It's Fall in Texas.
The natives are restless for some outdoor fun with a cool breeze and an even cooler beverage.
We've suffered the hard summer months and we're ready get out of the air conditioning and breathe the fresh Co2 again.
This is State Fair weather.
Time to load up the family and get to Fair Park.
My family has been attending the State Fair for 5 generations. We like to head over to the Fletcher's tent first thing. There you will find many of our fellow Texans wolfing down a Corny Dog (corn-battered, deep-fried, hot dog on a stick).
A State Fair creation. For me a tradition.
It's really not just another corny dog that we're talking about here. These are different. These deep-fried treats have folks paralyzed to a near orgasmic pleasure. They're all huddled around the mustard/ketchup dispensers and attacking their snack with fervor. Some with the fervor of Michele Bachmann, perhaps...
Once satisfied, we moved into the new car exhibition hall. Here you'll get a chance to peruse the newest cars/trucks of today inside and out. Check the sticker prices and fuel efficiencies of the top vehicles, all the while avoiding the piranha-like salesmen. It's really cool. No really. They keep it cool in there.
After seeing all that good car stuff, there's updated rides/games for young and old on the midway. The staff is well dressed and friendly. There's also the magnificent food pavilion with tastes from around the world, a turkey-leg tent, fried everything, Red River Classic, draft beer, a petting zoo/livestock arena and more.
Mucho to do, but you'll just keep dreaming of those corny dogs...
I tell u what: There's plenty of food, fun, and exhibition to be found in Fair Park each and every year, but I go for the people.
The crowds this year were the best I've seen in a while. (Recession?)
The folks working the Fair sure appreciate our support... (Jobs?)
I invite my fellow Texans who live outside of the DFW Metroplex to keep in mind it's called the STATE Fair of Texas. (State Pride?)
So all of you are permitted entry if you're so inclined. Come see us in Dallas this Fall.
Join the Corny Dog Pilgrimage.
The Texas Progressive Alliance calls your attention to a week full of progressive activism throughout the state, from "Move to Amend" events to "Occupy" demonstrations as it brings you this week's roundup.
Off the Kuff notes that the federal court in San Antonio has issued an injunction preventing the state from implementing its new redistricting maps, and that until preclearance is granted it will draw its own maps to use for next year.
The "Move to Amend" Texas tour -- the effort to repeal the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision by constitutional amendment -- has stops scheduled in Bryan-College Station, Houston, San Antonio, Bastrop, Austin, and Corpus this week. PDiddie at Brains and Eggs has the details.
As a liberal-progressive living in the "Lone Star State," I've seen and heard it all.
In fact, I don't believe anything I hear anymore and half of what I see...
Living in and amongst the right wing population of Texas can surely be a dubious task for someone like me.
Progressives in Texas must learn to adapt to their surroundings if they want to get "along."
The natives (even the rich ones) are a provincial lot, young and old, who send their kids off to high-priced universities so they can learn what not-to-do and how to roll a joint.
Then they come back home,,, go to church,,, and get unlearned...
There's no way to aptly describe the progressives, or the screwheads lot in this state until you've walked a mile in their hazmat suites....
BUT,
every now and then, a hypocrisy comes along in the Texas republican party that's worthy of mention. Some kind of despicable, stupid gesture on the entire party's part that usually has been stewing for years in the soupy waters of Austin, or D.C., or Lubbock... You know what I'm talking about...Something so asinine, it could only be supported by partisan hate, elitism, and bigotry.
No it's not George Bush.
This year, it's Rick Perry...
I can't help but wonder...
How does a Texas (republican) voter support a candidate for so many long years, then have a change of heart about said candidate in one debate in a presidential primary?
After 16 agonizing years, you're telling me that you're going to join Rick Perry on Facebook?
Get behind him as your governor for over a decade and support him as a candidate in a presidential primary?
Go about town with a straight face and tell everyone that he looks better than Obama?
Are you telling me you never vetted the man before you went to the election booth all those years?
Have you even ever heard the man speak? Methinks not!
Whats that you say?
You like Chris Christie instead?...
Of course you do...(Is he even running yet?)
Why the sudden change of heart?
Is it because you just saw something that struck you as odd about Perry???
Suddenly, without warning, you think the guy is weird???
Maybe not so presidential???
Maybe not even Goobernatorial?
Do you think you may want to reevaluate your whole political stance?
Is it possible that your whole socioeconomic outlook is eschewed? I don't know, it may be.
I mean seriously, does it take an entire state of voters 16 years to learn what's good for you and yours?
I tell u what: the older I get, I know that nothings shocking when it comes to political hypocrisy, the hate of the Texas tea party and the extremism of Texas right.
NOTHING!
But tonight I'm not gonna slam Texans or Governor Mofo.
No I'm not...
I'll let y'all go pee in your yards and leave you with this...
Daryn John Moran, Omaha, Nebraska, Sept. 26th.
While Daryn may not be from Texas, his ideas most certainly are...
It's true what they say: Democrats fall in love - Republicans fall in line...
UPDATE:
My facebook comment on Jeb Hensarlings wall...Jeb Hensarling
Last few days before our important 9/30 FEC filing. If you can help our campaign at this critical time, please go to www.jebhensarling.com to contribute. Your support means so much to me in our fight for faith, family, free enterprise, and freedom.
Mr. Hensarling, as one of your many constituents, I urge you to work in a bi-partisan fashion for the people of district 5 and the entire country. It's time that Washington accomplished something other than filibusters, obstructionism and government shut downs. It's time to stand up for those who're hurting the most and work on compromising with the other side. I respectfully welcome your ideas and you do the same with mine. Times change and we must be ready for the rapid growth of our nation. The people deserve some progress.
Libby Shaw over at TexasKaos brings us up to date on Rick Perry's limelight moment. Called upon to demonstrate his cool under fire before a national audience at the last Republican debate, he showed his true mettle. He melted down. See all the details here: Rick Perry Bombs Presidential Debate.
"We're going to turn the 'Bull', loose." -Ronald Reagan, March 29, 1985
Who tells the president to, "speed it up?"
The man from Merrill Lynch, that's who.
Things in America would never be the same again.
The country would now be run like a corporation.
Today: Americans watch and suffer as Exxon/Mobile, Koch Industries and other big businesses see yet another quarter of record shattering profits. They also see a pattern of massive layoffs over the past several years that would indicate that their opinions on how to fix the economy aren't quite what the TeeVee told ya!
You can't go around asking for tax breaks, get em, then fire your workforce? Can ya?
After all, you're the "job creators" ain't ya?
Maddow via The Huffington Post breaks it all up on your chest here. Watch the video. Stay tuned for the chart that shows tax cuts, income, and layoffs at America's top businesses.
I know...I know.... You teabaggers don't believe in charts, graphs, pinwheels, petri dishes or intelligent leadership(just design), but you can at least wrap your poor heads around taxing the WEALTHY?
The polls would indicate...
Update: This week; Elizabeth Warren moves ahead of the "untouchable" Scott Brown in the polls.
