you say it's your birthday

(Amarillo) Panhandle Truth Squad is four years old today.

Baby's First Post.

The Very First Time We Made Fun of Dave Henry.

(cheers!)

spacedark

tell me headlies, tell me sweet little headlies

Glancing at the Yahoo and AP headlines--

Bush disappointed in "flawed intelligence" before Iraq war
Global warming "real" Bush says
Bush enjoys Will Ferrell impression of him

--one might paraphrase blogarillo's recent reaction when one of our trolls came out from under his bridge and suddenly began acting reasonably: "Who is this person, and what has he done with President Bush?"

Read the transcript, of course, and you see the same petulant, defensive man we've known all along.

The headlie writers apparently stopped just before the words butbutbut--.

spacedark

To The Malls, Patriots!

I got my hush money rebate. Did you get yours?

Things blogarillo could buy to help bail out mortgage bankers strengthen the wings of America's Resolve^TM:

1200 cups of iced tea from The Water Still
800 grande Coffee of the Day from Roasters
257 bowls of chicken panang from Chiyos.
112 handstamps at Wonderland
32 tanks of gas

No need to thank me, citizens. I'm just doing my part.

Secret McCain Campaign Slogan Memo Leaked

Thanks to openleft for making me spill coffee while LMAO!
-Prodigal Son

Sweet Home Obama

What do you guys want from Democrats? Billy Carter?

I won't deny that I'm concerned about November. With Obama now in a position to be called the "presumptive nominee," I worry about hardcore Clinton supporters with hurt feelings who won't come around in November. WaitaminutebeforeyoureactIwouldhaveworried
aboutthesamethingfromhardcoreObamasupportershadClintonwon.¹

And, of course, there is the perennial (or quadrennial) fear of swiftboating.

But on the efficacy of the latter², perhaps there is cause for hope, even in West Texas.

This weekend, my brother-in-law, who wears cowboys boots, a cowboy hat, owns and rides a horse, and is the working owner of a construction company, announced that he had just sent $100 to the Obama campaign.

He subscribes to at least one of the newsweeklies, so he must know that he's been told that people like him don't support Obama.

But, surely, the newsweeklies and other major media also understand by now that they know even less about "Bubba" than Obama and his campaign. Scratch that-- if they knew that, they wouldn't write these articles. But their condescending assumptions are unlikely to reflect reality. Bubba being Bubba, they may even cause a rebellious redneck groundswell in favor of Obama.

spacedark

¹Had to get that out really fast.

²I'll try to get this thesis lingo outta my system. But not today.

Yes! Masters!

spacedark

unbalanced minds make unbalanced equations

Someone tell Amarillo Globe-Republican Dave Henry that irony is dead.

"As Amarillo voters ponder another public smoking ban Saturday, it is worth pointing out the inconsistencies of trying to save people from themselves through government intervention or the ballot box.

Bexar County finds itself stuck with a needle-exchange program, a legislative shot in the arm from misguided do-gooders wanting to enable drug abusers to continue to shoot up with clean syringes...

They use them to shoot up whatever harmful substance they are hooked on, a substance that might just kill them a lot faster than secondhand smoke from a cigarette."

"Secondhand smoke." Right. Of course the argument would be that heroin is unlikely to drip into your veins while the person next to you shoots up.

If irony isn't dead, Dave will soon kill it.

spacedark

Great Branding

Ya know, it's time to start linking McCain to some sort of caricature. Something instinctive and emotional, and of course . . . unpleasant and negative.

Thankfully, this is McCain. He gives us a lot of ammo here.

What about the unstable cranky old man who would cut up your green nerf football when it went over the fence, wave his fist and shout mumbling curses through his dentures? Is that the guy we want in charge?

What do you think would stick?

UPDATE: Well, the onion beat me to the punch. Bunch a genius's over there, I laughed my a** off. Especially the hand drawn plans McCain drew. LOL.



-Prodigal Son

why don't you put on your boxing gloves, go out in the garage, and pound on the public-school teacher hanging out there for awhile?

Of course, another problem with public education is a public that badmouths teachers based on what they think they know, but don't.

1. This was a national AP article. Tenure for public school teachers doesn't exist in Texas. Oh, wait, at some point you can (theoretically) get a two-year(!) contract. Yay!

2. As a result, I've seen teachers dismissed from their positions fairly easily. Some were "bad teachers"; others were just disappeared for vague reasons no one would talk about.

spacedark