http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 21 May 2013 14:20:23 Tue, 21 May 2013 14:20:23 First, the Texas Democratic Party is a weak, dysfunctional. disorganized, underfunded joke of an organization. Rural areas that have very few Democratic voters have disproportionate influence on the State Democratic Executive Committee and at convention. (Party rules provide that districts vote thei... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/23 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:24:17 I say fuck 'em. I hope the republicans do their worst in fucking up this state because that's what these idiot fucking fucks of voters wanted. Fuck them! As Mencken said "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." Well nobody deserves it... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/22 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:14:00 It is definitely time to change the bong water.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/20 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:54:30 I unrecommend when I'm drinking in a bar
I do it when I'm gazing at the stars
I unrecommend when I'm playing my guitar
But I wouldn't get all in a rage
Not every thread belongs on the Greatest Page

I unrecommend when I hit a hockey puck
I do it and then I say good luck
I unrecommend when I'... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/19 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:00:59 Just unrec every thread you open, regardless of content like I do.

Yes, even those with pics of kitties.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/16 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:20:27 A thousandfold more powerful than the Clenis, if the ObamaGaze is used carelessly it could cause the oceans to boil away or crops to wither in the fields.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/17 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:09:29 ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/18 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:37:08 The answer seems to be pretty much everyone these days. Working off the premise that Kay Bailey Hutchison will resign her Senate seat to challenge Governor For Life Rick Perry in the 2010 Republican Primary, would-be senators have been lining up like WalMart shoppers to replace her. Numbered among t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/15 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:10:22 [b]A 19th Century Vision[/b]

Republican Ron Paul missed out on the 19th century, but he admires it from afar. He speaks lovingly of the good old days before things like Social Security and Medicaid existed, before the federal government outlawed drugs like heroin. (Washington Post, 7/9/06}

[b]... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/14 Sat, 26 May 2007 15:14:08 [b]I am shocked, shocked I tell you,[/b] that Hume brought up the Tet Offensive. For years, the rightwing windbags have been insisting that [b]Iraq is nothing like Vietnam.[/b] For Hume to even bring up Tet shows he's losing faith in his own fairy tales. Frankly, I expect more from the managing edit... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/13 Sun, 13 May 2007 14:56:13 [div class="excerpt"]Most sources give Emanuel the lion's share of credit for 2006 wins. Not everyone worships at the alter of Howard Dean.[/div]
As the saying goes, success has a thousand fathers. I think that the extent of our victories in 2006 was big enough that paternity could be shared among ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/12 Tue, 08 May 2007 13:47:48 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/tomdynia/howardjudy.jpg
I have to admit that I resisted Howard Dean for as long as I could in 2003. Something about his campaign reminded me of my first political love, George McGovern's quest for the Presidency in 1972. After all those years, here once again ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/11 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:18:35 2000:

Kay Bailey Hutchison 65.03%
Gene Kelly 32.34%

2006:

Kay Bailey Hutchison: 61.69%
Barbara Ann Radnofsky 36.05%

Discussion?... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/10 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:36:52 The repubs know how little support they have in Austin and that their only hope is to deny citizens their right to vote.

[link:www.mikeconwell.com/blog/archive.php?blogid=1&pid=38|Read the transcript]

[link:www.traviscountydemocrats.org/fullstory.php?artid=1153&db=current_issues|Press release ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/9 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:55:13 In my part of town one of the precinct chairs started a new club a couple of years ago. You can't talk to him for five minutes before he points out what a great job he does "carrying Pct XXX for the Democratic Party." Well, my precinct is next to his and has similar demographics. For years, my preci... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/8 Sat, 27 May 2006 04:51:55 If you look back at election returns over the last decade, before 2004 Travis County was trending more republican. Bush won a plurality in 2000 and after the 2002 elections the Travis County delegation in the Lege was split 3-3. Of course there had been a large Nader vote in 2000 and loads of TRMPAC... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/7 Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:14:02 The Called Session of the Texas Legislature got underway Monday with Governor Rick Perry calling for public education reform to bring Texas to the top tier in the nation in learning. Lawmakers applauded the governor’s call and also vowed to revamp the state tax structure to spread the revenue burden... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/6 Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:58:29 [link:www.burntorangereport.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=553|Burnt Orange] has a story on one of the latest ideas from the Kinky Friedman braintrust. It seems that the state has a budget surplus at the moment. Now, there are a lot of things that coould be done with that money. Most likely, a lot of it i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/5 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:28:29 I happened to catch Tucker Carlson promoting his TV show. Tucker, a sniveling little turd whose unending ass-kissing of the regime is what we have in lieu of journalism in these final days of Babylon was raving “In one of the most inspiring images to come out of the Iraq War, a Marine, injured by an... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/4 Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:21:40 Soechting, who stuck out the office through surgery and all that, suddenly announces he needs to resign early, to spend more time with his family. Of course, the family will have to wait until April, even though there is an SDEC meeting the following weekend which could have named a neutral chair to... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/3 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:42:38 And I'll probably say it again: I wish that supporters of Boyd Richie and Charles Urbina-Jones could talk up what their candidates have to offer rather than just finding some reason to trash Glen Maxey.

I want to hear more than someone is a "Good Democrat". I know lots of those "G-Ds" who seem to... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NoPasaran/2 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:12:25