God bless Texas State Represenative Lon Burnam

You go Lon!  The following is from Robert T. Garrett of the Dallas Morning News:
Sometimes, the House’s panel that handles noncontroversial measures misfires. Take today. Right there on the congratulatory calendar was HCR 62, expressing appreciation for former President George W. Bush’s service to Texas and the nation.
But Rep. Lon Burnam, D-Fort Worth, a Bush [...]

May 9, 2009 • Tags: , , • Posted in: politics • 2 Comments

The pot and a new kettle of fish

There appears to be some “righteous” indignation on the part of some Americans on the heels of the news that Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzón Real, had accepted a complaint filed against six US attorneys who just happened to be associates of the George W. Bush administration.  Some are asking where the Spanish courts came up [...]

Belief vs. Confirmation

I was watching a piece on MSNBC yesterday that got me thinking.  A woman was discussing how these now retired scientists had permission to come forward and discuss their roles at the Groom Lake military facility also known as Area 51.  They explained how the project they worked on back in the ’50s had made [...]

Guess Who?

WordPress has been giving me fits for the past few days — I hope this explains my absence.  That said, the family and I will be heading over the river and through the woods to my mother’s house we go.  I understand we will be forced to endure a ritual that includes some weird parade, [...]

Pathos (and fun) with Photoshop

Fun with Photoshop

Fun with Photoshop

Tempering the audacity of hope

Here we are, less than one week before the most important election in my lifetime, and there are so many emotions coming from every corner of the progressive electorate.  Hope and trepidation.  Joy and sobriety.  Anticipation and anxiety.  There are strong signs that point to historical and significant change in the [...]

LOC’s Quote of the Day

“I will not intervene until Libby’s legal team has exhausted all of its avenues of appeal … It wouldn’t be appropriate for me to discuss the case until after the legal remedies have run its course.”
George W. Bush
On this date in 2005, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was indicted in the Valerie Plame Case.  Bush [...]

George W. Bush endorses McCain and Palin???? Very Funny!

Much fun with Photoshop

Crawford: the movie

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