There’s wildfires spreading through Texas right now and Governor Rick Perry has a plan to stop the blaze: group prayer. He even issued an official proclamation: “[I]t seems right and fitting that the people of Texas should join together in prayer to humbly seek an end to this devastating drought and these dangerous wildfires.” For a state that denies science, this actually doesn’t sound like too bad of an idea.
A woman in Galveston, Texas was walking along the beach when she came across a black bag with 16 bricks of cocaine in it weighing 37 lbs and alerted police, who of course seized it and kept it for themselves.
Conservative members of the Texas Board of Education will punish generations of students after voting to institute a right wing-skewed curriculum that will place a lot less emphasis on fact and a lot more importance on ideology. Here’s a good rundown of at least 10 changes that will effectively push Texas school kids (and others) further down the evolutionary line. The Lone Star State indeed.
Photographer Steve DeMent shot some telling photos of the charred-out home that Austin Kamikaze pilot Joseph Andrew Stack lit fire before he jumped in a plane and crashed into a seven-story building housing government offices earlier this afternoon. Luckily, his wife and child survived, but the house isn’t likely to share the same fate.
Photos: Steve DeMent
Earlier, a small plane crashed into a building housing various federal agencies like the IRS (MSNBC says the FBI shares an address but is located across the street) creating a “huge fireball.” Anyway, the pilot reportedly set his own house on fire and stole a plane before flying into the offices, which if true, would indicate this was more of a suicide mission than it was an accident. |Statesman|
Billboard liberator and popagandist, Ron English, was in McAllen, Texas this past weekend to discuss an upcoming exhibit and can now update his resume to include bovine bombing. He just couldn’t resist doing some public art, so he unleashed on these live canvasses. Let the faux outrage begin!
Photos: Popaganda
The Republican-controlled Texas State Board of Education is inching toward mandating that all history textbooks used in public schools be free from “liberal bias,” which means “removing mention of Ted Kennedy and Cesar Chavez from textbooks in favor of new entries on the National Rifle Association and Phyllis Schlafly.” Read more »
As it turns out, a Texas judge’s fiery speech sentencing a teenager to eight years in prison for graffiti was all for show. District Court Judge Marisela Saldaña apparently didn’t understand that stacking sentences, which would have forced 18-year-old Sebastian Perez to serve four two-year prison terms consecutively, wasn’t allowed for this case. Yesterday, Judge Saldaña was forced to abide by the law and reduce Perez’s sentence to two years in prison and two years of community service, a still very sizable, serious punishment. |KIII-TV3|
Yesterday, news of a Texas judge’s decision to imprison a teenage vandal for eight years without parole caused quite a stir, with most people agreeing that the punishment was way too extreme. Judge Marisela Saldaña clearly didn’t dole out such an egregious sentence to cover the cost of cleaning up the $7,300 of damage Sebastian Perez caused, after all, his incarceration will run Texas taxpayers than $140,000. And that price tag doesn’t include the considerable public expense and burden of a four-time felon lacking credible experience or job prospects, which is what Perez will be when he’s scheduled for release at age 26 after spending nearly a third of his life locked up. Read more »
Another Texas teenager is being inordinately punished for graffiti. 18-year-old Sebastian Perez was sentenced to 8 years in state prison after pleading guilty to three vandalism charges and one for pot possession. Read more »
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