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  • Debra Medina trashes Texas

    Letters from Texas

    I live within 500 yards of two election day precinct polling places, and about five blocks from one of the most popular early voting locations in Travis County, so it's no surprise that by election day, my area is well-populated with political yard signs of all persuasions.

    Since [...]
    Posted: March 11, 2010, 8:12am EST
  • The Lite Guv race by the counties

    Kuff's World

    The Lite Guv primary was an interesting race. One candidate, Ronnie Earle, had a decent amount of name recognition, a base of support in a vote-rich area, with likely secondary support in other populous counties, and electoral experience. He didn't...


    ' [...]
    Posted: March 11, 2010, 5:39am EST
  • Massa's In the Cold, Cold ...

    Pulp Friction

    Massa's In the Cold, Cold Ground



    The difference between Democrats and Republicans is, when a Democratic politician is involved in a sex scandal, we turn on him like the scumbag liar he is.
    Fortunately, Massa can lick his wounds on Fox News, where he's' [...]
    Posted: March 11, 2010, 3:28am EST
  • Toyota, Audi and sudden acceleration

    SocraticGadfly

    When first reading about Toyota's sudden acceleration problems, and without excusing its fumbled response to the situation, I wondered whether, like Audi's similar problem in the late 1980s, we weren't seeing, in part at least, driver error.

    And now, Richard Schmidt, who helped work on the Audi investigation, says' [...]
    Posted: March 11, 2010, 2:12am EST
  • Volvo Spares Kent

    No Valley Car Tolls



    Workers in Gothenburg, Sweden are the volvo spares kent that car buyers who have not driven one of the volvo spares birmingham that means Volvo hasn't been diverted from this heritage but also treads carefully when dealing with its latest XC70, a model a little further up the' [...]

    Posted: March 11, 2010, 12:20am EST
  • Responses

    La Sanbe

    On election night, the media went out and got some feedback from the candidates and their respective showing. There were a couple of incumbents that put out a cringe-worthy statement. One that my better half and I heckled from the comfort of our own home was that of Justice of [...]
    Posted: March 11, 2010, 12:14am EST
  • Limbaugh: Brain-Dead, But Still Talking

    jobsanger


    Once again, right-wing radio commenter Rush Limbaugh has proven that brain activity is not a requirement for a person to keep talking. It can't be, because anyone with even a few functioning brain cells could plainly see the idiocy and hypocrisy of his latest pronouncements.' [...]
    Posted: March 11, 2010, 12:02am EST
  • Trees

    La Sanbe

    Where are the trees for El Chacon and Slaughter Park?

    Another 100 Trees for North Central Park

    Just four months after the first 100 tree planting event, District VI Council Member Gene Belmares is inviting the community to come out once again and help him [...]

    Posted: March 11, 2010, 11:42pm EST
  • Did Nomar juice, too?

    SocraticGadfly

    With one-time Boston Red Sox iconic shortstop Nomar Garciaparra officially retiring today in a BoSox uni, at the young age of 32, the inevitable question arises: did he roid up? Given his bulked-up power after a couple of years in Boston, and his quick body breakdown after being traded, Yahoo's' [...]
    Posted: March 11, 2010, 11:37pm EST
  • Local Snapshot

    Lubbock Left

    Let’s prognosticate!

    I know I said it already, but my predictions for the two Republican State House candidate runoffs: John Frullo and Delwin Jones. I don’t think Frullo will win in November, but I think he is best-positioned within his party’s primary.

    My predictions for contested City Council races: Mayor Tom Martin [...]

    Posted: March 10, 2010, 10:52pm EST
    by Lubbock Left
  • Fox News. News for Dumb Fux.

    Bay Area Houston

    Fox News is lying? What is next? The Pope is Catholic? Crackers are salty? Republicans are white? Teabaggers are racists?

    From the Texas Education Agency:


    TEA News Releases Online
    March 10, 2010
    Fox inaccurately reporting State Board of Education action AUSTIN - The Fox Network [...]
    Posted: March 10, 2010, 9:53pm EST
  • Chew them up & spit them out

    La Sanbe


    Corey Haim, who died today in Los Angeles at 38 years old, had started his career with so much potential. He even earned a Young Artist Award for his earliest acting work. But like so many child stars, fame came too early.

