The Big Sleazy

 Meet the asshole who wants to replace our current asshole as Governor of Texas.  Attorney General Greg (I’ll make sure only my friends can vote) Abbott is doing his best to change Austin, Texas to “The Big Sleazy.”  His favorite line, which he uses in every speech, is “I go into the office, I sue Obama and then I go home.”  So far he has sued the Federal Government 27 times and has won a whopping 4 cases costing the state of Texas 2.8 million and counting.  Obviously Perry Mason he is not.

 He has shown to be totally devoid of any compassion and empathy for anyone but he does have a boat load of gall.  He has argued that the Americans with Disabilities Act is unconstitutional despite the fact that Abbott himself has been paralyzed from the waist down since 1984.

He posted this poster on his Facebook page a while back.

Not only is it incredibility stupid, but the grammar is wrong.  I would never take advantage of someone disabled, but for this jerk, I would gladly drag his ass out of his wheelchair and kick the shit out of him.

Jane (Helen Reddy I’m not) Nelson, Texas State Senator and Republican chairwoman of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, says that the abortion bill isn’t a “War on women” and that she is a leader of women’s rights.  I think she means a Tammy Wynette, Stand-by-your-Man-type women’s rights.  In the last legislative session, Nelson was among those who voted to cut more than $73 million out of the state's $111.5 million family planning budget, which resulted in cutting off 147,000 women and closing more than 50 clinics. She also voted against bringing the state into compliance with the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, a federal law that makes it easier for women to sue employers over wage discrimination.

 And then you have Texas State Rep. Jodie ( Dumber than Michele Bachman and twice as ugly) Laubenberg, who I am pretty sure also thinks the earth is flat and the moon is made out of cheese.  And being the true hypocrite that she is, Jodie blathered on about protecting “Pre-born life” in support of the abortion legislation last night but back in 2007 she said that fetuses aren’t “people enough” for health care.

If you still don’t think that Republicans hate poor people, take a look at this.
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Arizona, New Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Maine, and Arkansas are all currently controlled by the GOP and their conservative economic policies. These same states are the ones most affected by the loss of food stamps which the Republicans just eliminated with the passage of the farm bill.

And for all the deficit hawks out there, the government had the biggest surplus this past month since the financial crash in 2008.   In fact June's surplus was the largest on record for that month.


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The Rumor Mill

Sarah Palin has announced that she is thinking of returning to public service. So if you are a member of the public and want to get serviced, give Sarah a call. 

 The Texas legislature is about to pass a bill making conception illegal.

This just in from Washington, the House GOP has a new immigration plan.  They are planning on giving Texas back to Mexico.

The mysterious inscription found on a 3,000 year-old ceramic jar fragment found near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount has finally been deciphered.  It says Made in China.

Next month Congress is replacing Francis Scott Keys, “Star Spangled Banner” with Sting’s, “Every Breath You Take” as the national anthem.

So far Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia and the state hospital in Rusk, Texas have offered Edward Snowden asylum.

Word is that a through investigation of the Washington Redskins has found that they don’t have a single Native American on the team so they are going to change the name of the team to the Washington Highly Paid, Lowly Talented Football Players.

Tea Party Queen, Michele Bachman is leaving politics but said she would entertain the possibility of an Ambassadorship to the Moon.  She said she had always felt a deep connection with Moonies.

The NRA has officially changed their motto to “Shoot first and ask questions later”.

Texas Senator Ted (Even I don't listen to what I say) Cruz, a Canadian born Cuban, says he has no problems with Mexicans crossing the border as long as it’s the Canadian border. 

At this time it looks like Aaron Hernandez will be the number one draft pick at Sing Sing this year.

A spokesman for Justin Bieber has announced that Justin suffers spontaneous ego combustion moments.  In other words, he throws temper tantrums and sometimes threatens to hold his breath until he turns blue.  

Janet Napolitano is resigning as head of Homeland Security and word is that Jack Bauer is at the top of the list to replace her.

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On The Air

I recently found out that I had been nominated again for the Texas Radio Hall of Fame.  This of course brought back radio memories so I thought I would write something about radio.  One of my radio memories was that I had written a piece about radio a couple of years back that got published in a few places, so being the lazy person that I am, I decided I would re-post it.  At the end of it you can listen to how much fun I had  while on the radio.


There was a time when radio was fun.

I just came across a Face Book page called "I WAS A DJ WHEN DJS JOCKED DISCS...AND I DON'T MEAN CD's   http://on.fb.me/eNXODs      It brought back a lot of radio memories for me. For many years of my life, radio was a huge part of it and now it is almost non-existent.  I find that sad in many ways.  I know nothing stays the same and that’s okay, what a boring world it would be if it did, but radio changed for all the wrong reasons.  For me radio was fun, exciting and truly entertaining and now it is boring, redundant and mostly irritating.

