November 29
They legalized bribery? I guess that's an
accomplishment they can brag to their mommas about. For
their next trick, they should legalize sunrises and
sunsets, because both are about as inevitable as Texas-gummint-for-hire,
and both are about as likely to be slowed down by the
question of whether or not they're legal.
Dr. Doyle in Nacogdoches
November 28
Ain't it fun to live in Texas?
When I was attending pollworker training, a member of my
class asked the head of elections for Brazoria County why
the Pearland school bond election was on a
separate ballot, she told us that they had that
opportunity and declined to participate. The cost to be
on the ballot would have been 15-20,000 dollars and would
have attracted between 15,000 to 20,000 voters.
Instead the school district chose to have their own
election at a cost of $80,000 for machines alone in order
to ensure a much lower turnout which they felt they could
control through spreading the word at PTA meetings and
school events. I lost track of the number of angry voters
who found out they had to make two trips in order to vote
in these two elections.
We had 16,000 vote in the regular election and 4500 in the
bond election. I talked to a staff attorney at the
Secretary of State's office today and was informed that
under current election law in Texas this kind of move is
perfectly legal.
Ain't it wonderful to live in Texas!!!
Sam
November 28 -
Lord Help Us,
Juanita, 'Cause NONE of Our
Representatives Seem to Be Doin' Right!
Sugar Land’s individual homeowners may soon be singin',
Swing low,
sweet Oyster Creek
Near what
was once my home...
I looked
over at Town Hall Square and what did I see
Coming for
to take away my home
A band of
City Council devils coming after me
Coming for
to take away my home
BS coated
pork -- the new "master's" meat.
Signed,
Fed Up in
Sugar Land
November 28
Just in case you
missed this one:
http://sadlyno.com/archives/4393.html
"A Glowing Endorsement From Tom DeLay by Mark Noonan ::
September 24, 2006 10:21 PM
I’m excited to report that Caucus of Corruption has
received its first endorsement! Our first endorsement
comes from Rep. Tom DeLay, a great man and politician who
found himself the number one target of Democrats in their
phony ethics war."
Fish in a barrel.
-- Don
November 27 -
Susan-
Hope you had a wonderful and bountiful
Thanksgiving. With all the commotion about SSG and her
Turkey of the Year Award, please be remember y'all could
have this woman as your
Congresscritter.
Paul
November 27 -
Hi Juanita,
Coming to my lazy attention
this morning was a bit of Sugar Land history. The Houston
Chronicle has a
front-page story on a Sugar Land master-planned
community, the centerpiece and name of which are worthy of
The Tom DeLay Lobbyist Investment Developer Concept
Marianna Islands Award of 2006.
A Sugar Land developer has
bought local land and the old Central Prison building
thereon, which will be preserved; the developer has named
the new community "Telfair," after the early American
Telfair family of Savannah.
An approving Mayor David
Wallace said "We need to preserve that history and we need
to be able to reflect on how that shaped our community."
The Chron article does help reflect, especially concerning
the Texas state history of renting out 19th-century
prisoners to local plantation owners.
A little research will help
reflect deeper on the naming of the master-planned
community: Here's an excerpt from a history that mentions
the Savannah Telfair family, who knew all about "Master"
planning:
A
SECOND TRIP 'ABROAD AT HOME'
Author: Julian Street
Copyright, 1917, by
The Century Co.
Available online courtesy of The Project Gutenberg EBook
of American Adventures
The Telfair Academy in the
old Telfair mansion was left, by a member of the family,
to the city, to be used as a museum. .
In one room of the building,
on the ground floor, is a collection of fine old
furniture, etc., which belonged to the Telfair family,
including two beautiful mantelpieces of black and white
marble, some cabinets, and a very curious and
fascinating extension dining-table,
built of mahogany. The table
is perfectly round, and the leaves, instead of being
added in the middle, are[Pg 563] curved pieces, fitting
around the outer edge in two series, so that when
extended to its full capacity the table is still round.
I have never seen another
such table.
Also I
found many interesting old books and papers passed down
from the Telfairs. One of these was a ledger with
records of slave sales.
In a sale held Friday,
October 14, 1774, Sir James Wright, the same British
governor who was presently put to flight, purchased four
men, five women, nine boys, and one girl, at a total
cost of £820, or about $3,280. Sir Patrick Houston
bought two women at £90, or $450. The whole day's sale
disposed of thirty-five men, seventeen women,
twenty-seven boys and ten girls, at a grand total of
£3206, or roughly between nine and ten thousand dollars.
The Telfairs were great
planters. Among the papers was one headed "Rules and
Directions to be strictly attended to by all overseers
at Thorn Island Plantation." This plantation was on the
North Carolina side of the river, and was owned by
Alexander Telfair, a brother of Miss Mary Telfair who
gave the Academy to the city. Dates which occur in the
papers stamp them as having been issued some time prior
to 1837. Here are some of the regulations:
The allowance for every
grown negro, let him or her be old and good for nothing,
and every young one that works in the field, is a peck
of corn a week and a pint of[Pg 564] salt and a piece of
meat not exceeding fourteen pounds per month.
No negro to have more than
forty lashes, no matter what his crime.
