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Johnny Depp: 'I don't want to be a product' - CNN.com

Commentary: Black men must reclaim our children - CNN.com

CNN Poll: Obama catches Clinton in New Hampshire - CNN.com

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ESPN - Petrino couldn't help but hit the road yet again - NFL

ESPN - Petrino's been down this road before … and likely will again - Columnist

Petrino leaves Falcons to coach at Arkansas | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

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FOXNews.com - Boys, 11 and 14, Charged With Sex Assault on Woman, 60

New Community Debt after Election

Well we have had our day at the polls and for the most part the sheeple have spoken... Below is a list of every bond proposal that was on a ballot in the greater Houston area that passed.

State Level
PROPOSITION 2 Allows the issuing of $500 million in general obligation bonds
PROPOSITION 4 $1 billion in bonds
PROPOSITION 15 authorizes issuance of up to $3 billion in bonds
PROPOSITION 16 general obligation bonds $250 million

Harris County
Bond Prop. 1 ($190 million, roads)
Bond Prop. 2 ($95 million, parks)
Bond Prop. 4 ($80 million, forensic center)
Bond Prop. 5 ($70 million, family law center)
Bond Prop. 6 ($250 million, Port of Houston)

Houston
Bond Prop. 1 ($36.85 million: streets, sidewalks, drainage)
Bond Prop. 2 ($22.995 million: public safety, emergency medical service, police, fire
buildings)
Bond Prop. 3 ($10.94 million: parks and rec facilities, aquatics facilities, and beautification)
Bond Prop. 4 ($7.17 million for East Baker Road extension)
Bond Prop. 5 ($2.525 million for Texas Avenue area improvements)
Bond Prop. 6 ($2.02 million for drainage improvements)

Houston ISD
Bond issue ($805 million)

Seabrook
Bond issue ($2.5 million for park)

Southside Place
Bond Prop. 1 ($4.5 million city hall)
Bond Prop. 2 ($1.3 million for Park Assn. clubhouse)

Spring Branch ISD
Bond issue ($597 million to rebuild 12 elementary schools)

Cypress-Fairbanks ISD
Bond issue ($806.8 million)

Brazoria County

Angleton ISD
Bond Prop. 1 ($98.6 million for land)
Bond Prop. 2 ($40.15 million for new football stadium and field house)
Bond Prop. 3 ($1.59 million for renovations, improvements)

Brazosport College
Bond issue ($70 million: classrooms,facilities)

Columbia-Brazoria ISD
Bond Prop. 1 ($12.8 million for renovations at Wild Peach Elem.)
Bond Prop. 2 ($3 million for renovations at Columbia High School)

Fort Bend
Fort Bend ISD
Bond issue ($428 million)

Chambers
CountyMont Belvieu
Bond issue ($11 million, roads, sewer, water)

East Chambers ISD
Bond Prop. 1 ($6 million for renovations, new classrooms)
Bond Prop. 2 ($3.5 million to build a new gym to replace existing unairconditioned facility)

Galveston County
Dickinson ISD
Bond issue ($107.5 million)
Friendswood ISD
Bond Prop. 1 ($91.1 million for a new junior high school campus, other campus upgrades)
Bond Prop. 2 ($1.8 million for football stadium upgrades, including the addition of 3,000 seats) Bond Prop. 3 ($6.5 million for a swimming facility)

Texas City ISD
Bond Prop. 1 ($109.7 million for new Texas City High School, Levi Fry Middle School and Kohfeldt Elementary; other improvements)
Bond Prop. 2 ($4.75 million technology improvements)
Bond Prop. 3 ($4.25 million for football stadium renovations, other athletic facilities)
Bond Prop. 4 ($3.8 million for renovation to the technology education support center and maintenance storage and shops)

Liberty County
Dayton
Prop. 1 ($11.9 million for library, community center, street improvements)
Prop. 2 ($795,000 for street, drainage improvements on Lover's Lane and South Cleveland)
Prop. 3 ($1.2 million for utility improvements at Lover's Lane and South Cleveland)

The Grand total of the bonds that were approved is $8,752,535,000.00, Yes that is eight BILLION Dollars. Now take that out over 30 years and with an interest rate of 5.25% and you are looking at nearly 22 Billion when all interest is included. The sad thing is the state just certified a budget with an 8 Million dollar surplus, and here we are looking at payments in the area of 750 Million a year on this obligation alone....

