- Texas Legislators Ask Governor to Clarify Bar and Restaurant Classifications
- TWC to Extend Payment Deadlines For Employers to Reimburse State for Unemployment Costs
- Texas Unemployment Claims Near 3 Million as Extra Benefits Ending
- Texas Sales Tax Holiday is Aug. 7-9
- Texas’ state budget is in a shambles. Let’s not make it worse with shortsighted decisions – typical liberals: Don’t cut spending even if we’re broke
- WuFlu is keeping Texas prisoners who’ve been approved for parole behind bars
- Tropical depression to make landfall in Texas on Saturday, will bring heavy rainfall
- Abbott Rosters State Resources As Tropical Depression Approaches Texas
- TWIA’s board advised not to increase rates in August despite growing shortfalls – they are putting us right back where we started.
- You Won’t Believe What Kind Of Sex Ed LGBT [homosexual] Activists Want In Texas Public Schools
- Homosexual LGBT Law Section, others condemn State Bar board president’s comments
- How Long Does An Injury Lawsuit Take In Texas?
- Abbott Appoints Santini To 457th Judicial District Court
- Abbott Appoints Duskie To 426th Judicial District Court
- Abbott Appoints Adams To First Court Of Appeals
- Texas Supreme Court rejects MQ Sullivan bid to prevent discovery in case of Empower Texans alleged illegal lobbying
- Harris County asks Abbott to extend early voting for November election
- Bloomberg-backed gun safety group endorsing Democrats in 14 North Texas statehouse races
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Six Texas Republicans break ranks, join Dems in vote to remove Confederate statues at U.S. Capitol
- China Cites ‘Malicious Slander’ as Houston Consulate Closes
- ‘We’re finally taking a stand.’ Texas Republicans cheer closure of Houston’s Chinese consulate
- It’s fair to close the Chinese Consulate in Houston
- FBI suspects Chinese scientist with ties to the military is hiding in the consulate in San Francisco
- U.S. Closes Chinese Consulate in TX over Privacy, IP Theft Concerns
- Chinese Consulate’s Closure Could Have Serious Ramifications For Houston
- House GOP Leader: Pelosi promoting Chinese Communist Party ‘propaganda’ with ‘Trump virus’ comment
- Cornyn-sponsored Juneteenth bill blocked by fellow Republican – it’s a bad bill.
- Crenshaw, Hurd, Other Texas Republicans Vote with Democrats to Remove Confederate Monuments
- Rep. Castro presses for COVID aid for Latinos who were denied March stimulus checks
- Sen. Cruz to Chair Hearing on Antifa Violence
- Cruz calls hearing on ‘antifa’ and political violence as Dems denounce Trump’s show of force against protesters
- Stimulus check: Next coronavirus relief bill expected to include $1,200 cash payments
- Senate, White House reach agreement on COVID-19 relief bill
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Trump cancels convention in Jacksonville, amid coronavirus spike in Florida
- Poll: Reports of Trump’s Defeat ‘Greatly Exaggerated’
- NRA-PVF Endorses President Donald Trump for Reelection
- Unlike Biden’s Pandering, Trump’s Record Has Actually Saved Black Lives
- Joe Biden’s New Stutter Defense
- Biden’s Private Vow to Bernie Will Terrify Anyone Worried America Is Moving Too Far Left
- Joe Biden calls Trump the country’s ‘first’ racist president – he’s forgotten about a long list of Democrat presidents like Woodrow Wilson!
- Liberalism Politics US Politics
- Biden Will Destroy the Suburbs
- Amid economic instability, here are the two things voters care about most
- Denying Americans the simple pursuit of happiness
- Planned Parenthood finally grapples with Margaret Sanger’s racist past
- It Looks Like the Czech Republic Might Get a Second Amendment
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- Border / immigration
- Convicted felon previously deported four times captured by Border Patrol agents
- 109 Migrants Apprehended in Human Smuggling Stash House, Tractor-Trailer Incidents
- 33 Migrants Found in Trucks in Failed Human Smuggling Attempts
- Nearly 4 tons of marijuana concealed in ketchup shipment seized in South Texas
- Monitor Calls on US to Stop Detaining Migrant Kids in Hotels – so Obama’s cages were bad and now hotels are bad. Hmmm.
- Mexican President AMLO Doubles Down on ‘Hugs Not Bullets’ for Cartels
- 185 Bodies Found in Cartel-Dug Mass Graves in One Mexican State
- New York lawmakers pass measure to stop ICE courthouse arrests of illegal aliens
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- Coronavirus related (while I hold over some stories for a while this is not a collection that grows each day. You must go to previous days’ posts.)
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 7/23/2020 (pdf) [TDEM is no longer posting this until late in the day] – 4,348 deaths. Official Texas 2018/19 flu season P&I deaths were 9249 by end of July last year, over 10,095 for the annual season. The # tested in Texas is now 3,331,844.
