Need help? Need advice? Need to find the key to happiness? Well, I'm not sure they can promise that, but in White Rock, Texas, Neal Caldwell and Roderick MacElwain will answer each and every question you might have for them..They are the FREE ADVICE GUYS. For 10 years, nearly every Sunday these two have answered all types of questions from all types of people. They sit in lawn chairs by a sign that says:FREE ADVICE. If you are interested and want to see them they are on the western shore of White Rock Lake near Jackson Point, about halfway betwen Mockingbird Lane and the spillway along West Lawthere Drive. If it is raining or bad weather you can find them the Lower Greenville Whole Foods Market coffee shop. When they ae not answering questions on Sunday's, Mr. Caldwell, is a former record store owner who now works as a wine specialist, and Mr. MacElwain is a management consultant.( psst....can someone tell Forest Gump about these guys? He needs all the help he can get)
This is what I get for braggin' about the great weather we were having and should have known better..The Goddess has no patience with braggarts...and she sure did zap me with this one..It is about 39 degrees and with the wind blowing I'm not sure what the wind chill is...Do know that it is supposed to get down to the low 20's tonight and remain that way for a few days...fuckity fuck fuck fuck.Thought I was such a smarty by going to the store and stocking up on goodies for the cold weather and damn if I didn't forget to get tea bags..and let me tell you, you think I get pissy when I don't have Dr.Pepper or Blue Bell, well it's nothing compaired to me not having my hot tea during the winter and iced tea during the summer...I have one tea bag left...so I have no choice...I will have to bundle up my chubby ass and brave the cold weather to go get tea bags..This will not make me a happy camper...might get some cocoa too...with marshmellows..(not sleep, the real kind)...wonder how cold it is up in Dallas where Babs is hibernating...? Rocky slammed his body on the screen door to get in, so I fed him and gave him canned milk...he jumped on bed ..licked his balls and went right back outside...asshole..ok, I'm off to community grocery...at least I have plenty of Blue Bell...have 2 1/2 gallons left..ate all the caramel, turtle nut ice cream...damn..it was good...the blueberry cheese cake is good, but I didn't remember till after I got it that I don't like icecream with cake, or brownie or cookie mix in it...I know you all do...but it is just not to my taste...ok, really..I'm going now...to get my coat, purse and go to the store...oh, and change shoes...yup, I'm really going now...going to stop typing and go to the store...really...no I am...right now...fuck me till it snows....
Article in my DAM NEWS today....had to laugh...Kinky is unveiling his new singing toon and called a press meeting for it and only one reporter showed up...Looks like Kinky's run for independent Governor is going to be a little bit harder than he expected. Thursday they held a news conference to preview a new Kinky Friedman Internet cartoon. No coveted TV types. Not even radio.The sparse attendance reinforced the cartoon's tongue-in-cheek top 10 list:impossibliities that are still easier that running as idependent candidate for governor.They include, "Getting Texans to pay more attention to international geopolitics than to high school football." And"accomplishing bipartisan redistricting", or "explaining evolution to the Texas school board." Monkeys are shown eating law books and aliens "manning" the Marfa Lights.The "audience" seemed to enjoy some of the 4-minute animation, chuckling on occasion.This is the second cartoon by the Kinky Kamp, the first, which introduced the candidate, was downloaded about 100,000 times, campaign manager Dean Barkley said.This cartoon aims to drill home the message that independent voters need to do specific things to help Kinky get on the November general election ballot: resister to vote, sit out the Democratic and Republican primaries, then sign a petition.Kinky's video also features a little warning,"Do not sign Strayhorn petition."It would disqualify the independents from signing his own.If you want to see both 'toons, you can log on to KinkyFriedman.comThey had another meeting in Waco for volunteers but I didn't go..my lone trip to Waco was enough for me..I will go door to door in West and register voters and get people to sign the petition, but I'm not going to Waco again unless it 's a rally for Kinky and he is there...Think ole Kinky's trip to the governors mansion is going to be as a tourist on a bus...
Ahhhhh jeez...the city owns a pretty good sized building on the main street of west, it used to be a sewing factory where they made....hell I don't know what they made...stuff...any how the business closed down years and years ago(thank you China)and it stayed empty for many more years. Then they came up with the brilliant idea of Trade Days, which is like a giant garage sale indoors...It did pretty good, and I enjoyed going in and shopping for books,and other crap I didn't need.Well, now the city thinks they have a buyer and are having all the people that have booths to move it out before the new owner takes over...except now no one has heard from the 'new owner'...the city says they are sure it is just a matter of time..but in the mean time...no Trade Days for this month or till they find another place to hold it..Don't think there is another place with that kind of space to hold it...soooo Trade Days are in limbo...The West Library is holding their annual meeting this Feb.13th...think I will go and see what's going on...that should put a crimp in Henrietta's attitude...huh huh....Ohh ohhh..good news.. The Bold Springs Baptist Church(black church) is going to make hamburgers starting Feb. 13th...oh, man.....they make the best hamburgers in the world...really..just your basic hamburger...but it is all perfect..right amount of meat, correct size bun, and just the right amount of lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, onions..and of course mustard....and they are piping hot....oh man..I can't wait...I'm making myself hungry...damn..what is today...the 9th...4 days to go...It starts at 11am....I will be there at 10:59am....
