Crazy in Texas
From Texas Republican convention (nothing like a little shrouded racial bashing during a prayer meeting, eh?)
At Saturday morning's prayer meeting, ministers delivered prayers, gospel singers sang, and the Rev. Dale Young, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Laredo, picked up the convention's dominant theme of immigration. "Lord, your words tell us there's a sign that this nation is under a curse, when the alien who lives among us grows higher and higher and we grow lower and lower," he preached.
From our Governor, put in place by the Texas Bush machine,
A US state is to enlist web users in its fight against illegal immigration by offering live surveillance footage of the Mexican border on the internet. The plan will allow web users worldwide to watch Texas' border with Mexico and phone the authorities if they spot any apparently illegal crossings.
But, on the bright side, Friday is Tom Delay's last day in Congress.
(Late addition: In a CBS Marketwatch article on lobbyist paid trips for congressmen, my state's shame, Sen. John Cornyn, tops the list with the most egregious example, a one day $20,000 trip from Washington to Hidalgo, Texas "to accept an award as The BorderFest Border Texan of the Year.")
posted by mikevotes at
7:59 AM
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"Lord, your words tell us there's a sign that this nation is under a curse, when the alien who lives among us grows higher and higher and we grow lower and lower."
Only a true religious zealot could so enthusiastically preach an idea unsupported by the scripture of which he claims to be the guardian.
Think of it, from Perkins to bin Ladin, the more unapologetically inerrant one claims to be in his powers to know the mind of God, and the more divisive and strident he makes his message, the further from the core faith he falls.
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-epm, at 8:55 AM
Yup, American Taleban.
And, I really like that last paragraphyou wrote. It's beautifully structured and timed and hammers the point. Man, that's nice writing.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 9:04 AM
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