The suckling children and
all small ones who do not work in the field draw a half
allowance of corn and salt.
Any negro can have a ticket
to go about the neighborhood, but cannot leave it
without a pass. No strangers allowed to come on the
place without a pass.
The negroes to be tasked
when the work allows it. I require a reasonable day's
work well done. The task to be regulated by the state of
the ground and the strength of the negro.
All visiting between the
Georgia plantation to be refused. [The Telfairs owned
another plantation on the Georgia side of the river.] No
one to get husbands or wives across the river. No night
meeting or preaching allowed on the place except on
Saturday or Sunday morning.
If there is any fighting on
the place whip all engaged in it, no matter what may be
the cause it may be covered with.
In extreme cases of sickness
employ a physician. After a dose of castor oil is given,
a dose of calomel, and blister applied, if no relief,
then send.
My negroes are not allowed
to plant cotton for themselves. Everything else they may
plant. Give them ticket to sell what they make.
Oy! Sugar land is amazing! Let
the master-planning commence!
Cindy F
November 27 -
First I
have to say WE WON! Sure it could have been better, but
it does feel good to win.
Is that office has got be
haunted or something? She's always been a little
strange, but after 3 days, she's totally lost it! She
doesn't even remember who's office she's occupying? That
office was shamed by Tom DeLay the day he got they key.
If I were Nick Lampson, I
think I'd send in exterminators, Merry-Maids, Ghost
Busters and an exorcist before I'd move in!
WE WON!
Patrick
November 27 -
Juanita, S S-G is
too dim to tell the difference 'tween a hypocrite &
Hippocrates.
She has staff
members checkin' out Web MD for a clear, unblemished &
acne free definitition. Good luck with that one.
Psoriasis
sucks, & so does she!!!!
Clyde of Columbus,
Ohio...
November 17 -
Speaks for itself.
Alfredo
Nov 17 -
"She prompted chuckles in The Washington Post and other
national publications by telling reporters she planned
to resolve such thorny issues as tax cuts, immigration
reform and the Iraq war."
God created the earth in 7 days.
Shelly will solve all earth's problems in 7 weeks.
I
think this Shelly gal needs a perky tin-foil hat to wear
with all her pink outfits. They can be stylish!
Hope you get the Elizabeth Hurley photo...
Spot
Nov 17
The Only Newspaper in Town (in Houston) is providing
plenty of amusement, and entertainment writing
about What's Her Name. Thank Goodness she resigned from
our City Council.
How lucky that D22 is only stuck with these shenanigans
for two weeks. Good Luck!!
Can you imagine how embarrassing two year's worth of
this behavior would have been for the fine folks of
CD22?
These people worked for Tom Delay for years, for
heaven's sake. And couldn't work for his temporary
replacement -- even on a 2 week temporary basis.
That speaks volumes about What's Her Name.
Obviously she (the Bimbo Hammerette) thought she
inherited his power, along with his office space.
Funnnnnnnnyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!.
E.R. White
Houston
Nov 17
JuanitaHoney,
This is one of those days when I'm very glad that there's
a Shelley Sekula-Gibbs in the world to provide me with a
bright, cheery, sunny moment on an otherwise "one of
those" days.
Awoke dreaming of a hard drive failure on the server. Not
a good omen.
One of the bottles of water that comes from home to work
(so the coffee won't taste like chlorine) fell over and
leaked. Some ding-wah in a minnie mouse van stopped to
let the school bus pull out in front of us and promptly
turned off at the next lane leaving me -- already running
late in a wet car -- stuck behind a bus which stops at a
house. I get to see an adult's arm waving from inside the
door which opens and allowing a child to exit and mosey
down the walk to where the bus has stopped, turn around,
wave at the house, get into the bus, turn around, wave at
the house, sit down, wave at the house and then the bus
finally starts up and before I can shift to 3rd gear it
stops and the whole scene plays out again.
I get to work and there isn't anything wrong with the
server's hard drives but the CD-R/W drive on my desktop PC
is making funny noises and a message box pops up asking me
to please wait while the files are updated. The people in
Round Rock who sold it to us won't talk to me because my
name isn't on the Purchase Order because it was bought
through departmental purchasing.
Then I read in the Chronicle that Ms. Shelley Belle wants
to have the aides that quit after she pitched her
snotbuster hissy fit investigated by a Congressional
Committee. Suddenly I'm laughing again and the world is
back in perspective.
Don
Nov 16 -
Am I the only one who
heard the good folks on CNN pronounce Shelley’s last
name as Suck-u-la Gibbs as they danced back and forth in
front of their election tote board?
Just Ducky
Nov 16
Shelley,
...she's a Sekula humanist..........:-) a junior
hank of..Long blond hair & dark brown roots.....Thelma
dint wanna help her, DID SHE???
Best
regards,
Carolyn in
Columbus, Ohio.........
Nov 16
Here is an excerpt from one
of the comments to Delay's missive on the RedState blog:
Tom Delay did nothing wrong. He was
merely punished for resisting the Democrats. There was
absolutely no taint of corruption in him at all; no
one even accused him of putting money in his
own pocket. All the charges against him involved
playing politics too tough.
