Musings of a Liberal Texan

BREAKING NEWS Action Alert -- House Vote on AETA this Monday! T his is your ONLY chance to defeat the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (HR 4239, S3880)! In a late night move on Friday, AETA was added to the House Suspension Calendar for THIS Monday! This underhanded fast-track maneuver, like the one in the Senate, means that AETA will not have any debate... only an up/down vote. Contact YOUR Rep this weekend and Monday morning! Identify your House Representative: name, fax, e-mail, and phone number at http://www.house.gov Then, use our sample letter and/or the talking points below to... Be a triple hitter for the animals: Call direct or use the switchboard 202-225-3121 Fax E-mail Remember, all contact info is at www.house.gov . Call & Fax Representative Scott ALL Day! Rep. Robert Scott (D-VA) is the leading Democrat on AETA. He's also the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary so assert your right to have a voice with him, even if you are from another district. Be the squeky (but r...

In Response to The Garden Guy’s “Personal Choice” (submitted to the New York Times and the Houston Chronicle letters to the editor) I know many people who make choices, “personal choices”, based on the movement of their hearts. People who have chosen to stop consuming animals, people who have decided to foster children or become missionaries, people who have decided to join Doctors Without Borders or to run to Darfur to help in anyway that they can. I know about “personal choice”. But when you make a “personal choice” that negatively affects other people, you cannot hide behind this alleged “heart choice” or behind religion. You have to recognize that you are not standing on moral ground, you are standing under the lynching tree, next to the hobbling mallet, next to the torturer, you are standing in front of the jail house door, unjustly mandating how others are treated. The Garden Guy Company in Houston Texas discriminates. Do they have a right to? Of course, it is a free country. How...

Political Musings Can I just say...WOW! What an incredibly great week. Not only did I find a job where I am not micro-managed, I am given such a wide variety of projects and stuff to do that I couldn't for a second be bored, and I am working for the best department ever, but the American people finally got to express their feelings about this administration and this congress. We won thhe house AND the senate? Is that just crazy? AND Rumsfeld is gone??!! Pinch me, baby, I think I'm dreaming. Now I just want these guys to do what they have been given an actual mandate to do. Clean up. Set a different course in our foreign policy. Correct the minimum wage debacle. Work on national healthcare. And fix the voting machines. Because regardless of who came out on top, I cannot express how distrustful this system is. We need a paper trail. We need to be able to close the gaping holes open to hackers. Fix the machines. Clean up the environment. Open up the market for innovative alternati...