Slime spotted in Texas, traced to oil company.

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Thursday August 12, 2010 · 6:51 PM PDT

2010/08/12 · 18:51

A letter in the Houston Chronicle expressing concern over revenue losses due to increased scrutiny isn't anything unusual. Even if the letter goes on to say that litigation by cities and businesses asking for compensation is, itself, a risk. Okay, a little tasteless, but not vulgar.

But going on to claim that laws like the Endangered Species Act, or the Clean Water Act are also to blame? That's a little over the top, even in Houston.

Doing all that, and citing your position as a representative of an overseas oil company, that takes a certain amount of chutzpah.

Readers with delicate stomachs, high blood pressure, or sharp objects within reach are cautioned to consider reading another diary. Stomachs will empty and cuss jars will fill.

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Burst a blood vessel from anger

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Felt slightly... "used"

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Lead Paint Chip Pie! Mmm!

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Carly wins primary; this is good news for McCain! (yes, really)

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Sunday June 13, 2010 · 10:52 AM PDT

2010/06/13 · 10:52

Carly Fiorina is a true outsider on the political landscape, and has spent much of her life in demanding, high-level corporate management positions.

Without exception, she has been a miserable failure in every one of them. If Sarah Palin had gone into management instead of sportscasting, the two Republican stars would be indistinguishable from each other.

It's often difficult to judge how good an elected official is; there are so many measures of success and failure. Business, on the other hand, is not nearly as vague; you are either a winner or a loser.

Let's look at Carly's history.

thegrump

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Friday November 27, 2009 · 3:56 PM PST

2009/11/27 · 15:56

While it may be entertaining to watch Rick Perry dress like Liberace and talk like a slightly more coherent Palin, it's costing Texas thousands of good-paying middle-class jobs. And thanks to the GOP, it's going to get a lot worse. In a front-page article, the Houston Chronicle discusses the growing political impotence of the Lone Star state.

One of Tom DeLay's Rorschach-like districts is (vaguely) represented by Michael McCaul (R-Clear Channel Communications, Inc.). In a district which was carefully made to ensure a safe Republican seat for decades to come, McCaul actually had to campaign in '08, to avoid a challenge from a democratic challenger best known for a local-market "people's court" type show.

thegrump

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Friday October 09, 2009 · 12:05 PM PDT

2009/10/09 · 12:05

Eight months after George W. Bush took office, the United States suffered a grievous attack which killed thousands of innocent men, women, and children. This attack was possible, at least in part, because the president was incompetent, and his staff had other priorities, such as tort reform, cutting taxes on the investor class, and exporting US assets to locations with less oversight or annoyances like OSHA or ERISA.

Barack Obama came into office in the midst of a global economic collapse. Major US and world markets were insolvent, and a debt crisis loomed.

In spite of this, President Obama knew that our national security was not something we could look away from.

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Our country is safe and our president wins a Nobel:

Maybe things could be worse after all.

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But what have you done for me lately?

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F*ck everyone! I want Osama to kill more people!

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Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb the moon pie.

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I commited democracy today...

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Wednesday August 12, 2009 · 10:20 AM PDT

2009/08/12 · 10:20

Last week I got the notice from Organizing for America asking us to visit our local representatives. Politics are usually a spectator event for me; I read two newspapers, like to debate, and consider Rachel Maddow to be one of the best and most effective educators in existence.

But this whole "visit your congressperson" thing? What's the catch?

thegrump

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Tuesday April 14, 2009 · 10:27 AM PDT

2009/04/14 · 10:27

After listening to various intellectual icons warn me about the imminent socialist takeover of the United States, I was not impressed. The draconian changes usually described were often very similar to the current legal and financial framework of the country I know and love.

As I'm considering this, I see the headlines of the dramatic kidnap and rescue of an American-flagged merchant ship off the coast of Somalia, and I become re-aquainted with the absolute anarchy that is that region - one can't really call it a nation if there is no law, no government.

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Sunday February 15, 2009 · 7:44 PM PST

2009/02/15 · 19:44

Apparently, Mr. DeLay is not happy. Of his gerrymandered districts, one of the most safe - went within spitting distance of doing Democratic last november. This apparently shocked the appointed owner out of his four-year nap long enough to put a stamp on an letter to the editor which clearly was written by someone less educated than himself.

The 10th Congressional District of Texas encompasses a wide area. It's hard to understand how you could accidentally arrive at the peculiar layout it has, unless your name happens to be Tom DeLay, and you're looking for a place to stick a couple lobbyist buddies who aren't particularly talented. Tom didn't much care; he wasn't interested in people who would represent their own constituents. Hell, they didn't even need to actually get elected, they just had to have an (R), and be Loyal Bushies. They were ballast, intended to serve someone else, to be placed in "district" carved out by looking at Arbitron ratings for the Rush Limbaugh show. Forget TX-10. He's CC-1 (Clear Channel, Inc.) - and has the father-in-law to prove it.

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Slime spotted in Texas, traced to oil company.

Carly wins primary; this is good news for McCain! (yes, really)

The legacy of Bush and DeLay costs Texas another $10 Billion

President Obama kept us safe.

I commited democracy today...

Sweden vs. Somalia

TX-10: He'd just as soon you forgot his name.