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- Individual Liberty in a Pandemic: Government’s Power to Restrict Your Freedoms in a Crisis
- Texas bar owners suing Abbott over booze ban: ‘Bar Lives Matter’
- Facts About COVID-19, CDC says virus close to losing epidemic status
- Thousands of scientists and doctors condemn COVID-19 panic, more
- Shutdowns Are Not a Serious Solution to the Coronavirus Threat
- Unemployment in Costa Rica reaches 20.1%, the highest in its history, in midst of pandemic – the cost of ill-advised “shutdowns”
- Pandemic tensions revive protests in Latin America
- Time is Running Out for Coronavirus Course Correction
- Country-by-country data on mortality risk of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Nirenberg: Stay home and avoid going to a friend’s house to help slow coronavirus in San Antonio
- ‘It has terrified me’: Liberal group pushes ahead with door-knocking despite staff’s coronavirus cases
- A Phony “Pandemic” of Stats and Symbolism
- Odessa Doctor Sees Improvement in Coronavirus Patients Using Inhaled Steroid Treatment
- Texas Legislators Ask Governor to Clarify Bar and Restaurant Classifications
- WuFlu is keeping Texas prisoners who’ve been approved for parole behind bars
- Poll: Republican voters say sports should be allowed to resume while most Democrats disagree
- Starr County to issue shelter-in-place order by end of week – not legal
- El Paso bars get Texas food permits to reopen, sidestep governor’s COVID-19 order
- COVID & masks
- CDC: Considerations for Wearing Cloth Face Coverings
- Now Abbott’s chief wants you to wear masks inside your homes!
- Sen. Bob Hall Criticizes Abbott’s Face Mask Order Shift: ‘We Are Expected to Live As If We Have a Monarchy’
- Some “experts” claim we need to wear masks “for several years.”
- MASKS – manners, manipulation and maths – what are your odds of getting or dying from COVID-19? Healthy People Should Not Wear Masks
- Republican activist sues Gov. Abbott, challenging mask order
- Sheriffs Across Texas Say Governor Abbott’s Mask Order is Unenforceable – things I pointed out the day the decree was issued from King Abbott
- Woman takes Lefty talking points about how ‘it’s just a mask’ apart
- SRI finds ‘counterfeit’ masks among hospital supplies of coronavirus gear
- Southwest Tightens Face-Mask Rule, Delta Steps up Testing – won’t allow health waivers to its face-mask rule.
- Ohio sheriff’s office asks people to stop calling 911 over masks
- DC mayor issues order requiring masks outside home
- In an age of science, why are face masks a matter of opinion?
- Ask A Doctor: Are Clear Face Shields As Effective As Masks? – well they must be given masks are not effective
- Cuomo violated his own mask rules while in Georgia, declined to self-quarantine on return to N.Y.
- COVID & schools
- CDC director says closed schools pose larger public health risk for kids than reopening, U.S. Pediatricians Call For In-Person School This Fall
- Dr. Scott Atlas: There Is No Risk To Children From Covid-19, I Don’t Know Why People Deny This. AUDIO
- Dr. Scott Atlas: Too much hysteria over school reopenings VIDEO
- Virus Spread, Not Politics Should Guide Schools, Doctors Say
- UIL announces plan for high school sports
- Amid calls for school shutdowns, U.K. scientist says student-teacher infections ‘incredibly rare’
- As school reopenings falter, some Texas parents hire private teachers. Others can only afford to cross their fingers.
- Association of American Physicians & Surgeons, with the American Association of Pediatricans, the National Academy of Sciences and other scientific bodies are calling for schools to reopen normally this fall
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- Business
- Tesla picks Austin for $1 billion auto factory, more, more – leaves CA because of tyranny of gov’t and moves to CA-lite in Texas?!
