Okay, I am not going fishing because all of the rivers and streams are closed. But I am on my way to see the big guy on the left. He's been in the "giant iconic statue" hospital being renewed and restored after an horrific fire last year that shook every Texan to their core. He's
Big Tex and he's back at the 2013 State Fair of Texas where you can see champion cows, the newest cars, rock bands, a circus, racing ostriches, Fletcher's corny dogs (the best) and fried beer (the worst thing ever invented...trust me) and everything in between.
Anyway, this is where I'm going this weekend. Where are YOU going? With the government shut down, you don't have many choices because I hear all of those evil Republicans have shut down everything and all fun has been suspended. Really, it's true! Do NOT have any fun at all because they will hear your laughter and arrest you. They will throw you in a dark room, tape your eyes open, and forced you to stare at photos of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid while blasting an endless loop of President Obama's best speeches (2004-2010).
Of course that's if you are not in Texas. Lucky for me, I will be in Texas having all the fun I want while eating corny dogs under the watchful eye of Big Tex where they can't touch me because, well, it's Texas.
Don't be scared. Because as always you can converse about very serious, non-funny things right here. But remember, no laughing, chuckling and especially no chortling because they are listening...
Bev, Does "nowhere fast" count? :-P
ReplyDeleteYikes. That's kind of a scary face. Seriously, if Stephen King sees that statue, he's going to write a novel about it that will involve psychic abilities, vaguely explained evil, stereotypically backward Christians--and of course, it'll be set in Maine.
ReplyDeleteBev.....Save us Texas One KaPerry, you're our only hope!
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I love that Texas is the most visible, vocal and in your face state fighting all things "progressive" and Obamaism. Other than Wisconsin (Wisconsin?!?!) are there any other states with the cojones and wins that these two have to consistently shove the left's nose in shite every chance they get?
Enjoy your time in Texas dear. And Andrew...going "nowhere fast" always envisions the Acela from Boston to DC in my mind! :-)
Andrew - Yes, that counts AND is probably safer too!
ReplyDeleteT-Rav - Does your ability to annoy me have no bounds?? LOL! Big Tex is only scary to People who did not grow up in his shadow! He is the big guy who was always there to guard us and to whom we could run when we were lost at the fair! Pan do f Stephen King EVER tries to change that...well..he could write a story about THAT and it would be REALLY scary!
ReplyDeleteBev.....Save us Texas One KaPerry, you're our only hope!
ReplyDeletePatriot, that's the plan! As the saying goes " Don't Mess With Texas"!! While I am there! I am going to check out the possible candidates for Gov next year and what Texans think of Ted Cruz...
I will be out of touch for a few hours, so amuse yourselves quietly...
ReplyDeleteHey Bev,
ReplyDeletewhen the government shuts down Niagra falls does the water still fall or do they turn that off too!
BTW: Have fun in Texas!
So the Prime Minister of Libya was kidnapped by a militia in retaliation for the recent US raids that nabbed a senior Al Queda leader but has reputedly been freed by another militia, though he hasn't been seen yet since the kidnapping. Wild country.
ReplyDeleteWe should not have had people stationed there given its instability.
It looks like the GOP is going to raise the debt ceiling and fight on the shutdown. That's actually a really smart plan.
ReplyDelete1. It makes them the responsible adult because it shows they aren't just trying to destroy the government, i.e. they really are picking and choosing which what is important... unlike Obama.
2. It should really help emphasize what they are trying to do: "We're trying to fix a government that spends too much and forces too much on you, not destroy the government's good name."
3. It maintains the status quo. Right now the shutdown is killing Obama, but not hurting them. Adding a default would inject all kinds of new issues that would hurt them. So eliminating that possibility keeps the focus on the things Obama is doing to harass the public rather than shifting to the damage the GOP is doing.
4. It shows they aren't beholden talk radio.
Indi - the water is only allowed to flow on the Canadian side...
ReplyDeleteLOL
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Hmmm, does any of this sound familiar??
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/10/obamacare-questions_n_4060345.html
Hint: I believe that we have actually spent 4 or more years discussing these issues ad nauseum in about every conceivable venue possible and we were called low information, stupid, ignorant, Neanderthal racists.
I made it out of DC alive!
ReplyDeleteI met with Rep Greene (D-TX), Rep Price (R-GA), Rep Nunes (R-CA), and Rep Daines (R-MT). I was suppose to meet with Rep Gardner (R-CO) but he had to run for a meeting in hopes of developing a compromise. We spent time with his staff who are involved in health care. I only met Rep Greene for a few minutes. Very nice, blue dog democrat from Texas. I was impressed with Rep Daines. He was easy to talk to and seemed very knowledgeable on the topic (health care) even though it hasn't been a major topic he ran on.
I had never done anything like this. Most of the venues in Washington have been shut done by the park service. The national mall is a large park where the Washington Monument stands. They have put a fence around it and are not letting anyone in. The main entrances to the Representatives offices are closed so you have to enter through a side door. By some coincidence, the main doors to the Senators offices are still open. No politics here. The offices were pretty quiet and many of the congressman gave us plenty of time (30 minutes) so our timing was actually pretty good.
If the water continues to flow at Niagara, that proves it's racist and reactionary and irrationally hates Obama.
ReplyDeleteAndrew,
ReplyDeleteThe debt-ceiling hike is temporary, lasting until Thanksgiving. Its 6-weeks.
Andrew,
ReplyDeleteAlso, the Tea Party seems to be rallying behind the idea. Both Redstate.com and HotAir support it.
Bev, LOL! Well, he did try to close the ocean too.
