Senator Royce West and State Rep. Terri Hodge were included in subpoenas handed out all over the metroplex yesterday. We don’t pay attention to Dallas politics much, but apparently there is something fishy going on with the city council (when is there not something fishy going on with the Dallas city council?) and housing developments.
The [...]
08.25.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Bill Moyer, a 73 year-old veteran made the ultimate statement to President Bush at a speech he gave in Idaho attempting to shore up support for the war in Iraq. Moyer’s accessory is making the rounds on the net and has spawned at least one downloadable do-it-yourself kit. We so need these in Texas!
The President’s [...]
08.24.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
A little while ago Perry went ahead & shored up some more support with the whacked out right & appointed Don Willet to the empty spot on the Supreme Court. Seems that last year, Barrientos held up Willet’s nomination, so Willet just went ahead and up & moved to Wentworth’s district to avoid any [...]
08.24.05 | Uncategorized | admin
This possible anti-gay marriage amendment pisses us all off to no end. What disturbs me most is reading articles like this from the AAS, saying that Perry is going to meet with pastors to discuss it. I will bet you bottom dollar that he will be meeting with fundamentalist pastors. I don’t [...]
08.24.05 | Uncategorized | admin
But, we’ll get it fixed in a jiffy. Unlike the state legislature we can handle our shit, baby.
08.24.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
We didn’t post on the story about Pat Robertson calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. We thought the story pretty much defied comment. However, we just noticed that the Bush Administration has ‘disavowed’ Pat Robertson.
A Chavez supporter in the Venezuelan parliament, Desire Santos Amaral said “This man cannot be a true Christian. [...]
08.23.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
A tipster led me to this article from the AP: Troops’ Gravestones Have Pentagon Slogans. Choice bits:
Nadia and Robert McCaffrey, whose son Patrick was killed in Iraq in June 2004, said “Operation Iraqi Freedom” ended up on his government-supplied headstone in Oceanside, Calif., without family approval.
“I was a little taken aback,” Robert McCaffrey said, [...]
08.23.05 | Uncategorized | admin
The good ol’ Texas Legislative Council has the analyses of the proposed Texas Constitutional Amendments we mentioned earlier available for download as MS Word or WordPerfect (Who uses WordPerfect anymore?). Reading along, here is the official TLC arguments FOR Proposition 2. (*UPDATE* These are not the opinions of the TLC, merely the arguments presented by [...]
08.23.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
I know, you’re like, Sheesh, Bluebonnet, you’re all about the churches nowadays. It is only coincidence that I post about two church-related events in two days.
Texas Freedom Network is hosting a presentation of their report regarding the Bible in schools on the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 31 at University Baptist Church.
Read this full post. [...]
08.23.05 | Uncategorized | admin
The Secretary of State’s office set the order of the November Ballot. Eight Propositions are included. The most infamous, of course, will be Prop. 2 (One Man, One Woman and One Donkey Act). The Secretary of State decided the order in which the 8 would appear on the ballot by pulling slips of paper out [...]
08.23.05 | Uncategorized | pinkdome