Monthly Archives: October 2014

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Next week we enter the darkness and I am not just talking about a new governor. Daylights (insert your own personal descriptive adjective now) Savings Time begins Sunday. Here’s What I’m Thinking about that: I HATE IT! Remember that old TV commercial about margarine tasting like butter? The tag line was “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.”  I feel certain there is a distinct correlation between Global Warming and Daylights Savings Time.  If there wasn’t so much daylight, maybe there would not be so much melting away.  I would like to make this plea once again. Leave the time alone.  There is electricity. Tractors have lights. You can farm all year round. Speaking of time and things agricultural, it is that time of year during the Aggie football season when I begin to think – This is painful, when do my Aggie Women’s basketball tickets arrive?  Well, it was yesterday. Tomorrow, I am having lunch with Coach Gary Blair. Me and about 500 more people. I signed up for the six luncheons hosted by the team. Beats the Hell out of the Burnt Orange room.  I sure hope the food is better too.  I wonder if the Aggies still hold up newspapers while the visiting team is being introduced. It was to express our boredom with the visitors. So it’s time to hear a WHOOP for the ladies basketball team. None of whom I would want to meet in a dark alley alone.

Jon Stewart, Ebola, Texas and Austin

And very, very funny.

https://screen.yahoo.com/videos-for-you/democalypse-2014-south-south-mess-040000213.html

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Political Commercials – May I Have the Election Results Please?

Wendy Davis and Greg Abbott, Leticia Van De Putte and Dan Patrick. The Final Four of Texas Politics. May I have the election results, please?

ISIS, Ebola, Tsunami, Obama, Gloom, Despair, Agony, Immigration, Obamacare, Hurricanes, Floods, Toenail Fungus, Baldness, Boils and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

In 30 seconds list as many buzz words as you can that create fear, yet have little, if anything to do with the people seeking political office to run the state of Texas. This seems to be the tactic used by all candidates. It should be known as Rovian Tactics, so named after Karl Rove, whose method is character assassination by association.

My favorite ad is “Wendy Davis is just like Obama.” Yep, blond, white woman and a skinny black man and then lots of inaccuracies and out of context video clips. Just a futuristic question to the GOP – who do you have, besides another Bush in the bush?

Wendy Davis was pretty much handicapped by Abbott’s wheelchair, but records show he did argue against the Americans With Disabilities who were asking to put a ramp entrance to the courthouse. This is the same ramp he uses to get to work every day.

Dan Patrick can link his opponent to a terrorist group by saying “immigration and border control.” If ISIS were to invade the United States via the Texas border, all those gun toting people in the Rio Grande Valley would start shooting and ISIS would be gone before they got to Cotulla.

And Greg Abbott? Your mother-in-law? Really? Your marriage into a Hispanic family does not make you Hispanic.  Where is your wife? Do you even speak Spanish?

Leticia Van De Putte– an extremely smart, level headed woman who is experienced and maintains a voice of reason in a sea of chaos, also known as the Texas Legislature.

Well, Texas will just roll along with a Perry clone, moving closer to the Blues Brothers named Castro. Oh wait, their grandmother was an illegal immigrant. Never mind.

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 – My Halloween Costume

I realize Halloween is still 10 days away, but it is time to put up the Christmas decorations. So get those shelves cleared for the wreaths. I have never been fond of Halloween. People dress like scary things, go to the events such as haunted houses to be scared, and costumed children come to your house where you supply them with candy to add to the childhood obesity issue. The day used to be just that – a single day. Now it is one of the four holiday seasons selected and grown by economically minded corporations.  So I will just sit at home and maybe watch and dance to the Thriller video with Michael Jackson. But If I were to dress up for Halloween, I would go as Condoleezza Rice. She is a classical pianist. She is a lawyer, who served as a presidential advisor and is now a law professor at Stanford. She is a female inaugural member of Augusta National Golf Club, home of The Master Golf Tournaments and she is on the Selection Committee for the NCAA college foortball playoff. But I somehow do not think anyone would understand my costume if I dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit and applied dark brown make up to my face and wore a black wig. People would think I was Queen Latifa and she is really not even a queen. So it’s back to the video. “Cause this is THRILLER…”