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Go getcha some McD’s.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21028273/
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Wedding bells and rice and many wishes for a happy and long marriage for Matt and Redzilla. We want pics of the bride and groom.
Mornin all, another day that God has given to us.™
And another one bites the dust.
Going to see the mega-babe Laura today.
Everyone have a safe and wonderful weekend and just a small funny for everyone.
A young woman, pursuing a graduate degree in art history, was going to Italy to study the country’s greatest works of art. Since there was no one to look after her grandmother while she was away, she took the old lady with her. At the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, she pointed to the painting on the ceiling.
“Grandma, it took Michelangelo a full four years to get that ceiling painted.”
“Oh my, “the grandmother says. “He and I must have the same landlord.”
A comment on the Sistine Chapel’s “erotica” is in Friday’s open comments, but I want to raise a serious concern for judicial control, that ought by rights to have its own space for comments and greater visibility. so I call on LST editors to set aside “never speak ill of a fellow Republican” (though even before Reagan’s appointment of him, he was not more than a RHINO at Royston & Razor here).
Further Congressional action is desirable — NAY, NECESSARY –in light of fact that the Fifth Circuit Judicial Council owes the public, as well as litigants and the bar, far more on Sam Kent’s bench-worthiness than the recent press release and terse order.
While not one of the Congresswoman’s pre-eminent concerns, this constituent (own properties in the Medical Center as well as Montrose, though I now reside in District 7 solicits your and your staff’s consideration of the totality of circumstances so far as they have been made public.
The banner head in today’s Chronicle about Galveston’s incomparable, notoriously condescending, cronyist federal Judge Sam Kent was completely disappointing after four months’ encouragement, anticipation, curiosity and tittilation after his Spring suspension and reassignment of the Galveston Division’s docket between two trial brethren in Houston and Victoria (both away from the salt water where the sharks of plaintiffs’ bar swam so successfully and remuneratively for two and a half decades since Kent’s investiture).
The newspaper is not really at fault, the illustrious Fifth Circuit Judicial Council has with hope-deflating brevity issued a public order without recitation of charges of “inappropriate touching” apparently, ignored the established cronyism, and gives not even sufficient detail of the “misconduct” supposedly justifying the sanction already served by the “disciplined” judge. Reportedly, unspecified complaints by other court employees also figured in the reprimand, though the public seemingly has no right to monitor a life-tenured judge’s in-chambers behavior. To add further offense to the conclusion of this secret investigation, likely hundred’s of hours of multiple judicial, clerk and outside legal effort will be summarily destroyed, including statements, depositions, documents and emails, as well as the Judicial Council’s own deliberations and internal communications, so that when an unchastised Judge Kent re-offends in any way (hostile work place or favoritism from the bench based upon party status or relation to counsel, the latter of which is a near certainty to continue), the records of these proceedings will be lost and Sam Kent’s full “record” conveniently concealed.
Before the destruction of these files, I call upon LST, the Chronicle, the Galveston Daily as well as Representatives Ron Paul and Nick Lampson, whose districts include some, if not most, of the Galveston Division, or other area lawmakers from former Judge Ted Poe, Congresswoman Shiela Jackson Lee, to Representatives All Green and Gene Green to urge or, where they have the authority, initiate Congressional inquiry whether any misconduct determined (but not made public) justifies Judge Kent’s impeachment, and if so to institute proceedings to refer articles to the Senate.
And for purposes of disclosure, I am not a licensed lawyer, do not practice in Texas’ federal or state trial courts at all, seldom even sign an amicus to the Fifth Circuit anymore, have no axe to grind with Judge Kent personally, nor any affiliation with Rusty Hardin, Ms. McBroom’s expected civil attorney. However, I will disclaim that my views are purely my own, reflect neither on current nor past employers, lawfirms or legal acquaintences nor my wife or her firm. My furor instead is with seemingly endless judicial intemperance:
(a) his historic and continuing injudicious, condescending, brutal and apparently unwarranted attacks, in writings widely circulated on the Internet, and verbally from the bench as similarly spread, against parties and especially counsel who cross him the wrong way, again in the courtroom or beyond;
(b) his infamous and again injudicious “promise to punish” any party not agreeing to settlement proportions that he himself deemed appropriate before trial, and sometimes well before anything other than pleadings had been submitted with bare allegations and no evidence;
(c) indisputable and repeated cronyism towards his former clerks, fishing and golfing buddies and others “with an in,” such that all cases from one law office were reassigned away from Sam Kent and he has previously been admonished in appellate reversals and disciplined by his district court colleagues; and
(d) finally, but not least, the current “charges” or “complaints” by his or the clerk’s staff of personal misconduct – whether inebriation, to inappropriate comments, to whatever trauma Ms. McBroom seems to have suffered.
