FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY OR NOT — PHILLIP MORRIS STOP CALLING!!
That’s a direct request from a staffer. We just thought we’d pass it along. Staffers feel free to vent in the comments.
07.26.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Archive for July, 2005
How Does “Live Strong” Grab You As A Campaign Slogan?
Ann Curry interviewed Lance Armstrong and he’s not running for governor.
Curry: You do have political aspirations?
Armstrong: No, no …
Curry: You’re saying you have no political aspirations?
Armstrong: I’m not …
Curry: You’re not saying you have no political aspirations?
Armstrong: I don’t know what I’m saying. We’re going to elect a new [Texas] governor next year - I’m [...]
07.26.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
I love Google alerts
Yes, PD gagged when he read this post and does a little (BB: LOTS of) editing.
Google Alerts found this great story for me about Susan Combs’ speech to the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers’ Association. We’re wondering what Combs’ position is on Rancher-Goat Love? Does she cover that in the speech?
My favorite Combs quote: [...]
07.26.05 | Uncategorized | admin
Slow News Day
The Dallas Morning News devotes a front page link to this most assuredly riveting story:
We wandered around looking for others. If you find some, send us the link. We would expect more headlines like this to be on the front pages of newspapers across the state.
07.26.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Texas Says Judges More Important Than Teachers
The House passed the judicial pay raise measure yesterday. As you know, a lot of people criticized the House for A.) dealing with this and not school finance, b.) tying legislative pensions to judicial pay raises and c.) not recording their votes on a pay raise bill.
We think it’s just because instead of educating [...]
07.26.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Thursday? Really?
Thursday’s the day? And we thought Shapiro was going to roll up her sleeves on the conference committee report and go back to work on a few things. You could tell she wasn’t too passionate about bringing 2 to the floor last week.
I just realized how cryptic that would sound if you haven’t been paying [...]
07.26.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Out of bounds
The White House is saying that documents pertaining to Roberts’ work in past administrations are “out of bounds”. They are so not . . . but we think Sen. Lieberman’s facial hair should be. He looks like Gabby Hayes!
(source: Myway/AP)
07.25.05 | Uncategorized | admin
Your Rep and birth control
From Population Connection:
The bill the House considered yesterday (ed. note: Tuesday the 19th, we’re a little slow), H.R. 2601, the Foreign Relations Authorization bill, created a new program dedicated to fistula prevention and treatment and contained a provision authored by Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY) to ensure the programs funded made birth control available. But, Rep. [...]
07.25.05 | Uncategorized | admin
Nine Days
Is that what y’all heard? Hell, we’re so bored with talking about property tax relief and sales tax increases and blah blah blah that we might come down there and vote for HB2 and HB3. I hope you bitches realize you are ruining our summer. And…by bitches I mean you Perry and Craddick. I’m totally [...]
07.25.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Monday morning news roundup
These are actually from over the weekend.
San Antonio Express-News: “Parents of Texas schoolchildren have reached their boiling point. . . Fed up, the parents are taking a page out of the politicians’ playbook and forming a political action committee of their own. The goal: to oust old guard lawmakers they say don’t support public [...]
07.25.05 | Uncategorized | admin