Comments on: House Party

By: p00p

p00p — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 05:08:38 +0000

As someone who did a twenty-year haul in Houston, it is the ugliest city I’ve ever seen. Not to mention the fleas, mosquitos, cockroaches and ants.

By: agm

agm — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 02:22:10 +0000

To pete, yeah, but heat and dryness keep them significantly lower. My rent would get me a noticeably nicer place in El Paso. To keith ellis, enjoy some actual red enchiladas for me. Chili gravy, god, what an offense against Mexican cuisine.

By: JRoth

JRoth — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:38:29 +0000

Wili- Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson would be happy to sell you a documentary about all the people Clinton had ckilled in the course of his drug running in AK. Does that count?

By: Wili W�chendon

Wili W�chendon — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:09:54 +0000

Jesus. A house party of nothing but lefty populists. Sounds like hell on earth. “Sooo.. Bush, eh? He’s really frickin’ dumb.” Incidentally, a house party of nothing but righty populists would be just as bad. With a bit more tweed. Although that made me think, in trying to come up with what they could screen at such a party, what’s with the lack of righty populist cinema? For every ‘Stupid White Men’ there’s a ‘Treason’, both of which rack up equally massive sales, so why no equivalents to ‘Bowling for Columbine’ et al? Isn’t it time the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy funded some propaganda of its own?

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:02:30 +0000

Chuck Johnson…er, Kuffner…is right. There’s plenty of us in Houston. And as my old grandad used to say: heat and humidity keep housing costs low.

By: Charles Kuffner

Charles Kuffner — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 03:55:44 +0000

Hmpf. Houston liberals include, but by no means are limited to: Pete Jack Cate Gary Greg Rob Michael the Houston Democratic Forum Gunther Aziz Jaye Bob Steve me and of course, Juanita proprietress of the World's Most Dangerous Hair Salon. Any questions?

By: vernaculo

vernaculo — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 03:46:19 +0000

You know what I like? I like that 12% of the budget goes to interest on “our National Debt, incurred by budget deficits in previous years”. Debt is a transitive relationship. One has a debt to someone or some thing. One might ask to whom exactly this debt is owed, that it requires the dismantling of proven social programs, and the sacrificial hunger of millions of children. 12% of a couple trillion bucks is a lot of food. The vague institutions behind that debt are not American, particularly. In the sense that as an American I may be called upon to sacrifice my comfort, my well being, even the lives of my sons and daughters, to preserve the United States, to defend the country. My country. These vague, nameless institutions will not be required to sacrifice anything, ever, to preserve or defend the USA. There was talk for a while there of bringing back the military draft. You can bet there’ll be more talk in a few months. Draft the banks. For God and country.

By: rc

rc — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 00:41:11 +0000

Here is a graph based on http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2005/sheets/hist08z7.xls that shows the track in discretionary defense vs. non-defense spending since FY1977: http://anonymous.coward.free.fr/temp/spending_components.png The dotted line is the 45-degree line.

By: Keith M Ellis

Keith M Ellis — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:08:41 +0000

It’s been very humid here in Austin the last few days. The AC isn’t keeping my house very dry, either. Even inside, I’m either hot and sweating, or cold and muggy and clammy. I’m moving soon back to my native New Mexico, where it’s much drier. I don’t know how anyone can stand Houston. And not only are the cockroaches gigantic but, folks, they fly.

By: Morat

Morat — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:49:18 +0000

Well, speaking for myself, I both love and hate Houston. Admittedly, 99.9999% of the hate can be traced to two things: Partly Tom Delay (in whose district I had the misfortune of residing), but mostly the weather. It’s hot, it’s humid, and we apparently breed some GIANT cockroaches. And to top it off, my AC isn’t scrubbing moisture out of the air right. I’m not sure why, as it manages to keep the house at 75 (even when the outside temp gets to be as high as 100) which is a decent differential…but it’s still muggy in there.

By: Keith M Ellis

Keith M Ellis — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:45:32 +0000

There must be plenty of liberals in Houston—it’s the fourth largest city in the US. It’s huge. For that reason, I’ve always assumed that it can’t be that bad. But then there was that post a while back by Ted about the story in the Houston altweekly about Spalding Gray. It’s hard for me to imagine an audience, come to see Spalding Gray for crying out loud, in a large metropolitan area would be dominated by pro-Iraq war Bush supporters who’d walk out. That blew my mind. And my best friend, who’s from Houston and is gay, also told me that there’s nowhere in Houston that compares to the gay-friendly, cosmopolitan area of downtown Chicago he’d recently visited. I’ve always thought of Dallas as more cosmopolitan than Houston—a scary thought. I love Austin. I’ll be moving away soon, though.

By: Keith M Ellis

Keith M Ellis — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:44:53 +0000

By: kellan

kellan — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:40:52 +0000

the WRL has been putting out their excellent piechart for years, here is the 2005 budget: http://www.warresisters.org/2005_piechart.pdf In that same document they address briefly why their chart looks different then the one Ted linked to.

By: Tom Doyle

Tom Doyle — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:34:53 +0000

Favorite bumper sticker: I Brake for Hallucinations

By: matt

matt — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:53:59 +0000

There are plenty of liberals still in Houston. I even know one who lives in Suger Land.