Paul LeRoy Crist
Post Office Box 980122
Houston, TX 77098-0122
Phone: 713-797-9988
Not entirely separately from my foregoing post, I would like to draw attention to a “filter” I have encountered on the websites of Representatives All Green, Gene Green and Nick Lampson. Unless some gatekeeper is fed a zip code within the respective districts, they want no comments or inquiries electronically from non-constuents or others outside the district. Some can be gotten around by posting to other areas, but at least Al Green is straightforward on his intent to exclude any but constituents’ comments or inquiries. I knew I voted in that Democrat primary for a reason; love him or hate him (I am much closer to the latter) Chris Bell was a pro at constituent staff, and as an aspiring anything, always had his door, ear and outstretched hand open whether the comment or inquiry cam from within or without the present office’s geographical confines.
If LST has some intern that wants to research how many Congresspeople use this obnoxious filter, and whether they skew Democrat or Republican, I think it could make another interesting thread. For our 34 Texas we send to “do good” (I’d settle for no further harm) on Capitol Hill, I would find it disgraceful if more than Representatives All Green, Gene Green and Nick Lampson I just happened to hit on this morning use the same House-sanctioned service.
Paul Crist
PO Box 980122
Houston, TX 77098-0122
713-797-9988
Good morning ya’all. Interesting information Paul. It is always easier to insulate oneself from the outside.
#7 I have encountered the same filter on occasion, but their web sites provide a snail mail address to contact them and one can always burn their phone lines.
Mornin’ emmek and all: Have a great day!
Thanks for the funny! Here’s a few backatcha:
Birds of a feather flock together so they can poop on your car.
When I’m feeling down, I like to whistle. It makes the neighbor’s dog run to the end of his chain and do a back flip.
A penny saved is a Hillery oversight.
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat have gotten to be really good friends.
The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.
He who hesitates is probably right.
Did you ever notice: The Roman Numerals for forty (40) are ‘ XL.’
If you think there is good in everybody, you haven’t met everybody.
If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.
The sole purpose of a child’s middle name is so he can tell when he’s really in trouble.
There’s always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it. For example I am sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don’t hurt.
Did you ever notice: When you put the 2 words ‘The’ and ‘IRS’ together it spells ‘Theirs.’
#11
malcolm
Those birds are in my yard and doing it all over my car. :))) Between the pecan tree mess and the bird poop my car is a mess. I need some men to come wash my car pleaseeeeeeeeee.
Paul Crist #7 & #8
Mr. Crist, do you have links to articles or sources we could follow to get a better understanding of this situation with Sam Kent ?
Jimmah is a ledgend in his own mind. The man is dilusional if the thinks he can reason and negotiate a peace with Muslim terrorists. What part of “All infidels must convert to islam or die” doesn’t he understand? Have another peanut Jimmah boy and go hammer a nail. Utopia for everyone is not just around the corner.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070911/ts_alt_afp/entertainmentcanadafilmfestivalmideastusiranreligion_070911023002
texpat
It’s headlines on the Chronically biased newspaper
Federal Judge Disciplined after harassment probe
texpat
Whoops. Heres the link
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5172731.html
Re: #13
Thank you, not living in the Bay area the story is difficult for this person to follow and any story with ‘inappropriate touching’ of staff…
Faxing for mail to D.C. and snail for local communication to politicians is my preference, by this, they must touch it, handle it, make physical disposition of it; therefore, when five hundred (500) of us write a letter to Kay Baby, she will have buckets full of paper and hitting the delete button is not an option.
the best thing for Kay and people like her is a “NO” vote.
lets see we can vote for socialists that don’t lie but have a party platform they follow or vote for lip conservatives that have a platform they don’t follow or will lie to you about - nice choices.
