Kind of like the look on fi’s face while looking directly at the eclipse.
Every Texas voter should be handed a card with this printed on it.
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There was a time when my brain would spin whenever I hear that “personal freedom” argument. Now, I’ve just accepted that the person who is trying to tell someone they can’t have a medical procedure because “they” believe something different, is just plain stupid. Idiotic. Dumb. Fucking Crazy! Polio, tuberculosis, smallpox, measles, etc… Ways to kill, maim or disable humans that have been shown that when a scientific effort towards curing or at the least inhibiting said disease, WORKS!. Vaccinated, masked or not. You can’t get away from the stupid. They are determined to be in charge. Determined to get their way. Cuz, socialism, ya know! Says the ignorant, superstitious,willful idiot .
With the skip over AM radio, I heard that as tots and pears… not an appetizing mix…well maybe for Geatz… whoo ha…
They had to know this was coming. You do not take on Nancy Pelosi for “light and transient reasons” in the words of Thomas Jefferson. Wait until the get to meet Ms. Nancy’s friend who is leaning toward running for elective office in THEIR district.
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The best part of the Mango dripped down Fred’s leg. SAD.
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I think the fix was in a long time ago. Ghani and Karzai were corruptly cutting their own deals with the Taliban the same time they were negotiating with us. Ghani, Karzai AND the Taliban wanted to drain as much $$$ from the US as possible for as long as possible. Biden saw what was happening and said enough. The rest is history.
Ghani and Karzai will be back in Afghanistan in a new roles within the Taliban government by the end of September 2021.
Hard to imagine Ghani ever being accepted by any Pashtun ever for the way he shattered Pashtunwali, the code a Pashtun lives by that is way older and far more intrenched than even Islam is.
I was just making a comment on the graph: the evangelicals were not appreciably higher than other cranks when it came to doubting the moon landing, which happened roughly 50 years ago.
Exactly. The Texas Supreme Court may be made of Republicans, but they’re not stupid. They can see the problems with the anti-mask mandate. The easy thing for them to do is not to confront Abbott directly, but to just slow-walk this.
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Funny things happen when good sense and logic are ignored…you lose.
The general good healthcare response in the pandemic was to protect hospitals, doctors, staff, and caregivers generally – from the start of the pandemic. Finnish hospital administrators, for example, explained to staff in February 2020 that this was not going to be just a marathon, but an ultramarathon that could last a couple years. During that time, staff had to keep themselves healthy, take breaks, and normal healthcare provision had to continue at the same time. That meant keeping hospital beds empty, or at least down around 50% capacity. When I had covid, for example, I was given heparin shots to self-administer while at home throughout my 10-day quarantine. A nurse called every day to check my condition and recovery. The hospital was off limits. Instead, a health care center with many nurses and doctors was designated as solely for covid patients and all my visits were to that place.
Which raises the question, how has Texas gotten its pandemic response so wrong? I also wonder if this problem is unique to Texas. Idaho and Alaska also did very little to prevent their precious health resources from being overwhelmed.
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Der Führer Abbott has ordered the justices stripped of their rank and sent to front line combat units on the Süd Front with shovels for trench digging, zip ties for capturing COVID invaders.
Abbott hasn’t even bothered appointing anyone to replace Justice Guzman, who stepped down months ago to primary Ken Paxton for AG.
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You’re a lawyer. We’ve discussed this before. Why is a six year old indictment still just laying there like a dead worm on the sidewalk? Six years?
Prosecutors in the long-running criminal case against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have asked a state court to act on their appeal, noting that it has been waiting for almost seven months.
The prosecutors also reminded the Houston-based 1st Court of Appeals that their request to hold oral arguments before the three-justice panel has been pending for three months, while three felony charges against “the sitting Texas attorney general” have been pending almost six years.
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Because venue for the case was in Collin County, where Paxton and his wife have spent decades amassing wingnut political influence. As a result of that wingnut influence, the local D.A.'s office had to recuse itself, resulting in the appointment of special prosecutors who attempted to change venue to Houston, leading to years worth of delay while the courts sussed out who actually has jurisdiction over the case. And in the meantime, Collin County figured out how it could just refuse to pay the special prosecutors, which is a pretty big disincentive to keeping the prosecution on track.
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And I’m betting his lawlessness and criminality are admired and held in such high regard by Texas citizens that he’ll be elected to whatever office he runs for next.
To the contrary, Ken Paxton is quite likely to lose next year, even assuming the feds haven’t indicted him for his comical corruption.
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Give them time, they will find a way. 
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