February 07, 2007
I am so sick and tired of references to that muthafuckin' Snakes on a Plane movie!
The Slag has a blurb about His Holiness Craddick I playing with rattlesnakes.
House Speaker Tom Craddick banged his gavel, asking for the attention of legislators for what he promised was an unusual occurance on the House floor. When the floor was still, Rep. Susan King took the podium to announce that earlier in the day, Craddick had handled a rattlesnake and that “he had made brave, courageous moves handling the rattlesnake.” Behind King, on the dais, were several members of the Jaycees of Sweetwater, each of them wearing bright red vests, festooned with pins and ribbons. One of the members stepped to the floor and to the surprise of legislators produced a rattlesnake.
Apparently it all had to do with promoting the Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup, a rural saturnlia of good ol' fashioned herpetologic slaughter. Some people, of course, deplore the treatment of the rattlesnakes; others defend the practice. One thing is clear, though. At the Texas Legislature, lobbyists will remain a protected species.
Posted by mayor mcsleaze at February 7, 2007 08:38 AM
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