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Do they object to the fact that the Iroquois Confederacy had MORE to do with the US Constitution than Jeebus?
Texas, WTF ?
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Do they object to the fact that the Iroquois Confederacy had MORE to do with the US Constitution than Jeebus?
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And that hair of his has so much lacquer and shellac...
That's probably not even alluded to in any of the books in the Texas School Book Depository. Moron Oswald should have shot the books, for all they were worth.
And speaking of Texas, North Texas State University's decal NTSU used to be cut and reassembled to read NUTS. Okay, silly, whatever. For several months when the college was expanding in the eighties, I think, their website read "Colleges of the University of North Texas." They changed it before the CUNT decal. You can still buy mugs with UNT lettering and the handle painted the same color as the lettering so the mug spells CUNT. That's Texas!
Look it up.
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Niece has a bachelors from Southwestern U in Georgetown
She and her husband have Masters from UT Austin
They work as bakery managers for H.E.B. because most businesses are biased against the educated.
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I miss HEB, but I don't buy your bit about biased against the educated....I knew quite a few well educated well paid professionals. Many of which were always looking for other well educated pro's to hire, bring onto a team etc. Still talk to a few, Austin is pretty much jam packed with post graduates, money, tech, money, culture, money and start ups. Hoppin' little town is blowing up man. They are importing highly educated folks from CA and NY by the truck load.
But I bet I know what the issue is....
What are they specialized in?
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They apparently had a great jazz program though. Letterman and SNL had a lot of musicians from North Texas.
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They're being fast tracked into upper management. HEB "discovered" their work, want to move them to the headquarters.
Niece has a bachelors in Economics, Masters in Finance. She was going to get a real estate license before the realty crash!
Husband in Computer Information Management, Masters in Computer Science. He worked at Dell for a year before they "downsized" him, shipped his and other jobs overseas.
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Well they are marketable.....and the Dell bit makes sense. Hope they figure something out....
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Both are making low 6 figures, plus healthcare, stock options....
And the two LOVE to bake! They might move to HQ if they can find a suitable private Catholic school for their son. They do NOT want the state of Texas educating him!
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Both have under $10K on student loans to pay back. And they both hate me, since I attended with only owing $10 LOL
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The Texas wingnuts are upset about the U.N. putting their finger prints all over the Alamo. Of course, there is a big Texas hat ( David Watts ) to assure them, that he is on their paranoid, fanatic sides.
http://www.chron.com/news/local/article/More-than-100-slated-to-protest-World-Heritage-6377470.php
Between two and three dozen people were at the rally a hot Saturday afternoon, organized by David Watts, who is running for the Texas House of Representatives.
Watts said it's not so much that he worries the U.N. will take over the Alamo. Rather, he described it as "sort of a creeping influence."
Watts, who ran in the 2014 Republican primary against Bush and lost, said control of the Alamo should stay local, with the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, the longtime caretakers of the shrine. On Friday, the DRT turned over custodianship of the site to the Texas General Land Office, which Bush heads. In March, Bush ordered the organization o cede control of the Alamo, citing contractual breaches.
"If you disagree with how it's (the Alamo) being managed, where do you go?" Watts said. He also questioned how much World Heritage status would boost the local economy, doubting dollar figures in studies commissioned by Bexar County.
Last weekend, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, named the Alamo, and four other Spanish colonial missions in San Antonio, as World Heritage sites, a process that was nine years in the making. The missions are the first sites in Texas to be given the designation.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/lo...rs-decry-U-N-s-creeping-influence-6379396.php
Earlier this year, state Sen. Donna Campbell introduced a legislative bill that aimed to ban foreign entities like the U.N. from owning, operating or managing the site.
The bill went nowhere.
July 7, 2015
The world according to Texas-
Texas won the Civil War!
Five million public school students in Texas will begin using new social studies textbooks this fall based on state academic standards that barely address racial segregation. The state’s guidelines for teaching American history also do not mention the Ku Klux Klan or Jim Crow laws.
And when it comes to the Civil War, children are supposed to learn that the conflict was caused by “sectionalism, states’ rights and slavery” — written deliberately in that order to telegraph slavery’s secondary role in driving the conflict, according to some members of the state board of education.