My old buddy David Pareya is running for reelection for Justice of the Peace. He was elected 26 years ago and has I think ran uncontested every year..this year there is a runner...and his signs are all over the city...I will vote for David.this is the Justice of the Peace who owns the Furniture Store and the best Liquor Store in town..and for years his was the only one in town too, now we have another one...and it's bigger and carries more stuff..or so I hear...Haven't been to it as I don't have much call to visit either one of them.Kiwanis Club is having their annual Chili and Stew fund raiser...can't even think of chili without farting...Both basketball teams are still in the running for district...We only had one birth, 3 anniversaries, one marriage(will look for birth annoucement in about a year..) and 3 deaths....we're losing ground here...I'm sure there will be some pissed off grandparents after this but I have to speak up, it's in my job discription...(pissing people off)..but really the names the grandkids call their grandparents just fucking amazes me...when I became a grandparent the first thing I said was..."I am grandma...or granny, not meemee or maamaa, or moo moo or any of those off the wall fucking names.."...and so I remain...well, in the paper today my friend Peewee, ( I am not, I swear, making any of this up) has a grandson, Cooper and today is Cooper's birthday..in the paper Cooper has a little picture of him(cute kid) and a message from DAD, MOM, JACOB(BROTHER), AUNT HILARY, G.G.,PAWPAW, AND MOMO AND POPO...Kill me now...if someone called me MOMO...I would kick their ass...Now my great grandkids(if and when) could probably get away with calling me G.G. for great grandma...but even that is pushing it...Have you people no pride...???? I will be expecting feed back on this one..This has absolutely nothing to do with West...but if I see Tanya Harding on tv one more time I will hit HER in the shins with a pipe..If you're looking for land...you can buy 17 acres, west of West,3-bedrooms, fireplace,screened porch for $115,000...That's a pretty good deal...The weather has been nice so the garage sales have been popping up, and there are 2 for this weekend...haahaa..going to be cold and rainy...Someone is selling fresh eggs, and someone else has free puppies...and no I don't want one...That's the news from West....wish you could be here to taste the great hamburgers and wash it down with some Dublin Dr.Pepper....
//Article in my DAM NEWS today about global warming contributing to making the polar bears endangered."Amid concerns that global warming is melting the icy habitats of polar bears, the federal government is reviewing whether the animals should be considered a threatened species."...ya hear that you ignorant asshole?.."Polar bears spend most of their lives on sea ice. Researchers say that if current rates of decline in sea ice continue, the summertime Actic could be ice-free before the end of the century."....still think there is no global warming you blithering idiot?"The Center for Biological Diversity of Joshua Tree, Calif,; the Natual Resources Defense Council; and environmental group Greenpeace sued in December to seek U.S. protections for the polar bear. "I think it's a very important acknowlegement that global warming is transforming the Arctic and threatening polar bears with extinction," said kassie Siegel, a center official.".....don't you ever read anything besides the fucking funny paper you, ignoramus dipshit?....If this is found to be true, and we all know(with the fucking exception of our asshole president) that it is true...who will take care of this problem?Well, since it would affect industries seeking permission to release greenhouse gases or decisions such as setting fuel economy standards for vehicles, we know those Polar bears have a snow ball's chance in hell to survive...because ole forest has already allowed them to do what the fuck they want ..cause they is his bidness pardners and ole crony asskissers..It's hard to slap the hands of those corp. business owners when their hands are in his pockets, jacking him off...fuck me till I melt
That is exactly what I feel like...a lucky susabitch...It is a beautiful day in the neighborhood..Texas is shinning down on her citizens in West. I am sitting at the comuter and looking to my left I can see 2 red birds playing butt tag through the bare trees and behind me I can hear Mathew chatting up Oprah..Rocky has stumbled in, eaten his dinner, licked his balls and left again for more pussy adventures. I got tired of waking up looking like woody woodpecker so cut my hair again..I no longer look like woody woodpecker, now I look like a short fat redneck lesbian...No matter what I do,when I cut my hair I look butch...If I wore make up it wouldn't look so bad, but I quit wearing makeup when I didn't have to go to work any more.I do put it on for rare occasions, like funerals, to see Kinky or for holidays so I won't look so spooky when family pictures are taken. I have never been overly concerned with my appearance...oh maybe when i was in my late 20's and early 30's..but I have always been a what you see is what you get girl and what you get now is short....fat....and onery....Damn, the big black birds have chased off my red birds...I think maybe they are grackles after all...They piss me off, when I put out seed they come out and chase all the red birds, blue jays and wrens off and eat it all up.My aloe vera plant and ivy plant are just busting out...they are the only plants I can grow and not kill. I used to have better luck with my plants, but now I get forgetful and first thing I know I'm yanking up plants by their dead roots.I had plans of going to the laundry today, but as pretty as it is I decided to just sit here and enjoy the lovely weather. oops, Mathew's gone and now John Legend is on...such a great voice.I also had a lengthy blog about forest gump and his new budget and how we were going to get fucked by him and his lil buddies..thought...oh...fuck it....just so tired of ranting and raving about that idiot...it does no good...it's like running full tilt boogie into the wall...head first...we are stuck with the ass hole for what 3 more years? Kill me now..All I can say is that each of us has the power to make changes..vote...vote..vote...join your city council, run for election, force changes...I still have hopes that we can get good hair perry out of Texas...if not Kinky than Bell..the democrat...if I didn't have such a less than glorious past I would run...ha...With my reputation...I couldn't run for dog catcher and expect to win...unless shooting husbands is a qualification..then I would win..hands down....Hope where ever you live the weather is as wonderful as it is here in West, because right now..all I can think is I sure feel sorry for anyone who doesn't live in West, by Goddess, Texas....................
Tada....it's here....our new Czech Inn...and it really does have some great features.The rooms are bigger than your average motel rooms. Has 70 rooms,(which will be filled up in a snap for Westfest.)4 meeting rooms, a kitchen area, a workshop facility, an out door swimming pool,a 24 hour open gift shop,fitness facility, dry sauna and a facility available with computers and internet connections for guest use.Computers can be used by up to 15-20 users at a time.Surprise surprise...it is a completely non-smoking facility, but does have designated smoking areas outside...All the rooms come equipped with microwave ovens, irons, ironing boards, refrigerators, coffee makers and hair dryers. They have pictures of the rooms and they are really large...I am really proud of our little Czech Inn..The McClennan County Junior Livestock Show was almost swept by Henrietta's grandkids, 7 of them won ribbons and most were for first place. Talked to her today and she was just beaming with pride..
Only had one birth this week, but 5 birthdays, 3 deaths including my friend Chris. I wish I could say I went to the memorial, but couldn't do it...just too depressing. Will wait a few day and go by and see her folks and send her daughter and son who live in Waco a card..Both the girls and boys basketball teams are still in the playoffs..They are doing really well this year.Too bad all you meat eaters don't live here ....we have the best little meat Market..The Nemecek's Meat Market and the prices are pretty good too. Can eat it and not worry about mad cow as the meat is grown on their own land right here in West. When I had Nate I would go there and buy him a beef heart and it would almost always be warm...That's pretty fresh..Any how, we also have the most perfect bacon in the world...It is usally about $1.99lb. and it is the best bacon I have ever eaten.We still have some of the least expensive homes for sale..Land with homes, lands with out...with tanks, without tanks..and cheaper than most parts of the state and the country. No thanks to the dick head running it...So another week in West, Texas...and another selling point to move and live here....Me...
Some times I am actually surprised at the stupidity of the Bush Administration. Never shocked, but sometimes surprised...as it is so mind blowing that I can't understand why they haven't been found out, exposed and turned out into the streets with the rest of the trash..If I banged my head on the wall everytime the Bush Administration did something so earth shattering stupid..my head would look like a shovel..Forest was in Dallas a few days back at the School of Science and Engineering at Townview Magnet Center in East oak Cliff, where they had a picture of him looking through a microscope and faking looking intelligent..didn't fool me...especially when there were 2 other articles in the paper saying this:''IF PRESIDENT BUSH WANTS MORE KIDS TO BECOME SCIENTISTS, AS HE SAID IN THE STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH, HE MIGHT RECONSIDER THE WISDOM OF RUNNING AN ADMINISTRATION THAT TRIES TO MUZZLE SCIENTISTS WHO QUESTION ITS POLICIES. THAT'S WHAT NASA'S CHIEF CLIMATE SCIENTIST, DR. JAMES HANSEN SAID HAPPENED AFTER HE SPOKE OUT ABOUT CURBING THE GREENHOUSE GASES THAT CONTRIBUTE TO GLOBAL WARMING. MAKES MR. BUSH'S WORDS LOOK SOMEWHAT LIKE HOT AIR."AND THEN THE QUOTE FROM MR. JAMES HANSEN HIMSELF:"THEY'RE TRYING TO CONTROL WHAT'S GETTING OUT TO THE PUBLIC.(MY COLLEAGUES ARE) NOT WILLING TO SAY MUCH, BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN PRESSURED AND THEY'RE AFRAID THEY'LL GET INTO TROUBLE."...---James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute, on the government's alleged attempt to silence his warnings on global warming(washington post,jan.29th..And surprise surprise....Judge Walton, appointed to the court by President Bush has agreed to push the date back on ex-Cheney aide's trial, who is on trial for lying to investigators and a grand jury in the CIA leak inquiry. The date won't begin unti Jan. 2007, after the midterm congressional elections, in timing that Democrats consider favorable to Republicans..seems Mr. Libby's lawyers had a scheduling conflict.....fuck me till I obstruct justice..
I think it is well known by now that my mind does not work like other minds...but surely I am not the only one that saw the humor of the thought of Grandpa Munster and Betty Friedan both meeting up at the pearly gates at the same time..just giving you a visual....
