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Sobering Thoughts on Our Political Future

lightseeker — Mon, 28 May 2012 16:44:30 GMT

From the old Nazi hater, Bertolt Brecht: "The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn't hear, doesn't speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn't know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn't know that, from his political...

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The Gerrymander Cowards

Libby Shaw — Fri, 18 May 2012 01:49:28 GMT

When the Texas Republican Party is not imposing more government regulation on a woman's right to choose or when it is not busy passing Voter ID laws that will make it more difficult for certain segments of the population to vote, or when it is not frantically scheming to shut down Planned Parenthood, it is shamefully redrawing district maps in order to keep this sorry red state a perpetually sorry red state. Indeed the rights robbing Republican Party has overdosed on right wing steroids...

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Could the Education Cuts be the beginning of the End for Texas Republican?

lightseeker — Mon, 07 May 2012 03:28:06 GMT

Education cuts may energize angry Texas parents Deep cuts in school funding approved by the Texas Legislature last summer could energize angry parents in a way similar to how the tea party movement mobilized conservatives in 2010. In the 150-seat state House alone, at least 29 candidates who are current or former school board members, or have other education experience, are challenging incumbents or vying for open seats in the May 29 primary. Seventeen are Republicans and 12 are Democrats -...

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They Know No Shame

Libby Shaw — Fri, 04 May 2012 18:29:12 GMT

The Republican Party and its super pac sugar daddies know no shame. But don't take it from me. The Washington Post wrote as much about a recent blatantly mendacious smear ad launched against President Obama by the Koch brother's Americans for Prosperity pac. (Translation: American's for Prosperity for the 1%). If one should want to view the lying hit piece it can be found here on the lying liars and the lies they tell.com. The Obama campaign will not take such untrue and vicious...

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Texas has a shoot first law - Even the Sponsor Didn't Know It

lightseeker — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:21:45 GMT

This piece by Ricardo Pimentel deserves wider awareness. The short story: we have a shoot first law in Texas that dates to 2007. The blinkered fools who help give us the Trayvon Martin tragedy have been quietly pushing this exremist gun crap for years. Even the bill's sponsor was unaware of this fact. You see there are two kinds of self-defense laws in question. The one is called the "castle doctrine" and goes back centuries in Anglo-Saxon law. Essentailly, it means you can use...

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Gov. Oops Grovels for Norquist While Houston Business Leader Kowtows to Perry

Libby Shaw — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:05:56 GMT

Step right up into Texas, folks. For this is a place where money can buy the absolute worst crony capitalists and self-serving politicians in the country. This is also a state in which the crony capitalists don't even try to pretend they are not crony capitalists anymore. And where sleazy Tom Delay styled pay to play politics is considered a proud achievement. Texas has also been possessed by anti tax devils who consider any form of revenue increases as the worst kind of evil. Any...

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Perry has NO vision for Texas, Only for himself....

lightseeker — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:31:44 GMT

Without a vision, the people perish - Proverbs 29:18 My son is in the coast guard and he is serving in Massachusetts now. He plans on returing to Texas to serve out his time. I talked to him today and his only reservation was coming back to Rick Perry's Texas, a Texas where the rich get fatter and the poor only get screwed - over public education, healthcare , transportation, food for poor kids - the list goes on. The only vision Rick has is how to continue Rick's scam game as...

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Rick Perry Grovels for Norquist While His War On Women, Children and the Poor Continues

Libby Shaw — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:31:17 GMT

While on the Presidential campaign trail this year candidate Rick Perry self-righteously told his Republican opponents that they were heartless when they criticized the Governor for granting in state tuition for college students whose parents are undocumented workers. But when one reviews Rick Perry and the Texas Republican legislation passed recently, one can learn a lot about the true meaning of both heartless and the downright mean. Rick Perry and his Texas Taliban win...

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Weekly Roundup and Open Thread

lightseeker — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:08:30 GMT

The Texas Progressive Alliance is happy to contribute its fair share towards the maintenance of our great nation as it brings you this week's roundup. TruthHugger is appalled that the same old lies keep working on Americans. Whatever happened to "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it", George Santayana. BossKitty has a ringside seat to watch Mother Nature Ready To Bite The Ass Of Clueless Politicians, and is so grateful that God Has Different Plans For...

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Pushing Back the Rights Robbing Texas Republican Taliban

Libby Shaw — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:31:57 GMT

As we should all know by now the Texas Republican Taliban's" war on women and voter's rights have been ongoing and relentless. From the state mandated sonogram law that has been imposed on women seeking abortions, unnecessary voter ID laws that make it more difficult for minorities, students and the poor to vote to banning Planned Parenthood as a health care provider for low income women, the Texas Taliban's assaults against women's and voter's rights has been unyielding. One can only wonder...

