Woody

(still picture: "this machine kills fascists")

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Train 45

The train I ride on is a hundred coaches long,

you can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles.

If that train runs right, I'll be home tomorrow night,

cause I'm nine hundred miles from my home

and I hate to hear that lonesome whistle blow.


Walkin down the track I got tears in my eyes,

tryin ta read a letter from my home.

If that train runs right, I'll see my woman Saturday night,

cause I'm nine hundred miles from my home

and I hate to hear that lonesome whistle blow.

Letterbox: Rick W., a conscientious citizen and true environmentalist; And Sunset Review Hearing for TCEQ

I would like to thank Rick Wilder for his guidance and commitment to Richardson and its environment. He is a straight up man and calls things like he sees them, including disagreeing with Maggie May USA's post (the hyperbole pillar example that I wrote after getting an over the top email bomb). He is not an eye rolling NIMBY, just wanted to clarify that (not him in that prior post of MMUSA's). He has also challenged MMUSA (and others) inviting Maggie May USA to attend the December 15 TCEQ Sunset Review hearing in Austin.

On that topic, here is one link to information about the topic I had bookmarked: Sunset Advisory Commission and with another one from a group, Alliance for a Clean Texas, one of many, making recommendations about TCEQ.

Here is an excerpt, one that I agree with from ACT (some I do agree with, some I do not):

"TCEQ should be directed to improve the public's ability to participate in agency decisions.
TCEQ's narrow approach to granting administrative standing limits public involvement in permitting decisions. Certain permit authorizations limit public notice and comment. Other measures to improve agency transparency and increase public participation should be adopted."

Letterbox: John W. sent a note, a real gentleman. Maggie May USA wasn't referring to John W. in the prior post as the er-NIMBY but is glad he wrote in

(and has agreed to not roll his eyes, so I promise to not roll my eyes in return. I'm just saying, when someone rolls their eyes at me and mine, I will roll mine back, in some way).

Maggie May,

I would like to gain some understanding on your perspective regarding the whole trash issue.
Would you be willing?

Please let me know,

John Wallberg

P.S. I have not advocated for the removal of the transfer station. In meeting with the local Sierra Club head, when he said that their position would be to shut it down and have more (and smaller) transfer stations located in industrial areas, I asked him to not bring this position forward, as it would not be politically feasible.

P.P.S. During this whole process I know that I've made plenty of mistakes. Eye rolling is something that I for sure used to do, and every once and a while still do. If it was me that did the eye roll, then I'm sorry. ...
Either way, many of the points you bring up are good and shared by many of the people working this issue.

Trash

And by the way, arsenic? In the creek behind the transfer station area? The houses around it were built directly on a landfill. It is not the transfer of trash and transfer of debris that caused hypothetical arsenic in the creek. It would be the landfill. What is now golf course and some houses. It is still there, buried. You people are soylent green.

I suppose now the city wil agree to buy their houses in addition to raising our trash rates three times. That will raise it more than three times. (The mayor seems to want them to go away, that's one way. Bought the houses across from city hall, why not there too? It would make as much sense). This is apart from water rates that will increase.

Both the council and the activists need to rethink a part of their agreements some of which is good, some of which is short sighted and bad. They have gone through a big rigmaroll to get little, some of which was already going to happen yet they are claiming victory for in their carpet email bombs (without permission to use the email addresses from all the email address owners, there was no right to give them to the activist group, much like the Richardson Coalition and City disregards email privacy, yet goes to the Attorney General to redact the Eisemann Petition email addresses, successfully, funny how that works -- no equal protection under the law or rather under city action by the way. The Council is still playing games with the activists and not speaking frankly. "Sign the damn" thing is finally not exactly agreeing but more caving in fully betting that cover can be gotten via the NTMWD but still being annoyed.

Great acting by the way on the part of the rest of the City Council.

And, it was funny, in the not ha ha way, when one activist yelled to move the transfer station out of his back yard (he does not live next to it) and put it in someone else's backyard in Garland. Now that is truly playing NIMBY. That's not being true environmentalists. The activists began by wanting it moved completely but without any care for where the transfer of their trash would be done, just NIMBY. ("What can we fight next?" was voiced by one of the head NIMBYs). They knowingly circulated misinformation. Some of them are still saying NIMBY, all the while some of their homes are built on a bed of trash.

