June 30, 2008
Not encouraging...
I think there's a good chance Obama will lose. Because he fucking sucks.
Change? My ass.
(Just FYI... the rant was about the constant 'he said, she said, they said' about Hillary and Obama supporters. Frankly, we don't care what nutters do and say. However, candidates have always been fair game. And always will be. If you're offended by us calling out Obama on something, I suggest you go read another blog. We don't pull punches here and there are no sacred cows.)
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Trailer Wars : Brad Pitt
I just love it when one celeb will have movies coming out one on top of the other. I have to admit I'm very curious about 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'. It looks like it could be interesting; It also looks like it could be thoroughly craptastic. That's what makes it curious. I guess we will have to wait until Christmas to find out for sure, but McB and I will be running book on it. The line is 2:1 that it'll suck, 5:1 that it'll be great. We're also offering 20:1 that it will be nominated for an Oscar. Yeah, I know... but we're thinking there have to be a few suckers out there... after all, people actually DID pay to see Mr. & Mrs. Smith in theaters.
Mr. Pitt also has 'Burn After Reading' coming up. Which do you think will be the better movie? I have to go with ' Burn After Reading', if only for the "security of your shit" line which totally cracks me up! It is only the second time I've ever found Brad Pitt funny. The first, of course, being when he is hit by that car in 'Meet Joe Black'. THAT was fucking hilarious. I think it was the best part of the entire movie, and I know I'm not the only one who thinks so...
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Tell me when it melts...
Thanks, AP, but I'd really much rather read about it actually happening. That's so much better than one asshole shouting about a one in two chance that the ice cap will melt.
I COULD HAVE TOLD YOU THAT.
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June 29, 2008
There's Reality... and then there's what Cornyn thinks
It's been an exciting week for Jr. John... let's just jump right in, shall we?
So, just out of curiosity, you may be wondering what Cornyn has planned. Well, it's basically allowing his friends in the oil and gas industry (to whom he's been VERY generous with our tax dollars) to drill. Which is interesting as hell since they are already can and are. Of course, it's understandable that a US Senator and his idiot staff wouldn't know this and bloggers would.
Of course, acknowledging that would require Jr. John to admit that there is not, in fact, enough traditional petroleum to get us off foreign sources. Not to mention there's not enough to drop prices. Which makes Cornyn a LIAR.
None of this is especially surprising when you consider the disorganization and chaos within The 28 Gauge Senator's campaign...
What's going to be really funny is watching all the other R's get tagged on tort reform which was supposed to make health care cheaper, lower insurance costs and increase the number of doctors. It's failed on every count, except increasing the number of doctors, slightly, which was going to happen anyway. We keep churning them outta medical school.
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WOW... I hate all of you!
That's it. Seriously, two posts in one day each about either Hillary Derangement Syndrome or Obama Derangement Syndrome?
SHUT THE FUCK UP. I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER GODDAMN WORD FROM EITHER OF YOU. AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, THE OBAMANIACS AND THE HILLRAISERS CAN ALL GO TO MOTHERFUCKING HELL. YOU'RE ALL A SAD BUNCH OF POLITICANERDS.
I'll be drinking at Mother Egans this evening. If you're coming with a desire to talk about this crap, I'm going to ask you to leave. Seriously, folks, I'm done with all this garbage. You should be as well.
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Get Over It!
Maureen Dowd's column in the New York Times today describes a woman named Carmella who attended the Barack and Hillary "Unity" rally on Unity Day at Unity Hour in Unity, N.H. The theme, you may be surprised to know, was UNITY, but Carmella was having none of it:
Carmella Lewis, with her Hillary T-shirt and Hillary placard, came all the way from Denver to make sure there would be plenty of ambiguity, duality and ferocity in Unity.Just as Hillary was testing out the unfamiliar familiarity “Barack and me” Friday and talking about “his grace and his grit,” Carmella began loudly booing and waving her sign.
“We want Hillary!” screamed the 57-year-old retired ad saleswoman and Clinton delegate.
“It’s over, lady!” yelled some Obama supporters a few yards away.
It got worse:
Carmella and her friends continued to cry, “Nobama!” “We love you, Hillary!” and “We need Hillary!” as Barack Obama sat onstage on a stool behind his former rival, his finger studiously at his lips.Carmella was not impressed with all the kissing, laughing and whispering that Hill and Bam were diligently doing for the cameras, so that the moment could produce, as Obama press aide Robert Gibbs put it on “Larry King Live,” “a great picture.”
When it was Obama’s turn to speak, Carmella announced loudly, “I wish I had ear plugs.” Then, as Obama tried to ingratiate himself with the Hillary partisans in the crowd by saying that because of the New York senator, his daughters “can take for granted that women can do anything that the boys can do and do it better and do it in heels,” Carmella put her fingers in her ears.
As Obama tried to curry favor with Hillary, looking over at her sensible, sturdy shoes and marveling, “I still don’t know how she does it in heels,” Carmella tore up a tissue and stuffed it in her ears.
When Obama pandered with a line about how he wouldn’t “perpetuate a system in which women are paid less for the same work as men,” she put her hands over her tissue-stuffed ears.
Clearly, this woman is deranged. Seriously, folks. I know and love many people, men and women alike, who worked their asses off for Hillary Clinton. Not because she was a woman, or because she was the first serious female candidate for the presidency, but because she is a smart, talented, capable, national political leader who'd make a great President. But mostly because they're good Democrats, tired of the lies and incompetence and hypocrisy and greed and narrow-minded self-righteousness and cronyism and warmongering and oil-addiction that is the Bush Administration and, although the GOP does not like to admit it, the modern Republican Party, and they want a good Democratic candidate to take over the reins because, God knows, THE COUNTRY NEEDS IT.
