- New Texas rule that allows social workers to turn away LGBTQ, disabled clients sparks outrage, calls for reversal – the rule is so that workers who disagree are not forced by the state to act against their religious values.
- Second whistleblower who accused Texas AG Ken Paxton of corruption has been fired – damned biased media, to-date there is no evidence any of these folk were “whistleblowers” on anything, not yet anyway.
- TxDOT trading tolls for managed lanes as it lays out long-term plans
- Saturday Appointments Still Available at Driver License Offices
- TEA investigators urge a state monitor for South San Antonio ISD board, more
- Families of some special education students in Texas may be eligible for $1,500 in aid to offset pandemic challenges
- Texas Stops Nationwide Telemarketing Fine Wine Brokerage Scheme
- DSHS Provide Nearly 3 Million Flu Vaccines For Texas Children, Adults
- Harris Co. Judge Hidalgo asks Abbott to confirm drive-thru voting is legal as Supreme Court action looms
- Everything you wanted to know about mail ballots but were afraid to ask – a good explanation of how it works.
- Postal Service assures all ballots will be postmarked, after one Dallas voter was denied
- In Dallas test, Post Office delivered 100% of test mail within 2 days
- From sound trucks to selfies, here are weird laws about voting in Texas – the laws are not “weird” and all have strong justifications
- ‘That’s unheard of’ — Bexar County elections chief reports 60 percent of mail-in ballots have already been returned
- Herman: With GOP’s Texas-sized win streak on the line, Rick Perry rides again
- National Democrats are increasingly assertive about their chances in Texas this election — and they’re spending accordingly
- Why Asian American voters in Texas may hold outsized importance in key races this year
- National Republican group calls battle for Texas House a ‘dogfight’ that GOP will win
- Gov. Abbott attacks Texas House Democratic candidates as Beto acolytes who want to turn this state into California VIDEO – well, he’s right
- HD45 & 47: Central Texas Republicans Try to Reclaim State Seats From Radical Dems
- HD67: Democrat Lorenzo Sanchez on TV blasting Rep. Leach as a Trump Republican and right wing extremist VIDEO
- HD113: Rep. Rhetta Bowers Faces Stiff Competition from Republican Will Douglas in North Texas
- HD114: Health care could be deciding factor in Dallas County battleground district
- HD134: Bringing their most firepower yet, Democrats look to unseat Rep. Sarah Davis while she stays positive in reelection bid
- TX3: Republican Taylor Defends Collin Congressional Seat Against Democrat Flip Attempt
- TX21: U.S. Rep. Chip Roy appeals to veterans, rural base: ‘Wendy Davis could win this race’
- John Cornyn confronts late spending spree by MJ Hegar, Democratic allies in reelection campaign
- In ‘uncharted waters’ of competitive Texas politics, can the polls keep up?
- Paramount: Vote. Imperative: Vote the full ballot, top to bottom.
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Ben Carson touts federal homelessness initiative in Austin
- Barrett Nomination Clears Panel With Democrats Boycotting
- John Cornyn and Ted Cruz vote to advance Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination to the full senate
- Cruz Discusses Senate Democrats Boycotting Committee Hearing Ahead of Vote on Judge Barrett
- Cruz: Democrats Angry They Can’t Stop Supreme Court Nomination
- Cruz on Fox Outlines Final Steps to Confirm Judge Barrett VIDEO
- Majority of Americans and One-Third of Democrats Back Amy Coney Barrett’s SCOTUS Confirmation
- Senate Committee Subpoenas Twitter, Facebook
- Report: DOJ Investigation into ‘Unmasking’ Ends with No Charges – covering for each other.
- Judge rules to not release Russia probe documents over Trump tweets
- Pelosi says a deal on another coronavirus stimulus package is ‘close’
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Trump, Biden set to face off tonight in Nashville in final presidential debate
- Trump Posts Video of Contentious 60 Minutes Interview on Facebook VIDEO
- – and listen to the amazing bias and ignorance of Lesley Stahl
- Lesley Stahl Exchange With Trump About Biden Scandal Shows How Completely Broken Media Is
- Immigration, Trump’s Signature Issue, Takes a Back Seat in 2020 Campaign
- The Pollster Who Thinks Trump Will Win: Talking With Robert Cahaly of Trafalgar Group AUDIO
- CNN’s Lemon: Black Male Trump Supporters ‘Are Being Bamboozled’
- ’It’s getting out of whack’: Biden plans review on Supreme Court packing – the courts are only “out of whack” when Democrats lose rulings.
- Warren on Court-Packing: ‘Everything Is on the Table’
- Any Court-Reform Commission Would Be a Sham
- Biden now says he’d form a commission to address issue of court-packing, report
- Nolte: Useful Lincoln Project Idiots Spread Iran’s Anti-Trump Misinformation
- Garcia: San Antonio advertising legend lends his talents to the Lincoln Project – nasty liars and turncoats
- When will Biden answer questions about his family’s foreign financial dealings?
- Emails Reveal Hunter Biden’s Efforts to Do Deals with China
- Former Biden Biz Partner: Joe Biden Knew Family ‘Aggressively Leveraged’ His Name to Make Millions
- Kamala Harris and Other Top Dems Listed in Email as ‘Key Contacts’ in Biden Family Deal With Chinese Firm
- Hunter business partner confirms e-mail, details Biden push to make millions from China
- Biden Insider Tony Bobulinski Provides Trove of Documents to Senate Investigators
- Former NYPD Commissioner Kerik says ‘iron curtain’ in U.S. with censorship and Biden’s laptop
- NPR Refuses to Report on Growing Biden Scandal: We Don’t Want to Waste Listeners’ Time – and they get taxpayer money
- Wikipedia Editors Label Biden Scndal ‘Conspiracy Theory’ After Censorship Attempts
- Dorsey Breaks Silence on Twitter Censorship, Accepts Blame for Company’s ‘Not Great’ Response
- Unanswered questions for Big Tech
- Sen. Cruz: Days Before Consequential Election, Big Tech Billionaires Acting As Democrats’ Willing Henchmen VIDEO
- Rudy Giuliani’s twin bombshells
- Mitt Romney Announces He Did Not Vote for Trump – like McCain, Romney suffers from a great amount of self-importance
- AOC’s snub of a tribute to an assassinated Nobel Peace Prize winner sure makes it seem like all Israeli leaders are too problematic for the progressive left
- Democrats claim they are being threatened but emails are likely a scam
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- Border / immigration
- Governor Abbott Announces Mexico Fulfillment Of Water Delivery Obligations Under 1944 Water Treaty
- Immigration, Trump’s Signature Issue, Takes a Back Seat in 2020 Campaign
- FBI Most Wanted Fugitive Linked to Recent Mexican Border State Murders
- Former Mexican Defense Secretary Denied Bail in U.S. Drug Case
- Haitian Migrants Surging Into U.S., Say Feds in Texas
- The parents of 545 children separated at the border still haven’t been found
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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 10/22/2020 (pdf) – 17,201* deaths & “active cases” of 84,538 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people, about 3/10ths of 1% of the population.) The # viral tested in Texas is now 7,474,874. * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy – a MUST read. Plus, according to the *CDC only 9,856 have died nationwide with COVID-19 as the exclusive cause of death!
- *CDC’s COVID-19 fatality numbers suggest fraud to cause panic
- Why the numbers are meaningless and inflated by Dr. Kristin Held, president, Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
- Collin County Slams State’s Bad Coronavirus Data – Judge Chris Hill says the county is “100 percent certain” the numbers reported by Texas DSHS are not accurate. Collin County Pushes for Fix as State Agency Admits ‘Significantly’ Overstating Coronavirus Cases
- Texas overstated COVID positive testing rate by about 100%
- COVID-19 and the false positive trap: Current test results should not be automatically accepted as real
- COVID Death Stats…Inaccurate or Just Misleading?
- Major Hospital CEO Refutes Austin Mayor’s Coronavirus Doomsday Prediction
- Nashville officials accused of hiding low coronavirus cases linked to bars and restaurants
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional , ‘He’s decided he’s the king’: Gov. Greg Abbott’s COVID response leaves lawmakers on sidelines
- Federal judge rules Pennsylvania COVID-19 restrictions unconstitutional
- Michigan Supreme Court calls lock down orders by governor illegal
- A Timeline of Gov. Abbott’s Executive Orders and Case Numbers, An Overview of the Texas Disaster Act, the Source of the State’s Coronavirus Response
- Texas GOP, doctors to Abbott: Data, science doesn’t warrant five months of shutdown, The Lockdown Has Gone From a Mistake to a Crime
- The lockdowns were a bad idea and did not work
- A ‘Failed Strategy’: Doctors Review Abbott’s Coronavirus Response
- Never has a virus been so oversold, Dr. Sonal Desai: They Blinded Us From Science
- Thousands of scientists and doctors condemn COVID-19 panic, more
- Has Sweden been vindicated?, More data from Sweden demonstrates failure of lock downs everywhere else, Sweden declares victory over COVID-19
- How Reliable Are COVID-19 Tests? Depends Which One You Mean
- Could mass testing for COVID-19 do more harm than good? – a must read
- The Big COVID Con Exposed
- Dr. John Lee: The dangers of a COVID ‘elimination’ policy
- Dr. Daniel Jeanmonod: “Do you remember a winter without a cold?”
- The real sickness afflicting America
- Texas Democrats remind they’d run Texas as a prison state
- Only a misinformed public would believe Democrats took COVID more seriously than President Trump
- Governor Abbott Surges State Resources To Support COVID-19 Response In El Paso
- Abbott’s Shutdown Orders Kill Thousands of Texas Businesses
- Dr. Li-Meng Yan Reveals China’s Fake Science and the COVID-19 Cover-up
- Look Who’s Skeptical of a Coronavirus Vaccine Now
- The curious case of the man who caught COVID twice
- People who survive serious COVID have long-lasting immune response, MGH study shows
- The incredible vanishing World Health Organization
- After months of encouraging lockdowns WHO officials now condemn them
- Germany’s growing COVID revolt
- Study: Almost impossible to contract COVID-19 on an airplane
- The US is coming out of COVID no worse than any European country
- Local [Lubbock] COVID outbreak out of control – yellow journalism on display! The headline is false in a relative sense and the story gives no data to support such a scare claim.
- EMS sees a huge rise on 911 calls regarding COVID-19 – this is one of the costs of yellow journalism like that of the AJ and all the other media propaganda.
- College student cohort at center of Lubbock rise in COVID cases
- At Least 6 Texas Bars’ Licenses Suspended for COVID-19 Violations in Statewide Sting
- Family restaurant fined for reopening beats the rap in Pennsylvania court
- Michigan Drops Charges Against Barber After Court Strikes Down Whitmer COVID-19 Restrictions
- Epidemiologists: Wichita Falls likely to exceed hospital capacity in next three weeks
- You’re Only an ‘Expert’ When You Agree
- New Columbia Study Blames the White House for at Least 130,000 ‘Avoidable’ COVID Deaths – this story is full of ridiculous unsupportable claims. Note the claim about choosing countries with “some level of success” when they actually left out countries with high success that chose the less tyrannical way. Also, Japan never had a ban on gathers as such is disallowed by its constitution.
- The dying COVID-19 epidemic – see the graphics
- Governor Abbott Surges Additional COVID-19 Resources To El Paso
- Texas’ top doctors discuss lessons learned from 1st COVID-19 wave and how it could help possible 2nd surge
- Xi’s world: COVID has accelerated China’s rise
- Europe’s long COVID: things aren’t getting better any time soon – about the economic damage
- COVID & masks
- Sheriffs Across Texas Say Governor Abbott’s Mask Order is Unenforceable – things I pointed out the day the decree was issued from King Abbott
- Masks are neither effective nor safe: Summary of the science – ignore who the author is, it does not matter, simply check the sources/footnotes.
- Wearing face masks more than doubled Texas COVID-19 fatality rate! (But wait there’s more…)
- MASKS – manners, manipulation and maths – what are your odds of getting or dying from COVID-19? Healthy People Should Not Wear Masks
- Government routinely warned against mask use — before it was political – exactly as I have written and spoken about. See: More on face masks and why we should object to decrees to wear such
- Oxford: Evaluation of the Filtration Performance of Cloth Masks and Common Fabric Materials Against 20–1000 nm Size Particles
- Unmasking the surgeons: the evidence base behind the use of facemasks in surgery
- CDC inadvertently admits the uselessness of masks against COVID-19
- Europe’s Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren’t Helpful in Beating COVID-19
- Face masks are ‘NOT necessary’ and could even harm the fight against coronavirus, say Holland’s top scientists
- The danger of following ‘the science’
- The Dystopian Age of the Mask
- Americans Against Unconstitutional Mask Mandates
- State Mask Mandates Don’t Apply to Businesses, Say Lawyers for Local Chamber of Commerce
- Majority of voters take relatively relaxed approach to mask-wearing in public
- Mask Fanatics Have Officially Abandoned Science To Control Your Life
- Four graphs prove the utter failure of lockdowns and masks
- Florida proves (again) the stupidity of mask mandates
- Citizen Victory: Southlake Stops Mandating Masks When Voting
- AG Paxton Issues Letter Regarding Masking Requirements for Individuals Administering Elections
- ‘Mask mandates don’t work’: White House COVID adviser criticizes ‘obsession’ with masks
- Dr. Birx Rips the Mask off and Goes After Scott Atlas
- CDC: ‘Strong recommendation’ but no rule for masks on planes
- CDC: 85% of COVID-19 patients report ‘always’ or ‘often’ wearing a mask – Americans are wearing masks, but masks aren’t working.