Great ideas were there that they didn't mess with but some have conceded things that are wrong to concede that they don't want to know about, don't care, and are agreeing to things they nor the Council should (or can) agree to. Oh, and forget the rest of us. How grand of them all. One NIMBY complained that regular City Council meetings couldn't be moved to fit NIMBY's schedule, but NIMBY always scheduled to fit NIMBY without much regard to others.

I look forward to the real scheduled public hearing on this matter held by NTMWD when they have the answers ready that the rest of us asked, not the NIMBYs and I hope without the mayor telling all the others on the council and city staff what to say or do and getting back at the ones who try to get the answers. Not that the head NIMBYs ever help matters by slinging mud all over the place including the email just sent which all winds up working in the Mayor and his hand picked court's favor who are playing political games. The head NIMBY is trying to play political games but isn't as good as the Mayor just yet. Thanks, you head NIMBYs. Thanks to you and the Council and "Richardson Coalition" and NTMWD and Sierra Club (the one guy) and TCEQ with an overall unwillingness to listen and to ignore or drum out average residents. You have lost credibility as heads.

Our community needs to learn to deal with its trash, in place, locally transferred, contained, clean up where needed, managed, and deal with reducing trash, reducing costs, increasing composting, getting compost from there for flower beds and gardens, recycling, education for rainwater catchment and solar energy collection with the city being and leading the example in an economically feasible, responsible way over our resources. A user lane at the transfer station and one for the trash trucks when the road is rebuilt along with the containment will make it a true user friendly deal. And continue to work for efficiencies with others (Plano, commercial debris haulers, etc.).

And, city, why are you discouraging babic drop off by limiting it so much? I guess you like the stuff loaded onto the parkway even when the resident doesn't.

Richardson needs to go to once a week city trash pick up because twice is crazy costly and truck trafficky (controversial ideal to go to once a week, yeah, I know).

None of this is probably going to happen that soon with mostly seat fillers who oscillate between being led by the nose or thumbing their nose at tax payers and doing their "special" deals and "strategies" and hiding or blocking information and counting on a regional board or staff to cover for them.

This versus some of the NIMBYs and activists seemingly initially ready to sign off on something they don't entirely understand the ramifications of, and don't want to listen, and don't represent all the rest of us and our trash and best interests, even though the NIMBY ones, with their out-of-towner, and sierra club (well actually the one guy who is the Richardson sierra guy, is that the one who loves development moratoriums) and with their despise of the TCEQ and NTMWD, have convinced some that they represent all of us on the matter of how our trash in Richardson should be handled and how our bills will be increased. They don't. The NIMBYs and radical ones that is. The Councilmen should know that. Not that they have been representing all of us on this either.

For all the right things the NIMBYs and the more balanced activists have echoed and have adopted and claimed, the NIMBYs went overboard, especially with their last email bomb, just as the Mayor and his hand picked ones have.

The "right thing" is not to make the transfer of trash occur miles and miles outside of our city, costing us three times as much. The NIMBY element has always been wrong about wanting to move the transfer of our trash out of our city especially by not caring where it was moved to, just NIMBY. It is also not the right thing to refuse to work with Plano or other city members who share the costs of our trash transfer stations and the expensive cost of the dump up north. Like most things, it needs to be improved, but they were and some still are going overboard with it.

I am not kidding when one of the head NIMBYs who claims to be an environmentalists admitted to not even knowing there was a transfer site there before (not living near it, being a distance from it, not knowing and not caring where NIMBYs trash went).

The NIMBYs just don't want to listen to anything other than them. They have refused to listen to anyone who doesn't agree with them. One of the head NIMBYs who does not live by the transfer location as admitted, smirked and rolled eyes at me when NIMBY asked for my opinon and advice and didn't like what I said. That's real listening. Thanks, you NIMBY! Just like the Councilmen you elected.

The Councilmen and The NIMBYs and the Go Alongs and the Truly Well Meaning at their heels should listen and not join the NIMBYs in their breaking their arms patting themselves on the back. An odd email was sent from the NIMBY in Chief patting profusely among other things. And don't forget the city blast saying an agreement was made when no one knew what it was then, NIMBYs included.

Council should stop being foot draggers, ignorers, blockers, and guards, shirkers and placate'rs on such items. They have collectively quorem'd and grabbed and demanded power but can't see past their own smoke and mirrors some times to use it wisely, except for "special" friends.

As non progressive as NTMWD (staff and member cities) is in many ways (not in all ways, just some), I hope they do not agree to everything the NIMBYs are demanding (by NTMWD, I mean the five city councils and "their representatives" who are part of the trash/dump group, so to speak, of the board of the directors).

