Not really. Texas is a one-party state, divided between Democratic-controlled South Texas (and Dallas/Houston/Austin/El Paso Metro), and Republican-controlled everywhere else (including suburbs and exurbs of most of those metro areas). The parties tend to be in total control within those respective zones, with Republicans dominating the state overall.

There's not really any competition between the lobbyists and pols. It's more of a symbiotic/parasitic thing.

More proof that being a cult hero will get you further than the actual possession of brains.

Great idea, however if judges were to run for election and not be attached to a party position, it would require people to ::chill:: LEARN the positions of judges and maybe (Heaven forbid) do research and become (Good Lord, no) an informed citizen.

Can someone find a mistake fare IAH-TLV? I would rack up plat in a heartbeat.

Moving to a new desk at work has netted me one gain: a larger trash can. :cool:

Good :rolleyes:, box.

True, but at least Brawndo's got 'lectrolytes. :-:

It is the little (or in this case, not so little) things in life that make it possible to survive, huh?

So it looks like my NYC experience this time is going to be truely different. I will be taking a private car back to the airport today!! very odd for NYC for me!!

:D

I have teh ok to book any mistake fare to Deutschland, Italia, Espana, Portugal and Nederland.

I need to talk it over before booking any other destination in Europe :-:

I have three trash cans in my office. :p

What is more likely, as you and I both know, is that name recognition would trump everything. It reminds me of the guy named "Calabrese" who repeatedly won elections in Northeast Ohio because his name sounded like "Celebrezze" (long-time mayor of Cleveland, I think from the days before the river caught fire).

Congratulations, I think. I didn't think you had been there long enough to accumulate that much stuff to throw out.

I believe the federal appointment system to be superior to the election method of selecting judges.

I have been subpoened to do Cuyahoga County a couple of times.....absolute chaos down there.

heh



BUt on the good side of the whole "legal stuff" Dr. Dergon Darkhelm, MD was droped from the complete BS case he had been named on last year. :)

When the fall is all that's left, it matters a great deal. :-:

Well we can't all have the magic office of untold wonders now, can we? :rolleyes: ;)

Thanks, but you're mostly correct. The trash can at my old desk was so tiny as to be useless for anything more than a few wads of paper. This one can actually handle water bottles and associated victual encasements.

So PAC or CA or SA trips you are free to book without prior consultation!! :)