HOUSTON
— Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn says he'll give
$4,000 to charity to make up for contributions he
accepted from Texas financier R. Allen Stanford.
Cornyn was in Houston
when he was asked about contributions Stanford made
to his campaign and a four-day trip Cornyn and his
wife took to Antigua on Stanford.
Caribbean regulators
on Friday took control of a bank in Antigua that
Stanford owned. The SEC has filed a civil complaint
against him accusing Stanford of fraud. FBI agents
tracked him down in Virginia on Thursday to serve
him with court papers.
Lordy, Lordy, Republicans are
bad at math - it was a $7,000 trip and $20,000 in cash
American money, John. I tell you what, cowboy.
You give me $27,000 and I'll give you $4,000 back and
we'll call it even, okay?
Hummm .... maybe if Republicans were better at math, we
wouldn't be in this mess to start with.
February 20 - Okay, it's it our semi-regular
Phil Gramm Day here at KMBBB. Let's check in on
Phil and see what amazing and difficult thing he's done
today.
I think you'll be impressed.
What former member of Congress is personally linked to
all three of the greatest financial frauds of our time?
Phil Gramm, of course.
He wrote and passed legislation that
enabled Enron to run amuck.
And then ---
He killed legislation that would have interfered with
Stanford Financial's
illegal business model.
And then, just because he's had so much practice -
He's now a
senior executive at UBS and
UBS just
entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the
Justice Department requiring it to reveal the names of
the
U.S. citizens it helped evade taxes and pay a $780
million criminal fine.
Darlin', that's a gentle reminder that the free market
ain't free to you and me, but it's making Phil Gramm a
very rich man.
All three - that's an impressive feat. He's won
the Trifecta of Turmoil.
Hi, Susan, don't forget that Wendy Lee Gramm
was on the SEC when it was somehow not
noticing that Enron was a shell game.
from
Ruth
February 20 -
You know, after all the bad news about PBS&J, you'd
think that Republican County Commissioner
Andy
Meyers would get the hell out of their back pocket.
But,
nooooooo.
I tell ya, he's going to hell. He is. He's
the biggest money grubber on the face of the planet and
one day Sweet Jesus is just gonna fed up with Andy using
Jesus' name in vain while he takes money from all manner
of money changers.
MERTZON, Texas (AP) —
Millions of wild pigs weighing up to 300 pounds have
been tearing up crops, trampling fences and eating
just about anything in their path in Texas. But now
they had better watch their hairy backs.
A state lawmaker is
proposing to allow ordinary Texans with rifles and
shotguns to shoot the voracious, tusked animals from
helicopters.
Now my question is this: how they gonna tell the
wild hogs from members of the State Legislature? I
mean, they both look and behave the same. Except,
of course, that the hogs are better looking and they eat
out of their own trough.
Honey, it's gonna be real difficult to tell them apart
from the air.
So, on second thought, maybe this isn't such a bad
idea.
And then later in the article, it says --
Miller gave
assurances the hunting would be closely regulated,
though details on such things as how many hunters
would be allowed to take part, and how many hogs
they would be permitted to kill, have yet to be
worked out.
"You're not going to
have some bubba up there going, `Pass me a beer and
ammo' and hunting some hogs," the legislator said.
"We certainly want to do it right."
Well hell, if you don't have a Bubba saying "pass me a
beer and ammo", it ain't hunting. I mean, that's
what hunting is. Look it up.
As far as I'm concerned, having a bunch of people going
around in helicopters shooting things ain't hunting -
it's war.
And then it says that scientists at Texas A&M
University (meaning anybody on campus who can operate a
pocket calculator) are looking for a birth control pill
for wild pigs. Honey, if they way they look ain't
working, I doubt anything else would.
Besides, there's an ethical question here - if we let
Texas Republican reproduce at will, what right do we
have to stop feral hogs?
(Thanks to Deb for the heads-up.)
Reading the invitation, I noticed Karl
Rove's name.
Since when did he get to be "Honorable?"
bk
I have to admit, one of the strangest
(to me) things was seeing the word
"Honorable" in front of "Karl Rove".
Now THAT'S an oxymoron!
Lfty
February 18 -
And the hits just keep on coming.
It appears that Houston's financial Political Sugar
Daddy and incidental con machine with $8 million in
fraud, Stanford Financial, is also being investigated
for
Mexican drug cartel money laundering.
The SEC's fraud charges
may be the least of accused financial scammer R.
Allen Stanford's worries. Federal authorities tell
ABC News that the FBI and others have been
investigating whether Stanford was involved in
laundering drug money for Mexico's notorious Gulf
Cartel.
But that's not even
the good part.
Here's the good part: Pete Sessions and John
Cornyn aren't giving the money back.
No, siree.
They feel it is their Constitutional duty to keep that
money stolen from little old widow ladies investors, and
the dirty drug money, too, of course. They don't
want to keep that money, mind you, but it is their duty
- duty, I tell you.
Cal Jillson is a
political scientist at SMU.
"It is clear that
Alan Stanford is the thief-in-residence."
Republican
congressman Pete Sessions of Dallas was one of his
favorites; he gave him more than $4,000 since 1989.
