Check out this video of a Texas Railroad Commission meeting (RealPlayer required) in which the Commission authorizes its attorney to intervene in Public Utility Commission dockets regarding power line construction in the Competitive Renewable Energy Zones.
This is a surprise to me. I had no idea that North Korea makes a brand of jeans. It's called Noko, and the jeans were scheduled to be introduced in the West in a Swedish department store. But that Swedish store, PUB, has decided not to [...] 
If it's not the raccoons, it's the opossums! Stealing our cat food!
This is a list of popular names for Hispanic newborn girls:As sea levels swell and storms intensify, the Dutch [...]
"White House officials are not credible in denying President Obama's'" [...]
A salmon showed human-type emotional responses to stimuli, when its brain was subject to functional magnetic resonance image scanning.
Here, with this perfect word,The NY Times has a pretty interesting look at the process by which Obama and his senior civilian and military advisors arrived at the planned escalation of troop strength in Afghanistan. If you want some idea of what the administration’s strategy is in Afghanistan, this is probably as close [...]
From submitted reports - email ses@whosplayin.com with your itemsA little snow on the ground, and my thoughts turn to this:
The secret to getting unstuck, as I understand it, is to pour some warm water over the affected area. I do not know this from personal experience.
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Residents of Southern Lewisville have begun to receive letters from Titan Operating, LLC. requesting permission to access property for a geophysical survey. Titan Operating is the Fort Worth based oil ang gas operator working with Cherokee Horn to develop gas wells in [...] This morning, from the folks at City Hall, we got this press release:
Austin's mayor and five of six Austin City Council' [...]
From the White House weblog:
Following the best jobs numbers since 2007, the President recognizes that such trends are cold comfort to those who are struggling and pledges to continue pushing forward towards positive job growth. President Obama looks back at the Jobs Forum he hosted days before and looks ahead [...]
RIFQA BARY UPDATE!
Of course, I'm talking about this little monkey. Not me. He's open, but confused. It's obvious. It's not like he really has anything to be confused about. It's not like anyone is going to allow him to have any choices beyond, "Which side of the cage'" [...] 
There’s nothing quite like the views of the universe from the Hubble Space Telescope. Here’s the latest from HubbleSite.org. Notice the ghostly X-pattern of stars. Here’s how HubbleSite describes it:
The magnificent galaxy NGC 4710 is tilted nearly edge-on to our view from Earth. This perspective allows [...]
From Cliff Thies:
From Eric Dondero:A former Guantanamo detainee has emerged as a leading ideologue and theologian for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula – one of the strongest al Qaeda affiliates in the world.
Ibrahim Suleiman al Rubaish was captured by Pakistani authorities in late 2001 and then handed [...]
So far, half of Texas' 20 GOP congressmen have filed for reelection, including Rep. Ralph Hall of Rockwall who, at age 86 years and 7 months, is the oldest member of the U.S. House.
Hall was elected in 1980, and' [...]
Bill White of Dallas gave Democrats a faint hope for the first time in 15 years that they might be able to take back the governor’s mansion.
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From the NY Times:
The Top Secret Diary of Tiger Woods
You have to wonder what Locke has promised the home building industry if he is elected.
From his Dec 4th report he recieved $38,000 from various home builders including $10,000 from Bob Perry and his wife, $10,000 from David Weekley, and $10,000 from the Greater Houston Builders Association PAC.
Perry [...]
Somewhere in the mountain fastness of Afghanistan or in the remote wilds of northwestern Pakistan, leaders of the Taliban insurgents and al Qaida terrorists have been poring over President Obama's speech on the Afghan war and the statements of his advisers this week to determine their [...]
The US Chamber of Commerce is another one of those organizations that claim to be helping consumers and Americans by supporting the use of mandatory binding arbitration clauses even in rape cases. What I didn't know before was that if you are raped overseas and have an arbitration clause, you' [...]
Operation "Cobra's Anger," which involves 900 U.S. Marines and [...]
Remember this ad from the 2008 campaign?
Remember how the McCain campaign and their lackeys on talk-radio and the Fox Propaganda Channel went nuts over the crowd chanting "Obama, Obama?" Fast forward to yesterday in Plano, Texas at Sarah Palin's book-signing.
"Palin, former governor of Alaska, arrived around 11 a.m." [...]
The Chron writes about the early voting turnout so far.
After four days, nearly 10,000 more Houstonians voted early than in the general election, a trend Harris County Clerk Beverly Kaufman said she predicted.
“Voters just weren’t engaged back in November,” she said. “Now that the race has narrowed to [...]
A group of Houston clergy members has signed a letter objecting to recent anti-gay sentiment “espoused by those who co-opt religion as a cover for hatred.”
The letter reads as follows:
We the undersigned religious leaders have gathered our names here to make clear our strong objection to [...]
Reliably sympathetic to non-Western lies, the BBC reported yesterday that a prisoner in Pakistani custody knows a guy who saw Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan last January.
Headlines!
Now, Osama may, indeed, pop over the border into Afghanistan now and then -- but [...]
Climate-change skeptics, fired up by the controversy over a series of British scientists' e-mails, are putting President Obama on notice: Don't commit the United States to any long-term goals at next week's climate summit in Copenhagen.
One of the strongest such warnings has come [...]
I think I understand the rationale for cuts to Medicare spending as part of the overall health care reform package, but I have to admit I don’t understand the rationale behind this:
Home care shows, in microcosm, a conundrum at the heart of the health care debate. Lawmakers have decided [...]
This would be a little too weird.
[Bill] White, expected to say Friday that he’s shifting his political sights from the U.S. Senate to the Democratic nod for governor, confirmed Thursday that [former Comptroller Carole Keeton] Strayhorn has tried to reach him.
Asked if he’d welcome Strayhorn to the Democratic ticket [...]
It’s always sad to see a relationship go down the tubes, isn’t it?
Long before the campaigns of Kay Bailey Hutchison and Rick Perry started calling each other “Kay Bailout” and “Tricky Ricky,” the senator and governor exchanged handwritten birthday notes and congratulatory letters.
The Republican political heavyweights have never been [...]
Bribery, Backroom backslapping and shady Business dealsRegion I
Euless Trinity (11-2) - 47; Arlington (11-2) - 17
One word: Daaaaaaaaamn!
Longer version: For all the paranoia I've felt over teams we've played up to this point, next week really is a massive test against the Region II winner. Obviously, if that means Stony Point, I'll lose' [...]
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