Monday, October 31, 2005

The sentences were way too light

Thursday, October 27, 2005

last night = -_-,

but we'll get our day. go 'stros!

--

sheryl swoopes comes out of the closet

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

ASTROS ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES !!!!!!!

Thursday, October 13, 2005

this is when i start to worry, start to wonder about my texas pride...

in texas, marriage is on the ballot

it's already banned by law in tx, but now they want to amend the constitution:

The amendment provides "that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman." It also bars "this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage."

*sigh*

i urge you all to care, and i urge you all to vote.

Monday, October 10, 2005

The astros are always picking on my braves =P

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

source of SARS discovered?

"the john roberts court" to hear first case: right to die (oregon)

Monday, October 03, 2005

Fck this sht man! I told you adam a year ago that Bush would be picking lame supreme court justices, but you said something like "if only what quentin said was true" Look at this new one Mier.... little or no judicial experience, just one of Bush's friends. How lame.

Saturday, October 01, 2005

news briefs:

rita wreaked unknown havoc
bush administration guilty of spreading "covert propaganda"

=========================================

Rita wasn't such a dud:

Because the storm spared Houston, Galveston and other Texas cities that had expected to be pummeled by its wind and force, Hurricane Rita was broadly perceived as the Chihuahua to Hurricane Katrina's bulldog and something dodged rather than survived. But looking at small towns like this one, it is clear that from Shreveport in the north to Pecan Island in the south, from Houston in the east to New Orleans in the west, Hurricane Rita was as strong as its predecessor, or stronger.

It ended about 100 lives - many while people were trying to evacuate - made pickup sticks of homes and businesses, upended more oil rigs than Hurricane Katrina and took away electric power for hundreds of miles.

...

"There may not have been much incentive for people to get down to these little towns," Mr. Gibson said. "But for the people down here who are totally devastated, they feel left out and ignored, as if their story hasn't been told."

...

"This is some of the most touching stuff I've seen in a long time," said Brian Woodward, the site supervisor for the American Red Cross in Jasper, his eyes welling. "When a man 80 years old who hasn't eaten in four days, and you hand them a plate with corn and meat and bread and butter and that man hugs you, that's something."

...

"All everyone out there is worried about is Houston and New Orleans," he said, pulling on a cigarette. "We're sick of it. This storm hit Cameron Parish 10 times what it hit New Orleans, and nobody even knows it."

also: vietnamese evacuees seek shelter in houston's hong kong city mall

======================================

bush bought favorable news coverage:

Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.

In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated "covert propaganda" in the United States...

...

In the course of its work, the accountability office discovered a previously undisclosed instance in which the Education Department had commissioned a newspaper article. The article, on the "declining science literacy of students," was distributed by the North American Precis Syndicate and appeared in numerous small newspapers around the country. Readers were not informed of the government's role in the writing of the article, which praised the department's role in promoting science education.

but really, who's surprised by this?