Day: August 16, 2014

Yes Irene, There Is A God!

I am breaking my tradition of trying to stay away from politics and such on the weekend and only post on stuff that is interesting or humorous or just damn right fun…….

But the news coming out of Texas just tickled my fancy and so I had to let my readers know……

(Newser) – A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry today for abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption—making the possible 2016 presidential hopeful his state’s first indicted governor in nearly a century. A special prosecutor spent months calling witnesses and presenting evidence that Perry broke the law when he promised publicly to nix $7.5 million over two years for the public integrity unit, which is run by Travis County District Rosemary Lehmberg’s office. Several top aides to the Republican governor appeared before grand jurors in Austin, including his deputy chief of staff, legislative director, and general counsel. Perry himself wasn’t called to testify.

He was indicted by an Austin grand jury on felony counts of abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant. Maximum punishment on the first charge is five to 99 years in prison. The second is two to 10 years. Perry said Lehmberg, who is based in Austin, should resign after she was arrested and pleaded guilty to drunken driving in April 2013. A video recording made at the jail showed Lehmberg shouting at staffers to call the sheriff, kicking the door of her cell, and sticking her tongue out. Perry eventually carried out his veto threat. No one disputes that he is allowed to veto measures approved by the Legislature, including part or all of the state budget. But the left-leaning Texans for Public Justice government watchdog group filed an ethics complaint accusing the governor of coercion since he threatened to use his veto before actually doing so in an attempt to pressure Lehmberg to quit.

Surprise!  Surprise!  All I can say is…..Yes Irene…There Is A God!

Fido Beware!

It is the beginning of my two day mental cleansing and I want to talk about one of my fave subjects….DOGS!

Yes, I am a dog person…..my two friends are rescues…..Baby Girl rescued day after Katrina covered in mud and Little man rescued from a house full of dogs….Little Man is just so damn cute and then there is Baby Girl, she is smarter than most people I know and damn sure smarter than the conservs I know….

 

But I want to talk about China….a country I have had NO interests in visiting and now have a solid reason to avoid the country like the plague…….

Sorry, Fido. It looks like there’s a cat running the communications office of China’s Communist Party — or at least the editorial page of People’s Daily, the party’s official news outlet.

A recent op-ed states, among other things, that there is a “dog infestation” in the country, and people who own canines are acting out a “crude and ludicrous imitation… of a Western lifestyle.” If you can look past the puppy dog eyes, you’ll also discover that dogs are a blight on “social peace and harmony.”

So what did Fluffy do to deserve this? Patrick Winn at Global Post writes that the op-ed “coincides with a revived effort to stamp out certain Western beliefs and behaviors taking root in 21st century China.” Party officials are “taking aim at bigger perils to social harmony, including democracy, an obsession with ‘individual rights’ and the ‘free flow of information on the internet.'”

This isn’t the first screed against dogs the People’s Daily, either:Last month, the paper ran another article that implored animal rights activists to stop shaming those who eat dogs. As that op-ed explains, “Over China’s long history, they have only recently become pets except in the imperial court where Pekingese were kept exclusively for the royals…. [Westerners call dogs] man’s best friends. Chinese people have only ever kept watchdogs or hunting dogs — along with those to be eaten.”

– – Catherine Garcia

I am boycotting EVERYTHING Chinese!  Join me!