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Texas Editor
Last Thursday, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted to set up a committee to examine whether condoms should be required on all pornographic film shoots.
California has run out of money, but it hasn't yet run out of things to regulate.
For a' [...]
People who voted for Obama have got to be feeling mighty stupid right about now. The sad part of it is, the majority of them were plain folks who were just trying to punish the arrogant Republicans. Maybe this will teach you that a bad Republican is better [...]
This just out from City Manager Mary Suhm. The finalists for the Dallas police chief are to interview at the end of the month. Her memo has a couple more details.
Tired of waiting for the major media to take note, [...]
Military chiefs and MPs blasted internet giant Google today after its Street View service included detailed pictures of the headquarters of the SAS.
Internet users can peer around the entrance to Credenhill, Herefordshire, which has never before appeared on maps for security reasons.
The base is [...]
What can make tens of millions of people – who are in their daily lives peaceful and compassionate and caring – suddenly want to physically dismember a man for drawing a cartoon, or make excuses for an international criminal conspiracy to protect child-rapists? Not reason. Not [...]
The shrewd and articulate military commander, credited with turning around the Iraq war, will deliver a speech at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire next week, a traditional staging post in the state where the first presidential primaries are held every four years. Each of the [...]
Thanks to Eli for keeping us posted.
It is very rare that I am not working (and healthy) on a Friday, but when I am home on Friday afternoon, I try to make Challah for Shabbat (the Sabbath). Read Wiki for more.
Challah is the (usually) braided bread that Jews all over [...]
Politico has highlights and details.
All week long, City Hall has been working to draw attention to national Fix a Leak Week in hopes of getting people to turn the wrench on those dripping faucets and running toilets.
Dallas Water Utilities was selected by the Environmental Protection Agency's WaterSense program to spotlight [...]
In eight short months, we can begin to purge congress of treasonous democrats - so go ahead and take your bribes, you won’t have very long to enjoy them. In fact, you may not get them at all because “Nazi” Pelosi and the Muslim president have proven to [...]
On Tuesday, Rick Perry launched the "Texas Spillover Violence Contingency Plan.” From the press release issued from his Governor's office, titled, "Gov. Perry Orders Activation of First Phase Of Texas Spillover Violence Contingency Plan" we hear the following argument from Perry:
“With the growing" [...]
WFAA's Monika Diaz had a good report last night on the expansion of supergraphic billboards downtown.
Check it out.
--Rudolph Bush/Reporter [...]
...since I have posted anything here, but I thought you might want to read this:
Courtesy Jodi Leigh
Somervell County Hospital Authority
d/b/a/ Glen Rose Medical Center
Meeting of Board of Directors
March 25, 2010
Community Room
Glen Rose Medical Center
(7:30 a.m.)
I Call to Order and Record of Attendance by Larry Shaw, Chairperson
II . Executive Session
a. The Somervell County Hospital Authority will convene in Executive Session under Texas
Governance Code [...]
Bet you never expected to see a pussy blog on the day I was released from the hospital after having two titanium bone plates screwed into my face the previous night.
For those who didn't know today is Eid Al Adha, Muslim New Year.
Texas Supreme Court hopeful Rick Green is touting an unusual name under the endorsements listed on his political website - the late actor Charlton Heston, known for his famous biblical roles in the movies and later as president of the National Rifle Association. Green, a Dripping [...]
To grossly understate the matter, I have a lot of Irish – more accurately, Celtic – music. That won’t stop me from trying to grab ten of them for a Saint Patrick’s Day-themed Friday Random Ten.
1. Danny Boy – Johnny Cash
2. God Bless The Irish – Rob Carlson
3. [...]
Shining examples of today's youth making a stand for equality. [...] The following speech was given by our friend, Kim Moldofsky, yesterday at the Capitol. It is reprinted here with her permission. Photo courtesy of Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Hi. I am Kim Moldofsky from Morton Grove, Illinois. Agliophobia is a fear of pain; iatrophobia is a fear of [...]
The actions of this president and his agenda to destroy America certainly qualify him for impeachment. Look at what he’s done - he surrounds himself with Communists and Muslims who support terrorism against America and other free countries. This alone amounts to treason and is certainly grounds for [...]
We Can Do It! A new gay photo series depicts a strong, unified community. [...] If the corrupt Democrats are successful in passing obamacare, the American people will totally destroy them at the polls in November of 2010, and Obama can pack his bags in 2012. Liberals can smirk and doubt this but in the back of their feeble minds, they know it’s [...]
We now have a president who surrounds himself with Muslims and Communists. I don’t care if you are Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal; surely you aren’t blind. Can’t you see through the lies and see his hatred for this country? He wants to disarm us, he wants [...]
Democrat Bill White reports he made $659,762 in adjusted gross income last year as a combination of his mayor's salary, business income and investments. He owed $178,986 in taxes. Charity contributions totaled $9,125 -- including donations to the Boy Scouts, veterans groups, $500 to the St Lukes United Methodist Church.' [...]
Yesterday, I sat in on a breakfast given by the Greater Dallas Planning Council. Assistant city manager Jill Jordan was the guest speaker, giving an update on the Trinity River Corridor Project. Many Dallas notables were in attendance, including some [...]
Jason Trahan reports that two bit players in the Don Hill corruption case got their due at federal court today.
Former pro-baller Kevin Dean and former lawyer John Jerome Lewis pleaded guilty before Hill went [...]
Small recap here. According to B Huckaby of the CVB, signage was discussed in executive session at a City of Glen Rose meeting under the closed session exemption of the Open Meetings Act. I question whether that is a legitimate use of executive session and filed a complaint. I [...]
Seems like Gallup uses its own calculations for both unemployment and underemployment, and its numbers track higher than Washington's. This is not Obama-bashing, just a more general observation about how politicians have "tweaked" unemployment numbers over decades.There is no god and I am his prophet.' [...] Are the Democrats in Congress so stupid that they believe the promises given them by Pelosi and Obama? If this bill, which the majority of Americans are against, indeed passes; our nation will be changed in a way that we cannot fathom. It will add an enormous debt [...]
Fair Park will be hopping next week with the talented and not so, according to a message we just received.
America's Got Talent will be taping there Thursday and Friday.
So if you think you've got what it takes or you're dying to see [...]
Ideas Matter-
Much has been made about America's lack of net job growth over the past decade. Some places have added jobs, though. Others, not so much:
The first decade of this century was a dud for job creation nationwide. With a weak recovery from the 2001 [...]Lockheed Martin's F-35 joint strike fighter program achieved a milestone Thursday when one of the F-35B test aircraft made the first vertical landing in a flight test at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland.
The successful landing, which test pilot Graham Tomlinson said was [...]
We have a winner! In the March Madness university lobbying championship, it's Texas A&M! The Aggies are far and away the winners, acoording to opensecrets.com which pulled the lobbying financial disclosure forms and determined that the "K Street College Classic" winner is [...]
"The Secret Pardon," is the title of Brandi Grissom's latest Texas Tribune post on the Hank Skinner case. It's another must-read from this Trib reporter.
Every couple of minutes, attorney Rob Owen glances nervously at the calendar in his office. Barring the intervention of the U.S. Supreme Court, a reprieve [...]
Jessica Meyers checks in on a dust-up between the candidates for agriculture commissioner:
THE CLAIM: Democratic agriculture candidate Hank Gilbert accused incumbent Republican Todd Staples of lying about cuts to food programs for the elderly. "Staples lied and claimed no specific programs were singled out for" [...]
From Laredo TV station KGNS, a news story about how Rick Perry failed to notify local officials about his secret border plan. The video report, titled, "City leaders left out of the loop of Perry's plan for the border" is below:
From the video, [...]
THE CLAIM: Democratic agriculture commissioner candidate Hank Gilbert accused incumbent Todd Staples of lying about cuts to food programs for the elderly.
"Staples lied and claimed no specific programs were singled out for cuts," Gilbert's campaign said in a new release about possible budget reductions [...]
As the House moves toward a Sunday vote on health care, two more Texas Democrats told the Dallas Morning News late Thursday that they are likely to support the bill: Reps. Henry Cuellar and Ciro Rodriguez. Both members supported the original House legislation that passed in November. It needs 216 [...]
Many individual elements of the health care plan working its way through Congress remain popular, but the cost of the plan and finding ways to pay for it remain key reasons why most voters continue to oppose the proposed legislation.
New Rasmussen Reports [...]
The praise for conservative icon Ann Coulter and scorn for "Barack Hussein Obama's" socialist agenda was plentiful at a Republican candidate forum in Washington, D.C. Thursday, and it certainly sounded like any standard GOP event. But it sure as heck didn't look like one.