#18 Have said this before, KBH lost me a long time ago. Her staff not only responds w/ bland form letters that don’t even address the subject which I wrote concerning, they also send the same silly response letters when I HAVEN’T contacted them!
“Thank you for your recent…blah..blah..blah.. We are very interested in hearing from our blah..blah..blah..”
Buh Bye KBH!
Poor Matt
Purdue 20
ND 0
This should make RickG happy.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298597,00.html
Poor ND!!!
Since Matt is a little busy right now I can say……..It use to get me how often you would see ND or TV and not other local teams. It seemed like every week the ND game was on some station. Hideing now.
Is anyone going to be at the PGR meetup tomorrow ? It’s a Sunday so I can ride
Mr. Crist is correct about the obnoxious filters on the Lampson website. I found this especially infuriating when I lived abroad.
Mr. Lampson was still legally my representative, as expats vote in the district in which they last lived.
But he’s not interested in the opinion of expat Americans.
Hope they all vote against him.
Matt’s been PWNED!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn
#25 Wrong, friend. I live in Lampson’s district. Not only does he respond personally to his constituents, whether by email, fax or phone, he has had his staff call me personally to inform me when he would be speaking on the floor so I could watch it live on CSpan about a subject I was concerned with.
I don’t care what party he is with. That’s how it should be done.
PS - The message I get about these filters is that due to the overwhelming onslaught of people attempting to contact representatives outside of their districts, they must restrict the amount of email they receive in order to respond to and meet the needs of those in their own districts.
I would say Kay Bailey as a politician is an embarrassment but then I think of Maxine Waters and Sheila Jackson Lee.
#28 - not too tough at all to look up ANY zip code the sender needs to get through
MR. Fish! That’s what I was thinking. Find a working zipcode and contact to your hearts content.
Pelosi has the same filter
http://www.zipinfo.com/search/zipcode.htm
ok filters defeated - NEXT?
#30 Odd, I had no problem emailing Pelosi as Speaker Of The House…
To Matt”zilla”, you deserve a “Top Ten” list of captions if your “whipped” already. So here goes, and if you are embarrassed, the better:
1) Just call me the “Metro Man” of the 21st century!!
2) Are you sure all new husbands started their married life this way???
3) No, I’m not “henpecked” already, just ask my wife, she should know!!
4) Yes, dear, I’ve only have two hands. I’ll do the laundry, next.
5) If this will keep my mother-in-law from moving in, it’s okay with me.
6) Okay, I’m not ashamed of showing my “feminine side”.
7) My wife doesn’t clean the dishes well enough for me. So I told her I would do them.
9) At least I don’t have to do the windows!!! Yet!!
10) Do you think this apron matches my eyes??
Well, Good Luck!!! your going to need it!!!!
I received no personal responses from Lampson when he was representing his previous district (the US 9th district which extended to Beaumont). In 1998-2000, he didn’t care about expats. Period.
In fact, when I called from London about issues (very expensive in 1998-99), his clerks didn’t know I voted in the US in his district and weren’t interested in how legislation would affect US expats. There were 40,000 Americans living in the London Metropolitan area at the time, many of us from Texas and all of us entitled to vote in US Congressional races.
He has been on the wrong side of nearly every issue, and - as far as I’m concerned - the only thing Lampson ever did right was to help out the Smither family when Laura went missing. However, I’m still not sure that wasn’t for publicity rather than any real concern. (Gay Smither might disagree with me on that one).
Mr. Fish,
I put some of the photos up from yesterday. The one with Steve and the soldier’s dad is what the PGR is about.
http://bigjolly.com/patriot_guard/valentine/
#37
I think what Liz is trying to say is that since Lampson is in a Republican district he has to act like one and therefore is a good guy now. :]
All I am saying is
what I have experiencedgive peace a chance!#40 Hey! Now cut that out! lol
Hello? Tap…tap..tap..AHEM!™
I would like to wish Bama Barb a Happy Birthday! May Katfish treat you like an extra special princess!
Slippery Rock 51
Seton Hill 24
In 1936, the argument was made that Slippery Rock’s football team ought to have been ranked #1 in the country ahead of Pitt and Minnesota.
