KOEB 9/28/05

[Berry Cool]

"Hmm...I had been hoping to watch a little baseball tonight, but it says here that Tom DeLay's been indicted and my presence is expected on Countdown...oh well.

"These trivial matters they call me back to my job to cover!

"Please watch, and help ease my pain."

--K.O.

[Muffstser]

1. Hm...do we sense Tom DeLay Puppet Theatre?

Nothing against Anna Nicole's edition last night (which got better on a second viewing).

I'll bet "Keeping Tabs" tonight has a blurb on Jennifer Garner spilling the fact that her baby's a little girl, on Jay Leno last night.

[Berry Cool]

96. It didn't, and nothing can ease MY pain.

The Indians are choke-choke-choking...majorly.

Sorry to be late, but this is a bad night.

Only Keith makes it all worthwhile.

[Botany]

2. What is the DeLay send him to jail.

[Patsy Stone]

3. Bugman

Would look good in orange.

KO!
all!

[SharonRB]

8. A whole has been blown in the side of the

Republican party????
What?

LOL

Pats.

[Patsy Stone]

28. Whatever.

Coattails shrinking at an astronomical rate.

[Berry Cool]

130. Keith sure looks lovely in my favorite suit combo with that orange tie.

Keith.

all...

[RevCheesehead]

4. Ta-Daa! I'm here tonight!

(everyone roll your eyes. )

Ready to snark, love!

[SharonRB]

14. Hi, Rev

Nice to see you.

[RevCheesehead]

22. Hi, Sharon -

how are your legs?

[SharonRB]

24. Doing better, I think

Still a little pain, but much better than when got home. Thanks for asking.

[Patsy Stone]

29. Hello, sweetie darling.

Nice to see ya as always. Please step up and snark away.

[RevCheesehead]

40. I'm still recharging my snark-plugs..

(parental care is exhausting!)

But this is a GREAT show to return to, live with the KOEB!

[Patsy Stone]

108. Happy to hear your spirits are up

and the snark is returning to normal levels.

[RevCheesehead]

109. Thanks, Pats.

[WolverineDG]

36. hi rev

no here.

dg

[RevCheesehead]

42. Just a little pity party.

Too much time watching my posts get ignored on the rest of DU.

I love this place.

[WolverineDG]

82. i know the feeling

dg

[RevCheesehead]

92. Thanks, hon.

There are times I want to ask "does everyone have me on ignore?"
Sigh. Not one of the "beautiful people."

But I'm a vixen - and so are you!

[Berry Cool]

99. You know, Rev, it's probably sacrilege to say this

but I get the feeling sometimes that on DU, betraying any sort of allegiance to any sort of Christianity causes you to automatically lose all credibility.

It's like you HAVE to be an atheist to have street cred or something.

Sad.

[RevCheesehead]

104. You got that right.

Have you been peeking in the Liberal Christians group?

[gkhouston]

114. be thankful, Rev

sometimes it seems like people only respond to posts to be hostile. Not always, but often. Makes me wonder if they're venting rage from Real Life -- sort of a man beats wife, wife hits kid, kid kicks dog, dog logs in to DU to post phenomenon.

[RevCheesehead]

119. dog bites annoying pre-teen freeper...

annoying pre-teen freeper logs in to DU...

Nice to see you back with us, Gina!!!

[gkhouston]

132. nice to be back

don't know how or when I'll catch up on everything. I feel like we've been gone for months and I've more or less lost track of which day of the week it is; most disorienting.

[crispini]

125. Oh, I confess, I get pretty snarky with people in GD sometimes.

I calls 'em like I sees 'em, and sometimes there are just some really stellar pieces of stupidity on here. Like this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[RevCheesehead]

126. Best response in that thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

with SNARK!

[crispini]

128. Thanks!

[WolverineDG]

141. that user name

is dead on. i hear you on the stupid posts in GD...last week i was going nuts with all the "yay, rita's hitting texas/crawford" posts.

dg

[Berry Cool]

160. Poor Wolfie. Now you know how I feel whenever I read DU threads about

how Ohio deserves all the dead soldiers it gets from Iraq, because we're all a bunch of stupid country hicks who only care about God, gays and guns, and we elected * and stuck the rest of America with him.

Like hell (or more to the point, like Blackwell) we did.

It must be REAL misery sitting there practically in his backyard and being assumed to be his fan just because of geographic proximity.

