“They’re cooped up and locked up in the Capitol.” – Texas Governor Greg Abbott threatens to arrest Democratic members of the Texas House who have left the state to break the quorum to keep the House from enacting new voting rules. (Monday, Texas Grandstand)
“We’ll be here for a long time. It’s worth the sacrifice. It doesn’t just wake up the people in the Senate. It wakes the general public up to what is going on. You will be surprised how many people don’t know what’s going on in politics. ”- Rep Alma Allen, D-Houston (Tuesday, The Dallas Morning News)
“What you see from the Democrats here is a political ploy. And I say it’s ironic, when they got on their private jet to fly to Washington, DC, they almost certainly had to identify themselves to get on that jet. “- Senator Ted Cruz (Wednesday, Fox News)
“Texas Democrats left the state to fight for the right to vote. Ted Cruz left the state to sip drinks on a Cancun beach. I’d sit it out, Ted. ”- Julián Castro, Former US Secretary for Housing and Urban Development (Wednesday, Twitter)
“This is absolutely a candidate market.” – Mark Malone, a Dallas-based senior regional vice president for recruitment agency Robert Half. He estimates that there are almost twice as many vacancies as there are applicants. (Tuesday, Dallas Morning News)
“All of the REvil sites are down, including the payment sites and the data leak site. The ransomware gang public representative, Unknown, is strangely silent. ”- Lawrence Abrams, author of the information security blog BleepingComputer, on the disappearance of a gang of cybercriminals who attacked a meat supplier and software company. (Wednesday, CNN)
“I have to come in and see a line to check out. But I have mixed feelings about it. I know how to do the self-checkout, but at the same time they paid at a checkout and now we’re doing it ourselves. ”- Kayla Evans from Plano, who went shopping at a Walmart Supercenter in Plano that is testing self-service. (Friday, Dallas Morning News)
“Because it helps dispel inherent beliefs that sharks are voracious, mindless, man-eating monsters.” – Leonardo Guida, shark researcher with the Australian Marine Conservation Society and part of a movement among shark scientists to change the language of the public to describe shark attacks. They resent the word “attack” and prefer “interactions” or “encounters”. (Wednesday, The Sydney Morning Herald)
“The challenges of starbase operations left us no choice but to move engine production to McGregor.” – Elon Musk, why he will build a rocket engine manufacturing facility near Waco rather than on his starbase campus in Boca Chica. Musk dreams of his spaceships carrying people to build a city on Mars as he struggles to build a city in the Rio Grande Valley. (Saturday, Dallas Morning News)
“I’d rather call it a hotel art aesthetic. It’s the most anonymous art I can imagine. It’s somewhere between a screen saver and if you just google ‘mid-century abstraction’ and mix everything up. ”- Scott Indrisek, former editor-in-chief of Modern Painters magazine and former assistant editor at Artsy, on Hunter’s paintings Biden. The New York gallery that sells its paintings will keep transaction details confidential to avoid ethical questions about why a “hotel art aesthetic” painting could fetch $ 500.00. (July 8, Washington Post)
“I want everyone in South Carolina and all of America to know that Chick fil-A is back. I hope we don’t have to, but I’ll go to war for the principles Chick fil-A stands for. Great food. Good service. Great values. God bless Chick fil-A! ”- Senator Lindsey Graham, in response to a controversy at the University of Notre Dame about whether the fast food chain can open a restaurant on campus. Not a word on whether the Senator’s Twitter account was hijacked by a couple of cows pushing their manifesto: “Eat mor chikin.” (Thursday, Twitter)
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