TexDem Convention-The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

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Tuesday June 21, 2016 · 6:39 AM PDT

2016/06/21 · 06:39

The Texas Democratic Party held their state convention this weekend, June 16th-18th in San Antonio. On Thursday the 16th there were mostly kick-off parties and special committee meetings. On Friday the 17th, we gathered at the Alamodome to attend caucus meetings and vote on committee members and national delegates from each of our state senate districts. Friday evening was the “rah-rah” general session with speakers, including surprise speaker Wendy Davis, and the keynote speaker Julian Castro. Then on Saturday we had a few special caucus meetings while the committees worked on the party platform, nominations to the DNC and national convention, and other business to be voted on the floor during the last general session Saturday afternoon. I attended the convention as a delegate for Hillary Clinton. Follow me below the fold for the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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Saturday August 18, 2007 · 9:59 AM PDT

2007/08/18 · 09:59

Everyone is talking this week about the comments Dick Cheney made in 1994 as to why invading Baghdad would be very bad idea. The YouTube link is here.

I am not sure if it was the comments or the date they were made that has everyone talking. Either way, I believe a talk he gave to the Washington Institute in 1991 is just as damning, if not more.

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TexH

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Saturday June 23, 2007 · 2:32 AM PDT

2007/06/23 · 02:32

I have an awesome, happy, sparkle, wish, lucky, story tonight. I didnt' see the ususal "Have a Happy Story"? Fri night get together, though. Maybe I missed it, but I don't care, I have a happy, "doooobey, doooobey, doo, scat daddy story to tell". So if you're interested in political substance tonight, don't stop here. There will be none of that. Just a true happy fairy tale.

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NRCC called me. (!) Delay's scams live on

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Thursday April 13, 2006 · 9:28 PM PDT

2006/04/13 · 21:28

The NRCC is continuing the indicted Hammer's trolling for dollars scheme. The masters of manipulating people's honor, ego, pride, values, etc. for political gain are once again offering their national "Awards for Dollars" Telethon. They pulled this one on me once and I wish I would have handled it differently. This week, I have been given a second chance.

Several years ago I got an interesting item in the mail. It said I was being nominated for a National Business Leadership award and a place on the Business Advisory Council. There would be a large print ad to announce my award. I would be invited to D.C. not only to wine and dine with bigwigs in Congress, but also to communicate my issues directly to them.

At the time, I was a small business owner. The business had been going strong for a few years by then and we were fairly successful and well-known. What an honor, my then naïve self thought. So I called the number for more information. The phone was answered "Congressman's Delay's office..."

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Texas Executes Innocent Teen, DA Claims "Murder by Perjury"

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Tuesday December 06, 2005 · 12:31 AM PST

2005/12/06 · 00:31

A couple of weeks ago, Markos posted a story on the 1993 execution of Ruben Cantu who was 17 at the time of the crime for which he was executed. Markos cited a Houston Chronicle investigative piece that uncovered evidence that Cantu was probably innocent.

Most of the Chronicle's story centers on the testimony of David Garza, a life-long friend of Cantu's. Garza now admits that he was at the crime scene with another young man, but Cantu was not there. Garza confided in Cantu two weeks after the murder, but Cantu refused to betray his friends, even to save his own life.

Ruben Cantu was executed on August 24, 1993.

Now, another man is joining Garza in proclaiming Cantu innocent. This other man should know, he was one of the victims in the shooting. Read More

Speculation vs Reality: Miller Case and the Plain Dealer

TexH

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Monday July 11, 2005 · 12:18 PM PDT

2005/07/11 · 12:18

Recent diaries, including this hot one from Saturday are speculating that the Judith Miller imprisionment is a threat to journalism. Cited is the Plain Dealer editor Doug Clifton's comments that he is sitting on two major stories that he won't publish for fear of consequences like Judith Miller.

After hearing this one editor's comments, some sentiments were along this line of "reasoning":

So all of you who delighted at Judith Miller finally getting her comeuppance, rejoice. The victory is truly yours today..

Implying that big, breaking, important stories would be buried because Judith Miller went to jail.

Hogwash.

The New York Times (registration) is reporting today that this is in fact, not the case.
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Journalists Make Crappy Lawyers

TexH

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Saturday July 09, 2005 · 3:14 PM PDT

2005/07/09 · 15:14

The First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

James Goodale was the general council to the New York Times when the Supreme Court ruled they could continue to publish the Pentagon Papers. He states:

The founders of the United States enacted the First Amendment to distinguish their new government from that of England, which had long censored the press and prosecuted persons who dared to criticize the British Crown. As Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart explained in a 1974 speech, the "primary purpose" of the First Amendment was "to create a fourth institution outside the government as an additional check on the three official branches" (the executive branch, the legislature and the judiciary).

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Iraqi Insurgents' weapons supplied by CIA or Mossad?

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Thursday June 16, 2005 · 8:23 AM PDT

2005/06/16 · 08:23

This was buried in UPI notes of the Washington Times on June 3rd.

U.S. intelligence officers are reporting that some of the insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92 pistols, but the pistols seem to have had their serial numbers erased. The numbers do not appear to have been physically removed; the pistols seem to have come off a production line without any serial numbers. Analysts suggest the lack of serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial government backing. Analysts speculate that these guns are probably from either Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent provocateurs may be using the untraceable weapons even as U.S. authorities use insurgent attacks against civilians as evidence of the illegitimacy of the resistance.

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DSM in the MSM!!! How the facts were fixed. A look back.

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Wednesday June 08, 2005 · 9:02 AM PDT

2005/06/08 · 09:02

O.K. so the memo/minutes are getting a few seconds air time ~~lately~~ finally. This is very good news. So many people have put so much into getting this memo in the US public's mind, let's not forget all the clues from the past that substantiate why this is the smoking gun. Let's remember old stories that were spun into the ground by the neo-crazies and their megaphones. I was bumping around online yesterday, and found a link to a July 17, 2003 story in the UK's Guardian. There's been so much deception over the last four years, I had forgotten about these guys:

The agency, called the Office of Special Plans (OSP), was set up by the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, to second-guess CIA information and operated under the patronage of hardline conservatives in the top rungs of the administration, the Pentagon and at the White House, including Vice-President Dick Cheney.

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