and I'm sure that I'm not talking to the wind here, I'm beginning to think I'm getting news alerts from People Magazine or Teen Beat instead of CNN. 
     I was at lunch today and my phone beeped.  We looked at it only to see that Michael Jackson's body is going back to Neverland for a public viewing on Friday.  Big whoop. That's something I don't even want to think about. Look, I'm sorry he died, but toting his sad body around doesn't count as Breaking News! to me.
     Is there anywhere I can sign-up for an alert if there's real news?  If you know of a fairly serious news alert service, please let me know.
     And, if you know of any very cool aps I need, send that along, too, because I've got 32 gigs to fill up, dammit.


I think you should call it "Betty Lou Thelma Liz" in honor of another famous Texas troubadour, Jerry Jeff Walker.

Betty Lou Thelma Liz  is the name of the wife in the song "Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother."  You could even make it one word (BettyLouThelmaLiz) cause that's the way is pronounced in the song.

Just a wild @ss thought from the center of all evil.

TTFN

Paul

Dear Susan,
   Paul has it mis-attributed.  Jerry Jeff (born in Oneonta, New York -- must have one of those bumper stickers that says he wasn't born in Texas but he got there as soon as he could) didn't write "Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother".  That was Ray Wylie Hubbard and he's an Okie.
    I think you should use Sarah.  Like in the Andy Griffith Show.

Don A.
 

  


Welcome to the website formerly known as The World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc.

My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston.
I live in Richmond, Texas, in heart of Tom DeLay's old district.  It's crazy here.  No, seriously, it's triple z crazzzy.

I used to be an independent voter, but that all changed when I got to know a few local Republicans.  They are meaner than 10 acres of snakes and have the ethical compass of a bank robber. 

So, I decided that they could just Kiss My Big Blue 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.  I've been doing this since 1992, so I'm used to it even if you ain't. 

Email me and I'll find a place to put it if I like it.