Slavery was a “side issue to the Civil War,” said Pat Hardy, a Republican board member, when the board adopted the standards in 2010. “There would be those who would say the reason for the Civil War was over slavery. No. It was over states’ rights.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...fbd57e-2001-11e5-bf41-c23f5d3face1_story.html
Texas history books are literally going to whitewash the Civil War, the Confederacy, slavery, segregation, Jim Crow laws and racism altogether.
Loewen, who has reviewed many textbooks, said he has found many errors and omissions that help de-emphasize the role slavery played in causing the war. Among the biggest and most common problems, he said, is textbooks’ failure to quote from key primary sources: the Southern states’ declarations of secession, which made clear that they were leaving the union to protect white citizens’ right to own slaves.
http://www.forwardprogressives.com/...-going-whitewash-truth-civil-war-confederacy/
If this was about states’ rights, as many of these conservatives claim, exactly what “right” were they claiming was being violated by the federal government?
Here, let me phrase it in the form of a multiple choice question: The states that formed the Confederacy were arguing that the federal government was trampling on their rights to do which of the following: A) Manufacture alcohol B) Grow Corn C) Continue to own African-Americans as property, while pushing to expand slavery into the Western Territories D) Own guns So, which “right” was it that the North was trying to strip the South of being able to have?
I’ll give everyone a hint: It’s not A, B or D. That’s what’s so completely ridiculous about the “states’ rights” argument. Using that to try to twist around what the Civil War was about is like someone saying Nazi Germany was really just about German pride. Though there’s another question I’d like answered: If the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, then what the hell was the Emancipation Proclamation about?
Why, at that moment, weren’t all the slaves in the South freed? Oh – I know why! Because the Civil War was started by the Confederacy in an effort to keep slavery legal and expand it to new territories in the West.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...ok-standards-on-Civil-War-concern-6373928.php
The controversy has flared anew as legislators, educators and others consider removing Confederate symbols on public display across the South. An effort to remove statues honoring Confederate leader Jefferson Davis and two of his compatriots at the University of Texas at Austin has gained steam. Meanwhile, South Carolina lawmakers are moving to take down the Confederate flag flying outside the statehouse after a gunman fatally shot nine black worshipers in a Charleston church.
Historians say the statues and flags honor a racist heritage; the only right Southern states were fighting for was the right to own slaves.
"The major issue here is that students are still not being told the truth about what was the cause of the Civil War," said Dan Quinn, a spokesman for the Texas Freedom Network, which has driven much of the fight against the state's social studies standards.
It's really striking in this context of what the SBOE wanted kids to look at," said Edward Countryman, a historian at Southern Methodist University who the Texas Freedom Network hired to review the state-approved textbooks. "If these are the only two documents kids read, they'll say, 'Well, Lincoln didn't say anything about it, Davis didn't say anything about it - well, grandpappy was right, it was about something else.' "
http://wonkette.com/590471/new-texas-textbooks-love-the-confederacy-and-their-sisters-so-much
2011 Pew Research Center survey found that 48% of Americans think the war was about “states’ rights,” while only 38% said it was about slavery. More disturbingly, it looks like revisionist views are gaining ground: among respondents under 30, the survey found that 60% attributed the Civil War to states’ rights.
http://www.chron.com/news/local/article/More-than-100-slated-to-protest-World-Heritage-6377470.php
Between two and three dozen people were at the rally a hot Saturday afternoon, organized by David Watts, who is running for the Texas House of Representatives.
Watts said it's not so much that he worries the U.N. will take over the Alamo. Rather, he described it as "sort of a creeping influence."
Watts, who ran in the 2014 Republican primary against Bush and lost, said control of the Alamo should stay local, with the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, the longtime caretakers of the shrine. On Friday, the DRT turned over custodianship of the site to the Texas General Land Office, which Bush heads. In March, Bush ordered the organization o cede control of the Alamo, citing contractual breaches.
"If you disagree with how it's (the Alamo) being managed, where do you go?" Watts said. He also questioned how much World Heritage status would boost the local economy, doubting dollar figures in studies commissioned by Bexar County.
Last weekend, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, named the Alamo, and four other Spanish colonial missions in San Antonio, as World Heritage sites, a process that was nine years in the making. The missions are the first sites in Texas to be given the designation.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/lo...rs-decry-U-N-s-creeping-influence-6379396.php
Earlier this year, state Sen. Donna Campbell introduced a legislative bill that aimed to ban foreign entities like the U.N. from owning, operating or managing the site.
