The Evening Brief: Texas Headlines for Aug. 22, 2012
Culled:
• Lubbock Co. Judge warns of potential danger if Obama is re-elected (Fox 34 Lubbock): "Lubbock County Judge Tom Head and Commissioner Mark Heinrich went into great detail Monday night on FOX 34 News @ Nine about why it is necessary to raise the tax rate by 1.7 cents the next fiscal year. … Judge Head said he and the county must be prepared for many contingencies, one that he particularly fears, is if President Obama is reelected. 'He's going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the UN, and what is going to happen ...
Comments (30)
Patsy Painter Hull via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Just when you think you have heard the stupidest thing a republican ciuld say , along comes this idiot.
David Huang via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Batshit fucking stupid.
Cesar Martinez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
seems like the Olympic Games of lunacy and idiocy started and participants are really into it: Akin with his rape/abortion remarks; this County Judge with the UN Invasion; the Congressman from Georgia (Hank Johnson) saying that the island of Guam might 'tip over or capsize' if more Marines are stationed there......
Kimberly Maudine via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What an idiot!
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
TEAxans keep voting for these extremists and believing their ignorant rants. They deserve what they get! Unfortunately the rest of us get drug along too.
Jose B. Gonzalez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I'm all for gun rights - you would have to pry my assault weapons from my cold dead hands, but even I know this guys comments are a bunch of BS. It must be election year...
Bob Atkins via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This might be good time to say - Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP in some places. National sovereignty would be ceded to multi-national corporate interests if our laws prevented them from realizing their profits.
NAFTA on steroids.
Dave Mundy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I love how the leftists resort to vulgarity so quickly rather than simply ask, as I did, why would a county judge say something so absolutely insane -- unless he has some knowledge the rest of us don't?
Jason Stradtner via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Let us know when you guys run out of Obama koolaid
David Huang via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Why would he say something so absolutely insane? Because he's batshit fucking stupid.
Greg Joiner via Texas Tribune on Facebook
IK agree with Dave. He must know something we dont. the full extent of his paranoid delusions or dementia. Does Judge Head believe the United States Military would allow such and invasion.
Aldo Merino via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Dave: Probably because he's a county judge in Lubbock, who would have absolutely no idea about what's going on in the depths of the executive branch, let alone the United Nations. It's a straw man argument based around extreme paranoia. Too much Alex Jones, too little reality.
Or, to put it differently, why would these alleged 'leftists' you refer to resort to vulgarity unless they have some knowledge the rest of us don't?
Ron Blancarte via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Mr Mundy: wait, so we agree that what Tom Head said as "absolutely insane". Your words, not mine, but I 100% agree.
So you ask me to believe that this Mr Head has some knowledge that the rest of us don't. A judge way out in the middle of nowhere, in Lubbock. And he somehow has knowledge no one else has.
I mean, this is the first time anyone has said anything about handing the sovereignty of the United States to the U.N. I haven't heard this from Romney, Paul Ryan, Ron Paul, or any other MAJOR GOP candidate. I mean, if this was something that "insiders" knew, don't you think that Romney of all people would be throwing that out there? After all, he is running against him.
No, I am just going to go with the view that this judge is off his rocker and the reason that "absolutely insane" words come out of this guys mouth is because he is absolutely insane.
Cliff Duhon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The repubs are always laughing at the small powerless UN Army and then they want to say the UN army can take over the USA. Which one is it?
Roland Spickermann via Texas Tribune on Facebook
...or, Mr. Mundy, he is just delusional. I might add that only one of the comments so far could be considered vulgar (but generally accurate), and none could be considered obviously "left" or "right", by any measure. Unless, of course, the ability to recognise nonsense in others is a left-wing trait.
Michael Joseph Donahue via Texas Tribune on Facebook
purdy strange way for a Republican elected official to get another $1.2M out of the taxpayers thru increased taxes...
Harmony Edwards via Texas Tribune on Facebook
You don't have to be leftist to think this guy is off his rocker. His statements are so out there you can't even begin to take him seriously. Sounds like he's just trying to justify his tax increase.
Dave Mundy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I ask about that knowledge because as a journalist I have looked into reports about precisely what the judge is talking about -- the federal government talking about using U.N. rather than U.S. troops to quell an insurrection, should one occur. Recall the training manuals sent to state police in Missouri and elsewhere that were leaked to the public. All I'm saying is, maybe this guy knows something we don't.
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This judge is just another Big Mouth ass who would poop his pants at the first sign of trouble.
The only person more dimwitted may be Dave who thinks this judge may actually have some inside information no one else has.
Dave Fury via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Obama has already been trying to accomplish this...but I would also venture to say that he has not been the first President willing to do so.
We have been selling ourselves out to foreign governments for years.
If we hadn't been, then China and India, for instance, wouldn't be the economic superpowers that they now are...thanks to American ignorance and the willingness to give our livelihoods (such as heavy industry) away arbitrarily.
Dave Mundy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I'm going to gather you're not one of my subscribers Stanley. :)
David Huang via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I doubt he "knows" anything. It sounds like all he's doing is using this ridiculous fear of OBAMA TEH EVIL SOCIALIST getting re-elected to get more funding and/or campaign monies. And read what he said, if Obama is re-elected, there's going to be "civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war maybe". And who would do this? The winning party? Why would they cause civil unrest or start a civil war? Unless the fear is that somehow Obama is going to steal the election, which is even more delusional, conspiracy theories.
Jim Wier via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I think it would be a good idea of the UN occupied Lubbock.
Jennifer White via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Gee, maybe Dave Mundy should share all of his journalistic research with the Texas Tribune so they can report on it to a wider audience and we can all prepare for the coming Obama/UN war on America. Gee. Seems like that kind of information should be more main stream. Oh, wait, it's bull crap.
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
"journalist" in Gonzales; that's rich.
Danny Jones via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Judge Head needs to step down or be relieved of duty while he gets treatment for paranoia and delusional behavior.
Susan Redus Buentello via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Danny, if that were the threshold we'd lose quite a number of the GOP.
Charles Burr via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Good to know the mentally handicapped can still hold public office in Texas. Sad that no one in Lubbock cares that this guy is clearly deranged.
Ward Adams via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Can this fucking guy be more stupid? Hard to believe he's in any sort of leadership role.
David Lee Schnepp via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Another example of Texan leadership.