Rush Limbaugh reached a settlement with prosecutors Friday in a fraud case involving prescription painkillers, though the conservative radio commentator maintains his innocence.
Limbaugh turned himself in to authorities about 4 p.m. on a warrant for fraud to conceal information to obtain a prescription, the first charge in the nearly 3-year-old case, said Teri Barbera, [...]
04.28.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
A group of Latino artists put together a version of the national anthem in Spanish. I didn’t think this was much of an issue, but I just found this: Bush Opposes Singing Anthem in Spanish. Bush doesn’t want people singing the anthem in Spanish, because “I think people who want to be a [...]
04.28.06 | Uncategorized | admin
Just heard something about a deal on teacher pay raises that Craddick and Dewhurst worked out. $2000 across the board, and $1000 in incentive pay. It’ll be added to HB 1.
04.28.06 | Uncategorized | admin
HB 110, filed by Villareal and Strama, is likely making James “Whoremonger” Leininger pretty pissy this morning. The bill would limit individuals to spending no more than $100,000 on political races each election cycle.
Clearly, this would throw a monkey wrench in Leininger’s ultimate goal to have the entire Legislature receiving the overwhelming majority of [...]
04.28.06 | Uncategorized | admin
Inspired by this we saw on WOW Report, we’d like announce our own version of a photoshop contest. Based on the movie posters for the Silent Hill, take a photo of a Texas politician and create your own Silent Hill style, mouth-off photo and send it to us. We’ll post the best here.
The winner will [...]
04.28.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
The Senate Finance Committee is meeting right now to consider HBs 1-5. Conservative anti-tax schlep Steven Hotze is going to testify against the largest tax increase in history. The funny part? QR already has his testimony, along with John Sharp’s rebuttal interspersed throughout it in italics. This is really funny, you [...]
04.28.06 | Uncategorized | admin
What wet-behind-the-ears freshman legislator wants to run for Governor in 2010? Your guesses in the comments.
04.28.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Hey y’all. We want to introduce you to a new contributor to the filth we serve up here at Pinkdome. SuperWow! is hopefully going to wow us with insight and double entendre and some policy stuff. Y’alll be nice when you see SuperWow!’s first post and cop a good feel while you’re at it. [...]
04.28.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Watching TV news is always an excercise in stupidity, but for some reason last night the TV vomited stupidity all over my living room. From the Texas Legislature, KVUE reports: A group of Texas Democrats has proposed relief at the pump by temporarily suspending the state’s gas tax. Really? Wow, thanks! Twenty [...]
04.28.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome