Weird Texas GOP bill would give big tax cuts only to hetero couples with lots of kids*
Republican State Rep. Steve Toth of The Woodlands alleges the Texas Senate killed conservative priority legislation in 2021 that would have protected children from gender mutilation procedures. The accusation was made during a conversation with activists on January 10, a recording of which was released by North Texas activist David Lowe.
“It came over from the Senate ridiculously late, and they knew that we were going to have trouble,” said Toth. “There’s plenty of blame that needs to be spread around in this thing.”
For much of the last two years, the Texas House has received the brunt of the criticism for failing to pass protections against child gender mutilation. While the Texas Senate passed multiple bills to outlaw these procedures, the House killed every such bill brought before it, and several bills never even made it to the House floor.
Texas GOP Chairman Matt Rinaldi refuted the idea that Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and the Texas Senate are to blame, saying it was “not true.”
Listen up people, the Texas legislature is in session. Lock down your bank accounts, hire security escorts for your wives and hide your daughters. Mayhem and chaos are on the loose across Texas.
Matt Rinaldi and Steve Toth may be lying or both half right. Who will ever know ? After all, they are both politicians. However, I’m not nearly as concerned with the veracity of their assertions as I am with the fact the issue itself has now blown up into public view and is getting the attention it deserves.
Texas Tribune has its left-drifting report…
As soon as lawmakers were allowed to file legislation, some Texas Republicans authored bills aimed at hindering or outright prohibiting transgender kids from accessing certain health care treatments.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick made the issue a priority for the Senate this year and designated Senate Bill 14 as the legislative vehicle to achieve that goal. But SB 14 has not yet been filed, and Patrick hasn’t given details on what specifically it would ban. Still, other lawmakers have filed bills with similar goals.
Rep. Tom Oliverson, R-Cypress, wants to allow medical providers to decline treatment to any patient for religious views, moral philosophy or “ethical position,” except for during emergency or life-threatening instances. House Bill 319 does not explicitly mention LGBTQ people, but advocates fear the bill would allow doctors to turn people away simply because of their gender or sexual identity. It has been assigned to the House Public Health Committee.
Of course, we don’t know whether Dan Patrick’s reticence in revealing the specifics of his SB14 is because he wants to avoid a premature battle with the Left right now or perhaps it is a weak bill and he’s dodging an attack from the Right.
Texas Republicans have filed dozens of bills affecting LGBTQ people. Here’s what they’d do.
Here are the six brief articles on the LGBTQ/mutilated children bills so far being presented before the Legislature from the Texas Tribune.
*The photo at the top of the page is from LGBTQ/Nation. Yes, that’s right, boys and girls and when I say boys and girls, I mean, dammit, the real thing. No funny fakery business allowed around here and no commenters sashaying around the website in women’s underwear unless, of course, you are a real woman. We’re all in favor of that.
Ahem.
Those poor pitiful folks are upset because our now famous friend, Representative Bryan Slaton, introduced a bill in Austin to give tax breaks to married couples who actually stay married, engage in heterosexual bliss and produce lots of babies. The horror of this kind of behavior cannot be countenanced. Can you imagine millions of little boys and girls marauding across the Texas countryside playing hide and seek, chasing fireflies and drinking out of water hoses ?
We talked about Gene Hackman a while back. He’s looking pretty good for 93.
I’m watching the third and last in a series of interviews with Ron Tesoriero on LifeSite News, with John Henry Weston. In Ron’s study of Eucharistic miracles, he sent a Eucharist which had been set aside in water for three years to a lab. For those non-Catholics, when a host is dropped or damaged, one way of disposing of the… Read more »
Every singe plea deal should be overturned and the folks languishing in prison should be set free.
And the real perpetrators of acts against our democracy and the Constitution be put on trial.
Not likely, unfortunately.