The bill went nowhere.
July 7, 2015
The world according to Texas-
Texas won the Civil War!
Five million public school students in Texas will begin using new social studies textbooks this fall based on state academic standards that barely address racial segregation. The state’s guidelines for teaching American history also do not mention the Ku Klux Klan or Jim Crow laws.
And when it comes to the Civil War, children are supposed to learn that the conflict was caused by “sectionalism, states’ rights and slavery” — written deliberately in that order to telegraph slavery’s secondary role in driving the conflict, according to some members of the state board of education.
Slavery was a “side issue to the Civil War,” said Pat Hardy, a Republican board member, when the board adopted the standards in 2010. “There would be those who would say the reason for the Civil War was over slavery. No. It was over states’ rights.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...fbd57e-2001-11e5-bf41-c23f5d3face1_story.html
Texas history books are literally going to whitewash the Civil War, the Confederacy, slavery, segregation, Jim Crow laws and racism altogether.
Loewen, who has reviewed many textbooks, said he has found many errors and omissions that help de-emphasize the role slavery played in causing the war. Among the biggest and most common problems, he said, is textbooks’ failure to quote from key primary sources: the Southern states’ declarations of secession, which made clear that they were leaving the union to protect white citizens’ right to own slaves.
http://www.forwardprogressives.com/...-going-whitewash-truth-civil-war-confederacy/
If this was about states’ rights, as many of these conservatives claim, exactly what “right” were they claiming was being violated by the federal government?
Here, let me phrase it in the form of a multiple choice question: The states that formed the Confederacy were arguing that the federal government was trampling on their rights to do which of the following: A) Manufacture alcohol B) Grow Corn C) Continue to own African-Americans as property, while pushing to expand slavery into the Western Territories D) Own guns So, which “right” was it that the North was trying to strip the South of being able to have?
I’ll give everyone a hint: It’s not A, B or D. That’s what’s so completely ridiculous about the “states’ rights” argument. Using that to try to twist around what the Civil War was about is like someone saying Nazi Germany was really just about German pride. Though there’s another question I’d like answered: If the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, then what the hell was the Emancipation Proclamation about?
Why, at that moment, weren’t all the slaves in the South freed? Oh – I know why! Because the Civil War was started by the Confederacy in an effort to keep slavery legal and expand it to new territories in the West.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...ok-standards-on-Civil-War-concern-6373928.php
The controversy has flared anew as legislators, educators and others consider removing Confederate symbols on public display across the South. An effort to remove statues honoring Confederate leader Jefferson Davis and two of his compatriots at the University of Texas at Austin has gained steam. Meanwhile, South Carolina lawmakers are moving to take down the Confederate flag flying outside the statehouse after a gunman fatally shot nine black worshipers in a Charleston church.
Historians say the statues and flags honor a racist heritage; the only right Southern states were fighting for was the right to own slaves.
"The major issue here is that students are still not being told the truth about what was the cause of the Civil War," said Dan Quinn, a spokesman for the Texas Freedom Network, which has driven much of the fight against the state's social studies standards.
It's really striking in this context of what the SBOE wanted kids to look at," said Edward Countryman, a historian at Southern Methodist University who the Texas Freedom Network hired to review the state-approved textbooks. "If these are the only two documents kids read, they'll say, 'Well, Lincoln didn't say anything about it, Davis didn't say anything about it - well, grandpappy was right, it was about something else.' "
http://wonkette.com/590471/new-texas-textbooks-love-the-confederacy-and-their-sisters-so-much
2011 Pew Research Center survey found that 48% of Americans think the war was about “states’ rights,” while only 38% said it was about slavery. More disturbingly, it looks like revisionist views are gaining ground: among respondents under 30, the survey found that 60% attributed the Civil War to states’ rights.
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Aluminum foil hat crew, looks down on the tin foil hat crowd ?
Most thought Jade Helm was a front for a federal invasion and institution of martial law. Those comments mirrored theories about the drill that circulated online, some of which incorporated suspicions of shuttered Walmarts-turned-death camps, giant underground tunnels and century-old global conspiracies. Those notions drew chuckles from across the country, and eventually landed Jade Helm in the national headlines.
But the organizers insist the radically conspiracy-minded have been filtered from the surveillance volunteers, and no one among their group fears the imminent opening of concentration camps. Lanteri said he struggles to keep that bloc off his Facebook page.
