Who is Kinky Friedman?

For all you Texans out there, I hae been seeing this commercial for an action figure named Kinky Friedman. You can only get it if you elect him. Is he real or is it a joke? Just wondering!
Anyways, I came back to Bliss and outprocessed today, and of course it only took about 3 hours, but I will am done and got my DD214 so I will fly home tommorrow, and that is good.
As luck would have it, after I got my plane ticket I ran into the others that were deployed with me from MN that ended up in Afghanistan, and it was good to see CPT Yost and CPT Wallman.
We had a lot to talk about and went out to dinner at the State Line BBQ again. It was fun and a guy that they had hooked with on the way home who went to dinner from Virginia ended up to have gone to basic training with me at Ft. Knox and to Ft. Sam Houston for medical training in 1990, so it is a small world after all to coin a Disney phrase. It was great to see them again and go over "War Stories" Of course we could have gone on for hours, but I am sure I will see them after we get home to rehash other memories.
So of course I took pictures of my day today, but I didn't bring my cord to put them in my computer, but I took the lunch hour and went to Whataburger, and drove up the Franklin mountains and ate looking over the scenery down on the El Paso/Jaurez valley.
In the valley you have the American side with El Paso, and the Mexican side with Jaurez, and some call it a whole metro area, but I can't see without a totally open border how it could be considered all one metro area. Especially seeing that it is SO different from one side to another, and it isn't like you can pass through as you like!
I will update once I get home for good, and hopefully new pictures to boot!
Later,
Erik