DAM NEWS ....MUST CHANGE THEIR RULES

This was brought to my attention by Ray(Yooper in Crakerland) and glad he did..if I had known about this I might have canceled my subscription sooner..This is NOT right.

Last month, Change.org members Mark Reed-Walkup and Dante Walkup got married in Washington, D.C., where same-sex marriage is legal. After their wedding, they couldn't wait to get home to Texas and share the joy with their Dallas community.

Unfortunately, the Dallas Morning News didn't share their sentiments -- turns out the paper refuses to print gay wedding announcements in its Wedding section.

Mark and Dante are fighting back. Join them in telling the Dallas Morning News to print same-sex wedding announcements in its Weddings section.

As Mark told Change.org: "Our ultimate goal is to raise awareness about how this is blatant discrimination and send a clear message to the Dallas Morning News and news outlets around the country." Together, we're planning to do just that.

Sign the petition today to tell the Dallas Morning News to print same-sex wedding announcements:

http://www.change.org/petitions/view/hey_dallas_morning_news_same-sex_marriage_announcements_belong_in_the_weddings_section?alert_id=DOmffqeGkU_uRqOSRNgqQ&me=aa

Thanks for taking action,

Eden and the Change.org Team

DAM NEWS...and my take on it.

It's been a long time since I did a post like I used to ...been skating by with a Monday and Friday stumbles and an occasional update on life in West, but this week's DAM News had some great little snippets and I thought it was time for me to get off my fat honking ass and do a real post. So here goes.
"Now you're scaring the heck out of me. It pretty well screws my week." This is a quote from State Rep. Joe Driver of Garland, on learning that an Associated Press investigation had caught him double-billing for travel expenses.
'Well, I hope to shout and shimmy. I hope it fucks up your week, month day and several years. Screwing the people your supposed to be serving should fuck your week up. I hope you lose your job, your kids change their last name, your wife gives you a venereal disease and your dog bites you.'

"I'd say Texas stands out where there are really some strong examples of huge growth in administration with relatively little growth in instruction."..A quote by Jay P. Greene, a University of Arkansas professor whose study concludes that universities have been adding administrators at twice the rate of faculty.
'Well, nail one foot to the floor and fuck me in circles. You know you have really fucked up when you have to be lectured by some one from Arkansas. 'nuff said.

"You can't just blame nature." Ganesh Pangare, a coordinator with the international Union for Conservation of Nature, claiming the destruction of ecosystems exacerbated the impact of floods in Pakistan that have killed an estimated 1,400 people.
'Well, of course it's fucking not just mother nature...the weather is changing all over the world..It's done it over and over again for millions of years...we're not helping it any, but it's not all man made either..(the sound you here is Tex picking himself up off the floor.)

"He tries to put up a brave front, but it's so tough on him with this turn in his life creating all this unrest for him....It's sad to see him in this position."...Statement from co-owner Nolan Ryan on the indictment of former pitcher Roger Clements, accused of lying to Congress about steroid use.
'Well, fucking duh!.....I love Nolan Ryan and he's a good man and a great pitcher, but what the fuck are you thinking?...Of course it's sad to see him in this position, but no one chased him, roped him and stuck those steroids up his ass with a cattle prod. He did it his ownself...and then he lied...and then he lied some more..and kept on lying...when any person with a modicum of self respect and pride would have just fessed up and took the heat, the world would have moved on and this would be behind him. ...But nooooooooooooooooooo, he is still fucking lying..and now he's not only a stupid baseball player that had a great career, flushed it down the toilet and then lied about it...he's now going to do time in some federal pen, where he will be the bitch for some bank CEO, for lying to congress..although everyone fucking lies to congress...so..? You get no boo fucking hoos from me suckka...you brought it on your ownself.'


"I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time."..Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, warning about the consequences of social media and the amount of personal information available on line.
"Lets see, you mean the Eric Schmidt, who was born On April 27th, 1955 in Washington D.C.
Graduated from Yorktown High School, attended Princeton and Berkeley and now resides in Atherton, California with his wife Wendy?..That Eric...??? Might have a point.

