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Rick Perry has the genetic coding to be an idiot, and while he has the desire not to be an idiot, he apparently is still compelled to be an idiot anyway.
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I know there are some smart, decent people in Texas, so I say we give those people a month to get the hell out and then we build that fence so many want to build, but we do it on the northern Texas border.
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Perry's line of reasoning—gay people are like alcoholics for come

Spoiler alert: A straight person isn't going to think it takes self-discipline to not be gay.
But it turns out a straight person will pretend to think that in exchange for money and power.
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They don't seem to be catering to the closed minded so much as trying to drive away the open minded.
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@2:

Better yet, let's sell the state back to Mexico and let THEM build the fence.
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Some of us in Texas are fighting the good fight. Please remember that there are folks in Austin, and increasingly in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, trying to bring progressive, or at least sane, policies into action in Texas. We are becoming a purple state, and hopefully the recent idiocy of the GOP will help.
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smart texans: get the fuck out of there.

please understand that the bad texans are winning, and have been for a long time. and for that reason, it's my life's goal to never step foot in texas.

you're wasting your efforts in trying to make it better, or trying to explain to me that it's not all bad. i don't give a fuck about austin. abandon it and let the dipshits shoot each other. your efforts are better spent in the north.
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@7 you're pretty all-knowing for a smug fucker that has never set foot in Texas. where do you live, and what do you know about making a difference? I know plenty; I have case-managed 1000s of immigrants in Texas helping them secure legal status, education, jobs, housing and food. You sound like as big of an idiot as the folks we are up against in Texas.
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Reminds me of living in the Midwest, people are nice as pie to your face but they vote for the meanest, stupidest politicians on the ballot. They just have to mention family, Jesus, the gay agenda, guns, baby killers and "boom" they're elected.
I guess its the same in Texas.
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Shouldn't be Alcoholics for "cum" or am I being too picky?
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@2 - Stupid doesn't stop when you get to the Texas-Oklahoma border...
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@10 For some reason, Dan prefers to spell it 'come'. Very confusing. Having an orgasm can be coming, but semen really should be cum.
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Thanks for fighting the good fight, robo5
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I suspect, at this point, that Molly Ivins and Ann Richards aren't even bothering to spin in their graves anymore. They're reduced to simply trading shots of whiskey back and forth.
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@ 11, it doesn't even stop at the OK-KS border.
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This will, someday, backfire big time on the Republicans. The sooner the better.

@7, Houston has a gay mayor, pretty sure you can't say that about where you live. It's not as simple as your simple mind thinks it is.
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@16 They are idiotic, but @7 could very easily live in Seattle, you know.
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You could have said "Fuck off, Texas Republicans" or something like that but there's no reason to throw the finger at the entire state and all Texans. Not to mention the GLBT community and Slog readers in Texas that love their state, no matter what. Shame on you Dan.
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Vice has had some really thought-provoking reporting. Last week, they had a piece on Russia's claims to the North Pole and one on heroin addiction in Iran.
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@11, "Stupid doesn't stop when you get to the Texas-Oklahoma border..."

Of course not, but that doesn't mean you can't still cull the stupidest cattle from the herd.
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I see he's mastered the shit-eating grin that all Texas GOP politicians adopt. Smirking, hateful fucktard...
Thank FSM I moved myself and my kids out of that cancerous lesion on the asshole of America. Fucking Texghanistan, man...
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MAN this guy's a smiling, arrogant prick. The innocent eye-batting "why, we just want people to have a choice" - it's worse than an all-out bigot hollering how "homaseckshuls are icky and shouldn't be allowed rights" - at least the bigotry is out in the open. You can deal with it up front, or at least try. This guy is just dark-behind-the-light. The level of polite assholery makes me want to put my fist through a wall. It's truly illness-inducing.
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The folks advocating a 'not all Texans', or 'red to purple, purple to blue' outlook are perhaps right, but I wonder, do they think a mixed or mostly Democratic state legislature will actually cut down on CO2 emissions, end fracking, or reign in big oil? I mean, it's great that the cities there are probably (at some point) going to cut down on the anti-immigrant, anti-gay bigotry in state politics, and maybe even the distorting effect Texas' school textbooks decisions have, but are they going to have the balls to help save themselves from draught and global warming?

As agribusiness is driven away, the major industry will be oil. Those companies don't care what party someone is from. They are happy to buy influence with anyone. And as their industry bevomes more and more central to the Texan economy, their arguments that curbing their business will mean losses of jobs and tax dollars will only become stronger.