I know the answer to this, but do these people realize that this money will be coming out of their paychecks and mortgage payments in the form of property and sales taxes...

Board Break a thon announcement

I have been studying Tae Kwon Do for a little over 1 year now and our academy's booster club has an annual community event. It is a board break-a-thon, and all of the proceeds go to the Katy ISD D.A.R.E program. Last year we raised over $4500 as a group for the program and we want to do even better this year. It is a good program and a lot of fun for all of those that participate. As an added bonus I'll provide photos of myself or my kids breaking the boards that are purchased by readers here. I'll even make sure your name is on the board. Please help support D.A.R.E. You can contact me through here or the e-mail on the flyer.

I hope to raise at least $300 for this cause.

Second Annual Board Break-A-Thon

· Saturday October 27th 3:00-5:00

· Hosted by the C3 Booster Club

· Help the Community by raising money for Katy Area D.A.R.E Programs

· Location: Allen Samuels Dodge on Katy Freeway

See the flyer for more details
Board break a thon flyer

Katy reconsiders 12-year-old's graffiti suspension

This is another of KISD's attempts at "zero tolerance" enforcement that has gone wrong.

Katy reconsiders 12-year-old's graffiti suspension

Katy Independent School District is reconsidering a decision to send a sixth-grader to alternative school for four months after she confessed to writing "I love Alex" on a school gymnasium wall with a baby blue sharpie.
Under a firestorm of widespread criticism, the district is researching discipline options for Shelby Sendelbach, a 12-year-old Mayde Creek Junior High School pupil who was punished by the district with a Level 4 infraction after writing the message in permanent ink.
The grafitti offense — on par with making terroristic threats, drug possession and assault — is punishable as a felony under the district's discipline plan. Only a Level 5 is more severe -- for murder, possessing firearms, aggravated or sexual assault and arson.

Ok, first off when has writing on the walls or anything for that matter on the same level as any of these three actions,(terroristic threats, drug possession and assault). If you can give me an answer to that which makes sense then you are smarter than I am by a long shot.


Here is my personal feelings, there has been a significant overreaction on the part of teachers, administrators, school boards, and even parents with regards to school discipline. Busting someone for graffiti, for writing on a gym wall, is insane. It seems as if every time someone breaks a rule in Katy ISD the school and district jump in and throw the book at them, with out even taking the time to determine how serious the offense is. Why is that? Well for one thing most people in education for the past 20 years have been more about feel good environments, but kids who are not stupid, realized that they could get away with almost anything, started to do just that. Now districts are having to crack down and these same people who for the longest time could never bring themselves to calling a student down for something as simple as talking out of turn in class are having to discipline students and do not know how to. For that reason and that reason alone, they go to the extreme case and then fall back on the argument that they were only following the zero tolerance policy of the district. Buffalo Bagles, these educrats are the reason we have these problems and until they learn to better evaluate the level of a student's misbehavior, and start to apply some simple logic and common sense to assigning punishment we will continue to have these sorts of events.



This is not the first time KISD has been busted for going overboard with regards to their discipline and zero tolerance, and it will probably not be the last. These people need to stop reacting and start using the brains that they supposedly have.

Another link about Zero Tolerance
State lawmakers look at revamping school discipline

Headlines I have collected

Ex-Marine, 72, Teaches Pickpocket a Lesson
New Jersey mutt wins ugliest dog crown in California
Judge rejects $54 million lawsuit over lost pair of pants
Millionaire, 84, died fleeing Harris probate court
Disney to scrap lucrative direct-to-DVD animated sequels
Is Earmark Disclosure a True Measure of Transparency? Actually the question is do we actually have a conservative or at least honest democrat?
Embattled Duke Rape Case Prosecutor Mike Nifong Could Get Jail Time
Senate Votes to Increase Fuel Economy Standards in Cars, SUVs
Sens. Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer Dispute Conversation About Reining in Conservative Talk Radio So who do you believe, a moderate/conservative republican or two flaming liberals
Prince William Turns 25, Gains Part of Diana's Inheritance Now the question is will he be king instead of his father, and who will he marry....
Bush Administration Opposes Making Immigration Bill Easier on Employers
Vatican Reverses Annulment of Ex-Rep. Joseph Kennedy's First Marriage
Computer Hacking Plagues Department of Homeland Security
County rescinds Westpark Tollway fee hike
Plan for new taxes on oil companies stalls
N.H. Town Hopes to End Standoff Between Police and Couple Barricaded in Home Since January
FOHacker Claims to Have Posted 'Harry Potter' Plot on Internet
Police Say Washington Baby Died After Mom Taped Pacifier in Infant's Mouth
The perils of carving a path to the Taliban's front door
Fireworks sales likely to blast off
Duke prosecutor testifies; ex-lacrosse player weeps

