Shaboom, shaboom, and it's time to go!

El presidente Boosh might make his way down to the RGV next week. It'll be his first visit since becoming President. He was all about Hispandering back when he was governor, but he's been MIA ever since. My cousin hinted that he had three passes to the secret location, then said they were $1500 a pop. I want in. Will I cause a disruption? Nope. Will I wear my anti-Bush pin? Nope. Will I turn my back to him when he speaks? Nope. Will I curse him in my mind? Who wouldn't? Here's to hoping there really isn't a modern day version of Orwellian Thought Police! (thinkpol in Newspeak) Here's to me being part of POTUS's captive audience!

Any opportunity to see your President should not be lost. He may not be the guy you voted for, but he's the fucking Decider, y'all!

*****UPDATE*****

Governor Rick Goodhair Perry was at the Cimmarron Country Club in Mission a couple of days ago for an "Important Announcement."

The good news? The mayors from Mission, McAllen, Harlingen, Hidalgo, Donna, Pharr, Palmhurst, Rio Grande City, Progreso, Edcouch, La Villa and Elsa have all pledged to support Perry in the upcoming gubernatorial race against Carole Keaton Strayhorn, Chris Bell & Kinky Friedman.

Pardon my esperanto, but...Nice. Job. Assholes. (For some reason, I can't get Janet Jackson's What Have You Done For Me Lately? out of my head.)

The Texas Republican convention took place in June, right? Does anyone remember Party chair Tina Benkiser telling delegates that immigrants should learn English and embrace American values? **Editors note-American values trump those of any other country** She also said that "amnesty" for immigrants "is simply another word for surrender."

Perry's director of homeland security, Steve McCraw, described the influx of illegal immigrants as a "tsunami" that could include "an army of jihadists."

These guys are clowns, sucking up to a two-bit governor that hasn't done shit for the RGV. Love him or hate him, at least the mayor of Edinburg isn't on the list.

Long live Brion Gysin

The current ‘round-the-clock, in-your-FACE war reporting on all of the cable news networks are really starting to annoy me now. When’s the last time AC360 or Wolf Blitzer reported from the front lines of the Iraq occupation? Sure, a handful of thoughtful of people that get their news ONLY from the teevee can see past the look-over-here-and-not-over-there crap, but a lot of regular people just don’t have the time. When’s the last time we got a casualty report from Iraq? The current administration yammers on and on about how fucking great everything’s going there, what with the new democracy and all those bullshit elections, but I’m still waiting to see Anderson Cooper's pretty face next to John King’s gorgeous nose somewhere in the fabulous Green Zone. Argghhh. Bloggers blogging about meta is like…sooo meta, right? That being said, Chris Bowers from MyDD posted a fantastic Death by Meta entry tackling the harsh reality of Why People Don’t Think Democrats Believe What They Say. It’s sad but true: DLC-type Dems have the nasty habit of prefacing everything they say with the fact that they're saying it for the sole purpose of winning elections. Republicans win elections because they stick to their ideological guns no matter how wrong/racist/ridiculous those guns might be. They don’t TALK about winning elections…they just go out and do it. Telling audiences that your ideas exist ONLY to win elections is self-defeating. There’s nothing wrong with talking shop, but it’s pretty ridiculous to do it in front of audiences wanting to hear what your party stands for.

Juvenalia - v 3.2

Every so often I absolutely have to point out how much of an asshole *INSERT PROMINENT REPUBLICAN HERE* is. This week's asshole is Tony Snow. After being asked about the Senate's 63-37 vote in favor of federal funding of embryonic stem cell research (and the President's promised veto), Tony responded inna-Bush-stylee: "The simple answer is he thinks murder's wrong..." Also, in a particularly contentious exchange with Helen Thomas, he thanked her for "[her] Hezbollah view" after she asked about the bombardment of Lebanon. President Bush vetoed the Senate's decision, making it his first veto in his entire presidency. Though he didn't allow cameras into the Oval Office for the veto, he spoke briefly afterwards with the usual human-beings-as-props as a backdrop. I must say it was refreshing, as we always see him in front of battle-hardened troops that weren't able to get out of fighting because of their name.

Thursday = Pet-sitting...house-sitting

I love it. Come over for a cuppa.