That was a pretty fine football game......I was so glad to see it actually be a game and not a blowout...Seattle Seahawks have nothing to be ashamed of..they played a hell of a game...the Pittsburg Steelers were just not to be denied...I love the Rooney family...the old man who is supposed to have won a bunch of money in a poker game and bought the team with the winnings..He was never seen without that huge ole cigar in his mouth...He and his wife lived in the same house they raised their kids in, even when the neighborbood became run down and was mostly black..they never left, they could have moved to a fancy smancy house in a ritzy neighborhood, but never did...That was his home and that was were he was going to live..congradulations to the real Steeler fans...Your team done good....Ole Man Rooney is in football heaven blowing smoke rings with his illegal cuban cigar.I jotted down some impressions about the game and commericials....First of all I am so happy to see they didn't have to call 911 for Keith Richards as there is always the possiblity of him croaking...damn he looks like hammered shit...but then he never was a date to the prom. Number 43 of Pittsburg was all over the field...he should have been made most mvp just for the fact that he was in on almost every defensive play...The commercials ...well, there were no "thanks mean joe"....commercials..But I did like the one of the sheep that was sheared and was a streaker during the budweiser commercial...that was pretty funny...but the "brown and bubbly" commercial for diet pepsi, just made me think of what is going on with my chili infested ass, so nix that fucker..I liked Mr. Spock and the aleve commercial, I really did love the Dove commercial about the little girls....that was soo cool.I liked the bud commercial in the stadium where they did the bud on one side the glass on the other and they filled it up with cards held by the crowd...that was pretty smart.....but all in all....for once ...the game was better than the commercials.....I made an end run to the grocery store to fill out my menu for the game...Ended up with the chili(yes still eating my chili...diluted it down with more beer and let it cook down more)but still hot...cheese/roi-tel dip with fritos( should never be eaten with anything but fritos..really)smoked oystersoysters with tobasco saucenemecek's hot chubby's simmered in beer and jalopena saucedr.pepper, lots of dr.pepper...and blue bell icecream....judas priest .....no wonder my ass is on fire....................wow....it just don't get much better than this...although next year at this time when the cowboys win their 6th superbowl...they won't say one for the thumb as we already have that....they will be saying one for the dick....jerry jones will make up a superbowl ring big enough to fit around everyone's dick....of course his will be a size petite...
It is getting closer and closer to yet another over hyped sporting event..The count down to the Super Bowl started the day after the playoffs ended..All the world is waiting...on pins and needles, breath held, ants in pants,on the edge of our seats, to see the most important event since last year..... yes folks.......here it is...the SUPER BOWL......................COMMERCIAL.........2.3 milliion dollars for a commercial spot...I would be more impressed if Budweiser had a strip of paper that went across the screen that said:DRINK BUDWEISER...WE ARE MATCHING THE COST OF THIS COMMERIAL WITH A DONATION TO MAAD...DON'T DRIVE DRUNK....yeah, that will happen...
I did't go to bed until 9:30am and spent most of that time before hand, on the toilet waiting for Blue Bell to kick in....My ass qualifies for federal aid as my rectum is wrecked...Goddess save me from Ancho's.....fuckkme any where but up the ass...that's already been taken care of..
I have a pot of my bestest chili simmering on the stove in my huge cast iron pot..the smell is absolutely fantastic...it is ................to die for...and if you can't handle hot food, it could kill you..this is as close to the recipe as I can get...2 lbs. of beef..can use chili meat, ground beef, or chopped beef..your preference...I like nemecek's chili meat...just enough gristle to make it tasty..1 1/2 -2 onions minced very fine(these ingredients are to your taste so they will vary)6 cloves of garlic( more or less)salt, pepper, cumino, ancho chili pepper, chili powder.1 can of tomato paste (101/2 oz.)1 24 oz can beer your choice( I prefer Lone Star)first thing i do is simmer onions and garlic (I put garlic in last) as don't want it to burn.then I take it out of iron skillet and add meat..simmer till gray..but before it cooks I add salt pepper, (to taste) and then I add 2 tablespoon of cumino, ancho chili pepper, chili powder each) to the meat...then I cook it...when almost completely done(little pink showing) I add the onions and garlic to it....mix well, then add the tomato paste...mix well and then add 3-6 tables spoons each of the powder and pepper...(depending on your taste) and about 1 1/2 tablespoons of cumino powder...mix and let cook for about 3-4 minutes...then add all of the beer...stir well..turn down heat to as low as you can and cook for at least 2-4 hours...you can add beans if you like...it's frowned upon in most chili cooks circles but I say fuckem... I like beans in it..I make my own pinto beans...and add...after the first hour or so you can taste and add more of the spice if you want more heat...if you don't cook it long enough you will have the powdery taste of the chili's and not good ...i started cooking my chili about 9pm or so and it is still simmering...I had one bowl about 2 hours in and was good..but needs to simmer more..think I will add more heat....didn't make my forehead break out into a sweat.....Earlier I took some Nemecek's hot chubby's and simmered them in beer soaked with roasted jalopena juice and they were kick ass...so I am all ready for the "as super as it can get without the Cowboys playing bowl..."...Man, I feel sorry for anyone that can't have any of my Chili.......
