I don’t know that any politician could have several campaign cycles of their TV ads played back to back without looking pretty cheesy, so I guess we shouldn’t hold this against Rick Perry.

Highlights include the “$2,000 tax cut” (near the end) and some early agriculture commissioner spots in which a baby-faced, leather-chaps wearing Rick appears to be doing his best impression of a member of “The Village People.”

The New York State voter rolls have an estimated 77,000 dead people still on the rolls that have not been purged yet. And 2,600 have managed to vote in this year’s upcoming election so far.

We could do a lot worse.

Welcome to our 2006 Fall Begathon!

Twice a year–just like National Public Radio–we interrupt our ideologically one-sided crap to harass you for money.

But what makes LST’s Begathon different?

• First, unlike NPR, LST receives absolutely no government funding at all; in fact, not a single dollar flows into our pockets from government coffers against the will of ideologically dissenting taxpayers. Trust us, we’ve looked into the possibility. Unfortunately, it doesn’t exist.
• Secondly, LST’s Begathon doesn’t have high-profile law firms or energy companies making “challenges” to the audience, offering to match every donation made by listeners/readers in the next hour. Listen to NPR’s Begathon and it seems like every member of the Greater Houston Partnership is trying to smarm their way into the public’s good graces by proclaiming “See how enlightened and community minded we are? We support public radio!” The executives at those same companies read LST too–we can tell by monitoring our visitors’ IP and email addresses–but none of them clamor to take a high profile role in our Begathon. No, they go out to the theatre with NPR, then stop by LST in the wee hours of the morning for their tawdry thrills. We are the law firm and energy companies’ cheap blog-whore, the information source they can’t allow themselves to be seen with in public. That’s OK. We probably deserve it.
• Unlike NPR, we’re funny.
• Unlike NPR, we’re honest about our bias.
• On NPR you can listen to Daniel Schorr; on LST, you can look at the Conservative T-Shirt Girl

You get the idea–they suck, we don’t, now give us some dough.

Not just because we’re telling you to, but because you appreciate how–just since our last Begathon–LoneStarTimes.com has…

• had to honor far too many of our nation’s fallen finest
• brought you the latest in the fight over property taxes in East Texas, Dallas, and around the state
• remained vigilant towards the less than peaceful expressions of the Religion of Peace
• proven our intellectual independence time and again
• explored the inter-religious dynamics of Bert and Ernie
• honored the sanctity of life
• taken you to Austin with CLOUT
• alerted you to ongoing follies with Homeland Security
• brought back fond memories of dangerous (and fun!) childhood adventures
• fantasized about 15 foot-tall honey-baked ham balloons rolling down FM 1960
• honored one of Houston’s finest, fallen in the line of duty
• celebrated further victories in Friendswood
• fought the Moonbat Conspiracy theorists
• introduced our principle of “Pissing Off the Right People“
• written a boastful, passionate, whispering, masculine kind of blog
• called Nick Lampson on his partisan hypocrisy
• kept an eye on the MSM’s love affair with RINOs
• highlighted Dan Patrick’s city hall speech on immigration
• tracked Houston’s crime wave and crisis within HPD
• led the New Media in coverage of panda sex
• played word games
• cared and grieved for Israel
• announced that Dallas would soon have a Voice
• given you a chance to debate the latest scuttlebutt about Patricia Slade, Jimmy Carter, former Senator and gentleman farmer Jon Lindsay, Ken Lay, Carter Casteel, Fred Hill, Paul Bettencourt, and Dan Patrick
• honored the victims of September 11th
• kept an eye on (and our politicians’ feet to the fire on) the border
• kicked the Perry campaign’s ASS checks
• surpassed 100,000 comments
• offered some Yale political science professors some real-world advice
• gone Hawk-hunting
• examined the legal implications of the Nutcracker Suit
• found fault with feminism
• welcomed Chronicle columnist Rick Casey to the conservative blogosphere
• made certain you retained your CLOUT
• issued an all-points bulletin for the thugs over at Americans for Prosperity
• and as always, kept an eye on Houston’s foolishly, predictably, absurdly, amusingly, Chronically Biased “leading” “information” “source”

… just to name a few of the things we’ve been up to.

It is a labor of love– but we’d love to know you appreciate our hard work.

We thank you for your support.

Sincerely,

David Benzion, Publisher/Managing Editor

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In the crowd of the Army-Air Force football game.

Heh.

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