Austin, Texas is petitioning to secede from the rest of the state and take their Dr Pepper, BBQ and beer with them.
I’ve always heard that I’d probably be ok living in Austin if I had to live in Texas
The future of Texas.
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President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event at Minute Maid Park, March 9, in Houston, Texas. (HoustonChron;OD)
Socialist Hippie Executed circa 32 C.E.
After he made the point that the economy sucks so bad that border-crossings are at a 40 year low.
Hahahahahaha.
By this logic…Perry could achieve this promise through his economic policies
New assignment Texas: David Dewhurst.
Above is a web ad being run by Dewhurst’s campaign targeted at President Obama. The ad, PolitiFact says, features, “President Barack Obama’s record with a couple of edited TV clips that distort journalists’ statements.”
Rick Perry’s Republican Party used every dirty trick they could think of to keep voters from deciding elections. After laying-off tens of thousands of teachers, I can understand why Republicans don’t want to face voters. Thankfully the courts are not going to let them disenfranchise millions of Texans with these illegal maps.
Republicans drew blatantly illegal maps then tried to game the system by going through the courts rather than the Department of Justice. Yet even the courts threw their dirty maps out the window. The courts said what we’ve been saying all along. These illegal maps trample on the voting rights of Texans and don’t allow voters to elect their candidates of choice.
The real losers in this process are the voters. Texas voters are seeing Republican discrimination and obstructionism at all levels but don’t know which Republicans they’ll have a chance to vote against this election cycle.
This entire process could have been avoided if Republicans would have drawn maps based on demographics rather than their own shallow political ambitions.
So says Hank Skinner, a Texas inmate who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Wednesday. He maintains that he is innocent, untested DNA evidence might exonerate him, but officials in Texas are fighting his request for DNA testing.
Why are don’t they want to test the evidence? Let’s ask them:
[Gray County District Attorney Lynn] Switzer’s office refused comment on the case to CNN on Thursday. [Governor Rick] Perry’s office referred questions to the attorney general’s office, which also denied comment.
In court, “Texas state attorneys argued … that the testing should not be conducted because there was not a reasonable probability the trial jury would have found Skinner innocent if the testing had been done for his trial.”
In other words, if DNA testing put someone else at the scene of the crime, as Skinner has maintained for years, these attorneys believe that the jury would still have found him guilty of the murders and sentenced him to death.
Why would they have done that?
A female friend of Skinner’s who lived four blocks away testified at his trial that he walked to her mobile home and told her that he may have kicked Twila Busby to death.
Pretty compelling. Except that “evidence did not show she had been kicked.” And “The neighbor has since recanted parts of her testimony.”
So … less compelling, then.
By the way, Skinner and opponents of the death penalty aren’t the only ones who want the evidence tested:
[The victims’] family has also pressed state officials to do the forensic testing, saying it would end the years-long delay while Skinner has pressed his legal claims. The family, including Busby’s surviving daughter, believes Skinner is guilty.
Petition Governor Perry to withdraw Skinner’s execution warrant and order DNA testing here.
Much more here, here, and here.
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AMARILLO, Texas — The last of the nation’s biggest nuclear bombs, a Cold War relic 600 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was dismantled Tuesday in what one energy official called a milestone in President Barack Obama’s mission to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
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thedailywhat:
Geographic Infographic of the Day: The United States of Scary Things.
Got something scarier for your state? List it below.
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Flying tree roaches on steroids anyone? Or the politicians.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltdf2eAl5t1qzcv7no1_500.png)
Geographic Infographic of the Day: The United States of Scary Things.
Got something scarier for your state? List it below.
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Flying tree roaches on steroids anyone?
Or the politicians.
“Give me a win? Give me a break. That’s why folks are fed up with Washington.”
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Rick Perry’s “Niggerhead” Ranch
WOULD IT SURPRISE YOU TO LEARN that Texas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry used to bring friends and colleagues around to a west Texas hunting camp called “Niggerhead”? No? Yeah, it didn’t surprise us much, either. Gawker »
Washington Post: the camp was renamed “North Camp Pasture” in about 2006, even though it had been in the Perry family since the 1980s.
Presidential! I’m willing to bet that the Teaparty dislikes that he RENAMED the ranch. Or these reports on what the name used to be is how he’ll win back some supporters from the GOP base.
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