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POPSWhat a woman can do If you look closely you will see the US flag is flying at half mast. That took a lot of work. Here is the story. – Sibyl West (via atlas shrugs)
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POPSCalifornia's Broken Model In what respects, then, does California "excel"? California's state and local government employees were the best compensated in America, according to the Census Bureau data for 2006. And the latest posting on the website of the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility shows 9,223 former civil servants and educators receiving pensions worth more than $100,000 a year from California's public retirement funds. The "dues" paid by taxpayers in order to belong to Club California purchase benefits that, increasingly, are enjoyed by the staff instead of the members.
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POPSCapitan Reef Over millions of years, segments of the Capitan Reef were uplifted, and much of the sediment was eroded away from the more resistant limestone reef materials. The Guadalupe Mountains, stretching to the northeast from El Capitan in Texas to near Carlsbad, New Mexico, are one of these uplifted portions of the reef. The southern end of the range is included within Guadalupe Mountains National Park. As this uplift continued, groundwater that supported some of the material in many of the caverns drained away, and material collapsed to form large underground chambers, such as those in Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Because the reef was built, in large part, through the accumulation of dead marine organisms that incorporated calcium carbonate into their structures, fossils are abundant in the reef deposits throughout the exposed portions of the Guadalupe Mountains.
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POPSPope Benedict opens new front in battle for the soul of two churches The pope's offer to Church of England members to switch to the Vatican was ill thought-out and could signal a struggle for the soul of both churches Over the centuries, the great church councils of Christian history have normally been held in magnificent echoing basilicas and stately palaces – but the church moves with the times. In 2003 a luxury hotel in Dallas, self-proclaimed as the largest in Texas (now that's big), hosted a gathering of very angry conservative American Anglicans, determined to do something about the consecration of a gay man, Gene Robinson, as a bishop of the US Episcopal church, sister church to the Church of England.
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POPSWas Joe Wilson Right? Free Health Care for Illegal Aliens!
and that every professor of constitutional law knows about , called Plyler vs. Doe (1982), the Court ordered Texas to make the same education available to illegal immigrants as it does to citizens. In so doing, the Court held that: (a) the Constitution protects “persons” ; and (b) “persons” are citizens as well as strangers, people born here and people who end up here, people here lawfully and people here unlawfully; and (c) in the area of social services, whatever benefits the government makes available to the general public cannot be kept away from a class of persons based on their immigration status or that of their parents. It is because of this ruling that Proposition 187 in California, which attempted to do via a referendum what Texas attempted to do via legislation, was invalidated. It is clear from the broad language in the Plyler case that providing an education is in the same class of social benefits as providing health care.
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POPSWe’ve Won the Battle of the NAFTA Superhighway It was during this meeting that the environmental study director informed them the Final DEIS (Draft Environmental Impact Statement) would be submitted to the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) by January, 2008. The next step would be condemnation of the 146 acres per mile to build the super highway. The newly formed Eastern Central Texas Sub-Regional Planning Commission (ECTSRPC) went to work laying out in government-to-government meetings the flaws in TXDOT’s study and violations of law being committed by the agency. The coordination strategy utilized by these courageous Texans, developed by Fred Kelly Grant, president of American Stewards, stopped the I-35 Trans-Texas Corridor. How big is this coordination victory for local government? Here is what we were up against: * The Trans-Texas Corridor was a keystone project for Governor Perry; * It was fully supported by President George W. Bush; * It had the funding of the Spanish Corporation, Cintra-Zachry;
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POPSGOP To Draft Resolution Designed To Oust Rangel: Run Gov. Paterson for Seat!!! "I'm disappointed in the Congress because everyone's entitled to a full hearing and they're not giving me that," Rangel said. When asked how he feels about Congressman Carter's move to have Rangel step aside from Ways and Means, the Harlem Democrat said, "I'm disappointed in him." During the event Rangel service notice he didn't want any embarrassing questions about the growing ethics storm around him. "I would hate to see anyone attempt to mar this with questions that are not directly related to this exciting event," Rangel said. And here's a new twist. Highly placed Democratic sources told CBS 2 HD they have discussed the possibility of using one damaged New York politician to get rid of another. It centers on having Rangel resign, and giving Gov. David Paterson a dignified way to leave Albany by running for Rangel's congressional seat.
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POPS"Final nail in Trans Texas Corridor's coffin" "Earlier this year, state officials announced the Trans Texas Corridor was essentially dead, in large part because of public outrage and a backlash from state legislators who felt the transportation department had overstepped its bounds. But despite that announcement, the planning process for the Trans Texas Corridor continued behind the scenes."
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POPSGap Between Rich/Poor Widening -Pharr, Texas, and Flint, Mich., each had more than a third of its residents on food stamps, at 38.5 percent and 35.4 percent, respectively. --Between 2007 and 2008, income at the 50th percentile (median) and the 10th percentile fell by 3.6 percent and 3.7 percent, respectively, compared with a 2.1 percent decline at the 90th percentile. Between 1999 and 2008, income at the 50th and 10th percentiles decreased 4.3 percent and 9 percent, respectively, while income at the 90th percentile was statistically unchanged. --Plano, Texas, a Dallas suburb, had the highest median income among larger cities, earning $85,003. Cleveland ranked at the bottom, at $26,731.
