Columnist Molly Ivins dies

Love her or hate her, she was definitely a unique individual with a great sense of humor.  I may not have agreed with her on much of anything, nor do I believe many LST readers agreed with her much either.  But she will be missed.  It’s nice when your political opponents are actually funny from time to time, and that’s hard to find in today’s liberals.

We often say that we’ve seen it all, only to see yet another foolish government action that makes us shake our collective heads. The great City of Houston honored one James Prince for

more than 20 years of commitment and dedication for giving back to the city.

And who is James Prince you ask? He is the founder of Rap A Lot Records, the rap label that put the South on the hip hop map. Whoo hooo. As for what he has given back, how about these “clean” lyrics from his most famous addition to the hip hop scene, the Geto Boys rapping The Mind of a Lunatic:

Lookin through her window, now my body is warm
Shes naked, and Im a peepin tom
Her bodys beautiful, so Im thinkin rape
Shouldn’t have had her curtains open, so that’s her fate

Trust me when I tell you that as hard as that was to read, the rest of that “song” is so violently graphic you shouldn’t bother Googling it.

And the Mayor of Houston, along with Texas House of Representatives member Sylvester Turner, Houston City Councilman Jarvis Johnson and community activist Debbie Allen. is honoring this piece of cultural trash. Talk about selling your soul to the devil.

BENZION ADDS– Big Jolly, you are being far, far too kind to the elected officials here. Don’t worry, we will have you fully corrupted soon enough.

The lyrics are, indeed, profoundly offensive, but in the interest of The Public’s Right To Know, LST will be providing a link to them, in full.

Just click on the Mayor’s picture, above.

BENZION UPDATES– Isiah Carey’s “INSITE” has more, including this great pic:

It would appear that Mr. J. Prince is sort of a black-gangsta-rapping Dan Patrick, using his media empire to provide toys for thousands of kids at Christmas, shelter the homeless, assist the elderly, etc., and we’ll be the first ones to give him credit for that.

I would like to ask this favor, however–Mr. Prince, could you please encourage your customers to be a bit more polite and turn their music down when stopped at a light?

Do something about that and you’ll have my vote for Mayor.

Bigjolly says: While FOX reporter Carey is busy gushing over this piece of human debris passing out toys to the children, Mr. Prince’s website is busy promoting the latest and greatest album from Do or Die, while one of it’s members is awaiting trial on first-degreee murder charges.

On the day of the shooting, Smith was allegedly watching as two people — one of whom was his girlfriend Hamilton’s brother — fought on the street. The victim — Raynard “B-Dog” Pinkston — kept jumping into the fight, and Smith allegedly told him to stay out of it, prosecutors said. When Pinkston didn’t listen, Smith allegedly opened his coat to reveal a weapon, and he warned Pinkston that if he jumped in again, he “would get shot,” prosecutors said.

According to prosecutors, Pinkston challenged Smith to go ahead and shoot, and Smith allegedly did. He then left the area, and the gun was never recovered.

Or how about Pimp-C’s latest and greatest, also featured on this slime site?

I wonder if the definition of rec center should include “centralized recruiting station for juvenile delinquents”?

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Democrat Senator Joe Biden of Delaware has been known to shoot off his mouth to his own detriment. But like other well-known Democrat blowhards, little real harm has been done to the veteran lawmaker over the years, since the Left-leaning Big Media pays little heed to his foot-in-mouth disease.

Recently, Senator Biden sat down with The New York Observer to blast his soon-to-be-competition in the Democrat-for-president sweepstakes, and Joe’s mouth (and foot) did not disappoint. Hillary Clinton received the first broadside from Biden, who may wish to avoid Fort Marcy Park after this blast.

“Everyone in the world knows her,” he said. “Her husband has used every single legitimate tool in his behalf to lock people in, shut people down. Legitimate. And she can’t break out of 30 percent for a choice for Democrats? Where do you want to be? Do you want to be in a place where 100 percent of the Democrats know you? They’ve looked at you for the last three years. And four out of 10 is the max you can get?”

Ouch. Biden reserves his choicest terms for Barack Obama, however, and manages to reveal a bit more of himself than he perhaps intended. It seems the old plantation attitude still thrives among our “inclusive” Democrat friends.