A spokesperson says
Sessions is keeping the money.
"Pete is looking down
in his palms and he sees $41,000 and he says can 'I
put this in my pocket or do I have to give it back?'
And to anyone, including Pete Sessions, $41,000 is
enough money that he wants to just think about it,"
said Jillson.
Senator John Cornyn
took almost $20,000 and is also keeping the money.
A spokesperson tells
News 8 Cornyn believes in the "presumption of
innocence".
I wonder why Cornyn doesn't believe in the presumption
of innocence for anyone else?
It would be hard to get much better than this.
But, it might.
I am working on proving that Stanford was a sponsor at
this year's Texas State Society's 2009 Black Tie & Boots
Inaugural Ball to the tune of $50,000. And the
2009 President of the Ball? Why, John Cornyn, of
course.
And he's keeping that money, too.
February 17 -
Some days are just more fun than others.
Remember how I promised you that
Stanford Financial
was headed into a dead end street on a back alley filled
with federal agents during a blue norther?
Well, if I say it's Christmas, you better buy some
twinkling lights, because
I do know what I'm talking about upon occasion.
Washington, D.C.,
Feb. 17, 2009 — The Securities and Exchange
Commission today charged Robert Allen Stanford and
three of his companies for orchestrating a
fraudulent, multi-billion dollar investment scheme
centering on an $8 billion CD program.
According to Cornyn's
Senate disclosure reports --
posted on the site Legistorm.com, which tracks
privately financed trips by members of Congress --
the Stanford Financial Group paid for the Texas
senator and an unnamed companion to take a November
2004 trip down to Antigua and Barbuda, the tiny
Caribbean nation where the company has its
headquarters.
Also fun is the fact that Cornyn took an undisclosed
"companion" on the trip with him. Oh, please,
Sweet Jesus, let it be Tom DeLay, Lulu the Pavement
Princess, or Natasha the Commie Spy.
Postmaster General
John E. Potter recently warned that economic times
are so dire that the U.S. Postal Service may end
mail delivery one day a week and freeze executive
salaries. But his personal fortunes are nonetheless
rising thanks to 40 percent in pay raises since
2006, a $135,000 bonus last year and several perks
usually reserved for corporate CEOs.
The changes, approved
by the Postal Board of Governors and contained in a
little-noticed regulatory filing in December,
brought Mr. Potter's total compensation and
retirement benefits to more than $800,000 in 2008.
I don't know whose brother-in-law was getting their mail
early or which Bush this guy had the dirt on, but he
also got $70,000 for "security." Hell, Babe, for
$70,000 a year, Junior Janochek will come live at his
house with a baseball bat and a shotgun. Junior
needs a job.
Now, think about this: The postal service is
thinking of not delivering the mail on Saturday and they
want 2 cents more for a stamp. Think about that
while you read this:
The board of
governors also disclosed that it awarded Mr. Potter
$135,041 in "pay-for-performance" and incentive
payments for his "effective leadership during the
difficult economic challenges of 2008."
Honey, this has "Bush Administration" and "Republican
Congress" tattooed all over it's chest.
Why does the Postmaster General make
more than the President of the United
States?
Peggy
February 16 -
Okay, so maybe this is just me and if it is, that's
okay. I know I'm strange; you don't have to talk
behind my back about that.
So I was driving around without my camera, which is
always a mistake, and saw this house I had to photograph
with my phone. I apologize for the production
quality.
When I see signs in front of peoples' house, I generally
stop and read them.
This one was a treat. It said ---
"Struck by lightning 2 times, 2 days apart.
God showed His mighty strength 2 times and His great
Mercy. He has allowed this tree to live.
Trust in God for ALL things. His will be done.
AMEN."
Okay, so if it's all the same to God, I'd just as soon
he not do the whole lightening thing before he gets to
the mercy thing.
And if God's dickering with the life of a tree, I've
got a rosebush out back that needs pruning.
I'm just saying.
February 16
- Well yeah, of course I had more fun than recess in
heaven last night at
The Texas
Observer Rabble Rouser Roundup in Austin, Texas.
It was Austin, for goodness sake. And libruls.
And live music. And Jim Hightower --
Bubba didn't even mind that I found an excuse to
huddle-up with
Jim Hightower because what red-blooded Texas woman
wouldn't? I ended up the evening with Jim's hat.
No, seriously. In public. With people watchin'.
I have Jim's hat. It will be auctioned at the next
Fort Bend Democrats Club function, if, that is, I can
bare to part with it. I do look powerful cute in
it.
And Bubba talked bidness with
Hank Gilbert
--
Y'all help us talk Hank into running for Ag Commissioner
again, ya hear?
The music was knee-bendin' great. I'll tell you
more about it later, but right now I have to unpack and
you have to enjoy Tom Toles.
February 15 - Something really awful happened
this morning.
I was watching teevee and along came Lindsay Graham,
which is horrible enough in itself if you ask me.
But then Lindsay Graham began lecturing me about
bipartisanship. Lecturing. Me. And
you, too.
They should reduce my teevee bill if they're gonna let
Lindsay Graham on there.
Before that teevee appearance, they had to take Lindsay
Graham in a backroom and teach him how to say the word
"bipartisanship." No, I'm serious; they did.
