By John on Apr 26, 2009 in Featured, Politics | 3 Comments
According to a Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll of Texans, Republicans there are equally split when asked if Texas would be better off as an independant nation. I thought Austin was a great city with very friendly people, but if that’s how people down there feel, let ‘em go. They can worry about the border, and figure out how to solve their many social problems. AsGny. Sgt. Hartman says to Private Cowboy in Full Metal Jacket, “only steers and queers come from Texas.”
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By John on Jan 18, 2008 in Crime, Gay Issues, Politics, Society | 0 Comments
As Michael at Bloggernista says, it’s been like 20 minutes since the last Repug scandal, so time for a new one. This one is especially delicious since it involves the Texas District Attorney who argued before the U.S. Supreme Court to allow Texass to keep their sodomy law which criminalized homosexuality.
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By John on Dec 12, 2006 in Fun Stuff, Legislature, Places, Politics | 0 Comments
Well, we can always count on Texas for a good laugh. A Texas State Legislator has introduced House Bill 308 which will allow for blind hunting in Texas.
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By John on Nov 9, 2006 in Gay Issues, Society | 0 Comments
According to a Reuters report, Houston-based firm Garden Guy sent an e-mail on October 18 turning down a prospective customer by saying: “I need to tell you that we cannot meet with you because we choose not to work for homosexuals.”
The recipient, Michael Lord, forwarded the e-mail to dozens of friends and it spread across [...]
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By John on Nov 5, 2006 in Friends, General, Places, Weather | 0 Comments
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m in Dallas this weekend and most of the coming week. The only good thing was I got to see an old friend. Robert and his lover had been previously invited to dinner at the home of some friends. I went along, and it was a very nice eveniing. They were a very nice couple, and one was an excellent cook. It was a much more relaxed and comfortable way to spend an evening than sitting in a restaurant.
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By John on Oct 25, 2006 in Fun Stuff, Places | 0 Comments
Monday, about the third person I ran into at the records management conference (ARMA) I was attending in San Antonio was Carol Keuch. Carol was my first boss at IMC. She’s gone on to work with Lockheed-Martin.
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By John on Sep 21, 2005 in Congress, Corruption, Politics | 2 Comments
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, lawmakers of all political stripes have used the “political climate suddenly altered by the hurricane to try to advance long-stalled, sometimes controversial initiatives.” For example, Texas conservative Rep. Joe L. Barton is once again fighting to open up fragile coastal regions to offshore oil drilling, an idea that languished in Congress earlier this year.
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