texas incidents

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/21/rick-perry-pray-for-rain/ God save us from Texas and Rick Perry. Pray for that.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/10/delay-sentenced/

There's so much talking head hatred for atheists in America these days, but this is simply disgusting. The Fort Worth transit authority decided to accept innocuous ads from a North Texas atheist group and local media has either gone crazy or has decided that making the local fundy population...

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/entries/2010/11/24/delay_judge_think_about_thanks.html?cxntcid=breaking_news

Innocence FAIL I think the teen's allegation of abuse might be true.

You stay classy, Texas. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/DN-speaker_17tex.ART.State.Edition1.b180a7.html

Executed murderer may have been innocent of the crime after the only evidence (a strand of hair) linking him to the crime scene was found not to belong to him. This was also the last capital case involving George W. Bush, who was governor at the time...

I wonder how far this guy will get with his lawsuit? It looks like a legal group founded by Pat Robertson is going to take the case. Normally I'd say they... erm... don't have a prayer, but this is Texas after all.

Last year the Texas State Board Of Education radically revised their science textbooks to reflect the views of a religious fundamentalist and social conservatives voted into the board. As a result of the outcry over this, several board members lost their primary elections to keep their seats...

Howdy all, There is a very interesting new development in the fiasco of the firing of Chris Comer, the former Director of Science at the Texas Education Agency for her lack of "neutrality" over ID-creationism. The other shoe has dropped, and she has sued the TEA. Read more about it here...

2:03 pm Nov 17 2007: Pasadena Texas. Joe Horn sees two African Hispanic men robbing a neighbor’s house, he call the police on a cell phone, while talking to the Police dispatcher who tells him not to fire, he shoots and kills both, the shooting was witnessed by a plain clothes officer who had...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/30/wtexas130.xml I don't know what Texas law is on the so-called "castle doctrine." But the 2nd amendment protects the right to self-defense, not vigilatism. If Texas law allows vigilantes to get away with this kind of stuff, that's...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/17/national/main3517564.shtml?source=mostpop_story Local officials are planning on bringing the matter to a grand jury. Opinion here is very sharply divided. Earlier this year, Texas joined 15 other states allowing citizens to use deadly force to...

Despite some of my past postings, I bear a certain grudging respect for many varieties of religious believers. Other varieties, however, are beyond hope. Case in point. This is how religion twists its believers into incomprehensible cruelty. From this morning’s NPR... In other words...

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/4689041.html I kind of like the idea of living in a country that is "so tolerant of others we bend over backwards to allow others to pray as they wish." I'm not sure why Senator Patrick is so bothered. The callers to the local radio talk shows are...

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4392235.html It wasn't the aide who complained, a school administrator witnessed the incident. http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061210-110348-7474r Don't you have to be a bit touched in the head to see a 4-year-old hug an adult...

http://www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/paris-tx/ This one eats giant clams..... I wonder when Biscardi's 15 minutes of fame will finally be up?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/06/21/texas.execution.ap/index.html Damn you Texas prison officials! Damn you to hell!!! :mad: