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So how many states have had full cannabis legalization bills leave committee? vvv duh, it's still a step in the right direction i say swears online fucked around with this message at 05:22 on May 7, 2015 |
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Aliquid posted:So how many states have had full cannabis legalization bills leave committee? Those bills are going nowhere. Texas will legalize weed after the Federal government legalizes.
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May 7, 2015 05:18
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zoux posted:Those bills are going nowhere. Nah we will legalize it to spite the federal government. We're Texas. We do want we want.
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May 7, 2015 06:08
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VitalSigns posted:I'm going to give Perry the benefit of the doubt and assume he means "accusing the army of plotting a coup is insane and an insult to servicemembers" and not "the military can do no wrong, ever". No the prevailing thought is that the military can do no wrong, ever.
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May 7, 2015 15:42
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The Cancel Daylight Savings Time bill failed in the House just now 
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May 8, 2015 22:29
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That's a bummer. On the plus side, at least they legalized weed.
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May 8, 2015 22:33
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What's wrong with Daylight Saving Time?
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May 8, 2015 22:35
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Nick Soapdish posted:What's wrong with Daylight Saving Time? How's your pre-electricity farming-centered community doing? From the future that rest of us inhabit, it's easy to say that getting hosed over by your requirements seems a bit unfair.
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May 8, 2015 22:37
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zoux posted:The Cancel Daylight Savings Time bill failed in the House just now was it going to standardize in spring/summer or fall/winter time?
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May 8, 2015 22:38
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spoon daddy posted:was it going to standardize in spring/summer or fall/winter time? Fall/winter. And the bill was even amended to rename it Texas Standard Time smfh.
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May 8, 2015 22:40
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spoon daddy posted:was it going to standardize in spring/summer or fall/winter time? Fall is standard time so probably that.
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May 8, 2015 22:40
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Did anyone offer any reasons why they opposed it?
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May 8, 2015 22:41
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computer parts posted:Fall is standard time so probably that. Then gently caress that noise. I hate going home in the dark and really enjoy extra hour of light in spring/summer edit: I am cool with a non changing clock just a permanently forward clock spoon daddy fucked around with this message at 22:48 on May 8, 2015 |
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May 8, 2015 22:42
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We should just split the difference and standardize it to that. be 30 minutes off from everyone else
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May 8, 2015 22:46
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ReidRansom posted:We should just split the difference and standardize it to that. be 30 minutes off from everyone else It works for Nepal.
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May 8, 2015 22:48
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Glad to see the ledg taking up the critical issues:quote:House Bill 1514, which would add a special label to the health insurance cards of people receiving financial assistance under the Affordable Care Act, tentatively passed the Texas House on Friday afternoon.
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May 11, 2015 22:29
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Trabisnikof posted:Glad to see the ledg taking up the critical issues: In other mean-spirited legislation, the House is gonna pass a bill banning local governments from following the Supreme Court's ruling allowing gay marriages when it comes down. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/anti-gay-measure-set-to-pass-in-texas-house
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May 13, 2015 08:12
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Trabisnikof posted:Glad to see the ledg taking up the critical issues: Brand it on their foreheads and hang mirrors in the voting booth so they can be reminded where their health insurance comes from in every election. And so they realize whom Republicans mean when they campaign on throwing the moochers off the government tit.
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May 13, 2015 08:38
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Trabisnikof posted:Glad to see the ledg taking up the critical issues: Why are they bothering? The net effect will be for insurers to have to reissue cards. Nobody looks at the things and they already have a bunch of crap on the front people don't understand like RxPCN so nobody but people who work with them will get the meaning anyway. And they won't care because insured patients beat sliding scale patients for profitability.
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May 13, 2015 22:27
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It looks like the Lege will also overturn Austin's income discrimination ban for housing. It passed the Senate a while ago and it's been moving through the House pretty fast these last few days. 
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May 13, 2015 22:29
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As much as I hate the current legislature anything that pisses off people from Austin is probably a good law
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May 13, 2015 23:06
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Randandal posted:As much as I hate the current legislature anything that pisses off people from Austin is probably a good law Agreed it's definitely a good thing that people with Section 8 vouchers can now be rejected by a landlord again just because they're paying with Section 8.
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May 13, 2015 23:09
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Badger of Basra posted:Agreed it's definitely a good thing that people with Section 8 vouchers can now be rejected by a landlord again just because they're paying with Section 8. To be fair: by all accounts the city voucher program is an absolute clusterfuck to deal with and this was a way to force participation without having to actually fix all the problems with it. It evidently takes a week or two to get approval and that's a big ask when the landlord could otherwise have a tenant take possession and start paying rent right away. Still a huge loss to have it overturned. I didn't shed many tears over the landlords complaining about having to get the units inspected, etc.
