Have y’all heard of these guys, the Yes Men? They go around impersonating corporate and political leaders, fooling people into believing them.
Yesterday Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin spoke to the Gulf Coast Reconstruction and Hurricane Preparedness Summit. They were followed by someone who claimed to be from the [...]
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Yesterday, we get to listen to Kyra Phillips talk shit about her sister-in-law.
Today, we get this headline:
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Last night 750 people attended a farewell dinner to thank retiring Rep. Bob Hunter for his service. We here at PinkDome would also like to thank Rep. Hunter for being a classy, principled statesman who made us smile. Rep. Hunter, you’ll be missed, we wish you a speedy recovery from your cancer treatment [...]
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Before the recess, Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) filed a bill to create a Google-like search engine to allow commonfolk to easily search federal grants and contracts. The plan is to bring some sort of transparency to the pork barrel system. It flew out of committee, but had a secret [...]
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I was trying to avoid a mention of Hurricane Katrina: One Year Later because I have a terrible headache. But, that damn Anderson Cooper is on and who can resist? I can’t believe it’s been a year. I have a lot more questions than I ever saw any answers to on how the promises [...]
08.29.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
The Texas Association of Business released their endorsements today. Of course they chose write-in hopeful Shelley Sekula-Gibbs against Nick Lampson in CD-22. The funny part? They misspelled her name on the endorsement list. Hope nobody in CD-22 listens to Bill Hammond, or else they’ll be misspelling her name when they write it [...]
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Rick Perry just called a special election for Nick Lampson’s CD-22, Vilma Luna’s HD-33, and Carlos Uresti’s SD-19 to be held on election day. The filing deadline is the day after tommorrow. Way to go Rick, too little, too late. After letting Rep. Joe Moreno’s Democratic seat go unrepresented through special sessions, [...]
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From the Conservative BattleLine OnLine (I have no idea why I was reading this site):
Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth says human-emitted CO2 will boost the earth’s temperatures enough to melt the Arctic ice cap - and suddenly raise sea levels by 20 feet.
Phooey.
Well, can’t argue with that. Phooey. In case you were [...]
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While President Bush spoke today, the CNN accidentally had anchor Kyra Phillips’s mic on, projecting over the Prez. It sounds like she was in the bathroom, but fortunately the mic came on after she did her business. Her sister-in-law, however, just found out that Kyra thinks she’s a control freak.
A partial transcript [...]
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Governors Perry and Schwarzenegger are fighting over the award for ______________.
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