And so they worked their asses off for Hillary Clinton. And as they stuffed envelopes and phone-banked and block-walked, they were joined by others -- surlier, impatient, haunted and hardened by all the slights and inequities they'd endured as women and contemptuous of the give-and-take of politics. They were on a mission, and they were ENTITLED, goddamit. Entitled to see Hillary as President. Entitled to rage and thunder at anyone who dared to stand in her way, certain that only rank blatant sexism of the sort they'd be putting up with or lashing back at all their lives could explain opposition to The Coronation.
They fumed at the media's condescension towards Hillary. They marveled that anyone found Bill Clinton's South Carolina remarks patronizing or detected a subtle racial appeal in Hillary's comments about "white America." They roared at the injustice of the caucus process, ignoring the fact that caucuses were designed to measure the kind of activism and dedication they themselves were showing.
And most of all, they raged at The Upstart -- young, untested, undoubtedly charismatic and all the more dangerous because of it. Didn't he know it was not his time yet (if it ever would be)? Didn't he realize it was Her Turn, Her Right, that she was Entitled? And who were all these unshaven boys and tattooed girls charging like a tidal wave behind him? (And what were those girls thinking? Didn't they respect their elder sisters in the movement, who got them this far? Ungrateful bitches.)
The Carmella Lewises are mad as hell and they're not going to take it any more. They're going to vote for McCain, who's endorsed a constitutional amendment banning abortions and called for more Scalias and Thomases on the Supreme Court. John McCain, who routinely votes against funding for women's health and family planning services. John McCain, who once called his trophy wife and sugar momma the "C" word.
As a lifelong Democrat who believes this country is on the brink of disaster and desperately needs a Democratic President -- and yes, specifically, needs Barack Obama -- I have this to say. Vote for McCain if you want. See you. Don't let the door of the Democratic Party hit you in the ass on the way out.
And if McCain wins and appoints another right-winger to the Supreme Court, and we're still in Iraq in four years and your grandson gets killed there, and middle-class life is in a tailspin while the rich get richest -- not a word. Not a single word. Not a single fucking word out of you.
It's over, lady.
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Blues For Allah
If Jeff Foxworthy ever tires of his redneck shtick and decides to move into political humor, he'll find a trailer park's worth of material in today's New York Times.
Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge. But this spring, Ms. Nordling, a 19-year-old student from Fort Thomas, Ky., gave herself a new middle name on Facebook.com, mimicking her boyfriend and shocking her father.
"Emily Hussein Nordling,” her entry now reads.
With her decision, she joined a growing band of supporters of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name.
You might be a cult member if...
The article is careful to point out that this is not being encouraged by the official Obama campaign and is so far limited to individual Baracksheviks (although I can't imagine that a nice writeup in the Newspaper of Record will do anything to discourage its spread.) Still, as Uppity Woman wrote recently, among the factors that sank George McGovern's 1972 campaign were the antics of his youthful supporters. In a word, they scared their elders shitless and drove them over to Richard Nixon's column, from which many never returned.
While Obama now begins his own tack to the right in what is already becoming the most sickening display of appeasement since Neville Chamberlain gift-wrapped the Sudetenland, the idiotic actions of the Facebookers will do nothing to reassure centrist voters. Already troubled that that slander that he might be a secret Muslim, how will the older generation react to the notion that Obama is turning their own kids to the Crescent? Not well, I predict.
Ah well, as Hegal said, we learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
Some said they were inspired by movies, including “Spartacus,” the 1960 epic about a Roman slave whose peers protect him by calling out “I am Spartacus!” to Roman soldiers
Of course, those of us who've seen the movie might recall just how the Romans, with their ever-wry sense of humor, dealt with that particular bit of servile impertinence.
At least there's no actual evidence that Obama is the Antichrist, since the pod people aren't having his name tattooed on their foreheads. (Be sure to shoot me an email when that starts to happen, m'kay?)
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June 28, 2008
Having some fun (at Brewster's expense)
We're everywhere... including City Hall
Mayor Pro Tem is always given to the Council member with the most seniority which is, at the time, unfortunately Brewster. But, rumor has it, as of Monday there was not a Council member willing to make a "motion", or even "second" a motion, on Brewster's nomination to MPT. Awkwardly, the Mayor - who usually runs the meeting - had to act as a "second" to nominate the MPT.
Now, here's the thing that really sucks... Despite the need to hold a vote, a full week before the inauguration ceremony and council election of MPT, Councilman McCracken moved into the Mayor Pro Tem office, creating anger in City Hall at his complete disregard for process.
We at McBlogger fully expect Brewster to use the office of Mayor Pro Tem to relentlessly run for Mayor. Honestly, we're looking forward to it. It's always amusing to see Brewster masturbate his ego by jumping in front of the reporters who are desperately trying to escape from him.
RELEASE THE MCCRACKEN!
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June 27, 2008
McBlogger does... Haiku
See if you can guess, from the following, what's going on in my life...
checkcard, spoofed. Again
stolen numbers must pay well
thieves are cocksuckers
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Michael Crofton : Ugh! The Democrats!
In an interview with Bloomberg TV this afternoon (yes, you guessed it, I'm stuck in my office), Michael Crofton the CEO of The Philadelphia Trust Company, said it would be a disaster if the Democrats controlled Congress and the Presidency.
A disaster for the economy, that is.
At this time, we at McBlogger HQ would like to take a moment to point out to Mr. Crofton that the following things have occurred since President Bush and a mostly Republican Congress (they controlled it completely from 2003-2007) took over:
1) Job growth has been non-existent. In fact, using real world statistics, instead of the BLS stats, a strong case can be made for negative real job growth.
2) Deficits are at historic levels. And have been for years.
3) The Dollar has devalued against the Euro by more than 50%.
4) Oil prices have increased close to five times
5) Wage growth has been nil
6) Inflation is once again a problem
7) Food prices are up dramatically
8) House prices have collapsed
And that's just a few of the Republicans greatest hits. Which makes me wonder, what IS Mr. Crofton fearful of? A vibrant economy? Low inflation? Paying off the national dent and running surpluses? Real wage growth and an increase in national savings?
Come on, Mr. Crofton. Tell us what is so scary about the Democrats...