Mr. Biden is equally skeptical—albeit in a slightly more backhanded way—about Mr. Obama. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

As we all know, blacks in America are dirty, stupid, inarticulate, and ugly. Obama apparently rose enough above this standard to attract comment from Biden. Perhaps Joe might even consider allowing Obama off the plantation as a reward for his cleanliness.

But—and the “but” was clearly inevitable—he doubts whether American voters are going to elect “a one-term, a guy who has served for four years in the Senate,” and added: “I don’t recall hearing a word from Barack about a plan or a tactic.”

Perhaps not. But Senator Biden is not the only one capable of making odd statements. Back on the Liberal Plantation, Senator Obama proves he can hold forth with the best of them.

“The arguments of liberals are more often grounded in reason and fact,” the Illinois Democrat wrote in “The Audacity of Hope,” a memoir published last year.

Of course, Senator. We have all experienced several years of considerable Democrat “reason and fact” during the Bush presidency. And regardless of Joe Biden’s opinion of him, Senator Obama is not quite what he pretends to be in public.

Obama has a 95 percent liberal rating from Americans for Democratic Reform, a liberal advocacy group that ranks all members of Congress. Yet he is often portrayed as a centrist.

“His record is liberal, and his rhetoric is moderate,” explained Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.

Get ready America. Presidential election aspirations are shifting political theater into high gear, and we already have a little racism, detachment from reality, and Hillary’s own special brand of angry centrism to choose from for our amusement. It only gets better from here.

Don’t mess with Vaughn Pardue. That’s the lesson a currently-room-temperature pit bull learned today:

“Then I caught him out of the corner of my eye, he was coming out across the yard out into the street,” said Vaughn Pardue. “And he kept running up on me so I turned around and faced him and then I seen it was a pit bull and he wasn’t leaving.”

Pardue told KHOU he lunged at the dog and yelled in an attempt to scare the animal.

You think that’s guts? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet:

“Instead of him running, he jumped for my head and so I took a swing with my fist and got him in the head,” said Pardue.

“He was just all the time chewing and chewing and you know he had done bit me on the hands and arms,” Pardue said. “And I knew it was either I had to get him or he was gonna kill me.”

KHOU-TV said the man managed to get his hands around the dog’s collar to stop the attack as he yelled for help.

He then dragged the dog to his house, where his wife called 911.

When police got there and put the bloody dog in the back of their patrol car, they realized it was dead.

You can’t sneak anything by a Conroe cop, I guess. Good work, Vaughn!

It’s been sort of a rough week for idiot pedestrians, as Darwin and physics conspire to thin the herd.

Sunday night:

A car struck a man as he tried to cross a northwest Harris County road Sunday night, KPRC Local 2 reported.

Harris County sheriff’s deputies said the man was hit on state Highway 249 near Fallbrook Drive at about 9 p.m.

Jaywalking across 249 is dumb.

Later that night:

A man was struck and killed by a vehicle as he tried to cross the North Freeway early Monday, KPRC Local 2 reported.

Houston police said the man tried to cross the northbound lanes of the freeway near Airline Drive at about 1 a.m.

Jaywalking across I-45 is even dumber.

Monday night:

A man died trying to run across Interstate 45 north after he was struck by a 2004 Mitsubishi SUV, police reported.

The incident occurred at 8:45 p.m. Tuesday in the 6500 block of of the I-45 north.

Jaywalking across I-45, two minutes away from where a guy got creamed the night before is even dumber.

A few highlights from the bills your hard working representatives and senators filed yesterday:

Rep. Yvonne Davis (D) liked her Po folks bill of rights concurrent resolution so much that she filed it as a bill, adding this:

(2)  prohibit the closing of plants and business headquarters without a public hearing

Rep. Tracy King (D) feels that members of the Kickapoos should be allowed to hunt antlerless deer any day of the year - for religious ceremonies.

Rep. Carl Isett (R) is concerned that manufacturers of alcoholic beverages are discriminating when they sell their products to different wholesalers at different prices, so he’s proposing a change to current law that requires all prices to be the same.

shall require the manufacturer to sell alcoholic beverages manufactured by the manufacturer to each wholesaler licensed in this state at the same price, including any discounts, without discrimination.

Rep. Robby Cook (D) thinks that Lee County should be designated as the official Festival Capital of Texas because, amongst other things, they host the State of Texas Noodle Cook-Off and the Bull Ball in the Fall.

Sen. Rodney Ellis (D) likes Houston’s anti-smoking law so much that he is proposing to make it a State crime to smoke in public.

