It wouldn’t be that strange that my President is more popular than my Governor…but I live in Texas…soo….?

AUSTIN — Rick Perry’s dismal showing in the presidential contest has plunged his approval among Texans to its lowest level in a decade, and more than half say in a new poll that he should not seek re-election as governor. The poll by The Dallas Morning News shows that Perry now has a lower job [...]

Texas governor calls for prayers for rain, Obama asks him to just call

(Reuters) – Texas Governor Rick Perry called for three days of prayer for rain as a wave of moisture and cooler temperatures on Thursday helped firefighters contain wildfires that have charred more than 1.5 million acres across the state this year. Perry sought increased federal help in combating the blazes last weekend and urged Texans [...]

Late Friday Link Dump 3/25 (Turned into Intellgient Design Slam, Soon to be Illegal in Texas)

Couple quick ones to start off with…the Don’t Make Us Pay stuff is getting more exposure.  Here they go with “dazzling hypocrisy” and include some samples of the banner ads.   Over here they just call it “dishonesty“.   Both of those are moving up the search results lists, and this should help. – Speaking of the [...]

Separate But Equal (but not really) Returns to Texas, Hardcore

The Senate Health and Human Services Committee just passed the “Choose Life” license plates bill by a 5-1 vote. Dallas GOP Sen. John Carona, R-Dallas, said he’d support an amendment that would create a license plate advocated by pro-choicers – who want the state to sell plates advocated both sides of the issue – if [...]

Lobbying and the Exotic Game Preserve and Landfill

Got a few updates for you this week, both on a personal note and the standard “what’s going on in the world” beat. Here’s the first video from my week, prepping to head down to Austin to talk to various Representatives and Senators about a problem that I am helping to create.  A quick bit [...]

I Come From a City Full Of Terrorists

It turns out I have a lot closer ties to terrorism than even I thought.   You might too. If you have ever given money to a hospital, you might be a terrorist. If you have ever helped the poor, especially some of the poorest in the world, you might be a terrorist. If you have [...]

Why I Voted For Barack Obama (and who I fought with about it)

Here is the follow-up to the previous video, “Why I’m Voting for Barack Obama.”  Astute readers and viewers will note the change in tense and the change in tone of the videos. The first topic in the rant has to do with the with some of the reactions I witnessed here in Dallas, TX.   There were…shall we [...]

The REAL Joe the Plumber

DALLAS — There’s one “Joe the Plumber” who is already better off thanks to John McCain and Barack Obama. Phones rang off the hook Thursday in the Amarillo office of plumber Joe Francis, whose Web site joetheplumber.com became an instant Internet curiosity the day after the final presidential debate. McCain and Obama made multiple references [...]

John “Corny” Cornyn’s “Cow Whisperer” Ads and Rick Noriega’s Response

For as much money as John Cornyn has, he sure is spending it in the most bizarre ways, and on some of the most in-effective TV ads I can imagine.After mucking up his launch by running ads immediately after Hurricane Ike and running them for two weeks statewide with seeing a negative bump in the [...]

Why Monarchy Sucked

The children of Paul Emery Washington think of their father as an unpretentious, generous guy who climbed the corporate ladder to become regional manager at CertainTeed manufacturing, a building-supply company. Now 82, he takes care of his wife, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, while spending time on the San Antonio, Texas, property that he shares [...]

Oh My Do I Love Football Season

I just wanted to say how happy I am that football season is finally back.   Football season has a special place deep in the heart of many Texans, and not only because it’s our state religion.  No, the reason football has a special place in our hearts is because it is the signal, much like [...]

Big D Just Got Bigger

The Associated Press: Census: Texas Is the Hot Place to Live DALLAS (AP) — Four Texas metropolitan areas were among the biggest population gainers as Americans continued their trend of moving to the Sun Belt in 2006 and 2007, according to Census Bureau estimates to be released Thursday.Dallas-Fort Worth added more than 162,000 residents between [...]

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