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It's not their fault everyone else is constantly doing things wrong, everywhere, all the time.
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HB 4105 died in the House last night. Cecil Bell, who by the way looks exactly like what you think he looks like, said that he's going to try to amend it onto some bill but literally everyone who has a bill die says that. Because it was put on the calendar where it was and the bill itself wasn't filed until literally the last day that you could file bills, I think it's pretty clear that House leadership doesn't think anti-gay marriage legislation is a priority so I'd be pretty surprised if it came up again. Probably the only anti-LGBT marriage bill that's going to pass this session is one that clarifies that you can't sue a pastor for not marrying a same sex couple, which pretty much everyone is ok with.
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May 15, 2015 15:20
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Straight up cut highway funding if Abbot signs that SCOTUS bill, which would come well after the ruling, knowing this poo poo house.
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May 15, 2015 18:35
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Nonsense posted:Straight up cut highway funding if Abbot signs that SCOTUS bill, which would come well after the ruling, knowing this poo poo house. what SCOTUS bill? Also the session ends June 1 bro.
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May 15, 2015 18:38
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zoux posted:what SCOTUS bill? The one telling state municipalities to not follow the gay marriage ruling. I thought it ended at the end of June, that changes everything. It will probably just lead to a clerk complaining they were prevented from working effectively and the law is ignored.
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May 15, 2015 18:41
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zoux posted: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/ Did anyone get to watch this? I wanted to but some other stuff came up and I missed it. Any highlights other than that bill dying?
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May 15, 2015 18:41
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Nonsense posted:The one telling state municipalities to not follow the gay marriage ruling. I thought it ended at the end of June, that changes everything. It will probably just lead to a clerk complaining they were prevented from working effectively and the law is ignored. I just said that bill died. karlor posted:Did anyone get to watch this? I wanted to but some other stuff came up and I missed it. Any highlights other than that bill dying? I did, it was pretty uneventful. They still had 29 bills to go before they got to the gay marriage one. The House started to get pretty rowdy towards the end of the night, but that's standard for a deadline night. They passed a pretty key education bill that rates individual campuses A-F that superintendents hate. Honestly I'm growing more and more concerned about the cozy relationship between the press corps and some members of the Governor's administration.
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May 15, 2015 18:44
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Well I'm glad I watched the Rockets game, then.
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May 15, 2015 18:58
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Any idea if that abortion ID bill has a chance in the Senate? I understand it passed the House, and the no-insurance-coverage-for-abortion bill passed the Senate. Even loving private insurance, so I guess even the holy free market must bow down to the wishes of these zealots. It's only a matter of time before they make it illegal to connect an abortion facility to a public road, or make it illegal for cities to supply municipal services like water or power.
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May 16, 2015 07:15
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The House is about to take up SB 2065, which is a fairly innocuous "You can't sue pastors for refusing to gay marry people" which no one wants anyway. The important thing is there is a lot of buzz speculating that Cecil Bell is going to try to amend his anti-gay marriage bill that died on deadline last week. I'm fairly certain it will get point of ordered and even if it doesn't, the Senate sponsor has promised to strip House amendments off, but if you're interested in a proxy debate about gay marriage, here you go.
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May 21, 2015 19:21
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zoux posted:The House is about to take up SB 2065, which is a fairly innocuous "You can't sue pastors for refusing to gay marry people" which no one wants anyway. The important thing is there is a lot of buzz speculating that Cecil Bell is going to try to amend his anti-gay marriage bill that died on deadline last week. I'm fairly certain it will get point of ordered and even if it doesn't, the Senate sponsor has promised to strip House amendments off, but if you're interested in a proxy debate about gay marriage, here you go. It never ceases to amaze me how we have such a short window of time to try and get poo poo done and the House and Senate waste so much drat time on crap like this. Makes me wish that somehow the Texas Tribune was in some way the only news source Texans could access so they'd have no choice but to pay attention as to what goes on there.
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May 21, 2015 19:25
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Jiro posted:It never ceases to amaze me how we have such a short window of time to try and get poo poo done and the House and Senate waste so much drat time on crap like this. Makes me wish that somehow the Texas Tribune was in some way the only news source Texans could access so they'd have no choice but to pay attention as to what goes on there. The Texas Tribune is probably one of the best things to happen in the American press in the last few decades. If only every state had one. The Texas Miracle, right there.
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May 21, 2015 19:28
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Bell didn't offer an amendment, the Religious Freedom bill is dead for the session.
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May 21, 2015 19:58
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Not sure if this has been linked yet: http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/05/bill-to-allow-tesla-to-sell-cars-in-texas-dies-in-committee/
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May 21, 2015 20:37
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So which is worse - the centralization of money and power in automakers, or the local fiefdoms that car dealerships hold?
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May 21, 2015 20:39
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I don't really care, it seems like a rich people problem to me.
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May 21, 2015 20:40
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zoux posted:I don't really care, it seems like a rich people problem to me. It's a rich people problem, until it isn't.
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May 21, 2015 20:41
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OK, I'll worry about it then.
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May 21, 2015 20:42
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computer parts posted:So which is worse - the centralization of money and power in automakers, or the local fiefdoms that car dealerships hold? Neither is great but I'd rather at least uniformity in my getting hosed over than having to roll the dice on the dudes near me.
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May 21, 2015 21:01
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Wouldn't price collusion by the automakers already be illegal under other laws?
