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CannonFodder posted:He already has the Southeast Asia thread, because he thought Houston wasn't hot and humid enough. Love ya ReindeerF! "A tremendous amount of fuckall" is an excellent way to describe Amarillo, Lubbock and anything else in the panhandle. I feel like El Paso is this huge enigma to most Texans, despite it being a big city. Edit: Add this to OP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JREkqCvLzSo PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Jun 18, 2014 |
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Swan Oat posted:Looks like it went good. Whatever led to Perry making that face and Obama laughing his rear end off must have been an iceburn for the ages.
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Jul 10, 2014 07:27
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computer parts posted:http://engineering.tamu.edu/25by25 This is gonna gently caress things up so badly that your degree will retroactively be worth less. Perry's gonna try to do something similar to UT once Powers is ousted 
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Jul 16, 2014 20:19
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Nonsense posted:Every candidate, every governor's race has been described as "energizing the party, you gotta give credit to (him/her)!" Yup, every four years like clockwork "Well, Chris Bell/Bill White/Wendy Davis might have lost, but s/he did better than anybody expected, and that gives the Democrats something to build on going forward!"
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Jul 16, 2014 21:46
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Xarthor posted:Between the recent Perry news and a recent Reuters poll showing Wendy 8 points behind Abbott any of you starting to think her win is completely out of the realm of possibility? I don't see anything about when the trial is scheduled, but if Abbott pardons Perry, it'll hurt him. Hell, I gotta imagine just having the most powerful Republican in the state on trial helps Davis a lot. Not only will there be a lot of focus on corruption in the current administration, but it'll keep Perry from doing as much campaigning for Abbott.
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Aug 16, 2014 02:20
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zoux posted:That this would be the ruling is obvious because it is impossible to devise a school finance system that meets the requirements of the Texas constitution. Why's that?
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Aug 28, 2014 20:45
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Yeah, they'll never implement an income tax. Can the state sales tax be diverted to education?
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Aug 28, 2014 21:09
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Isn't there some weird quirk of Texas history where the Legislature didn't like the governor at one point and took away a lot of his power and gave it to the Lt. Gov.? So the Lt. Gov. is more powerful than the Gov.?
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Sep 20, 2014 04:58
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Badger of Basra posted:Yes, until the governor has been in power for 14 years and appointed everyone in the state. Yeah, but the race for Lt. Gov. will actually mean something this cycle, and god help us if noted crazyman Dan Patrick wins.
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Sep 20, 2014 05:07
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zoux posted:As we predicted, the Fifth issued a stay that means the Voter ID requirements will be in place for the November elections. Any chance of the Supreme Court revoking the 5th's stay?
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Oct 14, 2014 23:42
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e_angst posted:Basically expected it to happen. Now I'm just hoping it backfires and results in married Republican women not getting to vote since their names won't match properly with the state records. What makes you think white women are going to get their IDs challenged?
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Oct 20, 2014 06:40
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Other states don't do state pledges? Oh, Texas
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Jan 19, 2015 23:08
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Lt. Gov. Patrick made the Senate committee appointments, cutting down the Democratic leaders from 6 of 18 to 2 of 14. Notably, Patrick paid back some political poo poo by cutting the one Republican who didn't vote for the 3/5ths rule from his leadership post and adding the one Democrat who did vote for it to a leadership post. Also, the Senate Natural Resources Committee is now the Senate Natural Resources and Economic Development Committee, so let that just tell you where this session is going.
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Jan 24, 2015 08:24
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So the open-carry activists have a new thing to push. They're rallying tomorrow foropen carrying handguns WITHOUT a license. Also in that story, something I didn't know before now, the Texas Legislature isn't allowed to pass bills for the first 60 days of session unless the governor tells them there's an urgent budgetary matter. What the gently caress is up with the Texas Constitution? Legislature only meets every other year and then they have to sit on their hands for 60 of their 140 days?
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Jan 26, 2015 09:54
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Lawmakers are going to try again on a texting-while-driving ban that Rick Perry vetoed last time it passed. Abbott hasn't taken a position, and I think he's hoping the Lege just won't pass it this time.quote:During last year’s campaign, Abbott spokesman Matt Hirsch said he “supports laws already in place that prohibit cellphone use by young drivers and in school zones; but he is against additional government mandates that micromanage adult driving behavior.”
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Feb 4, 2015 09:34
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1stGear posted:I assume this is a stay on the marriage license? Boy, I sure hope this doesn't hit national news and make the TSC look like massive suppurating assholes! The attorney general says he'll seek to void it.
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Feb 19, 2015 23:53
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ReidRansom posted:Can he do that? It was legally issued as far as anyone can tell at the moment. I have no idea, but he's going to try. I would imagine there's some method of doing it if a clerk accidentally gives a polygamist a license for his third wife.
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Feb 20, 2015 01:48
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ReidRansom posted:Some douche filed a bill trying to make it illegal to record cops, ahahhahaha. But I don't have the details handy. Here it is quote:Dallas Rep. Jason Villalba filed a bill that would make it a Class B misdemeanor for anyone but news media to record police within 25 feet, or within 100 feet if the person carries a handgun. The proposal would exempt from the law members of the traditional news media — including newspapers, magazines and licensed radio and television stations — who could be as close as 10 feet away.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Literally everyone wants to record cops. Minorities want to record to have proof when some cop slams their head into the hood of their car, crazy white libertarians want to record them as proof of the GOVERNMENT THUGS HARASSING FREEMEN, democrats want to record them because of opposing police militarization, republicans want to record them because they're agents of the state, literally everyone wants these rules. Police should want body cameras because they'll disprove false allegations of abuse, but strangely, for some reason, cops mostly seem to oppose them.