The staff of the district is deferred to heavily in regard to operation specifics, because they know, or are supposed to know, things that most of the councils do not.

The city staffs are deferred to heavily because they work with the staff of the NTMWD and know city operations and NTMWD interface operations.

The representatives know more than the Councils typically (not in all cases) about the NTMWD.

The Mayor described Richardson's representates as essentially his representatives, not the citizens' representatives.

The Council somehow seems to be barely in agreement with the demands that they offer to sign off on.

The Mayor indicates that the NTMWD is the last word however it has been said by top staffer that the NTMWD would not do anything with the transfer station that Richardson City Council opposes, but that isn't the same thing as the mayor said in public. But what is.

There has been too much deferring, too little true interest, too much blocking, too much preening, too little leadership on long term city issues with the mayor and deans of the Council.

The Constitution has fallen and it can’t get up. Moratorium and trash. How I could stop worrying and learn to love the Councilman (if he put down the

West Spring Valley Moratorium).

One of the Richardson, Texas, City Councilmen in particular has been rightly and wrongly accused of being lazy and crafty over various things over the last years. He should have gotten off council (a hindrance and seat filler more than a help recently) but I have never heard anyone accuse him of being a liberal fascist, other than one guy who calls everyone a liberal, as if that is a bad thing in all things (don't be stingy with hot sauce on my burrito), and the time the Councilman threatened eminent domain, and I admit I too called him wrong for agreeing to that little threat.

I doubt this Councilman will agree to a moratorium on businesses who want to clean up their act but can't afford to do a whole redo, in this economy especially. This "choke out" moratorium was proposed publicly about a year ago by A Neighborhood Leader, A City Councilman, and a City Plan Commissioner, and an extra CPC'r along for good measure (sounds like the beginning of a bad bar joke). Three of them together (others separately) held private court with the Richardson Coalition Grand Poobah too, in advance of The Council Meeting to present. What? To get clearance for their appearance and "plan" before going before the almost real council?

Where there is Poobah and The Richardson Coalition and their entourage, there always seems to be poo resulting, and a big clean up bill.

Who wouldn't be for cleaning up an area, but a moratorium as suggested, to not even allow facade repair as the one Neighborhood Leader proposes, is way overboard. Oh sure, it can further devalue and make things ripe for pickin' for the right city approved developer friend.

The pressure is great to go fascist, but I hope the Councilman doesn't fold, and I hope the Council does not do this.

This moratorium is not right, it's not the right way to make up for past years or criticisms for such. It may be seen as a sudden rush cure, after twenty years, or one year, a convenient way to accomplish something, like abortion, using a coat hanger at that, or cheating on a spouse for jollies when you don't like the marriage contract or spirit of the constitution or property rights, but it's not.

By the way there has been at least one facade improvement over the last year or so and it looks good and I'm glad you all did not get to stop it.

Oh wait, it is not called fascism if "we" are doing it, in the name of progress, in the name of the environment, what have you.

West Spring Valley, or The West Bank (hey, if a neighborhood can be called "The Reservation," why shouldn't we call a place where moratoriums are put into place "The West Bank?") is sorely in need of attention to follow code, to have a plan (after blocking by "the guard," one of which was the Councilman and by association the "Neighborhood Leader" who supported him year after year), but a moratorium is the wrong way to go about it. It is bad precedent and poor public policy. It is an erosion, despite the immediate expedient goal of building up.

I know and understand the arguments for a moratorium. The arguments are sincere. The need for attention is real, and has been (but blocked by the guard). But a moratorium is bad business to get into, by applying it to a selective part of a city that is receiving attention at a given time. All business owners and residents should keep in mind, if they do it to "them" they can and will do it to you, no matter the reason or the cause or group or what the gain or to whom.

I'm not an ideologue at all, but Liberal Fascism, (edit: okay, or Neo Conservatism or something like that), wrapped in a flag, or rolled up in environmentalism, carrying a cross, or in the name of "redevelopment" should not be such an easy crutch, and a sudden one at that, after years of blocking and feet dragging and no real interest in positive activity by the deans of the Richardson City Council, or their at-all-cost supporters, which include at least one of the moratorium seekers, the biggest one pushing for it.

When the Neighborhood Leader, CPC'er and one Councilman voiced the moratorium idea (will it float?) about a year ago, one might have thought it would not go over with a group of "conservatives" as they like to call themselves (The Current Council). A self imposed neighborhood set of redevelopment rules and protocols and process is to a significant degree different than a moratorium placed on a geographical business area.