- Joe Biden Flip-Flops Again: My Coronavirus Plan ‘Starts with a Mask Mandate Nationwide’ – Dems love “solutions” that don’t work
- Watch: FNC’s Carlson Exposes CNN’s Cuomo Hypocrisy on Masks VIDEO
- 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; Too much hysteria over school reopenings VIDEO
- TEA creates COVID-19 Data Tracking System for Texas Public Schools
- TEA Updates Pandemic School Funding Formula
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- Business/Economy
- American & Southwest Add to Airline Loss Parade in 3Q
- Pandemic Hurts AT&T in 3rd Quarter; Wireless Unit Stable
- Tesla Posts Net Profit for Fifth Straight Quarter
- Ex-Blue Bell Creameries CEO Charged in Deadly Listeria Case
- Exxon Mobil, still reeling from massive oil bust, to lay off workers after all, more
- Don’t mess with Texas, Texas tea, or Exxon!
- Austin’s Astrotech expects to raise $18M with stock offering
- Tesla’s Austin-area site could include battery production
- Armstrong Mechanical Inc. paid over $100,000 in back wages – the Davis-Bacon act is bull bleep.
- Texas Stops Nationwide Telemarketing Fine Wine Brokerage Scheme
- San Antonio’s USAA Bank hit with $85 million fine by bank regulator
- Redfield’s Tavern caught in ‘no more gays’ scandal
- Texas’ Oil and Gas Industry Facing Uncertainty Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, Stabilizing as Election Looms
- $1M suit: ‘Camouflaged’ item on Target shelf injured woman; woman represented by attorney arrested for recording co-worker in bathroom
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Second-Degree Murder Charge Upheld Against Derek Chauvin, Third-Degree Murder Dropped
- San Francisco Officials Approve CAREN Act to Outlaw ‘Racist’ 911 Calls 186
- University of Texas Longhorn band won’t play “The Eyes of Texas” this weekend after some members say they’re unwilling – the Left wins
- My week with the baying antifa mob
- World Series Ratings Crash, Viewership at All-Time Low – we stopped watching all the sports that have gone so political
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Man Faces State, Federal Charges in Death of Houston Police Sergeant
- Anti-Wimp: Armed homeowner stopped home invasion; indictments made
- 3 people die, including infant, in 4-vehicle collision
- Bowie PD investigates robbery, teen robbed at gunpoint
- WFPD: Another ATM burglarized in Wichita Falls
- Accused Bahama Bucks burglar charged with three more burglaries
- San Angelo Police: Stolen vehicle pursuit ends in arrest of suspects San Angelo Police were involved in the pursuit of a stolen vehicle Thursday. All vehicle occupants are in custody.
- Abilene man accused of sexually abusing two children for years
- Armed carjacking in Central Lubbock, police report says
- Woman says she was stalked in Lubbock Walmart
- Appeal turned down in Round Rock murder conviction
- Austin police looking for person of interest in string of robberies near UT
- Fighting Climate Change Is an Act of Faith for These Texans – that’s what it is for all these folk, dogma based faith.
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- Local government
- Lubbock: Will the real Dan Pope please stand up? An aspirational endorsement
- Houston Uses COVID-19 Disaster Loophole to Raise Taxes Beyond State Limit – the lying never ends with Mayor Turner claiming a tax increase is not a tax increase!
- TEA investigators urge a state monitor for South San Antonio ISD board, more
- Bexar State of the County address: Judge talks pandemic impact on businesses, elections
- Kyle residents pay slice of fare in city’s transit alliance with Uber
- Dallas City Council applauds new master plan for a greener Fair Park
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- Colleges & universities
- Collin College Professor’s Tweet About Vice President Sparks Debate Over Academia And Free Speech
- MSU 2021 spring break canceled due to COVID-19 concerns
- Cancellation of MSU spring break comes as surprise to staff, students
- ACU receives $1.3M federal student success support grant
- Texas Tech main campus decision still pending, Angelo State spring semester to start late, no spring break
- Tech Undergraduate Admissions addresses standardized testing policy impact
- Texas Tech Ranked No. 1 Online College In The State
- University of Texas Longhorn band won’t play “The Eyes of Texas” this weekend after some members say they’re unwilling
- Texas regents: ‘The Eyes of Texas is, and will remain, the official school song’
Pratt’s post for 10/22/2020
October 22, 2020 by 2 Comments
I continue to get the message that we are spending 1/6th of our economy on medicine, but our medical system cannot handle a virus.
Fine point.