AARP members who showed up at a recent Dallas-area “listening session” on health care reform got more than they bargained for: Officials of the organization purporting to represent the interests of America’s senior citizens walked out on their members after they had the nerve to express viewpoints that ran counter to those of AARP. Never [...]
Dallas AARP Members Canceling Memberships After Meeting on Healthcare Reform Goes ‘South’
August 6th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Tags: · aarp, aarp members, aarpvarks, american association for retired persons, breitbart, Dallas, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Healthcare, Healthcare Reform, listening session, senior citizens
Obama Indoctrination Begins Early at Borders
February 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Yesterday, Texas Rainmaker posted a reader photo of a book display in the Kids section of a Borders Bookstore in Dallas. He writes: “I guess Borders understands that it’s never too early to indoctrinate the younguns.” Hat tip: Instapundit
Tags: · book display, borders, borders bookstore, Dallas, indoctrination, instapundit, obama cult, texas rainmaker
Texas Tech Lets Down Big 12, Falls to Ole Miss
January 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments
Though I only watched portions of the ATT Cotton Bowl today, the parts I watched showed an ugly effort by Coach Mike Leach’s #7 Texas Tech Red Raiders as they lost in Dallas to Houston Nutt’s #25 Ole Miss Rebels, 47-34. Yes, I know; in my “crystal ball” post last week, I predicted the game [...]
Tags: · alabama, allstate sugar bowl, big 12, cotton bowl, crystal ball, Dallas, florida, houston nutt, lubbock, mississippi, ohio state, Oklahoma, ole miss, ole miss rebels, red raiders, sugar bowl, texas, texas tech red raiders, utah
College Football Bowl Game Predictions Offered
December 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Due to the fact that there are seven — count ‘em, seven — Big 12 Conference teams involved in college football bowl games between Dec. 29 and Jan. 8, I decided to include all of their games as well as all of the BCS bowl games in my predictions this year which appear below: Monday, [...]
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Sex a Hot Topic ‘Down Under’ and in ‘Big D’
November 17th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Two groups — one “Down Under” and one in “Big D” — are promoting polar-opposite views of sex this week. In Australia, the new Australian Sex Party — an actual political party — is billing itself as “a political response to the sexual needs of Australia in the 21st century.” A review of the group’s [...]
Tags: · Australia, australian sex party, big d, Dallas, down under, ed young, fellowship church, grapevine, healthy sex, healthy sexual practices, leaving lust vegas, lust, marriages, married couples, pastor ed young, seven days of sex, Sex
‘Washington has not learned the first rule of holes’
April 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Former U.S. Comptroller David Walker delivered a somber economic message Friday at UT Dallas but told the audience of business leaders that there was still time for the nation to take its bitter fiscal medicine and keep a growing budget deficit from dimming its future. Warning that “we are standing on a burning platform,” Walker [...]
Tags: · baby boomers, Bob McCarty, ceo netweavers, corporate governance, Dallas, david walker, Economy, fiscal wake-up tour, Medicare, rule of holes, social security, u.s. comptroller, university of texas dallas, ut dallas
Dallas Storms Extend Blogger’s Travel Day
March 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Thanks to stormy weather in Dallas, this blogger and members of his family had the opportunity to spend a great deal of “quality time”– eight hours in all — at airports in San Antonio and Houston yesterday. Factor in some three hours of flight time and the travel day that began at noon eventually lasted [...]
Tags: · airports, Dallas, houston, San Antonio, storm, Stormy Weather, thunderstorms