They had to hire a speech therapist and everything
because he had never said that word before today.
I mean, you've gotta have gall the size of Greenland to
be Lindsay Graham today.
He actually said that the American people voted for
bipartisanship. I didn't. I absolutely did
not. I voted for change and to stop the gridlock
in DeeCee. I do not know anybody who voted for
bipartisanship. I know my neighbor who voted for
Sarah Palin certainly did not vote for bipartisanship.
Who voted for bipartisanship and where's their bumper
sticker?
After 6 years of Newt Gingricxh and Tom DeLay, and then
8 years of George Bush, I wanted nothing to do with
Republicans, not even bi.
And how come John McCain was only for bipartisanship
after he lost? You think it was because he
freekin' lost?
Lindsay added, "I know bipartisanship when I see it."
Uh, dude, you don't even know election results when you
see them.
February 14 - Well, well, well, look what ole
Eagle Eyes Alfredo found ---
Remember the crumbling case of
Stanford Investments I told you about?
Remember how I asked who was going to be their next
Sugar Daddy now that Tom DeLay is --- well, indisposed?
Duh. I am sooo blonde.
Why didn't I look exactly where I told y'all to look?
Because I'm sooo blonde, I suspect.
It seems that
Stanford Investments flew Texas Republican Senator John
Cornyn to Antigua to see the operations of one of
their little banks to the tune of $7,400.
Kinda like Tom DeLay going to the Mariana Island with
Jack Abramoff?
I told you. I told you. I told you.
Cornyn is morphing into Tom DeLay.
Dear Susan,
I'm at a loss to figure out why it cost
TWENTY-TWO-THOUSAND DOLLARS to get a
Senator from Texas to Hidalgo, Texas in 2005
to accept the 2005 Border Texan of the Year
award.
Don A
Dear Don
A,
24 carat solid gold Hummer with hookers on
board. Round trip.
It pains me to say this.
But Sen. John Cornyn doesn't seem to be too bright.
Cornyn was just on MSNBC explaining that spending in
a severe economic downturn doesn't make sense and
should be replaced by tax cuts since individuals can
spend money "more efficiently" than government. I
guess he doesn't get that the whole point of a
stimulus bill is that in a severe recession
individuals -- acting on rationale individual
economic motives -- aren't spending. And only
government, as a policy decision, can spend at a
high rate notwithstanding the state of the economy.
Josh, if it pained us in Texas to say that Cornyn ain't
all that bright, we'd all be hooked on them Limbaugh
drugs by now, Honey.
No, he ain't all that bright. But, he's so slick
that he can't keep his socks up. Notice how he talked
real fast about the 3 times multiplier so we wouldn't
know that he didn't get it unless we had fast hearing.
Thanks to Bruce for the heads-up!
February
13 - Looking for the next Enron? Well,
look no further than downtown Houston --- again.
Stanford Financial survived its last run-in with
federal regulators only because of the intervention of
two lawmakers to whom Stanford Financial gave huge gobs
of money: Bob Torricelli and Tom DeLay.
For years, R. Allen
Stanford, a flamboyant Texas billionaire, richly
rewarded the well-heeled clients of his private
investment empire. But now federal authorities are
investigating whether those rewards were simply too
good to be true.
Several federal
agencies, including the Securities and Exchange
Commission, the F.B.I. and the Internal Revenue
Service, have spent “many months” looking into the
business activities of the Stanford Financial Group,
which is based in Houston, and Mr. Stanford’s bank
based in Antigua, which issues high-yielding
certificates of deposit, according to two
individuals briefed on the investigations who were
not authorized to speak publicly.
The focus of the
investigations appears to be how the bank could
issue C.D.’s that pay interest rates that are more
than twice the national average.
Without DeLay to protect them, pay up time is just
around the corner. You know, ole Tom might want to
go ahead and check himself into the Federal Pokey to get
some goodtime on his record. After all, all his
friends are already there or fixing to head out.
By the way, the Good Folks at Stanford Financial now
really, really, like Pete Sessions. They've given
him $31,000 in the last three election cycles.
You remember Taliban Pete, don't ya?
Maybe this is the way they have been
laundering money to the Repugs in Texas. A
bank could pay more if the cash flow was
from bribe money that was laundered into
interest earnings. It could even stay
solvent if they were careful. Just act like
a real bank and add money to "special"
accounts. I know these crooks are getting
money and I have long suspected offshore
Banking. Is it the Bahamas that Leininger
always takes Perry to? He could slip him
cold hard cash there and Perry could just
bank it offshore and transfer it to
Switzerland per Phil Graham's investment
handbook. I personally know of too many
officials who have taken big risks not to
have a big payoff somehow. I wonder if they
are clients of this Stanford Bank? Can't
wait for the list.
AUSTIN, Texas - Texas
has ordered a recall of all products ever shipped
from a now-closed Peanut Corp. of America plant in
Plainview amid a nationwide salmonella outbreak.
The order came
Thursday evening from the Department of State Health
Services. The agency says "dead rodents, rodent
excrement and bird feathers" were discovered
Wednesday in a crawl space above a production area.