Being oblivious versus being led by their noses? How about neither. How about reasonable, even measured progressive (real progressive, not fake progressive) leadership? Or what about true conservative leadership? I know three or four keep saying they want to be bold! But I just don't see a moratorium as bold, I see it as bad.

How about saying "no" to (holiday, rushing) moratoriums and "no" to raising our trash rates threefold (it's coming) and saying "yes" instead to taking reasonable mitigating action that still respects the most number of people long term and not election time sops and holiday rush throughs. How about not leaving it to regional representatives or the mayor's representatives and coming up with something that serves as many people in Richardson as possible.

I hope this Councilman and the others do not agree to use a moratorium on The West Bank to stop the runaway rebuilding going on there now. Oh wait. What rebuilding? The vast number of permits? So what's really going on? It's not like we would be informed or allowed to learn of what is really happening behind the scenes. This surely can't be hurry up and wait.

Play the roles. Take cover. Here it comes.

Topic II: Trash. Edit: I am moving and editing this topic in a separate post above.

After Thanksgiving holiday Monday special co-scheduled mad rush by Council, Plan Commission toward zoning moratorium (Richardson, Texas)

after twenty years, I mean after one year.

That could mean one thing.

"The Richardson Coalition: Our recommendations of gynecologists"

Cast away those old notions of Richardson, Texas, being the dry bed of gynecological purveyace and solely phallic in representations. The Richardson Coalition is here to tell you that gynecology is going strong in Richardson and The Richardson Coalition will therefore present its top gyns. As you may have noticed, The RC is always looking for ways to endear itself to you, young hip people and old alike, by associating with nice volunteers who are willing to show up to receive our award and by recommending tasty diners that you already frequent so you will say, "Hey! Me too!"

If you say, "Hey, Me too!" to this, why not keep agreeing to everything else we recommend no matter what you have been hearing and seeing that's true! Consultants agree! And now we move from dining to gyning in the wonderful medical profession.

The Richardson Coalition, Gynecologists for hire recommendations

1. Dr. Tracey. Richard, although technically retired from the bench, has been in practice for over ninety years. Some complain of his shaking hands, but others seem to have no problem with it, going back for repeated visits, even when medical guidelines suggest no need to do so. Dr. Tracey, or Richard, as he is known in The RC circle, has donated generously to The RC and we reciprocate so therefore rank him #1 on our list.

2. Dr. Lichman. This is one known doctor we found in the phone book. He has agreed to be listed and agrees to The Richardson Way. He has agreed not to be associated in any way with grass roots and that is music to our symphonic ears!

3. Dr. Frost E. Fingers. While he gets a lot of complaints, we think those complaints are merely reactionary from a few troublemakers. We take acception (sic) to the wimpy complainers and for the person who wrote Dr. Fingers saying, "A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned an automobile," we claim to agree, however, we just don't care about much as long as we can be mayor, so sign the damn release form. We will agree to whatever, if you will. We can always change it later.

4. Dr. V. J. Jay. He has a bad reputation among us but we are all about diversity so we are including him, despite objections to ourself. We can always get rid of him from our list if he gives us any trouble.

5. Dr. S. P. Redum, M.D., STD, VD. He is the most popular having infected many with his bedside matter (sic).

6. Colonel Angus. The Colonel is not officially licensed as a medical practitioner, but he is in business with someone on our, The Executive Foundation, so we figured why not put him on our, The Richardson Coalition, list.

7. Dr. Kosopolus. We don't know much about him other than word of mouth that he is very expensive to the point of being exhorbitant and his work tends to be sloppy, but nonetheless we think if we recommend him we will pick up the Grecian vote and keep our numbers strong and he has agreed with our non gynecological stipulations on down the road which is what matters most.

8. Dr. C. O. Jones. He has many aggressive techniques that we only wish we had. He has given his oath to The RC, so look for his name change coming soon!

9. Father Smear. While Father Smear has no medical experience, we find his work in the seminary admirable sounding. He is well known among all ages and is best known as Pap. That's close enough for us to sound popular and we know you'll agree!

10. Dr. Hands. Cole is the son in law of one of our Richardson Coalition Key Members, so he's on our recommend list by default and will be awarded a contract too before you know it despite the more qualified practitioners all claiming otherwise!

There you have it! So go out and gyn, dine, and shine in style in Richardson thanks to recommendations of The Richardson Coalition who can be trusted! We know you will find yourself saying, "Hey, me too!"

