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If you’re tired of summer re-runs and looking for some cheap entertainment tonight, head over to the WDL blog.
I’ll be blogging from the Waxahachie City Council’s budget workshop (if all goes as planned).
Usually budget hearings can be a bit dull and slow, but I’ll try to liven it up for all you folks at home.

Before he left the paper, I believe Eric was working on a story or two regarding Jerry Lee Lewis.
I just found this while doing separate research on Wikipedia:

His (Lewis’) mother enrolled him in Southwestern Assemblies of God University, Waxahachie, Texas, secure in the knowledge that her son would now be exclusively singing his songs to the Lord. But legend has it that the he tore into a boogie-woogie rendition of “My God Is Real” at a church assembly that sent him packing the same night. Pearry Green (then president of the student body) related how during a talent show Jerry played some “worldly” music. The next morning the dean of the school called both Jerry and Pearry into his office to expel them both. Jerry then said that Pearry shouldn’t be expelled because “he didn’t know what I was going to do.” Years later Pearry asked Jerry “Are you still playing the devil’s music?” Jerry replied “Yes, I am. But you know it’s strange, the same music that they kicked me out of school for is the same kind of music they play in their churches today. The difference is, I know I am playing for the devil and they don’t.”

I was thinking about school finance tonight (for some really odd reason) and thought of this new way to help school finance… what do yall think? Let’s think out of the box here.

Sponsored text books. We already have ads all over our the school stadiums and on score boards. And companies already pay money to have their logo and ad slapped on the text book covers. Why not sell advertising space within the books themselves. Then the publishers can give the books to the schools for virtually nothing and still reap major profits. We could even sell the wrap around ads like you see on DART buses on school buses and on lockers.

My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.”
– Unknown

I haven’t been able to load my page today. Not sure why. The RSS feed is still up – for those of you who have advanced in your blog reading ;-).
Sorry if you’re having trouble. Hopefully it will be back up soon.

Capital Annex reports on an article in the Houston Chronicle, listing Independent candidate for Texas Grandma’s many flip-flops:

On The Trans Texas Corridor:

• 2000: Strayhorn in a review of the Texas Department of Transportation recommended toll roads: “Building highways through toll financing rather than pay-as-you-go financing dramatically speeds the time it takes to complete a given project.”
• Now: “I am adamantly opposed to this massive toll plan,” Strayhorn said. “Rick Perry calls it Trans-Texas Corridor. I call it Trans-Texas Catastrophe, and as governor, I will blast it off the bureaucratic books.”

On Vouchers:

• Before: Won election as comptroller in 1998 with the help of a $950,000 loan from voucher advocate James Leininger. Strayhorn said she supported vouchers as a means of giving parents a choice when their children were trapped in failing schools.
• January: “When I’ve talked about vouchers; philosophically I wouldn’t have a problem with that for disadvantaged kids. But let me tell you what, that was before we had five years of this administration that is absolutely totally dismantling our public school system day by day.”
• Early February: “I will veto any type of legislation that puts a single dollar into any voucher program, period.”
• Late February: “I’m not saying I would never support them. I’m saying that I would take vouchers off the table for discussion. No more talk until we address the needs of public schools.”

On A Woman’s Right To Choose:

• 1985: “She refused to discuss her position on abortion.” — Austin American-Statesman
“She has been pro-choice on abortion, although she now says she opposes abortion personally and would rule out tax dollars for its practice, except in cases of rape incest or where the mother’s life is threatened.” — Christian Science Monitor
• 1990s: Signed pledges for the Republican National Coalition for Life to oppose abortion and told Greater Austin Right to Life that she supported overturning the Supreme Court decision allowing abortions.
• Now: “I have made my position very clear. As a mama and a grandmama, I believe in the sanctity of life, but I understand that there are those heartbreaking situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.”

Is it still unclear to anyone that Carole Keeton Strayhorn has no positions except those which are most politically expediant at the given moment she opens her mouth?