Well, hell, Cooter, the Texas Legislature has been
operating in those same conditions for 200 years and
nobody has even suggested that we shut them down.
I mean, hell, I've seen them pass some pretty good laws
while standing knee-deep in cow excrement.
I don't know 'bout you, but I just threw out three jars
of peanut butter.
Susan,
I hate to dump this on you, but I have
kids still young enough to eat peanut
butter.
But can’t our uber deregulation
Republicans in Texas (George W and now
Guv ‘Good Hair’) realize that letting
bizness run rampant and unregulated
until they kill somebody, just doesn’t
work?
It’s late and I’m going to type until I
feel better. I do have a great story (I
think). When I was getting my MBA at
fabulous Tulane University in (more
fabulous) New Orleans, I took Economics
from David Friedman – son of the late
Nobel Prize winning economist Milton
Friedman – Reagan’s chief economic
advisor). Son of Friedman taught the
exact same theory that daddy did – no
surprise. We got into a discussion
about what bizness (sic) actually was
obligated to be liable for, and examples
such as unsafe cars, baby food, or lead
in paint came up. And ‘No’ shouted Mr.
Freidman, business is not obligated to
do more than the laws requires, and the
regulations should not be very strict.
If a baby food Mfg. makes tainted baby
food and it kills 300 babies in the US
in a week or month, the MARKET will fix
everything because Moms and Dads won’t
buy that brand of baby food any more and
they will be punished by the MARKET.
So no regulations are required on
anything like that.
I asked, “But what if there were safe
regulations on that baby food, and the
300 babies weren’t killed?” The answer,
”That would be an undue cost to business
and the overall cost to society would be
less than if we left it unregulated, and
let the MARKET decide.”
That answer was not a joke, it is as
close to word for word as I can remember
from a 1982 conversation. The good news
is that, this was one of 2 life
experiences that had that totally sent
me on the path of being a Yellow Dog
Democrat.
The other was when I discovered that
Jerry Falwell was a Republican, but that
is a topic for another rambling email.
Thank you so much for your patience.
Regards,
Karl
Dear
Susan,
That Sussex Spaniel who won the
big dog show up where the Knicks try
to play Bassett ball probably has
better morals than the executives of
the Peanut Corporation of America.
Not only did they ship products
before the test results came back
positive for salmonella, they
stopped using the laboratory that
was finding all the problems and
switched to one that managed not to
find any problems. Then, they had
the almighty gall to ask the FDA if
they could keep running because they
needed to pay for the peanuts that
were in the rat hole used for
storage.
Do you think it's a coincidence
that the Peanut Corporation of
America is headquartered in the same
town where Jerry Falwell used to
live?
You probably didn't need to
pitch the peanut butter unless it
was a no-name brand.
Don
The
sheer greed and lack of oversight is
bad enough, but there is an aspect
to this that really galls me that
isn't getting mentioned. They sold
a lot of their stuff to the
government, right? A friend of mine
that went through that ice storm in
Kentucky just told me that he
received a recall notice on some of
the MRE's that FEMA handed out.
It's bad enough that you went
through a natural disaster or
are getting shot at in Iraq or
Afghanistan without getting
Salmonella on top of things.
Dennis
Hey Susan! I was just over
checking up on you and read the
email to you from Karl. He was
not telling a lie and the
reasoning that the Friedman son
used is still around today.
These idiots think economics are
based on magic and have for
years. They also believe in Ayn
Rand which just shocks me to the
depth of my being (and yes,
that's a little dramatic, mother
always accused me of that) I ran
across an editorial last month
in the WSJ that is so ridiculous
and so disheartening that
grown-ups believe this crap I
can't believe it. It's written
by Stephen Moore, who's
described as a senior economic
writer. Senior in high school
maybe. But get a load of this...
These are the idiots that
have been in charge of our
economy for the last 30 yrs.
It's just no wonder we're in
this mess.
Regards,
Susan too.
February 12
- If District Attorney John Healey does not fire
Assistant DA Mike Elliott tomorrow morning then we will
know that what everybody says is true - Elliott has dirt
on Healey.
This is the second time in a year that Elliott has
been caught red-handed abusing his position to get
retribution against his political enemies.
You could be next. You could be standing there
minding your own business unknowingly hacking off
Elliott or one of his wife's political contributors and
he will go after you. You might beat the rap, but
you will not beat the ride.
Mayor Jamie Roberts is out more money than you even
want to think about just to clear his good name. And he
can't even sue Elliott because Elliott is protected
under a law that says you can't sue prosecutors, even if
they abuse their power. It's real hard for me be funny
about this because it's disgraceful and horrifying.
Fire him, Healey. Stand up like a man and fire
him. Whatever dirt he has on you we will all
forgive you for, if you just act like a grown up and
fire his butt. He lied to the Grand Jury, Healey.
Fire him.
And what the fool tarnation is this with the sheriff's
department? Sheriff Wannabe Craig Brady took the
stand saying his own department screwed up the case?
Why is she still working there? Why didn't Brady
do something about it before it got to this?
Good Lord, can't we just throw them all out and start
over?
Maybe I can be funny about this by tomorrow, but right
now I wanna smack somebody upside the head a couple of
times.