If Texas trades its red for blue, and continues to fuck itslef and the planet over for short term gains, I don't think it will matter too much if it changes its tone about homosexuality.
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@16 Seattle also has a gay mayor. And our state has gay marriage and legal weed. Texas has neither of those things.

But hey, Houston has a gay mayor! I'm sure that makes up for the fact that all three branches of the government and the majority of the voting population are firmly in the grasp of the Republican party! For sure!
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@23 Great solution! Throw up your hands and give the wheel to the assholes. We should all jump out of the car before it goes off the cliff and move to Seattle! There are some insular, short-sighted, cynical and essentially useless (in terms of affecting change) folks on here. And, isn't anti-gay crime on the rise in Seattle? Time to all leave there too. Portland, here we come!
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@24 Texas leads the pack in stupid, but the mayors of Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and El Paso are all democrats. 41% of Texas voted for Obama in 2012, and that was with essentially zero campaigning in the entire state. Direct your hate more accurately, and don't paint with such a broad brush. Texas could be a huge pendulum swing for the entire country by the 2020 presidential election, if not 2016. The Hispanic vote is growing at an insane rate here.
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I salute Anderson for not reaching through the screen and choking that smug fucker until his eyes popped out of his head. Lord knows I wanted to.

It's true; not all Texans are dumb/evil/bigoted/Republicans. One hopes the NALT Texans will eventually wrest control from the crazies, but I'm not holding my breath.
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robo5: Hang in there!
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@25 I didn't offer a solution. I asked a question. Given that local industry can often get politicians to do things for them--How many tax breaks have we tailored for Boeing as it shuttles jobs away? How often do we see Democrats in the US Senate cross party lines to back their local industry?--it is a reasonable query.

I did not and do not suggest Texans should move for political reasons. Even if that made sense in theory, it would require abandoning one's friends, family, and home, as well as the resources to do so. It is a disruptive and unhelpful suggestion which would only lead to more problems. Unless one's life is being ruined by living in Texas (which I guess was true for the ranchers and the former inhabitants of that ghost town in the Vice video), the politics backed by big oil are neither sufficient nor necessary causes for moving.

But that doesn't mean staying will end the increasing influence of oil in Texan politics. So, I ask again, do you think making Texas a swing state or a reliably Democratic one will address the problems shown in the Vice footage?
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Ahhh, but they are NOT doing nothing, they are asking for federal money, while truing to take it away from everyone else
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Why do all these guys have the same oily smile?

No matter how many nice progressive Democrats Texas has, it's still a total loss because there are so many awful people there, awful people who have actually chosen to move there or at least choose to continue living there. You nice progressive Democrats should just move somewhere -- the Middle West, perhaps -- where you have a fighting chance to change things. You're just being masochists living in Texas and you're doing the country as a whole no good.
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can't we just get the civil war over with and let them succeed? wouldn't it improve the union?
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Texas isn't all bad! Why, Texas produced Lovie Smith and...um, and...
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@24, Sorry didn't know the Seattle mayor was gay. Congrads on being second.

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I was really hoping Cooper would just take up all the time for the interview listing organizations that were against "pray away the gay" therapy, like 5 minutes straight just of people who say it's bad.
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@34 Pretty damn smug aren't you? This isn't a race among cities, it's progress forward. Annise Parker is the mayor of the largest city in the US that is LGBT, but by no means the first.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_t…
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Thank you to Dan and all of you on here who are making it that much harder for Texas (and other southern) progressives to fight back and change things for the better. Your smug self righteousness is clearly the superior option to actually giving a damn.
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If they support gay conversion therapy because they believe in choice and availability, then they should also support gender reassignment treatments.

I dunno about Texas being a total loss. Isn't Rooster Teeth based in Texas?
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There are more people who voted for Obama in Texas than there are people in the entire state of Washington. And Texas is a purple state- getting more blue with every election.

Fuck you, Dan. You aren't helping. How about you start a campaign to fund Wendy Davis?
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On praying away climate change...

Faith without works is dead.

On praying away the gay...

Uh, getting men to assume the prayer position (kneeling, head down, ass up) is, once again, a misguided approach to your stated goal. But, do continue.
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@37, Jeez you act like I'm defending Perry. Not smug, just want to point out we're not all backwards hicks. Sorry if that deflates your smugness.
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Dan,

The baby boomers who were born after 1955 are much more progressive and accepting of diversity than their conservative peers born the decade before them.