I am old enough that I can remember before we had a tv in our home and we would listen to the radio.  I listened to Red Skelton, Amos and Andy and lots of other radio shows.  Then about the time I started junior high school I started listening to music radio.  I grew up listening to KLIF in Dallas and KFJZ in Fort Worth during the day and stations like KOMA in Oklahoma City, WNOE in New Orleans and WLAC in Nashville at night.  WLAC is where I discovered black music and fell in love.

KOMA,WNOE, KLIF, KFJZ and KXOL were great top 40 stations and had some of the best jocks in the world. Randy Robbins, Mark Stevens, Paxton Mills, Rex Miller, Dave Ambrose, Jimmy Rabbit, Frank Jolly, C.C. Courtney,  and Charlie Van Dyke to mention a few.  Always high energy, lots of reverb and always entertaining.  It was fun radio.

I was fortunate enough to work in markets that were very competitive which forced us to be more creative on the air.   I worked at KXOL where we were in a tough battle with KFJZ.   In San Antonio at KONO, where we went head to head with KTSA and while I was in Denver at KTLK we battled KIMN.   Finally at KRLY in Houston, I was up against KILT and KRBE.  The fun part is that everybody knew everybody and we had fun together. We respected our competition and yet did everything we could do to beat them.  This resulted in radio that was truly entertaining, and the real winner was the listener.

Radio stations use to be owned by people who loved radio and only had a few stations each.  Now they are owned by huge corporations and run by people (mostly lawyers and accountants) who don’t have a clue to what radio is about.  There is no competition and no creativity, just sister stations because most of the radio stations today are owned by four companies.

I don’t spend time grumbling about today’s radio, as I said before everything changes. I am just grateful I got to work in radio with some great talent such as Tim Kelly,  Steve Sellers, John Steel, Bob Moody, Harry Scarbough, Cris Cooper, B.Bailey Brown, Chuck Joseph, Mike Wade, Ron Foster, Ron Seldon, Johnny Shannon, Paul Kirby, Phil Gardner and C.C. McCartney just to name a few.  It was fun and exciting for the people listening and for the folks who were on the air.


 


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Gypsys,Tramps and Theives.

So perennial presidential loser Rick( I need to be in a) Santorum is coming to Texas this week to explain why women don’t have the right to an abortion.  How nice of him to take time off and…oh wait, he doesn’t do anything.  They kicked his ass out of the Senate six years ago. Rick is a walking, talking example of why women need to have a choice. After some of the crap this idiot has spewed out over the years, it wouldn’t surprise me if his mama wasn’t having second thoughts.

Little Jr. Senaterrible Teddy (I will say anything to get on the 6 o’clock news)Cruz had this to say about Texas Governor Rick( I really am dumb enough to run for President again) Perry not running for re-election.  “Gov. Perry led the Great State of Texas during a period that will forever be etched in history for unprecedented job creation and economic growth.” Sorry Ted but this is what Governor Snake Oil has actually done to Texas:

He allowed Texas to become the nation’s worst polluter.

He executed a likely innocent man and impeded an investigation into the matter.

He actively sought to dismantle Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

He consistently backed legislation to restrict women’s reproductive rights.

He demonized LGBT Texans and worked to increase legal discrimination against them.

He backed nullification of federal laws and even raised the prospect of secession.

He refused to let the federal government provide healthcare for low-income Texans, despite the highest rate of uninsured residents in the country.

He vetoed bipartisan Equal Pay legislation to protect Texas women

He called for repeal of the 16th and 17th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, to end popular election of Senators and the federal income tax.

And here is the real inside on why Governor Snake Oil is pushing the abortion bill so hard. According to the Houston Chronicle, his own sister and her company stand to profit if the abortion bill becomes law.  Simply put, Milla Perry Jones sits on the board of the United Surgical Partners Corporation. They currently operate 420 surgical centers in the state. Closing 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas significantly eliminates competition and gives the company the ability to offer and perform abortion procedures at a higher cost. This means low income women will have to pay more to get an abortion and Rick Perry’s sister will profit from it. Ain’t sibling love grand?




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Here's My Two Cents

Texas Governor Rick (Pray for the sick because that is the only health insurance they have) Perry who hates Obamacare so much he is willing to leave millions of federal dollars on the table,  has come up with his own health care plan.  It’s called “NoCare”.  Tricky Rick said not to worry, he is going to solve the health care issue in the special session. He will have the legislature pass a bill making it illegal to get sick.

