Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is for guns, and against voting, masks, gay marriage, and sex toys. He signed a bill offering citizen vigilantes bounties to sue strangers for exercising the constitutional right to an abortion. So why is he so popular with Texas voters? Does he have a killer chili recipe? Tur[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Texas’
Kicked out for wearing masks
The owner of Hang Time Sports Grill & Bar in Dallas, who only wants to be known as “Tom,” doesn’t like masks. To him it’s political; he thinks masks are “ridiculous.” So part of his restaurant’s dress code is that no masks are allowed, and he says itR[...]
September 17th, 2021 - 7:56 pm § in Humor
Texas women’s rights council
Just kidding. Texas Republicans aren’t like the Taliban. They let women leave. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
A brief history of Texas’s attempt to jail a woman for selling dildos
The Texas legislature, to sidestep the constitutional restraints preventing government agents from searching citizens’ bedrooms for condoms or watching them have sex, didn’t ban possession or use of dildos; they only banned the sale of dildos. Undercover cops actually busted a churchgoin[...]
FDA vaccine approval makes no difference to GOP governor
Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order “banning any governmental entity in the state from requiring a COVID-19 vaccine, regardless of its approval status” almost immediately after the FDA “granted full approval” to Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine,” The Hil[...]
GOP terrorism in Texas
Texas, like other states, has complicated voting laws. Too complicated for ordinary people to understand. But that’s no excuse. If you vote — or even attempt to vote — in Texas by mistake, you can go to prison for years. But only if you’re black. First there was the case of C[...]
May 10th, 2021 - 3:27 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.
Here kitty, kitty
People on walks in a Houston neighborhood Sunday evening were startled to see a Bengal tiger sphinxing on a front lawn (photo). It wasn’t a lawn ornament. Or a stuffed tiger. Or someone’s idea of a prank. A local TV station reported, “A [sheriff’s] deputy who lives in the nei[...]
March 31st, 2021 - 3:04 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Only in Texas: How can voting provisionally even be a crime?
“The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has agreed to review the illegal voting conviction of Crystal Mason, a Tarrant County woman facing a five-year prison sentence for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election while she was on supervised release for a federal conviction,” the Tex[...]
February 22nd, 2021 - 12:12 am § in Politics
Mexico comes to Ted Cruz (video)
No need for Ted to go to Mexico, because Mexico will come to him. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
February 19th, 2021 - 7:21 pm § in Misc.
Texas utilities gouge those with power
Apparently the lucky Texans are those without power, compared to those who do. For what an unregulated utility customer’s bill might look like, click here. Free markets, baby! Go Texas! As for me, I’m sure glad I live in Socialist Seattle, where the city owns the power company, and we ha[...]