The announcement of Slippery Rock’s football scores is a tradition at University of Michigan football games. The tradition was started in the 1950s by Michigan Stadium’s public address announcer. Slippery
#43 & #44
Squawk, only a bonafide, certified geezer would make a post like those.
texpat
I am what I am.
That’s what Popeye said:
I am what I am what I am, I am,
I’m Popeye, the sailor man !
I thought it was: I yam what I yam…
34 to 10
Gig em
Good Mornin ya’all……
Wordpress is having a hard day if my first comment for the day is a duplicate.
Mornin all, another day that God has given to us.™
#48
ST
I believe you are correct. It must be that east coast accent that made texpat type that way. :)))
in case you have not heard newt is not running.
Mornin’ all! Have a blessed day!
Sunday Funnies
New Compilation of Church Bulletins Blunders
They’re back! Those wonderful Church Bulletins! Thank God for church ladies with computers. These sentences actually appeared in church
bulletins or were announced in church services:
The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.
The sermon this morning: “Jesus Walks on the Water.” The sermon tonight: “Searching for Jesus.”
Ladies, don’t forget the rummage sale. It’s a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.
Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community. Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say “Hell” to someone who doesn’t care much
about you.
Don’t let worry kill you off - let the Church help.
Miss Charlene Mason sang “I will not pass this way again,” giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.
Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get.
Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.
At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be “What Is Hell?” Come early and listen to our choir practice.
Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.
The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility.
Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow.
Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door.
The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this
tragedy.
Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.
The Associate Minister unveiled the church’s new tithing campaign slogan last Sunday: “I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours.
#38 - EXCELLENT photos BigJ!!
Malcom these are great…… still chuckling….. thanks
BJ, Thank you for the photos. Tears make seeing the keyboard difficult…
Most assuredly the wonderful kindness you all show at each funeral touches and warms the hearts of the grieving family and friends, the military honor guards, the funeral directors, the police escorts, and anyone who happens to see it. You store up treasure in heaven.
Forget all the fancy, waste-of-money kitchen appliances like the George Foreman grills…a good old charcoal-burning barbecue beats them hands down every time. I’ve just finished setting up mine out on my patio at the moment. I’m going to light it up later. I’ve got a big four-burner gas barbie, but I love the coals…so much flavour given to the food being cooked. I’m going to be throwing some stems of fresh rosemary over the coals and that will enhance the flavour even more.
I think so many people waste money on all these unnecessary appliances that after a short time the novelty wears off.
Back to the basics…tried and proven!
Sunny - what a great idea! I’ve got a bbq pit and a big rosemary bush - bet rosemary smoked chicken is awesome! (Have only directly applied it as seasoning to chicken before.)
I also burn dried rosemary in the house - like incense. Smells wonderful.
The bush is in a raised flower bed near the front door, so just walking past it and rubbing it is like getting a dose of nature’s perfume on your hands.
Going to try your technique this week. Thanks!
#59…you’re welcome, Elizabeth. My rosemary bush is huge and wide…it just keeps growing and growing, all from one little plant I bought at the markets about three years ago. The bush is massive now…and by picking the stems regularly (I use rosemary a lot) it’s good for the bush and makes it grow even more. I’m throwing a couple of stems of marjoram on with the rosemary. My marjoram is growing rampantly as well. I think they are in the “right” area and I don’t need to do much to them other than pick them, regularly.
http://www.redstate.com/stories/war/peace_is_dangerous
Sunny and Elizabeth, sounds delish……. and I agree Sunny, the old fashioned charcoal grill is always my choice.
I miss Dave’s, “Grampa, what’s for supper?” And stories about the homestead. Where’d he go?
#61 Nat, not too many people wnat to think about things like that. After watching Ken Burns “The War” I am convinced that very few of us alive today understand what sacrifice means. It is disheartening that the hardships our parents and grandparents (and great-grandparents) made have been forgotten.
Where is Dave D? I expected a post from him after Auburn kicked the Gators ass (again) yesterday.
It is October 1. A new month awaits us. The PGR ride yesterday was very interesting. G-d Bless all of the Gold Star Mothers
(posted on wrong thread earlier)