The confirmation voting joint floor session is at 11, though there are more appointments than just that of WAR. I’d venture to guess they’ll be out by noonish though.

And, the Bluescast (and many other comments by the MC and musicians) last night at the AFF were FABULOUS (as always!). Great political night there, it was!

On KTUU, a report on this mess with the Governor and the Democratic Legislature, it turns out that the newest pick for the Senate Seat by Palin is Wilson, who as it turns out met the Governor when he was doing remodeling work at the Governors mansion.
It isn’t in the written story, but in the video it is mentioned towards the end.
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10192553

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/opinions/anntelnaes/

An interesting Tea Bagger sign
Anybody want to try to explain how his “Founders” sign isn’t Anti-American?
These people are very confused, but also very angry and they act out on their anger.
http://www.statesman.com/news/mediahub/media/slideshow/index.jsp?tId=152442

Just as a context. Austin, Texas had about 1500 Tea Baggers at the Capitol and about the same number at City Hall.

When I was a student at the University of Texas in Austin in the ’60′s we put 20 to 30K students onto the streets of Austin in a five mile peaceful anti-war march. It streatched from the West Mall at Guadalupe down to the Federal Building and back again. The beginning of the marchers met the last ones who were backed up and just coming off the Mall and some rewalked the route.
The only violence was some hard hats on the third floor of a construction site (the J. Frank Dobie Center) protected by a ten foot solid construction fence, throwing bricks at the students walking past.

Those latter are the kind of Americans we need to be afraid of. And that’s the kind of Americans that Fox et al and the RepoTaliban are stirring up. Don’t for moment think that Republicans were joking when they said they were going to turn to insurgency.

I hope she does too! May Palin-lovin’ ex husband hates Kay, so I guess she’s not so bad. Maybe I’ll vote for her too.

You know Mudflats must be an addiction if it is the first thing I think of when I wake up in the middle of the night….

texasbrian – i feel the same way you do. i wish i could leave, but family needs prevent it. what i should do is move to austin or san antonio. a better change from north texas.