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Posted at 9:14am on Mar. 25, 2008 Texas Loses Its Mind...Again

By haystack

Governor Rick Perry and his posse are at it again, this time spending Texas money to save us from ourselves over our inability to put down that burrito and back away:

Texas has invested $250,000 for a possible miracle drug to fight obesity.
[...]
To fight obesity, the state has investing in a company that says it's working hard for an injection that cuts body fat quickly.

From a person trained for long, hard work, Greg Galindo, a trainer at Pure Austin Fitness said he's cautious of any drug to take off fat.

"I'm just not in favor of that quick fix" Galindo said. "It may help with the obesity, but would it actually make the person healthier?"

The state is willing to see. It just gave $250,000 to Halsa Pharmaceuticals for its research on an injection that cuts body fat.

The money comes from an emerging technology fund approved by the Legislature in 2005.

For you non-Texans, that "Emerging Technology Fund" has been disrespectfully called Perry's "slush fund" and is frequently used to provide cash incentives (meaning tax breaks) to entice companies to move to Texas. Sounds good on paper, but while taxes inch up at the state and local levels looking for ever-new and wildly creative revenue streams the state still insists on spending NEW money on old problems best solved by changes in personal behavior...

Lest we forget, it was just over a year ago that Perry was trying to line another pharma company's pockets when he ordered cervical cancer vaccines for schoolgirls. Fortunately, Perry's, err, hat was handed to him in the Legislature on that one, but the esteemed "Conservative" (yes, quote-end quote Conservative) Governor seems hell-bent on taking charge of our lives and spending OUR money to do it.

[hand raised from the cheap seats] Isn't personal responsibility and being accountable for our own lives and the actions we take one of the cornerstones of the Conservative ideology?

Here's a thought: Put down the triple meat with cheese Whataburger, and go to the gym.

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Posted at 10:50am on Dec. 14, 2007 Giuliani Unleashes The Dog; Sadly It's A Poodle

and no, rudybots, this is not a hit piece on your guy...so take a deep breath

By haystack

Rudy Giuliani got what was considered at the time a fairly significant endorsement from Texas Governor Rick Perry back in October. There was the general buzz of hushed excitement which suggested, essentially, "so goes the Rickmeister so goes Texas." To that point, we shall see...we shall see.

But Pretty boy Rick was just warming up. Now that he's Rudy's official 'secretary, errand boy, chief cook, bottle washer, and water carrier' in the name of my beloved Lone Star State the Governor is using salary dollars I pay him to run on up to Iowa to be Rudy's toothless pit bull as well. Check that last...I should have said coiffed little toy poodle.

You know, what I think bothers me most about this story is the level of audacity on the part of Mr. Perry (whom I did NOT vote for) to pimp his guy on the back of the sitting President (who Giuliani has continued to talk nice about) and at the same time trash the man who was once his boss and co-conspirator when Bush was Texas Governor.

Look-President Bush will not go down in history as a fiscal Conservative. Nor will his legacy ever indict him for being very good at getting along with the opposition party, but really now-Perry is none of the things he suggests Bush is NOT.

I mean, consider this little morsel:

below the fold, of course...

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