Whew, looks like I’ve recovered from that Valentine’s night celebration just in time to take a quick spin in the “Cruz mobile” this week.

(Yeah right! Quit lying, your Valentines day was about as exciting as watching wax melt; actually less exciting)

Shut up, and put on your seat belt, let’s go before I send you hunting with Cheney!



First Stop: Will He or Won’t He?

The rumor mill is in overdrive and rumors are flying left and right. Will former city Councilman Victor Hernandez run for the city council district 1 seat? Although local media were running with a story that had Hernandez officially filing, Hernandez says that while he has picked up an elections packet and filed the necessary paperwork appointing Richard Lopez and Maggie Trejo as co-campaign treasurers, he still has not made a final decision; but will probably do so in a couple of weeks.

In the meantime, Councilwoman Linda DeLeon has filed all the necessary paperwork with the city secretary and will run for reelection; telling us that her work on the council has just begun and she’s looking forward to another 4 years.



Duck! Cheney’s got a Gun!

The fact that VP Cheney shot a fellow hunter while on a tax payer paid for hunting trip in south Texas this past weekend, would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic. By now, you’ve probably read or heard about it.

What makes this situation pathetic is the fact that Cheney feels no sense of responsibility and sees no need to account to the American people for his actions. In other words, he could care less and had refused to appear in public to talk about the incident until a full 4 days afterwards.

To begin with, Bush and Co. kept this from the national press for at least 14 hours before the owner of the ranch called a Corpus Christie newspaper to report the incident.

Really; how did it suddenly become the responsibility of the ranch owner to make this information public? Why did 14 hours elapse between the time the accident happened and anyone else outside the White House know? What was the problem; were they giving Cheney time to sober up or what?

Not fair you say, it may not be; but that’s what happens when you sneak around and try to hide these things from the American public. Is that fair to the public? No. This has got

to be the most secretive and “non responsive” administration ever.

As far as I’m concerned, the 2008 elections cannot get here soon enough…

(Oh, oh, better be quiet, my phone line may be tapped)



National LULAC Week 2006

Local LULAC Council 263, which is celebrating it’s 50th Anniversary this year, will culminate National LULAC Week with a banquet Saturday night at the Holiday Inn Towers. Texas Tech graduate and San Angelo native, Hector Galán will be the featured keynote speaker. His work has been recognized for “crossing borders” and becoming part of the country’s “historical and cultural record”.

Galán is best known for his long form documentaries which he produced for PBS including: Chicano! The Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, Songs of the Homeland, Vaquero: The Forgotten Cowboy, Cuba: Personal Journey, The Forgotten Americans, New Harvest, Old Shame, Los Mineros, Accordion Dreams, and the six episode series, Visiones: Latino Art & Culture,

He is currently working on a documentary about the life of the former head of the San Antonio archdiocese; Archbishop Patricio Flores. Archbishop Flores was the first Mexican American Bishop in the United States. Completion is expected in the spring of this year.



Seven Billion Dollar Giveaway

How’s this for corporate welfare? Oil companies who drill for oil and natural gas in federal territories over the next 5 years will be exempt from paying royalties to the federal government because of a federal law passed in 1996. Not bad for an industry that reaped billions of dollars in profits in 2005. Total estimated cost to the American taxpayers: a cool 7 billion!



Memo to Brownie: Please Shut Up Already!

Anybody catch the Senate hearings on the Katrina response or rather non response from FEMA and Homeland Security? One word: Useless!



The Americanization of Iraq

Here’s a sign that American influence is slowly changing Iraq. Top television shows:

1. Husseinfeld, 2. Mad About Everything, 3. U.S. Military Secrets Revealed 4. Allah McBeal, 5. Wheel of Fortune and Terror, 6. Totally Clothed Baywatch.

And it only cost us 100 plus billion dollars! Now that’s what I call progress.



Un - Serious Debate

Men: Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?

Women: Is it really worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage?



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