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...
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?
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...
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...
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.
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.
Finding Religious Tolerance in Texas is like Telling Sneakers O'Toole to take his Sneakers off!
Down here in Dumbutt we have this horrible thing called the Texas Board of Education. It is made up of 15 members, 5 Democrats, and 10 Republicans, 7 and sometimes 9 of whom are Evangelical Fundamentalist Christians who have a BIBLICAL WORLD VIEW in which the BIBLE trumps The Constitution.
Their central issue has been to put "creation science" which they have renamed "intelligent design" into our science classes and science text books. They came up one vote short recently and have now switched from Biblisizing science to Biblisizing social sciences. They have appointed "experts" to overall Texas History books. These experts are for the most part Evangelical ministers and preachers who hold "constructionist" views that our nation should be based upon scripture rather than the constitution.
Presently they are trying to revise history by removing Caesar Chavez from our student knowledge base and replacing him with Newt Gingrich, Right to Life organizations and Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority. Any changes will not take affect until the 2012 school year which gives them lots of time to fuck up the Texas even more than they already have. With the way things are going now with the very unpopular idea of health care reform, by 2012 President Palin and Vice President Ted Nugent are sure to be added to all our nations text books as the ground work for rapture and the Second Coming.
Parade Magazine - you know that simple minded wad of newsprint tucked near the entertainment pages of your Sunday paper - has the highest circulation of any magazine in America with 70 million readers. On this weeks first page, called Personality Parade, a reader asks columnist Walter Scott if there are any Celebrity Conservatives. Mr Scott gives us a list.
Ted Nugent, Sara Evans, John Rich, John Elway, Curt Schilling, Robert Duvall, Kelsey Grammer, Angie Haramon, Patricia Heaton, Jon Voight, Jamine Tuner, Gary Sinise and of course Arnold.
Not recognizing most of those names causes me trouble in what defines "celebrity". I thought it meant someone everyone has heard of. So I believe that list needs adjusting.
First off lets remove the flash in the pans: Sara Evans, John Rich, Curt Schilling, Angie Haramon, Patricia Heaton, Jamine Tuner and Gary Sinise. I also think the Governor of California is a too moderate to be included.
Just off the top of my head I can think of two more to add, Mary Tyler Moore and Drew Carey.
So using the Parade's Personality Page as the starting point, the short list would be Ted Nugent, John Elway, Robert Duvall, Kelsey Grammer, Jon Voight, Mary Tyler Moore and Drew Carey.
I enjoy the list because it puts John Elway, Robert Duvall, Kelsey Grammer, Jon Voight, Mary Tyler Moore and Drew Carey on equal footing with Ted Nugent.
I like to imagine Ted inviting them all to his new ranch down here in Texas to enjoy machine gunning penned up animals he buys. Well to be honest, he also kills these animals he buys and releases with compound bows, crossbows, .50 caliber rifles and .44 magnum hand guns. Ted strives to be fair.
A couple years ago Ted Nugent moved down here to Texas from Michigan where it seems his welcome was wearing thin. He bought a ranch near Crawford, Texas to be near his idol, George W. Bush. The President recently sold his Crawford ranch and no longer goes there. Perhaps because even someone as obtuse as George W doesn't want to be living anywhere near a crazyass racist moron armed with a high powered machine gun (yes he has a license).
Ted Nugent was tossed out of San Antonio several years back for wrapping himself in an American flag and telling all the "Spics" to get their asses back to Mexico. He also refers to African Americans as "Apes". His greatest enjoyment in life is killing animals, most of which he buys and pens up and then uses machine guns on. He brags about killing neighbor's pet dogs and cats and is our nations' loudest voice perpetuating assault rifles, handguns and our violent gun culture.
With an IQ never breaking out of single digits he also enjoys sharing the bottom teir of Right-wing radio talk show hosts with Michael Savage and Michael Reagan. To get an idea of just how stupid Ted Nugent is, read this review on his Book God, Guns and Rock & Roll.
