Damned Texans

[Secular Elf]

Ahhhh....Texas. It is in a world of its own y'all.

Even one of my favorite video bloggers, who lives in eastern Texas, and one of us Nones, does not like it there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RpboZzBIVo

...especially the gun-totin' ones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF5HeO6ZStA

[Minimalist]

You gotta love it.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/2015061...c44de.html

OVERTON, Texas (AP) — Two Texas girls whose lemonade stand was shut down because they lacked a permit will instead offer the drink for free.

Television station KLTV reports ( http://bit.ly/1JMtmci ) that 8-year-old Andria Green and her 7-year-old sister, Zoey, will take only donations for lemonade Saturday in Overton, about 120 miles east of Dallas.

So..two kids selling lemonade gets the fucking cops off their asses....be happy they didn't shoot you girls....you must be white!  But:


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/us/aft...ation.html

After Plant Explosion, Texas Remains Wary of Regulation

Chemical plants can blow up all over the fucking place and "Texas" (read that the republicunt shitheads who run the place) oppose "regulation."

Fuck heads.

[Minimalist]

The nut crop is in full bloom in Texas.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/dallas-s...s-reports/

Dallas shooter was a conspiracy theorist who threatened to shoot up schools and churches: reports

A man who identified himself as James Boulware, 35, was reportedly shot and killed by police this morning after launching an attack on police headquarters from a heavily armored van — described by its manufacturer as a “Zombie Apocalypse Assault Vehicle and Troop Transport” — firing on police cruisers and leaving bombs in the parking lot.

Zombies, huh?

[abaris]

The nut crop is in full bloom in Texas.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/dallas-s...s-reports/

Dallas shooter was a conspiracy theorist who threatened to shoot up schools and churches: reports

A man who identified himself as James Boulware, 35, was reportedly shot and killed by police this morning after launching an attack on police headquarters from a heavily armored van — described by its manufacturer as a “Zombie Apocalypse Assault Vehicle and Troop Transport” — firing on police cruisers and leaving bombs in the parking lot.

Zombies, huh?

Given the details, I'm surprised they didn't invite him in for a snack. He was a red blooded white male after all.

[Minimalist]

There is precedent.




Notice no handcuffs?  Get involved in a brawl that leaves 9 dead and 30 wounded and it's "hey, no big deal."  (If you're white.)

But a black guy with a broken tail light?  It seems that's a whole different story.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Google tells me the following.  I haven't verified these, so...grain of salt:

-In Texas, it is illegal to own more than six dildos.  Six is fine, seven is a felony.

-The Encyclopedia Britannica (all of it) is banned in Texas because it contains a recipe for making beer at home.

-It is unlawful to shoot a buffalo from the second story of your hotel.

-Criminal are required, under state law, to give their victims a minimum of 24 hours advance notice (either orally or in writing), explaining the nature of the crime to be committed.

Fair play, though.  Here are some of the idiotic laws I grew up with.  In Northern Ireland:

-The penalty for suicide was death by hanging.

-It is still illegal (technically) to go to the cinema on a Sunday.

-It is unlawful to wrestle a live tiger in public (one assumes that it is perfectly OK to wrestle a dead one in private).

-Still some of the strongest anti-blasphemy laws to be found in the non-Muslim world.

Boru

[Pyrrho]

...
Fair play, though.  Here are some of the idiotic laws I grew up with.  In Northern Ireland:

-The penalty for suicide was death by hanging.
...

That seems like a great law.  If someone screws up, the government helps them succeed!

(Or do you mean, that it is the penalty only for those who were successful in killing themselves?)

[Minimalist]

That seems a tad redundant.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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Fair play, though.  Here are some of the idiotic laws I grew up with.  In Northern Ireland:

-The penalty for suicide was death by hanging.
...

That seems like a great law.  If someone screws up, the government helps them succeed!

(Or do you mean, that it is the penalty only for those who were successful in killing themselves?)

No, there was no penalty for merely attempting  to off yourself.  Those who succeeded were hanged post mortem as a warning to others that suicide was a mortal sin.

Boru

[Minimalist]

Because I'm sure this is a big problem for most Texans!

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/texas-cr...sion-next/

Texas creates state-run gold depository beyond the reach of federal ‘confiscation’ — is secession next?

Yep.  I worry all the time about the feds seizing my gold.  Fucking watch even needs a new battery but I can't be bothered.

Meanwhile, look outside idiots.  It's raining again.