The gun nut’s “Come and take it away freedom” group decided to have a rally on the Fourth of July in Houston which is the fifth largest metro area in the US consisting of 6.18 million people.  They had 25 people show up. I am still laughing. They didn’t have enough gun powder to blow their noses.

I don’t think we are very smart about education and I am beginning to believe our education system may be the biggest ponzi scheme yet. A ponzi scheme is where those at the top get rewarded and everybody else gets screwed.  A recent study said college tuition is going up about a thousand dollars a year.  My question is why?

They haven’t built any new buildings lately and if they have it’s because some wealthy alum has given them millions of dollars to build it so he could have his name on it.
The students buy their own books and they sure as hell are not raising teachers and professors salaries.  Most of the major universities are extremely wealthy so what is causing the cost to go up? 

I don’t hear anyone questioning this and then I come across this little tidbit.  A group is set to write, in secret, new education standards in the next five months.  This group is made up of 60 individuals of whom ONE is a class room teacher.  The others are made up of people associated with test-makers and test-publishers.  Gee, I wonder why we are falling behind the rest of the world.

When the whole point of your political party is to prevent the President and the government to operate, when does that become an act of treason? And have the T-bonehead Republicans crossed that line?

And finally if you’re thinking about trying an online dating service, here is some info for you.  If you are looking for a roll in the hay, you might try Farmers Only.com, if you are looking for a singing partner, try e-Harmony. com and if you would like an imaginary lover you might try Christian Mingle.com. 



 





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Hot dogs, Apple pie, Fireworks and Parades

  I am of course talking about hump day.  And speaking of humps.

 The GOP use to stand for “Grand Ole Party,” but not any more. There sure as hell isn’t anything grand about it and it doesn’t seem like a party.  No funny hats, no celebrating, no one smiling, just a bunch of tight-fisted old white men grumbling about how the world should be. 

I think today’s GOP stands for Grumpy Old People, Gang Of Pricks, Garners Of Penny-pinchers, Gangrene Of Politics, Gaggle Of Perverts, Gathers Of Paranoia, Government Obstruction Persons, Generally Odious Parasites and Group Of (take your pick) Pinheads, Peabrains, Patronizers,Puppets,Pimps,Phonies and Plunders. During the Bush years, GOP stood for George Orwell Predictions.

 We are still in slow recovery mode from the effects of George (Warmonger) Bush and the deregulation Republicans responsible for the widespread damage to household wealth inflicted by the mortgage bust and the 2008 collapse of the financial system. More than $7 trillion in household wealth was wiped out after house and stock prices plunged; that hole has only recently been filled in.


Have a happy 4th and stay tuned for future adventures.

More of This and Some of That

I looked in the dictionary under “Aggie Jokes” and found this.

And you thought Texas Governor Rick (Let them eat cake) Perry was the only GOP Governor who really doesn’t like poor people.  Gov. Pat McCrory and the GOP-led legislature is cutting off $600 million federal unemployment benefits for the fine folks in North Carolina.

It looks like the Vatican bankers and Wall Street bankers are cut from the same cloth. The director and deputy director of the Vatican bank resigned on Monday, following the arrest of a senior cleric with close connections to the bank who is accused of plotting to smuggle 20 million euros ($26 million) into Italy from Switzerland.  I understand they had been running a tab for lap dances and it had come due.

Speaking of the Vatican, Pope John Paul II is in the fast lane to sainthood. Pope John Paul II's first approved miracle was the healing of a French nun and his second was writing “Yesterday.”

This ought to be good. NBC is doing a sequel to the History channels “The Bible.” A spokesman for NBC said, "Beyond the Bible" will kick off "in the dark days after Jesus' betrayal and death," and will follow his disciples' "stand against the combined might of Rome and their own local authorities." I am assuming this is a work of fiction since there is not a single mention of Jesus in the entire Roman record.

High school drop out, professed NSA leaker and certified dumbass, Edward ( Watching every breath you take) Snowden, has applied for political asylum in Russia.  I’m pulling for him to get it.  I hope they find him a cozy little place in Siberia where he can freeze his ass off for the next forty years.

I will readily admit that there are many things in this world that I don’t understand but the thing that is at the top of my list is Civil War Re-enactors.  I absolutely don’t get this.  It is probably the darkest time period of our young country and why in the hell would anyone want to re-enact a war anyway.  Over 620,000 people died. Yeah, re-enact that.

I don’t know the statistics on this ridiculous event but I am assuming it is mostly done by folks living in the South.  A hundred and fifty years later and they are still fighting the Civil war.


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