    The path towards the downward [...]
    Posted: March 10, 2010, 9:19pm EST
  • Released yesterday on DVD: "Old Dogs"

    Pete's Place

    Grade: FI guess it’s appropriate as Easter approaches that we have Old Dogs, the season's blue-ribbon ham. A family comedy about two aging buddies forced to play daddy, it looks exactly like what you’d get if Robin Williams and John Travolta went out, got hammered, scrawled scenes on a bar [...]
    Posted: March 10, 2010, 9:02pm EST
  • Text and Subtext : The Media's Tea Party

    The Rag Blog

    Framing the Tea Party movement: New Left redux? Photo from RaceWire.'Wal-Mart Hippies?'Framing the Tea Party movementBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / March 10, 2010Friday morning I was listening to my pseudo “fair and balanced” National Public Radio station, sipping my fair-trade coffee, and crunching on my organic granola [...]
    Posted: March 10, 2010, 8:40pm EST
  • quote/unquote ...

    THE BRAZOSPORT NEWS


    "The plan is to borrow money and let some bills go unpaid."
    -- radio report March 10 about Illinois state government budget crisis

    "Porto are caught offside! There you go, another example of the ridiculous misuse of an exclamation mark in the" [...]
    Posted: March 10, 2010, 8:29pm EST
  • House GOP moves toward moratorium on earmarks

    TRAIL BLAZERS

    Dallas Rep. Jeb Hensarling and others have proposed that the House GOP adopt an immediate, unilateral moratorium on earmarks. House Republicans will meet this morning to discuss the idea, and -- after House Democrats banned earmarks for private industry yesterday -- the idea picked up steam. In fact, it looks [...]

    Posted: March 10, 2010, 5:38pm EST
  • Tonight on Biased Transmission

    Left of College Station


    Tonight on Biased Transmission our studio guest is Gray Varner, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M. Topics we will discuss include the relationship between science and philosophy, the animal welfare (AW)/animal rights (AR) distinction, hunting and environmental ethics, and the [...]
    Posted: March 10, 2010, 5:00pm EST
  • Released yesterday on DVD: "Planet 51"

    Pete's Place

    Grade: CThe agreeable but flagrantly unoriginal Planet 51 belongs to the mix-and-match school of animated moviemaking that operates on the plaintive hope that familiarity is the surest path to the box office. Almost every element of the film, created by Ilion Animation Studios, based in Madrid, is borrowed from earlier [...]
    Posted: March 10, 2010, 4:54pm EST
  • Liberals vs. Progressives.

    And Doctor Biobrain's Response Is...

    Because Republicans have decided to abstain from any actual debate with Democrats since Obama took office, preferring the Take Their Ball And Leave method of governing, Democrats have basically been stuck debating one another; with the key issue being whether compromise is a necessary evil to getting what we want [...]
    Posted: March 10, 2010, 4:26pm EST
  • Metro’s Financial Shenanigans

    Rhymes With Right

    They are looking to take on more debt than the voters have authorized. The Metropolitan Transit Authority intends to issue an estimated $2.6 billion in bonds in the next four years to help pay for five new light rail lines, about four times the debt capacity voters authorized in a [...]
    Posted: March 10, 2010, 3:58pm EST
    by Greg
  • RNC Women's Program Moving Forward

    Pondering Penguin

    Yesterday I was able to listen in on a conference call for RNC Women's Program. The guest speaker was Gentry Collins, RNC Political Director. It was very interesting, chock full of statistics and polling tidbits. The future of the GOP is far from dead. We have the election of President [...]
    Posted: March 10, 2010, 3:48pm EST
  • It CAN Be Done – But SHOULD It?

    Rhymes With Right

    That is my reaction to this study on reducing obesity by taxing “bad” foods. U.S. researchers estimate that an 18 percent tax on pizza and soda can push down U.S. adults' calorie intake enough to lower their average weight by 5 pounds (2 kg) per year. Yeah, government CAN probably' [...]
    Posted: March 10, 2010, 3:47pm EST
    by Greg
  • Quiznos' signature a forgery

    Pete's Place

    I actually used to like Quiznos sandwich shop. They offered a pair of decent sandwiches -- the black Angus steak on rosemary Parmesan bread and the steakhouse beef dip -- one decent offering of chips -- the original Sun Chip -- and free water.Now, however, all that is changed and, [...]
    Posted: March 10, 2010, 3:40pm EST
  • Why Apologize?

    Rhymes With Right

    It isn’t like the Libyan leader merits so much as an ounce of respect of consideration. The US state department has apologised for comments made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's call for jihad against Switzerland. Department spokesman PJ Crowley, who made the dismissive comments, said they did not reflect US [...]
    Posted: March 10, 2010, 3:39pm EST
    by Greg

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