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• In Praise of Artistic Nudes

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  Garrison Keillor knows what he likes. "I see no reason to paint flowers. You can buy fresh flowers. Still lifes are only an exercise. And abstract expressionism is for the lobbies of big insurance companies. The true calling of an artist is to paint women and the greatest" [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 5:33am EST
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• Humbug Moldbuggery

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  No, this is not about the rampaging rapist home builders in Texas and their screwing buyers over mold damage.
  
  Moldbug, not his real name, seems to be a leading Libertarian social philosopher blogger today.
  
  I was exposed to his ideas recently by a quasi-Libertarian friend and [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 2:14am EST
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• Almost unbelievable story of the new economy

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  And the Money Comes Rolling In
  Markus Frind works one hour a day and brings in $10 million a year. How does he do it? He keeps things simple.
  
  How PlentyofFish became the world's largest dating site - make it free and fast.
  
  I keep thinking' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:49am EST
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• Locke seeks the homophobic vote

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  I am going to link to Kuff for the meetings Locke had with Harris County's nastiest political kingmaker and very political, very conservative preachers concerned about "the gay agenda." And Gene Locke's tepid response which I read as Locke saying I am not responsible for who votes [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:11am EST
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• Obama's New Where-To-Go and What-To-Kiss Czar

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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 5:40pm EST
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• More Criticism of SuperFreakonomics

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  I shouldn't be surprised at SuperFreakonomics. Freakonomics reminded me somewhat of early John Stossel, while not the established wisdom they were glib "common sense" economic arguments. Like Stossel, later works veer more right and less factual. This latest seems to exhibit the bias toward particular approaches they decry in' [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:50pm EST
  by Gary

• My Liberal Identity

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  My Liberal Identity:

  You are a Reality-Based Intellectualist, also known as the liberal elite. You are a proud member of what’s known as the reality-based community, where science, reason, and non-Jesus-based thought reign supreme.

  Take the quiz at www.FightConservatives.com

  
  
  
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:49pm EST
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• A Veteran Speaks on Gay Rights

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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 11:43am EDT
  by Gary

• Harris County Voting Info

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  2009 locations,dates & times for early voting in Harris County
  
  
  

  Location

  Address

  City

  City

  Harris County Administration Building

  1001 Preston, 1st Floor

  Houston

  77002

  Moody Park Recreation Center

  3725 Fulton

  Houston

  77009

  Julia C. Hester House

  2020 Solo St.

  Houston

  77020

  Ripley House

  4410 Navigation Blvd.

  Houston

  77011

  H.C.C. Southeast College-Learning Hub

  6815 Rustic

  Houston

  77087

  Palm Center-Justice of the Peace/Constable Entry

  5300 Griggs Road

  Houston

  77021

  Fiesta [...]

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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 9:31pm EDT
  by Gary

• Milestones in the Quest for the Historical Jesus

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  This is a the new heretics view.
  
  I consider myself to be one on the outskirts. More a mostly skeptical Universalist.
  
  Saul who became Paul is very bad and Jesus seems a religious fanatic who thought he could bring on the End Times. James the [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 9:13pm EDT
  by Gary

• You Can't Please Everyone - WP edition

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  In Today's Viral World Who Keeps a Civil Tongue? the Washington Post asks in a front page story about someone who read at a school suddenly becoming hated by the right. Not for something she said but because at the school some children sang a song about Obama.' [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 3:27pm EDT
  by Gary

• Climate Change - Is It Just Too Damn Late?

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  No
  
  We must start now to not only decrease emissions but also to increase the rate of atmospheric carbon reduction.
  
  
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 8:00pm EDT
  by Gary

• Dying because of no healthcare in Texas

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  “If you don’t qualify for Medicaid or the county indigent program, you are in no-man’s land. If you can’t pay for your treatment, you are out of luck.”
  
  Anyone who thinks that America has the best health care system in the world should visit the county clinics around [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 4:25pm EDT
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• Shroud of Turin replicated

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  Jobsanger has the info on the Shroud of Turin being replicated using materials easily available several centuries ago. Scientists proved by radio-carbon dating it was made in the Middle Ages but conservative Catholic members on the teams disputed the findings. This touched off a long debate with supposedly [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 11:31pm EDT
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• Goppy lies over National Competition

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  "Why are you so viscerally opposed to personal choice (ability to buy policies across state lines, HSAs, etc.) and instead insist on a government solution ? - Someone in the Washington Post comments.
  