I am amazed
that you didn't see one of the biggest goofs
in this mess!! The detectives at the
sheriffs office are saying that Brady sold
them out to buddyup to two rich defense
lawyers and their client. That
guarentees some very large money for his
campaign. Isn't Matheny one of those
perfect street officers who got $1,000?
The sheriff was proud of her last week but
Brady sells her out this week??? How
can he be sheriff if he doesn't support his
officers?! They all need to hit the road.
LEO
February 11 - Okay, so I know you're sitting
there smugly thinking that you have the best
daughter-in-laws in the world.
I need to dissuade you of that pitifully wrong thought.
I have the best daughter-in-laws in the world, and I
can prove it.
One of my daughter-in-laws went to the Inauguration.
This is what she sent me that she bought there --
Does that girl know me well or
what?
And what makes my life even more wonderful is that I
have girlfriends who will try to mug me for these
tasteful pieces of fine jewelry.
I mean, add it to the purse that Sybil sent me and I
have the perfect go-anywhere outfit!
Muzak Holdings LLC, the
Fort Mill, S.C. provider of background music to
businesses, today announced it has filed for Chapter
11 bankruptcy protection so it can restructure its
debt.
I swear on my best pair of pink boots that I once heard
She
Bangs done with violins and a cello in the middle of
a grocery store. It made my ears swell up like a
balloon. Dang near did a Van Gogh just not to have
to listen.
February 10
- If I tell you that's it's Christmas, you better go
buy some little twinkling lights and if I tell you that
John Cornyn is trying to become Tom DeLay, you better
start burying all your money in the backyard
because John's coming after it.
Cowboy, anybody
who didn't see this coming is blind in one eye and
can't see out the other.
Cornyn missed the cloture vote on the stimulus package
because ....
He was at a New York
gathering of prominent media conservatives and Wall
Street Republican donors called the Monday Meeting,
held at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Midtown Manhattan.
Though not a
fundraiser, the meeting is a hub of conservative
money and buzz, a good place for Cornyn to tap into
resources in his role as chairman of the National
Republican Senatorial Committee.
The next move is that John will get borned again again
and maybe even again, and then start smoking big ole
cigars and hanging out with floozy ladies. I know
this pattern and so far John is on track 9 headed for I
Am The Federal Government Ville.
Or cheaper college educations?
And tort reform hasn't lowered our insurance rates?
Awwww.... you mean the free market ain't free for the
middle class? Awww... rats.
In the decade since
Texas deregulated its retail electricity market,
rates have skyrocketed higher than any other state
with such open competition, according to a report
released Monday.
Commissioned by the
Cities Aggregation Power Project, a nonprofit
coalition of Texas municipalities, the report found
that residential electricity rates rose 64 percent
between 1999 and 2007. Before that, Texans paid
rates that were well below the national average,
according to the U.S. Energy Information
Administration.
"Consumers have paid
too much for too long under deregulation," said Jay
Doegey, chairman of the municipalities group, which
seeks to curb market abuses.
Dang, I hate Republicans. They will steal the gold
out of a widow woman's teeth --- while she's eating.
And then brag about it at the country club.
Susan,
See, there you go again. Wanting government
to get on the backs of small businessmen who
started with nothing, working in their
garages 29 hours a day so they can fulfill
their dreams of owning a power plant or
university.
But of course the socialists, those people
who just want to RUIN EVERYTHING, want to
regulate them. The little people just
can't understand that all those rules put in
place to make businesses conduct their
operations fairly places unnecessary
restrictions on that jugular ripping, tooth
pulling, dog killing
All-American entrepreneurial spirit that has
made Corporate America the model for despots
worldwide.
Saint Ronald of Reagan understood this and
once said in his response to a question
about his proposal to relax safety standards
that if many children died because of a
faulty baby seat, consumers would
stop buying the seat which would punish the
manufacturer, who would then presumably
design a better baby seat. A perfect model
of free unrestricted markets at work.
February 9 -
Honey, I want to know how many screws you gotta have
loose to defend Alberto Gonzales in writing.
No, seriously, somebody needs to count so we can keep
score in case somebody tries to defend Stalin or
something. Then we can assign a scientific
numerical value to this: 14 screws loose, defend
Stalin; 17 screws loose,
defend Gonzales.
I have defended Gonzales
in the past, and I stand by that defense. It's
undeniable that he made mistakes. At times, he was
careless -- in his choice of words, in his
management style and his failure to speak up in his
own defense.
So, Gonzales' biggest mistake is that he didn't toot his
own horn enough and that he needs a thesaurus?
I am so glad these people are gone. They scare
me.
February 9
- My friend Evan sent me
this video this morning and I started playing it.
I just now was able to stop dancing. Ray Charles,
Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray Charles and a Rolling Stone
or two.
And then I found this
Muddy Waters and Pinetop Perkins dilly.
And then I found .... well, I spent the day listening
and dancing. Y'all have fun.
Thank you Susan for that music!!!! That is
MY music..... went to see Little Richard
last year........hurt my back, who cared??
there was a second video as well then i
watched Chuck Berry..........what a #%^
genius! thanks again...........and
it followed OBAMA
Sybil
Now that's
my kind of music!! And I remembered every
word of the lyrics, too.<LOL> That was FUN!