(Am I going a little overboard on the lists today?)
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What you need to know
1) San Marcos has a municipal airport.
2) It is now on fire.
3) I did not start it (I'm no where near SM at the moment).
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No, really. You really are the suck, John Davis
Just to let y'all know, this is cut and paste copy from Vince at Capital Annex. I didn't want y'all to think I was plagiarizing. Actually, that's not true. I really don't care what you think.
If you have been following the videos we released on Monday and Tuesday, no doubt your appetite has been sufficiently whetted and you are eager to know just exactly who the most endangered Republican in the Texas House that you don't know actually is. Wait no longer, as the answer is below:
What makes John Davis the most endangered Republican in the Texas House? It's a good question, and we've got the answer.
John Davis is out of touch with his district. HD 129 is a district that includes El Lago, Nassau Bay, Seabrook, Shoreacres, Taylor Lake Village, and Webster and parts of Friendswood, Houston, La Porte, League City, Pasadena, and Pearland--all in Harris County.
A common misconception is that HD 129 is a "silk stocking" House District full of wealthy folks. That's not true, however. While a majority of families do have an annual income of over $50,000 according to the 2000 Census (the most recent numbers broken out by House District), the population of HD 129 is more "middle class" than anything.
Davis' voting record, however, is pretty shoddy when it comes to the needs of middle class families.
Davis voted for tuition deregulation. It doesn't take a genius to tell you that middle class families have been impacted significantly by the Legislature's decision in 2003 to deregulate college tuition. It has become very difficult for middle class families to afford to send their kids to college because tuition costs are skyrocketing. Clearly, tuition deregulation is not a middle class value that the people of House District 129 support. Davis has even put the interests of one of his big supporters, Houston home builder Bob Perry, above middle class students who want a college education when it came time to cast votes on the Appropriations Bill on the House floor!
He's for dirty air. Once again, it doesn't take a genius to tell you that the air quality in Harris county is somewhat lacking. Heck, even the American Journal of Epidemiology has taken note of the fact that lung cancer mortality in Harris County is high--and that isn't because more people in Harris County enjoy the occasional Marlboro or Kool, either. Yet John Davis--time and time again--has voted against improving the air quality in his own district. Here is some of what Davis actually has to say about this topic:
"It's much cleaner than it was 20-30 years ago. I believe we are on the right track. I don't want to choke off industry.
You can also watch a YouTube of Davis actually making that statement here.
Davis also voted for raising taxes on small businesses. Even though Republicans are typically pro-business, Davis is surely no friend of small business. Even others in his own party call the tax John Davis supported an "abject failure." Taxing small businesses out of business isn't exactly a middle class value, either.
And, there is plenty more where that came from: Davis voted to disenfranchise minorities and the elderly (Voter ID), to waste taxpayer dollars on state-funded lobbyists (more than once), and even allowing the state to seize homes of Medicaid patients (HB 2922).
Does Davis share his district's values? We think not.
Davis' failure to reflect the values of his district alone, however, doesn't make him endangered. It is, rather, a variety of factors.
One of the key factors that makes Davis terribly endangered is the quality of his opponent, Democrat Sherrie Matula, and the campaign she is running down in HD 129.
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Japan and US agree to accelerate global warming
Oh, shit... this has 'bad idea' written all over it.
AOMORI, Japan (AFP) — Japan and the United States on Saturday agreed to cooperate on research into methane hydrate, known as the "ice that burns" which is seen as a promising future energy source.Energy ministers from the world's two largest economies signed the cooperation agreement at a meeting in northern Japan that comes amid mounting concern about record-high oil prices.
Methane hydrate, or methane gas trapped in frozen water, looks like ice but burns. Its deposits can be found in permafrost regions and seabeds.
Under the three-year cooperation agreement, Japan hopes to conduct an on-shore production test in Alaska.
The deal was signed between Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Akira Amari and US Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman.
The Japanese ministry and US department plan "extensive research with respect to methane hydrate exploration and resource assessment," a statement announcing the bilateral cooperation said.
"To establish technology for commercial production, we have to conduct test-production for several months," a Japanese ministry official said.
Yeah. There are so many problems with this, it's not even funny. For one thing, this stuff will be extremely difficult to bring up. For another, it's methane, a much nastier greenhouse gas than CO2. All that carbon that was in the atmosphere millions of years ago? This is where a lot of it is stored. And it's comparatively easy to destablize. In fact, temperature changes in the oceans RIGHT NOW may soon cause deposits of the stuff to flash over from their frozen form to gas. And then they'll bubble up, which will make the current carbon load in the atmosphere look like a non-issue.
Oh, and most of the stuff is in international waters. It'll be a lot of fun going to war over this crap.
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June 26, 2008
I hate being right...
...though, I must admit, when it comes to energy policy and what we need to do (and need not to do), it's happening pretty damn often.
If Congress were to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, crude oil prices would probably drop by an average of only 75 cents a barrel, according to Department of Energy projections issued Thursday.The report, which was requested in December by Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, found that oil production in the refuge "is not projected to have a large impact on world oil prices."
At this point, I'd like to invite the Republicans in Congress (as well as Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry) to drink a nice tall glass of shut the fuck up. Oh, and media... if you'd like to, you know, REPORT THIS, that would be great. I love McClatchy but I'd like to see this elsewhere.
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I'm sick of Ghostland Observatory
Actually, I'm just sick of electroclash.
Here's a question for the morning 'tards over at 101X... if you're going to play GLO, why not Ladytron? Or Peaches?
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Curveball still serving Whoppers
One of the douchebags who peddled questionable intelligence, of the variety that helped Bush and Co. make their flawed case to invade Iraq, is living, working and lying in Germany. Now at a Burger King.
When you read this article, please try to keep in mind this guy is a joke. He was a joke way back in 2002 and 2003 when the assweevils were trying to bring their case for war (when Condi and Cheney were talking about mushroom clouds). I wonder sometimes if they were dumb enough to believe him (the Germans already knew he was a liar) or if he just came around at the right time with the right lies.
