Here's this week's edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance's weekly blog post round-up.
At
Bluedaze, TXsharon asks: What are the chances that an industry in charge of conducting its own testing to determine waste disposal methods will find toxin levels too high if that means disposal of the waste will be more costly? Read
Landfarms: Spreading Toxic Drilling Waste on Farmland (with video).
BossKitty at
TruthHugger sees lessons never learned ... it is NOT about religion, ya'll! How does it fit that US military crusader evangelists want to save these souls right before we blow them away. How can we justify putting Muslims on death row, by their own people, just because we convinced them to become
APOSTATES?!
General Order Number One, Forbid Proselytizing -- Evangelists Cannot Protect Murtads. Wars fought using 12th-century religious mentality means that civilization has taken two steps backwards!Mean Rachel is reminded
on Mother's Day of children, the lack thereof and why the pill should be available over the counter.CouldBeTrue of
South Texas Chisme wants to know how can Rick Perry brag about how well Texas is doing when
over 22% of our children face hunger every day?
Gary at
Easter Lemming Liberal News showed a video from the
Texas Freedom Network of our own
Texas Department of Miseducation in action.
WhosPlayin covered the
Denton County Democrats' election of a new county chair, after previous chairman
Neil Durrance resigned to run for U.S. Congress in District 26 in 2010.The bad news is that unemployment keeps rising in Texas. The good news is that means there's
more federal stimulus money available for unemployment insurance, if the Lege and Governor Perry take it.
Off the Kuff has the details.
WCNews at
Eye On Williamson posts on the latest stunt by our member of Congress,
AusChron asks a question about Rep. John Carter -- is he a nutball?
Neil at
Texas Liberal is very glad that the left won a big election victory in India:
Strong Victory For Center-Left Congress Party In India --World's Two Largest Democracies Now Firmly Reject Conservatives.
Harry Balczak is a little upset. Come by
McBlogger so you to can understand how much
he hates the idea of Texas becoming so $%@*$%%^ puritanical.
John Coby at
Bay Area Houston says it is
time to sunset Bob Perry's Builder Commission.
This week Teddy at
Left of College Station covers President Obama's decision to continue to use the
Bush administration commissions to prosecute detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Also, Wednesday Teddy will be a co-host of
Biased Transmission, a progressive talk radio show on the community radio station
89.1FM KEOS. This week Jim Olson,
Texas A&M University senior lecturer and CIA-officer-in-residence, will return to the show to discuss the "enhanced interrogations" used during the Bush Administration.
Over at
TexasKaos, liberaltexan takes on the Obama administration's decision to continue the military Con-Missions. He seems to believe we should, like, trust our own judicial institutions and not make up new, untested ones with no demonstration of necessity or superiority. See his diary,
President Obama to Continue Con-Missions.Xanthippas at
Three Wise Men takes heed of journalist Ahmed Rashid's warnings about Pakistan, which
teeters on the brink of chaos.Good ol' boy
Gene Green got real scared by some progressive activists who came to his office this past week. PDiddie recounted the poor Congressman's terror at
Brains and Eggs.
And lastly but not leastly, Citizen Sarah over at
Texas Vox, one of the newest members of TPA, celebrates a victory for renewable energy as the
Senate passes through a non-wind renewable portfolio standard. Translation from green geek speech: Lots more solar power for Texas!