Texans were sadly disappointed last night in not being able to do the Injecto on nutcase Gerald Eldridge. Judge With only two hours to go until that Don't Mess With Texas moment, Judge Lee Rosenthal stopped the process interrupting Eldridge's last requested meal of pancakes with peanut butter and oatmeal cookies, yum. Eldridge Reprieve
Eldridge has little time for injections, last meals and such up there at the Polunsky Unit waiting room in Livingston where he and his brother build boats and his wife and 7 children live with him inside his cell. But not to worry, we will get the job done, other than the guns, it's what we are most famous for and proud of.
Down here in Dumbutt the Tea Baggers are far more popular than they are in the rest of the nation. Even our Governor Rick Perry joined their ranks calling for succession from the Union from the steps of the Alamo!
Tea Baggers around the state have registered fro the upcoming GOP primaries wanting to oust at least five (so far) Republican US Congressman, some who have an American Conservative Union score of 96%!
The ACU is the gold standard for rating Right-wing Snitwits in America. A score of 96% is not good enough for these Beckian Tea Baggers whose battle cry is "Limited Government and back to Religious Values!"
That part about "Limited Government" and their inarticulate screeching about The Constitution is their disagreement with the concept of taxation - with or without representation.
Sure they like having free boat ramps for their bass boats, but their hard earned money going to anyone less white than they are is what this is mostly about.
Also keep in mind when the Republicans spent $1 trillion dollars (unfunded) on that bad war in Iraq that gained us not a thing but 5000 dead American kids, THESE KIND OF PEOPLE went to Support our Troop War rallies. When $1 trillion (funded) MAY go to keep millions of Americans from losing their homes to medical debt, and giving tens of millions more basic health care, THESE KIND OF PEOPLE will not have any of it! It is not only fascism, Nazism, Marxism, Communism, Socialism but it is now worse than the Holocaust!
When I was little I remember we had THESE KIND OF PEOPLE running around too. Though we heard about them mostly from their billboards or from comedians and singers it was the same, then they were called the John Birch Society. And round and round it goes...
The "Religious Values" part of this is about denying gay couples not only the use of the word "marriage", but also giving gay couple the same rights the Tea Bagger couples enjoy. And of course as they scream about the intrusive government they want the government to deny women their right to choose to have abortion. That's the kind of logic that comes with blind faith.
The third rail - a generic reference to the underling cause of things - is more than obvious when you go to one of these Tea Bag rallies, read their signs, listen to their speakers and talk with a few of the fat ugly old white people sitting around wolfing down Hostess products. And of course the farting.
Here it is, the bottom line in this Tea Party Madness.
Tea Baggers are madass angry that the 8 happy years they enjoyed having a slow witted, inarticulate, God Fearing, Good ole White Boy in George W Bush has been usurped by an articulate uppity Multi-cultural Constitutional Law Professor! OMG! A SMART PERSON! Smart people are not popular in Texas unless they can prove they own and use more than four guns. [Senator Kay Baily Hutchinson just released that information as she is running behind Rick Perry.]
Down here these Tea Baggers are sure to cause some pain for the GOP come the 2010 elections. Their entrance into the tight race for Governor down here between Perry and Hutchinson could very well force a very nasty run off. Perhaps next year at this time the Governors Mansion will be fixed with Democratic Candidate Kinky Friedman living in it. GOP’s latest foes hail from Tea Party
You think you have issues with these crazy Beckian Tea Baggers running amok in your parks and town halls? You have it easy, here in Texas that crazyass Glenn Beck watching Tea Bagger is our Governor! And he is ahead in his run against conservative Republican Kay Bailey Hutchinson.
Not long ago we had another very VERY popular Governor of the same mold named George W. Bush. Big Guns Small Minds, Visit Texas!
This Sunday's Houston Chronicle editorial board weighs in on the intolerance at play by Houston's local Republican Christian Bigots. THESE KIND OF PEOPLE are very good at finding, supporting and promoting the intolerance, bigotry and exclusion they find in Christianity while they are very poor at finding the love, compassion and inclusion Christianity is based upon. It is what THESE KIND OF PEOPLE do and what THESE KIND OF PEOPLE are. Mayoral Candidate Annise Parker suffers Houston's Republican Christian Bigotry
A
band of socially conservative activists and ministers has injected
intolerance into Houston's mayoral election. As reported Saturday by
the Chronicle's Bradley Olson, the group plans to discourage voters
from supporting City Controller Annise Parker in the Dec. 12 runoff
because she is a lesbian, and because they're worried about a “gay
takeover” of City Hall.
