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of Planned Parenthood, didn’t take the bait. Her
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There was no surprise
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Nancy Harris
BOOKKEEPING
Hughes Ellis
SPORTS EDITOR
Joy Slaymaker
PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
Ryleigh Salmon
SOCIETY EDITOR
mony rather than testifying in person. Schwertner
was disappointed.
“I think that shows, in some ways, their true
colors,” Schwertner said.
Did you ever get one of those questions that
has more than one answer, particularly if that
question comes from your spouse.
It happened to me the other day. After 46
years of marriage, it probably has happened
before, but this one was recent and it got me to
thinking.
First, some background.
The sweet wife had been to the beauty shop to
get the hairdo updated. Well, I guess officially,
now days, they are called Beauty Salons.
I knew she was going, but had not given much
thought to the outcome, because frankly, she
always looks nice. Puts in a lot of time on hair
in the yard is in for it.
The sweet wife likes nothing better than
decides that is the look for the day, but that
doesn’t happen too often.
got back from the beauty shop?”
Wow.
Now two things are at play here. One, she is
DAVE
MCNEELY
And still, the world did not
end.
TV has been pervasive since
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hearing.”
Linton anticipates several more “grossly offen-
sive” videos.
There’s little surprise in Texas Attorney General Ken
Paxton’s felony indictments for securities fraud and failing
to register with the state to sell securities. The longtime
lawmaker’s legal troubles have been public knowledge for
some time.
During the 2014 election season, political watchers rou-
tinely warned voters about Paxton’s record of insider deal-
ings and kickbacks. As we wrote during the primary runoff:
“Voters shouldn’t want a lawyer-in-chief who will confront
the wrong end of a grand jury on day one.”
It took a bit longer than one day, but here we are at the
predictable inevitability of a broken political system.
Paxton’s campaign for attorney general was a parade of
red flags. News poured from the woodwork about admis-
sions to law-breaking, failures to fill out ethics disclosures,
lawsuits about breach of fiduciary duty and instances of him
investing with companies that suspiciously went on to land
state contracts. There was even the odd story about him
stealing another lawyer’s $1,000 pen.
This should have been enough to doom a man in a com-
petitive primary race, but serious allegations seemed to
matter less than an endorsement from U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.
It didn’t have to be like this. Republican primary vot-
ers had a fine candidate in Paxton’s opponent, former
state Rep. Dan Branch of Dallas. A seasoned conservative,
Branch could tout the endorsements of many legal advisers
to then-Attorney General Greg Abbott and support from
former President George W. Bush. While in the Legislature,
Branch proved capable and pragmatic.
Unfortunately, Republican primary voters saw little to
like in Branch’s camaraderie with Texas Speaker of the
House Joe Straus, a moderate Republican and tea party
target.
Now we’re stuck with an attorney general who will be too
busy tending to self-inflicted wounds to fulfill the business
of his office. Government transparency, consumer protec-
tion and all manner of regular governing will have to take a
back seat to Paxton’s personal legal woes.
This unforced error should remind Texans that they have
a duty to vote in primaries not on the basis of their political
allegiance, but with a strategic mindset aimed at blocking
the worst that our state has to offer. Until Republican pri-
mary voters love Texas more than they hate Straus, we’ll be
stuck with politicians who have more ambition than ethics.
— Houston Chronicle
ever, she knows me well enough to know that
And two, she is assuming that while I am I probably will go with what she wants to hear.
I got this one right. She works at looking nice,
and I am happy to confirm that today’s hairstyle
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EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
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Today’s Birthdays:
Actress Stepfanie Kramer
In 1914, Austria-Hungary is 59. Basketball Hall of
declared war against Rus- Famer David Robinson is
sia and Serbia declared war 50. Actress Soleil Moon
against Germany. Frye is 39. Rock musician
In 1926, Gertrude Ederle Eric Roberts (Gym Class
became the first woman to Heroes) is 31.
swim the English Channel, — Associated Press
Today In History
Today is Thursday, arriving in Kingsdown, Eng-
August 6, the 218th day of land, from France in 14 1/2
2015. There are 147 days left hours.
in the year. In 1930, New York State
Today’s Highlight in Supreme Court Justice
History: On August 6, Joseph Force Crater went
1945, during World War II, missing after leaving a Man-
the United States dropped hattan restaurant; his disap-
an atomic bomb on Hiro- pearance remains a mystery,
shima, Japan, resulting In 1956, the DuMont
in an estimated 140,000 television network went off
deaths. (Three days later, the air after a decade of
the United States exploded operations.
a nuclear device over Naga- In 1961, Soviet cosmo-
saki; five days after that, naut Gherman Titov became
Imperial Japan announced the second man to orbit
its surrender.) Earth as he flew aboard
On this date: In 1813, Vostok 2.
during the Venezuelan War In 1965, President Lyn-
of Independence, forces led don B. Johnson signed the
by Simon Bolivar recap- Voting Rights Act.
tured Caracas. In 1986, William J.
