The Goat Pen

No contest...

"What'd you shoot today, Ty?"

"Oh, I don't keep score."

"How do you measure yourself against other players?"

"By height"...

i don't want a woman senator that is hot.

I want ugly as sin. We got enough issues without a 24 hour dickathon in congress.

Sara Palin is truck stop hot and just look at the men losing their shit over her stupid redneck ass

If Garcia does go to the Hill, then the GOP can sit her next to Aaron Schock in the hopes of creating a more attactive picture of a dysfunctional party (at the national level).

I predict this ends badly for the Houston mayor


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The city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding a group of pastors turn over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or Annise Parker, the city’s first openly lesbian mayor. And those ministers who fail to comply could be held in contempt of court.

“The city’s subpoena of sermons and other pastoral communications is both needless and unprecedented,” Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Christina Holcomb said in a statement. “The city council and its attorneys are engaging in an inquisition designed to stifle any critique of its actions.”

ADF, a nationally-known law firm specializing in religious liberty cases, is representing five Houston pastors. They filed a motion in Harris County court to stop the subpoenas arguing they are “overbroad, unduly burdensome, harassing, and vexatious.”

“Political and social commentary is not a crime,” Holcomb said. “It is protected by the First Amendment.”

The subpoenas are just the latest twist in an ongoing saga over the Houston’s new non-discrimination ordinance. The law, among other things, would allow men to use the ladies room and vice versa. The city council approved the law in June.

The Houston Chronicle reported opponents of the ordinance launched a petition drive that generated more than 50,000 signatures – far more than the 17,269 needed to put a referendum on the ballot.

However, the city threw out the petition in August over alleged irregularities.

After opponents of the bathroom bill filed a lawsuit the city’s attorneys responded by issuing the subpoenas against the pastors.

Surely, that's an Onion article.

Maybe Houston is a city in China, not the one in Texas.

sadly I don't think it is. Google it - its all over the web from valid sources this morning

Wow. Well, hopefully they'll be removed from office for abuse of power.

The pastors?

The DAs and other idiots. I'm an atheist, but that's a clear abuse of power.

Nothing will be done to the mayor. Any judge who rules against them will be labeled a homophobe and disbarred.

Why the hoopla? Houston is simply on the cutting edge of hunting/stamping out the teabagger mentality....sounds like something Eric Holder would endorse.

I don't think homophobe is going to override freedom of speech and religion. That's a double barrel of bedrock values from our sagacious founding fathers

You can exceptionalize anything these days, i.e. 2nd amendment

sardis wrote:Nothing will be done to the mayor. Any judge who rules against them will be labeled a homophobe and disbarred.

Heh. Not a chance. The mayor will complete her term, though. Then I don't expect to ever hear much from her again in elected politics.

I find it interesting that all of this is going on in Texas, which is normally the hotbed of conservative political tricks and idiotic fuckery, not liberal.

"That's a double barrel of bedrock values from our sagacious founding fathers"

The same sagacious founding fathers you sassed with "iiieeee! Iron bird! Iron bird!!"

hedge wrote:"That's a double barrel of bedrock values from our sagacious founding fathers"

The same sagacious founding fathers you sassed with "iiieeee! Iron bird! Iron bird!!"

they lacked foresight in the area of aerospace

I understand the logic behind the punishment - kill off demand and the suppliers will go away , probably similar to the same line of thinking of drug users in the late 80's

but I can't say that I oppose it at this point. If you possess this stuff - and people know the difference between an 18 year old in pig tails and catholic school uniform versus little kids doing stuff (forced or consensual) then you need to be in prison. Grisham describes it as a guy that stumbles upon it one night and the next morning the police are knocking on your door - but the reality is , its more likely men seeking it out.

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Best-selling author John Grisham blasted the harsh punishment that people who watch child pornography face upon conviction, saying the prison system has “gone nuts.”

“We have prisons now filled with guys my age — 60-year-old white men in prison who’ve never harmed anybody,” Grisham said in a recent interview. Grisham said there are men in prison who “got online one night” who “probably had too much to drink” and ended up on child-pornography websites, a crime he said a friend had committed.