What a bunch of crap: he was
"admonished" for supposedly promising to personally
endorse a republican running for office in exchange
for a vote on the house floor.
Even the charges against him in
Texas involve being too tough on the democrats,
supposedly transferring money from one political
committee to another. No one profited from it. The
only reason why a big deal is being made about it is
because the money was used against the democrats, so
the MSM and democrats decided to punish Delay.
These people are
delusional, I tell ya! The taint of corruption is so
strong I can smell it up here in North Texas!
mamatx
Nov 16
“Order, Justice and
Freedom. These principles are the three legs of the
stool”
Order, Justice, Freedom
and Stool all in the same sentence in Tommy’s blog.
What are the odds?
Derk
Dear Susan,
Brother Tom wrote a piece over
at RedState (http://www.redstate.com/)
which I suggest you should
NOT read,
unless
you
are
eager to meet your Maker
through inadvertent
and premature
apoplexy.
But if you want an example of
his continuing shamelessness, this is a perfect setting.
I don’t know if you are
familiar with RedState, but they are very much in the
“stay-the-course” gang on
Iraq, even though they are pretty ticked off at all the
Congressional
shenanigans surrounding nearly everything else. Most of
the time they get about a dozen comments to their posts,
including when
the last eight of them it have
degenerated into two people having a
“Did not! Did too! Did not!
Did too!” public argument with each other. In the case of
Mr. DeLay’s article, however, there were 118 comments by
the time I got there. Most of the threads start out
to the effect of
“who in the hey do you think
you are to dare to call for this stuff when you sat in the
center of power and did the exact opposite and are
probably the biggest
and most single contributor to the Republican defeat…” and
on and on and on. Lotsa folks on the right are not real
thrilled with him,
either.
The comments to his
article are an interesting
window into non-Ft.
Bend county perceptions
of St. Thomas de
‘Lay. My favorite one was
where the writer challenged Tom to
(I paraphrase here)
‘come back and reply to the
posts, or are you just
dumping another load of
your fantasy crap on
us.’
But, as I stated, apoplexy is
not pretty. Be forewarned.
Yours truly,
Steve Soerens
Nov 15 -
I learned from an item in
MarketWatch, and got confirmation from
HuffingtonPost, that Time has included Tom DeLay in
the group that will be debating who should be the
magazine's 2006 "Person of the Year."
My mind is blown and I can't find the fuses. I knew the
so-called liberal media were pretty much totally decadent,
but this surpasses all understanding. I mean, there are a
few Republicans who aren't yet under indictment. Why pick
Hot Tub Tom?
Maia
Nov 15 -
Just read the excerpt from Roll
Call. How do they ever get that woman in the door. With
an ego that large she's gonna need to use the garage
entrance!
Paul
Nov 15 -
Kin you put one of them
fancy countdown clocks on yer site to keep us
informed of the number of days left on Shelly’s
Congressional timeshare?
Nov 15
Shelley
Sekula-Gibbs
practices being sworn in by House
Speaker Dennis Hastert.
(By Chris
Greenberg -- Associated Press)
Oh, man! we
needed a good laugh this a.m. Thanks for pointing us to
the WaPo article. What a hoot!
But we need to know: how long does the average new
Congresschick have to PRACTICE? This is the right hand,
that's the left, got it?
Cindy & Ed F.
Nov 15
Juanita, this may be a controversial proposal, but we
blonde Texan belles have a duty to each other and the
great Country of Tejas to work in a bi-partisan manner
on resolving certain important issues regarding Shelly's
hair. Namely: a mandate to turn that hair-don't into a
hair-do. Is One Tough Dermatologist unfamiliar with the
concept of "low-lights"? I think so.
I
'm
in for a ten-dollar donation, and have secured a
matching-funds agreement with Paul Mitchell Salons. If
all else fails, I hear that you still have a foam
pull-through cap lying around in the back room.
Disclaimer: Although this proposal has its altruistic
motivations, our local Dem organization could reap
future political benefits from securing photos of Ms.
Shellmet’s “before”, ”during” and “after” pictures.
The
Yoda-like "during" pic alone could easily draw a few
hundred bucks on E-bay.
Help
me, won't you, in making this grassroots
hair-disaster-relief project become reality.
Send
your emergency Pay Pal donations to
www.LowlightsForShellmet.org, today!
Elena
Nov. 14
You are soooo far behind the times! The annual
retail orgy Christmas season starts the day after
Halloween.
albeit the preliminary stages. Like you, I can't get into
the Christmas spirit this soon. Seeing the decorations
and hearing the music isn't enough to get me in the
spirit.
I'm more traditional. I waiting for a more tangible sign
that Christmas approaches.
I'm waiting for John Gibson on Fox News to trot out the
"War on Christmas" straw men.
It's not Christmas in Sugar Land until the bashing of
godless liberals begins, don't you know?
PS- I loved
Richard Viguerie's remark about the GOP:
"When Tom [DeLay] and his bunch first ran, they campaigned
against the cesspool in Washington. After a while they
looked around and said, 'Hey, this isn't a cesspool, it's
a hot tub,'"
Robert
