Thought this was cool. Enjoy.

This is an a capella group from Slovenia named Perpetuum Jazzile, conducted by Tomaž Kozlevčar.

The musical selection for this post is the original version of Africa by Toto.

A special message from Carlos...

Vote Today!

Voting locations from the Herald.

District 1

Precinct 6 - Brownsville Learning Academy, 1351 E. Polk St., Brownsville Precincts 10, 69, 70 - Cromack Elementary, 3200 E. 30th St., Brownsville Precincts 37, 45 - J.T. Canales Elementary, 1811 E. 18th St., Brownsville Precinct 77 and part of Precinct 53 - Garza Elementary, 200 Esperanza Road, Brownsville

District 2

Precinct 5 - Victoria Heights Elementary, 2801 E. 13th St., Brownsville Parts of precincts 14, 67, 68, 82, 86 - Rivera High School, 6955 FM 802, Brownsville Precincts 46, 63 - Gonzalez Elementary, 4350 Coffeeport Road, Brownsville Precincts 60, 71 - Perkins Middle School, 4750 Austin Road, Brownsville

District 3

Parts of Precincts 2, 3, 4, 50, 65, 66 - Villarreal Elementary, 7770 E. Lakeside, Olmito Precinct 15 - R.L. Martin Elementary, 1701 Stanford St., Brownsville Precinct 38 - Sharp Elementary, 1439 Palm Blvd., Brownsville Precincts 47, 49, 76 - Stell Middle School, 1105 Los Ebanos St., Brownsville Precincts 61, 72, 73 and parts of Precincts 54 and 74 - Burns Elementary, 1974 Alton Gloor Road, Brownsville

District 4

Precincts 11, 12, 13 - Russell Elementary, 800 Lakeside, Brownsville Precincts 7, 8, 9 - Annie Putegnat Elementary, 730 E. Eighth St., Brownsville Parts of precincts 16, 17, 48 - Yturria Elementary, 2955 W. Tandy Road, Brownsville Precinct 62A, parts of Precincts 62 and 75 - Pace High School, 314 W. Los Ebanos Blvd., Brownsville

Onion: Should Government Stop Dumping Money Into Giant Hole?

From the Onion

Hillary gives papal ascent to damage control? Picture and story below.

This is in response to the indictment of a retired State Department worker and his wife who are alleged to have spied for the Cubans for 30 years. Full story at FOXNews

June 3rd's Colbert Report Funny

Farewell Carlos!

Candidate Campaign Finance Reports

At-Large "B"

Roman Perez
Dr. Rose M. Z. Gowen
Carlos C. Ayala
Alberto Velez

District 3

Carlos A. Cisneros
Melissa Zamora
Moses Sorola

District 4

Roberto Uresti
Edward Camarillo
Edward Camarillo (Revised)
Argelia Miller

Commentary to follow shortly. Revision on Camarillo's Campaign Finance Report due to Mr. Camarillo not signing and notarizing the second page by the time I picked up the reports on Tuesday the 14th. I received the revised (i.e.: signed and notarized) report on Friday the 17th. Also, I redacted all addresses and phone numbers off the reports for privacy reasons, except in the case of out of town entries. In that case, the city of the entry isn't redacted. BTW, a special thanks goes to the Mero. Not for any particular reason, just felt like name dropping.

This speaks for itself.

This is the picture that comes to mind every time I see Charlie picking his teeth.
Oh, and the sound that comes to mind...

"Dueling Banjos" from the Deliverance Soundtrack.

Commission Meeting: Ahumada spanks Chosy

Now Presenting: The Bumblin' Bunch

A little gift I threw together for our Commission.

Woman's SUV Broken into in Guerra Funeral Home Parking Lot

I went to a funeral this evening for a good friend's mother at Guerra Funeral Home. While at the funeral, my friend's daughter-in-law's SUV was broken into by a individual who broke her window with a dark, metal object. The robber stole her purse out of the SUV, that had her Check Books and Credit Cards. The robber was described as a Hispanic Male of average height (say around 5' 10"), of medium build who sped off in a dark teal Honda Civic, with temporary Tags reading March 10, when seen by on lookers. My friend's daughter-in-law filed a police report and I will post the details of it when I get it. My friend lent his daughter-in-law one of his cars to drive back to Houston so her children can attend school on Monday, while her SUV is repaired here. Unconfirmed reports state that the robber was scouring the parking lot for a vulnerable item possibly up to an hour and a half before the break in. This is truly saddening.

Announcement: Flake knows your IP address and every IP address of every Burger King.

February 14th, 2009

Brownsville, Texas — The peace of this, once quaint, border town has gone out the window. We have reports that the IP address of every Burger King has been discovered.

We interviewed a high ranking Burger King official, known as "The King", and he told us: "We can't believe our IP addresses have been compromised! Quit chuckling! This is serious! Under each Burger King lies a dormant thermonuclear warhead."

We checked this source and discovered that all Burger Kings were equipped with these devices in order to eliminate competition from McDonald's and its allies.

Burger King, in late 2008, hired somebody to set the launch codes to all of Burger King's thermonuclear devices and they chose the IP address of the restaurant as that code.