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May 21, 2015 22:31
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Open Carry Debate is going bananas in the Senate, because two urban democrats decided to side with the crazy since it might make a tiny dent in racial profiling. http://www.texastribune.org/2015/05/22/dutton-amendment-roils-senate/ quote:A move by state Sen. Don Huffines, R-Dallas, to put a controversial provision back into open carry legislation threw the Texas Senate into a tense debate Friday that ended only when all sides agreed let the argument rest until later in the day.
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May 23, 2015 00:40
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As a Texas Gun owner who is getting a CHL in a few months I think open carry is stupid. Also I suspect that the guys supporting it to "end racial profiling" are just trolling and hoping it lessens support in conservative circles because of the gently caress BLACKS NO MATTER THE COST mentality of the Republican party. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvW_zBvJlsA << what happens when minorities open carry.
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May 24, 2015 15:53
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Numlock posted:As a Texas Gun owner who is getting a CHL in a few months I think open carry is stupid. I'm pretty sure that's almost exactly what they're doing from the Republican response. Democrats: "You know what, we'll jump on this bill and support y'all." Republicans: *sounds of joy at the appeal of having bipartanship support for the latest NRA blowjob* Democrats: "This will do wonders for racial profiling. Imagine how safe THE BLACKS will feel when a cop can't pin him down for carrying his own sidearm."  Republicans: "Whoa, slow down there a moment, what did you say?"
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May 24, 2015 16:21
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but guys, officer safety!
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May 24, 2015 16:38
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The D's that supported it think that the LEO groups are going to come down so hard on Abbott he'll veto the whole thing.
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May 24, 2015 23:31
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Good session, folks. This is the kind of excellence I expect from the 13th largest economy in the world.
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May 25, 2015 01:37
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So Central Austin's pretty drat flooded right now.
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May 25, 2015 23:53
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So are portions of San Marcos and I-35. I think parts of San Antonio may have been as well.
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An Angry Bug posted:So Central Austin's pretty drat flooded right now. The journey home after work today, from Bee Caves/360 to Tarrytown, was...eventful. Getting across the river was a nightmare. Saw people on the side of the road due to vehicular problems at least three times, and an SUV spin out on Mopac northbound and land in the grassy median near Zilker. About a 100 yards further up he would have been on the bridge over town lake. So glad I didn't have to go downtown.
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May 26, 2015 00:18
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Was hiding in the car with family from the tornado warning last night in the Whole Foods underground parking complex. Glad we didn't try that again today.
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May 26, 2015 00:25
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An Angry Bug posted:Was hiding in the car with family from the tornado warning last night in the Whole Foods underground parking complex. Glad we didn't try that again today. Being in an underground parking lot at a time of heavy rain and flooding sounds... unwise.
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May 26, 2015 15:02
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Yup. Yet oddly the night we tried it had very little flooding. It's weird how different Sunday and Monday were, really.
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enraged_camel posted:Being in an underground parking lot at a time of heavy rain and flooding sounds... unwise. The fixed all the drainage on that corner when the Whole Foods building was built about a decade ago. (Also, the underground parking lot is two stories deep, so the whole first story would have needed to flood first. That said, poo poo got crazy on Shoal Creek. https://www.facebook.com/ken.kuznia/videos/10206954777206696/ Also, to make this post politics-related: technically that drone video of the flooding is illegal, as you aren't allowed to shoot drone video of public places in Texas if anyone else is in the shot.
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May 26, 2015 15:29
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Svanja posted:So are portions of San Marcos and I-35. I think parts of San Antonio may have been as well. San Antonio got hit pretty bad. Lots of downed trees and the power outages/blocked roads that result from that. Fortunately the city has been installing larger storm drains whenever they repave a road, so that definitely helps with the flooding. But still...  karlor fucked around with this message at 18:27 on May 26, 2015 |
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May 26, 2015 16:05
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e_angst posted:The fixed all the drainage on that corner when the Whole Foods building was built about a decade ago. (Also, the underground parking lot is two stories deep, so the whole first story would have needed to flood first. Here's the drone vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DmoS2Lab8Q I was downtown all day until after dark, it was more or less fine. Also today is the last day that the House can consider bills on second reading, which means that if a bill ain't passed today, it's dead. On the calendar are campus carry and a bill that would basically make it illegal for ACA exchange insurance plans to pay for abortions.
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May 26, 2015 16:08
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karlor posted:San Antonio got hit pretty bad. Lots of downed trees and the power outages/blocked roads that result from that. Fortunately the city has been installing larger storm drains whenever they repave a road, so that definitely helps with the flooding. That's one tourist trap!
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May 26, 2015 20:30
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Campus carry and some additional "gently caress you" abortion restrictions have to pass the house tonight or they are dead. The Democrats are attempting to talk them to death by delaying bills earlier in the queue after they got some Republicans on board to block an attempt to move the bills up in the schedule.
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May 27, 2015 02:28
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Shifty Pony posted:Campus carry and some additional "gently caress you" abortion restrictions have to pass the house tonight or they are dead. The Democrats are attempting to talk them to death by delaying bills earlier in the queue after they got some Republicans on board to block an attempt to move the bills up in the schedule. Yeah they're dead. They've already filed 100+ amendments on campus carry, and they'd have to do that in three hours. The House couldn't wipe its own rear end in three hours.
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May 27, 2015 03:03
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It's actually a 20 week abortion ban, when provably the fetus of a human feels pain, much like a dog if that makes it more relateble to you 
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You're trolling, but SB 575 is a ban on abortion coverage on insurance purchased through the ACA. 20 week ban passed last session. My prediction is that campus carry comes up abouuuut 11 pm tonight so if you have some time to kill and want to watch Republican tears tune into the House around then. Whoops I'm wrong it's up now. zoux fucked around with this message at 03:31 on May 27, 2015 |
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