Gee, that felt good. Felt so good I just might do another one. West News comes out tomorrow and think this is the week they will be discussing all the haps at this years Westfest, which is on this coming Labor Day Week end. Even better than that, I think my nephew and his wife are coming down too. Anyone else one to come down? Dexter said he'd let you sleep in his liter box.
Ok...time for me to go check my blood sugar and see what I can have for a snack. I'm jonesing for
some popcorn...or maybe a peach...or...maybe eat the last of that pint of Blue Bell Popcorn Ice Cream.
Y'all come back and see me y'hea?

DAM NEWS

ahh, I love my DAM News...and here are a few reasons why...
"He could have said a thesaurus was a big scaly creature that roamed the planet millions of years ago, and they would have applauded." Mary Jordan, Washington Post correspondent, on audience enthusiasm for former President George W. Bush's motivational speech in Fort Worth. (The Washington Post.)
Yeah, say what you want to about Texans...we just love being the stupidest people on the planet.
And no matter what happens, it never changes. sigh*

"Just in case." Roland Corning, assistant South Carolina attorney general, explaining why he carried Viagra and sex toys in his car, according to the police officer who stopped him after spying the official behaving strangely in a cemetery with a stripper.(The Associated Press)...Gee, for once I don't have anything to say that would make this funnier. It stands alone.

"If I picked her, my concern is that there would be more than two of us in the relationship." Barack Obama, on why he passed over Hilary Clinton for his vice presidential nominee, according to campaign manager David Plouffe.(Time Magazine.)
I understand this..It would be him as the President and the Clinton's as the Veep...He'd be out numbered and united ..the Clinton's are a hell of a force.





"Al-Qaeda has had safe haven in Pakistan since 2002. I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn't get them if they really wanted to." Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking to Pakistani journalists in Lahore. (Bloomberg) No shit Sherlock!...They not only know where he is..they help him hide when someone is getting close...fuck all of them.

"In order to get the pictures out for the holidays." Anonymous rep for "Playgirl," on why the soft-core porn mag is conducting a nude photo shoot in mid-November with Levi Johnson, the father of Sarah Palin's grandson.(New York Post.)...Please folks..just in case you decided to send me something for Christmas? Make it Tabu Perfume and not his nekkid ass.

I will continue my DAM News subscription on the 12th, my 66th birthday..a present to me. Thought it was going to be a new battery, but I figured out that I had been leaving the dome and over the window lights on by accident and it was running the battery down...stupid stupid me.But at least I figured it out before I bought a new battery. Did anyone watch V last night? It was ok..and I would probably continue to watch it next week, except it comes on same time Mark Harmon is on...and I am a Mark Harmon on Tuesday night at 7 P.M. Central time kinda old broad..There isn't anyone on V that is as good looking as Harmon..so will not switch over. Tv is pretty much the shits on NBC as they took off all the great 9 P.M. shows and put Gigantic Jaw Leno on instead..Boy did they fuck up..

My granddaughter Jamie is back from Virginia..think there might be trouble in Paradise...Haven't seen her yet, but will call and have her over for dinner. Make her home made pizza. That will get her over.

Well, it's Wednesday and the West Paper will be out, so will go pick 2 of them up for me and ole Babs. She's got allergy blues so is staying in today. If there is anything good in the paper, will do a West post..Have to go any how..Dexter has attacked every garbage basket in the house and there is newspapers, Kleenex and water bottles scattered from one in of the joint to the other. All kitteh's up to the age of 2 years old should just be named ASSHOLE...he's so insane. I love him, but sleep is an unattainable thing any more..between the foot attacks the playing with toys all night long or just general body attacks on me, it's hard to get sleep. He's sitting on the floor right behind me and can feel his little beedy eyes staring at the back of my head...Just thinking of shit to get into. Dexter ....hmmm, should have named him Dude.

DAM NEWS UPDATE

Kinshasa, Congo.

Ole Hillary the 'I'm secretary of state and Bill's not" Clinton is showing the strain of being wife to the x-President of the United States. Especially when he is responsible for bringing home two female reporters that had landed in a North Korean jail cell and looking at 14 years of hard labor. The minute I heard that he was the one that was used to bring them home I thought to myself...'Jackie, ole Hillary is going to pitch a hissy fit.'...and as always ..I was right. When a Congolese university student asked for her husband's thinking on an international matter, ole Hillary said "My husband is not secretary of state. I am, " an obviously annoyed Clinton relied sharply.

A week after former President Bill Clinton traveled to North Korea to secure the release of two detained American journalist and stole the limelight from the start of his wife's first trip to Africa, Clinton was clearly nettle(pissed) by the question at a town hall forum in Kinshasa.

"You want me to tell you what my husband thinks?" she replied incredulously when the male student asked her what "Mr. Clinton" thought of World Bank concerns about a multi billion-dollar Chinese loan offer to the Democratic Republic of Congo. "If you want my opinion, I will tell you my opinion. I am not going to be channeling my husband." she said.

The question never was answered and the moderator quickly moved on to other questions. It was not immediately clear why Clinton reacted with such umbrage, and she quickly recovered her cool and moved on to other subjects. (well, gee assholes...here she finally gets an opportunity to show what she's capable of doing and she's still being compared or asked questions about 'what would Bill do'...I'd be pissed too.) I think Obama should make him some sort of ambassador to I don't know..bum fuck Egypt, or some place. Give him some job out of the country and less apt to step on ole Hillary's toes. It's hard enough to do that job without having to continually be compared to ole Bill or being asked 'what would Bill do.'...Hell, Bill would find the best looking babe in the room and fuck her..that's what Bill would do.

And on the other end of the political spectrum we have ole Kinky..yup..Kinky Friedman is running for Governor of Texas as a democrat. He tried it before as a independent and ruined what ever change the democrat running had completely. Not that they really had a chance..ole Good Hair Perry has Texas republicans by the balls and everyone else just falls in line. For all the crap he has done to the state of Texas, like environment issues, the fucking 'fence around us' that is as useless as tits on a boar, lack of insurance for kids, reduction of benefits for the poor and numerous other little things, the state of Texas is still in better shape than most of the states as far as employment, foreclosures and sales of new homes.

So anyhow, ole Kinky is 'considering a run' for governor as a Democrat, and is planning 2 fundraisers next month featuring friends from the music world(for you not in the know about Kinky Friedman, he used to be in a band called Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jew Boys, with songs like "I'm an asshole from El Paso, They Don't Make Jews Like Jesus Anymore ", and several songs that most women hate, having to do with 'getting your buns out of bed and in the oven where they belong.) He also is a mystery writer and he's the hero in all his books. The friends are Willie Nelson and Three Dog Night. Ole Kinky and Willie will hold a "Bloody Mary Morning" on Sept. 16 at the Gleneagles Country Club in Plano. (rich white folks will attend as the tickets will be $1,000 a plate) Two days later he, Three Dog Night will play at an even in San Antonio for him. This could be interesting. The only Democrat that is running so far is some blue dog that voted with Bush on every thing he ran up the flag pole..So most democrats think he's an asshole and wouldn't vote for him any how. But Perry is also getting some competition from Kay Bailey Hutchinson and she's a pretty popular republican that has blue dog tendencies. So she will appeal to the weak sister democrats. But ole Kinky did have a lot of people crossing the line from democrat to Independent when he ran. If he runs a better campaign this time and does less comedy and more facts on the issues, he might have a chance. I know Billy would vote for him, just on the animal issues alone. Kinky has a rescue ranch close to Austin and he loves dogs and he rescues stray dogs, cats, horses, goats, pigs and snakes. He's a good man when it comes to animals. I was for him last time until I decided he wasn't serious enough to get my vote. I told him at a meeting they held for him "It doesn't matter if your heart is in the right place if your head is up your ass."..he laughed, but I don't think his supporters liked it to well. But I was right.

So it depends on how he runs the campaign..he's very Strong on teachers rights and even some of his jackass statements that were funny had some truth to them. I'll keep you updated on the goings on...