Marie
February 8
- Well, as if the Texas Talibaptist didn't have
enough to do right here, what with all manner of Sodom
and Gomorrah and nakkid people and floozy wimmen and
drunk cowboys walking around totally unarmed in flagrant
violation of the second amendment, the Texas
Talibaptists have had the wherewithal to
send missionaries to Alaska to minister to poor
starving lawyers with severe and horrifically chronic
honesty deficiencies.
Poor pathetic unwashed Alaskan lawyers who don't even
have their own "Feed the Lawyers" commercial on late
night teevee. I get all misty-eyed just thinking
about it.
JUNEAU — New state
gift disclosures show it cost Liberty Legal
Institute and the two law firms working with it
$185,000 to represent six Alaska legislators in an
unsuccessful lawsuit to halt their colleagues' "troopergate"
investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin acted
improperly in firing the state's public safety
director.
The legislators
listed a $25,000 gift of services from the
Texas-based Liberty Legal Institute. Liberty is the
legal arm of the Free Market Foundation, which is
associated with evangelical leader James Dobson's
Focus on the Family, and lists its guiding
principles as limited government and promotion of
Judeo-Christian values.
If being able to hide your public-interest activities is
not a Judeo-Christian value, then I want to know what
is! And Lord knows the Talibaptist have had years
of experience at hiding - the liquor, the frequent trips
to Hooters, pesky little divorces ...
February 7
- Okay, I had me some Yes, Pecan! ice cream over at
Ben and Jerry's in Sugar Land.
Apparently, you can't buy it in stores.
It was yummy good but could have used a little more
vanilla. Hint to my friends in Vermont - Al and
Carol: sneak over to the factory and dump some
vanilla on their doorstep.
And, even though the profits of this ice cream goes to
progressive causes, I could not bring myself to order,
"Yes, pee-can." I had to order "Yes, pee-cahn,"
which doesn't even make sense, but I was a Texan looong
before I became an Obamachicacita.
I couldn't eat the whole thing, and Honey, I do have an
appetite, so order the small one and consider some hot
fudge sauce on it.
February 7 - You
know, if Nancy Pelosi had said something like this,
they'd be trying her for treason or drop her buck nakkid
into Mississippi with "I Support Equal Rights" tattooed
on her butt.
Pete Session is just another creepy Texas Republican in
a long string of very creepy Texas Republicans.
And his new heroes?
The Taliban, of course.
When pressed to
clarify, Sessions said he was not comparing the
House Republican caucus to the Taliban, the Muslim
fundamentalist group.
"I simply said one
can see that there's a model out there for
insurgency," Sessions said before being interrupted
by an aide. The staffer said Sessions was trying to
convey that the Republicans need to start thinking
about how to act strategically from their perch in
the minority.
Honey, you know the difference between the Taliban and
Texas Republicans? One is opposed to science,
equal rights for women, religious freedom, peaceful
resolution of disagreements, and democracy. The
other is the Taliban.
February 6 - As a
special Friday treat, I will share with you one of my
very favorite blog I check every day. Please feel
free to go there, but do not use it all up.
It is called
Cake Wrecks and they show professionally made cakes
every day. You can vacuum up all your spare time
at this blog.
February 6
- You know, if Assistant DA Mike Elliott keeps his
law license, much less his job
after this, I think we should demand that his boss,
DA John Healey be required to have the rocks in his head
counted by a mental health professional.
Lawyers were caught
off-guard in the trial against Fulshear Mayor Jamie
Roberts Wednesday night when they found out sworn
statements taken by a Fort Bend County Sheriff’s
Office detective had not been handed over as
evidence in the case. Those statements, said
Roberts’ attorney angrily, contained information
that weakened the detective’s case against Roberts.
The omission played into defense attorney Rusty
Hardin’s contention that prosecutors and Fort Bend
County investigators repeatedly looked over evidence
that could exonerate Roberts from a charge of felony
theft and two misdemeanor counts.
Elliott is perfecting a new form of prosecution - use
the seediest people on the planet to go after some of
the best folks around who also happen to be your
political enemies.
If you live around here, please take the time to
read the whole story to know what a damn mess these
folks have made of the criminal justice system. If
you don't live around here, damn, you're lucky.
I wonder if his law school covered the
topic of " suborning perjury." ?
Maybe he was absent that day. I think the
county is going to have an opening for a new
deputy and an ADA.
Cheers,
Robin
February 5
- It looks like my mentally unhealthy neighbor,
Cynthia Dunbar, may have
some competition for her State Board of Education
seat.
In
the past two days, party activist Susan Shelton
confirmed to me that she definitely plans to
challenge Dunbar, and University of Texas math
professor Lorenzo Sadun said he’s “very likely.”
Sadun also told me he’s heard "as many as a dozen
people are thinking of running" as Democrats.
Phew! I was getting worried that she would be
re-elected by acclamation and then dye her hair blonde,
get her own black cocktail dress and start appearing on
Fox Spews - all of which seem to be a requirement for
Head Crazy Republican Woman, a competition that's
becoming increasingly stiff.