It really doesn't matter now. Especially since it's unlikely anyone in this Administration will ever go to jail for lying us into war.
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If you're in Houston tonight
Here's something fun for you to do!
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Something funny
See more here... and if you're offended, you're a tard.
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June 25, 2008
Why Does Nancy Pelosi Hate Chet Edwards?
Nancy Pelosi, caught on video with a misty glow in her eyes as she remembered Bobby Kennedy, makes me wonder if she's ever had sex with a Kennedy. I'll let you stew on that one for a while.
Then she goes completely off the deep end and gets all territorial, lamenting that no House member is being discussed as a vice presidential candidate for Barack Obama. She then goes on to suggest that Chet Edwards is good VP material. Where do I begin?
Under the Republicans, the House of Representatives distinguished itself as the biggest group of corrupt, ideologically-moronic, hypocritical poltroons to ever get their hands on a bunch of teenage pages. Under the Democrats, the House of Representatives has distinguished itself as the bigget group of direction-less, spineless, amateurish poltroons ever to get better health care than their employers, the taxpayers.
Consider, Madame Speaker, the cast of numbnuts, also-rans, and delusional megalomaniacs from the U.S. House who littered the early months of the presidential campaign. Tom Tancredo? Duncan Hunter? Dennis Kucinich? Compared to them, Ron Paul -- the loopiness of whose political ideas cannot be overstated -- looked like a Titan. And now Bob Barr, whose vengeful partisan pettiness while a Republican congressman ought to make any self-respecting Libertarian weep for the future of the party?
There's a reason the House of Representatives is ignored in most discussions of national leadership material.
Now, I like Chet Edwards, but he is George Bush's congressman in more ways than one. As a congressman representing a conservative and occasionally backwards Texas district, he does fine. But let's not prove the Peter Prinicple by making him (so much) more than he is.
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No. Really? You're Kidding me. Stop.
Welcome to George Bush's economy... and just FYI, don't feel too bad for some of the poor, especially the rural poor. They've been voting Republican and they'll keep voting Republican.
Actually, screw that. Feel bad for them anyway. You try to feed a family of four on minimum wage. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
And thanks to the Statesman for pointing out the mind numbingly obvious. Really. I never would have guessed that someone would have problems surviving on a wage that, hourly, barely pays for a gallon of unleaded.
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Partisan hiring at the DOJ?
Imagine my surprise upon finding out that political considerations were used in the determination to hire interns at the DOJ. Which is, coincidentally, against the law (via MSNBC and WaPo)
Ivy Leaguers and other top law students were rejected for plum Justice Department jobs two years ago because of their liberal leanings or objections to Bush administration politics, a government report concluded Tuesday.In one case, a Harvard Law student was passed over after criticizing the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. In another, a Georgetown University student who had previously worked for a Democratic senator and congressman didn't make the cut.
Even senior Justice Department officials flinched at what appeared to be hiring decisions based — improperly and illegally — on politics, according to the internal report. (MSNBC)
There's a reason these laws exist. It's to keep partisan politics out of prosecutions. Of course, we all see how well that's worked out. Still, the law is there to protect both Republicans and Democrats.
How would you R's like it if President Obama appointed a really partisan AG who started prosecutions of a bunch of R officeholders around the country?
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Apple Annie's gets a loan
The City has agreed to give a downtown restaurant/bakery/catering company a loan to keep it downtown. Before you get upset, read the details. It's a small part of their overall financial need and it's not forgivable.
I do have a bit of a problem with the below market interest rate, but honestly, it achieves an objective... namely keeping a business and jobs downtown.
Good work, y'all.
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Now That Was A Speech!
Yesterday evening, Sen. Chris Dodd gave a ripping speech on the Senate floor regarding FISA, the rule of law, and the disrespect for the institutions of government that supporters of telecom immunity have shown. It was the best speech anyone has given since this whole illegal domestic spying program was revealed.
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Roundin' up the TPA
It's time for another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance's Weekly blog round-up. The round-up is compiled from posts submitted by member blogs.
WCNews at Eye On Williamson takes apart the new GOP Business tax in Tearing At The Margins Tax.
Off the Kuff published the rest of his convention week interviews, with Joe Moody (HD78), Ernie Casbeer (HD59), and State Rep. Juan Garcia (HD32).
McBlogger asks why are the Republicans so ideologically driven on energy policy? Then he remembers that knowledge isn't so useful in the faith-based economy.
Something stinks about the Webb County Sheriff's election. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme can't wait to find out who did what.
BossKitty at BlueBloggin points out that we have more than just McCain and Obama running for president. And Then Theres Bob Barr - Born Again Libertarian; one-time conservative Republican Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party presidential nominee, offered a scathing critique of Sen. John McCain today and predicted he would garner substantial conservative Republican support in a handful of battleground states critical to McCain in his campaign against Democratic Sen. Barack Obama.
Obama needs Texas to win the presidency, but only -- as with recent previous Democratic nominees -- for its money and not its electoral votes, claims PDiddie at Brains and Eggs.
WhosPlayin piles on after Joe Barton, Michael Burgess, Pete Sessions, and Kay Granger hold a press conference to blame Democrats for high fuel prices. It was so bad that even Fox 4 News called B.S. on it.
Lightseeker at Texas Kaos continues to keep an eye on Blackwater's shenanigans. The latest is that Erik Prince loves him some Sharia law-if it will quash a lawsuit for him.
Wonder how long it will be before the company dress code includes a burqa?
refinish69 reviews the GOP's Big Bad John at Doing MY Part For The Left. While the video is wonderful for a laugh and has wonderful production values, it is as full of crap as John Cornyn's career as a US Senator.
Vince at Capitol Annex takes down the new platform of the Republican Party of Texas.
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Oh. God. No.