There are some unfortunate nasty elements of DU who (and I regret this) are Exhibit A that freepers always point to when trying to convince people that all liberals are big-city elitists with their noses in the air. They are NOT representative of all liberals or progressives, of course, but the freepers want to make it LOOK as if they are, because they are so easy to dislike.

Remember all the jokes right after the election from blue-state people about how they were going to secede from all the red states and take all the great, sophisticated culture with them and leave the red states with nothing but hayseed crap? Of course you do. That was a really good example. They never seem to think of how they'd feel if they were visiting Europe and got crapped on because they were assumed to be a stupid hayseed who supported Bush just because they were American.

[WolverineDG]

140. oh, well

we're vixens cuz we're special. i wouldn't want to be one of the "beautiful people"....too much work to keep up preconceived notions, ya know. vixens, otoh, can do & say what they want.

let me put it this way, it's like being in a musical, say "Annie Get Your Gun." most of the women i tried out with wanted to be Annie. i wanted to be in the chorus. why? because if you're annie, the audience wants to see you play ethel merman. if you're in the chorus, you get to do what you want (and you'd be surprised with what i got away with.)

dg

[gkhouston]

145. "I'm enlightened....

but frightened, though my interest you've heightened.
It might turn out to be that you're much too much for me..."



(yeesh, how many of us did that musical in HS?)

[RevCheesehead]

151. Um, ... I was in that musical, too.

My best friend was Annie. I was "Mrs. Blackfoot," the indian who ripped out springs from the old sofa and called them "Bracelets." (that was my one line.) So, the 5'10" redhead had to go in early for full-body makeup, braid and spraypaint her hair, and take an hour-long shower after every performance. My one shot at a musical, and I end up fulfilling nasty racist stereotypes. And my hometown is known as "The Land of Blackhawk."

Our "off-stage" time was spent slapping the teen boys who were groping us during the show. The irony: the two guys who were doing it are now fully out of their closets.

(even back then, I couldn't get groped by someone who knew what they were doing. )

[gkhouston]

152. LOL

our "bad, bad man" was already out of the closet. Pity, as he was worth drooling over. And he was a first-class fanny pincher.

[WolverineDG]

155. i don't remember that scene

but it's been forever so who knows. i did see a revival of it a few years ago with cheryl ladd as annie. omg, so they took out the racial stereotypes in exchange for making the musical even MORE offensive to women. can't win with this one...good music, but you can't salvage the book.

aw, rev, sparky luvs ya. and if i were gay, i'd goose ya.

dg

[RevCheesehead]

157. LOL

That's one of the best back-handed compliments I've ever gotten!

[WolverineDG]

158. you're welcome

dg

[Berry Cool]

162. Hey, one thing gay men prove is that the musical is not completely true

You CAN get a man with a gun...provided it's the right kind of gun.

[Berry Cool]

161. Hey, if you think THAT is bad

we had a play my junior year in high school...it was originally published in the '50s, and all the characters were white except for one black character who was very stereotyped...and everyone in my school was white, so a white kid played the black character.

[crispini]

90. Did someone say "party?"

Cheers, Rev! :cheers:

[RevCheesehead]

93. It's always a party when we're around!

Thanks, Crispi. I needed that.

[crispini]

5. Hi ladies!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. The Bugman gets his comeuppance, and even the WH is backing away from him.

Sweet schadenfreude.

[Patsy Stone]

11. It is good to bask in the glow

of a warm toasty indictment.



And Dana called him, "Scottie!"

[Clark2008]

38. That's not his name?

all.

for Keith's actually being there during this wondermous occasion!

I love the smell of indictments in the morning!

[Patsy Stone]

76. It sooo is.

But to hear a WaPo guy call him that was lovely.

[WolverineDG]

33. tom delay WHO?

god this feels so good!!

dg

[SharonRB]

44. Hey, DG

How you doin' tonight?

[WolverineDG]

83. AWESOME!!!

glad to hear your leg & hip are doing better. my shins have stopped hurting at last.

rev's back, delay gets indicted, a really snarky countdown, what more could i ask for?

dg

[Patsy Stone]

6. We're gonna let the legal process work.

The legal process. Legal process.

Scotty got a new 3x5 card today. Sounds like Rain Man again.

[crispini]

9. LOL!

Hi Patsela!

