Tex’s Daily Thought: Franken Avoids the “Mob”
Senator Franken, being an upstanding member of Congress, is spending the recess meeting with constituents and discussing the hot topic of health care. That’s commendable. Except, I noticed something quite peculiar about an email I came across this morning from Franken.
MINNESOTA – U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-Minn) has spent his August recess traveling to [...]
Tex’s Daily Thought: Winnie the Pooh ist eine Nazi!
Apparently, more than ever before, it’s in vogue to compare people to Hitler. Though some of the collations may be stretching at times, it seems that a Russian citizen found the connection between Winnie the Pooh and the National Socialist Workers’ Party so startling (probably saw this video) that he decked out his Winnie – [...]
Tex’s Daily Thought: “Justice” for Lockerbie
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Libyan agent convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, has returned home. Megrahi had only spent a total of 11.6 days in prison for each of the 270 innocents killed from his bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
Having faced difficulty in proving a miscarriage of justice over the years in the [...]
Tex’s Daily Thought: Dancing with Delay
In response to what I had taken as the funniest joke I had heard all day, I almost veered off the road into the nearby creek (aka pulling a Kennedy minus a blonde) after realizing that Tom Delay will actually be a contestant on Dancing with the Stars. And so, the former House majority leader [...]
Tex’s Daily Thought: Geithner’s Failed Accountability
President Obama, upon entering office, promised to make a difference by placing checks on the influence of lobbyists and ushering in greater accountability. In turn, Obama’s financial go-to-guy, Mr. Geithner, promised, upon being sworn in as Treasury Secretary, to implement rules that would prevent lobbyists from hijacking the bailout process.
And now, after the government has [...]