Right up there with the news that Kinky wants to run as a Democrat in 2010 at the top of a list of 'Things That Will Make Me Vomit', is the news that Congressman Chet Edwards is being seriously considered as a VP nom. For Obama, not McCain.
Seriously, Pelosi is out of touch. This is the same guy who turned tail on his own Oath of Office, sided with the Republicans and PASSED A BILL TO LET THE GOVERNMENT INDISCRIMINATELY SPY ON ITS OWN CITIZENS. But, of course, so did Pelosi.
Lookit, boys and girls, this IS a big issue. This isn't gays and lesbians getting married and any one of a thousand other issues we give these assholes passes on because 'they're in a tough district full of mouth breathers'. In other words, This is the foundation of our country. The basis of our laws. The Republicans disregarded it and we've seen the results. Do you have any idea how crushing it is to watch DEMOCRATS now taking their turn shitting on the document that created the nation our ancestors fought desperately to establish?
Today is the vote in the Senate. Feingold is nervous.
Holding up his BlackBerry, Feingold warned, “Every time you e-mail my daughter or text message her in England, anybody contacts their son or daughter in Iraq, anybody has kids [spending] junior year abroad, anybody that has a business associate anywhere around the world, all of that is now sucked up into a database over which there is essentially no control for the first time in American history. All of this has happened to you, and your communications, in a way that you never would have thought was possible in this country.... We're going to fall over on this.”
There's more from PDiddie and FDL. If this thing passes, we will never get a determination from a court that the actions of the President were illegal. And make no mistake, they were...
SPECTER: OK. So what the administration, executive branch of the president, did was not illegal.COMEY: I'm not saying -- again, that's why I kept avoiding using that term. I had not reached a conclusion that it was.
The only conclusion I reached is that I could not, after a whole lot of hard work, find an adequate legal basis for the program.
SPECTER: OK.
Well, now I understand why you didn't say it was illegal. What I don't understand is why you now won't say it was legal.
COMEY: Well, I suppose there's an argument -- as I said, I'm not a presidential scholar -- that because the head of the executive branch determined that it was appropriate to do, that that meant for purposes of those in the executive branch it was legal.
I disagreed with that conclusion. Our legal analysis was that we couldn't find an adequate legal basis for aspects of this matter. And for that reason, I couldn't certify it to its legality.
And don't kid yourself, this isn't about terrorists. It never has been. And it certainly doesn't give me a lot of faith in our nominee, who is apparently as big a booster for this bill as his opponent. And President Bush.
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June 24, 2008
Where a certain R gets his money...
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Winning the Stupid OFFSHORE Olympics, Pt. 4
As McBlogger has already pointed out, the oil industry (forget this "energy Industry b.s.; while they are running slick green-washing commercials mocked here, they're doing everything they can to sabotage actual progress on renewable energy), has come up with a formula for mindless repetition of their latest terrible, pointless idea: "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less." As David Kobierowski pointed out in his first-hand report on the Republican state convention a couple weeks ago, after Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney had given their speeches, hundreds of Republican could be seen walking around the George R. Brown, zombie-like, chanting "Drill here, drill now, pay less."
Leave it to Joe Biden to get at the black little political heart of this idea on "Meet the Press" last Sunday, taking on a flustered Lindsey Graham:
This is a gift, a gift to the oil companies by John McCain. They have now leased 41 million acres of offshore leases. They're only pumping in 10.2 million of those acres. Seventy-nine percent of all the offshore oil available off the coast of Florida, into the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Coast, the Pacific Coast, lies within those acres that they now have. Why are they not pumping? Why are they not doing this? Why are they not pursuing what's estimated to be a total of 70--54 billion barrels of oil at their disposal right now if they pump? Why are these greedy fellows deciding they want to go beyond that? It's because they want to get it in before George Bush leaves the presidency. It's because they're not pumping the oil to keep the price up. They are not even drilling. So here you have 30 million leased acres they have right now that possesses 79 percent of all the offshore, and they're not drilling. And John says they need more? And it would take 10 years for it to come online.
A very important point: none of this newlw-permitted drilling in ANWR and along our coastlines will lower the current cost of gas by a penny; under the most optimistic scenarios, oil will not be flowing from any of the new areas for ten years. Besides, they're not extracting from the areas they can explore now; why would they extract from the new areas?
Even if this was a workable idea, which it isn't, it would still be a bad one. Tom Friedman nails it in yesterday's New York Times. The whole piece is worth reading, but here's a tasty excerpt:
Two years ago, President Bush declared that America was “addicted to oil,” and, by gosh, he was going to do something about it. Well, now he has. Now we have the new Bush energy plan: “Get more addicted to oil.” ... It’s as if our addict-in-chief is saying to us: “C’mon guys, you know you want a little more of the good stuff. One more hit, baby. Just one more toke on the ole oil pipe. I promise, next year, we’ll all go straight. I’ll even put a wind turbine on my presidential library. But for now, give me one more pop from that drill, please, baby. Just one more transfusion of that sweet offshore crude.”
The bottom line is, nothing in this proposal is going to give us any relief from high gas prices -- but it will give the oil and gas industry the illusion that it's meeting the long-term needs of the American people. The hypocrisy stinks.
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Winning the stupid olympics, pt 3
REALLY. That's enough with the stupid, Republicans. I'm so sick of hearing all the lies coming from y'all. Well, it's either lying or just rank stupidity.
Maybe I should call John McCain's spokespuppy and find out which.
1) There's not enough oil to really make a dent in demand.
2) You can't bring what's there up fast enough to have a real impact on prices without stomping on speculation.
3) Bush could end high oil prices in an afternoon by starving speculators.
4) Did I mention there's not enough oil down there?
But the biggest one is that there isn't enough equipment for offshore drilling available. Because it's already being used in the areas where you CAN drill offshore. Which also, it just so happen, is where 80% of the total oil available on the continental shelf (for those of you who've been voting R, 'right off the coast') is located. In other words, anyone that tells you we're missing out on some kind of oil panacea in the deep water is lying to you. But hey, it's not the first time Bush has lied.
