Uvalde Strong

#UvaldeStrong Uvalde students get back to school today.  As a show of solidarity, many students across the state will be wearing maroon today. That is the school color of Uvalde High School. The local, statewide, and national media are also covering today’s return to school. That is my featured photo for this post. At the…

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50 Dinger Club

From the Trib today: Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley, one of Texas’ most prominent Republican local leaders, is backing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s Democratic challenger. “The one person who I’ll support statewide that will get me a little in trouble: Mike Collier for lieutenant governor,” Whitley said on Y’all-itics, a WFAA politics podcast. Whitley and Patrick…

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MAGA Demons

Best line from last night’s speech from President Joe Biden: “You can’t love your country only if you win.” MAGA is bad news for our democracy. President Biden has a responsibility to let the country know they are dangerous.  Demonize those MFers. Meanwhile, Donald Trump said yesterday he would pardon the January 6 insurrectionists. How…

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Ob-La-Di

President Joe Biden will give a prime-time speech this evening to address the threats to our democracy. The threats to our democracy also happen to be a major concern to the American public. What threats? Overturning a legal presidential election. Stealing top secret and classified documents.  White supremacy and domestic terrorism. Making it extremely difficult…

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Princess Diana

It was a Saturday evening on August 30, 1997 (early Sunday morning, August 31 in France), when I saw on TV that Princess Diana was in a bad car accident in Paris.  I watched CNN’s coverage for a few hours. Back then, the internet was in the early stages, and I wasn’t connected so CNN…

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The Handout Thing

Handouts have been getting play these days. You know, the college loan relief thing versus the PPP loans that were forgiven. Here is the definition of handout I found online: something given free to a needy person or organization Here are accompanying synonyms: Aid, benefit, financial support, gift of money, subsidies, and payments. Here is…

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Commander Moonikin Campos

From the take the money and run department. Commentary has probably had two brief conversations with local activist Quanell X in all these years. In the beginning, I thought he was doing his activism thing for free. Then I learned that some folks pay him to help their cause, predicament, or injustice.  Hey, a fella…

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GOP Nutjobs

Commentary can easily say that I know more about elections than most folks. Not all, but most.  For the life of me, I can’t figure out why GOP nutjobs want to see mail ballots.  Is it just to be intimidating? I keep telling folks that Texas’s elections are guided by our state’s election code. The…

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2023 Astros Schedule

The Chron E-Board has a take on the State Comptroller stepping into it on Harris County budgeting for law enforcement here: Harris County defunding police? Texas comptroller can’t add [Editorial] (houstonchronicle.com). Thank you, GOP dummies. I would rather have Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo taking on that arsehole Gov. Greg Abbott and dummy State Comptroller…

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Dumb, Dumb GOP Move

This move doesn’t surprise Commentary. GOP statewide elected officials have excelled at running state government into the ground. Now they want to try their brand in Harris County. I kind of thought Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar was a tad smarter than the rest. I was clearly wrong. See this from the Chron: Texas Comptroller Glenn…

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