One of the Texas State reps that got some of this dirty money is -- MINE!

You KNOW his opponent is going to beat him with that stick every chance he gets.

[Patsy Stone]

17. Oooh. That should be good to watch.

I wish a house would fall on my Rep, Ileana Ros-Leitnen. Keep looking up!

[SharonRB]

10. He changed his mantra...

I thought it was an ongoing investigation.

[Patsy Stone]

23. Last week -- old news.

Now there's a legal process.

Hi, Sharon!

[SharonRB]

27. Hi, Pats!

[Berry Cool]

100. I was going to ask

"is the term BROKEN RECORD too dated to use?"

Ladies and gentlemen, the Puffy McMoonface Doll. Pull his string and he repeats any of several stock phrases, from "you're trying to engage in a blame game" to "We're going to let the legal process work."

[RevCheesehead]

111. don't forget "this is a part of an ongoing investigation..."

[gkhouston]

117. is it just me, or does "legal process"

make you think of a slow-moving laxative?

[RevCheesehead]

7. "wouldn't want Scottie in your foxhole there."

Go, Dana! (and Keith chuckles)

[SharonRB]

12. OMG

It's a vast left-wing conspiracy!

LOL - I was typing it before KO said it.

[Berry Cool]

101. Then it must have been a KOEB-Keith Vulcan mind meld.

Because I was THINKING it sitting on my couch seconds before Keith said it!

[Greylyn58]

13. Howdy All

Hope everyone is well.

Could Simple Scotty say legal process "One More Time"?

What a goober!!

[SharonRB]

16. Hi, Grey!

[crispini]

15. The vast left-wing conspiracy! ROFL!

Yes, those oh-so-organized Texas Democratic Leadership were key in this. And if you believe that I have a nice bridge for you.

[SharonRB]

20. Funny, when the tables are turned, it's not so good, huh?

How soon they forget what they did to Bill and Hill for all those years.

[spooky3]

21. Dana Milbank is such a tool...equating the trumped up charges

against the Clintons with appropriate indictment re: the corruption of DeLay. A typical RW tactic.

[Botany]

30. Egg Zact Lee

I caught that too. Money laundering v a 7 year 70 million $ investigation
into a real estate deal that lost money ..... all they got was Clinton was
human and enjoys sex ....

[crispini]

32. Yep. "Money laundering"

Sounds so nice.

[Berry Cool]

102. Unfortunately, with someone not his wife, in the White House

and then he lies about it.

Oops, I just spoke treason on DU.

Sorry, won't do it again.

But anyway...what's going on now makes me sadly long for THOSE "good old days."

[Botany]

123. sure clinton should have gone to court ...

Divorce Court ........ not impeachment

[Berry Cool]

131. I'm not happy he used his position as a place from which to lie.

Impeachment-worthy? I'm not so sure.

One thing I am sure of: that kind of exposure never happened to Kennedy and you know he was the same. So...

[CBHagman]

143. That's standard Washington Post operating procedure.

Now that Mary McGrory and Herblock are no longer with us, there's almost no moral compass at all at The Washington Post, and the official stance of the paper seems to be knee-jerk bashing of the Clintons, grading Bush II on a curve, and taking the line that Reagan was a Popular President.

Recently I saw two different articles about Bill Clinton's influence in the world. One mentioned his leadership in the foreign policy arena and another actually dealt with his receipt of an award for efforts against AIDS. BOTH articles worked in references to Monica Lewinsky -- both!

Dana Milbank has been known to tick off the Bush administration (that's why he's not in the White House press corps anymore), but he indulges in that WP anti-Clinton shtick to an unbecoming degree. I actually e-mailed Countdown about it.

[spooky3]

159. I agree, except that Tom Toles is a worthy successor to Herblock.

Good for you for emailing.

[WolverineDG]

85. dunno crispy

maybe this will up chris bell's enthusiasm in his run for governor. i hope so because right now, with me, he's stuck on

dg

[crispini]

120. Just between you and me, sugar...

I may vote for Kinky. Don't tell anyone, though, K?

I've only seen Chris Bell speak once and he was just dull, dull, dull. I'm gonna see him a couple of more time and see what I think before I make up my mind.

