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  • Jeff Lebowski
    Corporate lackey for Jesus
    • Nov 2008
    • 69747

    #241
    Originally posted by frank ryan View Post
    Ken Paxton doesn't help burnish the state's rep as being super law and order. A lot of corruption for a long time.
    Kudos to the state leg for booting him.
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    • BlueK
      Senior Member
      • May 2011
      • 7198

      #242
      Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post

      Kudos to the state leg for booting him.
      The Texas senate still has to vote and it's less clear they'll have the two-thirds needed. Adding to the drama is that his wife is a state senator.

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      • beefytee
        Board eye candy
        • Mar 2009
        • 7542

        #243
        Doesn’t Texas still have some dry counties?

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        • Jeff Lebowski
          Corporate lackey for Jesus
          • Nov 2008
          • 69747

          #244
          Originally posted by BlueK View Post

          The Texas senate still has to vote and it's less clear they'll have the two-thirds needed. Adding to the drama is that his wife is a state senator.
          True. Nonetheless, a rare case of some republicans choosing integrity over party loyalty. Good for them.
          "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
          "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
          "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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          • frank ryan
            Senior Member
            • Nov 2008
            • 12389

            #245
            Originally posted by beefytee View Post
            Doesn’t Texas still have some dry counties?
            I believe so.

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            • fusnik
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2008
              • 4475

              #246
              Can someone in Texas or any conservative explain why Abbott is pardoning Daniel Perry and the legislature is now trying to prosecute the prosecutor who worked on convicting him in the first place?

              A Travis County jury sentenced Perry to 25 years in prison last year, prompting Abbott to ask the state parole board to review his case.


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              • Uncle Ted
                The Big 12 money shot.
                • Apr 2010
                • 28853

                #247
                Originally posted by fusnik View Post
                Can someone in Texas or any conservative explain why Abbott is pardoning Daniel Perry and the legislature is now trying to prosecute the prosecutor who worked on convicting him in the first place?

                A Travis County jury sentenced Perry to 25 years in prison last year, prompting Abbott to ask the state parole board to review his case.

                Yeah, his parole board recommended that the governor pardon him... take it up with them.
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                GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!

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                • BlueK
                  Senior Member
                  • May 2011
                  • 7198

                  #248
                  Those dang Catholics, I don't know, trying to apply the teachings of Christ. Can't have that!

                  Hard for me to understand how so many otherwise fine people are so corrupted by MAGA that they think that a church trying to relieve some suffering is a bad thing.

                  A state judge denied Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's effort to shut down Annunciation House in El Paso, Texas, a Catholic nonprofit serving migrants.

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                  • frank ryan
                    Senior Member
                    • Nov 2008
                    • 12389

                    #249
                    Originally posted by BlueK View Post
                    Those dang Catholics, I don't know, trying to apply the teachings of Christ. Can't have that!

                    Hard for me to understand how so many otherwise fine people are so corrupted by MAGA that they think that a church trying to relieve some suffering is a bad thing.

                    https://www.ncronline.org/news/judge...us-freedom-act
                    I dunno, it's almost just like that stuff that is in the New Testament and Book of Mormon, that a lot of people who shout loudly about being Christian but are angry and mean to sinners and the lower classes, aren't really all that Christian. The meek will inherit the earth not the strong and powerful. Trump rebranding and selling his own Bibles, should be an indication he's not exactly trying to live the message himself.

                    Also, whatever happened to trying to have Paxton removed?

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                    • frank ryan
                      Senior Member
                      • Nov 2008
                      • 12389

                      #250
                      A Texas middle school is trying to kids from wearing all black clothing. It sounds like there is some busybodies who need more productive things to do.


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                      • YOhio
                        Hipster Mode
                        • Nov 2008
                        • 26165

                        #251
                        Originally posted by frank ryan View Post
                        A Texas middle school is trying to kids from wearing all black clothing. It sounds like there is some busybodies who need more productive things to do.


                        https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...n/74708416007/
                        LOL! Because mental health! There is no issue too small or solution too absurd for middle school administrators.

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                        • Pelado
                          Bald not naked
                          • Sep 2010
                          • 21152

                          #252
                          Originally posted by frank ryan View Post
                          A Texas middle school is trying to kids from wearing all black clothing. It sounds like there is some busybodies who need more productive things to do.


                          https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...n/74708416007/
                          Originally posted by YOhio View Post

                          LOL! Because mental health! There is no issue too small or solution too absurd for middle school administrators.
                          Does the school administration not understand that correlation between the students wearing all black and the students who are depressed does not necessarily mean that the all black clothing caused the depression? Could be worse. At least they're not wearing all red.
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                          • frank ryan
                            Senior Member
                            • Nov 2008
                            • 12389

                            #253
                            Originally posted by YOhio View Post

                            LOL! Because mental health! There is no issue too small or solution too absurd for middle school administrators.
                            Also, I think some Texas lawmakers are pushing pastors to be chaplains in place of trained clinicians. It wouldn't involve any threshold for training either. Nothing could go wrong with that.

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                            • BigPiney
                              Huge Member
                              • Nov 2008
                              • 12381

                              #254
                              nobody wants emo or goth kids in their school.

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                              • myboynoah
                                Senior Member
                                • Nov 2008
                                • 21719

                                #255
                                It's about time!

                                Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!

                                For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

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