Collection of Headlines

7 Sex Offenders Arrested in Texas MySpace Crackdown
Schwarzenegger to Immigrants: Avoid Spanish-Language Media
Markets Surge on CPI Data; Dow Jumps 100 Points
Hamas Seizes Control of Main Gaza Road as Civil War Breaks Out
Rays: Former foster teen says she is carrying Dukes' baby
House tentatively OKs plan to replace TAKS test
The ultimate hoops game from hell
Man Sentenced to Life for Killing Teen Who Walked on His Lawn
$152 billion Texas budget pact boosts education
Grand jury clears shooter in March Metro fatality
Rift seen in Iraq insurgency -- some groups reject al Qaeda
Bill, Hillary Clinton Sold Drug, Oil Assets to Avoid Conflicts of Interest

Sports headlines since 4-10-07

Yao takes blame for Rockets' first-round loss

Clemens will reunite with Pettitte in New York

Jazz top Rockets in Game 7 to advance in playoffs

Crasnick: Meet the best defensive shortstop in baseball

Amaechi 'caught up in the whirlwind' after coming out

ESPN The Magazine: John Amaechi Busts Out

Amaechi in speech: 'I underestimated America'

ESPN The Magazine: Open Look

Misc Headlines since 4-10-07

General Lee going for millions

Did Fort Bend teacher dump class for Bachelor?

NASA Rethinking Death, Sex for Long Space Trips

Economics 101: Look at the Facts; Don't Listen to Hysterics

U.S. Man Arrested in Hong Kong in Notorious Child Abuse

Kansas Prison Limits Inmates to 4 Rolls of Toilet Paper Per Month

Wally Schirra, One of America's Seven Original Mercury Astronauts, Dead at 84

Jason Whitlock Hits another Home Run when discussing Race

Jason Whitlock, is 2 for 2 with 2 home runs. Now he is not a baseball player he is a writer for the Kansas City Star, as well as a contributor on ESPN, and AOL. For those that do not know him here is a little more background:

Think you know it all? Not until you read Jason. Jason Whitlock has been creating water-cooler conversation in Kansas City since his arrival at The Star in 1994. His award-winning newspaper columns shock the funny bone, challenge conventional wisdom and cause readers to re-think their positions

So why do I think that he has knocked the ball out of the park 2 times? Well it simply has to do with the fact that here is a black man who is not afraid to call out those of his race when he sees them acting like fools, or doing things that he sees as detrimental to either the black community, race relations or both. However when he does this he also opens himself up for the inevitable cheap shots that come from the poverty pimps, race baiters, and appologists. That does not seem to bother Jason, and I applaud him for his courage of convictions and his willingness to call a spade a spade ( and yes I did use that word ) I do not care one single bit. Whitlock along with a few other influential Blacks have stood up and have said the same thing that most conservatives have said for the past 40 years, the black community needs to be responsible for itself, and that goes all the way down to the individual. And until this happens there will always be people like Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson willing to step up and make money off of the misfortunes of any and all minorities.

However enough of my bitching about the poverty pimps and their actions, and back to Jason and the articles. Anyone who follows sports knows about Adam "Pacman" Jones the corner back for the Tennessee Titans who was just suspended for the whole NFL season because of his 10 off the field events that have required police intervention. Now these 10 events have happened in less than 2 full years, and do not include several other run ins that he had during college. For there full details of the final straw you can read Whitlock's article entitled : Mayhem Main Event at NBA All-Star Weekend . Here are a couple of quotes.

