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I'm certain there were some people grabbing their pitchforks, oil, torches and feathers when they saw this post at first.philip964 wrote:Ran into this on the internet. Enjoy.There surely are many great things about Texas, but “Texas has great college and high school football programs” isn’t enough for a story. So…
1: Texas has the most restrictive voter ID law in the country
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Texas now requires that one of seven types of ID be shown to vote. Concealed weapon permits are fine, but college IDs are not.
2: Texas requires every political candidate to believe in God
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Seriously.
Article 1, Section 4, in the Texas Constitution states: “No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall any one be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being.”
3: Texas prohibits qualified residents from receiving federally approved Medicaid expansion
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Though the state has more uninsured than anyplace else in the country. Nearly one in four Texas residents have no health care.
4: Texas textbooks distort history
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According to The Washington Post, ideas promoted in Texas textbooks: “Moses and Solomon inspired American democracy, that in the era of segregation only “sometimes” were schools for black children “lower in quality” and that Jews view Jesus Christ as an important prophet.”
5: Texas fought the Supreme Court to keep anti-sodomy laws on the books
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As recently as 1998, Texas police were arresting men for sex acts that were legal if one were a different sex. When lawyers pointed out these laws were unconstitutional and pushed the sodomy laws into the court, the Texas Supreme Court refused to hear the case.
It wasn’t until the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case that Texas “Homosexual Conduct” laws were deemed officially unconstitutional.
6: Texas arrests and prosecutes more of its citizens for pot related offenses than any other state in the country
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Half of all arrests in Texas are for marijuana related offenses. As alternet points out: “In 2009, more than 97 percent of all Texas marijuana arrests — over 77,000 people — were for possession only. Those convicted face up to 180 days in jail and a $2,000 fine, even upon a first conviction.”
7: Texas uses the Sierra Blanca immigration checkpoint to snare thousands of Americans for small time drug offenses
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On Interstate 10, about 85 miles southeast of El Paso, the Sierra Blanca immigration checkpoint’s stated goal is to catch illegal aliens sneaking into the U.S. It’s more successful at arresting Americans for small time drug offenses. Eighty-eight percent of drug arrests at the checkpoint were for amounts of weed well below what qualifies as trafficking, and 80 percent of arrests were Americans.
8: Texas executes more people than any state in the country
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In fact, Texas has killed so many of its citizens that the state is responsible for nearly one-third of all death penalty executions in the country. Since 1977, 1,379 people have been executed in the U.S. — 515 of them have occurred in Huntsville, Tx. “The nation’s busies gas chamber.”
9: Texas leads the nation in laws designed to limit a woman’s right to choose
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It took a 2014 Supreme Court ruling to keep most Texas abortion clinics from closing down completely. If the Texas law had been allowed to stand, all but eight of the state’s abortion clinics would have been closed. Abortion providers told the NYT: “The regulations were expensive, unnecessary and a ruse meant to put many of them out of business.”
Alright, so I actually like many things about Texas, and am far from being a “whiny liberal.” Every state has problems, but it just so happens that everything is bigger in Texas, even its issues.
I posted the text above.RoyGBiv wrote:Linky no worky for me.
I just heard "Tex Mex". What was all that other stuff you said? (I ate too much chips and salsa at lunch)Cedar Park Dad wrote:I was going to mention the heat occasionally disturbed by hurricanes, and the scorpions, and the tarantulas, and the black widow spiders, and the brown recluses, and the water moccassins, and the rattlesnakes, and the mosquitoes, and the drought, and the Californians. This is balanced by cute alligators who just want to be loved, and of course quality Tex Mex.
With apologies to Frank Herbert:
"God created Texas to train the Faithful!"
suthdj wrote:Love the comments.
Which one isn't factual? Yea, lots of them are conservative decisions, but the description is pretty up and up... The title should be "Why Texas is one of the most conservative states of the union".VMI77 wrote:Just more idiot liberal and delusional prog speak...
Maybe I should have chosen a better word. But in the context of delusional....I don't want to go over everyone of the 9 reasons....so I'll start with #4, Texas textbooks distort history. While I'm sure it's true, it's delusional because it implies the textbooks of other states don't distort history. Not only do all public school textbooks distort history (and they have since long before I was in public school), I'd venture to say they teach virtually no history at all....just the current political mythology. The only thing that has changed in that regard since I was in school is the current political mythology, which has drifted leftwards. So, what the writer is really saying is that the distortions don't favor his political ideology.cb1000rider wrote:Which one isn't factual? Yea, lots of them are conservative decisions, but the description is pretty up and up... The title should be "Why Texas is one of the most conservative states of the union".VMI77 wrote:Just more idiot liberal and delusional prog speak...
cb1000rider wrote:Which one isn't factual? Yea, lots of them are conservative decisions, but the description is pretty up and up... The title should be "Why Texas is one of the most conservative states of the union".VMI77 wrote:Just more idiot liberal and delusional prog speak...