Early Voting started Tuesday, February 16 and ends Friday, February 26.  If you miss any and/or all of those chances to early vote for or against the candidate of your choice, then you’re just gonna have to wait until Election Day on Tuesday, March 2. 

The battle of the big haired rah rahs seems strangely subdued for these two master mudslingers.  Guess they don’t want to muss up their coifs.   Maybe they’re pulling their punches, holding back some for a runoff – if Wannabe Medina can round up enough teabagger votes to force a runoff.

We noted the Goobernator made a big noise early on of blowing off trying to garner any newspaper endorsements.  We wonder if that was because he knew he’d have trouble getting any or if he wanted Snorator Huchison to waste her campaign time making nice with the fourth estate.  So far, the print media has taken him at his word and has endorsed the Snorator.  Haven’t found any that have endorsed the Wannabe.   Our tea leaves haven’t revealed if the Goobernator will keep snubbing editorial boards after the red primary or not.  It may very well be a moot point for him when either March 3 or April 14 rolls around.

Private Note to Goobernator:  The absolutely worst kept secret in Texas - if not the whole entire universe - is your hankering for yet another rent-free residence… the one at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW up there in the D of C.  You might want to step back and take a look at the hubris that felled Baby Boy “I’m On My Way to the Texas Senate and Beyond” Gattis. 

Just sayin….

These incredible men and women are the real reason we are the greatest nation on our planet:

The United States Marine Corps is 232 233 years old today. 

Semper Fidelis.

Thank you.

Wilco Wise will be going to Houston next month to bring you live blow by blow coverage of the Texas Republican convention.

In June, we’ll leave the stench of Wilco polyticks behind for the natural stench of Houston. We’ll keep one hand on our noses, one hand on the keyboard, and both eyes on the sneakery sure to abound.

Stay tuned, WW readers!

As you spend time with family and friends today, please offer a blessing to those who are unable to be with theirs. 

Whether they be soldiers, sailors, police officers, troopers, doctors, or nurses, they give up their holiday so that you may safely enjoy yours.  They deserve our thanks today.

Gee, why were we not surprised by the guv’s endorsement last Wednesday of serial adulterer presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani?  After all, he likened his endorsement to buying a pick up truck:

“I go to buy a pickup truck, if it’s got one option on it I’m either not particularly for of or not looking for, it doesn’t mean I discard that pickup truck.”

Randy Rudy must be so underwhelmed to be compared to a spray-on bedliner, a three-on-the-tree, or say, an eight-track tape player.  Could be our governor is just easy pickin’s for car salesmen…Uh, wait, wasn’t Perry’s BFF our former Secretary of State, Roger Williams, once a used car salesman? 

Rumors have been around for years that Perry’s been lusting after that heavily guarded little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue.  However, the story goes, he figured the best route was via that other little house, you know, the one peering down on Massachusetts Avenue.  Now if he can just get the Cheney’s to move on….

Our magic eight ball is forecasting that, come next August, Her Royal Clintoness is going to sew up the dimocrat nomination as tight as she’d wished she had sewn up her hubby’s fly.   When that happens, Giuliani will disavow Perry as a possible running mate.  While it’s still an open race for the red team banner, whoever represents the party of Lincoln will have about three days to suck up to make up his mind before we are suckerpunched by the dimocrats.  “Let he (or she) who is without sin cast the first stone”…ad nauseum.

Now, our magic eight ball forecasts the best way to derail HRC is to put our very own Senator Kay in the veep slot.  With her on the red ballot, Guliani- or whoever- gets a veep that can help him keep the votes of our women folk in the red side of the bed.  Last we saw, that was about 54% of voters.  That’s a pretty big pocketbook of potential electoral wrath if you scorn it. 

Just remember, you read it here first.   Now it’s up to Kay.  Will she settle for a shot at that little house on Colorado Street (and a battle to the last dollar of the DewMan)?  Or, will she step up to the plate and come out swinging for the fences to save our nation from the second coming of the Clinton’s?

We can only hope.

We’re baaaaack.

And we are STILL mad as all get out at  what our elected officials have done to our party of Lincoln - locally, state-wide, and nationally.  We shook our heads at the sorry mess that posed as leadership– in our commissioner’s court, our legislature, and congress.

You know who you are….and so do we.

We’ve sat on our hands long enough.

Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

You are free to read this post as we are free to write it because some very brave men and women gave their lives to protect our freedom to do so.

Remember all those brave men and women who serve our country.  Remember all those brave men and women who sacrifice for our country. 

We thank you.

Check out this interesting conversation with Lou Dobbs in today’s Dallas Morning News.   

September 11, 2001.  The day the world as we knew it changed.  Forever.  By the way, Mayor Nagin?  It’s not “a hole in the ground” up there in New York.  It’s a gravesite. 

08:46:26  American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center

09:02:54  United Airlines Flight 175 struck the South Tower of the World Trade Center

09:37  American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon

10:03:11  United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania

10:05  South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed

10:28  North Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed