Well, This will make you sick to your stomach
Two white teenage boys in Spring, Texas brutally beat and sodomized a 16 year-old hispanic boy at a house party. [CNN]
04.27.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Archive for April 27th, 2006
Damn Dawna
The quest to determine the hottest legislator in Texas is officially over. Go here, click on Party People, President’s Masked Ball and check out photo number 6.
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Random Oddness
OK so this is a little weird.
When you go to TLO to search for a bill, you have the option of searching by author. When you click on author you get the names of all the reps, the senators, and for some reason 5 other dudes: Robert Eckels, Ted Houghton, Joseph Krier, William Madden, [...]
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Trying To Curb Leininger
HB 110: Relating to limits on political contributions and direct campaign expenditures by individuals.
From QR we learn that a bipartisan group of legislators banded together today to put a $100,000 cap on contributions in 2 year cycles. A quote from Casteel:
She asked her party to pay as much attention to transparency in campaign donations [...]
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Closet Smokers
I’m really digging this whole outting of the smokers during the debate. Jackson called out Hodge, Menendez called out Hardcastle, Coleman called out himself, who else in that august body is a smoker?
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Git-R-Done Mofos
Rick Perry was talking to the Senate today about his tax plan, and he remarked “As ol’ Larry The Cable Guy says on a regular basis, it’s time to ‘get ‘er done.’”
Thank you, Mr. Governor, for making our state look even that much more bass-ackwards. Note to Rick, you don’t have to dumb down [...]
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Tax Vote Explanations
Kuff spoke to Reps. Rick Noriega and Mike Villareal about their votes on the tax bill. QR also ran The Mark Strama Saga: One Man’s Coming To Grips With a Tax Bill, giving his and Donna Howard’s reasons for their votes.
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Freakin’ Nutjobs
In Texas we love our religious nutters, but every time I read a piece on these whackjobs, I’m always left speechless. Those crazies out in ElDorado are still kicking, the Houston Press gives us the lowdown.
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Reckoning Day For Smokers
Well not really, they’ve been threatening to raise the price on a pack of smokes for a long time now, basically a nickel for every cigarette. But here’s a new angle for the debate, some fun stats from TexasWeekly:
In order to get the amount of money from the cigarrette tax that they want, Texans [...]
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