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Author Archives: Lawrence Person
Texas Senate Race Updates for May 12, 2011
A smattering of senate race updates: Iconblog is not impressed with Ricardo Sanchez’s declaration of candidacy: “Repeating standard Democratic talking points word-for-word in Texas is not a winning strategy. Sanchez completely missed an opportunity to explain his candidacy—he just defined … Continue reading
Posted in Democrats, Elections, Republicans, Texas
Tagged 2012 Election, Elections, Elizabeth Ames Jones, Ricardo Sanchez, Texas, Texas Senate Race, Tom Leppert
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2012 Election Tidbits for May 11, 2011
A few 2012 election tidbits, on the Senate race and others. Since I dinged them over inaccuracies in their reporting on the Texas Senate race, it seems only fair to praise Ryan Murphy and Matt Stiles for this nifty interactive … Continue reading
Posted in Border Control, Democrats, Elections, Republicans, Texas
Tagged 2012 Election, Elizabeth Ames Jones, Energy Policy, Newt Gingrich, Obama, Roger Williams, Texas, Texas Senate Race, wildfire
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Texas To (Further) Outlaw Cockfighting
The Right Side of Austin reports that HB 1043 will further outlaw cockfighting by closing several loopholes in the law. The news gives me the excuse to post a video of the greatest song ever written about cockfighting, Tom Russell’s … Continue reading
Here Comes the Flood
Randall Munroe, the guy who does XKCD has an interesting post up on the possibility that the current Mississippi flood may overwhelm the Old River Control Structure that keeps the river from shifting course to the Atchafalaya, as I discussed … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, video
Tagged Atchafalaya, flooding, Kate Bush, Mississippi, Old River Control Structure, Peter Gabriel
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Tom Leppert And ACORN
Matt S. Dowling has a post up up claiming that not only was Tom Leppert playing footsie with the SEIU, but he also sought the endorsement of everyone’s favorite pimp assistance agency, ACORN. Unfortunately, he hasn’t actually provided the links … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Republicans, Texas, video
Tagged 2012 Election, ACORN, Dallas, Matt S. Dowling, pic, RINO, Texas, Texas Senate Race, Tom Leppert, video
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LinkSwarm for Monday, May 9, 2011
A few links of potential interest: “Candygram.” Al-Zarqawi complains about his new roommate. Cracks in the Eurozone. Deficits have consequences. “Each hid his homosexuality, each was racist, each took pains to manufacture favorable coverage, each was driven by petty hatreds … Continue reading
Posted in Communism, Foreign Policy, Guns, Jihad, Military
Tagged CHL, Euro, Europe, Greece, Guns, Land Shark, Osama bin Laden, PIGS, Saturday Night Live
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Osama Bin Laden IS Norma Desmond!
So the Pentagon has released captured video of Osama Bin Laden watching footage of himself on TV: Setting aside why he would have had anyone filming him watching TV (maybe he was testing a new camera, or maybe he was … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Jihad, Media Watch, Military, video
Tagged Norma Desmond, Osama bin Laden, Sunset Boulevard, video
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Texas Taxpayers Defeat Liberal Interest Groups
Over on BurkaBlog I chanced across this framing of the debate over passing the state budget: Who has more clout: A fictional Texas Ranger and a former major corporate CEO or a cadre of right wing interest groups? Texas Senate … Continue reading