There is no doubt that a lot of people have been discomfited and genuinely hurt by $4-a-gallon gas. But their suffering will not be relieved by drilling in restricted areas off the coasts of New Jersey or Virginia or California. The Energy Information Administration says that even if both coasts were opened, prices would not begin to drop until 2030. The only real beneficiaries will be the oil companies that are trying to lock up every last acre of public land before their friends in power — Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney — exit the political stage.
To those who rise in support of expanded drilling I tell you earnestly that it is better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Hava Goodun!
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The most endangered R you don't know
Oh, and there's more to come... just wait.
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June 23, 2008
Winning the stupid olympics, pt 2
Here's the WaPo. Click on it and scroll down the second story (the one under the thing about the douchebag lobbyist).
Congress has tied itself in knots over whether to permit more domestic drilling for oil and gas. But Gingrich, through his organization, American Solutions for Winning the Future, has come up with a phrase that has inspired a torrent of support via the Internet.In just three weeks, more than 750,000 people have signed on to a cyber-petition that endorses the phrase "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less." In a single day last week, nearly 100,000 people endorsed the simple-to-understand concept.
"It's far exceeded all of our expectations," said Dan Kotman, spokesman for the group.
Really, Newt? I always thought of you as the smart Republican. Exactly where would you like to drill where you can bring up 2-3 mn bbl per day?
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Yes, I know. It has Dane Cook in it.
I loathe Dane Cook. I've never been able to fathom the depths of stupidity required to find his stand up comedy routines entertaining. I have only been able to withstand one of his films which was 'Waiting...'. It's main redeeming quality is that it's a quick cure for any self esteem issues the viewer might be experiencing. Oh, and it swore me off Bennigans for eternity, so I guess that's a plus. I could not see any upside to seeing 'Good Luck Chuck'. Especially since it has Jessica Alba in it. She is a big, bright, beaming beacon of DER. If she is in a movie, it is fucking guaranteed to make you lose IQ points. To wit.
But I digress. When I saw the trailer for 'My Best Friend's Girl', it actually made me smile.
I thought, 'Holy shit, I might actually see something Dane Cook is in. This can't be real. Maybe that fucking quack was right and I DO need to cut back on my drinking!' Since then my best and worst natures have been at war in my head. Can I live with myself afterward? Maybe... if I go see it in a theater where I won't run into anyone I know. Am I alone in thinking this looks somewhat amusing? Perhaps I've just seen too many crappy movies lately.
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June 22, 2008
Hope Is Just A Four Letter Word
Uppity Woman, who is fast becoming one of my favorite Pumas, notes that Prince Charming may have some troubles as he tries to weasel his way out of his pledges in this era of YouTube . Things like committing to use public financing for his campaign this fall. Of course, that doesn't stop the True Believer Baracksheviks from chugging another pitcher of Koolaid and insisting that just because the Obamessiah said He was in favor of it didn't mean He would do it.
By the time we're done with this wretched mess you'll learn the only Change We Can Believe In is a plan to take away our dollar bills and replace them with those crappy coins that don't fit in vending machines.
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June 21, 2008
FISA roundup
If you stand for nothing, you'll fall
for anything
And now, we know there are some members of the Democratic Congress who will sell us out swiftly. Like Hoyer and Rahm Emmanuel. For those of you who remember my previous defense of Rahm, I'd like to point out this is the Constitution, not some stupid minor issue. There was NO ACCEPTABLE compromise on this.
First, the showdown now moves to the Senate where Feingold and Leahy are already saying they'll stop it. Will Reid let them or ignore him as he's done previously?
And lets not forget that more than half the Democrats in the House DID vote against this capitulation... Folks like Conyers and Barbara Lee. They deserve some of your love.
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) pointed to a constitutional concern."The grant of retro-active immunity is inconsistent with our basic principles. We are breaking with a very proud tradition and intervening in a pending court decision in an effort to reach a preordained legal outcome. This is a bad precedent," he said.
Republicans without exception spoke in favor of the bill, often citing the dangers of terrorism.
Greenwald and others are raising money to take on Hoyer and some of the other weak sisters who think selling out is standing up.
Obama issued his statement on FISA (take one and take two) and, to say the least, it's weak. Not much of a surprise to those of us who never really bought the new kind of politics bullshit, one hell of a shock to those of you who actually thought fucko was something different.
Gadfly has more on the Texans who caved in. Edwards and Lampson are standouts, but not surprises... you had to know their names would be there. Reyes is seriously too senile (and frankly stupid) to fully grasp what he's done. The rest of them, like Al Green, were just following orders. Like the Nazi's. As a side note, for those of you in 22, is Lampson really as much of a bitch as he appears? Seriously, the guy is pathetic... does he have ANY backbone?
Doggett, of course, voted against it. EVERY Republican voted for it which is to be expected since all of them look at being a Representative not as a sacred public trust but as an opportunity to line their pockets. Seriously, while Lampson may be a jellyfish, the Republicans here in Texas really believe that we should give up essential liberty for temporary safety and security. As Benjamin Franklin put it, they deserve neither.
Some Texans y'all turned out to be. Scared to death of the terrorists. Cowards. You're pathetic even for Republicans.
At this time, I'd like to urge you to do what just about everyone I know has already done. Stop all contributions to the DCCC, DSCC and DNC. Focus on candidates and organizations that do not support this abortion of our Constitutional rights. It's time for certain members of the Democratic leadership to understand that the tail does not wag the dog. While they're some good people at these organizations, the leadership is thoroughly corrupt. Until we find a way to marginalize folks like Steny Hoyer, Rahm and Pelosi, they'll just keep pulling the same shit on us. And we'll all end up losing people... voters are repulsed by gutlessness. And that's what these traitors displayed.