Oklahoma Anti-discriminatory Mascot Act 2009 (Senate Bill 765), blogging from Richardson, Texas

Oklahoma week on the blog (part deux) continues.

The school nickname of the Dartmouth College team called Dartmouth Indians could just as easily be called the Dartmouth Africans.

Or the Dartmouth Chippendales (like a reverse sexualization of those trucker mud flaps but only put them all over the place, in front yards, on flag poles, on t-shirts and uniforms, saturating the stadium on game night. School spirit!

Why stop there? Put them on government vehicles, like it would look cool if the Post Office used something like that, some tricked out logo flaps to compete with the lurid attraction of email. And school buses could use some spiffing up too, proudly flapping around).

Or, the traditional Indian cane bought (at a pretty price) and passed out at commencement could be a wood stick with an African representation on it, something that looks like Miss Jane Pittman (as portrayed by the incredible Cicely Tyson near the end of the movie when she gets really, really old), for instance. Why should generic "Indians" from North America get all the attention?

The term "The Reservation" used for a Richardson, TX, neighborhood with streets that have names like Mohawk and Cherokee is not being used as an effort to be offensive these days, but I can see how it could come across that way and especially so in future times or to people who may not get why a non Native American, non exclusive housing area would use a Native American symbol and have labels in masonry calling the place, The Reservation. The neighborhood already had a name (now what was that?) but the slang name of "The Reservation" stuck because the *honky population thought it was fun and appropriate?

(*By honky, I partially mean *rednecks. *And by rednecks, I slightly mean hardworking engineers and who-have-you from Oklahoma state and family farms of various mid-westerny and westerny names like Durant, Tulsa, Sallisaw, Okemeh, Eufaula, Neosho Falls, Shawnee...).

The historical connotation (and present day harsh reality of some) of the reservations isn't necessarily a calming thought, to everyone. Thankfully, it is losing that connotation (somewhat), but it's not there yet probably, or else why any fuss at all.

Maybe it has something to do with religion or spirituality, and the use of cultural symbols that aren't of the culture of the people using them, even if meant in homage or respect. Or something else. Another point of view: Indian Reservations: The Last Remaining Bastians of Segregation.

The context and collaboration by which something is used can make all the difference. It's like bffs can call each other stuff, but if you don't have a club membership, someone could go all Kanye (Con Yay) West on you (not that anyone is very sure what's up with that).

In this video below, near the end, the face painting, much like when light skinned people would paint their faces black to mimic, is not seen as offensive in the least, by those doing it that is. The phrase "well, I didn't know" and the phrase, "well, now you know" is used.

Is it hypersensitive for anyone concerned about this kind of thing? (It's not like when I stuff my bra and pretend I'm triple D, right? No offense against you big breasteses people). It's not like when a group makes one of themselves their mascot (self-named).

Or is it insinsitivity and ignorance on the part of those who do this kind of thing?

Anyway, pretty soon, it will be mainly women who can still be stereotyped to the point of being excluded (or negatively included or flapped around) institutionally (like in government and schools and corporations and car design and history and language) if we have to give up our other institutionalized stereotypes. No wait, there's always the Amish (those fake fire flicker real heaters work but boy do they cost more. Way to go, you Amish!).

Here is a positive comforting picture of actors acting like hard working Amish (as opposed to foreign Chinese in China where the guts of the heater are made) right before the Amish load the heaters onto the horse drawn wagon one at a time, with the regular horse acting like an Amish horse. I know the part about the horse drawn wagon is true as I saw it in the infomercial.

I don't think America's institutions and employers are post discrimination, yet. When they are, I can call you a whore at work like Gov. Jerry Brown's campaign and get away with it.

Seriously, I hope America is never without diversity, which probably means at least some discrimination against people based on color, ethnicity, race, gender, sex, etc. is here as opposed to more appropriate discrimination, like against violent criminals and extortionists and theives (sick) (sic).

Anyway, how 'bout those Slaves! I heard they lost 7-0! I'm going to sit on my roof until they win one.

As for you Amish, get back to work because I am cold (and I've run out of insulation for my house cracks) and also because you don't pay into the Federal Social Security system, so I hear, and that makes you either extremely clever or anti-government.

Also, I would like to start my own casino but instead of playing with plastic, I would deal in chocolate covered potato chips (chips I like) from Bedre (like I bought ten years ago at Neiman Marcus, which I think they still had the hyphen or dash between the words in their name like this, Neiman-Marcus, but didn't realized that you Indians* made the chips up in OK. Tricky. Very tricky. *And by Indians, I mean Native Americans, not necessarily the majority of people staffing the store in public, OK.)

