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Don't forget Liz Carpenter.

https://www.chron.com/opinion/editorials/article/the-funny-feminist-liz-carpenter-knew-how-to-1708575.php

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The funny feminist: Liz Carpenter knew how to wield a joke
March 25, 2010
Speaking to University of Texas students, Liz Carpenter once described how, after graduating from UT in 1942, she headed straight to Washington, D.C.: “I had my journalism degree and my virtue still intact.” She paused: “I still have my journalism degree.”

Carpenter, who was 89 when she died Saturday, would approve of a tribute that began like that. “Start funny,” she advised would-be speechwriters, drawing on her own experience in the Johnson White House. (Lyndon, she'd clarify. Not Andrew.)

Like her friends Molly Ivins and Ann Richards, she used humor as a tool, a way to charm people who disagreed.

People like her boss. “Why don't you use your head?” Johnson once yelled at her. She yelled back: “I'm too busy trying to get you to use yours!”

But Carpenter wasn't just funny. As LBJ's executive assistant, she traveled with him to Dallas in 1963 and was a few cars behind President Kennedy when the shots rang out. A police car hustled her to the airport to board Air Force One — the plane that would carry JFK's body home to Washington, the plane on which LBJ would take the oath of office. In that police car, she scribbled the simplest, most serious speech of her life.

“I will do my best,” the new president told the nation after the plane landed. “I ask for your help — and God's.”

Eventually, laughter returned to the world. In the '70s, campaigning for the Equal Rights Amendment, Carpenter was the funniest of the feminists. “I personally am going to go to that Great Precinct Meeting in the Sky kicking and screaming if I'm not in the Constitution of the country that I worked for, paid taxes to, tried to be a total thinking citizen in,” she wrote.

She lost that fight. But she moved on, and when we picture her at that Great Precinct Meeting, she's not kicking and screaming. She's cracking jokes, working the room, using her head — or at least, busy trying to get heaven's powerful to use their own.

March 25, 2010

 

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csb/ My college roommate's maternal grandmother was Liz Carpenter.  I got to meet her a couple of times.  I was, admittedly not aware of her legacy.  But my former roommate would look after her house in deep South Austin.  So before the Colorado Big XII title game in 2005, he and I hatched this scheme to make a banner of the Longhorn logo with a Rose in its snout.  My buddy was a pretty good artist so he painted it up and I went to pick it up since he couldn't make it to the game.  If you watch the replay of the game, you can see us unfurl it towards the end of the fourth quarter from the top level (Hate was there).   So he's in the back cleaning her pool and he shows it to me and we're shooting the breeze.  And Liz comes out and says something like "Oh, that's nice boys.  What a fun idea.  Don't worry about the pool, worry about beating the shit outta Colorado."  The Robbs I know in Texas still speak of her very fondly.  /csb

What we were talking about?  Oh yeah, $1300 bus tickets.  A thing that we started.  For no apparent reason.  

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4 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

Jesus H. Christ - this bumbling, fat fuck is the perfect spokesperson for SB4 - it was obviously as well thought out as it seemed.  It's a fucking splendid idea for the USSC to let this sort of shit ride through, clearly encroaching on federal authority, just because the state GQP screams "INVASION!1!!1" / "EMERGENCY!11!"  At least the 5th Circuit stepped back in, but what the actual fuck?

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If you actually wanted to curb illegal immigration, you would have severe penalties for corporations that hire illegal aliens. But they don't care about illegal immigration as a problem to be solved. They care about it as a problem to be exploited.

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23 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

If you actually wanted to curb illegal immigration, you would have severe penalties for corporations that hire illegal aliens. But they don't care about illegal immigration as a problem to be solved. They care about it as a problem to be exploited.

Not to mention this doesn't apply to all the undocumented housekeepers/nannies/lawn workers these people use/employ (wink, wink).

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32 minutes ago, Gap03 said:

Jesus H. Christ - this bumbling, fat fuck is the perfect spokesperson for SB4 - it was obviously as well thought out as it seemed.  It's a fucking splendid idea for the USSC to let this sort of shit ride through, clearly encroaching on federal authority, just because the state GQP screams "INVASION!1!!1" / "EMERGENCY!11!"  At least the 5th Circuit stepped back in, but what the actual fuck?

This fat fuck? Yeah, that fat fuck.

 

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49 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

 

Ah, yes, the guy whose company is better at disaster readiness and response than the state and federal governments. Definitely a guy you should fuck with.

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Okay.  Happy Easter Weekend everybody.  But we're watching our government pick a fight with a grocery store that actually isn't really open this weekend despite their Christian business model.  But we don't live in a simulation?  See all y'all fuckers at the bottom.  Holy shit.  Where's the tylenol?  

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32 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

Oh this is because Tim Dunn hates public school and the Butts have been lifelong supporters of public school.