I'll be completely honest... I grew up Republican. I grew up thinking Democrats were weak, didn't have any real feelings or values. I learned yesterday I was partially right (I've known for a while Republicans were pandering idiots without an intellectual core). I moved over to the Democratic Party based on economic issues and social issues and I've been proud of that decision. But, I have to admit, we've seen little of substance out of this Democratic Congress. There's no balanced budget. There's no sound energy policy. There's no expansion of social justice. There's a definitive effort to destroy our civil liberties. There's no real oversight of the executive branch.
There are a number of Democrats that join with Republicans on such a consistent basis that they may as well take a trip up to Minneapolis this August instead of coming to Denver. It's those folks that deserve absolutely no support. Let them seek support from the people they really care about. It certainly isn't us.
Why, after all this time, are Democrats caving in to Republicans? Why aren't we forcing half of their caucus to fold? Because, while they may be wrong, they've got the strength of will that many of our folks in Congress find irresistible. Go on, Steny, give Blount a hummer... we know you're dying to.
Finally, there's this from Dan Froomkin at the WaPo
What kind of a country is it where, when the head of state asks you to do something that may well be illegal, but assures you that he considers it legal, you can't be held accountable for doing it?Welcome to the new U.S. of A.
Under the surveillance "compromise" that the House of Representatives approved today, telecommunications companies that participated in the government's warrantless surveillance program would get immunity from civil lawsuits as long as they showed that they were told that the program was authorized by President Bush and was determined by his legal team to be lawful.
With Congress having largely abandoned its oversight obligations on this issue, and with little chance of Bush's Justice Department investigating itself, these lawsuits were really the only remaining avenue of accountability -- at least until the next administration.
But the new law would prohibit federal judges from addressing the merits of these suits. Instead, since the government did provide assurances about legality that the companies can easily document, judges would be required to dismiss them.
In a system of laws, a permission slip from the president isn't supposed to supercede duly enacted legislation -- and the Constitution.
So how did Bush get his way with Congress -- again? It was just four months ago that House Democrats defiantly rejected what they called Bush's fear mongering and refused to vote on a surveillance proposal that included telecom immunity. It appeared that Bush's iron hold over Congress on national security had finally been broken.
But, on some issues at least, Congress is apparently still willing to cave to The Man.
And this from Digby... and just let me say, I don't want to hear you bitch until you've made a donation to a one of those people who stood up for the Constitution of the United States of America.
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June 20, 2008
Is Krauthammer really this ideologically driven?
In all the craziness about offshore drilling and 'exploration' of ANWR and other Federal lands, it's become readily apparent that people on the 'drill more, drill now, pay less' side of things are really uninformed. Either that or they are just hellbent on advancing ideology over common sense, wishful thinking vs. hard reality.
The reality is we can already drill in the 4/5 of coastal waters where oil is theoretically located. I say theoretically because we really don't know how much is or isn't down there. Given the finds that have already been made the Gulf, it's clear there IS oil under the bottom. It's also clear there is not nearly enough of it to make a difference in current prices. Nor is there enough in ANWR. Krauthammer, in his column in the WaPo, thinks there is enough for 22 years in ANWR and offshore. At current rates of global consumption. Try 10 at best, Chuck. And that's if you can suck it all out in a steady stream which anyone who bothered to actually study the issue would know you can't do. It's also predicated on those estimated reserves being recoverable reserves. There's a difference, but apparently Krauthammer doesn't know what that difference is.
Now, Chuck's just a columnist and like all columnists he pretty much sucks at research. So, I'll cut him some slack for now. But really, in the future, I'd ask that he at least try to be a little less embarrassingly cocksure?
Look, I've been blogging about this for years. We're running out of cheap oil and as this accelerates additional barrels become incrementally more expensive. Its the nature of a natural resource. Eventually, the easy stuff plays out and what's left is expensive to produce and doesn't come in nearly the quantity it once did. That why you either find something to replace it or you find a way to artificially increase supply.
When it comes to oil, we can do both. If only the ideologues will get out of the goddamn way and let us get to it.
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I have but one question...
HOW COULD YOU BE SO STUPID, DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP??!?!?!
Here's how this going to go... You candidates all write constantly asking for support. For you, I have only one question: Will support our current corrupt leadership or will you support leadership changes that will return this country to the rule of law?
How about it, Larry Joe? What are YOU going to do Michael Skelly? Rick Noriega? If you're going to support the absurd leadership of Pelosi and Reid, then there is really no point in electing you.
WHERE DO YOU STAND?
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Carbon and Energy...There's dumb and then there's DUMB
Here's a nice op/ed piece on global efforts to reduce carbon and switch to green technologies. The bottom line is it's going to cost us about $1trillion/year over 40 years. GLOBALLY. In the US, it'll be around $7 trillion which is really nothing over 40 years. Especially when you consider this will create jobs. And save us money on OIL. In fact, if oil keeps increasing the way it already has, spending this money will actually be cheaper than maintaining the status quo. And I'm not even worrying about the other negative effects of global warming.
It is not, admittedly, a trifling sum. The International Energy Agency reckons it will cost US$45 trillion to develop and deploy the technologies needed to halve carbon emissions from the energy sector (including transport) by the middle of the century.That is about what would be required to stabilize the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at 450 parts per million...
It ought to be enough to keep the rise in average global temperatures below 2.4C and is the target the leaders of the Group of Eight leading industrial powers agreed last year they would seriously consider.
While $45 trillion is a lot of money, it has to be put in perspective.
It would be spread over more than 40 years and across the whole world economy. It would equate to just over 1 per cent of global gross domestic product over that period, the IEA estimates.
And it would be offset by the cost of the fossil-fuel use avoided, which could be of a similar order, the IEA says. As it acknowledges, however, in a world where the oil price can jump $11 in a single day, any estimates of that are "debatable".
Obvs, Cornyn and the idiots who love him, don't get any of this. Of course, I wouldn't take any of them seriously, after all they think oil is completely fungible and that a barrel pumped out of VZ is the same as one pumped out of the North Sea. I guess no one ever explained assays and that some refineries can only take certain types of oil. It's certain no one ever explained to them that the cheap oil is gone.
