"since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished. - chuck palahniuk, survivor"
On July 16, 2007, Rick Noriega answered the call to serve from thousands of Texans across the state and formed an exploratory committee to seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. But this campaign is not about one person or candidate; it’s about all of us answering the call to serve.
This weekend, the Texas AFL-CIO endorsed Rick Noriega. Rick has a record of standing up for working families. Rick voted to increase the minimum wage, provide flexibility for parents to meet with their children’s teachers, increase teacher pay and retirement benefits, and prevent discrimination in the workplace.
Please click the link below and join with the Texas AFL-CIO in supporting Rick.
I hope you will join me in supporting Rick as he takes on this new challenge, to take back our state and nation from this administration and its number one cheerleader, the junior Senator from Texas, John Cornyn. It is an awesome challenge, and Rick is going to need all of us to stand with him.
I hope you’ll join me in being a part of Rick Noriega’s campaign team. We will fight for change. We will fight for Texas. And we will do it together. Just click the link below to get started!
i am hearing some really disturbing arguments in defense of the flds compound and it’s practices. the arguments seem to revolve around:
1) “freedom from religious persecution”—as if our first amendment’s purpose was to allow for ~any~ behaviour under a guise of religion.
The Belief-Conduct Distinction—While the Court has consistently affirmed that the Free Exercise Clause protects religious beliefs, protection for religiously motivated conduct has waxed and waned over the years. The Free Exercise Clause ‘’embraces two concepts—freedom to believe and freedom to act. The first is absolute, but in the nature of things, the second cannot be.’’
thus, you’ve the right to believe whatever loony thing you want to believe. acting on those beliefs is an entirely different matter. the state CAN and WILL step in if you are breaking the law.
2) “individual liberty”—this strikes me as extremely bizarre, as the children and women of this compound have had NO liberty whatsoever. they aren’t given a choice. it is not ~choice~ when you are told that if you go against the wishes of the prophet, you are worthy of death.
3) saudi arabia do it, it’s a ~cultural~ issue. —why people consistently want to turn us into places like saudi arabia, i cannot imagine. and again, you are back to there being no liberty, no real choice for these women and children.
to see people defend the likes of warren jeffs is more disturbing and offensive than i can even say. i question the motives of those who have. there must be serious issues there.
hola, como estas? estoy bien!! i started my spanish class!! textbook finally arrived. i can now say, “la leccion es muy interesante” and “mis padres son liberales” and “mis amigos no son conservadores” :O and almost know what i’ve said
lost starts tomorrow!!! and, of course, i’m going to miss it ;( i can only pray that The Powers That Be have it available to watch quickly after. there aren’t many tv shows that i really like, but lost is one that i do. i avoided watching it for ages, because when there’s that much hoopla, i’m usually let down. then one day… i was bored. and i found all the episodes online. and. the rest is history :o i’m a fan!!! <3 jack, <3 sawyer, <3 kate, charlie, hurley and all the rest!
digging into candidates for DA… i’ve so far narrowed down the list of who i absolutely won’t vote for. i’ve detested rosenthal, our current da, and i must say that i’ve been a bit gleeful at his latest difficulties. he’s out of the race for good and may find himself in jail with any luck. here’s an idea of what our “blessed” district attorney was like:
“He convicted Mr. Sosa of a double intoxication manslaughter, got a weak jury to give him 12 years in each, and then convinced Judge Wallace to stack the sentences,” Harris County assistant district attorney Mike Trent wrote in an office-wide memo. Then came the odd part: “He overcame a subversively good defence by Matt Hennessey that had some Canadians on the jury feeling sorry for the defendant and forced them to do the right thing.”
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It is unusual that a seasoned attorney like Mr. Trent would not have wondered how a Harris County jury came to be stacked with Canadians. (There were no Canadians on the jury but there were some black members.) “The only way that there could have been Canadians on the jury, was if they were born in Canada and then became U.S. citizens, and then became citizens of the county in which the case was tried,” Mr. Vinson noted.
Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one and indivisible.
nice. simple. to the point. yeehaw, fellow texans, we are one.
uh. wait. no.
“Personally, I felt like the Texas pledge had a big old hole in it, and it occurred to me, ‘You know what? We need to fix that,’ “ said Riddle, R-Tomball. “Our Texas pledge is perfectly OK like it is with the exception of acknowledging that just as we are one nation under God, we are one state under God as well.”
Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.
because… we are one and… indivisible… as long as we’re… christian.
it’s a pity that people want to complain about god being in our schools. after all, it’s ~clearly evident~ that more time should be spent on the reflection of our relationship with god than on learning useless subjects or critical thinking. after all, society could use a few less critics: anti-war, anti-smoking, anti-god :( why do they hate our freedom? :(
in the words of the great man himself: “is our children learning?”
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it may take a village to raise a child, but it only takes one idiot to screw the village.
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