It’s the big night for all you amateurs this Sunday. For those of us that are professional partiers it’s just another night. We’ll start the weekend with a party at the University Club on Friday, a studio/gallery opening party on Saturday and a scandalous party on Sunday night. Where will you be? What are [...]
12.28.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
Click here to watch the 4:00 press conference.
BB adds: For some reason, there’s no audio. Perhaps because Mr. Pitts isn’t speaking into a mic!
RawHide adds: He was speaking into a mic, but none of the mic’s in the room were working. Craddick cut off the member’s mics on the House floor, maybe [...]
12.28.06 | Uncategorized | admin
Jim Pitts is having a press conference in the Appropriations room at 4 if anyone near the Capitol feels so inclined to stop by.
BOR has made an Excel of the two lists of Craddick supporters that QR has posted. Check out the erosion of support.
Burka says that 16 of those Craddick supporters are actually [...]
12.28.06 | Uncategorized | admin
The Chron has a story up in which House Appropriations chairman Jim Pitts has announced that he too is in the race for speaker. Craddick released a list of 84 names that are supposedly pledged to him, but, as with most things Craddick says, it’s bullshit.
So here’s where we are thus far: McCall [...]
12.28.06 | Uncategorized | admin
As we saw in An Inconvenient Truth, global warming is a real issue, and current news items show that the unfortunate future is closer than we would like. I’m sure Jim Inhofe still thinks that the media is making it all up.
But seeing this video wherein incoming Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Sen. [...]
12.28.06 | Uncategorized | admin
Per QR, Robert Talton, king of the sneer, has publicly announced his support for McCall as speaker. Talton is the first Republican committee chair to publicly support McCall over Craddick. He’s also the first cockface to make that choice, as far as I know.
How will this play out come January 9th? Be [...]
12.28.06 | Uncategorized | admin
Media Matters, in its endless quest to both correct and ridicule conservative misinformation, has compiled a list of 2006’s most cringe-inducing statements. Click here to read all of them - here are a few samples:
William A. Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights: “Well, look, there are people in Hollywood, [...]
12.28.06 | Uncategorized | admin
Since the man’s going to be executed before January 27, what are his final wishes?
12.28.06 | Uncategorized | admin