Our future looks bleak. Disagreeing with Murdock, there is another solution.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
California Today, Texas Tomorrow-2
Friday, July 2, 2010
Texas Schools Pass Stress Tests!
Saturday, June 26, 2010
TAKS Progress
Friday, June 18, 2010
Texas Sex Offenders?
Hearing my ass. How about a conviction? Texas' BPP got slammed recently for similar actions, my 8 November 2009 post: http://skepticaltexascpa.blogspot.com/2009/11/lifting-immunity.html.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
What Secret?
Yes West.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Whose History?
Henry Ford said "History is bunk". Amen. RK is a UT philosphy professor.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Uncle Sam and SFAS 106
"One of the many fashionable notions that have caught on among some of the intelligentsia is that old people have 'a duty to die,' rather than become a burden to others. ... Already the government-run medical system in Britain is restricting what medications or treatments it will authorize for the elderly. Moreover, it seems almost certain that similar attempts to contain runaway costs will lead to similar policies when American medical care is taken over by the government. ... If a government-run medical system is going to save any serious amount of money, it is almost certain to do so by sacrificing the elderly", my emphasis, Thomas Sowell at Townhall, 11 May 2010: http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2010/05/11/a_duty_to_die.
Let's repeal the 13th Amendment with respect to doctors. Problem solved. Didn't we get an Obamacare cost estimate for the next ten years? Aren't you comfortable with it? Didn't the CBO say it would be $849 billion? Various goverments will break many promises over the next ten years. Got bonds? Sell! As I've written before, "Kill the old white women"! That's how Medicare costs will will be reduced. I wonder if a Big 87654 firm would opine on the CBO's estimate?
Sunday, June 6, 2010
New Texas Taxes?
Friday, June 4, 2010
California Today, Texas Tomorrow?
"If the American Dream is upward economic mobility and arrival in the middle class, the grim statistics show only a small percentage of Texas' Hispanics are on the road to success. As the state's Latino population continues to expand over the next two decades, if current treands stay the same, Texas is in danger of developing what one academic describes as a 'permanent underclass.' Widespread poverty could pull down the standard of living for all Texans. ... Hispanic girls accounted to 62 percent of all births to teen mothers in 2006, the most recent year reported by the National Center for Health Statistics. ... St. Mary's University political scientist Henry Flores said ... 'Texas has been the cradle of the Hispanic middle class, what there is of it nationally. ... But if you look at the overall percentages of Hispanics of higher degrees and professional occupations, it's very, very small.' ... 'If things don't change, you're going to see a continuing Hispanic underclass'," RG Ratcliffe at the Houston Chronicle, 17 May 2010: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/7008236.html.
Quoted without comment.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Illegals and the Ottomans
I agree with Michael Panzer's interesting 22 May 2010 post at When Giants Fall about Turkey, Iran and nuclear weapons, link: http://www.economicroadmap.com/2010/05/not-so-positive.html.
Yes VD. At the very least, California, from San Diego to Santa Barbara, looks like it will revert to Mexico. Pancho Villa won!
China has a policy to move Han Chinese into Sinkiang province, which was primarily Uighur, to ensure Beijing's control. We permit let illegaal aliens stay in the US, which will likely cause the US to dissolve. Look at the contrasting policies.
Absent a new "Operation Wetback", I expect the US to break up no later than 2040, see my 11 January 2009 post: http://skepticaltexascpa.blogspot.com/2009/01/usa-rip.html.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Texas Prison Literature
Friday, March 5, 2010
Two State Legislator Criminals
What happened here? Hodge ran afoul of the "prison-industrial complex" and its prison building campaign. The BPP is a corrupt joke. Who is Ratcliffe? The Dallas area former US Attorney. He's now a partner in John Ashcroft's (JA) law firm. Small world. We know JA, see my 17 January 2008 post: http://skepticaltexascpa.blogspot.com/2008/01/justice-department-extortion-racket.html. Compare Hodge's treatment to Olenicoff's, my 20 May 2008 post: http://skepticaltexascpa.blogspot.com/2008/05/sentencing-snipes-2.html. It's not for nothing I call it the (in)Justice Department.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Mike Nifong Does Texas
"Now it's time for the sherriff who investigated her and the district attorney [DA] wwho prosecuted her to be brought to justice. We can only fantasize. ... The Medical Board [MB] already knew Arafiles. In 2007 it had placed him under certain restrictions for three years. Two days after receiving the anonymous letter, the board notified him of the complaint and some of its details. ... In addition, according to testimony at trial, he joined in pushing doc's $40 bottles of herbal supplement, even holding meeting at Pizza Hut to recruit other salesmen. ... [MB] offficials assumed he was investigating the doctor, according to a spokeswoman. In a letter to him, they said that under the law the letter could not be released except to a law enforcement official 'conducting a criminal investigation of a license holder of the TMB.' Nurses are not licensed by the [MB]. ... Instead of coorrecting the board's assumptions, the sherriff used the letter to identify the nurse who was over 50 and had been with the hospital since the 1980s. He obtained a search warrant of her computers and found a copy of the letter. ... Within weeks however, [DA] Mike Fostel offered a deal: The indictment would be dropped if the women agreed not to sue the county or its hospital. Smart man, but it didn't work. The nurses filed a federal lawsuit. ... Meanwhile the Texas [MB] has expressed its 'grave concern' about the indictments to Fostel and Tidwell. And national nursing organizations, outraged, raised $40,000 for the women's defense according to the [New York] Times", my emphasis, Rick Casey at the Houston Chronicle, 12 February 2010, link: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/casey/6863319.html
"A West Texas jury took but an hour Thursday to acquit a nurse who had been charged with a felony after alerting the state [MB] that a doctor at her hostpital was practising unsafe medicine. ... The jury foreman said the panel of six men and six women voted unanimously on the first ballot, and questioned why Mrs. Mitchell had ever been arrested. ... The prosecution has so polarized the small town of Kermit, where the hospital is located, that the judge moved the trial to a neighboring county. The case was investigated by Sherriff Robert L. Roberts Jr. a friend and admiring patient ot Dr. Arafiles, and tried by the county attorney, Scott M. Tidwell, a political ally of the sherriff and, according to testimony, Dr. Arafile's personal lawyer", Kevin Sack at the NYT, 12 February 2010: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/us/12nurses.html.
This case shows why we need juries. The jury deliberated less than an hour to acquit Mitchell.
Amazing. A 2009 version of a "traveling medicine show". Well, how about an indictment of Fostel and Tidwell for "extortion under color of right", 18 USC 1951?
Quoted without comment.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Lake Wobegon of Texas-2
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Whose Drug War?
"Harris County [DA] [PL] will re-evaluate a new policy downgrading crack pipe residue charges in response to conerns raised by Houston Police Department [HPD] officials. ... 'She met with the command staff of [HPD], and everyone on the command staff urged her not to do this policy because of the burglaries that were going to increase,' said Ray Hunt, vice president of the Houston Police Officers' Union. 'This is about decreasing the caseload of the [DA's] office and decreasing the number of people in jails.' ... The minimum weight, one-hundreth of a gram, is equivalent to half a grain of rice. ... 'Addicts may become so addicted to the drug that they engage in thefts, burglaries, prostitution, and other crimes in an effort to support their habit. By arresting a suspect for a small amount of crack cocaine, HPD may be preventing that suspect from committing a burglary later, for example,' according to the [HPD] release", my emphasis, Brian Rogers at the Houston Chronicle, 10 December 2009: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/6762482.html.
We might reduce the number of HPD officers and see if GB still sings this song. GB reminds me of a Big 87654 partner praising Sarbox.
