http://www.bluebloggin.com Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:40:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's Fourth of July week, and so it's time for an extra-patriotic rendition of the Texas Progressive Alliance blog roundup. Off the Kuff takes a look at the latest Lyceum poll on the Governor and Senate races in Texas. Neil at Texas Liberal suggests that instead of blowing of your fingers lighting ... http://www.bluebloggin.com/2009/06/29/texas-progressive-alliance-%e2%80%93-forth-of-july-week-2009/ It's Monday, the day after the first day of summer, and it's time for another Texas Progressive Alliance blog roundup. President Obama, Bill White, and John Sharp are all in the same sinking DOMA boat. The Texas Cloverleaf comes off of hiatus to tell you why. CouldBeTrue from South Texas Chisme cheers ... http://www.bluebloggin.com/2009/06/23/texas-progressive-alliance-first-day-of-summer-2009/ Her Name Was Neda… Early today, a beautiful young woman, Philosophy Student, Neda Soltani, was demonstrating in Tehran, along with her father. When friction between the Basiji – the brutal packs of militia that patrol the streets of Tehran, beating women and children and students — and the demonstrators broke ... http://www.bluebloggin.com/2009/06/20/icons-and-martyrs-%e2%80%93-all-day-on-twitter-watching-iran/ And that is how it started. Thirty years of frustration boiled over with stolen votes and continued lies. Thirty years ago when the Iranians revolted, this is not the government they expected. Today Iranians live under a theocratic dictatorship. Remember in America, when George Bush and his gang of thieves, stole ... http://www.bluebloggin.com/2009/06/20/citizens-of-the-world-need-to-stand-up-for-iranians/ If the state of Medicare and Veteran's Health Care is an example, of how the US Government runs medical service, the Uninsured American Public should be very afraid.  If I had to choose between high priced arrogant profiteering insurance corporations and uninspired, underpaid, uninterested bureaucratic medical providers, I would hitchhike ... http://www.bluebloggin.com/2009/06/15/va-mismanagement-puts-doubts-on-proposed-government-run-health-care/ It’s Monday, and that means it’s time once again to present the best of the Texas Progressive Alliance blog posts for the week. TXsharon can’t choose one post this week! It’s a toss up between the aerial video view of Barnett Shale Industrial Wasteland Texas or the Barnett Shale drilling induced ... http://www.bluebloggin.com/2009/06/15/texas-progressive-alliance-roundup-%e2%80%93-june-15-2009/ ‘Act of cowardice’ says museum shooter James von Brunn’s son The son of the bigot who stormed the U.S. Holocaust Museum issued an apology yesterday to the family of slain guard Stephen Johns – and he called his father’s actions “unforgivable.” Erik von Brunn said father James von Brunn’s racist and anti-Semitic views ... http://www.bluebloggin.com/2009/06/13/scapegoat-lessons-holocaust-museum-%e2%80%98act-of-cowardace%e2%80%99/ It’s Monday, and that means it is time for another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance’s weekly round-up. Neil at Texas Liberal writes about the relocation of the National Cash Register company from Dayton, Ohio to Georgia. Treating people like dirt for 200 years gives Southern states an advantage in creating ... http://www.bluebloggin.com/2009/06/08/texas-progressive-alliance-roundup-%e2%80%93-june-8-2009/ This week from the Texas Progressive Alliance blogs, emission from drilling are more than cars and airports, women are running things in Denton County, Liberty University Democrats lose their recognition, President Obama’s political coalition leaves out the far-right and the poor, and much more on this weeks TPA Roundup. This week’s ... http://www.bluebloggin.com/2009/06/01/texas-progressive-alliance-roundup-%e2%80%93-june-1-2009/ If It’s Really Bad, Ship It to West Texas – The PCBs of the Hudson River Heading to Texas, Hudson’s Toxic Mud Stirs Town:  NY Times May 31, 2009 EUNICE, N.M. — There are not many towns in America that would welcome the 2.5 million cubic yards of toxic sludge being ... http://www.bluebloggin.com/2009/05/31/rick-perry-and-friends-welcome-toxic-burritos/