There is article in ole DAM NEWS(Dallas morning news)..and I wonder sometimes if I am the only one that sees just how strange people's thinking is...In the world news section there is a lengthy article about how the Muslims are 'seething' about the cartoon on Muhammad...they are burning embassies, flags, screaming that the people responsible for the cartoons and the ones that reprinted them should be beheaded or killed in some other gruesome fashion...Now some one explain to me, why the Muslims first reaction to what they consider a serious slight against Mohammad is to kill someone. Not boycott the newspapers, or picket the embassies, or write nasty emails and letters...but to kill someone....Right out of the gate thier first reaction is to murder someone..Yeah, these are the people we are sending our soldiers off to war to fight for...Our young people and some old fart soldiers are getting blown up and killed by these people who's first reaction to anything is "kill the fuckers"... Why do we fucking bother? We are not going to get any oil of this in the near future..not for 10 years at least...so I say...fuckem'
Shady Lane, my yankee girlfriend from Austin, Texas, sent me a care package today. I call them care packages as it is from some one who cares. I have known her since I moved to Austin back in 1976. We all lived on the Steiner Ranch (who ran the rodeo's for a lot of the state fairs back then) and got drunk and partied together. Don't know how we became friends as we had nary a thing in common(except we were both widows) as she was single with no kids and a yankee with an attitude. I had 3 kids and was a Texan with an attitude. Once her mother had come down from Pramus, New Jersey to visit and some how thought I would be a good influence on her and asked me to keep an eye on her. I laughingly told Lane about it a few nights later and she looked at me and said"better watch out when you're keeping an eye out on me..you might not like what you see".....I knew right then I was going to like her...In spite of the distances ( moved to Calif several times and moved back and finally ended up in West)we have remained friends.. I cherish her friendship and mainly cause she will call me on my bullshit fast.....if i say something out of line, stupid, or just 'out there'..she won't do that...uh huh..really, no kidding..shit with me...She will jump right in with "what? are you nuts."...when I mentioned a while back thinking about getting another dog...everyone else went oh....hmmmm...ok...Lane emailed me back with "jackie, you ignorant slut"....and we are always sending silly stuff back and forth to each other....I had mentioned that I couldn't find any Chili powder that was pure Chili...they all had cumino and oregano in them...and didn't want oregano in my chili...so today she sent me a bottle of McCormick's ancho chili pepper..a new book called Clea's Moon by Edward Wright, a niffy blank card with two cowgirls riding away on pinto's..and are tree-free cards..They are made from Kenaf, a fibrous plant that grows 15 feet in 5 months, uses no harmful chemicals in processing and is fully recycleable.It is grown here in North America..bringing income to farmers and preserving our forests...The back of the envelope has three cowgirls leaning on a fence..pretty damn neat..She also inclosed $20.(remember this is the girlfriend that is 1 1/2 years younger than me and goes to African drum dance classes twice a week)her nick name in class is sugarmama...she included a note:I figured if I was going to send ups I might as well send a couple of thingies.Besides the book, inside is a blank card. I bought a tin of these from Donna who used to work at the Capitol Saddlery(owned by Buck Steiner of the ranch) and now owns the Leading Rein a dressauge and western horsey store. Anyway I think they are really neat and special and instead of writing you one I'll send a blank and you can enjoy it and enjoy sending it along to someone on your snail mail list.and some free money I found hanging around. My Art of Happiness book (Dali Lama) says that practicing random acts of kindness could bring peace to the world. I thought I'd start with you. What's better than found money.Someone on one of my cooking forums suggested buying red chili's dried or buy them and dry them and crush them yourself. There's a restaurant in Oak Hill that makes Ancho Honey Duck and it's to die for...Love...sugar momma.....What I think I will do is send the card and the envelope in another envelope to a friend and they can see it..enjoy it and pass it along to someone else...and they can do the same..Lets see how far we can send the cowgirls....(Im keeping the $20)...ha..This little snail mail package reminds me of one of the greatest gifts the Goddess has given me...friends and friendship....and you are all included....tanks...jac
I find it extremely funny that the Dallas Cowboy's new stadium is being built by a constructin firm from Oklahoma. I hope the crew that works on the bathroom are not Sooner fan's and still pissed about the last game between Texas and Oklahoma. I have visions of the toilets flushing up instead of down.Activist's in Bisbee, Arizona lost their land to two immigrants.The 70-acre ranch once owned by Casey Nethercott was signed over to Fatima del Socorro Leiva Medina and Edwin Alfredo Mancia Gonzales. Mr. Nethercott is serving a 5 year prison term in Texas stemming from a 2003 incident on a ranch in Hebbronvile, Texas, where he confronted Ms Leiva and Mr. Mancia and was accused of pistol-whipping them. he was acquitted of assault but convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Mr. Nettercott was a memeber of the group Ranch Rescue, which works to protect private property along the southern U.S. border. The Southern Poverty Law Center brought a suit alleging abuse against Mr. Nethercott on behalf of the two immigrants. Mr. Nethercott did not respond, and a Texas judge ordered him to pay $500,000.Aso named in the suit were Jack Foote, the founder of Ranch Rescue, and the owners of the ranch in Hebbronville, Joe and Betty Sutton. The Suttons settled for $100,000. Mr. Foote also didn't offer a defense and was ordered to pay $500,000.Ms.Leiva and Mr. Mancia were illegal immigrants from El Salvador. They received temporary legal status in the U. S. as crime victims and are seeking visas to stay longer.They don't plan to hold on to the ranch, said Kelley Bruner, an attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Instead the property will be sold, with the proceeds going to the immigrants.Fuck me till I call a lawyer and sue your ass...
Finally some good news..In the great city of Grapevine, home of drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs, and now the first Texas Frighmare Weekend.It is two days of slasher cinema and homicidal hero worship.(11a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Grapevine Convention Center. Headlining Texas Frighmare is a 20th anniversary reunion of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2. Meet, in relative safety, Bill"choptop" Moseley, Bill "Leatherface" Johnson, grue-slinger Tom Savini, screamin' Caoline Williams and others.Well, hell, what normal red blooded, blood loving psycho doesn't want to see that???yeha...Remember all the dusk to dawn drive-in movie shows?...Go to the drive-in for $3 a car load (or less) and you took your own popped corn, tupperwear container of kool-aid, 
bags of chips, candy and a roll of paper towels. I used to make taco's, or what our family called sumgolians(?) which was a version of sloppy joes and maybe a six-pack of beer with a bottle opener...Watched movies till dawn...usually on a friday night..I always fell asleep...I wish there were drive-ins like that again. I know there are some around, there is one in Gatesville, but that is 50 miles a way..If I had money I would build a drive in..even if I was the only one there..ahhh, the good ole days...
