Photographic representation of Whitmire v. Patrick on the Senate floor today:

The DC Madam has named one of her regulars, a military strategist responsible for the shock and awe campaign. We always wondered how they came up with that name, who knew it was someone's response when told what the hourly rate for a night with Tiffani cost?

SB 439 is absolutely the most ridiculous piece of legislation this session. It all stems from the mother that has completely refused to acknowledge her child is terminal and can no longer be helped by agressive treatment. No other hospital is going to take the case, and doctors and ethicists do not decide to stop treatment if there is a chance people will survive. The Texas Legislature stepping in with SB 439 is absolutely inappropriate.

Since the University of Florida voted against giving Gov. Jeb Bush an honorary degree because of his anti-affirmative (wouldn't that make it negative?) action legislation, the Florida legislature passed a bill requiring the U of F education building to be called the Jeb Bush College of Education [Think Progress]. Only in Texas Florida.

It's funny because it's true. (via freakgirl)

Why don't we all just move presidential primaries to January 12th after the inaugural?

Long ago, I trumpeted the battle cry of the GOP. Rugged Individualism, Minimal government and, of course, no new taxes. These are the planks of the platform I admire. The focus shifted from reducing government waste and controlling spending and taxes to suddenly you're Mrs. Cravitz with your big fat nose in the personal lives of Americans.

The GOP became the moral police, all the while screwing young boys, raping the middle class, and extorting money from corporate donors. Now, as the federal level reaps what they've sewn with the shift in power in congress, Texas can't wait to get in on the act.

The legislation proposed this session, whether it is in regards to parental notification and waiting periods for abortion, or waiting periods for divorces, or the requirement for pre-marital counseling before the issuance of marriage licenses is a bit much. Last year the gays tried to warn you that the Republicans weren't just coming for the gays...they'd come after you, too. So, they are. The Republican party is coming to save you. You have sinned and the GOP is all that can make it right.

When did the party that used to tell everyone that the government is not your daddy become exactly that? What they don't realize is that we've already grown up and left the house.

The financial aid scandal doesn't affect me directly, but I'm always interested in the goings on in the finance industry. The finance business is full of the most shady, underhanded and deceitful cocaine addicts I've ever run across. The ways they can come up with the legally screw people over is a fascinating thing to behold. Their ability to cajole and misrepresent and walk around the truth is the skill Tom Craddick wishes he had.

What is also interesting to me is the greed of everyday Americans to fall under the spell of perks and gifts to do the things these financial aid directors are accused of doing. People tell me I'm too jaded, that I'm mean or that I don't trust people. It only takes you about fifteen minutes of seeing what's going on behind the curtain to make you realize you need to be out there kicking people's asses for the shit they are up to these days. Crooks and liars, every one of ya!

I suppose it's "old" news by now, but QR and a few other outlets are reporting that some Texas Ds are kicking around the idea of getting convincing Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes to challenge Senator John "I <3 Bush" Cornyn in 2008.

According to Capitol Letters, Barnes said:

"They're friends and they're Democrats and I what I said was that I wasn't going to issue a flat-out denial," Mr. Barnes said afterwards. "But I'm not making any calls. And I'm not doing anything. I'm just listening, OK?"

Remember the fire in Houston at that hideous building? It turns out that an LVN working for a cosmetic surgeon started the fire because she had not finished a project the doctor gave her. Whenever I've not been able to complete a project I usually just whine about it, starting a fire in the office has never occurred to me.

How do people have jobs that require critical thinking and then just one day become batshit crazy? Somebody ask Warren Chisum, I bet he knows.

Lewisville student suspended for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Uhm, if you are an American don't you, like, have to do this?

Ugh, time to start thinking about relocating! Dust-Bowl like drought and more heat in Texas because of Global Warming. Maybe we could all start living underground like moles.

Congressman Ciro Rodriguez let Katrina refugees tell him that the government has screwed them over. In other news, the sun rises in the East.

Gas prices up an average 18 cents. How does public transportation work? Anyone? Do buses stink? Can I work from home a couple of days a week? Is it wrong to ask friends for gas money when I earn more than twice than they do?

God may forgive us our transgressions more easily than we forgive each other. Don Imus isn't pulling himself out of the firing line by apologizing and it made me think about the whole forgiveness/forget thing....as we leave Holy week I wondered what makes one person forgivable and another not? Besides looks. It's easy to forgive a good looking person just as it's easy to hold a grudge against an ugly one. But, that's not what I'm talking about here.

There's a saying, forgive but don't forget. I really think God does forget...He is not keeping score. No one sin is more heinous in His eyes than another. Christians (for the most part) believe that if you repent then all is well. Same thing with the way we expect people to apologize and then they go back on he air or Grey's Anatomy.

I think the issue I have will all of that is the sincerity of the apology. Do I really believe that Don Imus is sorry for saying the things he said? In his core does he believe it is wrong to refer to black girls on a college basketball team "nappy headed ho's"? What he did is not a sin, but it is a part of something more insidious...racial bigotry dressed up in a corporate white collar'd shirt.

Forgive. That's tough for a human to do, I'm glad it's God's job and not mine. Me? I'd just rather punch your lights, call you an idiot and then go grab a latte.

Cause he almost went boom last week:

Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation.

Mulally told journalists at the New York auto show that he intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of Ford's hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid at the White House last week. Ford wanted to give the Commander-in-Chief an actual demonstration of the innovative vehicle, so the automaker arranged for an electrical outlet to be installed on the South Lawn and ran a charging cord to the hybrid. However, as Mulally followed Bush out to the car, he noticed someone had left the cord lying at the rear of the vehicle, near the fuel tank.

"I just thought, 'Oh my goodness!' So, I started walking faster, and the President walked faster and he got to the cord before I did. I violated all the protocols. I touched the President. I grabbed his arm and I moved him up to the front," Mulally said. "I wanted the president to make sure he plugged into the electricity, not into the hydrogen This is all off the record, right?"