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How about this thing about Abbott cutting off funding for "sanctuary" cities? The actual dollar amounts of the grants in question don't sound like much--but doesn't this seem like a type of "coercion" like the Rick Perry/Travis County DA thing? http://news.yahoo.com/texas-governor-abbott-issues-warning-over-immigrant-detentions-025147604.html
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Number_6 posted:How about this thing about Abbott cutting off funding for "sanctuary" cities? The actual dollar amounts of the grants in question don't sound like much--but doesn't this seem like a type of "coercion" like the Rick Perry/Travis County DA thing? That's actually a really good question. I'm not a lawyer but my feeling is that because this is not targeted at a specific sheriff it's not direct coercion, and probably the law or line item that gives the Governor's office the grant money gives him discretion over disbursement.
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Number_6 posted:How about this thing about Abbott cutting off funding for "sanctuary" cities? The actual dollar amounts of the grants in question don't sound like much--but doesn't this seem like a type of "coercion" like the Rick Perry/Travis County DA thing? If I remember my Texas government class, in Texas cities gain almost all of their power from the legislature, and so the state government can do what they want with them really. Counties on the other hand have a lot of things that are constitutionally prescribed, like the election of a county DA. So the previous case was much more clearly an executive using a power to force someone to do something he constitutionally couldn't.
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http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2015/11/houston-is-already-feeling-the-backlash/ Huh weird it's like these backwards rear end values have become toxic to have or something. Must be the queer mafia or something...
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Tatum Girlparts posted:http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2015/11/houston-is-already-feeling-the-backlash/ Man, I absolutely 100% support HERO, but that is some lovely rear end reporting.
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Houston's a lovely place to hold the Super Bowl anyway. Just rotate it between L.A., Miami and New Orleans.
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PostNouveau posted:Houston's a lovely place to hold the Super Bowl anyway. Just rotate it between L.A., Miami and New Orleans. They're not moving the Superbowl, the article said an attorney from the proHERO side is considering maybe asking the NFL to move it.
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The superbowl isn't going anywhere but us just happening to lose the college championship to cities who don't have the bad PR of rejecting basic human dignity probably isn't random.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:The superbowl isn't going anywhere but us just happening to lose the college championship to cities who don't have the bad PR of rejecting basic human dignity probably isn't random. You think they actually made that decision in the last 48 hours and the tipping point was a highly politically charged issue? I guess they could've but I think it's much more likely that it's a coincidence.
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No there's plenty of reasons to never do anything in Houston that requires moving large amounts of people, but I do think it's reasonable to say what bumped us from a 'eh I'm not sure about them' slot to a 'nevermind let's not go with them' is the lovely optics of stomping out what a lot of other places in America consider a basic equality bill. I'm sure we weren't high on the list to begin with and it's not like as soon as HERO got hosed someone burst into the office going "BURN THE HOUSTON SIGNS QUICKLY" but I think it could be a factor that makes us unpalatable to do business with, especially if this poo poo catches on in a bigger way.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:No there's plenty of reasons to never do anything in Houston that requires moving large amounts of people, but I do think it's reasonable to say what bumped us from a 'eh I'm not sure about them' slot to a 'nevermind let's not go with them' is the lovely optics of stomping out what a lot of other places in America consider a basic equality bill. I'm sure we weren't high on the list to begin with and it's not like as soon as HERO got hosed someone burst into the office going "BURN THE HOUSTON SIGNS QUICKLY" but I think it could be a factor that makes us unpalatable to do business with, especially if this poo poo catches on in a bigger way. I agree that companies and organizations have shown an encouraging willingness to punish cities and states that do antiLGBT stuff and I don't doubt for a second that the mayor is right and the city is going to face economic consequences for the way it voted. I just think that article is speculating in one case and outright making poo poo up in the other.
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I do agree the superbowl thing was retarded as hell to put in, there's no way any city loses the superbowl and posting some dude saying 'yea I'd like that to happen' isn't proof. But yea, it's speculation at this point for the college thing, I just think that's a much more reasonable thing to speculate. Regardless I agree that Parker is right and this is just going to hurt us in the grand scheme of things. Grandito posted:San Marcos took fluoride out of the water. Almost makes me feel like Houston isn't our dumbest city, thank you San Marcos
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Grandito posted:San Marcos took fluoride out of the water. Dear lord.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Almost makes me feel like Houston isn't our dumbest city, thank you San Marcos There's no chance Houston is anywhere close to the dumbest city in Texas.
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Look Houston may be overcrowded and fat and corrupt and intolerant and hot and has lovely traffic and lots of poor homeless people and
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oldpainless posted:Look Houston may be overcrowded and fat and corrupt and intolerant and hot and has lovely traffic and lots of poor homeless people and It...it has a lot of cool things too 
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Tatum Girlparts posted:It...it has a lot of cool things too List of cool things about Houston; 1. The USS Texas docks there 2.
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Malleum posted:List of cool things about Houston; Banked track roller derby league.
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Malleum posted:List of cool things about Houston; Several cool local breweries 
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No Safe Word posted:Several cool local breweries Every bigger city at this point has several "local cool breweries", this isn't saying much anymore.
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Grandito posted:San Marcos took fluoride out of the water. Putting it on the intelligence level of the PNW.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:I am sort of surprised at the apparent goon support for "top state officials do not have to reside in the town where the organizations they command are". That was the one state prop I thought might actually go down in flames that I wanted to. I live in Austin and I am all for this. Every couple of years stage legislators from bumfuck add some "gently caress austin" bills because they don't like our plastic bag ban or taxes or other ordinances. Yeah, in 1880 it took a couple weeks to get here from El Paso and that made sense but now you can just fly in or telecommute or make the drive from Georgetown to push your agenda and leave my city council alone thanks.
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Malleum posted:List of cool things about Houston; Best Vietnamese food outside of Vietnam. Filming location of Logan's Run, Rushmore, and Brewster McCloud.
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PopRocks posted:I live in Austin and I am all for this. Every couple of years stage legislators from bumfuck add some "gently caress austin" bills because they don't like our plastic bag ban or taxes or other ordinances. Yeah, in 1880 it took a couple weeks to get here from El Paso and that made sense but now you can just fly in or telecommute or make the drive from Georgetown to push your agenda and leave my city council alone thanks. I wish our city council wasn't so full of morons now
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Dear Texas, Your Florida mock privileges are hereby rescinded until further notice, or until somehow Rick Scott ceases to exist. Signed, Florida.
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PopRocks posted:I live in Austin and I am all for this. Every couple of years stage legislators from bumfuck add some "gently caress austin" bills because they don't like our plastic bag ban or taxes or other ordinances. Yeah, in 1880 it took a couple weeks to get here from El Paso and that made sense but now you can just fly in or telecommute or make the drive from Georgetown to push your agenda and leave my city council alone thanks. This is actually a very solid argument that I hadn't thought of before.
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What does flouride do? I know that its the object of conspiracy theories.
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Mandy Thompson posted:What does flouride do? I know that its the object of conspiracy theories. Strengthens teeth. You know how most people don't really go to the dentist as much as they should and most poor people straight up don't unless they're lucky enough to have a dental plan? Yea fluoride in our water keeps us all from losing our teeth in absence of those trips.
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Mandy Thompson posted:What does flouride do? I know that its the object of conspiracy theories. In some circles, flouride in the water will calcify over the pineal gland in the brain and that's where spiritual enlightenment comes from. It's similar to this stuff this guy spouts off: Crazy alert
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Flouride Take it easy
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