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The Treadmil Dance

I think I’m late on this one, but this is a great creative music video by OK GO.

Walker sent along this link.

The world’s first ban on overly thin models at a top-level fashion show in Madrid has caused outrage among modeling agencies and raised the prospect of restrictions at other venues.
Madrid’s fashion week has turned away underweight models after protests that girls and young women were trying to copy their rail-thin looks and developing eating disorders.

Walker wants an Amen. I say Hoorah!

A couple Susan Combs for State Comptroller have started popping up around town. They look really good. So far I’m impressed with the signs I’ve seen.
Jim Pitts has a great sign (he’s had it for a while now).
Chuck Beatty has a great red, white and blue sign.
And Susan Combs has a great blue and silver sign.

Today’ ethics question: How is it that we judge practices in other cultures as undesireable without simply applying our own standards?

Pope Benedict XVI weighed in Tuesday on the delicate issue of rapport between Islam and the West: He said that violence, embodied in the Muslim idea of jihad, or holy war, is contrary to reason and God’s plan, while the West was so beholden to reason that Islam could not understand it.

Democratic candidate for State Representative for District 10, Kerry Horn, has joined with AARP and others in calling on the state legislature to stop the “raiding” of a fund established to assist Texas’ working poor, elderly and disabled pay their utility bills.
Horn said the raiding is a “breach of trust” and is calling for the Legislative Budget Board to use its authority to make spending adjustments between sessions of the legislature to restore available funds.
“The legislative leadership has used this dedicated fund as a piggy bank that can be raided and depleted, to fund whatever they wish, with apparent disregard for the Texans eligible to be assisted by the fund,” Horn said.
The low-income discount program was created as part of the state’s electric deregulation effort of 1999 and was established through fees collected by residential electric providers from residential electric customers
At one time, more than a half a million qualified Texans received discounts of 10 percent or more on their electricity bills.
Since the initiation of the program, successive legislative sessions have reduced the funds in the program to fund other budgetary requests in the general fund.
Yet utility companies have continued to collect the fees from residential electricity customers to send to the program.
There are now approximately $256 million of non-allocated funds in the state’s treasury designated to a program the Legislature has not funded.