In 1825, Upper Peru Schroeder died at at Huma-
became the autonomous na Hospital-Audubon in
republic of Bolivia. Louisville, Kentucky, after
In 1862, the Confeder- living 620 days with the
ate ironclad CSS Arkansas Jarvik 7 artificial heart.
was scuttled by its crew on In 1993, Louis Freeh won
the Mississippi River near Senate confirmation to be
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, FBI director.
to prevent capture by the
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Planned Parenthood bashed by critics
F I lhe Texas Senate committee’s hearing after “This radical group will make sure it’s working because
I an edited video about Planned Parenthood Jk claim (we) broke the law,” Lin- you haven’t gotten an alert for
A. seemed something like the Minnesota den- fflr ton wrote. “We did not. ( two minutes? Do you panic when
tist’s ambush of Cecil, the popular African lion. ' nV As of today, it is clear: the you think you left your phone
The Minnesota hunting enthusiast, Walter y only people who have broken charger on your last Uber ride?
Palmer, and his guides, lured Cecil from his safe r' 7 a ^aws an^ violated women’s These are the dreaded warning
refuge into unprotected territory. \ trust are the ones behind these signs of FOBO, the Fear Of Being
Palmer shot him with an arrow. However, videos.” Offline — a syndrome that has no
it didn’t kill Cecil. So they tracked him, and 40 Texas Attorney General Ken known cure. Then again, maybe
hours later, Palmer killed Cecil with a bullet. Then DAVE Paxton testified that his office it’s perfectly normal.
they skinned and beheaded Cecil, presumably to MCNEELY ^as launched an investigation, Much has been written about
be a trophy on Palmer’s wall. but didn’t share any details. how social media has changed
As for the video attacking Planned Parenthood, “The videos that have made young people’s lives, and not for
Sen. Charles Schwertner, R-Georgetown, chair- all the headlines raise a large number of troubling the better. We read about the bul-
man of the Senate Health and Human Resources allegations, allegations that - again - my office is lying, the divorces and the sex-
Committee, was among the Republican state offi- aggressively investigating and we will go to any ting, and talking heads wonder:
cials expressing horror. and all lawful lengths to get to the bottom of what Where will it all end? In the com-
It essentially alleges that Planned Parenthood has been happening,” Paxton said. plete breakdown of society as we
profits from selling aborted fetal tissue to medical Abortion is legal in the United States, includ- know it?
research companies. Schwertner said the hearing ing Texas. It is already against federal law to
was to see if that’s true. spend federal tax dollars on abortions, except in tion since written history began
But unlike Cecil the Lion, Cecile Richards, CEO rare circumstances. has been denounced as the end of
Federal law prohibits profit from the sale of mankind as we know it, including
organization declined to be the target of Schwert- fetal tissue — though Planned Parenthood can be the writing down of history.
ner & Company’s arrows. reimbursed for storing, transporting and other
Planned Parenthood leaders sent written testi- expenses connected with delivering it.
The fetal tissue can’t be donated by anyone but hear ancient leaders asking their
the woman having the abortion. minions. “We don’t need our chil-
Federal law not only permits the use of fetal dren knowing about all the bad
tissue for medical research, but supports it - to things we did before they were
The president and CEO of Planned Parenthood the tune of $76 million a year. It aids study of alive. Just write down the stuff
Greater Texas, Kenneth S. Lambrecht, wrote that health issues like Down syndrome, Parkinson’s that makes me look good. You
their health facilities “have never participated in disease, cystic fibrosis, Alzheimer’s and miscar- know, ‘His Glorious Majesty, the
fetal tissue donation or research.” riage. Greatest of the Great...’”
Houston has the only Texas Planned Parent- Paxton was asked at the committee hearing if Sure enough, that’s about what
hood clinic that sends tissue to medical research- he knows if any laws had been broken. half the Egyptian hieroglyphs say,
ers. But it didn’t send representatives to testify. “At this time it’s too soon for me to answer as well as most of the monuments
“We believe this committee has no desire to that question,” Paxton said. in today’s dictatorships.