I went to have my eye exam and the Doctor was so impressed. Said for an old broad(my words not his) with high blood pressure and diabetes I had great eyes. No cataracts, no glaucoma and no scaring and had 20/25 in each eye. Only reason why I had to wear bi-focals is because I'm far sighted in one eye and near sighted in the other. So I'll get new frames this Friday, and will pick them up when I go get my titties squished, squashed and stretched. My pap smear was clear, and get the results on my 'stool sample' tomorrow. I told the eye Doctor that I was afraid I'd get a clean bill of health from everyone and then walk into the street and get hit by a fucking truck.

My luck.. He did say I had allergies really bad(no shit) and gave me 2 different kinds of free samples for eye drops. They seem to be working. Guess the next thing I will have to have checked out is my allergies ..see if they can figure out what it is I'm allergic to(besides cedar, rag weed and the fucking cat)..I'm joking about the cat, but afraid it may be true..sigh*...

The Yorkie is gone..I told Jenny she had to come get him. Every time Annie sprayed or pooped he'd go along and pee on top of it. She has tiny little sprays and his was big puddles of pee..so said I had all I could handle. So there is peace in the valley again. I got her a scratching post and sprinkle cat nip on it and she's stoned all day long and is a happy little pussy.

Tonight is the diabetes class here in West..will go see what I can learn. I had gone almost 10 days with no diabetic meds and was just controlling it by diet. It was working fine, except I couldn't eat hardly any carbs at all and I miss my carb snacks. So now am taking 1/2 of one med instead of 3 a day. It's working just fine. Well..that's all the news from Texas...Should start having some posts on Westfest which is coming up this labor day. Anyone coming?..let me know..so I can make some pallets on the floor for you....y'all come ya'hea?

DAMN NEWS 6-30-09

Oh, I fecking love my DAM News...last Sunday ole James Baker said he thought there might be something to this global warming stuff, but would NOT give up his Big Tahoe SUV...this week, he said he needed to clarify the statement, that he might buy "a Tahoe that is a little smaller -if that would help."...From my lips to your ears James?...fuck you and your Tahoe.

More of the tapes from Richard Nixon's White House have been released...Man, I wish he was still alive so we could call him out on some of the shit that comes out of his mouth..."There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white, or a rape."....I personally plan on bipping into a coma the next person that either defends him or what he says..Jeez.

Just about when you thought Iran had the top spot on crazy, here comes the North Koreans. "If the U.S. imperialists start another war, ignorant of the ignominious defeat they have sustained in the past Koran war, the army and people of Korea will determinedly answer 'sanctions' with retaliation and 'confrontation' with all-out confrontation...and wipe out the aggressors on the globe once and for all." .....our response to that? Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said:"I don't Even know how to respond to that. It's silliness. For what and with what?"...Well, I have the answer to the with what....see the picture?

Just about the time I think people in the large cities of Texas have a few brain cells working, something like this comes along and reminds me that beneath it all...they're still rednecks. Even the cops.

Last week at the Rainbow Lounge, a gay bar in Fort Worth was subjected to a 'club inspection' by 2 Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agents and 6 FWPD. These checks happen often and they're looking for people obviously drunk and will cite them and the bar. In a official statement, police said they encountered hostile drunks, some of whom "made sexual explicit movements." toward the officers.(heehee) One customer allegedly "assaulted a TABC agent by grabbing him in the groin." Patron's of the bar say the officers showed up prepared to make arrests, with fists full of plastic zip-cuffs. "They were hyped up. They were loaded for bear," said Todd Camp, a veteran journalist who was there celebrating his birthday with friends. "They were just randomly grabbing people and telling them they were drunk."

Camp said he has been in bars during TABC/police "checks" before, " and it was never anything like this." Usually, he said, officers discreetly walk through, looking for anybody who has too much. this was different. "They were shoving patrons," Camp said, "asking, 'How much have you had to drink?'

The differences in statements on how Chad Gibson was injured were very different also.

Gibson is hospitalized with bleeding around his brain.

"He was taken down hard," said Camp, with "four or five" officers wrestling him to the floor inside the club. Cellphone photos shot by patrons and posted to blogs show a person being held face down by officers in a short hallway inside the club, then show a dent in the wall where his head was apparently banged.

But a Fort Worth police spokesman said Gibson was injured outside, when he fell and struck his head because he was so drunk.

