Kay Bailey Hutchison
Should Houston Mayor Bill White Run for Governor?
Submitted by Southern Shift on Wed, 2009-12-02 11:13 Authored by Davey DUPDATE: Bill White IS running for Governor of Texas. Click HERE to read more about his announcement in Houston earlier today.
Anyone But Perry, The Texas Lawn Chair Larry
Submitted by Southern Shift on Mon, 2009-09-14 10:26 Authored by Linda CurtisRemember Lawn Chair Larry? The former trucker, Larry Walters, got an honorable mention from the Darwin Awards which “salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves from it”.
Larry lived to tell the story of his 1982 experience attaching helium filled weather balloons to his lawn chair after hatching a plan to drink a few beers while floating 30 feet above his girlfriend’s house. But his friends cut the rope he had attached to his jeep, and the lawn chair with Larry in it, shot up to 16,000 feet. Larry wisely decided not to use the bb gun he brought along to shoot the balloons when he was ready to come down. He wound up being rescued when he came up on air controllers’ sites near the LA Airport.
Perry v. Hutchison: Has heat between two Texas cheerleaders made them forget about the rest of us?
Submitted by Ann del Llano on Tue, 2009-09-01 08:32 Authored by Ann del Llano
Texas cheerleader fights are notorious, we even have a history of cheerleader mothers fighting to the death over which cheerleader is the most popular.
Many of us remember the popular kids in high school who cared more about their hair and makeup and fighting over boys than anything else. Both Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison were Texas cheerleaders, but now it's 2009 and there are 25 million people living in Texas.
While two Texas preppies and their friends battle it out for Governor, the other 24 million Texans wait to see if they will address issues that matter in our lives. William McKenzie said it well in the Dallas Morning News:
Obama to Reform Hutto and other Detention Centers
Submitted by Southern Dave on Thu, 2009-08-06 13:37In what appears to be a shrewd calculated decision by the Obama administration, folks who have been demanding Immigration reform and an end to some harsh anti-immigration policies have been smiling.
As pointed out in the NY Times article below, President Obama plans to reform the way notorious detention centers operate. Most notably the Hutto detention center near Austin.
We caught up with long time activist Luissanna Santibanez from San Antonio who noted that she and numerous organizations have been holding lots of protests in front of this facility since 2006 when they started locking up kids and entire families.
Santibanez, who’s family was profiled in the short film ‘Exiled In America’, is no stranger to these facilities. The film shows how her mom spent two years in a detention center leaving Santibanez, barely 20 years old, to look out for her four brothers and sisters.
