Texas

Teacher suspended after accusation of atheism

February 6, 2009

I’ve been in a rotten mood the last few days and reading this post over at PZ Myer’s has not changed my disposition.  It appears that a teacher by the name of Richard Mullens of Brookeland, Texas was suspended after a parent accused him of being an atheist. On January 15th, there was a board [...]

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Here yesterday, gone today

December 11, 2008

Houston got a surprise yesterday. It snowed.  I thought I was imagining it at first. Then I expected it to disappear as quickly as it came down, but it didn’t.  By 9PM everything in our area had a fine layer of snow on it. Our daughter had a blast running around making snowballs: With instructions: [...]

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Why is Cynthia Dunbar still on the SBOE?

December 8, 2008

She is, first of all, a bloody idiot who stands by her statements about Obama being a terrorist who’s going to declare martial law within the first six months of his administration. Second of all, She has written a book where in she refers to public education as a “tool of perversion” that is unconstitutional [...]

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Cheney & Gonzales indicted in South Texas

November 19, 2008

It’s probably going to go no where as the prosecutor will be out of a job soon, but still, I got a bit of thrill when the hubby showed me the story on the Chron’s site last night a few hours after it broke: A South Texas grand jury has indicted Vice President Dick Cheney [...]

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What’s a former president to do?

October 27, 2008

Come what may on January 20, 2008 George Bush will no longer be president of the United States and will need to find other ways to occupy his time since he will no longer be capable of bombing the countries of Muslims in order to prove his manliness. He could follow the path of Clinton, [...]

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What the state asks for, the state gets

October 3, 2008

Six chaplains in Virginia have resigned, dozens more have signed a protest letter and there’s talk of having a rally outside the governor’s pad on November 1, just a few days before the election.  All allege that they’re the victims of religious persecution. In this case it’s persecution because the state enacted a policy forbidding [...]

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Ike was here…

September 16, 2008

And he tore up our neighbour’s fence. Besides some trees that were uprooted/snapped, that appears to be the worst of the damage in our neighbourhood.  We all have electricity, water and cable as of tonight so we’re sitting pretty compared to the rest of the region. And that’s about it. I’m just too damned tired [...]

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Evolution vs. Creationism, the Texas version

June 4, 2008

It looks like Texas is planning to enter the “debate” over the teaching of evolution. After fighting for nearly three years about how to teach children to read, the Texas Board of Education has decided to take on the science curriculum this summer. One of the goals of the board is to undermine the teaching [...]

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Note to Linguistic Fascists

May 5, 2008

If you’re going to demand that people speak English, you should make it a priority to learn how to spell English. via: Immigration Chronicles: Perhaps spell check is in order …

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Houston wins! Pollutes more air than LA!

April 17, 2008

Since moving to Houston from El Paso about six or seven years ago I swear a month hasn’t went by without me spending a few days with some moderate to severe congestion.  It’s so bad that I like to say I’m allergic to Houston. So it’s with great displeasure that I announce that Houston, Texas [...]

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