NBA All-Star Weekend in Vegas was an unmitigated failure, and any thoughts of taking the extravaganza to New Orleans in 2008 are total lunacy.
An event planned to showcase what is right about professional basketball has been turned into a 72-hour display of why commissioner David Stern can't sleep at night and spends his days thinking of rules to mask what the NBA has come to represent. Good luck fixing All-Star Weekend. The game is a sloppy, boring, half-hearted mess. The dunk contest is contrived and pointless. The celebrity contest is unintended comedy. And, worst of all, All-Star Weekend revelers have transformed the league's mid-season exhibition into the new millennium Freaknik, an out-of-control street party that features gun play, violence, non-stop weed smoke and general mayhem.

Now that article generated a lot of heat especially from those that are trying to protect the NBA, however now that the full story about "Pacman" and his trash bag of 1's has hit the press, even the NFL players association has called for stronger guidelines for behavior off the field, all year. There is finally some accountability that is being delivered to these over paid children for their actions.

Well when noise from that article died down Don Imus decided to open his mouth and insert his foot up to his knee, by calling the Rutgers women's basketball team a bunch of "nappy headed Ho's". Now all of a sudden the poverty pimps have a new target, Imus. Now I do not condone what Imus said, however there are at least 20 or more "singers" who have songs out that say a whole hell of a lot of things that are worse, but you do not hear anybody from the black community say anything about that because it would be wrong to hold the black community accountable for it's own poor behavior, let alone expect the "leaders" to set the proper example. That is where Whitlock's second article comes in: Don Imus is not the real story

Thank you, Don Imus. You’ve given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem. You’ve given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality.

Thank you, Don Imus. You extended Black History Month to April, and we can once again wallow in victim hood, protest like it’s 1965 and delude ourselves into believing that fixing your hatred is more necessary than eradicating our self-hatred.
The bigots win again.
While we’re fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant, bad shock jock, I’m sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50 Cent’s or Snoop Dogg’s or Young Jeezy’s latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps and hos.

So you see where this is all going. Jason Whitlock is calling these people to the carpet and demanding accountability in the black community. Bill Cosby has taken heat for doing the same thing, however both of these men have done something that very few people can or are willing to do, and that is stand up to those in power and tell them that they are wrong, and reach out to the general public and try to wake them up to the reality of things, and get them to stop living in the past. If or when the black community as a whole wakes up and sees what 40+ years of blindly following the democrats and the liberal agenda has done to their community, you will see a drastic shift in support to the conservative mind set, and the black communities that right now are shunned, by most will become thriving centers of hope, life and energy that has not been seen in this country in a long time. Just wait, it is going to happen, and it will happen a lot sooner than most liberals think.

Political hot Potato or the Third Rail of Politics

After writing my last article I started to think about what issues do the American Public see as critical to the future of the country that most politicians would not touch with a ten foot pole. You see there are issues that can be described as hot potato or third rail issues. These are issues that if you are a senator, congressman or a member of a state legislature, and you take them up and seriously try to push through changes, you are taking your political career into your own hands. Plain and simple these are things that if you make a wrong step you will be out on your backside maybe even before the next election. So here are what I see as the issues that can and sometimes kill the career of most conservatives.

1) Social Security Reform
2) Welfare Reforme - All types
3) Income Tax Reform
4) Immigration
5) Abortion

I know there are others but for the most part when ever a true conservative tries to make significant changes to any of these programs they are always walking on thin ice. And it is for that reason that I have always said that the best way to change these programs short of complete elimination is to make very small changes, that is how 90% of these programs were built and that is how they need to be dismantled as well.

But again this is a common sense approach to things and I beleive that those in Austin and DC lose that skill after being there for to long.

Jim Butcher and the Dresden Chronicles

I am an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy books, the problem I have these days is the fact that I am very particular about what authors I will read. I am always willing to give an author a chance, that is how I found Jim Butcher, and his Dresden Chronicles. I was at the book store desperate to find some new reading material, since I really did not want to read the Lord of the Rings for the 10th time, when I found the first of Jim's Dresden series Storm Front. The first thing that caught my eye was the cover art, but then after reading the back cover of the book, I was intrigued.

Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he's the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. For the "everyday" world is actually full of strange and magical things -- and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Takes a wizard to catch a -- well, whatever.
There's just one problem. Business, to put it mildly, stinks. So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there's a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry's name. And that's when things start to get... interesting.
Magic. It can get a guy killed.