[WolverineDG]

142. shouldn't you have said that in a pm?

how much to keep me from spilling this juicy piece of info in the texas forum? j/k

dg

[crispini]

144. Nooooooo! Don't tell them! They'll roast me ALIVE!

Seriously, I am willing to give Chris Bell a couple of more hearings before I make up my mind-- it's a long way til next November, after all-- but the one time I saw him speak, YAWN YAWN YAWN. Just another white-guy politician nattering on about policy. He really managed to come off as a "Washington insider" telling little anecdotes about seeing Tom DeLay on a plane and ignoring each other, etc. Totally rubbed me the wrong way.

I wish Ron Kirk would run.

[gkhouston]

146. he's a Good Guy

but , I must admit. We need someone that can keep the voters awake. Kinky's out there, but would have enough sense to know his limits and to delegate and he's not evil.

[crispini]

150. Yep, anything can happen between now and November.

Hey, Gina, there's a fun thread in GD that's going on. Guy unhappy with the indictments, saying that Ronnie Earl flubbed it. He's claiming to be a big "operative" from Houston who was "working 3 years to nailed Scumbag DeLay here in Houston and Austin." Oh, but he has to slip in a big ol' unsubstantiated swipe against Texas Democratic Party Chair Soechting. I personally think this guy doesn't even live in Houston. He spells it "Sugarland" not "Sugar Land," for one.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[gkhouston]

153. I saw. I noticed him pissing on the indictment as small potatoes

yesterday and kind of wondered about that at the time. Looks like we have a new house-plant.

[RevCheesehead]

147. Crispi, you can say that out loud around here.

Everyone knows you're into kinky. Every. One. Or two.

[crispini]

148. LOL!

Ok, point to the Rev!

[RevCheesehead]

18. Oooh! Wayne Slater!

Nice.

[crispini]

19. Wayne Slater! Yay! One of the decent DMN writers!

Tell 'em, Wayne! Morrison nearly KICKED DELAY'S ASS!

[spooky3]

25. he's good

[crispini]

34. Hi spooky3!

welcome to the evening thread!

[spooky3]

51. hi, crispi, thanks!

[crispini]

26. Five seats in Congress, that's what this got him.

[Botany]

35. and the only 5 the repugs picked up in 2004

I saw DeLay as Tweety was giving him a hummer before KO ....

It is Nancy Polosi's fault.

btw .... fresh Gull bay on the other thread ......
"deck the halls with ......"

[crispini]

41. Tweety is really pissing me off.

Saying that Gov. Blanco didn't ask for stuff. What part of "send me everything you have" do you not understand?

[RevCheesehead]

46. Tweety was playing softball with Delay tonight.

"oh, so it's a democratic ploy? Purely political?"

[Botany]

47. He is good for dead popes but that is about it ....(2 minutes @ most)

Whore for hire he has to be on the payroll.

Whore A O'Donell ......

[Berry Cool]

103. Oh, he's not even good for dead popes

unless it's to talk about what a good little Catholic altar boy he was.

Then again, that might get us back to the subject of what he was allegedly giving DeLay tonight.

[Botany]

116. no he was hard hitting

I swear he almost had his head in DeLay's lap.

Fresh gull bay on other thread.

[SharonRB]

31. Where are our avatars?

Since when do they go away at Level 2?

I feel like we're all naked. (Uh oh, I know that was the wrong thing to say around here.)

[crispini]

39. Maybe they swapped out avatars for "my posts."

I know they added "my posts" to L2 and L3 -- maybe they had to take something away.

[SharonRB]

43. I'd definitely give up avatars for "My Posts."

I go nut when they're turned off.

[RevCheesehead]

48. we're all naked -

and the only ASTBer in sight is Botany?

[SharonRB]

50. I knew I could depend on you to say something, Rev

[gkhouston]

124. now we'll find out

who's really his favorite EDV.

[RevCheesehead]

37. An investigation into the investigations...

Keith is doing some hard-hitting news tonight!

[crispini]

45. Bill Frist = insider trading.

Id10t.

[SharonRB]

49. Can't wait for another indictment!

Frist, KKKarl, who will be next?

[Botany]

54. Match Game

Karl Rove _______ A. Insider trading
Laura Bush _____ B. Money Laundering
George Bush _____ C. Treason
Bill Frist ________ D. AWOL & Insider Trading
Cheney ________ E. Manslaughter
Tom DeLay _______ F. DWI

[SharonRB]

56. All of the above with all of the above

[Berry Cool]

105. Hey wait, we don't know whether Laura was really DWI.

For all we know, she was just a reckless teenage driver.

