Biden to bail out Abbott to fix the electrical grid

October 5, 2024

Texas Strong my ass.

The Federal Government is bailing out Texas, again, this time to help connect Texas to the Southeast grids. So much for “Texas Strong” but in the end we will get a more fortified grid when we need it. According to Electrek:

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announces $1.5B for four transmission projects – including connecting the Texas grid to the Southeast grids for the first time ever.

The projects, spanning multiple states, will add nearly 1,000 miles of new transmission lines and increase grid capacity by 7,100 megawatts (MW). They’ll boost grid reliability, lower energy costs, and support the clean energy transition.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott was seen at the border with his hand out begging for help. Of this $1.5 B about $350 Million will be allocated to Texas. Texas grid was wrecked back in 2021 leaving millions without power during a heavy freeze for 4 days. Hundreds died. Insurance claims for ruptured pipes and damage to the homes skyrocketed. Yet Abbott did nothing. He passed the cost of these repairs to the grid on to the consumers.

With a $350 M donation to Texas will fund the Southern Spirit:

Southern Spirit (Texas to Mississippi): This is a REALLY. BIG. DEAL. Spanning 320 miles, this HVDC line will link Texas’ isolated ERCOT grid with the Southeast grids for the first time, adding 3,000 MW of bidirectional capacity across Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. It’s designed to prevent outages like the ones during Winter Storm Uri that hit Texas hard in 2021. It’s expected to create 850 construction jobs and 305 permanent jobs.

Stupid Texas.

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Are you a racist if you sponsor a fundraiser for a racist?

September 21, 2024

In my book, yes.

It’s time we call a spade a spade. Enough being nice about this. If anyone is sponsoring a fundraiser for a fucked up human being like Trump then they are also fucked up human beings no matter how much money they have or how much they give to charities.

What does it say about your rich white ass when you support someone who says racist things about Haitians, Blacks, Latinos, Asians? Who attacks the gay community, Muslims, teachers, police officers, Palestinians, and Jews?

It says you are a fucked up human being. A truly fucked up, rotten, human being

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Jimmy Fullen Under Investigation: Loan Controversy Deepens

September 16, 2024

Jimmy Fullen, candidate for Galveston County Sheriff, is under investigation by the Texas Ethics Commission (TEC) concerning a personal $100,000 loan he reported in his July 2023 campaign finance report. In February of 2024 that loan vanished. You can view all of his reports here.

Recently Fullen filed 4 amended reports concerning his multiple loans. His reports can be reviewed at the Galveston County campaign finance website. The amended reports list a loan from Mark Henry for $24,059.46, a personal loan for $32,000, and then a “personal loan from self was removed on form e”. That last one is bothering. It doesn’t list an amount.

But that was the $100,000 personal loan he reported on his July 2023 report. He claimed to have loaned his campaign the $100,000 on February 9, 2023. His amended report filed 20 months later simply removes this loan from the books exactly like the TEC complaint alleges.

The original issue was that he padded his campaign report making it look like he was rolling in cash when he actually wasn’t. His Cash on Hand should have been reduced from $204,000 to $104,000. During this reporting period he was running against an opponent in the primary. It has been my experience that the Texas Ethics Commission frowns upon padding a campaign report especially when the candidate has an opponent. Fullen’s treasurer hand writes all his reports. This wasn’t a technical error.

It seems clear that by filing this amended report he has admitted to padding his report and breaking the laws of the Texas Ethics Commission. If you can’t follow the law how can you enforce the law?

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League City Children Center sues City Council Member

September 15, 2024

It’s hard to make this stuff up so early in the morning! From a press release:

(League City, Texas) September 15, 2024. On Friday, the League City Children Center filed suit against League City Major Pro Tem Justin Hicks for defamation of character. According to the LCCC attorney, Anne Takeitt, “Over the last few weeks Justin Hicks has been playing some kind of election campaign game against a newly formed Political Action Committee, Kick Hicks. This game concerns the placing of campaign signs throughout our great city. Our organization, the League City Children Center, has nothing to do with this activity or the placement of the signs yet it has been described by many as being childish. We find this description of this activity to be demeaning to the children of League City and demand an immediate apology from Hicks and his campaign staff”.