Oh, and for your enjoyment here is Ted in Concert telling Governor Schwarzenegger, Senator Barbra Boxer, Senator Barack Obama (who he calls a piece of shit) and Senator Hillary Clinton to shove the machine gun he is waving around into their mouths and pull the trigger.
Kay Bailey Hutchinson once referred to as a moderate Republican has decided that being a Senator in Washington is a lot more work that being Governor of Texas. Texas Governors are short on power and long on relaxing. So she is coming home from the Beltway to take Rick Perry's job away from him.
Not long ago Hutchinson was double digit poll numbers ahead of Governor Perry (who has the nicest hair in Texas, for a man) but has suffered a few setbacks lately.
The fair Senator from Texas lost ground by spending too much time up there in Washington with all those gun grabbers, atheists, socialists and you know... darkies up there for too many months in a row. All while Governor Perry was out and about doing Tea Parties with Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity winning over the Republican Base here in Texas by standing on the Alamo to talk of seceding from the United States. That's hard politics to beat down here in Dumbutt. She also made a very serious misstep by telling Governor Perry that if he did not pull out of the election to give her a free run without a primary, that she will resign from the Senate to run full time against him.
Now on her road for redemption with the Republican Base, Senator Hutchinson has just declared she will vote against the conformation of Sonia Sotomayer. Here in a state where Hispanics are the fastest growing electorate other than California.
To win the Republican nomination for Governor here in Texas, Hutchinson is going to have to become even crazier than wingnut Rick Perry. So expect to see this once reasonable old lady smiling with a .44 magnum in photo ops, reciting Sarah Palin anomalies and even perhaps talking of reinstating slavery after secession... More on Senator Hutchinson going Wingnut at Houston Chronicle
"For God's sake, I sell ice cream. What threat am I to them... These people have friends and family members, I am a marked man." McDonald explained to reporters why he will not go back to driving the ice cream truck.
For the second time since barely passing in 2001, Texas prosecutors have added the much hated hate crime option to three Houston men. You may recall the only other hate crime prosecuted in Texas was when three white boys rammed a pvc pipe up the ass of a Hispanic boy a few years back who later committed suicide. 45 States Have Statutes Criminalizing Hate Crimes
These three guys from left; Christopher elledge, Troy Elledge and Dale Howell are in jail with $30,000 bonds, and because of the much hated Hate Crime Bill here in Texas could face up to life in prison. We do not like Hate Crime bills down here in Dumbutt. After all, it could very well creep up behind our friends and relatives and send them to prison for much longer than the really deserve for just doing what needs to be done.
After losing his job to the recession, 44 year old African American Victor McDonald began work driving an ice cream truck. These three Texans rammed their car into the front of his truck to stop it. They then got hold of him through the back door and beat the crap out of him while screaming obscenities interlaced with the N-Word. He suffered a broken nose, a fractured eye socket and now two weeks later has trouble seeing. Full story at Houston Chronicle
Good to see the people of Tennessee striving to become even dumber than the people of Texas! Heeee Haaaaw! Though I do hear from many named sources that Oklahoma is the dumbest place on Earth. I did spent a year their once blowing stuff up with a gun that shot 8 inch diameter bullets! It was so cool, you could see the bullet go and when it hit, wow!
Stephen Colbert did a good job here of showing not only the who, what and where of NRA members, but the LOOK and what they spend most of their time ponderin'.
Texas recently DID NOT PASS a new law allowing guns at State University keg parties, but only because the Texas Legislature went home before they could unanimously vote for it. There may be a special session called soon as it is important that we get more guns at more campus keg parties before the Fall semester or... Um... Um... Terrorists will infiltrate on campus fraternities and um... um... And travel to Nashville bars to shoot our women and children.
