Dan Patrick (not the sport announcer) is Texas State Senator and Radio Talk Show Host.

It is said around the Capitol that Dan has an attention deficit disorder, and that’s why he tries to get so much of it.

Second Only to God

Patrick wrote a book entitled, “The Second Most Important Book You Will Ever Read: A Personal Challenge to Read the Bible.” People were a little surprised that he put himself below God, but were reassured to know that he’s still way above Hawthorne,  Melville or Twain.

Dan’s latest camera grabber is this one.   Dan wants private schools, who can recruit and give scholarships based on athletic ability, to be able to compete in UIL sanctioned sports.

A Texas Senate panel has endorsed letting private schools join the University Interscholastic League for all sports and activities except football and basketball.

Tuesday’s vote by the Senate education committee sends the bill to the full Senate for consideration. The measure by Sen. Dan Patrick, a Houston Republican, is the latest effort to let private schools into the UIL, which has been rejected by lawmakers in previous years.

Public schools have resisted allowing private schools into the UIL over fears of recruiting for sports. Patrick has compared the separation to the era of racial segregation.

In case you missed the last sentence, I’m gonna read it out loud to you.  “Patrick has compared the separation to the era of racial segregation.”

Yeah Dan, just like it.  Exactly like it.

Thanks to Web for the heads up.

I want to leave this alone, but I can’t.  I just can’t.

Sarah Palin is writing another book, which means that she might have just finished the one she wrote last time.

HarperCollins has announced Palin’s book, titled “A Happy Holiday IS a Merry Christmas,” will be released in November, according to the Associated Press.

The book will reportedly focus on returning the Christmas holiday back to its religious purpose and downplaying the commercialism that has come to define it.

It will also hit on the popular conservative theme of secular America’s so-called “War on Christmas.”

I have no idea what “A Happy Holiday IS a Merry Christmas” means and I also have no idea why she feels the need to sell books on Little Baby Jesus’s cradle, but I guess it takes what it takes to make money after even Fox News fires you.  Them fingernails ain’t gonna manicure themselves.

By the way, Going Rogue is now selling for a penny.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

In the first case of a hooker having to pay for services, Hannah Giles, the “pretend” pavement princess in the ACORN sting, has had to fork over $50,000 in the lawsuit against her.

Hannah has a local connection.

However, she will always have the Congressional Resolution honoring her by Republican Congressman Pete Olson.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.

Thomas Lewis Edwards, Attorney at Law, decided that this internet advertising thing is a pretty good deal.

Until, of course, he got arrested.  (Click the little one to get the big one.)

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Thanks to Brian for the heads up.

You gotta wonder about this.  Truly, do they believe that saying “I voted against Obamacare 34 times” is going to get them more votes than if they vote against it just 28 times?   Is that the deciding factor on someone’s vote?   Is there someone in America who is saying, “I won’t vote for a congressman who votes against Obamacare under 30 times?

Didn’t we decide this in November?  Didn’t he become one of only 4 Presidents in the last century to win with over 50% of the vote?

The priest at Holy Family Catholic Church in Edinburg, Texas, was arrested this weekend.  He was caught on tape drilling holes in the tires of one of his former parishioners who went to the bishop to ask for help after Father Eusebio Martinez wanted to kiss him on the mouth.

Martin Villanueva says he left Holy Family and went to another church.

“I wrote a letter to the bishop,” Villanueva said. “It made me feel sad because he told me it wouldn’t be right for him to meet with me. Then he tells me only the  authorities that  can fix this situation. The church is very strong with lawyers so that’s why I decided to go to the media.

Next thing he knew, his tires kept getting drill holes.  A man of modest means, Villanueva finally set up a camera to catch whoever was doing it.  And there ya go, the priest.

I guess he wanted to drill Villanueve one way or the other.

And in Houston, there’s more.

A well-known Catholic teacher at St. Thomas High School has resigned after allegations of misconduct. Father Jack Hanna was been with the all-boys school since 1981.

“He has acknowledged that he behaved inappropriately and will be receiving extensive residential treatment at the facility. He has expressed deep regret for any harm caused by his behavior,” the statement said in part.

Since 1981?  That’s 32 years and nobody saw nothin’?  No smoke signals?