Like I said, sometimes I fall for the BS.This is unserious fodder. I know deez is f'n with me. I'm poking back, admittedly poorly as it's part of the gag.
As a great philosopher once said, "lighten up, Frances".

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Like I said, sometimes I fall for the BS.This is unserious fodder. I know deez is f'n with me. I'm poking back, admittedly poorly as it's part of the gag.
As a great philosopher once said, "lighten up, Frances".
Even the Houston Comical, via WaPo, is noting the potential issue with Moderna...Too soon to know: U.S. officials probe whether Moderna vaccine is linked to higher risk of uncommon side effect
All decisions in Texas regarding covid should be made by the county judges.By the way, I'm going to piss some people off here, but these mask mandate bans are dumb. As I've said before, a big part of the problem with our politics is the inability of people to live and let live and respect the federalist system and local control. It's not enough to get our way within our own jurisdiction, we start feeling righteous and self-important and decide we have a duty to force our way on others. Obviously the Left does this on abortion, education, sexuality and gender, and lots of other issues. However, sometimes the Right does it, and it's just as toxic.
These mask mandate bans are such an issue. I think mask mandates in schools are stupid, especially in elementary schools where the kids mostly just drool all over their masks and generally don't have the maturity to manage a mask. However, there is no reason for this decision not to be made locally. If I live in (for example) Georgetown, it is not my business if AISD wants its students to wear masks, and it sure as hell isn't the business of the governor who has no legislative power.
In theory, but the reality is that too many of them won't follow the science and only take their marching orders from DC.All decisions in Texas regarding covid should be made by the county judges.
For those serious people out there, here's the stats as of 2018: Chart of the Day: Mobile Homes as Percentage of Housing, US States
Mobilehoma - #13
Texas - #23
About 1% difference. So,
All decisions in Texas regarding covid should be made by the county judges.
It looks more like a 2 percent difference. It also makes a big difference that I can work the term "mobile home" into the word "Oklahoma" but not into the word "Texas." There's a reason for that.
In theory, but the reality is that too many of them won't follow the science and only take their marching orders from DC.
There HAS to be controls in place to prevent idiots like Lina Quarantina from screwing up places like Harris County more than they already have been...
Yep. Mexas just doesn't work.
That depends. Are we still talking about mobile homes?
Oh, ****. Hope this isn't true.
And meanwhile, we have a legislature in this State where the group with a D next to their name believe they can just filibuster with a field trip. That doesn't leave Abbott many options...The controls should be codified by the Legislature. The governor shouldn't be legislating by edict.
And meanwhile, we have a legislature in this State where the group with a D next to their name believe they can just filibuster with a field trip. That doesn't leave Abbott many options...
So, we roll along with the Executive Order.
It only opens for me on my laptop not my iPhone. It gives stats and videos of vaccine recipients. Only 1% reporting of vaccine deaths.AC
My device won't open icloud
Recap?
Recently in Plano ISD, a parents poll was 2-1 against a mask mandate but the School Board voted 6-1 for a mask mandate. I see this as a lack of representation and is why I welcome governors stepping in to restrict the power of bureaucrats below them to force behavior. Authoritarianism at a local scale is just as bad at a larger scale for the people affected.
I am against mask bans, but for mask mandate bans. This should be up to parents and students.
Deez, are you just against mask mandate bans by EO or by law too?
Recently in Plano ISD, a parents poll was 2-1 against a mask mandate but the School Board voted 6-1 for a mask mandate. I see this as a lack of representation and is why I welcome governors stepping in to restrict the power of bureaucrats below them to force behavior.
Obummer had a quorum to work with...Abbott doesn't. Or at least had not had one until just recently...That's the same argument Obama made for DACA. I understand the frustration, but that doesn't make the EO appropriate.
They aren't bureaucrats. They are elected officials, and there is representation. The reason they voted as they did is that they have different view of who their constituents are. To you, their constituents are the parents. To them, their constituents are those who vote. For the most part, that isn't parents. It's teachers and other school district employees. We have a pretty good idea of where they're going to stand.
School board members are often the same sort of Karens that you find on an HOA Board...they just got tired of the little pond so they want to go elsewhere and find even more people to ignore while simultaneously puffing up a resume.Wait...did you think Representative Democracy means the representative must make decisions by polling? Rather than vote them out you prefer authoritarianism?
Isn't it possible the School Board feels it has more information than the majority of the parents to make an informed decision?
Wait...did you think Representative Democracy means the representative must make decisions by polling? Rather than vote them out you prefer authoritarianism?
Isn't it possible the School Board feels it has more information than the majority of the parents to make an informed decision?
Against the bans in both respects. I think local governments should be deciding this based on their own judgments. There shouldn't be a top-down approach just like there shouldn't be mandates at the federal level. That's why we have school boards. However, it at least has some legitimacy if it's coming from the Legislature. An EO from the Governor is just a tyrant trolling to attract attention for when he runs for president. (At the school board level, I don't think the boards should adopt mask mandates.)
They aren't bureaucrats. They are elected officials, and there is representation. The reason they voted as they did is that they have different view of who their constituents are. To you, their constituents are the parents. To them, their constituents are those who vote. For the most part, that isn't parents. It's teachers and other school district employees. We have a pretty good idea of where they're going to stand.
I was with you until you said the Board represented the teachers. Yes, they are a constituent but in most cases the School Board has a pretty adversarial relationship with the teachers but maybe our local school districts (my wife is a teacher) aren't representative of what they are like in Texas.
Obummer had a quorum to work with...Abbott doesn't. Or at least had not had one until just recently...
The DACA analogy is an apples to bruised bananas analogy...