"He was the one that groped the TABC agent, "said Sgt. Pedro Criado. "He was injured by falling and hitting his head." (yeah, right...some TABC agent gets groped by a 'homosexual' and then the guy mysteriously falls and hits his head.)

"I hate to say I was afraid of my own police department, but I was," Camp said.

His description of frightened, distraught patrons just does not seem to square with police accounts of being subjected to a drunken, groin-grabbing gauntlet during a routine "bar inspection." Fort Worth is a fine and tolerant city. The police officers I personally know over there are decent, stand-up people. But today, in the Twitter-and -blog enabled process of rapid dissemination, they're getting an ugly reputation. And the flames of indiscriminate opinion about Texas being a stagnant backwater of vicious, insular, hate-crazed xenophobes dance higher. So, Fort Worth, we need some answers, please and quickly. This is no time to stonewall.

Jacquielynn Floyd(Dallas Morning News)

I for one, am sick over this..Just about the time I think Texas has crawled out of the stone ages, something like this happens..sigh*

But with people like Jacquielynn Floyd on the story, I'm pretty sure it won't disappear..

Oh..yeah, heart breaking news from the shores of Great Britian...the Queen is spending her own money to make ends meet, but if she keeps this up she'll be broke by 2012...Big fucking deal..Let her go broke, why should she be any different than anyone else? I think she should just retire to her little place in Scotland and make the rest of them get jobs.

TYPICAL DAY IN THE LIFE OF JACKIESUE

7:30am...wake up to the sound of Annie trying to rip the blinds off the window..throw house slipper at her...she doesn't even move as she knows at this time of morning I have trouble hitting my large ass with both hands so I'm sure to miss her with a slipper.grab my book and glasses, find one slipper, can't find the one I tossed at Annie..ah, there it is..behind dresser.Go to bathroom, pee, brush teeth, look at myself in the mirror and say'beat death again didn't ya jac?'giggle and go to kitchen...put kettle on for tea, water in a pan, pour orange juice. Add oatmeal to water, get out peanut butter, jelly...make tea, add pb and sugarless jelly to cooked oatmeal...feed Annie..go get paper..let Annie out, feed birds...come back to kitchen take tea, juice oatmeal to chair..turn on tv ..check blood,take meds and vitamins, eat breakfast..read paper, do cross word puzzles..(3 of them)..scream at tv about Bush's latest fuckup's...secretly laughing cause it just goes to show ya...I was fucking right..all along...nana nana boo boo..I love being right...even if it means we are fucked..
take dishes to kitchen..think about washing them..say fuckit...go turn on computer...read emails, answer emails..see what babs is up too..make fun of her eye...arrrr...yell at tv because Rachel Ray's voice makes me cringe..read some blogs..comment..change channel so I can scream at the bitches and ho's on the views(hey..I don't have a job that they can fire me from...so stick that in your ass you politically correct assholes)...'one at a time you bitches..and elizabeth..just shut the fuck up..you ignorant dipshit...judas priest..does she drink from the 'stupid fountain?'...go pee..start reading my book on King Arthur,and get ready for my soaps...ahh, the Young and the Restless...scream at tv...'Victor you pig, let Nicky run for senator..so what she was a stripper and has no experience...since when did that matter...?'...giggle and laugh when Victoria and Sharon fall off the cliff during a photo shoot...throw converse at tv when Sharon is rescued..oh well, at least that screaching bitch Victoria is gone...fix something bland, boring but good for me for lunch...go to bedroom and get dressed for my walk...Turn on Days of Our Lives, which takes 5 minutes or better as my anteanna doesn't pick up NBC very well...wander around living room with antenna in my hands, trying to find the right spot ..skoot the footstool over and put the antenna down..it looses the pictures..scream at tv...antenna and Annie just for general principles..Margaret is at the door looking at me like I am possessed..
giggle...turn to Annie..wanna go for a walk..? Annie runs out on porch and Margaret and I follow to do our daily (except for Sunday for me) walk...Annie running behind us meowing like a maniac...I do 3 laps(leg cramps so bad, I had to cut back, but going to work back up to 6 one lap at a time), Annie does 2..Margaret does 6..Margaret sniggers at me when I peel off..wrinkled up ole rasin..Annie and I walk back to the apt..where I try again to get antenna to work..say fuckit and go back to the computer and do a post..save and go google for pictures..Turn tv on One Life to Live..scream at tv because everyone on that show screams at the top of their lungs..have to scream for them to hear me...they are all stupid on that show..Ah, now the good stuff..General Hospital and Guiding Light..I switch back and forth as I can't figure out how to get my vcr to record..Scream at Carly because she refuses to go back to Sonny, and wish some one would slip and tell either Sam or Lucky that Elizabeth's baby is Jason's..switch to Guiding Light and scream at Josh for not having any sense..'you know you love Reva and her sister Cassie is not right for you...jackass, going to prison to save a woman ..what a dipshit.'...go pee...make snack.
3pm..either I get my ass up and go to town and to the library or I watch Ellen and then Oprah..only watch so I will have something to scream at...'what do you mean ' the secret?'...that's the dumbest thing I ever heard of...good thoughts going out brings you money in?..what are you people stupid..Go to Community Grocery and get something bland and boring to cook...go to library where I make Henrietta's eye twich and her chin jerk when I tell her how stupid I think GWB is...make a couple of comments about my gay friends, and praying to the Goddess, just for good measure..go home..
watch news...scream at tv...make dinner...take meds...feed Annie...watch tv and read, make a snack around 7pm..10pm news..scream at Rusty the weatherman who hasn't got a prediction right since madra's shirts were in style..watch Letterman...laugh laugh laugh...11:35..turn off tv...grab book/glasses, turn out light..tell Annie, 'it's time to go to bed.'...she follows me to bathroom where I pee again, brush my teeth and go to bed..I get my bed all ready, turn on radio to oldies and goodies, Annie stakes her place out and I pet and rub her for 5 minutes or so...read for about 5 minutes, turn off radio, light...go to sleep....

