Dumbutt, Texas

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.

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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.  

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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.

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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

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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...

Ron Paul Crazyass Libertarian

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The anger out there is about race on two fronts, an African African American President and Hispanic illegal immigrants. The latter has about as much to do with paperwork as the former does with Hitlarian communism. If 15 million Mexicans here illegally had green cards it wouldn't make a wit of difference to these kind of people while had the President's father been from London it would make all the difference in the world.

The kind of people behind this are not in the least shy about sayingy they are most upset over losing their country. To whom? From what? Republcian disdain for the concept of multiculturalism is historic, loud and unyielding, while conservative correctness has required we now say "nativist" rather than "racist".

What is the Republican Party Plan I often wonder? They are now 3 years into their losing streak which seems to only move them further and further into Right Field. They seem to now occupy that long narrow strip of AstroTurf between first base and the dugout. It's a crowded tent populated by non players, in this case Birthers, Tea Baggers, South Carolina crackers and Alaskan White trash. I just can't help myself sometimes.

At the top of that stinky heap of poo are Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, though North Carolina Cracker Joe Wilson is on a meteoric rise while Fundamentalist Creationist Mike Huckabee is leading in the Presidential polls followed by Mitt Romney who believes Jesus is from Michigan. Gosh... The United States of Duh.

The fastest growing voter dynamic these days and for the foreseeable future are Hispanics while African Americans have been brought to the polls in higher numbers than ever before.

Does anyone think Hispanics don't know what CNN's Lou Dobbs is up to?

What all this constant screeching from Republicans about building that wall is about?

What ICE crashing through family doors and workplace skylights putting entire families in prisons is about?

Or what the claim that swimming the Rio Grand makes them not only criminals but felons is about?

And now the most recent and most ultimate slap in the face from a South Carolina rebel flag waving cracker who cannot help himself from screaming YOU LIE to the President of the United States because the very thought of a Mexican getting health care turns him purple. Anyone think Hispanics don't get that?

Down here in Dumbutt, Texas news comes often on the ongoing debate within the State Board of Education. 11 of the 15 members are Republicans, 7 of whom are evangelical creationists. 

After their recent failure to have intelligent design placed in our science textbooks they have shifted gears and are now rewriting our history books more to their "nativist" liking.

As I read the series of articles about this I find two names that pop up in each and every article. Removing any mention of César Chávez and Thurgood Marshall and and replacing them with Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich. Our Texas Taliban is not shy and they are very well armed. Facing facts: History students need to know them

So at the top of their TO DO list is to remove a Black man who was not only our first African American Supreme Court Justice, but also was the NAACP lawyer who argued and won the most important case of the 20th Century - The unanimous Brown v. Education decision which decided "separate educational facilities were inherently unequal" setting the stage for the forced integration of the South. Anyone believe Blacks don't get that?

Joining Mr Marshall for historic ejection by these evangelical Christian Republican "nativists" is Mexican migrant worker, advocate for the poor and union organizer César Chávez who gained fame in the 1960s with the California grape boycott. Anyone believe Hispanics don't get that?

And this week Republicans sent out hidden cameras to try and destroy the largest African American community organization in America, and did so with flying colors! Anyone believe African Americans don't get that either?

So what with the GOP shrinking and Hispanics and Blacks increasing their voting power I have to ask... Are Republicans racists or just stupid? Oops! Sorry... Are Republicans "nativists" or just stupid?

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With the help of George W. Bush and billions of tax dollars spent on Abstinence Only programs in American Schools - especially in Texas and other less than cold states - has been a complete failure. Focus on abstinence alone is failing Texas teenagers

94% of Texas schools have no sex education at all other than promoting total abstinence which they politicize by lying about the effectiveness of condoms and other forms of birth control.

Pregnancy rates for CHILDREN 15 years old and under has risen not only in Texas but even higher in New Mexico and Mississippi. This is of course is  expected in Mississippi where all sex is related. Sex Ed Now!

These pregnant children under 15 are in MIDDLE SCHOOL where there is not even a 6% rate of sex education as there is in high schools. Well other than lying to them that birth control does not work and if they have sex they will die. Seeing pictures of so many of the Texas Taliban in the news down here in dumbutt, I would rather die than have sex with any of them. 

Here in Texas there is legislation brought to the floor each year by some off color state representatives to remedy this, but is quickly and hardily squashed by our Texas Taliban who run this sorryass state with the help of the NRA. Of course these same people do everything they can to refuse giving support to these child mothers and their children. Here in Texas children are born with bootstraps. Though we do give them the opportunity to buy as many weapons as they want at some fairground each weekend. Which is all that really matters down here... 
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Y'all remember the hullabaloo with the Texas Taliban running the schools down here in Dumbutt. They go by the name of The Texas State Board of Education. Here is the first in a series of articles we did on this.  The Face of the Texas Taliban, Cynthia Dunbar

The board took a bit of a hit recently when their creationist leader Dentist Don McElroy was voted down and replaced by a less offensive creationist. Though it now puts Mrs Dunbar on a higher poopie-box than she was before.

They recently gave up putting Intelligent Design into Texas biology books and are noe set upon removing liberals like Hispanic organizer Ceser Chavez  from Texas history books. Books that will be read by an ever increasing number of Hispanics no less. They well be replacing the bad liberal icons with good conservative ones like, James Dobson, Phyllis Schlafly, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich and Jerry Falwell. History's first draft: Newt Gingrich but no liberals - Textbooks being written for Texas students appear to lean to the right

Back in 2007 these so called "people" with the help of the so called Texas "legislature" here in dumbutt mandated the study of the Bible in public schools. Though they prayed extensively to, about and for it, they forgot to either define it or fund it. They are not the sharpest knives in this squeaky drawer we call Texas. Bible literacy law stumps schools

So today Texas Teachers are not sure what to do. Though most do understand that it a big opart of their job is to cram as much Jesus down their students throats as they can get away with. No matter what any Damn Yankee has to say about it, white or black! You betcha!