Dave Welch, executive
director of the Houston Area Pastor Council, told Olson, “The bottom
line is that we didn't pick the battle, she did when she made her
agenda and sexual preference a central part of her campaign.”
That's a lie.
While
Parker has never made a secret of her sexuality, the campaign debate
and agenda to date have been wholly defined by the issues facing the
city and the comparative qualifications and experience of the
candidates.
Parker's
opponent, former City Attorney Gene Locke, has stated that he favors
overturning a city charter amendment that bars Houston from extending
benefits to the domestic partners of city employees, a bolder stance
than that taken by Parker.
But
Locke has also been courting the support of Dr. Steven Hotze, a
conservative power broker and apparently one of the prime movers behind
the effort to smear Parker. Hotze was the man behind the 1985 Straight
Slate, a roster of City Council candidates he recruited to run on an
anti-gay platform. (They all lost.)
According
to a Hotze mouthpiece, he's thinking about stirring up his distasteful
stew with a mailing inspired by Parker's sexuality.
Houston
deserves better. Our city has a well-earned reputation for tolerance
and openness. We don't need inflammatory appeals to folks' worst
instincts.
We've
been here before. In 1997 a small-minded ballot initiative would have
ended the city's affirmative action program that helped minority and
women contractors. Mayor Bob Lanier went on the air in an ad that
bluntly stated his opposition to a proposal that would “turn back the
clock to the days when guys who look like me got all the city's
business.”
Lanier couldn't have been more clear: Discrimination is just not right.
It
was a powerful moment of leadership. The referendum went down to
defeat, and news outlets around the country marveled that a “wealthy
white developer” had taken the lead on affirmative action.
It's time for another such moment of leadership.
Saturday
afternoon, Gene Locke issued a statement rejecting “the style of
campaigning that was the subject of an article in the Houston
Chronicle.” He urged the people of Houston to choose a new mayor based
on the issues and avoid being “swayed by divisive rhetoric.”
The
rhetoric of people like Steven Hotze and Dave Welch carries a high
cost. Their support should not be purchased at the price of bigotry.
So often we read about local Republican bigots who use Christianity to ply their hateful intolerance and bigotry without seeing them. It is important we get to know them so we can pray with them if we meet them on the street. Here are Houston's three top Republican Christian bigots.
SNITWIT Dan Patrick who was our local White-wing talk radio show host for many years (he also owned the All Right All the Time station he broadcasat from) before he moved to the Texas State Legislature.
DOCTOR Steven Hotze who has been the money and power promoting intolerance and bigotry throughout Houston now for most of half a century.
PASTOR Dave Welch who speaks for the Houston Area Pastor Council.
The candidate opposing Parker in the runoff is Gene Locke. Locke had kept these pricks at arm length for most of the campaign but now coming into the stretch he has crawled over to them and stuck his head up their rancorous butts.
Of course Annise Parker being gay is a horrible horrible thing for THESE KIND OF PEOPLE, but the real issue at play is that with the help of a few other gay city council members - Parker may try to overturn the law these bigoted assholes worked so hard to pass back in 2001 - denying the partners of gay men and women the same rights they enjoy. That would be the REPUBLICAN part of this.
The CHRISTIAN part of it is to make absolutely sure no gay person is allowed to visit their sick or dying partner in a hospital! Let's call that KIND OF RELIGION exactly what it is - a shit religion.
I can understand Republican's callous, selfish disregard for others, it's their pride in it that passes me by.
This is a 2 year old Rob Riggle video from the Daily Show. Katy, Texas is a Western suburb of Houston where good White Christian Texans know how to keep those less than Christian from moving in. As you can see from the video, the ignorance and bigotry is done all in good fun.
The reason I put this up again is I have been asked what's with this THAT KIND OF PEOPLE thing I have been over using lately.
Well this is the best example I can find of it. This kind of Beckian Tea Bagging White-wing bigotry, hatred and ignorance is of course expected down here in Texas, but the joy, the pride and the celebration they take in it defines them as THOSE KIND OF PEOPLE.
