The Texas Progressive Alliance is all about the wassailing as it brings you this week's blog roundup.
Off the Kuff has a look at
candidate filings in Harris County as of what was once the deadline date.
BossKitty at
TruthHugger sees the grim side of a corporate-ruled America; the
climate change controversy may be a conspiracy and we are the targets.
BlueBloggin notes that special interests are really not very special when they represent the mindless, dangerous attitudes of corporate extremists who don't want to be accountable for their actions.
Let Me Sell you A Lie: EPA Consequences of HR 10 aka the REINS Act shows that corporations really do own America's lawmakers.
Bay Area Houston calls
Rick Perry one rotten bastard.
Death sentences and the use of the death penalty are at a record low, mostly because of the corruption and injustice in our criminal justice system. It's led WCNews at
Eye On Williamson to wonder:
is the death penalty dying?
Third-party presidential candidates may
make some noise and perhaps even some news in 2012, writes PDiddie at
Brains and Eggs.
At
TexasKaos, Libby Shaw gives us the heads-up on the latest episode of Rick Perry, fraud and hypocrite. Check out
Double Dipping Rick the Hypocrite.
CouldBeTrue of
South Texas Chisme notes
Greg Abbott asked the
US Supreme Court to poop on Texas' politicians and voters. That's a Republican for you.
Neil at
Texas Liberal wrote
a post considering the life of the real St. Nicholas. Jolly old St. Nick was a foe of the death penalty who was said to have brought back to life children who had been cut up and were going to be pickled.
McBlogger takes on PolitiFact's pathetic attempt to
beat up Congressman Lloyd Doggett.
Refinish69 from
Doing My Part For The Left wonders
Do They Know It's Christmas in Washington ... or anywhere else in the world.