I fucking want to kick somebody's ass...don't care who's..but somebody's...Maybe a clerk at the closest exxon/mobil station...just walk in jerk him out from behind the counter and kick his ass, then tell him to pass it on...
This is the biggest profit anywhere for any company EVER......FOR FUCKING EVER...biggest...BIGGES T FUCKING PROFIT EVER......GOT THAT...BIGGEST FUCKING PROFIT EVER....and why? why do you say...? why? Because they are greedy motherfucking assholes....was going to call them cocksuckers, but that is something I have been known to enjoy and don't want any form of enjoyment associated with them fuckers...Thanks to my favorite newspaper ....THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS.. I have this information to make me crazy when I sit alone in the house which is a tad chilly but won't turn on the heat as my heat bill tripled and will fucking freeze before I give them greedy mother fuckers any more money than I have to...ok...how about these stats..:exxon/mobil made $36.1 billion in profit in 2005 on revenue of $371 billion.
The revenue is a bit larger than the gross state product of Georgia, and it's about 42 % of the gross state product of Texas.Exxon last year brought in 30 percent more revenue than all of the Wal-Mart and Sam's stores in the world, which had sales of $285 billion.Exxon's revenue is large enough to give all of the 296 million people in the U.S. $1,000 and still have money left over.Exxon's profit is enough to buy the entire towns of Irving, Carrollton and Farmers Branch(every piece of commercial, residential and business property listed with the appraisal district) with enough money left over to buy most of Mesquite.(cities in Dallas area)Exxon last year was almost seven times as profitable as the entire U.S. airline industry, ever. Airlines made $5.36 billion in their best year, 1999.And if that isn't enough to chap your ass, go to sooner's blog and see what the Saudi's built for their citizens....I am going to go now...quietly out into the yard...where at 1:35am my little town is sleeping peacefully....and I am going to stand tall, lean my head back and scream as loud as I can.....(which is prettty fucking loud)...
IM MAD AS HELL...AND IM NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE...YOU GREEDY MOTHERFUCKERS...and I will turn my back on the yard and drop my drawers so they can kiss my ass....fuck me till im a gusher...
Mojo called from the city by the bay and she is doing so much better. Once you find out you're not losing your mind things start to fall into place. So thanks again Babs. Mo is all a flutter over her new baby. Bailey the cat. He has been in shelter since he was just a kitten and is now 8 months old and is getting more than his share of love and attention from Maryjo and Rolf. He will always have upper respiratory infections and will be what the vet calls "snuffily"....not sickly..I like that...'snuffily'..We had a great talk about everything, like what a dick head forest gump is, lunar new year, people that like forest gump are stupid, her inability to loosen her grip on anything..she has control issues, which I am sorry to say she gets from her ole ma. She took a 1/2 day off from work to take the new kitty to the vet as she didnt' 
trust Rolf to do it alone. Told her, Mojo, if he was so stupid you couldn't trust him with the cat, you wouldn't be with him...she agreed..She is having a meeting with her psychotherapist, and her therapist. The therapist is the one that fucked up with the drug effexor and the psy.dr. is going with her to confront the therapist with her "fuck up"...Mojo doesn't like confrontations and is dragging her heels. Told her she needs to learn to do that and not be afraid to make waves.Now if she was drinking, she would crash into that office, rip the womans head off and shit down her throat. But she is sober and doesn't like to take a stand and make someone mad.Told her ...you do it once and it will feel so good, you will 
be able to do it alone the next time..But glad her psyc. dr. is going with her as she told Mo, 'I have your back'......I played 'Harlem Nocturne' for her..She had never heard of it and enjoyed hearing her mom's favorite song...She thinks it was in some movie too, but we can't remember which one it was..Anyone remember?She has also decided not to go back to school just now..to much on her plate. She doesn't need anything to stress her out any more than she already is. Im so glad. I always try to encourage her, but didn't want to urge her to go when I didn't think she was ready.
Holy shit there's a opposum on the porch. I forgot that Rocky is in and I heard something on the porch and thought it was him wanting in and opened up the door and there eating out of the bowls I had put out for stray cats was...a big ole fucking opposum...He looked at me and went right back to eating ......didn't scare him at all...I told Rocky,there's a 'possum on the porch .......nothing...he could care less.....but now Im worried that maybe that wasen't a good sign that the 'possum wasen't afraid of me...maybe he has rabbies.????fuck...opened the door again..and all the food was gone and so was my furry little friend...damn...may have to stop feeding the cats if it is going to bring out the wild life...I had forgotten that I have found various animals on the porch over the years, one time it was baby skunks, once it was an armadillo and a chicken snake over 6 feet long, and another opposum...judas priest..I live in the city....which reminds me..Jamie has two other dogs besides her white pits...and one is a runt pit named Paris, and Paris chased down and killed a coyote....Jamie watched her do it out her bed room window. They live out in the country and bothered by coyote's all the time. Not any more..Paris kicks ass..