Seriously, what is IT with you Republicans and thinking that we can drill our way out of high prices? Even 39% has jumped into the debate...
With Texas one of the few states that allows offshore pumping, Perry disagreed with Obama: "One of the fastest ways to bring down prices is good old supply and demand."
WOW. Just WOW. I couldn't agree more. However, where you've gone off the rails is in thinking that you can drill for the additional supply. All of you Republicans seem to think there's more than enough oil in the ground for infinity. There isn't. Sure, there's a lot of oil all over the place. The problem is, it's not economically recoverable. Which means it's SO MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE THAN ALTERNATIVES THAT THERE'S NO WAY ANYONE WILL EVER BOTHER WITH IT.
Two years ago, one of our long departed authors posted this...
America and the world face a real problem... the end of cheap, portable energy. Note I'm not writing about the end of oil because that's just stupid. We will NEVER pump the last bit of crude from the ground. For one, fossil fuels ARE a replenishing resource, they just happen to be created over thousands, sometimes millions of years. The second reason we'll never extract the last drop of oil is that it will simply be too expensive. By the time you get to that point, oil would be at $100,000/barrel in 2006 dollars. At that level, it's probably cheaper to power your car off some kind of nuclear power source.
Take off the ideological blinders for a second and realize that this is real and that failing to take action will result in TRILLIONS of dollars per year in losses just in our economy.
One last thing, there seems to be a central objection about 'freeloaders', namely India and China who'll not comply with the treaty. The objection goes that since they aren't going to do it, why should we.
The answer, for all you supposed conservatives, is that it will be cheaper. For one thing, biofuels are already cheaper than traditional petroleum based fuels. And they take carbon out of the air. Carbon put into the air by India and China. As we convert more and more to biofuels, we'll leave them behind... and get their carbon emissions for free.
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Anyone want to have dinner at Castle Hill?
I've loved Castle Hill for years. I've taken people there for lunch, dinner and occasionally on some really awful dates. To hear that it's closing hurts.
Castle Hill Cafe, the restaurant that became well known as an affordable fine-dining spot, is closing at the end of this month after more than two decades in business because the owner says it has become too expensive to operate with rising food and gas prices."It's too hard, to be honest, way too hard for us," owner Cathe Dailey said Thursday. She said it seems like each day brings another cost increase in one or more items.
Next week she will shut down the nearly 22-year-old restaurant and transform the space into an interior Mexican eatery with a full bar.
Now I know how some of you folks felt about Las Manitas. Even though their food sucks ass.
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June 19, 2008
Winning the stupid olympics
There is NOT some giant, trillion barrel reserve under the Rockies. Or ANWR. Or the Gulf. Oh sure, there's a ton of oil down there but it's expensive to bring up. Too expensive by far to help us out. So quit lying to people, Joe Barton. And lose some weight because you're getting hella fat. Assweavil.
Hey MSM... ask Kay Granger what the per barrel cost will be to produce oil out of ANWR and how much it could realistically produce in a year. Watch the steam come out of her ears. Yes, Reporters, things really are that goddamn simple. Ask any analyst. Better yet, since you won't believe my blogging ass, ask Matt Simmons.
WP has more including information on Burgess' little Energy Expo which just sounds precious. If you like pandering bullshit and lies. Someone go and tell us if he actually says prices will fall immediately.
Hava Goodun!
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Apparently, I'm a douchebag
Thanks, Vince and SCCS.
Oh, and, before I forget, “McBlogger is a Douchebag.” I and another blogger (who shall remain nameless) decided that should be blogged somewhere because McBlogger wasn’t in the convention hall being tortured with the rest of us at 8 p.m. on Saturday night as we waited for the Nominations Committee (Secret) Meeting (Behind Locked Doors) That Never Ends to adjourn and return from Narnia through the Magical Wardrobe across the Yellow Brick Road by way of east Nebraska riding very slow and lethargic donkeys. Since she didn’t blog it, I will. Of course, McBlogger had the nerve to call me a “whore” in a text message because I evidently walked passed him somewhere without even noticing he was there, which is the ultimate sin in the Blogosphere.
Uhm. Fucktard. That was Muse and I asking if you wanted to come have drinks with Jobsanger, CC and the crew from PTS. And don't blame me because y'all were lame.
Conventions, where we separate the casual drinkers from the hardcore alcis.
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Remember when Karl put that guy in jail?
Remember former AL Governor Siegelman? Yeah, that guy.
Apparently he's appealing his conviction which will, it seems likely, be reversed. As for Rove, the man who landed him in hot water by brow beating the FBI and the US Attorney, he's being called before Congress. And has refused the subpoena.
Tell you what, Conyers. This guy is not EVER going to testify. Put him in jail for contempt of Congress. There isn't a soul in this country who would care.
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The good news and the bad news
The good news is that Austin Energy apparently has 3GW of capacity to keep us airconditioned. The bad news? This is likely to be the hottest June on record.
Austin has an average of 11 triple-digit days each year, but so far this year there have been 14, KVUE chief meteorologist Mark Murray said."Right now, this is on track to be the warmest June in Austin history," Murray said.
I hate you, Mark Murray. I really, really hate you.
And yes, I know I said quit whining about the heat. Because it's Texas. But this is hella hot and it's way too early.
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Help Democrats TODAY
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June 18, 2008
So, will CapMet be smart or dumb this time?
CapMet has a number of plans for Light Rail projects (like the starter line from Downtown to Mueller) but they have to be approved by voters prior to starting. So, one has to ask... WITH NOVEMBER COMING UP, WILL CAPMET BE SMART AND PUT THIS ON THE BALLOT?
I mean, it's not like there won't be a flood of progressives going to the polls in November. If ever there were a time to get voters to sign off on long range plans, this would be it. Everyone is feeling higher fuel prices and the voters that will show up in November will be ones who are very likely to vote for anything that will cut the Austin Metro's carbon footprint.
SO DO IT ALREADY.
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Spot on, Hermana!
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