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May 13, 2015 23:28
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Randandal posted:As much as I hate the current legislature anything that pisses off people from Austin is probably a good law Yeah gently caress the poor that will really stick it to those yuppie hipster assholes. E: oh didn't realize it was the racist pizza delivery boy, I guess hating on people on assistance is an end in itself here
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May 14, 2015 00:38
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Randandal posted:As much as I hate the current legislature anything that pisses off people from Austin is probably a good law get hosed
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May 14, 2015 00:40
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Randandal posted:As much as I hate the current legislature anything that pisses off people from Austin is probably a good law How's Midland treating you?
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May 14, 2015 01:40
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I like it when people seem to recognize the conservative policies they support are horrible, so they justify it to themselves not on the merits of conservatism because there aren't any, but "well liberals are just so smug and superior so you see I really only vote for racism, classism, and homophobia because liberals have such an attitude problem that I can't support them." No sorry, you're a conservative and you like conservative policies. No one supports policies they dislike just to get even with those irritating hipsters.
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May 14, 2015 05:01
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Randandal posted:As much as I hate the current legislature anything that pisses off people from Austin is probably a good law Spoiler, the people being hosed here aren't actually loving the bougie white hipsters gentrifying neighborhoods.
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May 14, 2015 05:49
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I rather like Austin, don't care if people are offended by that.
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May 14, 2015 07:12
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So tonight is the House deadline for [procedural stuff that you don't care about anyway] that means that midnight tonight is the last day for House Bills to get passed. There are 71 bills on the calendar before the anti-gay marriage bills so the House D's are chubbing like crazy. Tune into the stream and watch the circus: http://txlege.texastribune.org/livestream/ It is my personal opinion that at some point one of the 4105 authors will pull the bill from the calendar so that half the bills in front of it don't die, but we'll see. Oh and hey we're out of exceptional drought for the first time in three years 
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May 14, 2015 19:37
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zoux posted:Oh and hey we're out of exceptional drought for the first time in three years All that had to happen was flooding Houston. Let's make it a 5-year tradition.
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May 14, 2015 19:40
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I'll say. It 's been raining here in Austin for almost a week straight now. Today's rain only let up about half an hour ago.
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May 14, 2015 19:43
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And it isn't over. There's a strong chance of rain basically every day in the next 10 somewhere in the state.
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May 14, 2015 19:44
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Which means it's constantly humid and I'm pretty much melting 24/7.
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May 14, 2015 19:48
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PostNouveau posted:In other mean-spirited legislation, the House is gonna pass a bill banning local governments from following the Supreme Court's ruling allowing gay marriages when it comes down. How the poo poo does something like this even work? Man I really hate Sharia law.
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May 14, 2015 19:53
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Parachute posted:How the poo poo does something like this even work? Man I really hate Sharia law. Don't worry, that's the bill that's currently being chubbed to death. Right now TMF is holding forth on the history of VRA litigation against Texas. The house has a 10 minute limit on all actions. So like, questions on the bill: 10 minutes. Amendments, 10 minutes each. There are 71 bills between the bill they are on now and 4105, so if they just took the allotted 10 minutes per bill on questions that would take 11 hours, and at midnight, this poo poo is done. Nothing is impossible but it is looking increasingly unlikely that it's going to get passed.
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May 14, 2015 19:59
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Parachute posted:How the poo poo does something like this even work? Man I really hate Sharia law. I imagine they'll try to penalize the first clerk who follows the Supreme Court's ruling, and then that penalty will get rather quickly tossed by various judges.
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zoux posted:Don't worry, that's the bill that's currently being chubbed to death. Right now TMF is holding forth on the history of VRA litigation against Texas. also now in the age of televised debate which is being actively followed it doesn't seem like they are able to use the old trick of unplugging the clock at 11:58 and working until 3AM while pretending it isn't midnight yet.
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May 14, 2015 20:04
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Shifty Pony posted:also now in the age of televised debate which is being actively followed it doesn't seem like they are able to use the old trick of unplugging the clock at 11:58 and working until 3AM while pretending it isn't midnight yet. Well that poo poo only really works to pass a bunch of consent bills past the deadline. If someone raises an honest-to-god point of order then that's gonna be it, regardless of the clock. Of course, the chair could rule that we are going by El Paso time.... The House just took up TMF's minimum wage reso and it was instantly point of ordered, see if they uphold it or not.
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zoux posted:Don't worry, that's the bill that's currently being chubbed to death. Right now TMF is holding forth on the history of VRA litigation against Texas. Thanks for the breakdown, that clears up some of that procedural stuff up for me. PostNouveau posted:I imagine they'll try to penalize the first clerk who follows the Supreme Court's ruling, and then that penalty will get rather quickly tossed by various judges. Yeah that's kind of what I figured, especially since the judges are already seeing the writing on the wall in regards to the national legalization of gay marriage. It's so stupid/insane that on one hand there is legislation to override a larger governing body's ruling (gay marriage) but at the same time pushing other legislation to override a smaller governing body as well (local municipalities and frac-ing).
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