"Once I saw the freaking nut-jobs coming out of the woodwork I was spending half my day discrediting what they were posting," he said. "No nut-jobs will be put in the field."
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...ze-Operation-Counter-Jade-Helm-to-6378017.php
Special thanks, to Raw Story
Facebook trolls turn Jade Helm ‘monitoring military takeover’ page into a hilarious train wreck
Most thought Jade Helm was a front for a federal invasion and institution of martial law. Those comments mirrored theories about the drill that circulated online, some of which incorporated suspicions of shuttered Walmarts-turned-death camps, giant underground tunnels and century-old global conspiracies. Those notions drew chuckles from across the country, and eventually landed Jade Helm in the national headlines.
But the organizers insist the radically conspiracy-minded have been filtered from the surveillance volunteers, and no one among their group fears the imminent opening of concentration camps. Lanteri said he struggles to keep that bloc off his Facebook page.
"Once I saw the freaking nut-jobs coming out of the woodwork I was spending half my day discrediting what they were posting," he said. "No nut-jobs will be put in the field."
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...ze-Operation-Counter-Jade-Helm-to-6378017.php
Special thanks, to Raw Story
Facebook trolls turn Jade Helm ‘monitoring military takeover’ page into a hilarious train wreck
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Texas Police Officer Kenneth Lee Sheka, goes off the rails at a convention
Tip of the hat, to the poster who called attention to this event
Sheka has been charged with one count of Deadly Conduct/Discharge of Firearm. He was booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility on a $2,500 bond. According to court records Sheka has already posted bond.
http://www.elpasoproud.com/news/loca...hotel-shooting
His mug shot was not as flattering, as the photo given to the media.
(If looks could kill...)
He was as freed on Wednesday.
Bond set at $2,500.00
Drunk, at the 2015 Combined Law Enforcement Association of Texas convention ?
Alcohol was being served in the hospitality area, where the young server was working.
"Some sort alcohol."... (No Blood Alcohol Levels taken, after deadly discharge of weapon ?)
Sheka was attending the CLEAT convention on his own time and at his own expense, Cpl. Christopher M. Wilcox said.
He was not representing the Temple Police Department at the event, Wilcox said.
Who did not have a gun, on his or her person, at the Texas convention ?
Police officers, from all over the USA.
This is disturbing
http://borderzine.com/2015/08/site-tracks-undocumented-immigrants-killed-by-u-s-law-enforcement/
Know Your Rights
http://www.latinorebels.com/2015/06...lity-its-time-to-play-know-your-rights-video/
Tip of the hat, to the poster who called attention to this event
Sheka has been charged with one count of Deadly Conduct/Discharge of Firearm. He was booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility on a $2,500 bond. According to court records Sheka has already posted bond.
http://www.elpasoproud.com/news/loca...hotel-shooting
His mug shot was not as flattering, as the photo given to the media.
(If looks could kill...)
He was as freed on Wednesday.
Bond set at $2,500.00
Drunk, at the 2015 Combined Law Enforcement Association of Texas convention ?
Alcohol was being served in the hospitality area, where the young server was working.
"Some sort alcohol."... (No Blood Alcohol Levels taken, after deadly discharge of weapon ?)
Sheka was attending the CLEAT convention on his own time and at his own expense, Cpl. Christopher M. Wilcox said.
He was not representing the Temple Police Department at the event, Wilcox said.
Who did not have a gun, on his or her person, at the Texas convention ?
Police officers, from all over the USA.
This is disturbing
http://borderzine.com/2015/08/site-tracks-undocumented-immigrants-killed-by-u-s-law-enforcement/
Know Your Rights
http://www.latinorebels.com/2015/06...lity-its-time-to-play-know-your-rights-video/
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Texas man busted for falsely accusing #BlackLivesMatter supporters of vandalizing his truck
Not all Texas Cops are silly all the time.
Not all Texas Cops are silly all the time.
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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day .
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Thanks to the interwebs, all the world can say the equivalent of WTF, when they see what some Texans do and say.
Harassing woman's health clinics, in hopes that the last few remaining clinics will give up helping women to get legal abortions ?
Let me take a wild guess, at the question of how the men who are attacking the privacy of medical records of women, would react, if their records were exposed...
Republican Fishing Expedition, seeking material for an attack ?
