Texas Republicans have decided on a platform that includes abolishing minimum wage, cancelling climate research, banning the teaching of evolution at schools, and repealing the voting rights act, among other things, but hilariously (or depressingly) the one thing on this laundry list that people are angry about is their plan to "rehabilitate" homosexuals, a practice that many say is harmful.
BBC News has more: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27774102
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday June 10 2014, @03:29PM
The hell? Texas doesn't even share a border with Wyoming. It's 2 freakin' states away through Colorado and (Oklahoma|New Mexico).
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1) by redneckmother on Tuesday June 10 2014, @04:29PM
Check out the historical maps of Texas. An early one can be seen at https://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/atlas_texas/texas_land_grants.jpg [utexas.edu] and shows parts of current New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Wyoming were once "Texas".
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday June 10 2014, @04:55PM
Even on that map, Texas barely has a border with Wyoming.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday June 10 2014, @06:53PM
You didn't get it? The "some people" who say this might be Americans, and that means they are "geographically challenged" (See Miss Teen South Carolina, 2007). Or it was intended to be a spiritual relation, the kind where Petroleum substitutes for cattle ranching, and brings about intellectual decline, moral collapse, and the rise of rather bizarre Republican party platforms. And Cheneys.