Reply #10: My hometown, at the tip-top of the Panhandle, is booming, thanks to gas prices.

[Thirtieschild]

The county thanked the Republican oil cartel for their riches, giving McCain 91.7 percent of the vote. (They gave B*** an even higher percentage, bragging on their website that in 2004 they gave him the highest percentage of votes of any county in the country.) We went back last month for my mother's funeral - almost certainly the last time I'll ever go back - and Main Street had been transformed. Bradford pear trees, brick sidewalks, no boarded-up buildings. A second cousin swore that someone driving a truck for the oil fields could make $100,000 a year. I suspect he was as full of it about that as he was about everything else, but the place was booming.

Given the extreme conservatism, we wonder who left the dildo in plain sight in a public park. And why.