Texas cut Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid program
Thee days after Texas’ Health & Human Services Commission announced that it would end Medicaid contracts to Planned Parenthood, the Texas Office of Inspector General, a division of the Commission, raided Planned Parenthood clinics across the state.
In surprise morning visits to Planned Parenthood offices in San Antonio, Dallas and the Houston area, investigators delivered written requests for records going back as far as 2010 from at least 10 of the organization’s facilities.
(Planned Parenthood said investigators visited clinics in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, and a health center that does not provide abortions in Brownsville, on the Mexico border. They asked for patient health records and billing documents dating back to 2010, as well as personnel files that included the home addresses of staff members, Planned Parenthood said.)
Is the agency is likely looking for evidence of misspent Medicaid money ?
A demand letter was sent the same day that the clinics were raided.
Becca Andrews at Mother Jones obtained a copy of the letter sent by HHSC Deputy Inspector General R. David Holmgren to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, which has a clinic in Houston. The pretext here is to make sure that the Medicaid services provided, the letter says, “were medically necessary, provided in a quality manner, and billed appropriately.”
First, the fake outrage, over fake videos made about Planned Parenthood's involvement with donated fetal tissue.
Next ?
Ivestigators with Texas’ Health and Human Services Commission are asking for Medicaid patient records from Planned Parenthood clinics in San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas, seeking information on women who made fetal tissue donations.
HHSC is requesting “physician orders, progress notes, personal clinic notes, nurses’ notes, procedure reports,” as well as lab tests, and the very broad “charts” and “graphs.” The records, according to the subpoena, are for patients billed through medicaid between November 1, 2010, and September 30, 2015 and where “the provider performed or provided an abortion and removed or preserved any part of the aborted fetus to be used for any research purpose.”
http://jezebel.com/now-texas-is-subpoenaing-the-records-of-abortion-patien-1738301491
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state health officials to investigate after anti-abortion activists released undercover videos they allege show Planned Parenthood officials talking about the illegal sale of fetal tissue for profit. One of the videos was filmed at a Planned Parenthood in Houston. An investigation also is ongoing in Congress.
http://www.kvia.com/news/planned-pa...ne-state-seeks-patient-staff-records/36009158
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's alleged evidence came from the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress in July, which purported to show a Planned Parenthood official selling fetal tissue for profit. (Spoiler alert: They didn’t.)
Planned Parenthood has stopped accepting any reimbursement for fetal tissue donations, even though it’s a perfectly legal practice, just to get the GOP to move on.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_facto...od_clinics_raided_by_state_investigators.html
“The breadth and depth of what was requested this morning was unprecedented,” Austin Planned Parenthood employee Sarah Wheat told the Statesman. “Today’s visits were clearly politically motivated. We’re all pretty surprised by how far the (state) is willing to go to try to shut down Planned Parenthood health centers.”
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_facto...od_clinics_raided_by_state_investigators.html
Harassing woman's health clinics, in hopes that the last few remaining clinics will give up helping women to get legal abortions ?
Let me take a wild guess, at the question of how the men who are attacking the privacy of medical records of women, would react, if their records were exposed...
Republican Fishing Expedition, seeking material for an attack ?
Texas cut Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid program
Thee days after Texas’ Health & Human Services Commission announced that it would end Medicaid contracts to Planned Parenthood, the Texas Office of Inspector General, a division of the Commission, raided Planned Parenthood clinics across the state.
In surprise morning visits to Planned Parenthood offices in San Antonio, Dallas and the Houston area, investigators delivered written requests for records going back as far as 2010 from at least 10 of the organization’s facilities.
(Planned Parenthood said investigators visited clinics in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, and a health center that does not provide abortions in Brownsville, on the Mexico border. They asked for patient health records and billing documents dating back to 2010, as well as personnel files that included the home addresses of staff members, Planned Parenthood said.)
Is the agency is likely looking for evidence of misspent Medicaid money ?
A demand letter was sent the same day that the clinics were raided.
Becca Andrews at Mother Jones obtained a copy of the letter sent by HHSC Deputy Inspector General R. David Holmgren to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, which has a clinic in Houston. The pretext here is to make sure that the Medicaid services provided, the letter says, “were medically necessary, provided in a quality manner, and billed appropriately.”
First, the fake outrage, over fake videos made about Planned Parenthood's involvement with donated fetal tissue.
Next ?
