A Hug for Lampson?

Looks like my favorite Congressperson has a fan in Fort Bend County Judge Bob Hebert. They worked together in D.C. this week to thwart the ridiculous bill that would require me to buy flood insurance (damn that pesky Brazos River), even though I've paid increased $$ to my Levee Improvement District (LID) to raise and improve the levees. I didn't realize the purpose of the bill was to:

Passed by the U.S. House in September 2007, HR 3121 was intended in large part "to restore the financial solvency of the national flood insurance program," according to the bill's title.

I don't want to be bailing out the national flood insurance program, or FEMA, or Bush's incompetence, or anything similar. So, what about The Hug?

Hebert said he was "delighted" at the outcome of a meeting that Lampson arranged with FEMA Administrator R. David Paulison. "I told him if he would've had an 'R' behind his name, I would have hugged him," Hebert said of Lampson, a Democrat.

A lot of folks should be hugging Lampson because he's been a warrior on representing the District and on constituent services. You couldn't ask for a better congressperson. Particularly when the alternative this year is Bush and Phil Gramm lapdog, Olson. This is the guy that hangs around an alcoholic President making drunk jokes about the economy in public? What I wonder is did Bush hug Olson?

Al Gore surprise speaker at netroots nation

Nancy Pelosi in the house!

We ate all the shrimp corndogs at the moonshine party

OMG it's Matt! It's Vince! It's Kuff!

OK. All the Texas boy bloggers have been interviewed by the mainstram media at netroots nation.

These boys are so cute. You should read their blogs where they quote their own MSM quotes.

Guys, I love you!! Kiss. Kiss.

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UPDATE: Interesting Texas Observer piece on the blogosphere as a boy's club: here.

A clandestine meeting and a netroots martini

Hey, I Was There!

Pizza night in Chicago at Yearly Kos last year. Where we talked about, "wouldn't it be great if Netroots Nation was in Austin next year. Yeah, let's get them to come to a 'red state' and show them we are bluer than they think." And, here we are. Netroots Nation in Austin this week!

This Makes Bush Look Articulate

You really would think this guy would be more experienced in answering tough questions. Instead he comes off looking like kid trying to come up with some excuse for mom for why he was doing something he shouldn't be doing. The weird facial expressions are uncomfortable to watch. This is the best the Rs could come up with?

I Ran Over A Big Metal Ladder

Not a good couple of days for the Prius. Yesterday, I ran over something (not sure what) that flattened a tire within seconds. Called AAA and a nice guy in a big giant truck put on the, what I shall kindly call, bicycle spare tire. I sat in the driver's seat of the big giant truck with the AC going full blast while he lug nutted that thing on the Prius. Then, on the treacherous way back to Fort Bend County on three grown up tires and one tricycle tire, I ran right over some darting, stupid raccoon/armadillo sized varmit in the dark near my house. The noise was gross, much less the thought of the blood and guts all over the stroller tire. This morning I visited the Toyota dealer for a new (free) tire. Waited a little long, but the service guy sure was courteous. Yay! All ready to "hit" the road. What would your reaction be if you were traveling inbound on the SW Freeway (with your new tire). Say, 65 mph. Traffic on all sides. And, right in front of you is a very large metal ladder (same size as in photo but folded up). Right in your lane. And you know you are going to run right over it because you have no where to go. And then, yes, indeed it is under your Prius clanging violently. Well, it's 1) scary. People can die from large metal ladders flying around on the highway. And, 2) you immediately freak out your car is severely damaged and 3) much, much cursing ensues. I mean A LOT OF CUSS WORDS. A trip back to the friendly Toyota folks revealed a clean bill of health for the poor 47.5 mpg Prius. Back onto the highways and byways of Houston where a large metal thing flew right over the Prius on the South 610 Loop. Hell of a day.

Viewing Campaign Cash: The City of Houston

Well, this is a good thing. The City of Houston has new features for its online campaign finance reports, including the ability to download them in excel format. Hello, TEC, that would be helpful on your website! Other improvements are search categories such as contributor and payee. I'm not sure I like the change where duplicate reports are eliminated when reports are corrected. I always like to see the original reports and then the corrected reports to follow the trail.

Obama's Running Mate Should Be . . . .

Hillary! I played the game and that's the one name I came up with. Not even another person on the list. So, we've decided and we can move on now. Obama-Clinton. Now, how can we refer to the union of these two? Obama and Clinton. Clinton and Obama. The Hope+Experience ticket. ExHope? That amuses me. Hoperience? Can't pronouce it. ExHo? No, that doesn't work at all. The O.C. I sorta like that. O'Clinton is probably my favorite. :)

Let's Make More Fun Of Cornyn

He is so deserving. Here's the Rick Noriega campaign pointing out how Cornyn pretends to be a Senator AND a cowboy: And, oh, by the way, Rick Noriega sure has a lot of online contributors. 10,494. Nearly a million bucks. The Cornyn camp would call them "online" contributors.

You Say Buck Smith, I Say Beckwith

Geez, Cornyn is not having such a good run lately. First it was the Big Bad Idiotic Palest Man In The World John In a Fringe Jacket Pretending To Be A Cowboy video, then it was the "online" fundraising ask. Now, his staffer - both in his Congressional and campaign office - has been outed as a troll on Burnt Orange Report. Buck Smith=Beckwith. I'm going to run around all over Republican blogs and act all trollish and call myself mews. It would be so sneaky and undercover and no one would suspect it was me.