As y’all may or not know Tucker has been showing and discussing the video footage that the Evil House Committee wouldn’t let anyone see and tonight he had on the lawyer for the dude with the horns and how he was not allowed to see any of it when it was advising his client. The dude plea bargained and got… Read more »
Back in 2006 through 2009, I was the primary overseer and caretaker of an aunt here. She was a handful and we hired a live-in aide to take care of her. She cost about $36K per year and the level of institutional care I investigated here would have run $72,000-75,000 each year. When I would take Aunt Selda to have… Read more »
AC guy came today to install mini split in kitchen. Be back tomorrow but I’m stuck with old travel computer in bedroom More later.
Nurses actually liked us a lot. We knew what they were going through.
If I was in the room with Fay, nurses hated me. I’d tell them, “Just start out with the butterfly, instead of poking around.”
Doctors’ egos are so fragile.
She didn’t give a s*!&, when it came to her patients.
Fay got fired fairly regularly.
She would often stand her ground with the two young doctors she “raised” over the years, when she thought they were getting ready to make a bad decision.
Which is why they kept her around and never really fired her.
🙂
He was a great doctor, btw. I asked him at one visit what happened to the umbilical cord inside the baby’s body after birth, and he was extremely pleased and excited to take Hubby and me to his office. He pulled down a medical book and showed me how the different blood vessels became ligaments inside the body after they… Read more »
In the beginning, I had no idea what The Jab was, I just got a phone call from UT Health assigning me to get the first 2 shots in 2021. I had no reaction to either one. By the time they wanted me to get the first booster, I had gotten up to speed and decided against it.
Even if it is the one-out-of-a-hundred truly sharp needles, probably made in China.
I was told by Dr. Hoyos’ other nurse that he checked his needles with a microscope. If they had burrs, he wouldn’t use them. That’s probably why I didn’t feel him stick my arm.
The discussion on veins reminds me of one of my funniest stories: Back when I was pregnant with Lovely Daughter, I went to my OB/GYN for my five month gestational diabetes test. For the real men here (that is, those who can’t get pregnant), that test involves a blood draw, drinking a solution that is 95% sugar and 5% water… Read more »
Bones
Yes. The scar tissue has built up over the years in that crook of the arm and the skin is really tough to push through.
Even if it is the one-out-of-a-hundred truly sharp needles, probably made in China.
From Shannon’s #37: “So it raises more question marks about why and how did both of these manufacturers manage to come up with a different cationic lipid that all of a sudden is safe. The answer is they’re not. PEG is also questionable. This is another lipid that both of them use in their formulations. Everyone has heard of PEG… Read more »
#36 Shannon: So far, I’ve still got veins popped out all over my arms, hands and feet. If you can’t hit mine, you’re fired. Me too. I hate it when they insist on putting the shank right in the crook of your arm; I’ve got veins the size of a pencil up and down both arms, there is no reason… Read more »
#38 –
Heh heh heh
More experts say stop the jab – now.
So far, I’ve still got veins popped out all over my arms, hands and feet. If you can’t hit mine, you’re fired.
Texpat
Sounds like a miracle optical device. Fay was a very difficult stick in her later years.
RE: VINO-Optics
The only reason I discovered these glasses is because the guy who invented them is the same man who posted the Excess Mortality Chart for Europe on Twitter I linked to in my comment at 12:30 PM.
Anybody heard of these ? Fascinating product if it actually works as described. I’m going to suggest them to a couple of doctors. VINO-Optics Oh Say Can You See … That Hard-to-See Vein? Seasoned paramedics excel at gaining IV access on the sickest patients, in the worst conditions and often in a moving ambulance. Attaining that expertise takes practice and… Read more »
#33 – OR down in Mexico – my dearly departed Pop used to dove hunt south of the border.
That series of tiny cabins had a “natural” water heater system for their single outdoor shower – aka 300 feet of black hose laying in the sun from the on site water tower to the shower head………..
Especially in the West Texas sun!
#31 et al – Woe on that 1st impatient & thirsty kid who wouldn’t WAIT for the cool to come out!