Expect to witness some jaw-dropping changes as these younger baby boomers align themselves politically with the much more liberal generations under 45 yrs old, including the increasingly socialist millennial generation.

Texas is on the verge of a generational swing to the left.
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Ooh. It's a smug-off.
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As a lifelong Texan who voted for President Obama, campaigned for Bill White (look him up) for Governor, ran for and won a city council seat in Tarrant County as an unabashed Democrat, and reader of Slog, I'd just like to say: y'all can all go fuck yourselves. Bless your heart.

As above said, the headline could have read "Texas Republicans." The ranting here concerns not the people of Texas except that the hard-right base elects the crazies put in front of it. Did you know that the Texas Democrats don't run candidates for every ballot? They don't even bother to put candidates on the ballot for every county-level race, much less the district-level state offices in a lot of precincts. When I ran for city council (a non-partisan office but, come on, everybody knows your party affiliation), I was the only "Democrat" on the entire ballot in my district except for the people running for statewide offices.

The Democratic Party is broken here. It has let itself be bullied and beaten into uselessness. People like Annise Parker and Wendy Davis (WOO, my former state Legislator) are trying to change that. Instead of continuing to give a voice and a platform to the morons in the Texas Republican party and bashing on those of us trying to do good works down here, you could have given the Democrats a leg up, but that might not fit into the narrative of Texans being a bunch of backwater, uneducated (I have an MSc, does that count?) hicks.

So, I repeat: Y'all may all go fuck yourselves and I will enjoy my Dr Pepper and Whataburger.
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There's really no reason for all this vitriol. Yes, there are a lot of sad, ignorant folks in Texas. I bet there are a lot of sad, ignorant folks in parts of Washington, too, but we have A LOT more people in general. Cherry-picking a few assholes to represent 26 million people and characterizing the views of a large, diverse state by interviewing a handful of country folk is just foolish.

My blue vote in Texas that's turning the tide of our 38 electoral votes has a lot more impact than yours adding to the chorus to win Washington's 10. Though I hate the things some Texans do, I love living here, and I'm not by any stretch a native Texan, and I'm surprised so many people choose to be so willfully ignorant about one of the most actually progressive places in the country, on human rights and environmental fronts. We're making actual change here, and I'm damn proud of it.
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I have high hopes for Texas. Before 2008, remember, the thought that North Carolina or Indiana could go Democratic was absolutely inconceivable. I can totally see Texas going Democratic by 2020. The only defenses Texas Republicans have left are gerrymandering and voter suppression, and I'm not sure those can hold in the long run.
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Uh, Dan, close your lips, your ignorance is showing, son.

Those of us who've got to live with crazy, right-wing religious reactionary and regressive assholes down here whilst trying to achieve real change don't need your kind of "help."

If you're not willing to stand beside us and put your shoulder to the wheel to help, at the very least could you stop sitting in the wagon throwing stones at all of us who are working for change.

Instead of wasting time and energy telling all of Texas to go Fuck itself (is that really how you were raised?), go be useful somewhere.
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Way to attack millions of people based solely upon where they live Dan. What's next for you today, kicking a puppy around the park?
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@38. I sympathize with you.I grew up in Texas in a fiercely progressive family, everybody I know and love still there is pretty Dem. Lots of polling data is showing some shifting attitudes and a lot of Repubs are becoming more than a little uncomfortable about what their party is doing. But you can't fault people with zero context or personal history with the state who are horrified, because the headlines consistently make Texas look like a clusterfuck of idiocy and bigotry.
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Of course there are some very intelligent, sane and educated people in Texas. Not a damn one of them is a Republican. No one here is bashing on Texans who are trying to make things better in that horrible place. I think it's reasonable to question why a not horrible person would want to live in a horrible place that shows damn few signs of becoming appreciably less horrible. I can think of no reason why a not horrible person who choose to raise children in a horrible place if they didn't absolutely have to. No amount of family, friends, good jobs, etc. can make up for exposing a child to the rot that runs through Texan society and institutions. Texas is not becoming blue or purple in our lifetimes. Latinos and others will be more and more kept away from the polls by the horribles. Unless these folks take to the streets with a willingness to die for the cause (and where in America does that happen?) their numbers are irrelevant as long as they can't or won't vote.

What the offended Texans here need to understand is that, while you live there and have an inhuman tolerance to the obscene filth that pours out of Texan politicians and other horrible Texans, the rest of us do not have such a tolerance and we are sick to goddam death of hearing it. We would gladly see Texas return to Mexico, or slide away into the Gulf. Whatever rids of the non-stop idiocy that is Texas. Go ahead and live among the wildings if you must, but don't expect us to understand the whys and hows of your choice. Not all have the choice, but if you do and you stay, well, God bless you. And I mean that in the true Southern way that it was meant when a Texan blessed us with the same words a few comments before mine. Know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em, Texans. Is Kenny Rogers a Texans? He sure seems like one.
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Well Dan, just pray that very soon Texas will turn Blue. It could happen.

Otherwise, we'll be dealing with homophobic and dumb Texans forever.
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@51 Oh, fuck you with your smug, defeatist attitude. You're as bad as the love-it-or-leave-it "patriotic" fucktards. No, worse, because you should know better. You should know that being born in or growing up in Texas, having your roots there, is not "a choice". Also fuck your condescension about Texas being this primitive wild land. We could say the same thing about Eastern Washington, which could very well be Texas. And all this "not in our lifetime" bullshit? I'm glad the activists who battled the odds on Jim Crow and gay discrimination weren't as "rational" as you.

Texas IS America, you asshole! Just like Iowa and Vermont. And the personal struggles of those living there are as valid as yours in green, green, blue, blue Washington State. You make it sound like Texas progressives are doomed victims on a sinking ship who opted not to get on the lifeboat.
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@51 You are willfully ignorant. Like Rick Perry. Congratulations!
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"political leaders don't happen by accident—idiots elect these idiots"

so is that your explanation for sawant, gov chistine gregiore, ron sims, mayor murry, et al..........

Seattle/King CO/Wash seems to have cornered the market on electing idiots.
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Wow, Seattlites making fun of Texans for who they elect. Where exactly did Ms "Boeing workers should grab berets and machine guns and take over the plant" get elected again? Oh yeah, Sawant, the dumbest human being on Earth, was elected by the people of Seattle.
Pot, meet kettle.
And Rick Perry came out in favor of cannabis decriminalization. He may be kind of dumb, but he isn't that bad and compared to Sawant and her hipster supporters/flying monkeys, he's fucking Einstein.
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Oh, and before people keep screaming about Texans being homophobic, two facts:
First, Seattle has plenty of anti-gay hate crimes, in fact more than any Texas city. So there are plenty of homophobic douche bags here too: http://q13fox.com/2014/06/07/report-seat…
And Houston was the first major American city to elect an LGBT mayor, Annise Parker:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/us/pol…
Texas is actually a pretty nice place, which may be why it's one of the fastest growing states: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-22…
But since when have facts mattered more than idiotic opinions and stereotypes for Seattlites to look over while they drink their PBR?
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@51 - you're proving my point. You seem to have no ties to the state, therefore all your information is coming through news stories which only tell the shitty side. So you can be as aghast as you want to that someone would want to live there, but just as you can go to Manhattan and find an arrogant homophobe, you can also go to a really tiny town in the middle the Texas prairie and find people who love their gay family members fiercely and have no trouble telling anybody who is an asshole about them to fuck off. There are many people who are quite comfortable living in a state that you consider a horror story, but they're comfortable in there because they're comfortable with themselves, and further they are NOT comfortable with the terrible policies of the Texas GOP, and some of those people are Republicans. But you wouldn't know that because you've never been there and yet you are really content to tar and feather a large population with one brush because you insist on believe that ALL of them hold beliefs that are terrible. There are good and decent people who ARE changing things in that state. Don't be such an asshole just because you don't know them personally.
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@57: Gee, there are more gay-bashings per 100k population in Seattle than in Texas? I wonder if that has anything to do with how there are more openly gay people per 100k population in Seattle?
As I put it previously, there has never been a black man lynched in Maine, Wisconsin, or Vermont.
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"I don't know a lot of details about the situation [of Exodus International]." That's got to be the most obvious line of bullshit I've heard all year.

"I believe that God has created us to work in a certain way. And when we deviate from that in any area, there are consequences." Which is why he's never received surgery, physical therapy, innoculations or vitamins in his entire life. Because that would interfere with how God has designed him how to work. He's also never engaged in - nor had even the slightest interest in - blowjobs or butt-sex. I'm sure.

@56: That second paragraph is so chock-full of stupid, I wouldn't know where to begin to unpack it.
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@59... check the numbers. Estimated 590K gays in Texas. 210K in Washington. Austin recently ranked in top 10 gay US cities. Truly, you are willfully ignorant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demogr…
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/20…
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We can't we just take every corrupt, gun-titin', bible-thumpin', woman-hating, oil-soaked, coal dusted pig on Earth, toss 'em into a bottomless firepit and have a BBQ?
Or would that be burning off too many toxic carbon emissions?

Yeah, but look at it this way: we'd be getting rid of a lot of shit!
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@62: Dammit! make that ..."gun-totin'!"....
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@ 45:

"As a lifelong Texan....Bless your heart."

<3

I live inside the Loop. Bill White losing the governorship largely because Good Hair pointed and said LIBBRUL! is one of the saddest things that could have happened. I lived in Houston before White, moved away, came back after White, and was stunned at how much of a transformation one person's leadership could make. I am really sorry I couldn't see what sort of work he could have done on the state level, after seeing what he did in a city where one out of every four Texans lives.

On the topic of where to live and dealing with racist homophobic neckbearded troglodytes, nice things are hard work and if I want nice things, I'd better be prepared to bust my ass to get them. Non-discrimination laws are nice things and a HUGE number of folks showed up in red shirts (insert obligatory star trek joke) to get one passed in Houston. Finally. Public transit is a nice thing; Houston is working on it and the metroplex has got a useful one in the DART. Fair tax valuation for everybody (especially in a state that goes by property taxes) is a nice thing--hence the reason behind Harris County challenging the surveys and assessments that allows corporations to pay as low as 62 cents on the dollar of tax valuation, and county officials in Harris County (Houston) pushing for major reforms in property valuation. Houston is still pretty conservative and yet this is happening.

There are a lot of bible-thumping blowhards. There's also a lot going on too. Don't hit all of us with the same black brush. We need all the help we can get.

As for Good Hair:

Perry said, "I may have the genetic coding that I'm inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way."

Did The Coiffed One just come out on CNN?
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@45>"Did you know that the Texas Democrats don't run candidates for every ballot? They don't even bother to put candidates on the ballot for every county-level race, much less the district-level state offices in a lot of precincts."

I'll see your Texas and raise you an Alaska. The trick here is to throw up a Dem on every single race. Some (the rural-urban divide is reversed here) are naturally democratic. But for Governor and last time for US Senator (Stevens-Begich), sometimes the Rep nominee implodes between the primary and general election. There was one race for governor in which the Republican party itself was telling people not to vote for their nominee (the federal charges had already been filed) but to write in a different Republican. Dem Tony Knowles get the Governorship once that way.

It's tough to run and get 35-40% of the vote. But there's a 5-10% chance the organized-crime racketeer / campaign-finance felon / gay closet case / etc will get revealed between August and November. Then the Dem has a chance in the general election.
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There is indeed a prevalent behavioral disorder in this country, and it is called Christianity.
Like Rick Perry, some are more predisposed to become abusive zealots who devote themselves to an invisible sky being concerned with our everyday sexual practices, while others choose to abstain from that sort of thing.
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@ 66

bigot much?

ballardjonathan proves yet again, that bigotry and hatred are progressive values. In Libby-Land, its ok to be a cocksucking(literally!) hateful bigot, as long as the hate is only pointed and certain people.

hopefully johhny ballard @66 will take his limp dicked ass and go run out in traffic on I-5.

oh, Im sorry, was I being hateful?
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Sorry to report that I have spent a lot of time in Texas, I have family in Texas, and I have fist hand experience with the idiots who far outnumber the non idiots in that sinkhole of ignorance. The first thing Texans say to defend their state of idiots is to accuse critics of not knowing anything about Texas. Texas is like a dog turd. It looks like a dog turd from a distance and getting up close and personal with it only reinforces your understanding of what a dog turd looks like. And you can now smell it, as well. I can only attribute non horrible people defending Texas as an example of the Stockholm Syndrome. Someone in a previous comment made mention of the Jim Crow laws in the South. I would remind them that Jim Crow only ended when the rest of the nation got sick of it and supported the federal government stepping in. Texas will never change on its own. The non horrible people who elect to remain in Texas to fight the good fight have too much Alamo on their minds.
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Oh please Texans. My heart bleeds.

Your state gets put down, and you get maligned? Join the club.

You hear the shit people say about California? Mostly people who know nothing about California? It's just as bad.

And I don't give a fuck. Don't like California? Great. Don't come here. There are too many damn people here already.

When people bad mouth California most Californians just laugh. Because we can admit that our state is totally fucked up and we don't feel some kind of compulsive need to try and whitewash it or justify it in any way. When people say "build a fence around Texas" Texans get their panties in a wad. When people say, "Let's kick California out of the US" Californians say "YES! Great idea". We don't even want to leave as one big Country. We can't stand each other any better than we can stand Texas. We would immediately split into the independent countries of Southern California, Northern California, and Jeffersonville. And the first thing we would do is Southern California and Northern California would make a temporary truce to wipe out Jeffersonville.

California is fucked up. And we are trying to fix it. In the mean time if you don't want to have anything to do with it good for you. Particularly if you are Texan.

California and Texas have one thing in common. What we do has a great influence on the rest of the country. So when people get pissed off at either for the crap we pull it is shouldn't be surprising.

The difference is that California tries to be progressive, even if we fuck things up along the way, and Texas tries to be regressive, even if they fuck over people and the environment along the way.

There are hard core right wing republicans trying to be more regressive in California just as there are hard core left wing liberals in Texas who are trying to make Texas more progressive. But in the big picture neither have that significant an influence, and lets not kid ourselves that is going to change any time soon.

But every state gets bad mouthed by the others sooner or later. Texans are no better. But hey, if you want to we can make some moves towards peace and gang up on Rhode Island for a while.
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Grew up in the midwest now live in Austin, TX. There is zero difference between rural TX and rural anywhere else in the country. Its just that TX has a lot more 'rural' since its humongous.

I've found more overt racism in my home state of MN than I've experienced in TX even outside of the Austin bubble.
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@26 So Obama lost the state by a mere 19 points? Wow. By those standards, North Carolina is more liberal than Texas, being as, y'know, it actually VOTED FOR HIM in 2008. Texas didn't vote for him in 2008. Sorry, but you still lose. And your state is still terrible.

Call me back when you get gay marriage, legal weed, and achieve a majority vote for a modern Democratic president.
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@34 Uh, actually we're third. David Cicilline was the first gay mayor, elected back in 2002 in Rhode Island. You guys came second. Do your history homework, dipshit.
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@61: You are an idiot. Texas has almost 3x as many gays as Washington? Sure, but Texas also has 4x as many people in general! 3.6% of adult Texans are gay, compared to 4.0% of Washingtonians according to the link you posted. Washington is the 11th-gayest state, but Texas is only the 32nd-gayest.
Check your math before you start talking smack next time.
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It seems that the bloom is off the yellow rose.
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I only visited Texas once for a week, met some charming people and bought a blanket I still use after about 25 years. I don't think my digestion could stand to live there, but the highways were glorious.
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@59/@73, I think comparing the relative gayness of the entire state of Texas to the city of Seattle is a little disingenuous. There aren't too many gay people in rural Texas - not too many gay people in rural anywhere so far as I know - but the major cities have a high concentration of homosexuals. If Seattle is experiencing an increase of anti-gay violence, it's reasonable to compare it to someplace like Austin, which doesn't have quite as high a percentage of gays but is still in the top 10 for American metro areas, and is not suffering from an increase of violence against gays.
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As Texas resident and ardent environmentalist, I suggest to Dan Savage and readers to please use your energy and time to work towards big reduction use fossil fuels, divestment from this industry and big increase in solar, wind powered electricity and transport instead of blanket and cherry picked fomenting against workers who are often economically constrained by current system.

This is an August 2013 survey by Yale University that records that 70% of Texans concur global warming is occurring, with 44% stating human activities are primary cause.

http://environment.yale.edu/climate-comm…

Moving even a fraction of the 26 million people living in Texas to elsewhere would bring a huge added burden on the air, water, land of those places and surely degrade them. Please consider the scale of human migration from unlivable areas if we don't all work together for massive greenhouse gas emissions.
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Whoops, for #77 comment, I mean massive CUTS to emissions!
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I'm not going to get into the whole Texas argument here, but I do want to say that I am SO glad that Anderson Cooper is publicly out. He initially said that he stayed in the closet to benefit his reporting, but I must say that being publicly out adds to his gravitas when interviewing hateful bigots like that.
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so sensitive. the "republican government and voters" in "fuck off, texas ________" is IMPLIED.

everybody loves you, texas liberals.
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I'm a big fan of Texan housing policy and pub sector r2w and sun but can't f wit the bigots

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