Texas

[Clix Pix]

We walked to elementary school, and then when it was time for Junior High (I think this is now called Middle School?) the distance was a bit further but still walkable. My mother was a teacher there, though, so we benefitted from that, often getting rides with her in the morning, although on the days she had after-school meetings and such we still had to walk home. When we were ready for high school, it was easily walkable, so back to getting ourselves there and back each day, and of course if some kids had after-school activities some days there were few of us walking home together in the evening. There were some kids from other neighborhoods who once they turned 16 and had a car of their own drove themselves and friends to school, but I don't know if that happened in my neighborhood or not since most of the kids there were around my age or younger. Also, my family moved from there at the beginning of my junior year. to an entirely different area and for the first time in my life I experienced riding a school bus each day.....

 

[Alli]

So the city or state will now have to invest in more school busses to prevent children from walking to/from school? Somehow I don’t see that happening in Abbott’s Texas. In my former district in AL, you have to live outside a 2-mile radius in order to qualify for bussing.

As far as I see, it’s all part of the master plan to do away with public education and keep women in the house.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

I just realized an assumption that a lot of us probably made but were wrong. Back when conservatives used to walk 15 miles to school in the snow up hill both ways I always envisioned it as a solo journey but it seems they just omitted the "accompanied by an adult" detail. But I can see why. There’s something less rugged about real Americans needing an escort.

 

[Yoused]

… 15 miles to school in the snow up hill both ways …
There’s something less rugged about real Americans needing an escort.

Your escort is there to make sure you do not put your shoes on..

 

[Yoused]

A banking institution called GloriFi, established to provide service to plumbers, electricians, police officers and others who do not share Wall Street's woke values, is going TU because of startup mistakes, bad press and more bad press (IOW, because, excuses).

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article269400682.html

A man of the law attempts to use his 2nd amendment right to murder his ex girlfriend. Everybody is a responsible gun owner until they’re not.

 

[Huntn]

It was reported today that there are 71000 individuals sitting in jail in Texas and 2/3 have not been convicted of a crime, awaiting a long time for disposition of the charges against them. This statistic sounds impossible to me. If accurate a gross failure imo.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

It was reported today that there are 71000 individuals sitting in jail in Texas and 2/3 have not been convicted of a crime, awaiting a long time for disposition of the charges against them. This statistic sounds impossible to me. If accurate a gross failure imo.

Freedom!

 

[fooferdoggie]

in one texas school the principal and the superintendent open carry in the school. so what happens the super forgets his gun in the boys bathroom. of course this is under review and the idiot is suffering by not bringing the gun to school.

 

[fooferdoggie]

so they are busting kids without real evidence but even worse they are paying a 1000.00 reward to squealers. what is it with Texas paying informants anymore ?
Welcome to communist Russia. I mean, Texas

Texas High Schoolers Are Being Jailed on Felony Charges For Vaping

SPRING BRANCH — When kids walk into the gas station near the high school in this rural stretch north of San Antonio, they come face to face with Texas’ booming market in psychoactive hemp derivatives. Just inside the door, a glass cabinet entices shoppers to a smorgasbord of fruity and...

www.yahoo.com

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Texas GOP wants to give tax breaks only to straight couples with kids

Tax cuts would only be offered to certain Texans, excluding LGBTQ+, single or divorced parents.

www.salon.com

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

So there’s a twist in the narrative about the guy who killed a BLM protester that Abbot reflexively wants to pardon, and I’m not talking about the killers racist and violence filled posting before the shooting. The narrative is that this veteran patriot killed some hyper liberal scum. Except he wasn’t. The guy he killed was also a right wing veteran.

 

[MEJHarrison]

So there’s a twist in the narrative about the guy who killed a BLM protester that Abbot reflexively wants to pardon, and I’m not talking about the killers racist and violence filled posting before the shooting. The narrative is that this veteran patriot killed some hyper liberal scum. Except he wasn’t. The guy he killed was also a right wing veteran.

I caught that on a Beau video today at lunch. Interesting development.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/17/us/texas-gun-ownership-mass-shootings/index.html

In their defense, everything is bigger in Texas and the only way to stop mass shootings is to provide more mass shootings to stop. It increases the odds.

 

[shadow puppet]

This has my knickers in quite a twist. Let's kill off some people & wildlife, shall we?

"Texas is installing a “floating wall” across the Rio Grande with netting intended to snag & drown border-crossers. River currents will trap debris in the nets & alter river flows. People & wildlife will drown. This is Gov Abbott’s deadly abomination…"

Texas begins construction of the floating wall in Río Bravo -

EL PASO.- The Governor of Texas, Republican Greg Abbott, reported that his government has begun the construction of the water wall on the Rio Grande in order to prevent migrants from crossing into the United States. Today begins the installation of a new marine barrier in the Rio Grande...

mexicodailypost.com

 

[fooferdoggie]

ya just listened to a podcast about this. Texas likes to arrest border crossers and jail them with a 5000.00 fine. it's all about the money not stopping people crossing the boarder.

 

[Alli]

This is Gov Abbott’s deadly abomination…"

Abbott IS the abomination.

 

[Huntn]

ya just listened to a podcast about this. Texas likes to arrest border crossers and jail them with a 5000.00 fine. it's all about the money not stopping people crossing the boarder.

How many of this these people have thousands $ on them? So is Texas building a new prison to handle all the migrants? Seems like it would be cheaper to deport them? The big question, does this violate Federal law?

 

[fooferdoggie]

How many of this these people have thousands $ on them? So is Texas building a new prison to handle all the migrants? Seems like it would be cheaper to deport them? The big question, does this violate Federal law?

once they are released they go to federal lockup and are charged even more. its a huge racket. been going on a while now.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

This has my knickers in quite a twist. Let's kill off some people & wildlife, shall we?

"Texas is installing a “floating wall” across the Rio Grande with netting intended to snag & drown border-crossers. River currents will trap debris in the nets & alter river flows. People & wildlife will drown. This is Gov Abbott’s deadly abomination…"

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Texas begins construction of the floating wall in Río Bravo -

EL PASO.- The Governor of Texas, Republican Greg Abbott, reported that his government has begun the construction of the water wall on the Rio Grande in order to prevent migrants from crossing into the United States. Today begins the installation of a new marine barrier in the Rio Grande...

mexicodailypost.com

At this point I say build the damn wall. Come up with a design that will be uniform across the entire border. Divide the entire distance by 50 and at each divide make a little town that is representative of each state. It will be great for travel and tourism and tax from each town can help maintain the wall.