ReplyDeleteKoshcat, Glad you survived. Did you get a commemorative mugging?
ReplyDeleteKit, that's a strange sort of rallying. I skimmed the articles and they both seem to be saying, "not quite good enough." Redstate wants a debt ceiling increase tied to some imaginary act that does something? HotAir is basically saying any way you slice it, this is Boehner caving.
ReplyDeleteKit, There are some other provisions that will be a problem in it too, but I suspect a deal is inevitable on the debt ceiling issue. Obama needs it and the GOP needs it to avoid having it mess up their advantage. Then the shutdown will probably continue for weeks.
ReplyDeleteI don't think anyone knows what the Tea Party thinks. Redstate has gone rogue and now supports RINOism, so don't count them as Tea Party. HotAir is definitely full-retard, but the comments seem scattered at this point... I guess their leaders haven't told the collective what to believe yet. Cruz has gone silent. Beck is going to war against Mitch McConnell and the GOP with phony claims of backstabbing. The talk radio guys I've heard the past couple days are just laying the ground work to break either way once it's clear what they "always believed." So who knows.
Bev, Bev, Bev,
ReplyDeleteRE: the HuffPo article. What you clearly don't understand is that those concerns are only valid if support the law in spite of them. You should be willing to live with all of Obamacare's flaws because it's the idea that counts. It doesn't matter who gets hurt so long as you can show that you don't want anyone to get hurt. But your unwillingness to "take one for the team" and "suck it up" only proves that you are an intolerant, hateful bigot.
"Redstate has gone rogue and now supports RINOism, so don't count them as Tea Party."
ReplyDeleteReally?
Kit, Sorry, I meant that somewhat facetiously and I didn't make that clear. Redstate has dropped a lot of their mindless rage and they've tried at times to actually use facts rather than distort or invent them, unlike other places like DC and Brietbart, so they've been accused by many lately of becoming a lapdog of the evil GOP, i.e. the real enemy.
ReplyDeleteBTW, Redstate really hates Paul Ryan.
ReplyDeleteAnd you think you know a guy...
ReplyDeleteKit, These people keep their audiences by selling paranoia as wisdom and unfocused rage as policy. And to keep their low-information readers from realizing they're being had, they "out" all the people who might wisen-up their audience as traitors.
ReplyDeleteNo muggings but man do the girls where short skits there...and it was chilly!
ReplyDeleteOne of my partners from Texas has a meeting with Ted Cruz next week. Will be interesting. He is hoping he can convince Cruz to support something that would seem somewhat anti-Tea Party but would make Cruz look like a hero and would baffle his enemies. We shall see.
Carville had something interesting to say about Cruz:
“I think he is the most talented and fearless Republican politician I’ve seen in the last 30 years,” Carville asserted emphatically, as the panel discussed Cruz’s reported presidential aspirations. “I further think that he is going to run for president, and he is going to create something.”
That’s not to say Cruz would win, Carville noted, but “this guy has no fear. He just keeps plowing ahead. He is going to be something to watch.”
“I don’t agree with,” he added elsewhere in the segment, but: “This guy is something.” And “more talented than all of the other guys.”
Cruz garnered more attention when he recently went after members of his own party, deeming them “squishes.” If there’s one thing Cruz isn’t, Carville remarked, it’s squishy.
Koshcat, The Democrats and their MSM allies have been talking Cruz up since February as the only Republican who actually fights, blah blah blah... "please don't throw me in the briar patch, Mr. Cruz!" So he is clearly the guy they want to face.
ReplyDeleteWhat's interesting though, is that you will never see this praise reported at the fringe sites. Instead, they flip it around and they will actually tell their zombies that the Democrats "smeared" Cruz. I suspect that if they told them that the Democrats praised him, then they would freak out and turn against him.
In any event, I think the evidence is overwhelming by this point that the fringe has peaked at 20% of the GOP. And related to that, there was a pro-Cruz poll put out last week. Despite the fact it was basically a set up to create a headline that the GOP base wants Cruz, Cruz only managed 20% support against a GOP field. I think that's his top, especially as his constant attacks on the rest of the GOP are no longer sitting well with most people.
At this point, I personally think that Cruz and the fringe are no longer relevant. And I'm seeing the GOP reaching a similar conclusion in that they have stopped kowtowing to him.
"Politics is like doing a rain-dance; it's all in the timing."
ReplyDeleteRep. Daines told me that yesterday. There is a time to ramp up the crazy and a time to tone it down. It seems to me that Cruz has really toned it down lately. What Carville was saying was that Cruz is more than just crazy he is smart. "He is no Palin!", was a quote attributed to him.
I thought Cruz couldn't run because he was Canadian?
Koshcat, Cruz is a smart Palin, but that's not a compliment. He's a blatant opportunist with no discernible views who is playing the idiot faction for all they are worth. The thing is that he's miscalculated the present environment. He thought he could get the fringe on his side and then switch over to be a more moderate Senator to appeal to the rest of the GOP and the public before the election... which is why he hasn't actually taken a stance on anything.
ReplyDeleteWhat he didn't factor is that (1) to win the fringe, he needs to spew hate at the GOP and that has irreparably harmed him with the moderates and actual conservatives, (2) the fringe will turn on him the second he tries to appeal to "the RINOs." So he's trapped. In the current environment, you can either have the insane Beck crowd or the other 80% of the GOP but not both. In the past, you could have both because our flank wasn't retarded, they were just more conservative than the moderates. Today, they aren't conservative at all, they're just full of rage at the GOP. That makes the two groups incompatible.
The Canadian thing is just more birther idiocy. He qualifies as an American citizen because he's born to an American citizen... same as Obama.