  "Why are Democrats opposing the real way to reduce costs, allowing health insurance companies to [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 7:52pm EDT
  by Gary

• Are we past the global warming tipping plateau?

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  There is a fair amount of new evidence on global climate change in the last 10 or so years. Unfortunately it doesn't fully support the deniers views.
  
  The effects of global warming, a misnomer as it is really global climate change and some smaller areas will see temperature' [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 8:31pm EDT
  by Gary

• TPA Blog Posts For 9/28/09

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  As early voting for the November elections looms on the horizon, the Texas Progressive Alliance says good-bye to September and hello to another weekly blog roundup.
  
  BREAKING NEWS: Natural Gas Development Brings "amazing and very high" Levels of Carcinogens and Neurotoxins to Barnett Shale area! Take a [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 7:50am EDT
  by Gary

• Constitutional Amendments - November 2009

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  Here is where to vote in Harris County. The map is by Greg Wythe.
  
  When to Vote:
  
  Early Voting Hours
  » 10/19 - 10/23 : 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
  » 10/24 : 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
  » 10/25 : 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
  » [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2009, 3:44pm EDT
  by Gary

• New York Times announces Secret Editor to Monitor WingNut News

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  Concerned they miss terribly important stories like young conservative activists dressing up like pimp and ho and getting spoofed by poor ACORN employees they appoint someone to tell reporters you better cover these new nutty stories.
  
  Where have I seen that before?
  
  Oh yeah, as [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2009, 3:23pm EDT
  by Gary

• The moral roots of politics

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  The moral differences between liberals and conservatives
  
  
  
  How this applies to the health care reform debate.
  ...when Palin threw out the term "death panels," the term struck a chord that had been played many times in recent years. Liberals were flabbergasted, because [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2009, 1:00pm EDT
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• Republican Gomorrah - Escape from Freedom to a Glorious Leader

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  The new Republican party is American authoritarian fundamentalism, the weak and fearful seeking a God and Party of strength.
  
  Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party - a five year odyssey into the new Republican party. Buy at Amazon.com Excerpt:
  In the chaotic 2008 [...]
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  Posted: September 26, 2009, 5:10pm EDT
  by Gary

• Wow, just wow....

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  The right leaning Washington Post's editor presses his reporters that they are not conservative enough and pulls them from reporting on real billion dollar scandals to chase stories of kids dressing up like a ho and a pimp and being spoofed by ACORN employees.
  
  Balloon' [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 4:22pm EDT
  by Gary

• Spoofing the Spoofer's and the So-Called-Liberal Washington Post

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  A great majority of the attempts at ACORN offices were turned away.
  
  Many of the ACORN staffer remarks to the bad whitebread young actor activists trying to portray a pimp and prostitute were spoofs. Watch the videos - what urban dweller would think those conservative activists were real?
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 7:34am EDT
  by Gary

• Who Not to Vote For in Houston's Mayor's Race

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  Email from Annie's List
  
  Does Gene Locke Respect Women?
  More than 1.1 million women live in Houston (50.1% of total population) and in a matter of days they will choose who leads the City for years to come. As proven by the successful outgoing Mayor, that office' [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 12:21am EDT
  by Gary

• It is Time for FDR's Second Bill of Rights to Be Realized

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  In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all regardless of station, race, or creed.
  
  Among these are:
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 10:57pm EDT
  by Gary

• Newest Health Care Option

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  Medical advice from YouTube - link from Robert Nagle.
  
  
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 9:46pm EDT
  by Gary

• How will Health Care Reform effect you?

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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 12:00am EDT
  by Gary

• A Prayer for Progressives

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  O Lord, please give us this day
  Some inconsequential distraction
  By a powerless right-wing jerk
  That we may divert our eyes
  From the perpetual-disappointment machine
  That is our own party
  Which in thine infinite wisdom
  Thou hath placed at the nation's helm
  To do absolutely none of the things
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  Posted: September 13, 2009, 11:24am EDT
  by Gary

• A Candle for Ted Kennedy

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  Posted: August 26, 2009, 7:18pm EDT
  by Gary

• FEAR! Politics, again

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  I see the nihilist, fearful, rabid conservative party of ME FIRST! and to Hell with anyone else is now demonizing President Obama's call to turn 9/11 into a day of national service.
  