*OUCH!*
It was an excellent video, I agree.
If anybody missed the video at the bottom of my OC headline piece today, you really ought to watch it.
It goes over well with the prevailing age around here.
TP @ 12:30 – I guessed it (w no googling)
The 1 country that imposed the LEAST
covider STUPID restrictions!sporadic web outages today would make a sober fella take a DRINK!!!
“on snow” of snow
Sigh, I read about your gardening exploits and look out my window at 2 feet on snow.
IHW
Well, I’m back inside from playing in the dirt. Did some weeding, set up a new tub with compost in place materials as well as some contributions from my compost pile near the fence. I put some lettuce in the center and asparagus beans on each side. Put beans in another tub that I pulled the weeds from a few… Read more »
Excess Mortality Chart for Europe 2020-2022
You may have to blow this up some to read it. Guess which nation is on the bottom of the chart with the lowest death rate ?
Another DEI air traffic controlleress almost makes a mess in Burbank – just coming to see the light of day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yMUbLZhKHo
8 March 2023. International Women’s Day So buy your favorite woman a gift for this day celebrating womenz. I could get into so much trouble if I listed my ideas so I will leave with this thought: “A male chauvinist pig isn’t born, he’s made, and more and more of them are being made by women.” — Chuck Palahniuk /I… Read more »
I remember reading this three years ago. The banana “plague” story.
I’ve watched this little sleight of hand in public speaking for decades and it never ceases to infuriate me. Writer Chris Bray describes it very well discussing the reactions to Tucker Carlson’s J6 video expose The Viking-horned Jacob Chansley, who was charged with “violent entry” to the Capitol, and who was later depicted as having fought his way through the… Read more »
Speaking of bananas. I grew up near the Texas coast thinking all bananas taste like they do there. It’s not true. They sell bananas up here in this region with the “Chiquita” stickers on them, but they don’t have half the flavor the bananas in Texas do and the texture is more mealy. When I was a kid, Chiquita had… Read more »
Morning, y’all. I’ve been out of bananas since Sunday, due to too many oddball errands, leaving me with desire only to skip the store and just get back home.
Well Rocky has a new home now he just left with our Pet Sitter and her Husband. I was a little apprehensive about this but after seeing them all together I know he has a good home. I’m going to miss him. He always liked to help me like pulling (tug of war) on the bushy end of a long… Read more »
Repo Man
Lots of bluebonnets, indian paintbrushes, buttercups and others between here and San Antonio; heavily between Luling and Seguin. Yesterday my lovely Mrs. and I had to go to San Antonio to repossess a car that the deadbeat would not turn in at lease end nor pay the balloon payment. He is currently living with his parents and they gave the… Read more »
Hubby is working on hooking me up with sky water as I sit here and type.
I lubs dat man.
I’m in the middle of my steroid pack, so feeling fairly decent this morning. I think I’m going to try a little gardening this morning while listening to my “Return to Tradition” podcast and praying my rosary and St. Michael chaplet. I added St. Mike for the Lenten season, in addition to giving up something. Most of what I’m going… Read more »
More comments: It’s just fine, the undercover FBI officers dressed in Maga gear, complete with Red Hat. But a police officer trying to blend in to reach a desired location in the capital to save senators, well….that’s not good. Trump should hire this man as part as his detail. Wouldn’t that make a great ending to his story? That. Would.… Read more »
From the C&C comments: The issue isn’t how Tucker or anyone else is misrepresenting the evidence. The J6 committee did that for us already. These whiners should be directing their fury toward THAT group of miscreants and liars, not toward Tucker and McCarthy. But I suppose that then, the whiners would have to admit that they have been duped, lied… Read more »
Childers ends his column with the letter from DeSantis to Biden, requesting the tennis player be allowed into the country by boat, since his plane riding privileges have been rescinded.
https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1633233731514245121
I think DeSantis’ letter is called “trolling.”
And he does it well.