hold a responsible, fair, fact-driven hearing,” “Today’s sham hearing is just the latest sad And censorship followed the
wrote Melaney A. Linton, CEO of the two groups example of Texas Republicans attacking women’s written word in short order. After
that oversee the clinic: Planned Parenthood Gulf basic right to make their own health care deci- Gutenberg started printing less
Coast, Inc. and Planned Parenthood Center for sions,” said Rep. Chris Turner, D-Grand Prairie expensive (but still not cheap)
Choice, Inc. “In fact, this committee cares more in a statement. books, banning and burning
Turner, who ran Democratic Sen. Wendy books that some leader objected
Therefore, we decline the request to testify in Davis’s campaign for governor last fall, charged to became a regular thing. People
person.” that “In a hearing in which even the most biased are still trying to ban books all
She recounted anti-abortion activists, posing and virulent critics of Planned Parenthood are the time, right here in the Land
as tissue-buyers for a sham company called Bio- forced to admit that they have no knowledge of a of Free Speech — the American
Max, surreptitiously videotaping her co-workers, single law being broken and the Attorney General Library Association keeps a cur-
BioMax was created by an aggressive anti-abor- testifies but can’t even answer basic legal ques- rent list of them — and yet “Fifty
tion group, the Center for Medical Progress. tions, it’s clear that these investigations are noth- Shades of Grey” still tops the
Linton said the Senate committee, its staff ing more than witch hunts intended to ultimately best-seller list.
and the attorney general “have seen this illegally deny women basic healthcare services.” The world may be crasser, but
recorded video. . . . (W)e are very disappointed In contrast to Cecil the Lion’s entrapment, it has not come to an end.
that, despite the request of our attorneys, we Cecile the Lion-Hearted and her allies not only
were not allowed the same access prior to today’s avoided the arrows, but know how to shoot back, phone came along, there were
Dave McNeely is a retired political writer for the Aus-
tin American-Statesman. He can be reached at <davemc-
neelyin@gmail.com> (512) 458-2963.
plenty of people who thought
those inventions were the worst
things that ever happened. Most
of them were check bouncers and
scam artists who could no longer
simply move to the next town and
start over, because a telegram
established an opinion of would beat them there. But there
what hair formation she likes were many who really thought
best and I am thinking I have those tools would change the
a 50-50 chance of hitting the world for the worse.
right one. A hundred years after the
It is kind of like those invention of the phone, most par-
times, generally when getting ents thought the idea of a teenag-
ready for church, when my er having a phone in her bedroom
bride will come to me and (the boys didn’t seem to care that
ask, “Which pair of shoes do much), where they couldn’t eaves-
MORRISON you like best with this outfit?” drop on the call, was the silliest
Usually, she has a shoe of idea to come down the pike. The
one color on one foot and Princess phone broke that logjam
a shoe of another color on the other foot. And forever. Now it’s hard to find a
stuff. She takes the time to look nice, except of to give me a better look, she will bend one child without his own phone,
course when she downs her baseball cap and foot behind her to give me a better look at the
“desired” shoe.
I have learned that the first one she shows me
I know when I see the old baseball cap pulled is usually the one she prefers, so I almost always the early 1950s. For 65 years,
down close over her eyes, that some tree or bush go with that shoe still on the ground on the right people have been complaining
foot. And many times I get it right. that it’s too sexy, or it glamorizes
Or she ignores my answer, and wears the shoe bad behaviour, or its politics are
spending time chopping and hacking unsuspect- she wanted to wear in the first place. unfair. I practically make a living
ing low hanging limbs. But this hair thing is important, so I don’t whining about how bad TV is,
But back to my original thought... the ques- want to blow it. how toxic it is, what a bad influ-
tion that put me squarely on the spot. I am figuring that since she had “apparently” ence it is on our culture. It’s so
We were in the car, heading somewhere for made minor changes in the original hairdo from bad that I can only watch it 10
dinner when the question came, the day after the the day before, that she likes today’s edition the hours a day. After that, I binge-
beauty shop appointment. best. So I decided to go for it. drink.
“Do you think this hair style looks better or “I like today’s hairstyle the best honey.” And now the slick, grown-up,
the way my hair was looking yesterday when I Bingo. Got it right. She was pleased that I had all-knowing Internet has come to
noticed and that I didn’t just say, “Both hair wreck all that has come before,
styles look nice on you darling person.” to destroy all that was good and
Then she would have been wise to the fact holy, to corrupt our children and
assuming that I remember what her hair looked that I really could not tell the difference. How- steal our souls.
like the day before, after the appointment. ever, she knows me well enough to know that Or maybe it’s just the latest
And two, she is assuming that while I am I probably will go with what she wants to hear. Gutenberg.
driving the car and she is beside me, that I
already know what her hair looks like now. and I am happy to confirm that today’s hairstyle Jim Mullen’s newest book, “How to
She was waiting. My first answer: “Is there a looks really good. Lose Money in Your Spare Time - At
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Do you suffer
from FOBO?
Do you
get the
shakes when
you haven’t
checked your
email in the
last 30 sec-
onds?
Have you
ever checked
Facebook in
church? In the
shower? On
a first date?
Have you ever attended a concert
where they ask you to turn off
your cellphone, but you just put it
on vibrate instead?
Has a flight attendant ever had
to tell you more than once to
put away your cellphone during
takeoff? Have you ever asked a
stranger to call your phone to
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