  Words fail me.
  
  What can you do with people who are mad dogs' [...]
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  Posted: August 24, 2009, 11:35am EDT
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• Doubts abound about Libyan involvement in Lockerbie crash

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  Not mentioned in the American mass media outrage over the parole granted the Lockerbie bomber is that he was railroaded by the British, Scotish and Scotish political establishments who needed someone to blame. He doesn't seem to have been involved in the plot.
  
  We need an independent' [...]
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  Posted: August 22, 2009, 8:22pm EDT
  by Gary

• The Real Death Panels

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  New Rolling Stone article by Matt Taibbi lays it out.
  
  The system doesn’t work for anyone. It cheats patients and leaves them to die, denies insurance to 47 million Americans, forces hospitals to spend billions haggling over claims, and systematically bleeds and harasses doctors with the specter [...]
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  Posted: August 22, 2009, 8:04pm EDT
  by Gary

• Food For Thought

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  You might copy and reply with this when you get a nasty viral email on health care reform.
  
  
  [blogs.suntimes.com]
  
  Roger Ebert's Journal: I'm Safe On Board, You Can Pull Up The Rope
  
  Having read through some 600 comments about universal health care, I' [...]
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  Posted: August 22, 2009, 2:45pm EDT
  by Gary

• Hey Next Democratic Guv!

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  Questions for the Democratic candidate for Governor of the great state of Texas
  
  
  How prepared are you to be a Texas governor and candidate?
  
  A. How informed are you of the general issues and specific issues affecting Texans? Where do you get your news – [...]
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  Posted: August 19, 2009, 4:02am EDT
  by Gary

• The Tort Reform Experience

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  Bad for users of health care, better for doctors and hospitals is the bottom line. So says research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
  
  #1 Caps of noneconomic damages did not translate into lower health insurance premiums for consumers. Various types of analyses did not alter this [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 2:19pm EDT
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• The monster in the closet

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  It's exhausting dealing with the insane deluded right. It's like having full grown retarded men living in your house constantly throwing tantrums because there is a monster in the closet. They refuse to be reassured even though you have repeatedly opened the closet door and turned the lights [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 8:46am EDT
  by Gary

• Adventures on Facebook

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  I moved most of what used to be blog posts to Facebook with its shorter postings and closer connections to friends. Sometime you can get the equivalent of the crazy commentators there that you do get on blogs.
  
  I had followed some Facebook link over to Sarah Palin's' [...]
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  Posted: August 09, 2009, 4:46pm EDT
  by Gary

• Real Health Care Stats

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  In a September 2007 report to Congress, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) compared 2004 US health care spending with other OECD countries:
  
  -- America then averaged $6,102 per person, well over double the average $2,560 for OECD countries;
  
  -- US health care spending was 15.3% of the [...]
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  Posted: August 08, 2009, 1:29pm EDT
  by Gary

• Democrats need to work on health reform now

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  Health care reform benefits small business.
  
  
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  Posted: August 07, 2009, 5:03am EDT
  by Gary

• Health Care Reform - Do it Now

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  The Republicans, conservatives and the health care industry are mounting a major push this summer to block health care reform. They are repeating many of the same arguments they had stored away from the Clinton attempt at reform and adding new crazy ones - "Obamacare wants to" [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2009, 10:26am EDT
  by Gary

• New form of Political Compass Test

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  My Political Views
  I am a left moderate social libertarian
  Left: 5.75, Libertarian: 1.96
  
  Political Spectrum Quiz
  
  
  My Foreign Policy Views
  Score: -5.7
  
  Political Spectrum Quiz
  
  
  My Culture War Stance
  Score: -4.96
  
  Political Spectrum Quiz
  
  
  The data from test takers is also displayed in maps and [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2009, 5:43am EDT
  by Gary

• NPR - Nice Polite Republicans

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  One more time:
  
  Marketplace is only the most pro mega-business of the National Public Radio shows. Nearly all of their shows have a conservative bias. Repeated surveys through the years show that for guests, commentators and voices heard conservatives outnumber progressives almost two to one on NPR. Here [...]
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  Posted: July 22, 2009, 10:44am EDT
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• Saving Newspapers - The Musical

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  Posted: July 21, 2009, 2:20am EDT
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• Hey Paul Krugman

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  Posted: July 21, 2009, 2:18am EDT
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• For Ignorant birthers

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  Posted: July 21, 2009, 1:59am EDT
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• Yankee Doodle Mouse

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  Oscar winning Tom and Jerry short:
  
  
  
  From Suzanne at FireDogLake.
  
