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Maybe now we’re going start seeing something on this in the media?
Nearly 400 people are presumed missing 12 days after Hurricane Ike slammed on shore. Calls flooded a Galveston County missing persons hotline at the Laura Recovery Center. People are terrified a relative was lost in the storm.
Also, we have the point that Rorschach […]

The mayor announced in a voice mail to all employees today that an agreement has been reached with the pension system. Highlights: increased employee contributions, no loss of benefit for current employees, new plan for new hires beginning in 2008. I’m a little skeptical of that “no loss” part; I think the DROP […]

Anyone who is against illegal immigration is a violent, racist redneck. Really. See, I have the e-mail to prove it.
Patriots:
On Saturday, June 17th, Save Our State members participating in a protest/rally in Los Angeles were attacked by our rabid opposition. You will also be able to read the various other accounts […]

Lone Star Times and BlogHouston have both had articles on immigration costs recently, specifically the cost to Harris County. Ninety-seven million dollars. Then there’s the cost to the private sector:
Chris Baker was discussing this yesterday and one of his callers identified herself as an employee of a private, fourteen-hospital group here in the […]

Just in case you thought the idiots demanding their “due” and “rights” weren’t absolutely the opposite of what multi-cultural is and means, here’s an object lesson. This guy doesn’t look like a principal from a taxpayer-funded school, he looks like a thug from the barrio.
Listen dude, if you came here to escape your home […]

The prior article in this informal series was, in some ways, out of order, and it originally carried the same title that this one now does, as I changed directions on the fly, but didn’t catch the details. I discussed the general anger at both parties, but concentrated on the anger of the electorate with the Republican Party. In doing so, I referred time and again to a belief structure known as Jacksonianism. And while I’ve provided the links, not everyone wants to read a scholarly article of the length that Walter Russel Meade wrote. Nor does everyone have the time to read the nearly as lengthy (but thought provoking) writings of the first person to tell the two parties to take a flying leap. So, briefly, what makes a person a Jacksonian, then?

For two years now, a bigger scandal than Enron has been bubbling away quietly, almost ignored by the mainstream media. It certainly has not made the media the way Enron and Worldcom did. Why? Well, maybe because the culprits aren’t evil capitalists; they’re “good socialists” : i.e.: they work for an organization […]

I’ve got mucho work-o today, so no time to do a real post. Lots of news today: East End Polecat had City Employee running errands for her private consulting busineess (yes, the very same business I’ve pointed out as being highly questionable in the first place).
The House and Senate take a break from […]

Yawn. Well, El Presidente Jorge Boosh spoke on immigration last night. Words, words, words. That’s all. Until I see some real enforcement of the laws we have now, I don’t give a damn how many troops are sent to the border. If they are just there to greet folks and […]

No, I’m not talking about the No Such Agency and their monitoring of phone calls. I’m talking about the Department of Homland (In)Security. (With a h/t to the Rottie.) This is the kind of crap that persuaded me to leave the Republican Party. Update: This earlier post of Michelle’s is even […]

So I was headed into town Saturday night when I noticed an odd sight, and I was wondering if anyone else had seen it. The TxDoT sign on I-10 had a message about a “futbol” game; I presume it had something to do with parking or shuttles. Yes, the message was in […]

Watching the Memorial Park illegal immigrant support rally on KHOU’s webcast. About the only english I can hear spoken is the camera crew. Hmmmm. and they suddenly cut the audio feed. More American flags than Mexican in the shots I’ve seen, so I suppose the message got out. Now they’ve […]

So much for that little battle 170 years ago. The barely-visible line at the bottom of the flyer is just adding insult to injury.

I’m really getting depressed.
Update:To quote Marvin the Parinoid Android, “I’m feeling quite depressed today.”

If you’re the last American out of Texas, don’t forget to take down the flag and turn […]