In the past month alone we’ve been approached on three separate occasions and asked by a local media-figure / elected-official / political operative “Do you know who the Houston Consigliere is?”

Well we don’t, and even if we did, we’re not a snitch… but careful readers will no doubt pick-up on similarities in style, substance and tone between these two passages.

Compare:

Harris County District Clerk Charles Bacarisse has been biding his time while mulling whether to run for Harris County Judge. He wants to, but the question remains whether he will man up, take a risk and get in.

Kristen Mack, Houston Chronicle, 6/14/07

Contrast:

So come on, Chuckles. What’s it gonna be? You in? You out?

The Houston Consigliere, 5/21/07

Take it from the LoneStarTimes.com Slam Dunk Intelligence Network–we’re laying 5:1 odds that the Houston Consigliere is, in fact, the Houston Chronicle’s own Kristen Mack!

 

The Houston Consigliere & Kristen Mack
An uncanny resemblance…

You read it here first.

UPDATED–In case it isn’t clear, we’re joking. We don’t really think the right-leaning, GOP-connected Consigliere is in fact a female, African-American big-city mainstream-media political columnist.

Apologies to Ms. Mack if this post caused tense moments around the Chron’s newsroom.

Texas Governor Rick Perry vetoed HB 544, which would have permitted financially needy students from outside a community college district to pay in-district tuition.

House Bill No. 544 would allow community colleges to offer in-district tuition rates to out-of-district students who have financial need. This is objectionable because taxpayers in the district should not foot the bill for students who live outside the district. A better alternative would be for communities within a service area of a community college to join the district and therefore pay their fair share of the costs of educating their citizens.

This is objectionable? That a legal citizen of the State of Texas, a legal citizen of the United States of American, poor though they may be, cannot go across the county to the local community college because the residents of that district have to foot the bill?

But…wait. State law allows ILLEGAL aliens to take advantage of in-state tuition. Hmmm. Okay to cross U.S. border, not okay to cross community college district border. Something doesn’t seem quite right about that.

On Friday, Big Jolly blogged on the increase in abortions and public funding at Planned Parenthood during 2006.

I’ve updated my graphics (see below) from the last few years to show the general trend in their abortion rates. I was not able to update the graph for adoption referrals because:

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, noted that while the PPFA reported carrying out a record number of abortions in 2005-2006, it “did not record a single adoption referral.”

In the previous year, PPFA reported 1,414 adoption referrals, which Sedlak said amounted to one adoption for every 180 abortions.

The fact that the organization chose not to release a number for adoptions in the latest fiscal year, he said, meant that “we can only assume the number was so low that Planned Parenthood didn’t want to embarrass itself by revealing it.”

“You will not find the word ‘adoption’ anywhere in the PPFA’s 2005-2006 Annual Report,” Scott observed.

Sad.

Trent Lott, Washington Post:

“I’m sure senators on both sides of the aisle are being pounded by these talk-radio people who don’t even know what’s in the bill,” Lott said. He added that the “leadership will have to be prepared to do what needs to be done.”

Trent Lott contact information–

D.C. OFFICE
Phone: (202) 224-6253
Fax: (202) 224-226

PASCAGOULA OFFICE
Phone: (228) 762-5400
Fax: (228) 762-0137

JACKSON OFFICE
Phone: (601) 965-4644
Fax: (601)965-4007

OXFORD OFFICE
Phone: (662) 234-3774
Fax: (662) 234-1744

GULFPORT OFFICE
Phone: (228) 863-1988
Fax: (228) 863-9960

If you are as tired as I am of seeing young males (not plumbers) walking around with their britches below their butts, you’ll appreciate this one.

An island man with a wardrobe problem was in jail Friday after one of a spate of arrests that police attributed to calls from residents.

Narcotics officers searching an apartment caught him when his baggy pants slipped down as he tried to run off.

Poor little criminal, tripped up by his own pants.

The suspect pulled his pants up and continued to run, but the “wardrobe malfunction” cost him a few steps and officers tackled him.

The man reportedly struggled, but officers restrained him and placed him in handcuffs.

None of the officers suffered injury. The object of the chase suffered abrasions to his chest when he was tackled.

“Unfortunately, the young man was not wearing a shirt, and the gravel scratched him up,” Gomez said.

Very unfortunate, getting scratched up like that. Heh.

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