Cynthia has just gone through a messy and very public
divorce from her ex-Mr. Wonderful, Glen, a former county
employee, who embarrassed her by being a tad more prissy
than allowed in husbands of the Belles of Heaven
Republican Women's Club. It left Cynthia more
bitter than a washtub of tonic water. Why she
decided to take it out on little children, I dunno.
Cynthia believes that Barack Obama is Bubba Beelzebub
and that Jennifer Anniston is a secret Soviet agent
intent on passing a law to make kitchens off-limits for
women. She thinks science is a tool of the devil
and prays daily for the end times so she can gleefully
watch you boil.
She's one of my neighbors, y'all. I sleep with
one eye open and the other at half staff because I'm
real scared that whatever she caught might be lurking in
the dark.
Hey! There's nothing wrong with passing
a law to make kitchens off limits for
women.
WJH
Cynthia Dunbar got divorced? I
didn't think those rightwing
holier-than-thou, whackos recognized
divorce. Don't they consider it evil
or a sin or something? You know,
since after all their marriages were
made in heaven by God and all.
That woman is crazy. Just plumb
crazy.
Lfty
Dear
Susan,
Considering how the State Board of
Education has taken on the mission of
making Texas the laughingstock of the
Universe and isn't that far off from
achieving their goal, having normal
human beings with a respect for
knowledge run for seats on that august
body seems like a good idea.
Don A in Pennsyltucky
February 4
- Let's hear an "Amen!" out there for a
electing
a Democrat to the commissioners court who
broke the extortion rule of forcing businesses to
join the Economic Development Council in order to get a
tax break.
It used to be that businesses wanting to relocate to
Fort Bend were forced to join the EDC in order to get
any tax breaks from the county.
Getting new progressive blood on the court looks like
it's gonna keep an eye on the good-ole-boy way of doing
governmental business.
Atta Boy, Richard.
And while we're handing out courage kudos,
Obama will not be moved. If CEOs can make more
than $500,000 a year, they certainly don't need to
borrow money from me, dammit.
February 3
- I am so glad that
Tom
Daschle withdrew. He handed Obama a bushel
basket of embarrassment.
Now how 'bout a real doctor at the helm of Health and
Human Services? How 'bout Howard Dean?
I think it's a perfect fit. Dean is so tough that
he's grown horns and that's the kind of guy I want
carrying health care for me.
To be honest, this great idea isn't mine. Robert
sent it to me, but when I opened his email, I went
"Hell, yes."
February 3
- Well, snap. That settles it - Rick Perry
will get the Alaska vote for Governor.
If you noticed a disturbance in The Force yesterday,
Sarah Palin endorsed Rick Perry over Kay Bailey
Hutchinson.
Gov. Rick Perry’s
campaign distributed a letter to members of the
Texas Federation of Republican Women in which Alaska
Gov. Sarah Palin endorses Perry for re-election. The
letter does not mention Perry’s challenger, U.S.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. “While a bunch of
politicians have gone to Washington, hat in hand,
seeking a bailout, Governor Perry has said we should
stimulate the economy with tax cuts and maintain
spending discipline,” Palin says.
Okay, first off, "tax cuts and maintaining spending
discipline" in Texas means you cut health care for kids
but put the Governor up in a fancy-pants house while
they re-do the Gov Shack.
But the even better thought is this -- Question:
if you take two very pretty but empty heads and join
them together, does that make 1/2 a real head?
I told you that this race was going to be the best
ever. The. Best. Ever. Now it's promising to
be a mud wrestling girl-fight with Rick Perry providing
the mud.
We may even have to set up a special section here for
this Menage a Tres. With the hair on all three of
them - it's a good time to visit The World's Most
Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc.
This is a huge break for Gov Good Hair.
He's got the support of the Holy Mother-now
if he can get endorsements from both Bushs
and Limbaugh he'll have The Father, the Son
and the Holy Dope.
Sam in
Pearland
February 2 -
Remember the time our goofy sheriff went out and paid a
small fortune to put his own name all over our police
cars without even asking if that was
legal
and then ended up spending your tax money to take it off
when we told him it was illegal so you got stuck for
putting it on and then taking it off?
Well,
he's done it again.
Without even asking if it was proper or legal or even
ethical, he up and decided on his own, armed with his
high diploma, that taking a quarter of a million dollars
from an anonymous source and doling it out to a select
group of sheriff department employees in the form of
$1,000 cashier's checks was a smart thing to do.
It, of course, wasn't and still isn't.
Honey, he's made a mess bigger than a bushel basket of
wire coat hangers.
And it's costing you a small fortune with our county
judge, our county attorney and our district attorney all
having to spend time trying to unravel this heap-'o-crap
that Milton has created.
And then he's got some of his deputies going out and
insulting his other members of local law enforcement -
even some within his own department who didn't get a
check - by being very hoity toity or looking for fight.
Child, a group of kindergarteners with finger paints
make less mess than this.
It has fallen upon some kind citizen to take up the
duty of having to tell Milton that (1) he obviously
ain't near smart enough to know the difference between a
gift and a bribe, and (2) he ain't damn king of the
county.
Oh, by the way, the folks who got the checks were told
that the donor was going to pay the taxes on the money.