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  Posted: July 05, 2009, 3:35am EDT
  by Gary

• Late Term Abortions

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  This was relayed by a friend online:
  
  If you seriously believe that women are so lazy and stupid as a group that a majority of late-term abortions are done not out of medical necessity but because women just routinely and casually decide they don't want to carry a' [...]
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  Posted: June 03, 2009, 8:12pm EDT
  

• Better late .....

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  Boss Kitty has the best of the Texas progressive blogs last week.
  
  
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  Posted: May 21, 2009, 3:39am EDT
  

• Time moves on

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  I realize I am posting very seldom here now.
  
  Well, I have more of a life including a girlfriend and things eat up time.
  
  I haven't mentioned here the results of the Pasadena and La Porte elections.
  
  Pat Van Houte is in a runoff' [...]
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  Posted: May 17, 2009, 12:36pm EDT
  

• Texas Department of Miseducation

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  Posted: May 17, 2009, 10:15am EDT
  

• Local Texas Elections

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  Candidates are at the polls for election day and swarming over the people who didn't early vote.
  
  CITY OF LA PORTE, LA PORTE ISD, AND SAN JACINTO COLLEGE JOINT GENERAL ELECTION INFORMATION
  May 9, 2009
  Election Day Polling Locations
  
  Voting/Polling Location #1 - Located at Baker Sixth' [...]
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  Posted: May 09, 2009, 10:21am EDT
  

• Texas News from the Texas Progressive Alliance of Bloggers

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  It's Monday -- time for another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance's weekly blog roundup.
  
  How would Republicans handle a pandemic? CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme knows. They'd hunker down. Get out their guns and shoot anybody with a runny nose.
  
  After a' [...]
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  Posted: May 04, 2009, 3:11pm EDT
  

• Pasadena Politics

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  Seeing Purple Politics has been doing a good job with coverage of Pasadena politics.
  
  Recently he has the candidate responses to questions at Republican Women's Club Forum.
  
  Pat Van Houte - District D. The other candidates did not show up and one has tried to' [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 8:49pm EDT
  

• The Right's Crybaby Hero

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  The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cThe 10.31 Projectcolbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorNASA Name Contest
  
  More from Greg Mitchell.
  
  Even conservative Morning Joe can't take Beck seriously.
  
  
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  Posted: April 09, 2009, 8:18pm EDT
  

• Great Depression Warning - WSJ

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  Misleading shadowstats affecting Federal Reserve policy and the similarity of the current financial troubles to the Great Depression. This analysis not by blogging amateurs like me but by a Nobel Prize winning economist in the Wall Street Journal, although buried on page A15. Monetary policy, mortgage finance, relaxed lending [...]
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  Posted: April 06, 2009, 11:34pm EDT
  

• Complaints to the Blogger and Removing Content

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  A candidate for Pasadena City Council has asked that her name not be placed on fantasy cartoons. I have removed a post that showed this. I think this is a mistake. Politicians, especially women, need to develop a thick skin and the ability to laugh, especially at themselves.
  
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  Posted: March 24, 2009, 12:15pm EDT
  

• Rescuing the bastards

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  Matt Taibbi - Rolling Stone: The most galling thing about this financial crisis is that so many Wall Street types think they actually deserve not only their huge bonuses and lavish lifestyles but the awesome political power their own mistakes have left them in possession of. When challenged, [...]
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  Posted: March 23, 2009, 3:29am EDT
  

• Our Special Media, Special Bloggers, Special Politicians

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  I for one am not surprised that some of the so-called-liberal-media and some of the worst of the conservative bloggers have a special fondness for the Special Olympics.
  
  Our favorite special politician is also rejecting money for education.
  
