I’m having some computer issues, so expect blogging to be light for the next few days.
Election Tdibits for Monday, May 16, 2011
May 16th, 2011Round Rock ISD School Board Elections Tomorrow
May 13th, 2011Those of you in RRISD should be aware that school board elections are tomorrow, Saturday, May 14. A list of voting locations can be found here.
Holly Hansen, who follows RRISD far closer than I, has endorsed Brian Sellers and David Dziadziola.
If you’re a homeowner like me, RRISD takes a good amount of taxes from you every year, which is reason enough to vote if you’re eligible…
Texas Senate Race Updates for May 12, 2011
May 12th, 2011A smattering of senate race updates:
2012 Election Tidbits for May 11, 2011
May 11th, 2011A few 2012 election tidbits, on the Senate race and others.
Texas To (Further) Outlaw Cockfighting
May 10th, 2011The 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 “Gallo del Cielo”:
Here Comes the Flood
May 10th, 2011Randall 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 last week.
And continuing the Peter Gabriel kick from my other blog, here’s a young Peter Gabriel doing “Here Comes the Flood” on the Kate Bush Christmas Special circa 1979:
In other news, there was a Kate Bush Christmas Special…
(Hat tip: Dwight.)
Tom Leppert And ACORN
May 9th, 2011Matt 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 to the evidence. When I pressed him on the issue in comments, he said “You ask and you shall receive….on Wednesday.”
Well, I like things sooner rather than later, and I wonder if he was hinting at this video showing Leppert hobnobbing with ACORN. Here’s the embedded MySpace version of it (I know, in the age of YouTube that’s like asking you to listen to a Victrola, but that’s the format it’s in):
Tom Leppert Supports ACORN for Dallas Mayor
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The video, with a date of June 1, 2007, looks like it was put together an ACORN/Hispanic outreach video for Leppert’s mayoral campaign. (Don’t ask me why they put the sepia-tone wash over everything.) And here’s a screen capture of the pledge it shows Leppert signing:
Assuming the date is accurate, and there’s no funny stuff in the video editing, it does indeed show that Leppert sought ACORN’s endorsement, and pledged to support some of their initiatives.
How damaging will this be to Leppert’s campaign? I don’t know. So much RINO baggage has tumbled out of Leppert’s closet that I don’t know how much more damage another skeleton can inflict.
I do look forwarding to checking in with Dowling on Wednesday to see what he’s dug up…
LinkSwarm for Monday, May 9, 2011
May 9th, 2011A few links of potential interest:
Osama Bin Laden IS Norma Desmond!
May 7th, 2011So 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 looking forward to an “I’m So Meta” Hitler parody video), what this reminded me of most was Norma Desmond watching herself in Sunset Boulevard. That is to say, someone who was once a big international star the world had passed by and was now a has-been, watching faded footage of the glory days, delusional about still being important, unwilling to go outside and largely forgotten.
I’m not going to say that was a fitting end for him, as that was having U.S. soldiers forcibly evict large portions of gray matter from his skull. But it is a fitting prelude to a fitting end.
He was ready for his close-up.