Posts Tagged ‘Georgetown’
Friday, July 21st, 2023
More Biden corruption, a bit about music, and cute dogs. It’s the Friday LinkSwarm!
Here’s a fairly extensive timeline of Biden corruption.
2009 – The Obama-Biden administration takes office
November 1, 2013 – China / BHR:
Hunter Biden, business associate, and Chinese investors agree to create Bohai Harvest RST Equity Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd. (BHR), an investment fund controlled by the Bank of China, to focus on mergers and acquisitions, and investment in and reforms of state-owned enterprise.
December 4, 2013 – China / BHR
Vice President Biden travels with Hunter Biden on Air Force 2 to China and meets CEO of BHR, Jonathan Li. Shortly thereafter, BHR’s business license was approved and Hunter Biden was a board member.
February 5, 2014 – Kazakhstan
Kenes Rakishev, a Kazakhstani businessman, meets with Hunter Biden at a hotel in Washington, D.C.
April 15, 2014 – Ukraine
Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, appoints Biden business associate to their board of directors.
Etc. etc. etc.
“California Democrats retreat on their effort to defend child slavers.”
After initially killing a bill on July 12, 2023 that would have increased the penalties on child sex traffickers, the Democrats who completely control the California Assembly’s Public Safety Committee reversed course one day later and voted to advance the bill.
With a final vote of 6-0, including two abstentions from progressive Democrats, the bill now moves to the Appropriations Committee, after which, if it is approved, can move the bill to be voted upon by the entire State Assembly. If passed, SB 14 will make trafficking of minors a serious felony that would qualify under California’s three strikes law, which keeps dangerous, serial criminals off the streets, and make individuals convicted of the crime ineligible for early release.
I highlight the two abstentions by Democrats. Even after a nationwide uproar over their willingness to block harsh penalties on those who traffic young children for sexual slavery, these two Democrats, including Assembly Majority Leader Isaac Bryan (D-Los Angeles), still could not bring themselves to vote for the bill.
(Hat tip: Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit.)
State Senator Charles Schwertner (my state senator) has his DWI charges dismissed. Still, he hardly crowned himself in glory. At least he didn’t yell “Call Greg!” (It did make me wonder what Rosemary Lehmberg is doing today, and if she ever conquered her alcoholism…)
Mexico surpasses China as America’s biggest trade partner. (Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)
Remember Toast Tab’s 99¢ fee from last week’s LinkSwarm? Well, public reaction was so negative that their shares cratered and they rescinded the fee.
Will the Biden Administration use a lizard to kill the Permian Basin shale revolution?
“This car has all the annoying things about EVs and none of the cool stuff…this car doesn’t live up to any expectations. Nothing
works.”
TSMC delays Arizona plant opening due to labor shortage.
A detailed look at the recording of one of my favorite albums of all time: Peter Gabriel III.
Just what does electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick’s “Silver Apples of the Moon” sound like? You know that scene in a 70s SciFi dystopia where someone’s face gets ripped off to reveal they’re a robot? It sounds like that.
GWAR plays for NPR. So on one side you have horrible monsters who are unbearable to listen to, and on the other side you have GWAR…
That’s one sly kissing bandit.
(Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ.)
Tags:Arizona, Austin, Charles Schwertner, China, corruption, Democrats, DWI, electric cars, EPA, Georgetown, GWAR, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, LinkSwarm, Mexico, Morton Subotnick, music, natural gas, oil industry, pedophilia, Permian Basin, Peter Gabriel, Semiconductors, sexual slavery, Texas, Toast Tab, trade, TSMC, Ukraine
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Saturday, May 4th, 2019
Another one of those sneaky May elections is upon us. In particular:
- Cedar Park – City Council
- Eanes ISD – Board of Trustees, Bond
- Georgetown – Mayor, City Council
- Georgetown ISD – Board of Trustees
- Hutto – Mayor, City Council
- Hutto – ISD – Board of Trustees, Bond
- Leander – City Council
- Lakeway – Mayor, City Council
- Pflugerville ISD – Board of Trustees
- Round Rock – City Council
- Taylor – City Council
- Village of Briarcliff – Mayor, Aldermen
- Village of Webberville – Sales Tax Proposition
In fact, none of those elections applies to me, so I can’t offer you any advice on who or what to vote for or against (though if I did live in Pflugerville ISD, I would definitely vote against the union organizer), but I did want to make you aware of them.