"Without launch instructions the devices will explode inside every Burger King on the planet when someone enters each launch code into the address bar of any modern Web Browser. This is the last time we hire Charlie for anything! He left the book with all our IP addresses on table in one of our restaurants, again.", said The King.

A bystander, named Ronald, expressed joy at the prospect of imminent desruction of all Burger King restaurants stating, "That'll show those bastards! We hear they even got the IP addresses of the new Burger King restaurants in Bucharest, Ilulissat, and Phnom Penh. They don't even have the internet, yet! So much for those Whopper Virgins."

President Barack Obama addressed the nation moments ago with these historic words, "America has fallen on tulmutious and uncertain times in light of this incident. I recommend all Americans purchase brown slacks, like I have done."

Moments after this announcement, Levi Strauss stock, which until now was non-existent, skyrocketed in a matter of minutes. Local merchant Sofa King gnarled, "This is Sofa King horrible! I put all my money in white slack futures."

The crisis has also effected the Legal system. Every customer of every Burger King restaurant world wide has been sued. A local blogger quipped, "With Burger King's sales equivalent to that of McDonald's... that's over a million served!" Another unnamed person, behind the blogger panickedly said, "That eSurance chick is gonna freak when she hears about all the paper used in these Lawsuits! Her pink hair will turn white, I tells ya."

Religious leaders are preparing for the imminent doom by running in the streets yelling, "Save yourselves, we're all screwed!"

A Physics Professor from M.I.T. said, "This could effect the space-time fabric, which could lead to absolute chaos on Earth. Up would become down, left would become right, and all physics professors would be unemployed." When asked what are the chances that this crisis will lead to anything, the professor stated, "In certain realities this would be very grave, indeed. However, in this reality it means that a flake has a bunch of meaningless IP addresses. Hey, reality matters." We asked him if there was need to worry, he said, "Only if your that eSurance chick."

The musical selection to this post is, "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by R.E.M.

A letter from Roman Perez

From: brownsvillevoice.blogspot.com
Thursday, February 12, 2009

TROIANI's PATHETIC ATTEMPT AT SPIN WAS INSULTING - BUT FIRST A KUDOS TO JUDGE ALEJANDRO AND A SNIPPET ON BISD

"A side note which I will probably regret mentioning. Several months ago Roman Perez told the city commission he lived in Southmost. Then a few weeks ago during the debate concerning World Gym which is on 802 he told the commission he lived near World Gym. Last night he told the commission he lives in Southmost. I do not care where he lives - but he surely cannot live on 802 near World Gym and in Southmost at the same time."

Posted by BobbyWC at 9:33 PM

Mr. Robert "Bobby" Wightman,

For the record, I never stated I lived near FM 802. You are apparently attempting to besmirch my name in writing and mislead your readership into believing Roman Perez is a liar.

I am glad you were paying attention. You recall, quite well, where I said I lived in Brownsville. Never in the following transcript do I claim to live anywhere near FM 802 as you claim out of left field. The only reference to my property is about an off-premises special use permit which is not what the owners of the World Gym were applying for. It is therefore obvious that I was speaking about a previous public hearing.

Transcript from January 6, 2008 meeting with World Gym public hearing:

Roman Perez: I kinda wanted to talk about the other one, which is actually close to my property. But thank you Commissioner Longoria for mentioning that it was already using the off premise site. I'm actually concerned because it is so close to Dana Street. The city has been urging for a traffic light.

Charlie Atkinson: That's coming (cross talk) coming

Perez: Oh no I know that. But it's kinda ironic and almost slightly hypocritical for this city to approve an alcohol permit so close not only an aquatic center with BISD is there but also with Dana Street where we have had many deaths due to drunk driving. I know that Rack Daddy's is right next door, but I think that Rack Daddy's has been around a little be longer than the more recent deaths that happened on Dana Street. I'm not 100% sure if I am accurate on that but I'm thinking I am. But that's just my concern. So well that's just my concern.

Atkinson: Duly noted. Thank you.

You claim not to care where I live, yet you still have to post about it. The only logical conclusion for any of your readers is to think you are painting me as a liar and hypocritic. If you don't care, why would you write about it?

I cannot help but wonder if you are trying to locate me in an attempt to harm me, my property, or my family. You claim not to care where I live, but you do care where my friend James Zavaleta lives.

You called my character into question outright on your blog, therefore, damaging my reputation.

Since I know you read Mr. Zavaleta's blog regularly being that your IP address is the same as when you posted your desire to sue him. I demand that you remove your disparaging remarks instantor. If it is not removed, I may seek council.

Sincerely,
Roman Perez

[Editor's note: I checked the video for the 6th January, 2009 Commission Meeting and the public hearing comment by Mr. Roman Perez can be found starting at 35:08 through 35:51 on the video of the Commission Meeting on Café Brownsville.]

Atkinson to Mayor: Hit me baby!

Charlie Atkinson told Pat Ahumada, he is tired of the latter attacking his fellow Commissioners, whom the former sees as his children. He wants the mayor to hit him with his attacks.

Charlie's true thoughts to Pat summed up in writing:

Charlie's loneliness (on the Commission) is killing him
He must confess, he still believes,
When he's not with you he loses his mind.
Give him a sign,
Hit him Pat, one more time.

In honor of charlie's demand, the musical selection to this post is "Baby, One More Time" by Britney Spears.