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TexasTowelie

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March 31, 2016

Alpha Natural seeks to break contract with union

Coal company Alpha Natural Resources is asking a judge to allow the Virginia-based business to break its contract with a union in order to reorganize its finances.

Read more: http://democratsforever.freeforums.net/thread/6064/alpha-natural-seeks-break-contract

March 30, 2016

Republican Texas House candidate says there’s nothing offensive about his ‘gay Hitler’ costume



When is it OK to wear a Hitler costume and make a Nazi “sieg heil” salute?

Well, never — even if it’s a “gay Hitler” costume fashioned after a Saturday Night Live sketch and worn at a fundraiser for a food pantry.

Kyle Biedermann of Fredericksburg posed in the costume about eight years ago, then removed the photograph from his Facebook page before running for Texas House District 73. He is facing Doug Miller, R-New Braunfels, in the May 24 runoff.

www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Republican-Texas-House-candidate-says-there-s-7217801.php
March 30, 2016

State police looking for naked man who shouted 'Jesus is coming'

State police in Chester County are searching for a naked man they say was walking around and shouting "Jesus is coming" earlier this month.

Read more: http://democratsforever.freeforums.net/thread/6037/police-looking-shouted-jesus-coming

March 30, 2016

Read this before blaming road rage on your cat

Pity the cats. They’re always getting blamed for something.

In the 13th century, Pope Gregory IX declared them evil and worthy of death, which led to their widespread killing. More recently, they’ve been accused of decimating U.S. birds and other wildlife, as well as of being all-around jerks.

Now there’s this: Cats cause road rage.

That’s been one common takeaway from a study, published last week in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, that is the latest to link the common parasitic infection toxoplasmosis to behavior changes or psychiatric disorders in humans. This one found that people with intermittent explosive disorder — who have recurrent outbursts of extreme anger, like road rage — are more than twice as likely as healthy people with no psychiatric disorders to have been exposed to t. gondii, as the parasite is known.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/03/30/read-this-before-blaming-road-rage-on-your-cat/

March 30, 2016

If Bernie Sanders wins the New York Democratic primary, some superdelegates vow to back Hillary...

If Bernie Sanders wins the New York Democratic primary, some superdelegates vow to back Hillary Clinton anyway

Read more: http://democratsforever.freeforums.net/thread/6022/bernie-sanders-wins-democratic-primary
March 29, 2016

Mississippi obsessed with homosexuality!

Like Ahab and his Moby Dick, Mississippi just cannot get enough of the gays. The state, especially its lawmakers, is obsessed with them.

Read more: http://democratsforever.freeforums.net/thread/5995/mississippi-obsessed-homosexuality

Why shouldn't they be obsessed? The gays are

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Hometown: South Texas. most of my life I lived in Austin and Dallas
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Current location: Bryan, Texas
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About TexasTowelie

Retired/disabled middle-aged white guy who believes in justice and equality for all. Math and computer analyst with additional 21st century jack-of-all-trades skills. I'm a stud, not a dud!
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