Bigotry is not only OUR RIGHT and our loud response to the slightest accusation of Political Correctness, but is what gives us our Christian World View, expresses our Southern Hospitality and makes us loved by God but the rest of the world.
Local television has covered this but no videos are available online. But what we see down here are people are too fat to stand up for very long who bring their own lawn chairs and wave signs that mostly have Obama logos or hi face on them. I admit there are some some standing who were not all that fat and a few more who did seem to be in their 40s. But there seemed to be not one Black, Hispanic or anyone young enough to be text messaging. Well other than a few kids running around whose parents dressed them up in American flag outfits.
People do not like hearing this, but it is the truth. This movement is ALL about not wanting to pay taxes that benefit people less white then they are. It is also entirely what drives the health care debate and why we are the only place on Earth who do not consider health care a human right.
This Tea Party was organized by local right-wing radio host Pags Pagliarulo around the central theme that we must refuse illegal immigrants health care as it is making us all go broke and is unconstitutional.
One silly part of this Tea Party business is akin to the silliness of Fox News claiming to be fair and balanced. The Tea Party talking point is that they represent all people, from all political parties. This of course is readily accepted by unbalances people.
But I am mostly concerned with what these KIND OF PEOPLE plan to do if an illegal immigrant gets run over by a truck? If they look Mexican do we just leave them in the road and rubber neck? Does someone stop and rifle the body for a green card? Do these Republican good Samaritans stop and drag them off to the side of the road so they can die pleasantly in the gravel? Perhaps a requirement that all Republicans carry shovels, white crosses and plastic flowers in their vehicles so we can just bury them on the spot? Remember, THESE KIND OF PEOPLE are armed, they vote and are very very proud of what they represent. And I am sure they will be well represented in Hell.
There always seems to be of these in the Letters to the Editor in the Houston Chronicle (Houston Chronicle Letters to the Editor 11/1/2009)
Breath of Fresh Air Thank you, Jonah Goldberg, for your column "New technology offers best solution ot climate woes" (page B9, Thursday). And thank you, Houston Chronicle, for finally printing another view besides those of the depreciating, shame-on-all- Thomas Friedman, who has an irritating and every-growing admiration for a particular communist republic. That constant negative whining offers nothing new. We all know what he's about, so whny should we even bother reading his rants? Than you, Jonah Goldberg, for having the guts to speak out against the climate farce! It's like a breath of fresh air. Andrea Barth, Katy
What is Thomas Friedman about I wonder? I suppose that would be turing American into a communist state modeled upon Red China - because he recently said China was now giving credence to climate change and investing heavily into energy solutions. Oh the horror...
Any doubt that this Tea Party shnitwit doesn't accept evolution either? The real horror is that THESE KIND OF PEOPLE vote, especially in off year elections after they lose a big one.
2010 will indeed see these shnitwits crawling out from under their trailers and putting down their Keystone and guns long enough to go vote, come Hell or Highwater. While those who got so emotionally involved voting last year are going to stay home and watch The Cleveland Show.
But come 2012 the GOP choices will be either the torture/war faction of Dick Cheney or the shnitwit/tea party faction of Sarah Palin.
A little background on Jonah Goldberg....
Jonah Goldberg is the son of Lucianne Goldberg who began her career as a political spy for Richard Nixon infiltrating the McGovern campaign. She went on to final fame as the conduit between Linda Tripp and Matt Drudge to break the Monica Lewinsky story. The last we saw of her was as a regular guest on the very short lived Matt Drudge Show on Fox News. If this fails to connect the dots as to just what Lucianne Goldberg is, close your eyes and imagine Ann Coulter 40 years from now. There ya go. Well, so much for the Second Commandment of putting the sins of the fathers' upon the children for three generations. That one needs to be carved into the walls of every courtroom in America! Do these people ever actually read those things?
Jonah Goldberg is a syndicated columnist because his mother made calls. And believe you me, the last thing anyone wants to do is cross Lucianne Goldberg. Jonah could have made his new very silly book, Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning much shorter and far more appropriate with the title My Mother the Fascist.