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Weekly Roundup and Open Forum

lightseeker — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:26:49 GMT

The Texas Progressive Alliance is stocking up on pastel-colored dyes as it brings you this week's roundup. Off the Kuff reminds you that there is only one Democrat running in CD22. TruthHugger sees danger when disconnected and medicated American voters make the critical election decision that impacts the future of our country and the planet. American Voters On Drugs Their BUY-ological Political Weapon. And, of course, BossKitty thinks that Earthlings Have Lost Their...

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Admin note: In case you haven't noticed

boadicea — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:39:33 GMT

Our url has changed to texaskaos.net. This was an administrative change only. Thanks to our excellent hosts at Soapblox, our archived stories redirect to the .net address. However, if you keep us on a blogroll, (first of all, thank you very much), please update our url to the new address. I'm hoping this might make us less tasty to SEO spammers, but we'll have to see. I'll keep the whackamole mallet handy.

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Lt. Governor Dewhurst Earns F- in Math, A+ in Pants on Fire

Libby Shaw — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:30:30 GMT

Apparently the Lt. Governor believes he can run around the state and tell whooper after whooper about school budgets and get away with it. This is the problem with politicians who reside outside of the mainstream of society. And those who live in the bubbles of the 1% have no clue what life is like for hard working ordinary people whose children attend the state's public schools. In Houston recently to campaign for the U.S. Senate, Dewhurst claimed the state of Texas this...

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New Offensive in the War on Women? "If you want an abortion, you'll tell us what we want to know"

moiv — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:56:23 GMT

Rick Perry and his War on Women goon squad already have disgusted even the women of their own party with their creepy and intrusive sonogram law, generally recognized as the most oppressive anti-choice statute currently being enforced anywhere in the country. They backed up that roaring victory with the defunding of family planning services for hundreds of thousands of low-income women, merely because their lifesaving cancer screenings and desperately needed birth control pills were provided by...

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Unleashing the Hate Demons

lightseeker — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:02:30 GMT

The Dallal Morning News has discovered that the plague of incivility in our political discourse this week. In other news, water is wet, and the sun rises in the East. But, let them tell their story CIVIL SOCIETY REQUIRES OPEN MINDS So here is David Dewhurst's crime, according to Ted Cruz: Dewhurst talked - yes, talked - to a Houston doctor who favors requiring individuals to purchase health insurance. The transgression was so great that Cruz decided recently that GOP primary voters should...

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Rick Perry's and the Texas GOP Unrelenting War on Women

Libby Shaw — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:49:43 GMT

Cecile Richards, daughter of the late Texas Governor Ann Richards, stands up for Texas women. Ann Richards, by the way, was the last Governor to have actually served the people of Texas. She was a Governor for the 99% while both W. and Perry merely serve as lackeys for themselves and their cronies and campaign donors. Of course W. and Karl Rove attacked Ann Richards w/a ruthless and brutal smear campaign that swept in W., the second worst Governor that this Texas transplant has known. W. went...

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Cheap Righteousness - Catholic Bishops and Justice for Women and ALL Children

lightseeker — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:30:19 GMT

I began with a necessary disclaimer. I am myself Catholic and will be after I finish this posting. Nothing here is sufficient to drive me away from the rich spiritual life I find in the Church, sometimes in spite of the institution itself. The Church, in the end , is bigger than the episcopacy, or the most current occupant of the Vatican. Additionally, I am not so self-righteous or vain as to believe I am always right and the Church always wrong. In the end, though, I must answer to my...

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Governor Rick Perry is No Mighty Mouse

Libby Shaw — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:05:13 GMT

What would happen if a Homer Simpson were to govern Texas while a clan of Forrest Gumps controlled the Legislature at the same time? Tragically, that day has arrived in the once great state of Texas. Thanks to these Republican clowns Texas will lose all federal Medicaid funding for family planning. The reason? The doofuses are so obsessed with blocking women's choices and imposing expensive, unnecessary government mandated invasive medical procedure on women, that it lost all common sense by...

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The end of the innocense: Market Malfunctions happen , even in Free Market Heaven (Texas)

lightseeker — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:44:37 GMT

To Avoid Blackouts, Texas Regulators Plan to Artificially Boost Profits for Utilities Ten years into the experiment with electric deregulation in Texas, state regulators have reached an interesting impasse. They've abdicated almost all their responsibilities as public stewards to the marketplace but face enormous pressure not to allow rolling blackouts to darken the grid this summer. With Texas' fully deregulated power market, the Public Utility Commission has few tools to bring new power...

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Texas GOP Policies Flog Poor Women, Health Care and Voter's Rights

Libby Shaw — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:39:08 GMT

As we have learned since the long and dark days of the G.W. Bush Administration, election outcomes have consequences. We should also know by now that certain election outcomes will most definitely have devastating consequences, especially when a Party that is focused on the of, by and for the 1% is elected and holds a majority. This is especially true when a Party's only goal is solely focused on making President Obama a one term President. Let the American people be damned. It is all...

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