Anne Takeitt of Benjamin Dover, Anne Takeitt, and C. Howitt Hertz law firm has demanded an apology from Hicks and for him to cease and desist from perpetuating this childish game of sign wars. According to the lead plaintiff, Shelley Smith, age 3, “Justin Hicks is a poopie head.”

Benjamin Dover, Anne Takeitt, C. Howitt Hertz
Attorneys at Law
Galveston Texas

Hicks was unavailable for comment. Welcome to Satire Sunday.

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OMG! Judge throws out all fugitive arrest warrants!!!! (now… the rest of the story)

September 13, 2024

Leave it to the Fox News.

The Fox News headline was bad. Real bad. Almost as bad as Trump’s debate performance. Ok, not that bad, but bad nevertheless. “Harris County Justice of the Peace Court Judge throws out all outstanding warrants”. Of course this headline created a frenzy of fake outrage such as “It’s exactly what shouldn’t happen by a judge in the 21st Century,” and “My reaction was this is nuts,”. (White wing MAGAt Senator Paul Bettencourt) The best display of fake outrage was from Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg:

“We only recently were made aware of Judge Duble’s inexplicable decision to grant fugitives a free pass in his courtroom. This decision can endanger the lives of the public and of our law-enforcement officers.”

So….what is the rest of the story? Well the Judge issued a detailed response which can be read here. Let me summarize. The warrants are for Class C MISDEMEANORS such as bad checks, traffic violations, and evictions. These cases would result in fines not to exceed $500. Now I have to agree with Chris Tritico when he said “I’ve never seen this happen in the 37 years I’ve been doing this,”. He is right. It is strange but….

The execution of the warrants would require several police officers to be pulled off the streets to make the arrest of the bad check writers instead of fighting real crime. They would have to take the time to book the individual. The fugitive would be put in jail then released once bail is made. All for what? A $500 fine? The Judge continues in his explanation that most of these individuals are making arrangements to pay the fine, some are struggling with the payment.

And to top it off, not one, not one single individual had their charges dismissed. They are still required to pay their fines. They will still be held accountable. And none of them will endanger the lives of law enforcement. None. Zero. Zip. Nada.

So. Learn how to read past the headlines before acting like an uninformed idiot.

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Trump’s Newspaper Endorsements: A 2024 Outlook

September 11, 2024

After his unhinged performance against Vice President Harris it will be interesting to see if any newspapers will endorse him in 2024.

In 2016 only 7 out of 154 newspapers across the country endorsed Trump for President including The Washington Times, The Topeka Capital-Journal, The Oklahoman, The Florida Times, Savannah Morning News, Santa Barbara News, Las Vegas News Journal, and the Republican American.

In 2020 only 4 of these 7 endorsed him again but he picked up a total of 14 endorsements out of 154. Since then Trump was impeached again, started a riot and watched the rioters for over 3 hours storm the United States Capitol. He has been indicted on over 80 felony counts in Georgia, Florida, New York, and Washington DC, and has been convicted on 34 counts concerning his 30 second romping with a porn star.

He has been found to have sexually assaulted and defamed a woman costing him over $100 Million. He has been fined over $450 Million for fraud in New York.

And then he got his ass kicked in the debate. Bad. Real Bad. Even Fox News said so. You can visit WikiPedia to see who the 154 newspapers endorsed in 2016 and 2020.

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League City sign wars.

September 10, 2024

Leave it to Mayor Pro Tem Justin Hicks.

Signs do not win elections. Sign wars are petty and are left to the candidate that doesn’t have much of a campaign to run. Justin Hicks is one of these candidates. A new Political Action Committee, the KickHicks.com PAC, was formed to oppose the reelection of Hicks. You should take a look at the website. It has all of Hicks’ bankruptcy documents, articles and more.

Hicks’ took some time from reaching out to constituents, house parties, and other real campaign activities to play sign games. (Hicks’ really isn’t doing any of this) The Kick Hicks PAC has signs placed near Hicks’ signs questioning his ability to be a “fiscal conservative” while being mired in debt and bankruptcy. Hicks’ campaign and supporters had to play games by cutting down the Kick Hicks signs or placing his signs in order to cover the oppositions signs. It’s petty. It’s a waste of time and all you ever get is bad publicity or a two bit blogger posting about it. I am posting about it.

