h (Rand Simberg) wrote:

:On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 01:51:28 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
(Eric Chomko) made the phosphor on my
:monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
:
:But ISS is run out of JSC in Houston, Texas, which as been solidly
:Republican for a long time now.
:
:Ummm...Eric?
:
:The mayor of Houston is a Democrat.

And the Governor was alternating Democrat and Republican for a long,
long time. GWB was the first Governor reelected to a second term in a
long time.

Ditto Senators. In fact, one of the reasons postulated for the
shutdown of the Superconducting Super Collider project was when Texas
sent a Republican Senator to the Senate to replace a Democrat (leaving
Texas with two Republican Senators). Democrats (who controlled things
at the time) decided to 'punish' Texas for that.

Ditto the House. The Speaker of the House used to be a Democrat from
Fort Worth.

Eric claims to be from Texas. Eric is exceedingly ignorant about
things he ought to know.

--
"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
territory."
--G. Behn