[WolverineDG]

88. jail time for dr. cat killer

if it was good enough for martha, it's good enough for him. mebbe he can share a cell w/his buddy tommy.

dg

[SharonRB]

52. KO said Internets!

[RevCheesehead]

55. I caught that.

He is one of us.

[crispini]

53. These guys SO read DU.

Giant squid, pets in uniform -- all fave topics in the lounge lately.

[RevCheesehead]

58. Especially that statue.

"hello!"

[Berry Cool]

106. I knew there was no way he'd fail to report on the giant squid.

"Calamari for everyone"!

[Greylyn58]

57. OMG...HAHAHAHAHAHA

That picture....Hhheeellllooo!!!

[RevCheesehead]

59. Hey, grey - have a Coke

in honor of our Vulcan mind-meld.

[Greylyn58]

60. Thanks, but make that a Pepsi instead

[RevCheesehead]

61. No problem.

Here, give Sheridan a Milkbone. (*woof*)

[Greylyn58]

63. Oh he will definitely take that

He is a Milkbone junkie!! He loves them.

O====O

[Berry Cool]

107. Keith's always at his best

when offered the opportunity to do bathroom-humor snark.

[RevCheesehead]

62. "Boatload o' waste" - um,....

Shouldn't that be "shipload of waste?"

edit/ "Caught with their guard down". These caption people are great!

And, on a purely selfish note, This is post #11,000. Yakkity-yak.

[Berry Cool]

110. Congrats

Yes, they did some great caps tonight. Although I was kind of hoping they'd do something with the "Love Boat" music when reporting on the cruise ships.

I did notice an interesting inadvertent screen composition at one point. They had an image of one of the ships framed with the word "COUNTDOWN" at the top of the frame and right beneath that was the name of the ship: "Ecstasy."

So, either their caption folks are Steely Dan fans, or someone just feels the same way about the show they work on as we do.

[RevCheesehead]

112. You don't think that was accidental, do you?

Not with all the salivating you were doing last week!

[Berry Cool]

129. ME????? SALIVATE?????

Why, I NEVER salivate over Keith.





Nope. Not me.

[gkhouston]

134. I would say,

"Liar, liar, pants on fire"...

but that would probably get your hopes up.

[Berry Cool]

138. Why is that James Brown song suddenly running through my head?

..."Hot Pants!"

[Botany]

64. What is this about the Guard?

* said it didn't effect response time .....

Right having the LA guard with their Amphibious vehicles
in Iraq did not slow down response to a flood in LA.

The house of cards is falling ....

[Muffstser]

65. Hi, gang! Miss anything?

Survived another icky bus ride.

[SharonRB]

66. If you haven't seen this, go take a look

Photos of Skinner blowing up a * doll at the meetup last Friday night.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[RevCheesehead]

68. who do you think gave it it's first nomination?

[SharonRB]

73. I witnessed it in person. It was a hoot!

[crispini]

67. This story is making me tear up.

I'm so glad there was a happy ending.

[Muffstser]

69. Oh, my GAWD! Never take that man to a concert.

That was just plain scary.

[Berry Cool]

127. You mean, when he was wigging out to "Rude Vile Pig"?

That was HYSTERICAL!

[Patsy Stone]

70. Love that Elton John footage.

Here's to the Neiman-Marcus Christmas catalog.

[bleever]

71. "He's doing 'Rude Vile Pig'!"

[Patsy Stone]

75. My new band...

[bleever]

RVP rocks!!

[Patsy Stone]

87. The video is gonna be shot at the airport.

We're hoping to get Elton to sing the chorus.

[bleever]

94. Wiggy, man, definitely wiggy.

[Botany]

79. Elton = POQ

Prissy Old Queen.

Funny Story @ 13 I used to walk around a hum "Daniel"
Later on i started to wonder why it was to another guy.

And i still turned out straight

Daniel is travelling tonight on a plane
I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain
Oh and I can see Daniel waving goodbye
God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes

They say Spain is pretty though I've never been
Well Daniel says it's the best place that he's ever seen
Oh and he should know, he's been there enough
Lord I miss Daniel, oh I miss him so much

Daniel my brother you are older than me
Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heal
Your eyes have died but you see more than I
Daniel you're a star in the face of the sky

Daniel is travelling tonight on a plane
I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain
Oh and I can see Daniel waving goodbye
God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes
Oh God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes

[bleever]

81. Where's my Sears hi-fidelity record player?

Funny thing: back then I slept...in a closet!