[The silliness of all this is that Goldberg gets the definition of fascism
all wrong. Fascism is the sharing of power between the Military,
corporate leaders, and the Church under the control of an all powerful
charismatic strongman. The direct opposite of what he contends in this
very silly book in which he defines fascism as organic farming, environmentalism, multi-culturialism and Hillary Clinton.]
Like Rush Limbaugh, Jonah Goldberg's commentaries are mostly about his visceral hatred of liberals and all that is liberal. What sets him apart is his mix of Right-wing Libertarian prater and Neo-conservative blather. As you can see from the video interview, his slovenly overweight appearance fits well with the attractive crowd he and his mother hang with.
Senator Hutchinson wants to come home. It's hard work up there in Washington concerned with so many weighty matters and much better to lay around Austin in a new mansion doing little other than talkin' tough. Which is what we Texans want not only in our governors but in our representatives - who meet only a few months every other year - as well. Hey, things we decided 100 years ago are just fine for us down here in Dumbutt.
The Republican Party is split between two factions since their back to back shellacking in the elections of 2006 and 2008. Though both groups are unified against health care reform, advocates of deregulation of banks and Wall Street, reducing taxes on the wealthy, denying women a choice, more war, more lethal injections, more prisons, longer sentences and of course one hellova lot more guns in churches, stadiums and bars! Believe it or not!
The split in the GOP is more about the intensity of the hatred directed at Liberals, Progressives, Democrats, Mexicans, African Americans, Barack Obama and above all, the American Government.
Though more than a year away the race for governor is heating up with word arriving that Dick Cheney will be in Houston on November 17 to endorse Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson. Carl Rove is also expected to be on hand at the venue.
"I am so pleased. I respect the former vice president so much. We've worked together. He knows my record as a conservative in the Senate." Beamed Senator Hutchinson.
So there you have the moderate wing of the GOP led by the Dick Cheney faction. A snarling draft dodging chickenhawk who not only advocates more and bigger wars in more places, but torture as well. How could anyone from Texas not like that I ask you? Hard to beat.
But the other side of the GOP is no slouch! There we have friend of Glenn Beck Governor Rick Perry who supports the Tea Parties, calls for Texas succession from the Union, and who Sarah Palin has already endorsed and is on her short list as a running mate in 2012. The evangelical, armed wingnut airhead faction of the GOP.
It's a hard decision for us here down in Texas. More killing home and abroad or just sit back and be stupid? Tough call.
One thing is absolutely sure though. No matter Perry or Hutchinson, if there is an OPT OUT option for states in this health care bill, Texas will opt out before its even signed! If we can't actually shoot THEM, we sure as hell are not going to let them tell us we can't just let THEM cease living in line outside a hospital. This is Texas after all.
Texas has only Mississippi to thank for not being ranked at the bottom of just about everything that is nasty, dirty and horrible. Especially regarding education, poverty, homelessness and being kind or helpful to the least fortunate. Though Texans do win in the gunthing hands down! Oops...Hands up!
We have a big story here in Houston which has been center stage for a few months now. Long lines to get food stamps with about a three month wait for the food. Even with a more than the usual spattering of White people in line seems to make little difference to anyone at all.
Being on the Texas Diet myself of late I know the game. Drink large amounts of water when the hunger pains hit and later in the day mix it with copious amounts of Jack or Beam to help sleep through those long three months. Of course this is hard to explain to children who are not of drinking age yet, but hey, they are also not of voting age either so who gives a rat's ass?
