End of Silence

I couldn’t pass this up. I went and got a little more of the quote from the press briefing for context:
Q Okay. But, I mean, maybe it was a terrific meeting. As far as I can tell, that has not stopped Republicans, particularly in the House, from going gangbusters against this President before they’ve had [...]

I’ve been a Mavericks fan since they started. We got season tickets in 1985 which my parents have held on to, but farmed out to other friends for now. This year’s NBA playoffs in general are insane. Game 4 of the Mavericks-Spurs series on Monday night was just awesome. They’re playing Game 5, a must-win [...]

I posted last week that it appear that AG Gonzales lied at his NSA hearings. Well, this week, Wolf Blitzer asked him about his grandparents, three out of four of whom were born in Mexico, and wanted to know if they were legally documented when they came to the U.S.. Gonzales’s answer?
You know, it’s unclear. [...]

Am I the only one who hasn’t read Da Vinci Code yet and doesn’t intend to see the movie either? Father James Martin sure is sick of answering questions about it.
[tags]npr, davincicode, commentary, stupidity[/tags]

The “Internets” are abuzz with new revelations about NSA snooping and then there’s this story about the government abruptly ending a probe into the first revelation of NSA snooping. And, of course, Bushie has nominated the guy who was in charge at the NSA to head the CIA.
Let me be clear. I’m not willing to [...]

Arlen Specter has finally grown a pair and is calling for hearings on W’s presidential power grab. The impetus was this article from the Boston Globe, calling out the massive number of signing statements that POTUS has issued and how his use of them differs from past POTUS’s. It also calls attention to the fact [...]

Crowded H-E-B, Oltorf and Congress, 5pm yesterday.
I choose the only “20 Items or Less” line because there’s only one person in front of me, a woman in her 20’s, fairly cute. Since the other lines were longer, I’m wondering if the 20 items limit is too much work for people or if it’s an odd [...]