Even the wingnuttery. Why is it, in the biggest of the lower forty-eight, where there is ample room for for huge diversity in geography, climate, cultures, and ways of life, where huge metropolises are neighbored by forests, swamps, deserts, plains, or pastures, there also exists some of the most extreme examples of intolerance and bigotry in the nation?
First, there was Furious George. He rose to "power" in the this great state as its governor the same way he would eventually go on to conquer the White House, twice: through pandering to the lowest common denominator and the politics of fear. Prejudicial politics is a big player here in Texas, and he is just one shining example of that. He smeared his opponent in the first gubenatorial race by painting misleading and often blatantly false pictures of her in the public's collective eye, making enough of them fear and eventually hate her that they would instead vote for him. He repeated this performance in the presidential races of 2000 and 2004. It didn't win him the popular vote the first time around, but it did (just barely) in the second. His success lay in the way he did it. He did it in true Texas style. Bigger, louder, and more persistently than anyone else, driving home the same handful of trumped up public fears, over and over again. Terrorist warnings. Gay marriage. WMD's. Flip-flops.
Last week, U.S. House Representative Tom Delay (R-TX) and U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R- you guessed it-TX) publicly lambasted the judicial branch of the government for doing exactly what the constitution prescribes by interpretting the law and keeping the executive and congressional arms of the federal government from overextending their reach. Everyone's entitled to their opinion and if the angry wittle rethuglicans want to throw temper tantrums and stomp their feet while crying out against "liberal activist judges", let them. However, when they begin implicitly condoning violence against judges, they cross a line. Ironically, Delay and Cornyn crossed this line and danced a little jig as only hate-filled Texans can. Delay said the judges in the Schiavo case would eventually get what they deserved, and Cornyn implied that he could understand wanting to take violent action against "activist judges".
Finally, over the weekend, some Texas rethuglicans announced they would like to write discrimination into one of the most powerful state constitutions in the Union with an anti-gay marriage amendment. Totally unnecessary considering Texas law already forbids same-sex marriage. But its not about the law, preserving the current elitist institution of marriage, or saving families. No, it is meant to be a Texas-sized symbol of intolerance for all the nation to ogle. However, something tells me that, ironically enough, they might just find a Texas-sized fight on their hands.
First, there was Furious George. He rose to "power" in the this great state as its governor the same way he would eventually go on to conquer the White House, twice: through pandering to the lowest common denominator and the politics of fear. Prejudicial politics is a big player here in Texas, and he is just one shining example of that. He smeared his opponent in the first gubenatorial race by painting misleading and often blatantly false pictures of her in the public's collective eye, making enough of them fear and eventually hate her that they would instead vote for him. He repeated this performance in the presidential races of 2000 and 2004. It didn't win him the popular vote the first time around, but it did (just barely) in the second. His success lay in the way he did it. He did it in true Texas style. Bigger, louder, and more persistently than anyone else, driving home the same handful of trumped up public fears, over and over again. Terrorist warnings. Gay marriage. WMD's. Flip-flops.
Last week, U.S. House Representative Tom Delay (R-TX) and U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R- you guessed it-TX) publicly lambasted the judicial branch of the government for doing exactly what the constitution prescribes by interpretting the law and keeping the executive and congressional arms of the federal government from overextending their reach. Everyone's entitled to their opinion and if the angry wittle rethuglicans want to throw temper tantrums and stomp their feet while crying out against "liberal activist judges", let them. However, when they begin implicitly condoning violence against judges, they cross a line. Ironically, Delay and Cornyn crossed this line and danced a little jig as only hate-filled Texans can. Delay said the judges in the Schiavo case would eventually get what they deserved, and Cornyn implied that he could understand wanting to take violent action against "activist judges".
Finally, over the weekend, some Texas rethuglicans announced they would like to write discrimination into one of the most powerful state constitutions in the Union with an anti-gay marriage amendment. Totally unnecessary considering Texas law already forbids same-sex marriage. But its not about the law, preserving the current elitist institution of marriage, or saving families. No, it is meant to be a Texas-sized symbol of intolerance for all the nation to ogle. However, something tells me that, ironically enough, they might just find a Texas-sized fight on their hands.
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I'm going to try updating my version of IE to see if that fixes the problem and report back my findings.
Disregard what I said about monitor rez settings and all . . . that . . . jazz.
How will gay marraige negatively effect my marriage?
He stated that marraige is SO important, he didnt believe it should be protected by shutting it off from people, he thought it needed to be shared with everyone due to its great importance.