- Tesla’s new $1B ‘Gigafactory’ will open near Austin, with Musk calling it an ‘ecological paradise’
- Southwest’s 2Q Adj. Loss Tops $1B on Weak Travel Demand
- Southwest Tightens Face-Mask Rule, Delta Steps up Testing
- Southwest Will Test Thermal Cameras at Dallas Love Field
- American Airlines: 2Q Earnings Snapshot
- Study: 19% of Texans would skip bar-less vacation
- Kinder Morgan posts $637 million loss in second quarter
- Baker Hughes bracing for second wave of Covid-19 lockdowns
- AAA Texas: Statewide average gas price drops again
- Lubbock’s latest economic index shows first year-over-year drop since 2012
- Rackspace, you’re bigger, quieter and more indebted than we remembered
- Texas Unemployment Claims Near 3 Million as Extra Benefits Ending
- No One-Size-Fits-All Rules for Business in the Pandemic
- Haynesville overtakes Eagle Ford as second most popular location of rigs
- Earthstone Energy returns curtailed production, drills in Upton County
- Tuesday Morning bankruptcy leading to some Texas store closures
- Kimberly-Clark: 2Q Earnings Snapshot
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Major League Baseball Paints ‘Black Lives Matter’ on Pitcher’s Mound
- Cubs planning to show ‘unified’ support for ‘racial justice’ before their opener Friday against the Brewers
- Portland Mayor Booed by Violent Protest, Tear Gassed by Feds
- Portland Mayor Observes Mayhem up Close, Says Nothing to See Here
- Seattle: ‘Massive’ property damage, arson and looting last night
- Sierra Club Apologizes for White Supremacist Co-Founder John Muir
- Wichita Falls Woman Shares Amazing Story During Confederate Statue Meeting VIDEO
- Wichita Falls’ Cathy Dodson says much about Civil War monuments
- Sen. Cruz on Violent Mobs: ‘This Is the Consequence of the Radical and Extreme Left’ VIDEO
- Unlike Biden’s Pandering, Trump’s Record Has Actually Saved Black Lives
- Maryland county Police Chief resigns citing “reforms” that will make cops and residents unsafe
- Chicago mayor who said ‘under no circumstances’ would ‘Trump’s troops’ be allowed in her city agrees to deployment of federal agents
- About All That Violence in Chicago
- The ‘Systemic Racism’ Canard
- NFL’s Redskins change name to ‘Washington Football Team,’ reports
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Officials: Fort Hood Soldier Believed to Have Drowned
- Ringgold firefighter remember with full processional (brief video)
- Midland man charged after allegedly hitting woman in the head
- 68-year-old Midland woman dies in hit-and-run, more
- Abilene police need help finding missing man
- Abilene man sentenced to 15 years in prison for shooting teen while he was driving
- Abilene man arrested for distributing lewd material of a minor
- Andrews man indicted on murder charge posts bail
- Smith Co. (Tyler) police warn motorists of tire-flattening spikes scattered on major highway
- Texas needs this Afghan teenage girl
- San Antonio attorney fraudulently billed millions to client, arbitrator finds
- Bowie Co. c\aseworker pleads not guilty to sexual assault of a teen
- Bible helps police bust alleged burglar
- Spring man’s police custody death ruled accidental drug overdose
- Man stabs, kills ex-boyfriend in east Houston, police say
- Texas kissing bug population spike could increase risk of Chagas disease in dogs, humans
- Lightning hits Fort Worth teen on Florida beach and shoots out his foot, family says
- Seagoville Police Chase Ends in Fatal Crash in Dallas
- Arrest made following fatal hit-and-run in Upshur Co.
- 32-year-old man fatally shot in Northwest Dallas; suspect at large
- Arlington SWAT Team Raids House After Fake 911 Call, Surprises 88-Year-Old Man
- Shots fired while investigating Magnolia murder suspect’s home, sheriff’s office says
- DPS trooper shot at fleeing driver in North Austin, authorities say
- Man shot in Deer Park Jack in the Box drive-thru, shooter steals his car
- East Texas man sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts of aggravated sexual assault of child; 2 others awaiting trial
- Court Upholds Alex Jones Sanctions in Sandy Hook Case
- They could’ve arrested him at the courthouse. Instead, deputies waited till the cameras were rolling and busted down his door.
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- Local government
- Former San Antonio city manager to release pull-no-punches book, ‘Greedy Bastards’
- San Antonio: Former Health Director Won’t Have to Return Relocation Assistance Funds
- Cuts, no tax rate increase reflected in WF 2020-2021 proposed budget – again: Remember: The property “tax rate” is meaningless by itself
- Rising Star Police Chief forced to resign after DA refuses to accept cases from him
- Missy Latham takes reins of Megargel council
- Big Spring closes city hall for 14 days due to COVID tests
- Levelland City Hall closed due to employee testing positive for COVID-19
- Lubbock ISD trustees approve extracurricular participation for virtual students
- Abbott Announces Film Friendly Texas Designation For The City Of Bonham
- Plano Citizens Score Victory in Fight With City Over Referendum Rights
- A year after arrestees moved to Weslaco, Mercedes jail still in planning phase
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- Colleges & universities
- Texas A&M-San Antonio, Alamo Colleges to Teach Most Classes Online This Fall
- HPU thanks donors for support of piano lab project
- UT Coronavirus Research Could Lead To Faster Vaccine Production
- Organizers urge second polling location on Texas A&M campus
- Texas State faculty weigh challenges of return to face-to-face instruction
- Sun Belt Conference delays start of fall season
Pratt’s post for 7/23/2020
July 23, 2020 by 2 Comments
I’m curious what the ramifications of closing the Chinese Consulate in Houston Texas will have. It will be much more difficult for the Chinese government to steal intellectual properties of the industries there. Such industries include oil exploration, refinement, space technologies, and advanced medicine to name a few. Watch to see if the Chines space program slows down or not. Watch to see if their oil industry slows down their development of new technology. That would be a pretty good indication that the Chinese government actually is doing what we all know they’re doing. At least those of us working in the engineering field know it’s going on.
We’re so riddled with Communist Chinese influence and spying EVERYWHERE that it will simply be a small bother.