sooo you all had enough...??Remember this fucking boring peice of shit post the next time that you complain that I don't post every day...Babs said I should just change the date on this and post it once or twice a week when I don't have a thought or subject to post about..
Gotta go...Margaret is here for our walk, and I still don't have my shoes on and need to pee..

.......I GIVE MY HEART TO YOU.......

Or at least someone's heart...

There was article in my DAM News and thought it was kinda sorta interesting...They asked people what their favorite love song was...these are some of the people and their picks..then you can add yours...what's your favorite love song and by who(whom??)

Derek Luke-actor- AS by Stevie Wonder.
Richard Linklater-director- I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TIME IT WAS by Ella Fitzgerald.
Mercedes Mchal-actress-IN YOUR EYES by Peter Gabriel.
Ludacris-rapper- WOOZY by Ludacris
Art Alexakis-singer-YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL by Joe Crocker(as long as I don't have to watch him sing it.)
Johnny Dubowsky-singer-WILD HORSES by The Rolling Stones.
Jaret Reddick-singer-OPEN ARMS by Journey.
Lisa Loeb-singer/songwriter-REUNITED by Peaches and Herb.
The Game-Rapper-LET'S GET IT ON by Marvin Gaye.
Lady Soverign-Rapper-DIRECTOR by Avant.
Timothy Bottoms-Actor- THE MELODY OF FRIENDLY PERSUASION.
Joey Lauren Adams-Actress-HE STOPPED LOVING HER TODAY by George Jones.
Rocco Deluca-Musician-BABY'S IN BLACK by the Beatles.
Sylvester Stallone-Actor-OOH BABY BABY by Smokey Robinson.
Jennifer Hudson-Actress-singer-MY FUNNY VALENTINE ...no artist..
Amos Lee-Singer-anything by Merle Haggard.
Nick Cassavetes-Director-YOU'RE STILL THE ONE
Jeff Lipsky-Writer-Director-SEA OF LOVE by Cat Powers..


So.............what's your favorite love song?...If I had to pick one...it would be IT'S ALL IN THE GAME by Tommy Edwards...but I also think AT LAST by Etta James is pretty great...
Happy Valentines Day ......

