In how many cultural enclaves in America are wedding-night virgins even expected any more?
Enough that a thing such as the “purity ball” exists.
(Also, according to the Savage Lovecast, a significant number of young people are under the impression that loss of virginity can only happen with vaginal penetration…everything else is fair game.)
I see that don’t have an equivalent for the boys and their mothers. I guess it’s okay for the boys to be impure. I wonder who they think those boys are going to be impure with?
Hypocritical assholes.
The cite purports to quote Secretary of the Senate Patsy Spaw as the source of that information.
Let 'em join the Boy Scouts.
Some of my conservative co-workers were going on this morning about how most of the “protestors” (their air quotes, not mine) were paid operatives of Planned Parenthood, bused in from out of state. I didn’t interrogate them, since being an open lefty is hazardous for my employment situation, but I was curious as to whether other people have been hearing these rumors and where they started.
It also gives me some hope for the future; there are many downsides to being a Texas Democrat, but one thing we do not have is the luxury of pretending that opposition does not exist.
Of course, while it’s rare, anal can still get a girl pregnant if the thin wall of tissue between the rectum and vagina is perforated, which sometimes it is.
I wonder if they teach that in abstinence-only sex-ed?
What do Texas Dems think about Wendy Davis for Governor?
Purports? That’s not very convincing, if not downright weaselly. A careful reading makes it unclear whether they are citing Spaw for the paragraph or whether the second sentence regarding the starting of the vote is simply the editorial view of the writer of the article.
Again, I’ve been unable to find any other source that supports that cite, and there was a lot being written about the filibuster. And I read the Texas Senate rules on special sessions and did not see the sentence that read “A special session lasts no longer than 30 days unless a vote has begun.” I very much suspect that in a session that involved such hair splittery as whether sonograms were relevant to an abortion debate, you’d have trouble arguing that midnight is not the absolute stopping point unless there’s concrete precedent. Given that the opposition folded provided that the Democrats did not pursue the changed time stamp, I’m thinking that they were indeed on shaky ground.
So, the TL;DR here is that you really should stop claiming that there was no chicanery about the time stamping of the vote unless you have a better citation than a single newspaper article.
I remember a similar argument being used against the HPV vaccine…that it would just encourage “good girls” to have lots and lots of sex. Opponents of the vaccine were silent on who, exactly, these girls would be having sex with…
I actually did have a slight objection to Rick Perry’s support of the HPV vaccine.
Not because I’m against vaccines but because Perry pushed for it before it was really proven, mainly because he was doing a solid for Merck, who gave his campaign a ton of money.
And that tells you all you need to know about Rick Perry doing the right thing - he doesn’t care if it’s right or wrong as long as he gets paid.
If it gets Perry out, sure. But let’s be realistic here.
No Dem has won a statewide office in Texas since the early 90s, and it’s still a pretty grim environment for it. But Austin’s always been a liberal hotbed, and the other major cities have been gradually following suit. So the party has been rebuilding with various rising stars, including Davis. Now she’s a big star, but those occasionally go nova. She’d be able to get a lot of enthusiasm and she’s got the name recognition, which is good (the last couple of gubernatorial Dem candidates were sort of generically competent guys who struggled for attention). But it’s an off year election in the second term of a president who’s not that popular in Texas, and she’d basically be tied to that. The other wild card is Rick Perry himself. The Texas AG, Greg Abbott, is running for governor this time, with a lot of Tea Party cred and a formidable fundraising machine. Everyone seems to think that Perry will announce he is not running again, but if he does, a damaging primary with both parties trying to outflank each other on the right may give a Dem the Clayton Williams moments they’d need to win. But if it’s just Abbott in an open field, I don’t see anyone beating him this cycle.
Personally I think she’d be better off running for Lieutenant Governor. Her experience in the Senate is a good argument for that position, it’s got a lot of power, and the Republican primary is going to be a real freak show.
Except this crap is opening up across the board. Deeply conservative laws are being proposed and passed across the country. Is this going to fire up the conservative base, who will think they’re winning? Or will it fire up the progressives, who see the country draining away into the hands of stone-age incompetents?
Agreed – the citation is less than crystal clear.
He then decided that only the votes of people he really liked would actually count, and that everyone shorter than him would have to stand up then entire next session. Because apparently he can do whatever he wants? WTF?
It’s Texas Gedd. They’re kind of new to the concept of rules and that extra degree of difficulty that comes from the expectation they should be followed.
Just roll with it… I’m sure by the 22nd century they’ll have it figured out.
Unfortunately, the more likely alternative is Juarez.
Then who would she run with? Who’s a better Dem candidate for Governor? (And, can Davis still be LG if her gubernatorial candidate loses? Are they separately elected in Texas?)
The offices do have separate primaries and elections; it is possible for the offices to be held by different parties or by members of the same party who detest each other. In fact, during George W. Bush’s first term as Governor the Lieutenant Governor was a Democrat.
I don’t know if there is a better candidate, but a PPP poll released today showed Perry or Abbott beating Davis by a pretty substantial margin. That’s probably the fate of any Democratic candidate, but you can’t ever win if you don’t try, I guess.
Sure, they got the money and they got the power! And more money! But we got Molly Ivins! Oh, she did? When was that? Well, shit.