I got some bad news yesterday..A girl I used to run with when I drank and did drugs with,died of cancer..She was 46 years old..She was always the youngest one but had been a hell raiser, drinker many years before I ever met her..I always tried to keep her out of trouble and even tried to help her off drugs, booze, got her a job, etc. She had problems with everything and fucking over her 'friends' was something she was most excellent at, so I was forced to drop her as a friend or do her bodily harm...actually kicked her ass once...forgot about that...I have always been the 'best friend or worse enemy' kind of person..and once you screw me over....there is no going back...but over the past 11 years I had seen her about 3 times and decided to let it go( so maybe Im mellowing) and even though we were not friends..I didn't wish her harm.....So I was really shocked and saddened that she died so young. She has a grown daughter that is a asst. coach for the Baylor Bears girls basketball team and a son about 13-14..The oldest daughter adopted him and is raising him..which is good to know...Tomorrow is the memorial service, and I am not sure if I will go or not. I hate those kind of things, but feel I need to go for her kids and her parents..plus Im not sure how many people will show as she really did fuck over alot of people..So maybe I should go just because of that...damn...46.....
There were two articles in the Dallas am news today that pissed me off so bad I did't know whether to spit or go blind. The first was a great article by aTim Giago, an Oglala Lakota, and is the president of the Native American Journalists Foundation Inc.....the title of the article is WHEN DID RELIGION GET TIED UP WITH POLITICS?It is pretty lengthly so I will do a rough recap..He talks about the fact that the suicide bombers kill and maim in the name of Allah, but their war is in firmly rooted in politics.And ironically, in America, we now are faced with a leadership that leans heavily on religious convictions when making political decisions.President Bush flaunts his deep religious feelings, perhaps assuming that all Americans believe exactly as he. Should our laws be based on the Bible, just as the lasw of Islam are based on the Quran?History tells us that the Indian people of the Southwest, the Pueblo, were deeply religious, but it was the wrong kind of religiousity. It wasen't Christian enough. The Spanish conquistadors murdered, maimed and indoctrinated those who did not embrace Catholicism.The Pueblo men and women were reduced to slavery, while their children were forced into schools where language and customs were beaten out of them, or so the conquerors believed. But some religious beliefs die hard, and the Pueblo people kept their spiritual beliefs underground until it was safe to bring them into the light.What happened to the indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere should be used as a lesson to the rest of America.The new religious leaders scoffed at their spiritual beliefs, and forced conversion became the law of the land.So when right after I read this article what do I find but THIS article..CHURCHES GET CHUNK OF AIDS FUNDS..President Bush's $15 billion effort to fight AIDS has handed out nerly 1/4 of its grants to religious groups, and officials are aggresssively pursuring new church partners that often emphasize disease prevention through abstinence and fidelity over condom use.Conservative Christian allies of the president are pressing the U.S. foreign aid agency to give fewer dollars to groups that distribute condoms or work with prostitutes.The Bush administration provided more than 560 million in 2001. Secular organizations in Africa are raising concerns that new money to groups with AIDS experience may dilute the impact of the three-year old program.So what they will do is weed out the programs that give out condoms to prostitutes or iv drug users. Which means your're going to die...but that is ok...you'll die in the name of Jesus...Please Goddess....it's time....take him home now......we've endured enough...smite his ass ....smite him back to a brand new life....make his karma life start at the beginning as he has fucked this one good..he needs to start all over again ...as a cockroach.......yeah, a cockroach....one of Babs cockroaches......she will see he learns his lesson as a reincarnated roach...fuck me till I beg for mercy.....
Written by Elisabeth Robinson....I had emailed Babs earlier and old her that she had to read this book, but by the time I had finished it I knew I had to tell everyone to read it.Well, not everyone because as there are 'chick flicks', this is a 'chic book'....Although guys could learn a lot by reading it too...
I don't want to say anything that would give away the heart of the book. What I will say is it is a book done in letter form..they are mostly letters from Olivia to her sister Maddie. There are other letters to her friend Tina, to Olivia's mom, dad and brother, to her x-boyfriend and to various people she has in her life.It is such a wonderful, touching, funny book...Olivia sort of reminds me of Babs, but not..sorta kinda...in a great and wonderful way..but there is one part that I really loved and it is when Olivia and Maddie are on a road trip and they find a town in New Mexico called Pie Town, home of the Pie-0-neer Cafe. Which dates back to 1922 and who's motto is "Life goes on and days go by. That's why you should stop for pie."..........I want to believe that this town exists all most as much as I want to belive in heaven...I urge all you women who are big readers and even those of you who aren't to either buy this book(it is a quality paper book, not hard back) or check it out at your library.If you buy it..read it and pass it along...You won't be sorry...I promise....
THE CHIPPY LITTLE BASTARD...!! SCRATCHES ON THE DOOR LIKE NOTHING HAD HAPPENED....RAN STRAIGHT TO THE KITCHEN AND JUMPED UP ON HIS TABLE(YES THE DAMN CAT HAS HIS OWN LITTLE EATING TABLE) AND I OPENED UP HIS FAVORITE(UP UNTIL TODAY) CAN OF FRISKIES SALMON, WARMED UP HIS CANNED MILK AND THE LITTLE FUCKER TURNED UP HIS NOSE AT IT AND LEFT THE KITCHEN LIKE I HAD TRIED TO POISON HIM. HE IS ON MY BED NOW CLEANING HIS ASS.....I HOPE HE GETS A KITTY VENERAL DESEASE. FUCKER....