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House Votes to Defund HIV Prevention to Pay for Abstinence Education
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The House finally passed a budget. Naturally, they defeated an amendment that would cost basically nothing that would study whether there's a gender pay gap with state employees. I can't find a reason why, but I'm gonna imagine it's "lol gently caress them broads."
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Badger of Basra posted:I see after all the talk about how lovely all the state facilities are, they decided to take money away from the Facilities Commission. Gotta keep $5 billion in reserve for tax "relief".
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Apr 3, 2015 04:54
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Well this is awful: Texas Bill Would Name Judges Who Give Minors Permission to Have Abortions
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Oh hey, some Republican proposed an Indiana-style religious freedom law.
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Apr 8, 2015 09:36
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The Senate voted to move the office that investigates corruption. They're going to "depoliticize" the agency by having the Texas Rangers do the investigating and then refer the charges to the district attorneys in the lawmakers' home districts, which could never possibly have any politicization at all. I'm sure all the district attorneys will jump at the chance to indict a powerful local figure. They did this because the corruption unit indicted Rick Perry.
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zoux posted:Seriously, look into poo poo before you post, left wing conspiracy theories are just as ignorant and ridiculous as right wing ones. Eh, fine I got that fact of who did the indicting wrong, but it's still stemming from the Lege having an axe to grind over the Perry indictment. Wouldn't it be an even farther-reaching conspiracy if they've been looking to take down the office since Ronnie Earle indicted Tom DeLay? That was a decade ago. This is beside the point anyway. It's a step in the wrong direction that will result in DAs quashing corruption charges.
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zoux posted:What's more concerning, imo, is that it's up in the air about who is going to investigate and prosecute gas tax and insurance fraud. Like 95% of what the PIU does are those cases, and since they had their legs cut out from under them, they've been returning those cases to the local jurisdictions where they've happened. Those places often lack the resources and expertise to get convictions. I mean, they once in a blue moon indict a public official, but as usual the much more important but less interesting day-to-day stuff goes unnoticed. The Chronicle says that unit will still handle those cases, but the Senate isn't giving them any money to fund those investigations. I don't know how much that affects the office's overall budget situation.
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Quote of the day: "This is a bill that puts in place litigation from one coast in the state of Texas to the other." -- State Rep.. Sylvester Turner (D-Houston) on the ban on cities passing fracking bans.
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Also, the insurance reform plan they're trying to pass is godawful and geared mostly at loving consumers. Here's a lowlight:quote:He added that one provision of the bill would require an insured person to sign an affidavit swearing to her amount of damages. In some cases, she might face liability and potential criminal prosecution over it, said Ellis. This isn't just for people trying to scam with false damages; it includes when a third-party screws up an estimate (or the court just decides the insurer's lowball estimate is the right one). PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 10:38 on Apr 18, 2015 |
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So Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick invited some Tea Party folks to be part of his "Grassroots Advisory Panel" so he could keep in touch with the word on the street or something. And yesterday they did something deeply stupid:quote:Yesterday, that Grassroots Advisory Board fired off a letter to the Texas Senate decrying one of Gov. Greg Abbott's top priorities for the session -- funding quality pre-K programming -- as a socialist, godless plot to break up Texas families.
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zoux posted:Fun poo poo, the worst rep at the Capitol, Jonathan Stickland, he of the "former fetus" and associated bullshit, got tossed from House Transpo last night.  quote:Earlier Thursday, Pickett and Stickland had a run-in on the House floor when Stickland used parliamentary procedures to remove a proposal by Pickett from consideration for the day. 
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sithwitch13 posted:As I was driving home from work today (north 45 out of Galveston) I saw some people presumably protesting Jade Helm on one of the overpasses. I say "presumably" because they didn't have a sign; it was two guys holding up flags. The Texas and "Come and take it" flag were upright and the US flag was tilted down at an angle. This could be anything though. Just another Tuesday hanging out on the overpass with a Gadsen flag.
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May 6, 2015 08:42
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Trabisnikof posted:Glad to see the ledg taking up the critical issues: In other mean-spirited legislation, the House is gonna pass a bill banning local governments from following the Supreme Court's ruling allowing gay marriages when it comes down. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/anti-gay-measure-set-to-pass-in-texas-house
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May 13, 2015 08:12
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zoux posted:Oh and hey we're out of exceptional drought for the first time in three years All that had to happen was flooding Houston. Let's make it a 5-year tradition.
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May 14, 2015 19:40
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Parachute posted:How the poo poo does something like this even work? Man I really hate Sharia law. I imagine they'll try to penalize the first clerk who follows the Supreme Court's ruling, and then that penalty will get rather quickly tossed by various judges.
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May 14, 2015 20:00
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Oh what a surprise, the language saying police can't stop people just for open carrying got stripped out of the open-carry bill. Good luck exercising your new rights, blacks.
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Lege passed restrictions on the judicial bypass for abortion for minors.
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I haven't seen Paxton or Abbott actually order anyone to ignore the gay marriage ruling. They seem to be saying, "Well, you county clerks can take the heat if you want to," which is just a total cop out way of backing down. It won't take long before a clerk faces a civil-rights lawsuit.
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blackguy32 posted:I'm surprised that our idiot county clerk Kara Sands started issuing marriage licenses in Nueces County. But then again, I guess most people realize that the writing is on the wall at this point. Yeah, a couple of days ago she said she was going to wait on word from the AG. We have a lawsuit.
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