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I love the fact that this neutrally written AP story, just by mentioning some of the particulars on the craziesâ laundry list, makes abundantly clear just how crazy they are.
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"But except for limiting government and slashing state spending, the groups often donât agree on much. And their agendas sometimes compete with each other.
But unhappiness grew after other issues fizzled."
Itâs sad when you can fit only so much crazy into one legislative session. Personally, I think itâs great that Texas and Kansas are so willing to act as the lab rats⌠uh, petri dishes⌠I mean testing ground for what happens to a state controlled by extreme idealogues.
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I just coulnât stop laughing after reading about the bill to deny UN control of the Alamo. Ever been there? It doesnât amnount to much. Iâve even known native Texans who thought it was a joke.
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After the legislative session that ended this month, movement activists were openly unhappy with the results and have targeted a few onetime favorite lawmakers for possible retribution.
Also known as âeating your own.â
This doesnât surprise me; it is common in breakaway movements, I suppose because the people inclined to separatism have schism written into their DNA.
After South Carolina seceded from the United States, it wasnât long before South Carolinians were unhappy with the direction the Confederate government was taking and threatening to secede from the Confederacy. And so it goesâŚ
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This is the one that made me chuckle:
Rep. Dan Flynnâs bill exempting Texas from daylight saving time was sidelined amid concerns that refusing to roll back the clocks could leave Texans choosing between church and watching Dallas Cowboys games on fall Sundays.
Just proving that football really is a religion in Texas.
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Couldnât happen to a nicer bunch of seditionists.
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That made me laugh too. Doesnât Flynn understand that any self-respecting, tax-exempt Grift-O-Mat⢠would simply change its âserviceâ schedule to accommodate the rubes?
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âEveryone always likes to think that weâre top-down, but weâre not,â
No, youâre a stupid-up party.
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I keep hearing the fight from The Life of Brian about the Peopleâs Front of Judea vs The Judean Peopleâs Front etc etc etc
Crazy people usually think theyâre the sane ones in the room.
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Takeaway: You just canât be crazy enough, and thereâs no such thing as too crazy in Texass.
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Memo to; Texas lege
From: United Nations
Subject; Alamo
You caught us. We were going to use it as a pediatric Ebola clinic. Oh well, maybe weâll take over Cowboy Stadium instead. The kids will like the jumbo TV.
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Food fight - rules for anarchists at stake! Great entertainment for the rest of us fortunate enough not to be Texans.
The eighteen fif-Tea Party, inching toward their goal a decade at a time.
Regarding the Texas Legislature (which only meets every other year), Molly Ivins wrote:
âEvery other year, the citizens of every Texas village knows where âtheirâ idiot is.â
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If Texas didnât have oil, it would be in real trouble.
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Both sides have people who throw carpet chewing tantrums because stupid old democracy keeps them from getting their ponies. But, damn. At least the leftâs tantrum prone authoritarians want shit thatâs both decent and usually more or less sane. And, of course thereâs the part where their authoritarians are the mainstream.
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âI think thereâs some who will never vote for me again,â Simpson said.
If itâs any consolation Mr. Simpson, Iâll never be voting for any of those other fuckers either â EVER
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It was only a matter of time. Take a whole lotta people whose defining individual characteristics are anti-social (home schools, anyone?) paranoia and profound selfishness, throw them into a consensus-based deliberative institution, and expect ⌠kumbaya?
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Why is anyone surprised by a state created to preserve SLAVERY?
Mexico abolished slavery between 1820-1824 and declared all existing slaves to be freed, but the Tejas landowners resisted freeing their slaves and it was a major contributing factor to the war that established Texas in 1836 as a Slave-Owning Nation.
Itâs been downhill from thereâŚ
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