Also, Empower Texans has a roundup of various Texas ISD bond elections.
Check your local League of Women Voter guides/media/etc. to see if there’s an election you weren’t aware of today. These things have a way of sneaking up on you…
Tags:Austin, Elections, Georgetown, Hutto, Round Rock, Texas, Williamson County
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Thursday, August 16th, 2018
Here’s a basket of Texas and local news of note:
Back in the dim mists of time, Democrats used to nominate swing district candidates who could at least pretend to be moderates. This year? Not so much.
Today, I’m highlighting another extremist Democrat in Texas, Gina Ortiz Jones, who finished first in a five-way primary, with 42% of the vote and then defeated Rick Trevino in the May runoff, to challenge Republican Rep. Will Hurd in the 23rd District.
This is one of the most competitive districts in the country, and has changed hands five times between Republicans and Democrats in the past 25 years. Hurd, a former CIA officer and the only black Republican member of Congress from Texas, won the seat in 2014 with only a 2,500-vote margin over the Democrat incumbent, and was re-elected in 2016 with a margin of only 3,000 votes. In a mid-term where Democrats are energized by anti-Trump mania, Hurd faces a tough fight, and Democrats have poured more than $1 million into the Jones campaign.
Fortunately for Republicans, however, Jones is way out of step with the values of this largely rural district, which stretches all the way from the suburbs of San Antonio in the east to El Paso in the west. The district is 55% Hispanic, and Jones has made a point of using her mother’s maiden name, with the slogan “One of Us, Fighting For Us” in her campaign.
Except she’s not Hispanic. Her mother immigrated from the Philippines and her father (who never married her mother) was a white drug addict. While she’s using “Ortiz” to play the identity-politics game with Texas voters, however, she’s using a lesbian-feminist message to solicit support nationally from Trump-haters, promising to become the “first Filipina-American and first out-lesbian to represent Texas in Congress, and she’ll be the first woman to represent her district.“ She has been endorsed by all the usual suspects of left-wing extremism, including pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood and Emily’s List, pro-homosexual groups like Equality PAC, Human Rights Campaign and the LGBT Victory Fund, and the anti-Israel JStreetPAC, as well as the Feminist Majority, People for the American Way and the AFL-CIO. Her agenda includes socialized medicine, taxpayer funding for abortion, gun control, amnesty for illegal aliens, and every other issue you might expect from someone who attended elite Boston University.
Missed this earlier: San Antonio Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada was arrested for committing over $240 million in Medicare and other government fraud in a scheme that stretched back over two decades.
“ICE arrests 45 in Houston area during 5-day operation targeting criminal aliens, immigration fugitives.”
There were also 110 illegal aliens arrested in the Rio Grande valley over two days.
“In what appears to have been a last-ditch move to sway a tax ratification election in their favor, South San Antonio ISD officials likely violated state law on Tuesday by paying district employees to go vote for the tax increase. But for those at home wondering, crime doesn’t pay. Despite their fourth-quarter efforts, voters defeated the tax hike by a 57–43 margin.”
The University of Texas “diversity coordinator” thinks that “The Eyes of Texas” is racist. (Hat tip: Mark Pulliam, on Twitter.)
How well did your local public school rank? TPPF has more on how to read the scores. (But also keep in mind Iowahawk’s illuminating essay on how demographics affect test scores.)
Muslim immigrant from Jordan sentenced to death for two honor killings.
The Idiots on the Austin City Council voted to subsidize a professional soccer team on city land. Because subsidizing a sport Texans actually like just wasn’t insulting enough. (More background here.)
“100% Renewable Isn’t Doable.” No matter what Georgetown says…
When is an interest rate swap a secret stealth tax increase? This piece walks you through how tiny Azle ISD’s machinations amount to a form of regulatory arbitrage to do just that.
“Woman shoots masturbating bicyclist trying to break into her SE Houston home.” (Hat tip: Dwight.)
Tags:2018 Election, Austin, Azle ISD, Border Controls, Crime, Democrats, education, Elections, fraud, Georgetown, Gina Ortiz Jones, Hispanics, Houston, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Jorge Zamora-Quezada, Medicare, Rio Grande Valley, San Antonio, soccer, South San Antonio ISD, sports subsidies, Taxes, University of Texas, Will Hurd
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