So here I am with a story about a wizard in modern day Chicago, dealing with black magic, murder, mobster, and a police force that thinks he is a nut job. Well who would not want to read this, so the book went into my stack of potential purchases. After about another thirty minutes of perusing the shelves I had about ten books sitting in a pile on the table in front of me. I narrowed it down to four and bought them, Storm Front was one of the four. Later that day when I got home I picked up Storm Front and started to read. Needless to say I was not disappointed, right from the start the book grabbed me and did not let me go. This book was different, not only in the story line but also in the fact that the hero of the story is not someone who you would expect to be a soft touch, Dresden is as much a hard case as he is a cynic, yet at the same time you can see the very dry sense of humor come through. For example this little bit at the end of chapter 1...

Besides which. If I was someone in this town using magic to kill people two at a time, and I didn't want to get caught, I'd make sure that I removed the only practicing wizard the police department kept on retainer. I liked my odds on the stairwell a lot better than I did in the cramped confines of the elevator.
Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face

See what I mean, Harry Dresden is the type of character that you will either love or hate, plain and simple. But Butcher has not left Harry without suitable supporting characters, there is Bob, the spirit who is part frat rat, part encyclopedia for the arcane, Kerrin Murphy who is the Detective in charge of the Special Investigation unit of the Chicago PD, and there are many other people and creatures that cross Harry's path, both good and bad.

Butcher has nine books published in this series currently, and they have been so well received that he is now publishing in hardcover first. Another sign that the books have found an audience, is the fact that the Sci-Fi Channel now has a series based upon the books on Sunday nights at 8pm Central time. So if you are a fan of well written books and enjoy mysteries, and or science fiction, I would highly recommend this series.

Stories from around the world

Drunken driver bites officer trying to take his keys

Records show jurors got 'giggly' while sequestered

Protest Violence From India's Low-Caste Groups Kills 2, Wounds 40

Guacamole lawsuit: Where's the avocado?

Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack Announces 2008 Presidential Bid

Civilian Employee, Salesman Admit to Scamming Army of $429K for Personal Equipment

Groups Sue Arizona County Over Anti-Smuggling Immigration Law

Wal-Mart Announces First Same-Store Sales Decline in 10 Years; December Outlook Dim

Britney Spears Parties With Paris Hilton, Leaves Underwear at Home

Illinois High School Students Expelled After Planning Fight on MySpace

Kuwaiti emir warns against U.S. pullout from Iraq

Memo to the cut and run Democrats and all of the critics of the current policy in Iraq. Read this and take it for what it is, the truth about us leaving Iraq in the current state that it is in.

Kuwaiti emir warns against U.S. pullout from Iraq

PARIS — A U.S. pullout from Iraq would prompt a civil war with global repercussions, the emir of neighboring Kuwait warned in an interview published today.
Sheik Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah urged U.S. forces to pull out of Iraqi cities and occupy their periphery instead, a proposal he said he has frequently discussed with President Bush. The tiny Persian Gulf emirate of about 1 million people is a strong U.S. ally.
"In the current circumstances, an American withdrawal would in no way help bring back stability," Sheik Sabah, who is on a state visit to France on his first trip to Europe as ruler, told the daily Le Figaro.
"On the contrary, the situation would get worse, and we would experience a civil war of great intensity that the whole world would pay the price for," he said. His country would be among those to suffer from such a civil war, he added.
Sheikh Sabah, who became leader of Kuwait in January, was meeting with French President Jacques Chirac on Thursday as part of a visit expected to focus on economic ties and renewed tensions in the Middle East.
French officials said the two nations were expected to update a bilateral defense pact in place since 1993, two years after the Gulf War, which liberated Kuwait from a seven-month Iraqi occupation. France was a key ally in the U.S.-led coalition that fought the war — but Paris strongly opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Economic ties were also on the emir's agenda. French firms are looking for increased business in the aerospace, infrastructure, oil and public works sectors in Kuwait.

See there it is from one of the regional leaders. We need to stay there and make sure that when we leave the government is stable. He also proposes a smart idea about getting the US troops out of the cities and have them help secure the borders and clean things up that way. Not a bad bit of common sense from a leader of a country.

Dumb Blonde 2

Dumb Blonde1

Just plain Dumb

Watch "Official Ghost Rider Movie Teaser"

Lets see if this Marvel Comic comes to the big screen as well as some of the others.

