Not to put too fine a point on it but in all the years I’ve lived here politics have never changed. If you are in with the right people --- consider the skids greased. The only exception being when the local demi-oligarchs get into a pissing match over who is entitled to a certain office, billet or position in the local office holder ecology. It’s very primordial.
But fear not for these are the gifted and talented so are practiced at their decades long form of political natural selection, survival of the species and all that that it’s almost right out of Star Trek the Next Generation. In that series the Borg, a powerful race of oioas (organic, inorganic amalgams) [my term] say to those resisting them , “resistance is futile.” So it seems. Hey, maybe it’s just me---but I don’t think so.
Unfortunately as I pointed out in a recent blog, Elections 2010/Public Policy: Short of revolution---it’s all we’ve got. locals don’t cotton to them what’s not from around here. Provincial? Backwater? You bet. Inevitable? Is that a trick question?
There are a few good people but most are just serendipitously opportunistic. These are folk who are born on third base, open their eyes and think they’ve just hit a triple. Remind you of “w?” Just one more Texas Red, Bexar County unmendable misfortune.
Susan Reed has never been a hero to the lucid, fair-minded and charitable. She may now be on the way out. She’s one of those Texas Red prosecutors to whom guilt or innocence is of little, if any, consequence. It’s all about prosecutions, appearances and bringing an iron fist down on any behavior that crowd finds intolerable, constitutional or not.
Speaking of those not favored by the lucid, fair-minded and charitable; don’t you suppose it’s time for a new resident for the Governor’s mansion? And just why do these clowns get a mansion? Is that just Dark Ages holdover? Is it shades of the Antebellum South or what?
Certainly the standard of living enjoyed by the anointed over the standard of living for the working stiff is all about suzerainty. I’m just saying…. Indeed.
From Texas Red: a cratered landscape of prisons, deplorable apartheid public education, lack of healthcare and politicians and majority population intent on keeping it that way…
Hasta Siempre,
More:
Bexar County Candidates at a glance
http://mysapolitics.com/election.php/2010/01/06/current-election-candidates-list-2010
Bexarly legal
In the race for DA, it may be Reed’s record that’s the real voter issue
Whether she was threatening to arrest and prosecute non-profit employees working to implement a Texas Legislature-approved needle-exchange program that advocates say would have saved lives in San Antonio, or picking up unregistered (illegal) airline tickets for a cheap vacation, or intervening when her son’s friend tried to carry a firearm through San Antonio International Airport, the rules of the game seem to have melted around the veteran prosecutor these past years. But probably the most interesting thing about Reed is her incredibly cautious nature when it comes to anything that doesn’t conclude with a locking cell door. It’s a point LaHood zeroes in on.
http://www.sacurrent.com/news/story.asp?id=71660
Elections 2010/Public Policy: Short of revolution---it’s all we’ve got.
http://www.examiner.com/bexar-county-elections-2010-in-san-antonio/elections-2010-public-policy-short-of-revolution-it-s-all-we-ve-got
Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell agree: No separation of church and state
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/10/sharron_angle_and_christine_od.html
the brutally corrupt banking oligarchs are at it again raking it in coming and going…….
Untangling The Complex Foreclosure Mess
"It was all about expedience. It was all about speed," Morgenson says. "It's just a really sad commentary on the way the business was approached ... but this is exactly what the banks did when they were making the mortgages, so why are we surprised on the other end of it, that they're doing it again?"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130835119
Bexar County Elections Department
http://www.co.bexar.tx.us/elections/Links/links.html
Bexar County Democratic Party
http://www.bexardemocrats.org/
Bexar County Republican Party
http://www.bexargop.org/calendar.php
League of Women Voters of Texas
http://www.lwvtexas.org/
Texas Red: a cratered landscape of prisons, deplorable apartheid public education, lack of healthcare and politicians and majority population intent on keeping it that way
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-18764-San-Antonio-Public-Policy-Examiner~y2009m10d4-Texas-Red-a-cratered-landscape-of-prisons-deplorable-public-education-lack-of-healthcare-and-poli
The Center for Public Integrity
http://www.publicintegrity.org/
Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
http://www.amazon.com/Winner-Take-All-Politics-Washington-Richer-Turned/dp/1416588698
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
www.amazon.com/Good-Capitalism-Economics-Growth-Prosperity/dp/0300158327/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285203922&sr=1-1
13 Bankers
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307379051
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
http://www.amazon.com/Aftershock-Next-Economy-Americas-Future/dp/0307592812/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1285922323&sr=1-1
Revolutionary Mural To Return To L.A. After 80 Years
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130519329
French Protests Enter 7th Week
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/10/25/130811276/french-protests-enter-7th-week
Bill Moyers on Plutonomy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSoglDcRbAg
George Carlin describing facts about this plutocracy/Oligarchy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1iXXKmq58g&p=FC724F5C54F41566&playnext=1&index=9
Public Policy: the Tea Party disinformation campaign machine on mid-term’s “final approach”
http://robertruiz-respublica.blogspot.com/2010/10/public-policy-tea-party-disinformation.html
Alexander Hamilton famously referred to the folk as “the Beast.” When I was a very young man I cringed at the very idea. Many years later I feel Hamilton’s pain.
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