Ivestigators with Texas’ Health and Human Services Commission are asking for Medicaid patient records from Planned Parenthood clinics in San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas, seeking information on women who made fetal tissue donations.
HHSC is requesting “physician orders, progress notes, personal clinic notes, nurses’ notes, procedure reports,” as well as lab tests, and the very broad “charts” and “graphs.” The records, according to the subpoena, are for patients billed through medicaid between November 1, 2010, and September 30, 2015 and where “the provider performed or provided an abortion and removed or preserved any part of the aborted fetus to be used for any research purpose.”
http://jezebel.com/now-texas-is-subpoenaing-the-records-of-abortion-patien-1738301491
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state health officials to investigate after anti-abortion activists released undercover videos they allege show Planned Parenthood officials talking about the illegal sale of fetal tissue for profit. One of the videos was filmed at a Planned Parenthood in Houston. An investigation also is ongoing in Congress.
http://www.kvia.com/news/planned-pa...ne-state-seeks-patient-staff-records/36009158
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's alleged evidence came from the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress in July, which purported to show a Planned Parenthood official selling fetal tissue for profit. (Spoiler alert: They didn’t.)
Planned Parenthood has stopped accepting any reimbursement for fetal tissue donations, even though it’s a perfectly legal practice, just to get the GOP to move on.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_facto...od_clinics_raided_by_state_investigators.html
“The breadth and depth of what was requested this morning was unprecedented,” Austin Planned Parenthood employee Sarah Wheat told the Statesman. “Today’s visits were clearly politically motivated. We’re all pretty surprised by how far the (state) is willing to go to try to shut down Planned Parenthood health centers.”
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_facto...od_clinics_raided_by_state_investigators.html
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Next step: Planned Parenthood sues the state of Texas for egregious and frivolous misuse of state powers against a nonprofit.
At the same time, the women of Texas in a class action suit sue the state for using women's health for the purpose of political grandstanding and for power because the state obviously has so little else to do with tax payer's money.
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Maybe Target can sell baby parts bought from Planned Parenthood and you can be the department manager. I see you doing that.
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Go live on Mars for cripes sake!
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Houston Votes to Go Backward on Equal Rights Ordinance
November 4, 2015
Activists are stunned after the HERO, or Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, failed with voters by a wide margin Tuesday, reports the Houston Chronicle.
The ordinance had banned discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, and 11 other characteristics in employment, housing, and public accommodation. But anti-LGBT forces rallied, including the lieutenant governor and a veteran antigay activist doctor from Houston, to repeal the measure, which the City Council passed in 2014.
Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin noted that Houston becomes the largest American city without protection from discrimination for LGBT citizens, and he warned that opponents of equality will try to expand on their success in other parts of the country.
http://www.advocate.com/election/2015/11/03/houston-repeals-lgbt-inclusive-hero
http://www.chron.com/politics/election/local/article/HERO-results-6608562.php
Largely conservative opponents of the law allege that it would allow men dressed as women, including sexual predators, to enter women's restrooms. Supporters of the law, including Mayor Annise Parker, argue that it extends an important local recourse for a range of protected classes to respond to discrimination.
The ordinance bans discrimination based not just on gender identity and sexual orientation, but also 13 classes already protected under federal law: sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, pregnancy and genetic information, as well as family, marital or military status.
November 4, 2015
Activists are stunned after the HERO, or Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, failed with voters by a wide margin Tuesday, reports the Houston Chronicle.
The ordinance had banned discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, and 11 other characteristics in employment, housing, and public accommodation. But anti-LGBT forces rallied, including the lieutenant governor and a veteran antigay activist doctor from Houston, to repeal the measure, which the City Council passed in 2014.
Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin noted that Houston becomes the largest American city without protection from discrimination for LGBT citizens, and he warned that opponents of equality will try to expand on their success in other parts of the country.
http://www.advocate.com/election/2015/11/03/houston-repeals-lgbt-inclusive-hero
http://www.chron.com/politics/election/local/article/HERO-results-6608562.php
Largely conservative opponents of the law allege that it would allow men dressed as women, including sexual predators, to enter women's restrooms. Supporters of the law, including Mayor Annise Parker, argue that it extends an important local recourse for a range of protected classes to respond to discrimination.
The ordinance bans discrimination based not just on gender identity and sexual orientation, but also 13 classes already protected under federal law: sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, pregnancy and genetic information, as well as family, marital or military status.
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