The Turtles are back and we are going back to the 80's

Now all we need is Back to the Future IV

Radio Giant Clear Channel to Be Taken Private for $18.7 Billion

This is an interesting story, which begs a couple of questions. First considering the fact that the company you see today is a direct result of the FCC changes in regulations regarding media ownership, as well as the fact that they are going private. What does that say about the Bush Administrations leadership of the FCC. Second who is going to profit from this the most?

SAN ANTONIO — Clear Channel Communications Inc. (CCU), the nation's biggest radio station owner, said Thursday it has agreed to be acquired for about $18.7 billion by an investment group.
Clear Channel owns or operates 1,150 radio stations and is the largest operator of radio stations in the country.
It also owns a majority of Clear Channel Outdoor, the mammoth outdoor-advertising segment that dominates the business of billboard and bus-stop ads and sets the pricing rates within the industry.
The transaction would be one of the biggest deals in which a company has been taken private, and showcases that vast sums that buyout groups have recently been able to assemble to acquire public companies.
Clear Channel said the deal calls for a group led by the investment firms Thomas H. Lee Partners LP and Bain Capital Partners LLC to pay $37.60 in cash for each share of Clear Channel common stock. That is a 10.2 percent premium over its closing price on Wednesday.
Its shares climbed $1.89, or 5.5 percent, to $36.01 in premarket trading.
The buyers are also assuming about $8 billion in debt in the deal.
Clear Channel announced in late October that its board of directors was evaluating "strategic alternatives to enhance shareholder value."
Analysts had said taking the company private could push shares toward a price of $37 to $40 each.
Clear Channel said the company's board of directors "with the interested directors recused," unanimously approved the agreement and is recommending shareholder approval. Lowry Mays is the company's chairman of the board and his two sons, Mark and Randall, are CEO and chief financial officer, respectively.
People familiar with the matter had expected at least two bids to be submitted as the deadline for offers passed earlier this week. Another bid had been expected from Providence Equity Partners, the Blackstone Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
In a separate announcement Thursday, Clear Channel said it plans to sell 448 of its radio stations, all located outside the top 100 media markets in the U.S., and its 42-station television group.
The deal would rank behind KKR's 1988 buyout of RJR Nabisco Inc., which still is the biggest going-private deal ever at $25.1 billion. It would also trail two other deals announced earlier this year. Those included the $21.8 billion buyout of airport development company BAA PLC and the $21.2 billion buyout of hospital company HCA Inc. (HCA)

Headlines and Comments

McCain, Former Secretary Thompson to Form Presidential Exploratory Groups Do we really want these people in the 2008 primaries?

Murtha-Hoyer Race Puts Reputations on the Line Now let's see how nice they play with each other.

AP poll voter booted for mistaking Sooners win for loss Trusting others cost him his position

Ex-Marlin Girardi, Tigers' Leyland are top managers The Marlins really look like fools today. But then they are run by an idiot.

Texas two-step: Smith wins "Dancing with the Stars" Emmitt still has the desire to compete, sad it is in something this foolish.

Government study: Internet 1 percent porn The reason they know this is because all Gov. employees have been surfing on our dime.

US Air makes $8 billion bid for Delta Is it a good idea? I really do not know but if it goes through it will mark a major shift in the airline industry.

Abizaid: No Timetable for Iraq Withdrawal, But Control Must Come Soon Dem's putting on a show and trying to get the leaders on the ground to cut and run

Palestinians pick a new prime minister Let's see where this choice leads us with regards to relations with Isreal

Senate Democrats Coose New Leadership for Next Session Let the ego trips and power struggle begin.

Panel floats idea of 5% appraisal cap, sales tax increase The chances that this goes through are slim as long as the legislature has sold it's soul to TML and other government funded lobbies.

Immigrant Protection Rules Draw Fire This is why we need to enforce our borders better, keep slime like this one from doing what he did.

Texas town considers anti-illegals bill Farmers Branch leaders have shown the courage that those in Austin and Washington have failed to do on many occasions.

Friday the 13th, Are you afraid?

Welcome to the the most feared day of the month, Friday the 13th. People who are afraid of this day suffer from a disorder called paraskavedekatriaphobia. Now do not even ask me to try to pronounce the name but it is the fear of one single day Friday the 13th. For more info on this day of bad luck check this out. Friday the 13th more info and facts. If you have any fun stories or ghost tales for this Halloween seaon Friday the 13th please share. Enjoy and don't let to many black cats cross your path..