Yesterday we did an article about Texas Governor Rick Perry appointing a Christian Creationist to replace another Christian Creationist to head the State Board of Education in Texas - the organization which decides public school text book content and curriculum. We also took note that Health Education courses (students learning to prevent obesity, pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases) were no longer required courses in the state of Texas. Rick Perry Picks Creationist Gail Lowe to replace Creationist Don Mcleroy
Keeping in tune with an educational system of ever duller knives and larger guns we learn today that this same body controlled by the Texas Taliban is planning on reducing or removing from Texas textbooks content about Abraham Lincoln (Yankee war criminal),Ceaser Chavez (Hispanic communist activist) and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall(Black Attorney who won Brown v Education which struck down segregation in public schools). This all in the face of an ever increasing Hispanic and Black populace. So say two of the six experts assigned to this project which includes Peter Marshall of Marshall Ministries - a Texas Preacher aligned with the Christian Constructionist movement which strives to REPLACE The Constitution with the Bible. Peter Marshall Ministries
On the dark side - these Texas Taliban members have not only the committee votes to pass this crap, but the voting public on their side. To add to the darkness the Texas buy for these textbooks is so big that other states will opt in to save money. I am sure you can guess which states those might be.
On the bright side - along with guns on college campuses, in bars, workplace parking lots and of course churches - children outside of Texas will have a much better advantage to succeed in college, compete for good jobs and survive to find such jobs.
Many of us, though a vast minority, down here in Dumbutt find ourselves lying when asked where we are from.
Governor Rick Perry - who has even nicer hair than Rod Blagojevich - has appointed Gail Lowe rather than Cynthia Dunbar to head the Texas Board of eduction to replace Don McLeroy. This keeps the board unchanged with 7 to 9 of the 15 votes being evangelical fundamentalist Creationists deciding what Texas children read and learn.
You remember Cynthia Dunbar who uses the terms "unconstitutional", "tyrannical" and a "tool of perversion" to describe public education. More on Cynthia Dunbar on Kick!
Also note that with the Governors' help the state of Texas last week removed Health Education from the required list of Public School courses. Texas with the highest rate of child obesity, and close to the highest rates of teen pregnancies and STDs will no longer require students to learn how best to eat and how best to not get HIV and pregnant.
As they say down here it Texas, we may not be the sharpest knives in the drawer but who needs sharp knives when we all have a .44 magnum in our pocket! Texas drops health education requirement
Gail Lowe is different than Dunbar and McLeroy in that...
Well let's see. She rejects the science of Global Warming and Climate Change, she will not tolerate gay friendly books in public school libraries and of course she not only believes that the Earth is 6000 years old and men live in gigantic fishes at the bottom of the sea, but wants to teach that to children in Texas Public Schools. So the difference seems to be that Don McLeroy and Cynthia Dunbar have repeatedly and loudly PROVEN themselves to be nastyass right-wing fundamentalist nitwits while Gail Lowe has yet to PROVE that as LOUDLY. Governor Perry Appoints another Creationist to School Board
Governor Rick Perry is up against Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison for the Governorship in 2010. Hutchison is a moderate Republican - moderate meaning advancing unregulated financial markets, reducing taxes on the wealthy and putting assault rifles in every home, car, college, bar and church in Texas. So our present Governor is positioning himself to he political Right of Rush Limbaugh and intellectually a step or two below Glenn Beck. Governor Perry is a walking talking self enclosed Texas Tea Party.
Bubba called today to squawk about Mexicans. I have to give it to
Bubba, he is honest enough to not waste words differentiating their
legality, Mexicans are Mexicans who should all be living in Mexico.
Since Lou Dobbs went ballistic on this issue, Bubba now switches
channels from his default FOX NEWS to watch CNN in the Dobb's evenings,
which now happens to be the same time I turn off CNN for some Hank and
Homer.
I must say, old Lou has gone singularly berserk on this
immigration business. Perhaps as a child he was wrapped in a tortilla
and abandoned at a bus stop in Escarsaga. Whatever the problem it's
serious. In fact I just read that the main issues involved in all this;
that illegal immigrants pull down wages, cause unemployment, are more
criminal that average, appreciably affect taxes for services and are
going to blow up Chicago are either lies or highly exaggerated crap.
