When I read this yesterday I wasn’t surprised.
Gov. Rick Perry today told the federal government that Texas doesn’t want $555 million to expand benefits for the unemployed in exchange for widening the program to include part-time workers.
The Legislature can decide to accept the money, but Perry said the state has repeatedly rejected the idea of [...]

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I was thinking back to my start at blogging and how it was the first time I was ever able to “do” morning pages. In the past few months I seem to have lost that direction(?). I have begun to spend more time wandering the random web than polishing my dreaming stones…I need to get [...]

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Currently (on Tue 5:53AM CDT from Pearland Regional Airport)

Clear
Temp:
41°

Dewpoint:
34°

Wind:
Calm MPH

I woke up this morning at about 3:45 smelling something burning. Sherry sat up at about the same time and said something. We both jumped out of bed before I realized it was the heater kicking in for the first time this fall and what we [...]

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Every time Joe Biden made mention of the last eight years, Sarah Palin would chastise him for looking to the past not the future. Look who’s digging deep now.
SEDONA, Ariz., Oct. 4 — GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin opened a new assault on Barack Obama on Saturday, accusing the Democratic presidential nominee of being [...]

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Makes sense to me…

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This one’s for you…
While reporters at The Post and The New York Times have been vetting McCain, many others give him a free pass. Their default cliché is to present him as the Old Faithful everyone already knows. They routinely salute his “independence,” his “maverick image” and his “renegade reputation” — as the hackneyed script [...]

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This has to be one of the strangest things about Texas Republicans…
When health care in Texas makes headlines, the issues raised by administrators and physicians are hardly rosy. They include overcrowded emergency rooms, mounting hospital budget deficits created by unfunded indigent care, and uninsured rates for adults and children that lead the nation.
In fact, a [...]

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Today I imported all of the posts and comments from my old political rant site “Blues From The Red Side Of Life” into this blog and shut down the old Blogger site.
It seemed the thing to do since I haven’t posted over there in about a year and I don’t have any problem with posting [...]

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