In case you haven't been down to feed Soonerboy the spider you probably missed my "shittin' rhino".....I saw it on dom's blog about the selling of zoo poo and it showed a picture of the shittin' rhino and I had to have it...was going to put it as my picture but I like the snazzy lighting bolt sooner put there. so i had mentioned that I loved the picture and said maybe I could get Babs to put it on my site...and she did...I love that 'shittin' rhino'...I am one sick puppy.....so thanks to Babs and Dom....ya'll are plum peaches...
Ahhhh, sunshine...I love that sunshine...weatherman says we will have sun for a few days and then maybe another day or two of rain..We need the rain more than the sunshine and I love love them thunderstorms.Although Babs got the thunderstorms this time, we just got soaker rain...starting to worry about Rocky, he hasn't been home since he pranced off with his tail in the air. Which means he was out in all the rain, but even then he would normally come home for chow.So someone is either feeding him or he is still humping the ole mama cat that is the neighborhood chippy.The other reason is the one I don't want to think about....come on home Rocky, I promise to warm the canned milk for you.There was an article in Dallas am news about how the Chinese-americans feel shorted cause their Lunar New Year is not a national holiday. That the Italian-Americans have Columbus Day, the Irish-Americans have St. Patrick's Day and African-Americans have Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and the Chinese don't have any day. The Lunar New Year is celebrated by more than a billion Asians around the world and for the 12 million Asian-Americans in the U.S. they feel slighted. San Francisco already closes its school for Lunar New Year. I can see her point, but only Martin Luther KIng Jr. and Columbus Day St. are federal holidays. Columbus Day is really to celebrate the discovery of America not just for Italians, although they have taken it as there day. By the way...today is Lunar New Year...happy new year ya'll....Plus there are more Irish in America than Asians, and they would throw a shit fit if Lunar New Year became a federal holiday and St. Patrick's day didn't. So maybe we should have both as a federal holiday..and then because the American Indians who have been royally fucked by the invaders, should get them ownselves a holiday..we should have Crazy Horse Day.The Mexican-Americans have Cinco de Mayo Day, so we need to give Porta Ricans a day, and Dominicans a day,and all them Canadians that flock to Hollywood, we can give them a day, and how about them Czech's, and Germans, and Poles, and Swedes, and Iraqui's, and Saudi's, and the French,(nah fuck the French), the Spanish, the Australians, the Russians, the Serbians, fuck...lets just let every race of people that live in the United States have their own fucking Holiday and then no one will ever fucking work here again...every fucking day will be a holiday...then because individuals will be slighted because we don't have Irish, Scots day...and German,Polish day....and damn, lets not forget handicapped people, we can have a handicap day, a depression day, a polio day, a fucking I have monthly cramps, give me a gun before I shoot some one day........Ok, I feel much better now.....fuckme till I have a jackiesue day
This is a book review of one of the best books I have read since the last James Lee Burke book..This book gets 5 star's out of 5...It is smart, witty, suspenseful, has great characters, terrific story and written better than anyone else could have..I fucking loved it.Want to see Michael Connelly do a series on this group of people. The good guys are good, with a touch of sneakiness, and the bad guys are really assholes. This book is the reason why I didn't go to sleep until 9am. I could not put it down till I finished it. Thinking about how I can tell you what it is about without blowing away the story. A defense lawyer who works out of his Lincoln..in southern Calif. married and divoriced from a prosecutor with an 8 year old daughter, who although is spoke about and he spends time with is never a part of the story...it is all about the case..the case of a Beverly Hills playboy who is arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar and an old case the lawyer lost....if you don't read another book the rest of the year..you have to read this one...this my friends is a YAFTA...you have to read it....
I am sure that I have told the story about how I came to quit smoking, but in case you guys missed it it seems to be worth the retelling. I worked as a waitress, bartender at several bars in Portland,Oregon when the boys were young(before Maryjo was born) and their Dad was not around much at all, so basically it was me and my two sons.Back then cigerettes were .35 cents a pack....heehee..anyhow...I smoked 4 packs of camels, non filter every day..During this time there was a big story in the news about this man who had been married and had a son and gotten a divorce and was a really great father while the mother was pretty much a drunk and left the kid alone alot. In the meantime the father had come out as being gay and had a partner. Because of the mother's lack of care and the fact that the father was a much better parent he sued for full custody of his son and his partner was was willing to adopt him so he would have 2 parents.Today it is not that big of a deal, but back then..it was a really big deal. So I lit up a cigarette one day and Thom threw his self in my lap and started crying...just sobbing and weeping. I freaked out and wanted to know what was wrong. Thom finally quit crying long enough to sob out that if I kept smoking I was going to die of cancer, he was going to be an orphan and a homosexual couple was going to adopt him.I laughed my ass off. But little t-Tom was dead ass serious and would follow me all thru the house weeping this lament every time I lit up.i would hide in the bathroom to smoke and you could see his little fingers wiggling under the door and hear "mommie, mommie,don't die, the homosexuals will adopt me"...he would follow me to the car when I would sneak out and he was so short I couldn't see his head but there were those 2 little arms and hands wiggling back and forth...and "mommie, mommie.....what is a homosexual and why do they want to adopt me?....."...well, adventually he wore me down..it was easier to quit a 4-pack-a-day habit than to listen to that kid cry every time i snuck a cigarette...and other than weed, he doesn't smoke either. Now if you're really having trouble and want to stop smoking..I can send Thom to your house as he is still as obnoxious now as he was then.....And fyi, the guy got custody of his son and lived hapily ever after.