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POPSTEXAS - Death Row Inmates Last Statement texas publishes last words of death row inmates on the table..... Found this while cruising through the Daily Mail. They had some interesting last words before the plunger hit home.....
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POPSOh, Texas, this guy runs your school board? Spoken like a true politician. Wait. . .What?? Did this guy say anything? This is why we should have stricter national standards for education. The right-wing creationists realized years ago they needed to fill the school boards and local political structures with their believers to create a nation of brainwashed zombies. This is proof of the success they’ve had getting the ignorant and the ill-informed into places of power. I’m still waiting for creationists to come up with a scientific model instead of trying to tear down one that has taken billions of years to build.
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POPSTexas Man Sues Own Parents Over His Turning into an Asshole "when he attended classes at Apache Middle School. He too remembers it differently, "It was young Greg who was expelled for wearing his Mom's underwear to the 8th grade dance." Studley asserts in his lawsuit that the reason he had to move away to a gay-oriented large city was to cushion the emotional pain he was now feeling as an adult. He also claims he's under-employed at the moment because there are very few work places that allow him to wear older women's undergarments over his street clothes while employed. He is seeking an unspecified amount of money in his suit. Elmer 'Chuck Wagon' Studley, age 72, is Greg Studley's Dad. He says him and the Missus had very little to do with the way young Greg turned out. "Yup, he turned into an asshole all by his self!"
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POPSIllegal immigrant muslim tries to bomb Dallas building Does anyone see a pattern here. Muslim enters the U.S. illegally, then plots to set off bombs. I would be very curious how this vermin entered. My bet would be the Mexican border. You know, the one the democrats refuse to seal and protect. OK, so for every one of these rats we capture how many others are there out there living in those muslim enclaves, hatching plots? They say America doesn't export anything anymore. I suggest exporting muslims. Send them back to the s#@*hole they came from.
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POPSDavid Grann, "Trial by Fire: Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?" (on Todd Willingham's execution, Feb. 2005), The New Yorker (Sept. 7, 2009) A damning piece by The New Yorker on the story of Todd Willingham. Willingham was executed in 2005 for triple homicide after being convicted of killing his three children by setting their room on fire. Texas officials ignored reports by fire scientists, whose investigations showed that there had been no solid evidence that the fire was arson. The arson investigators who testified in Willingham's case relied on traditional methods whose scientific validity had long ago been disproven, and the parole board apparently did not even bother to read the exonerating information provided to them by Willingham's lawyer.
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POPSHere's One You've Probably Never Heard . . . As Stubborn As An Army Camel Though they required tremendous amounts of water when they drank, they could go days without drinking, hence they could cross the vast distances between water supplies in the desert without dying of thirst. As beasts of burden, they could carry far more than the 300 lbs that was considered a 'mule load.' They were simply ideal for the purpose-making regular routes across the desert Southwest an actuality rather than a remote possibility. Jefferson Davis realized this in 1855 and sent a delegation from the US Army to the Middle East to observe and report on the feasibility of using camels in the American deserts. The officers reported seeing camels being used in every environment from the Sahara to the Alps, carrying loads that would crush even the biggest mules, and making trips between waterholes in deserts that would leave horses and mules dead of thirst. Camels were ideally suited, they reported, for the American Southwest. . .
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POPSTexas school district turns away students from Mexico It had to happen sooner or later, I know it would be either Texas or Arizona. If Obama’s health care reform package claims it will not offer health care to non American citizen’s then that should be the policy for our public schools as well. While it is sad to see children not get a good education, I can’t help but side with the fact that U.S. citizens are paying for our public schools through our tax proceeds. It just simply is not right to provide an education to another country if that country is not going to pay for it.
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POPSCould Texas’ Gingrish-based High School History Curriculum Go National? Okay parents, you want to worry about a politician brainwashing your kid? This is where we need to fight back. Why should the rest of the country worry about what textbooks are use din Texas? Because Texas is one of the two states with the largest student enrollments, along with California. "The publishers vie to get their books adopted for them, and the changes that are inserted to please Texas and California are then part of the textbooks made available to every other state," says Diane Ravitch, professor of education at NYU, who wrote a book about the politics of textbooks.
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POPS'Tea party' Rally Attracts Thousands in Addison, Texas Organizers of the Tea Party Express said the health care issue has crystallized support for the movement. President Obama will address a joint session of Congress on that topic next week. The tour will make a "whistle stop" scheduled for 2:45 p.m. at an Interstate 30 rest stop in Mount Vernon, Texas; then will continue to Little Rock, Arkansas at 6 p.m. and Memphis, Tennessee at 10 p.m. E-mail bwatson@wfaa.com Tea Party Express Stops in North Texas Susy Solis, NBCDFW.com Thousands of supporters turned out in Addison for the Tea Party Express Caravan which is on it's way from Sacramento, California to Washington, D.C for a taxpayer march on September view video at link http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/Tea_Party_Express_Stops_in_North_Texas_Dallas-Fort_Worth.html Official Tea Party Express Website http://www.teapartyexpress.org/
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