  General Petraeus is upset about [...]
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  Posted: March 20, 2009, 6:05am EDT
  

• REPUBLICANS WHO BLOCKED SALARY CAPS NOW OUTRAGED OVER AIG BONUSES

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  Progress Report: As outrage mounts over the $165 million in executive bonuses paid to AIG staffers, many Republicans are trying to tap into the wellspring of public anger. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) condemned the "outrageous situation" and boasted that he had been "complaining about the way" [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2009, 2:59am EDT
  

• Yee-Haw, Another Texas Progressive Blogger Round-Up

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  It's the first of another week, so that must mean it's time to take a look at some of the best posts from last week by members of the Texas Progressive Alliance. Here are the submissions:
  
  Easter Lemming finds that Pasadena has its first fantasy action hero [...]
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  Posted: March 16, 2009, 10:15pm EDT
  

• More Friday thoughts

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  You know, we still have the supporters of a minority hard right party in Israel running our Middle East policy, even under Obama. I could go on about this but this topic always brings out the crank comments. See Andrew Sullivan on The Israel Lobby.
  
  Gawd, why [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2009, 4:29pm EDT
  

• Pasadena Gets Its First Action Hero Candidate

  
  Have you seen the new t-shirts that some Pasadena candidate supporters are wearing?
  
  While not a great likeness, the images are strikingly different from typical candidate head shots in Pat Van Houte's grassroots campaign for Pasadena City Council. Pat is running for Jack Douglass's seat D in North Pasadena [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2009, 2:34pm EDT
  

• Friday Links

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  Stopping the Texas GOP voter suppression. Six Texas voters joined with the Texas Democratic Party to file a lawsuit in U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, challenging mail ballot statutes enacted in 2003. After spending over a million dollars and years the state attorney general only [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2009, 11:00am EDT
  

• How Progressive are you?

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  Take the Quiz.
  
  
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  Posted: March 12, 2009, 11:52pm EDT
  

• America Evenly Divided between Progressives/Liberals and Conservatives/Libertarians

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  Asking those who choose moderate to further refine themselves reveals a divided nation - but one which overwhelming supports positions thought liberal. Think Progress has more on the poll. A nation that is evenly split in its political identity is decidedly center-left in its policy orientation:
  
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  Posted: March 12, 2009, 11:32pm EDT
  

• "If I'd only followed CNBC's Advice....

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  I would have a million dollars today, provided I started with $100 million." - Jon Stewart.
  
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  Posted: March 11, 2009, 1:40am EDT
  

• Play Texas Voter Roulette

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  Think the Republicans are trying to take away your right to vote?
  
  Spin here and see.
  
  
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  Posted: March 10, 2009, 4:40pm EDT
  

• Jesus Interrupted by Bart Ehrman

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  NPR interview about the hidden contradictions in the Bible.
  
  
  
  There are three more parts of this interview available from here.
  
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  Posted: March 10, 2009, 4:51am EDT
  

• Wall Street Pulls Off Biggest Robbery in History

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  The American tax payer would be better off with the $28,000+ bailout given to every man, women and child.

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  Posted: March 09, 2009, 4:39am EDT
  

• Bush-Obama Tax Rate of 39.6% = Socialism, Reagan Tax Rate of 50% = Economic Nirvana

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  Steve Benen and John Cole and Hilzoy have a handy graph of the top income tax rates from 1920 to the present. For 6 years Reagan kept a top tax rate of 50%.
  
  All of the crazy complaints about Obama, who is just keeping [...]
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  Posted: March 09, 2009, 1:50am EDT
  

• Putting a face on the mortgage crisis

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  Shouldn't lying brokers and agents be held accountable?
  
  
  
  Here was a realtor in an audience saying someone should of course buy a house.
  
  
  
  
  Even those real estate and financial agents who say they will help you are likely con artists.
  
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  Posted: March 08, 2009, 12:31pm EDT
  

• Marilyn Piggott Services this Saturday

  
  The latest item keeping me from posting more is preparations related to the services for Marilyn Piggott.
  
  A Marilyn Piggott tribute video is posted here.

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  Posted: March 06, 2009, 10:37am EST
  

• Will Republican Jobless Remember Who is Denying Them Benefits?

