Flint has been traumazied by poisoned water and now the people are being targeted for exploitation.

August 26, 2021
By Ron Fonger

U.S. District Judge Judith Levy speaks as she address one of 15 Flint residents objecting to the $641-million Flint water crisis settlement at Genesee County Circuit Court on Tuesday, July 13, 2021 in downtown Flint. After a three-day fairness hearing this week, the judge must make a final decision whether the settlement of civil lawsuits by residents against the state of Michigan, city of Flint, McLaren Regional Medical Center and Rowe Professional Services is fair, reasonable, and adequate

Flint - A New York company (click here) is offering a sort of payday advance to those with claims related to the Flint water crisis, and a federal judge says she is “deeply troubled” by the development.

MC Law Funding is soliciting residents who have registered to file claims in the $641-million proposed water crisis settlement, offering to pay them now in exchange for the right to their claims against the state of Michigan, city of Flint, McLaren Regional Medical Center, and Rowe Professional Services....

There is a clear understanding about bomb makers in Afghanistan.

 11 May 2020

The leader of the Islamic State group (click here) in South Asia and the Far East has been arrested in Kabul, Afghanistan's intelligence service says.

Zia ul-Haq, also known as Sheikh Omar Khorasani, was held with two other senior leaders of the militant group.

The Taliban are the main militant group in Afghanistan but IS has been active in some areas and has carried out several bomb attacks in Kabul.

Correspondents say the arrest will be a major breakthrough if confirmed.

The other two were named as his spokesman Saheeb and chief of intelligence Abu Ali...

First they freeze people to death and now there is virtually no ICU beds for Texans.

August 27, 2021
By Roberto Villanpando

Texas on Friday (click here) reached a new pandemic low on the number of available staffed intensive care unit beds — with only 303 beds available for more than 29 million people — the number eclipsed the previous record low of 306 set on Wednesday.

The Texas Department of State Health Services' 11-county Central Texas region that includes Austin metro area also continued to see a critical shortage in available staffed ICU beds, moving from five on Thursday to seven on Friday. On Aug. 14, the region hit a pandemic low of one bed available....

The Federal Government needs to sue Texas for gross negligence of it's citizens. Why? Because they can afford better!

Texas is ruled by greed and human rights is not in their dictionary. There is nothing decent or moral about Texas. The only compassion in Texas is from the woman's auxiliary of the churches.

TEXAS ENTERS 2021 AS WORLD’S 9TH LARGEST ECONOMY BY GDP (click here)

29 April 2021

...Gross Domestic Product is a measurement of the size and strength of an economy. As of 2019, the United States has a GDP of $21.4 trillion, making it the world’s largest economy, followed by China, Japan, and Germany, according to IMF. Texas has a GDP of $1.9 trillion.

\In 2020, Amazon, CBRE, Tesla, HP and Oracle moved to or expanded their operations in Texas, which has further bolstered the strength and size of Texas’s economy. This trend is expected to continue in 2021, Allen said.

This is religious bigotry. Is there any decency in that state?

August 26, 2021
By Brad Stuver

Since I was 4 years old, (click here) I have thrown myself into sports, playing soccer, tennis, baseball and basketball competitively. With my friends I would play football, frisbee, volleyball and any other sport we could think of.

All of these sports taught us different things. We learned physical skills like hand-eye coordination and stamina, and we learned teamwork, failure, triumph and mental fortitude. I’m blessed to play soccer professionally today, but that’s never been the most important part of sports for me. Sports bring kids together from every walk of life to work together towards a common goal. A new kid joining the game never posed a threat to us– it was an opportunity to make a new friend, and to learn new things

But in Texas, some lawmakers want to ban transgender kids from playing with their peers, and from learning these same lessons. One bill being considered in the state legislature as part of the current special session, called SB 2, would ban transgender kids from participating in school sports, from kindergarten through high school. The legislature held an all-night hearing on that bill Tuesday, and it could pass out of that committee and head to the Texas House floor soon....

Republican Lt. Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick is a racist.

August 27, 2021
By Brandon Mulder

Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick (click here) has criticized Nike for signing an endorsement deal with football player Colin Kaepernick and said he won’t buy the products made by the Oregon-based company.

Dan Patrick: (click here) "Democrats like to blame Republicans on (low vaccination rates). Well, the biggest group in most states are African Americans who have not been vaccinated. The last time I checked, over 90% of them vote for Democrats." 

PolitiFact's ruling: False

Here's why:  Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, asked last week to defend the Texas response to surging coronavirus cases, blamed Democrats for the present COVID-19 wave, specifically African Americans, who he said are reliable Democratic voters.

"The COVID is spreading, particularly, most of the numbers are with the unvaccinated, and the Democrats like to blame Republicans on that,” Patrick told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “Well the biggest group in most states are African Americans who have not been vaccinated. The last time I checked over 90% of them vote for Democrats."...

I have since joined the "Nike Online Member's Club" (click here). I also purchased a great pair of sneakers, too. Love them. So comfortable and stylish.

July 21, 2021
By Minyvonne Burke and the AP

The Texas Senate (click here) has voted to pass a bill that would remove a requirement for public school teachers to teach that the Ku Klux Klan is "morally wrong."

The agenda item was included in some two dozen curriculum requirements that were dropped in Senate Bill 3, which the Republican-dominated Senate passed 18-4 last Friday.

The bill addresses Section 28.002 of the state's education code and is a follow-up to House Bill 3979, which was already passed and recently signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. That bill is set to become law in September, the Austin American-Statesman reported....