October 31, 2017

These threads have value

I found five or so more brand new accounts -- less than 100 posts -- that had to be put on 'ignore'.

The Russians did not steal the election, did not hack the election. They certainly tried to.

if you're truly losing sleep about your vote not counting, your concerns need to be placed with electronic voting machines. GUESS WHAT WOULD STOP HACKING!? PAPER BALLOTS!!!1!

October 31, 2017

He'll be replaced by

someone even worse.

October 31, 2017

Potential buyers listed

here:

http://austin.culturemap.com/news/innovation/10-31-17-austin-american-statesman-now-up-for-sale-cox-media/

-- Gannett, which owns USA Today and more than 100 other daily newspapers around the country. In Texas, Gannett owns the daily newspapers in Abilene, Corpus Christi, San Angelo, and Wichita Falls.

-- GateHouse Media, which owns 125 daily newspapers. Although it doesn’t own any media outlets here, GateHouse’s Center for News & Design is located in Austin. The center, which employs more than 240 people, carries out design and editing functions for more than 250 daily and weekly newspapers, including the Dallas Morning News (which GateHouse does not own) and the features sections of the Statesman.

-- Hearst Newspapers, which publishes 24 daily newspapers in the U.S., including the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News.

-- A wealthy investor like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, who bought The Washington Post in 2013.

October 31, 2017

Andrew White is anti-choice

If any of you know or are friends with Aimee Boone Cunningham on Facebook, she explains this in detail. Cecile Richards also thanked her for that information in the same comment string.

White is a non-starter for Democrats. The best thing he can do is run with Joe Straus on an independent ticket. Otherwise ...

October 31, 2017

Cox will sell Austin American Statesman

https://t.co/r0KgI0L7ZT

My take. as a former newspaper executive for Hearst, is that the company may be the strongest contenders for this paper as they already own the Houston, San Antonio, Beaumont, Midland, Laredo, and Plainview dailies and a ton of weeklies in nearly every one of those markets.

They -- or anybody else who buys it -- will pay full price, as there is no hotter market in the US. Austin was recently ranked at the top of the list in the chase for Amazon's HQ2.

https://austin.curbed.com/2017/10/19/16505264/austin-amazon-headquarters-hq2-bid

October 28, 2017

And was a Trump adviser only briefly

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/05/former-cia-director-james-woolsey-quits-trump-transition-team/

October 28, 2017

Hard to have confidence in close polling

especially when Republicans are the ones trailing.

October 26, 2017

Oh that awful red Texas

of which I've read so many insults here.

October 25, 2017

And from so many

new accounts.

October 25, 2017

Republican Senators voted against disaster relief

Senators voted 82-17 on the House-passed measure, which includes help for the response to a string of wildfires and trio of hurricanes.

Each of the 17 "no" votes came from Republicans, including Sens. Bob Corker (Tenn.), Jeff Flake (Ariz.) and Mike Lee (Utah), among others.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/356993-senate-sends-disaster-relief-bill-to-trumps-desk