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  Our Guv Goodhair Perry made the New York Times today as someone starting to feel the ire of the unemployed. Perry is representative of some governors trying not to take federal money to give to the unemployed because you know this economic situation and their lack of a [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 12:21am EST
  

• Pasadena Public Library will reopen tomorrow, March 2

  
  Here is a slideshow of the renovation. The new library includes a coffee bar and many computers and a friends of the library book store.
  
  Link from the Houston Chronicle's East Harris County reporter and blogger Carol Christian.
  
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  Posted: March 01, 2009, 1:35pm EST
  

• CPAC Wisdom

  
  NRA's Wayne LaPierre told the conservative activists' CPAC convention that "The Founding Fathers understood that the guys with the guns make the rules."
  
  Ironicly, he was not found shot dead a few minutes later by mysterious woman who left a note that read "armed feminist" [...]
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  Posted: March 01, 2009, 1:05pm EST
  

• Republican Opposition to Obama - Politics or Principles?

  
  Seasoned Washington investigative journalist Robert Perry says the GOP history says politics but the media will say principle.
  
  As an example of the mainstream traditional right-wing media bias Perry looks at how the major media framed Bush's last quarter huge drop in the economy as Obama's [...]
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  Posted: March 01, 2009, 12:44pm EST
  

• Economics 101 - Bad Banks

  
  Very good This American Life podcast explaining banks and the financial crisis and why it is worse than many believe. Bad Banks or "We have met the enemy and he is us." Also a short segment on buying bad assets in New Jersey.
  
  
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  Posted: March 01, 2009, 12:35pm EST
  

• Tea Bag Protests Flop - Engineered by the Gang Who Brought You Swift Boat and Ayers Is a Terrorist Lies

  
  The fizzled Tea Bag protests, getting even conservative criticism, are getting more mysterious as Playboy, of all places, discovers the links between organizers. The wealthy fanatics turn out to be those who also promulgated the Swift Boat Liars and the more stupid of the attacks [...]
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  Posted: March 01, 2009, 9:12am EST
  

• Frak Bipartisanship, Liberals Rule on Stimulus and Budget

  In the spirit of bipartisanship, Obama
  sought Republican support for his $825 billion
  economic recovery package. He included $300
  billion in tax breaks to appeal to the diehard
  supply-siders. His reward on Jan. 27, after three
  meetings with GOP leaders, was the pronouncement
  by [...]
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  Posted: February 28, 2009, 1:56pm EST
  

• Same Ole Liberal Media

  
  The NYT lies for the GOP, again, and goes against its own reporter to do so.
  
  
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  Posted: February 24, 2009, 2:48pm EST
  

• Why Jim Treacher is not Hermann Goering

  
  I have been inspired by Jim Treacher's list of why Obama is not a murderous chimp.
  
  He really isn't Hermann Goering!!!!
  
  10. Jim Treacher is not moldering in the grave.
  
  9. Hermann Goering did not cause the financial crisis borrowing money to buy a [...]
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  Posted: February 21, 2009, 12:15pm EST
  

• Pat Van Houte For Pasadena City Council

  
  
  I have some Pasadena campaign literature:
  
  
  

  
  
  

  
  PAT VAN HOUTE
  

  for

  CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT D
  

  
  
  Hello Neighbors,
  

  2009 is an election year for the City of Pasadena. We will be voting for
  mayor and city council. Our District D councilmember, Jack Douglass,
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  Posted: February 19, 2009, 3:09pm EST
  

• This is getting beyond words

  
  Which is the leading candidate for ignorant, stupid, blinded idealogue of the right this week?
  
  Ace of Spades who tries to downplay that some neocon former liberal was beaten up by genuine Nazi's in Syria?
  
  This Fox News interviewer who gets his facts wrong and' [...]
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  Posted: February 19, 2009, 10:09am EST
  

• Is Obama a token Commander-in-Chief?

  
  You have to wonder what is going on when the Pentagon won't let President Obama know we cut a prisoner's penis among other torture. Two days ago, Clive Stafford Smith, one of Mohamed’s lawyers, wrote a letter to President Obama in an appeal to make the documents public [...]
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  Posted: February 13, 2009, 1:19am EST
  

• $30 Million Pelosi Mouse Project?

  
  Just another GOP lie.
  