..............SNIPPETS FROM DAM NEWS..............

There are a bunch of those little t-tiny articles that I love so much in the Dallas Morning News...my favorite paper, next to the Texas Observer..
It's like they are telling the news...but it the smallest print and stuck between the misprints and the Macy's sale ad..Here are a few little bits of interesting news...
"I mean, you can't get a can of cream of mushroom soup at Whole Foods for .59 cents, or anything with Velveeta!"...Ann Spicer, lamenting the demise of her East Dallas Minyard's, which will be replaced later this year by the upscale organic grocer...
I don't know why...but that just cracked me up...I fell into the floor laughing....anything with Velveeta....whoooooshit!...that's funny..

"You are the most powerful country in the world, and you can't control your border with Mexico. How do you expect Syria to control our border with Iraq?" Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, on the prospect for closing down terrorist access to Iraq(ABC World News Tonight, Monday)



"We are telling the world that we don't deserve a state because we are murdering each other and destroying our universities, colleges, mosques, and hospitals. Today I'm ashamed to say that I'm a Palestinian."..Shireen Atlyeh, Palestinian mother of three, on the fighting between Hamas and Fatah.(Jerusalem Post, last Sunday.)


Senator:Take Texas justice international..
Austin--With so many non-violent Mexican citizens clogging an increasingly jammed Texas prison system, a state lawmaker thinks it may be time for Texas to set up its own prison in Mexico.State officials fear a looming crunch in Texas's prison system. As of Dec.31,8,058 Mexican nationals were among the 152,671 convicts in 110 Texas prisons. About half of those Mexican prisoners are considered nonviolent and would be prime to send to a prison in Mexico, said Sen.Craig Estes,R-Wichita Falls. Texas prison officials won't comment on pending legislation, but Sen. John Whitmire, chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, put the idea on death row, saying it is "unconstitutional and unworkable."

Personally I think if you become an American citizen and commit a felony your citizenship should be revoked and your ass sent back where you came from...but then I'm an asshole ....

MAN ADMITS PROSTITUTION SMUGGLING..
A Mexican citizen pleaded guilty to smuggling women into the U.S. to work as prostitutes at brothels in 13 cities across the country, including Dallas and Fort Worth.These brothels catered to illegal immigrants who paid $40 each to have sex with the women. Some of the women had sex with up to 40 men a day and none were allowed to leave the brothels on their own. They were moved weekly by bus or plane to other brothels operated by the ring across the country.

sigh*......There is more to the illegal immigration problem than some hard working family man wanting to do better for his family...Over 200 of the ones arrested in the country wide raid in Cactus and other places were arrested for identity theft..

This bit of news sorta made me laugh...then I felt bad about laughing at their hardship...then I said fuck it...what goes around ...comes around..to bite you in the buttinsky...
NO RACE FOR THIS "WHITE HOUSE"
Crawford, Texas..from wire reports...
Near the lone stoplight on Main Street, a for-sale sign hangs from a dusty window where a souvenir shop used to sell cufflinks, cowboy boots and denim shirts emblazoned "The Western White House."
Another gift store across the street is shuttered too, though a sign says it will reopen elsewhere. and the biggest souvenir shop In Crawford is reporting, a drop in sales.
Norma Nelson Crow closed her Crawford Country Style store three months ago.
"I feel so strongly about the president that I wanted to continue to support him any way I could," she said. "But I'm distressed about the poll numbers and think it was a combination of things: that and the protesters."
Sales started to slide in 2005, as much as 20 percent in each of the first two quarters of 2006.
Ms Crow suggested that the anti-war demonstrations that Cindy Sheehan started in Crawford in 2005 have led some tourists to stay away.
Another possible reason given for the business downturn:Mr. Bush did not visit his ranch in 2006 as often as he did.

Boo.....fucking Hoo...! Gee, do you think ONE of the reasons is that everyone thinks Bush is a lying, asshole and don't want to buy a coffee cup with I heart Barney on it..?????..
As I often say....the Goddess works in mysterious ways...

Or in the words of the great leader, teacher and friend of other Comic strips...Opus...."The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things in it."....