Watch the video all the way through, OK.

P.S. I am waiting to see if the J.J. Pearce HOA will approve my counter intuitive plea to put a menorah ensignia on at least half of the sign toppers in the neighborhood, to stay competitive with the adjacent neighborhood and their Native American spiritual symbol (thanks, you Reservation People for causing more work for the rest of us). The majority has not objected (although, technically, the vast majority know nothing of this, or of the other things they know nothing of).

I am also waiting to see if the two Richardson, TX, councilmen who have regularly used the phrase, "he's off the reservation, again" (to describe the two double A battrees and a couple of other guys in town, three who don't even live on The Reservation) will feel as comfortable saying that phrase, as in, what different phrase will they use in public now, one that will feel as comfortable but still be macho, and pleasingly non PC, and insulting, in a fakey-conservativey way (like, "he's being a b_ _ _ _, again" perhaps). Lots to choose from.

Turner Falls (Davis, Oklahoma) is a great place to take the kids (and the big kids). Also there's Chocolate and Toys in the Land of OK, alright.

It's two hours north (from Richardson, Texas). Going off season means you won't be swimming in the falls, but the admission is significantly less expensive.

And you could throw in a visit to the fledgling Toy and Action Figure Museum (for the kids of course), $6. It's 35 minutes more north. It was through a community visioning exercise that the Museum came to be and it is an example of a small community trying to bring in tourist dollars. Around the same area (Pauls Valley, OK) are the little Amtrak station (Heartland Flyer runs OKC to FT Worth) and Bedre Chocolate Factory (Chickasaw Nation).

Big Tesla Coil of Oklahoma, Three Hours From Here

Richardson Texas beware Fictional "Double A Battrees" (what anti-g's call two newies runnin round calibratin Richardson's historical record-ation and

verbal history, allegedly. Warning, do not view the video (or hang out with Richardson's elite politicos) if you can not bear some foul language and puke. Video credits are listed in the video.

This enactment video of (science) history is arguably more historically accurate than the fictitional Double A Battree's proposed real versions of hyper-local Richardson, Texas, current events and history, allegedly.



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It sucks when people find themselves unable to work to provide for themselves or didn't plan for adequate financial security. But I think the idea of

suing the government for back welfare is not good.

I recently heard where some senior and disabled ladies at a subsidized apartment complex were getting high utility bills that were not supposed to go beyond 30% of their checks and they got a lawyer to get their promised benefits. The electricity bills were plus or minus $100. High amounts for low, fixed incomes, I agree. The electricity costs are high for everyone around here especially in the summer for A/C. They got the ball rolling and their subsidy for utilities was tripled. One of them complained about not having been able to buy Christmas presents in past years and now they are having their lawyer sue our government to pay them back welfare subsidies.

There were and are years when a lot of people who weren't or aren't on government programs could not or cannot afford to run the AC that much, even when it is hot, or buy Christmas presents. But suing the government for back welfare is not good. The attitude of either end of the spectrum is growing more radical. Both ends seem to be growing larger and both think they are entitled to things that aren't theirs, whether it be back welfare subsidies or corporate welfare enticement giveaways with no clawback or responsibility attached or not enforced.

No real surprises in Dallas County voting, a pattern of straight party, partisan, demographic voting

R straight party voting was 132,079 and D straight party voting was 152,377. Oddly, "Libertarian" had straight party voting, which was 1, 372. Green Party was 350.

Over 424K voted in the Gov. race in D county (White 55%, Perry 43%)

Noticed a number of crooks and sign stealers were re elected. It must be like the old phrase, "short of murder."

Not every one who is eligible is registered to vote. Of those registered around these North Texas parts, about 37% cast a ballot in the mid-term election.

What happened and aftermath in the rest of the country was slightly more interesting with an R sweep.

I'm not a witch.

M-U-R-K-O-W-S-K-I (Moo)

In Feingold's Loss, Independents Turn On One of Their Own

BAYONETS! "You need to leave here understanding one word. BAYONETS!" - Lt. Col. now Congressman-elect (FL) Allen West

We are all bigots now! by Ann Coulter

"I saw the helpless Cherokees arrested and dragged from their homes, and driven at the bayonet point into the stockades." - Private John G. Burnett, Captain Abraham McClellan's Company, 2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, Mounted Infantry, Cherokee Indian Removal 1838-39

"If The Girl Scouts of America can't get back to teaching real character, perhaps it will be time to look for our cookies elsewhere."

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