  
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  Posted: February 13, 2009, 1:09am EST
  

• NY GOP Secret Patronage Jobs to be Cut - Zombie Banks

  
  I wonder when the Democrats in Texas regain control if we will find all the patronage jobs they have built into the Texas government system as they are finding out in New York State?
  
  Also from the NYT - big banks are probably the walking dead.
  
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  Posted: February 13, 2009, 12:47am EST
  

• SCLM - LA Times edition

  The LA Times gets punked by the CIA into writing a cover story that Obama is keeping Bush techniques for dealing with terrorists - and is too ignorant to know the difference between rendition and extraordinary rendition and then has a hit piece on the VP's wife claiming' [...]
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  Posted: February 02, 2009, 5:00pm EST
  

• Macy's soon to be junk

  
  Moody's Investors Service said on Monday it may cut its ratings on Macy's Inc into junk territory after the department store operator announced a significantly lower earnings forecast for 2009. Macy's said on Monday it expected to earn 40 cents to 55 cents a share, excluding restructuring costs, for' [...]
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  Posted: February 02, 2009, 4:47pm EST
  

• SuperBowl Hangover Texas Progressive Blog Round-Up

  
  It is Monday, and that means it is time for another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance's Weekly Blog Round-Up.
  
  In her first ever YouTube video, TXsharon shows the emissions boiling into the air when a Barnett Shale gas well undergoes hydraulic fracture.
  
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  Posted: February 02, 2009, 3:45pm EST
  

• Pajamas Media cuts the whine pack loose

  
  Pajamas Media blows through millions in start-up funding, announces it will no longer pay its stable of conservative whining bloggers. It will continue to explore ways of making money at this tube thingy, with its latest experiment being video uploads of fear, hate and whines. Paying the [...]
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  Posted: February 01, 2009, 10:32am EST
  

• Some of the biggest "players" on Wall Street have Mafia ties

  
  Business Blog of the Year - Deep Capture
  
  The Story
  
  Madoff and the Mafia
  
  
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  Posted: January 30, 2009, 1:38pm EST
  

• Republican Death Spiral?

  
  I wrote my new congressmen the other day.
  
  I asked him how could he be so stupid. He voted to not delay the digital TV conversion.
  
  I am telling all my friends and relatives that the reason their TVs won't work soon is Republicans like' [...]
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  Posted: January 29, 2009, 3:49pm EST
  

• Yes We Can

  
  I have some ideas for blog posts but life keeps interfering.
  
  Meanwhile, listen to the Yes We Can Remix.
  
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  Posted: January 28, 2009, 10:58am EST
  

• A farewell salute to 8 horrible years

  
  Tom Tomorrow at Salon.com.
  
  
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  Posted: January 25, 2009, 11:49am EST
  

• Annie's List in Texas

  
  Nice cover story in The Texas Observer about Bye-Bye Boy's Club - the highly effective Annie's List PAC to elect moderate and progressive women to the Texas legislature. It would have been nice if it was more effective in 2006 but it seems to have found its legs [...]
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  Posted: January 24, 2009, 10:38pm EST
  

• Free At Last, Free At Last

  
  While you're waiting for the current nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue to end, please read the best postings from the Texas Progressive Alliance.
  
  Easter Lemming Liberal News is pondering the future of newspapers with net marketing guru Seth Godin and the Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism.
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  Posted: January 20, 2009, 8:10am EST
  

• The Future of Newspapers

  
  I was at the Houston Chronicle Thursday night for a lecture by the Columbia School of Journalism Dean on the future of print newspapers - which got changed to the future of journalism. Before I go into that lecture this is Seth Godin on When newspapers [...]
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  Posted: January 17, 2009, 1:25pm EST
  

• Ten Citizen Voted Ideas For Obama

  
  Well, it looks like Change.org are the spineless wimps suspected, as is the Obama transition team, and they refused to seriously consider the most popular idea - Legalize the Medicinal and Recreational Use of Marijuana. Change.org decided it was politically more sound to just present the top 10 [...]
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  Posted: January 17, 2009, 10:29am EST
  

• Jon interviews Rachel

  
  Rachel Maddow as the Marilyn Munster of MSNBC.
  

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  Posted: January 16, 2009, 1:38am EST
  

• Robin Williams on Obama and Bush

  
  
  
  From Glenda
  
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  Posted: January 15, 2009, 5:42pm EST