So Bubba called regarding some hippies who disrupted a Mexicans Go Home
rally in downtown Houston recently. There were almost a hundred
white-wing bigots, mostly middle aged women and whacked out Vietnam
veterans draped in flags, NRA LIFE MEMBER stickers on their sleeves and of course, with nothing better to do. This being Texas with that good Republican Base and all, about half
that many kids attended holding up signs reflecting upon that bigotry. Not much of
a demonstration either way you look at it, but it was pleasant seeing
some young people take to the streets doing the right thing rather than
whooping and hollering in front of the Death Chamber down here in
Huntsville.
So Bubba joined the Minutemen Border Patrol
and wants me to ride down to Brownsville with him to man a guard post
for a week. I might go. I need a trip, and knowing Bubba, the van will
be full of beer and lots of chicken fried steak. And grits! What the
hell, I can get drunk in a field and plonk at stuff with Bubba's guns
for a few days. If I come across any Mexicans, I'll give them a ride up
to Houston on my way home. After all, the influx of Hispanics over the
years affecting the vote is the only reason Texas hasn't reinstated
slavery. Minutemen Woman Helps Murder Hispanic Family
“A little piece of America died today when a jury of six says it’s OK to curse in front of a 13-year-old when asked not to, it’s a sad day for morality, that this type of behavior is condoned" Texas City Taliban Resident Michael Rainey
I wonder if Mr. Rainey is working on a long song about the death of American language... Bye Bye American 1st Amendment.
Joe confronted Mr Rainey and his 13 year old daughter about the "catshit" that the father and daughters cats where leaving in his yard. He said the dreaded word twice more. The police were called and Loflin was cited with Disorderly Conduct. The Galveston County Texas City jury acquitted Loflin because their were no other witnesses other than the three involved. Had their been witnesses God only knows what Texas prison Mr Loflin would be in today. Texas City man who used curse word to describe cat poop acquitted
We went through this last year in Galveston County when a Fireman shopping in a La Marque Walmart overheard Kathryn Fridge use the F-word to her mother when she found batteries had been sold out for the oncoming hurricane. She was also later acquitted. La Marque Fireman makes citizens arrest of Mother for using Fword in Walmart
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... 
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! 
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. 
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?
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. 
Not only was Van Jones the founder the 
I enjoy the list because it puts John Elway, Robert Duvall, Kelsey Grammer, Jon Voight, Mary Tyler Moore and Drew Carey on equal footing with Ted Nugent.
Kay Bailey Hutchinson once referred to as a moderate Republican has decided that being a Senator in Washington is a lot more work that being Governor of Texas. Texas Governors are short on power and long on relaxing. So she is coming home from the Beltway to take Rick Perry's job away from him.
Now on her road for redemption with the Republican Base, Senator Hutchinson has just declared she will vote against the conformation of Sonia Sotomayer. Here in a state where Hispanics are the fastest growing electorate other than California.
For the second time since barely passing in 2001, Texas prosecutors have added the much hated hate crime option to three Houston men. You may recall the only other hate crime prosecuted in Texas was when three white boys rammed a pvc pipe up the ass of a Hispanic boy a few years back who later committed suicide. 
After losing his job to the recession, 44 year old African American Victor McDonald began work driving an ice cream truck. These three Texans rammed their car into the front of his truck to stop it. They then got hold of him through the back door and beat the crap out of him while screaming obscenities interlaced with the N-Word. He suffered a broken nose, a fractured eye socket and now two weeks later has trouble seeing. 
Well let's see. She rejects the science of Global Warming and Climate Change, she will not tolerate gay friendly books in public school libraries and of course she not only believes that the Earth is 6000 years old and men live in gigantic fishes at the bottom of the sea, but wants to teach that to children in Texas Public Schools. So the difference seems to be that Don McLeroy and Cynthia Dunbar have repeatedly and loudly PROVEN themselves to be nastyass right-wing fundamentalist nitwits while Gail Lowe has yet to PROVE that as LOUDLY. 
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