And still turned out straight too.

[Berry Cool]

113. "And speaking of rude, vile pigs..."

"...it's now time for a story on Rush Limbaugh!"

OK, maybe that's not quite how Keith said it, but close enough!

Man, I simply cannot eat during Countdown. If I had choked to death from gagging on food during his snark, my family would've had to send him the funeral bill.

[bleever]

137. It was a great segue into the headRush story. n/t

[SharonRB]

72. He actually said that?!?!?

Worst person in the world for the year!

[Clark2008]

77. Yeah - and Stacey Campfield is a representative

from my city to the state legislature (the black caucus/KKK guy).

Luckily, NOT my district. I have Democrat Harry Tindell.

[Greylyn58]

74. Bill Bennett is the "Rude, Vile, Pig!"

What a bastard!!!!!

[Berry Cool]

115. I'm just flabbergasted by what Bennett said.

First I'm almost gagging from the Limbaugh snark, and then my jaw drops to the floor when I hear him quote Bennett.

Oh. My. God.

edited to add appropriate smilie:

[crispini]

78. Fastest hour in TV!

[SharonRB]

80. So, now he's saying "Good Night and Good Luck," too?

He must be preparing for the new movie to come out.

[crispini]

91. He's always said "Good night and good luck."

At least, as long as I've been watching. he didn't do it for awhile with Katrina, but he's been doing it for awhile. I think it even predates "keep your knees loose."

Ah, it's raining here. Soooooo nice.

Oh, shit, I haven't cleaned out the gutters in MONTHS!

[Berry Cool]

118. Actually, he did say "Good night and good luck" all through Katrina.

He just dumped the "Keep your knees loose" and the paper wad throw.

I think he's been saying "Good night and good luck" since the show began. He's only not said it in a very few cases. Has nothing to do with the movie AT ALL. Although I don't doubt he'll go see it.

[crispini]

122. well, it does have to do with the movie insofar as...

the movie is about Murrow, and K.O.'s tagline is an hommage to Murrow.

[Berry Cool]

133. Yeah, but he's definitely NOT starting to do it just as of now,

so his doing it has zippo to do with the movie's release. That's all I'm sayin'.

[crispini]

136. Twoo.

night all, I'm wiped! Gonna go to bed and listen to the rain!

[bleever]

84. Bugman on Hannity & Colmes!

Smiling like the vile villain he is.

[Patsy Stone]

89. He makes a

super fine villian.

[bleever]

95. Let there be resolution.

[Patsy Stone]

121. :)

He already blew this resolution:

[Berry Cool]

135. Aw, I LOVE that!!

Too funny!

[WolverineDG]

86. if bugman is ever on countdown

i want these 2 things mentioned:

delay's height (or lack thereof) and the fact that he is from Laredo.

both of these are guaranteed to make this sob come un-frickin'-glued & make his head spin.

dg

[bleever]

97. What's this about Laredo?

Do tell.

[WolverineDG]

139. delay is originally from laredo

a little-known fact that he likes to hide from his more, um, racist constituents.

dg

[RevCheesehead]

149. Forgive my ignorance,

but what's the deal about that? They're not lilly-white? Hispanic or Black, or something else? Is there a stigma attached?

I live in a lilly-white state, so I'm not current with the delicacies of geographical racism.

Around WI, the joke is if you want to piss off Senselessbrenner, call him "Tex." No, not because of anything to do with Texas. Let's just say much of his family $$ came from the sale of certain feminine hygene products.

[gkhouston]

154. snort. I'm not sure about Laredo

except it is right across the border from Nuevo Laredo, so maybe there's an intimation that he's less than lily-white? As if a little Hispanic blood is a novelty in Texas??

[WolverineDG]

156. over 90% of the population here

is Hispanic. Don't know about the DeLay family's roots, though. Bring up the fact he's from here, & you'll likely see what it's like when someone spits nails. Ok, so it's not the greatest place to be or be from, but it's not THAT bad.....we do have indoor plumbing, and the streets are paved......

dg

[crispini]

98. WOW! It's raining like heck here!

Hmmmmm.... power may be out soon.