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Posts Tagged ‘Texas’
July 30th, 2016 - 8:53 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Houston Chronicle Endorses Hillary
Both Campaigns Stunned After Houston Chronicle Makes VERY Surprising Endorsement One of the largest newspapers in all of Texas, which previously endorsed…[...]
June 5th, 2016 - 5:45 am § in Politics
Texas AG blocked fraud probe of Trump University, left bilked students in the cold
“Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton moved to muzzle a former state regulator who says he was ordered in 2010 to drop a fraud investigation into Trump University for political reasons. Paxton’s office issued a cease and desist letter to former Deputy Chief of Consumer Protectio[...]
November 22nd, 2015 - 1:57 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Texas bars college professors from vetting high school textbooks
Apparently the State Board of Education, a partisan body dominated by a Republican majority, doesn’t trust academics to know anything about the subjects they teach. So these people, who think evolution is bunk and want school children to read textbooks that refer to slaves as “workers,&#[...]
October 30th, 2015 - 5:31 pm § in Misc.
Texas judge orders defendants to get married or face jail time
This story is almost too bizarre to believe, but it’s apparently true. A judge in Smith County, Texas, apparently is ordering people charged with minor crimes to write Bible verses and get married as conditions of getting probation instead of jail time. I don’t see how that can possibly [...]
September 16th, 2015 - 10:43 am § in Schools & Colleges
Stupid Texas school officials arrest Muslim genius kid for inventing electronic clock
“IRVING, Texas — Police detained a 14-year-old Muslim boy after a teacher at his North Texas high school decided that a homemade clock he proudly brought to class looked like a bomb, according to school and police officials.” — CBS News “The boy makes his own radios, re[...]
July 24th, 2015 - 5:46 am § in Uncategorized
Yep, the Texas county that killed Sandra Bland has racist traffic cops
(Source: Mother Jones)[...]
June 10th, 2015 - 5:35 pm § in Uncategorized
Residents of McKinney, Texas: Racists? Who? Us?
Yeah, you, the white citizens of McKinney, Texas, are a pack of racists. What you did to your neighbor’s Obama yard sign back in 2012 proves it. (Click here for story)[...]
May 17th, 2015 - 6:01 pm § in Uncategorized
THUGS: 9 killed, 17 injured in biker brawl
Nine people were killed and 17 wounded Sunday in a shootout between five rival biker gangs at a Hooters-style restaurant in Texas, according to multiple news sources. Police arrested more than 170 bikers. All of the casualties are bikers; some exchanged fire with police, who say 4 of the dead were k[...]