Yeah, I know, that doesn't even make sense. But,
it's so typically Republican - love that tax free money.
Cheeezzzz.... four more years of this?
February 2
- Little Bubba was here last night and actually
laughed when I told him that was on Facebook. He
informed me that Facebook is the 8-track tape of social
networking.
And to think that I didn't take any anesthetic when he
was born because I couldn't wait to see him.
Yes, I whacked him.
It's actually fun! I have gotten in touch
with old friends who found me through
Facebook. Of course they had to find me
since I am still confused as to how it
works. It does keep me in touch with my
home state of Texas while I am living in the
foreign state of Virginia.
Susan, you would like it here they have
elections EVERY year! Lots of practice or
lots of burnout, depends on if you are on
the winning side. We turned VA blue so we
like elections right now. Thanks so much
for keeping me up to date on what those
scalawags are doing and for shining a light
on their campaign reports! Darn good
entertainment!
Dolores
There are
all sorts of time-sponge activities on
Facebook. Some are fun (I play Word Twist
and Pathwords with my sister who is in
Kuwait) But I'll warn you about getting
involved decorating imaginary Christmas
Trees, sending Hearts, etc. I like the Free
Gifts to send Birthday greetings, etc.
It is a good place to put up pictures you
want to share. I haven'd done that, but my
son has.
Fondly, EClaire
“Facebook
is the 8-track tape of social
networking”
Naw, it’s more like the CD of social
networking. Of course, all the cool
kids use iPods & MP3 players!
David
I hate to be the one to tell you this,
but you can get Facebook for your iPhone.
Then life as you know it is officially
over.
Hey Zeus
Susan,
I laughed out loud.
Same thing happened to me on
"My Space."
I filled out the "profile"
thingy ...... and a lot of
"young" males wanted to be "my
friend."
Looking for a "sugar
mama"? maybe. Looking in the
wrong place? Definitely.
The weirdness lasted about a
month, before I closed " the
account."
There is something about
being able to "hide behind" a
monitor, keyboard, and CPU ---
that has people doing really
weird stuff sometimes. It's all
so "faceless" and impersonal ,
and anonymous.
Have fun.
Evelyn
February 1 - A kind
reader just informed me that I made a terrible mistake
and deleted all of last month's entries. So, I'm
working on fixing it. It you check it now, you'll
see that the formatting is wonky.
I have company right now (Yes, I do have friends.) so
I'll work on fixing it all tomorrow.
Reminder: I only have half a brain and the
batteries need changing.
February
1 - Okay, so my friend Maureen hounded me until
I did it. I'm now a victim of
Facebook. It's only been a week, but it's been --- well, odd. People I don't even know want to be my Facebook friend,
and some of them seem overly concerned about my erectile
dysfunction or my need for a loan, or to joyfully let me
know that they are anxious to get cash American money
out of Zambia and God led them to me. I have learned that some of my friends' friends are
very weird people. I have decided that I do not
want to ever see any of my friends nakkid, or know who
they are friends with when I'm not around. Oh friends of mine, some of your Facebook friends are
very strange, so give me a heads-up if one of your nice
friends wants to be friends with me or if this dude
claiming to be your friend is someone who was a friend
of a friend of a friend who is overly concerned about
your erectile dysfunction and wants to be my friend.
I need to know before I make another mistake. However, if you want to be my Facebook friend and
you're on Facebook and you've sent me email before here
at this site or can offer some proof that you're not
just somebody nakkid with a keyboard, please feel free
to send a request to me asking to be my Facebook friend.
And ignore the odd people playing in the background. Just search Susan Bankston. There's a lot of us
but I'm the one from Houston. Be sure to send me
an email telling me your Facebook name and that you've
requested to be my friend.
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.
HOUSTON
— Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn says he'll give
$4,000 to charity to make up for contributions he
accepted from Texas financier R. Allen Stanford.
Andy
Meyers would get the hell out of their back pocket.
Now my question is this: how they gonna tell the
wild hogs from members of the State Legislature? I
mean, they both look and behave the same. Except,
of course, that the hogs are better looking and they eat
out of their own trough. 
I don't know whose brother-in-law was getting their mail
early or which Bush this guy had the dirt on, but he
also got $70,000 for "security." Hell, Babe, for
$70,000 a year, Junior Janochek will come live at his
house with a baseball bat and a shotgun. Junior
needs a job.
Duh. I am sooo blonde.
No, seriously, somebody needs to count so we can keep
score in case somebody tries to defend Stalin or
something. Then we can assign a scientific
numerical value to this: 14 screws loose, defend
Stalin; 17 screws loose,
Phew! I was getting worried that she would be
re-elected by acclamation and then dye her hair blonde,
get her own black cocktail dress and start appearing on
Fox Spews - all of which seem to be a requirement for
Head Crazy Republican Woman, a competition that's
becoming increasingly stiff.
electing
a Democrat to the commissioners court who
Now how 'bout a real doctor at the helm of Health and
Human Services? How 'bout Howard Dean?
legal
and then ended up spending your tax money to take it off
when we told him it was illegal so you got stuck for
putting it on and then taking it off?
that Milton has created.