Don't forget Pennsylvania billionaire Jeff Yass, he's made Abbott his pet bitch by throwing money at him to move to vouchers

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1 minute ago, Smax said:

Don't forget Pennsylvania billionaire Jeff Yass, he's made Abbott his pet bitch by throwing money at him to move to vouchers

The George Soros hate is all projection

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4 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

oh shit, HEB is woke or DEI or whatever bullshit term is being thrown around these days

4 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

Fascists 

The Texas GOP is nothing but a bunch of fucking cowards and snowflakes.  They get offended over every little fucking thing, and it’s fitting that Dan Patrick, a fake-ass wannabe cowboy is basically their leader.

I don’t know when the wussification of Texas Republicans happened but holy shit it’s gotten worse.

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1 hour ago, South Austin said:

"Why don't you put your foot down and show some backbone by standing with your fellow Texans instead of running from the real issues?"

He has never run from an issue. 

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1 hour ago, South Austin said:

"Why don't you put your foot down and show some backbone by standing with your fellow Texans instead of running from the real issues?"

This is like suggesting Ted Cruz not be an asshole.   

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1 hour ago, pacman said:

3rd times a charm...too bad Abbott already raided the HHS budget for his fake border games

Remember, Texas claims to be a Christian state that cares about small government and protecting children, unless a billionaire from Pennsylvania or a couple of rich religious fanatics say otherwise.

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19 hours ago, pacman said:

3rd times a charm...too bad Abbott already raided the HHS budget for his fake border games

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Texas appeals $100K a day contempt fine

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Lawyers for the state of Texas Tuesday appealed a $100,000 a day fine levied by a federal court.

Texas was found in contempt Monday by U.S. District Judge Janis Jack for violating two of the court's orders in its long running foster litigation.

Both court orders deal with the quality and expediency of state investigations of abuse and neglect claims.

Specifically, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) was fined over the performance of Provider Investigations — a unit charged with investigating abuse and neglect in facilities that house people with intellectual disabilities.

The state also asked for a stay in the case to avoid the accruing fines.

“[C]ontempt is unwarranted because at minimum defendants are in substantial compliance with the remedial orders in question, and that the Court improperly imposed criminal contempt without affording defendants the constitutionally required criminal process,” said attorneys for the state in a filing requesting the stay.

Jack denied the stay.

During a three-day contempt hearing late last year, the court heard a litany of investigative failures and bureaucratic backlogs in the department.

Bioscience-MedicineTexas held in contempt over child welfare failuresPaul Flahive

The contempt fines would have concluded when the state certified it was back in “substantial compliance” with the orders. It also required the state to file a raft of data on all Provider Investigations cases dealing with the foster kids covered by the trial. The data would have validated the claims of the state that investigations were back in compliance.

“Rather than certify safe and timely investigations of reports of child abuse and neglect, the state seems determined to avoid responsibility,” said Paul Yetter, attorney for current and former foster youth. “This appeal sends a terrible message to Texas children that state leadership just doesn’t care about their safety.”

The order will now be referred to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. This is the first appeal to that court since the state hired outside attorneys Gibson Dunn and Crutchfield.

Allyson Ho, who is leading the state's defense in the federal litigation, is married to a justice on the 5th circuit.

Copyright 2024 Texas Public Radio. To see more, visit Texas Public Radio.

 

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https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2024-04-17/texas-appeals-100k-a-day-contempt-fine-in-long-running-foster-care-litigation

 

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https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-gov-greg-abbott-named-to-the-2024-time100-list-of-most-influential-people-in-the-world/

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was just named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in their 2024 TIME100 list. 

The news magazine cited Abbott’s zeal to give his politically conservative base cheers and progressives jeers through his actions on hot-button issues, such as diversity, gun control and the border. “During his nine years as the governor of Texas, he has proved adept at simultaneously throwing red meat to his conservative base while tempering pushback from the state’s liberal enclaves,” the magazine wrote.

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“We have worked tirelessly to ensure Texas remains a beacon of freedom and opportunity for the entire world, and it is an honor to be recognized for all we have accomplished by being named as one of the most influential people in the world by TIME100,” Abbott said in a statement. 

“From building the eighth-largest economy in the world to leading a historic border security mission amidst the most prolific border crisis our nation has ever seen, one thing remains clear: where Texas leads, others follow. I am proud of the work we have accomplished and look forward to building an even bigger, better Texas for generations to come.”

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So we are headed towards a TikTok ban (I don't see the Chinese government giving it up).

Since Jeff Yass threw millions at Abbott, is he going to pressure Abbott to declare Texas a free TikTok state as a fuck you to Biden and Congress?  Will Abbott mandate that TikTok is installed on every device owned by the state of Texas?

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21 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

I thought people that suffered severe spinal injuries were supposed to die early.  Why is this fucker still alive?

GOd fucking damnit.

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