Sec. 169.051.  SMOKING PROHIBITED IN PUBLIC PLACES. A person may not smoke in a public place in this state.

An offense under this subsection is a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $50.

There now, aren’t we feeling better?

A couple weeks back, the Chron’s lefty plagiarist Rick Casey slammed Sen. Dan Patrick, implying that he couldn’t work with the rest of the Senate.

Yesterday, Dan rounded up the support of every single senator to put “In God We Trust” in the Senate chamber for the first time in its history:

Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, won unanimous support Tuesday for a resolution to place the motto “In God We Trust” at the front of the Senate chamber.

Though a freshman, Patrick realizes that tough votes will stack up later in the legislative session.

“There will be times when all of us sit at our desk, and we’ll be able to look at the words, ‘In God We Trust,’ and maybe get us through those times,” Patrick said.

Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, said he hopes his colleagues “remember what it says when we vote.”

Yeah, unanimous. Dan was able to assemble a coalition that reached across political lines (Ellis is a Democrat) and religious ones (Sen. Florence Shapiro, who spoke in favor of the measure, is Jewish).

Unfortunately, not all Dan’s battles will win such wide-ranging support, but it’s pretty obvious that the Senate respects his electoral mandate. Rather than try to sideline the new kid on the block, the Senate knew a good idea when they saw one.

So I recently joined Netflix, the mail order movie service. Hey, it’s a free trial and the empty nest thing is kicking in. Wow, what a selection of movies!

Well, so what you ask? Here’s the deal. I have until Feb. 24th to watch all the movies I can for free and need help deciding what to rent. Thus far, I’ve watched a great Hitchcock flick called Rear Window, Eastwood’s The Outlaw Josey Wales, anti-Iraq war documentary The Ground Truth and a couple of Stevie Ray Vaughan live concerts. With the exception of the documentary, all have been good. And it would have been good if they had focused on veterans affairs and stayed away from the Katriniacs. The Notebook arrived yesterday, The Birds and 12 Angry Men are on their way.

The way Netflix works is you build a queue and as one movie comes back to them, they pick whatever they have in stock from your queue and ship it. What should I put in the queue? C’mon, help me out. Only 3 weeks left!

It was this or clowns.

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Lobbying season is in full swing in Austin:

Texans for Lawsuit Reform refers to them, will be offered mini-massages (feet, hands and necks only), manicures and pedicures, along with “food and cocktails galore” at the tort reform group’s “girls’ night out.”

“It’s a fun event. Some male members have expressed an interest in attending.”

I bet. Might have to expand that massage thing though. Gives a whole new visual to Fred Hill having a hoe in his hand.

I knew that there was a reason I eat so much fatty food:

Your kids may be making you eat more fat - the equivalent of nearly an entire frozen pepperoni pizza each week

And then I remembered that my kids moved out.

However, Laroche noted that the study ”doesn’t prove that the presence of children causes adults to eat more fat.

Oh. Nevermind. What could it be? Nah, gotta inhale for that to be the cause.

I’d like to extend my thanks to the 34 folks who have joined ‘Operation Blackhawk,’ and I’d like to invite more readers to take part.

Here’s a quick recap: Lone Star Times and its readers are adopting Blackhawk Troop, a cavalry unit currently deployed in Iraq. We’re asking participants to commit to sending one note a week and one package a month.

We’ve had a great level of response so far, including veterans and families who want to get their kids involved. If you want to join this illustrious crew, drop me an email at mattbramanti@gmail.com and I’ll put you on the list.

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The headlines read like a kaleidoscope: Dems cut foreign aid, Dems unveil massive spending, Bill freezes spending levels, more money for pell grants and aids, dems halt earmarks. All discussing the same thing, the final budget for the fiscal year that started Oct. 1, 2006. Yep, four months ago. Before the elections.

Dems say:

Republicans wouldn’t make tough budget choices before the election and didn’t try to clean up the mess afterward in a lame duck session.

Pubbies whine:

Republicans said they have been given little say over the content of the funding measure.

After months of campaign pledges to deliver a more “open and accountable” Congress, Democrats were still locked behind closed doors spending taxpayer dollars without any transparency, said an e-mail circulated by House Minority Leader John Boehner, an Ohio Republican.

Bahwahbahwah. And some people still wonder why the Dems won the elections.

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