Though you can see this kind of person all over the forums and comments on the Internet, talk radio or Fox News, it is ab it unusual to find it in one of the top newspapers in the nation. This is not only the great Texas "unsaid" but also the very basis of Republican and Libertarian ideology. Trying to find any inkling, smidgen, or nanonit of kindness or compassion to anyone or anything other than themselves borders upon the impossible:
No free lunch
Once again the Chronicle Editorial Board has literally gone off the deep end in its criticism of our state government leaders because the latter refuse to spend more of our tax dollars to shovel out buckets of food stamps. The board members somehow believe that food stamps are a constitutional right for every Tom, Dick and Harry who shows up at the door of a state Health & Human Services Commission office. The clincher is the comment in the editorial that "the program is 100 percent federally funded." Gee, where do the board members think federal funds come from? Did they forget that we, the citizens, pay the taxes that provide those federal funds and therefore the food stamp program is not free to anyone? This type of illogical thinking by the Chronicle is a typical example of the left-wing lunacy that has caused us, as a nation, to have so many social problems over the last 40 years. You people at the Chronicle need to wake up to the fact that there is no free lunch. No free lunch
Once again the Chronicle Editorial Board has literally gone off the deep end in its criticism of our state government leaders because the latter refuse to spend more of our tax dollars to shovel out buckets of food stamps. The board members somehow believe that food stamps are a constitutional right for every Tom, Dick and Harry who shows up at the door of a state Health & Human Services Commission office. The clincher is the comment in the editorial that "the program is 100 percent federally funded." Gee, where do the board members think federal funds come from? Did they forget that we, the citizens, pay the taxes that provide those federal funds and therefore the food stamp program is not free to anyone? This type of illogical thinking by the Chronicle is a typical example of the left-wing lunacy that has caused us, as a nation, to have so many social problems over the last 40 years. You people at the Chronicle need to wake up to the fact that there is no free lunch. Eric Johnson, Houston
I removed the video because it was just more patronizing of perhaps the most disgusting human being in American Politics today. It contains nothing other than the standard convoluted financial doubletalk this, the ultimate Tea Bagger hides behind.
There is a serious media problem concerning Ron Paul. He lives down the road piece here in Dumbutt and I have been following his antics for most of 25 years now. I am not fooled by him as it seems so many many others are. Ron Paul for Dummies
Jon Stewart is one of many television pundits who fail to ask this lunatic the questions that clear up exactly who and what he is. Like what do you think of Medicare. Or Social Security? Or evolution? Or machine guns with free crank?
Ron Paul is a bigot, a racist, and above all a Christian Evangelical fundamentalist nutcake who makes Glenn Beck seem sane. Ron Paul decries the War on Religion.
With that said allow me to list the bad followed by the good. First a few direct Ron Paul quotes:
"I think it (evolution) is a theory and I do not accept it."
"Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions."
"I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city [Washington DC] are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."
“We don’t think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people but black males."
"As it was written I would vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
Now let us briefly go over his policies.
Abolish affirmative action!
A Constitutional Amendment to allow states to force Christian prayer in public schools.
Give creationism and Intelligent Design equal footing in public schools science classes.
Repeal of Roe V Wade!
Against embryonic cell research.
Against ALL federal funds for the arts!
Advocate for parents who refuse medical help for their children.
Advocate of private, religious, home schooling and voucher systems over public education.
Abolish the Department of Education!
Abolish Medicare and Medicade!
Abolish Social Security!
Abolish the FED.
Abolish the IRS.
Abolish the EPA.
Deregulation of Banks.
Deregulation of Wall Street.
Opposes equal pay for women.
Opposes minimum wages.
Opposes gay adoptions.
Opposes criminalizing dog fighting.
Opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Supports a Constitution Amendment to remove the alien birthright clause.
Supports a 3000 mile Mexican border fence.
Supports the vigilante group The Minutemen.
Supports English Only education.
Supports "don't ask don't tell" policy in the military.
Legalization of hard drugs.
Enjoys an NRA triple A+++ rating.
But he does have some good points which allow him a free ride with television pundits of all stripes.
Legalization of Pot. Against the unfair War on Drugs! Against capital punishment. Against war in both Iraq and Afghanistan. And he don't like Neocons!
And the last five seem to trump the previous 35. And of course not to forget a quick look at his following...
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Texans were sadly disappointed last night in not being able to do the Injecto on nutcase Gerald Eldridge. Judge With only two hours to go until that Don't Mess With Texas moment, Judge Lee Rosenthal stopped the process interrupting Eldridge's last requested meal of pancakes with peanut butter and oatmeal cookies, yum. Eldridge Reprieve
Texas has only Mississippi to thank for not being ranked at the bottom of just about everything that is nasty, dirty and horrible. Especially regarding education, poverty, homelessness and being kind or helpful to the least fortunate. Though Texans do win in the gunthing hands down! Oops...Hands up! 
What is Thomas Friedman about I wonder? I suppose that would be turing American into a communist state modeled upon Red China - because he recently said China was now giving credence to climate change and investing heavily into energy solutions. Oh the horror... 