I have a couple friends in the Texas School system who both tell me that the teachers lounges' are segregated by politics. On the crowded side [the vastly crowded side in rural and suburban Texas] there is not only an ornery pile of evangelical literature, but an even more ornery pile of loud evangelicals bragging about who crammed the most Jesus down their kids throats that morning.

Of course the minority side keeps quiet knowing only too well the violent armed nature of Texas Evangelicals. But on occasion these few human teachers will leave an old copy of the New York Times (they bought out of state) in the bathroom just to hear the rhythmic screams in beat to the constant flushing...

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Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn’t speak English when she first started school. Hardly anyone in her hometown went to college, and neither of her parents had gone either. But she worked hard, earned good grades, got a scholarship to Brown University, and is now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to being Dr. Jazmin Perez."

The above paragraph is from the speech that President Obama will be giving to school children kicking off the 2009 school year. The photo is of an emotional Jazmine  Perez watching the President mention her in his speech.

The story is about a woman with the less than American name of, Jazmin Perez. A name that sends shivers up Republican spines even worse than the name Sonia Sotomayor did earlier this Summer. Even stupid crackers now that "Jazmin" is a name often used by... Well you know... So just the name itself adds "Black" to "Wetback". And the girl didn't even speak English! And is from a Texas border town! Sometimes I wonder if our President has ever been south of Springfield.

This is why Republican parents are keeping their kids out of school today. To keep them from hearing about non English speaking (unAmerican) immigrants (illegal or here only because of liberal loopholes) and of course the real crux of the matter, this girl is just another example of someone less than White who is a whole lot smarter than the parents who are keeping their kids out of school today.

We have to look on the bright side of this. A day missed in school for the children of these Right-wing loons (who vote Republican) helps their children fail in the long run. Sad for the innocent children? Not too sad as these kids are sure to follow in their parents footsteps of ignorance, bigotry and hate.

But more importantly, the remaining children in our public schools can take note of who stayed home or were shuttled off to little wingnut bigot rooms in the basement and let their parents know their names when they get home.

This will help all reasonable parents in America know who to keep their kids away from outside the classroom. After all, who wants their kids visiting trailer parks where the curtains are made from confederate flags, where loaded weapons are laying around on the kitchen table and of course that dangerous meth lab out back. 

No, there is no mistake with the graphic. Ron Paul is the person most responsible for all this wingnut crap these days.

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Glenn Beck Wins One. Van Jones Fired!

Not only was Van Jones the founder the ColorofChange.org which is responsible for the successful Glenn Beck Boycott, but a tape has appeared with Mr. Jones calling Republicans "a-holes!" OMG!

In 1976 at a bar in Duluth I came across a Republican who was not an A-hole. Of course it was a long time ago and it was just that one guy, but for Jones to stereotype this is unconscionable.

And besides, Glenn Beck is one tippytoe step from the funny farm and giving him a win once in awhile is a charitable thing.

Speaking of charitable things, my very local paper this week overflowed with articles about the wonderful Tea Party down at the park where they became unhinged over taxes, birth certificates, socialism and the end of America. Reported as if there was no other way of thinking.

The next article was about a penny rise in property taxes in Galvenston County to help pay for more indigent health care caused by the double whammy of IKE and the Recession.

There were cool quotes from the angry wingnuts at the meetings - who like the Tea Partiers waved tiny copies of the constitution above their heads - with cries of "Mandatory Charity!" "Forced Welfare!"

A county Commissioner with a cooler head added "The Government has no business to mandate charity!" Again reported as if that goes without saying.

And the beat goes on... From talk radio, to Fox News, to cable news and now into our schools where the children of these intellectually challanged wingnut parents want their little nitwits children herded into special rooms devoid of any sound, picture, video or mention of that communist Darkie in the White House. 

Barney Frank did well a few weeks ago by pointing at the airhead woman at one of his town hall meetings by comparing her to a dinning room table. But that avoided getting to the NUB OF THE MATTER which I think I could do a better job of.

First thing I would do is ask what their favorite book was?

Watching them turn purple over the question would be fun enough, but if they did answer I am sure I would hear just what I expected to hear with such words "Ayn", "Rand", "Ron", "Paul", "Glenn", "Beck", "end" and "times".

Then ask the big question.

Could I ask what this ideology you are expressing is called?
Have you found a name for it yet?

[After they stumble around it for a bit add...]

One thing for sure, whatever the hell it is is a few moral steps below Nazism.
Could we maybe call it Ghengis Khanism?
Feudalism?
ORCism?
Are you a Mordorologist?
You are not from Harkonen are you?

The bottom line here is just how far back into history or fantasy land we have to go to find something comparable to this horrid black hearted Libertarian Wingnut crap that is overwhelming us since... Since... Well I guess since a black moved into the White House. [Most people will admit that race is some part of all this while being from Texas I contend it is the biggest part of all this.]

I heard a group of pundits from around the table say these people make up 20% of Americans. I noticed none of them lived in Texas! I think they are wrong, its more like 30%. Add up all the Libertarians, Evangelicals, gunnuts, militias, racists and rural families having sex with animals and it becomes the face of America. 

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