Hicks’ opponent has place signs throughout the district and is meeting with voters in the area. He isn’t playing games. He is acting like a grownup.

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More indictments concerning voter fraud against a Harris County Republican Party donor

September 9, 2024

“It’s like a nightmare, isn’t it? It just keeps getting worse and worse.” –The Color of Money

Last year Steven Hotze, the megadonor of the Harris County Republican Party and chief election denier was indicted on multiple counts concerning……wait for it….voter fraud. According to the Texas Tribune:

Conservative activist Steven Hotze on Wednesday was indicted on two felony charges related to his alleged involvement in an air conditioning repairman being held at gunpoint in 2020 during a bizarre search for fraudulent mail ballots that did not exist, according to his attorney, Gary Polland.

A former police officer was also indicted for actually holding the repairman at gunpoint. In August of this year Hotze was charged with two more counts, Case # 188121801010 – 3 AGG ROBBERY-DEADLY WPN and Case # 188121901010 – 3 ENGAGE ORG CRIME USE/EXHIBIT DW. These are some very serious charges which could lead to Hotze spending a lot of time in jail and losing his “Doctors” license.

Hozte has also been sued by the repairman for an unspecified amount. You can read the entire petition against Hotze here. It is a great read.

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The Fraternal Order of Police. A bunch of a**holes with badges.

September 9, 2024
FILE PHOTO: Tear gas is released into a crowd of protesters, with one wielding a Confederate battle flag that reads “Come and Take It,” during clashes with Capitol police at a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

In the words of Rage Against the Machine “Some of those who work forces and the same who burn crosses.”

Trump spoke to the FOP and accepted their endorsement even after he vowed to pardon the insurrectionist who beat the hell out of police on Jan 6. He, once again, talked about voter fraud even though there is no evidence of voter fraud, and the attendees loved it. He mocked Nancy Pelosi’s husband who was viciously attacked by a home invader with a hammer. Those in attendance laughed about it.

Trump has been the poster child for lawlessness and disorder and yet the police in the audience didn’t care. He is a felon, found guilty on 34 felony counts. He has been indicted for 50+ more felony charges including obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit fraud, inciting a riot and more and yet they don’t care. He instigated an attack on the United States Capitol which killed fellow police officers. He watched for 3 hours as police officers were being attacked, crushed, and beaten with United States flags and yet they didn’t care.

These assholes have badges. They are suppose to enforce law and order. They are suppose to protect us from attacks by rioters, insurrectionists, home invaders, and lawless behavior. We are suppose to put signs in our lawn saying “Back the Blue” showing our support for these assholes.

The FOP claims to have over 300,000 members. That is a lot of assholes. With badges. I cannot believe they are all in support of trump. There are just too many good police officers in our community.

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Thoughts and Prayers. Again?

September 5, 2024

Goddamnit. I’m tired of thinking and praying!

Another school shooting this time in Georgia killing two kids and two teachers. A 14 year old had access to an AR 15 style weapon and changed the lives of 5 families. He is being charged with murder and will probably spend the rest of his life in jail while the other families spend the rest of their lives missing their loved ones.

Of course the Republican Party is saying “It’s too early to discuss gun laws”. On cue the local congressman Mike Collins echoed the talking points just like Ted Cruz did after the Uvalde shooting, and Santa Fe, and El Paso, and Ft Hood, and Sutherland Springs, and others. And like Cruz, Collins will do what everyone else does after a mass shooting, he will buy a Apalachee Strong t-shirt, offer thoughts and prayers, forget, and do absolutely nothing to curb gun violence in schools, concerts, parades, churches, synagogues, Walmarts, and other public places.

Georgia Congressman Mike Collins has a history of violence in his campaign ads. He thinks it is cute or tough to shoot guns and advocate for violence. Well look what happened to your community, you sick fuck. You can view his ads below.

Do us a favor and go buy a fucking t-shirt and shut the fuck up.

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