In other cases, the Supreme Court has said gerrymandering is A-OK so long as it’s based on partisanship instead of race. And they’ll accept the most blatantly prextextual justification for why any particular district is partisan instead of racist.
But Paxton will appeal to the Texas Supreme Court which, being full of Republican sycophants, will give him the ruling he wants.
My dad tried treating his cancer with naturopathic remedies. They, uh, weren’t doing anything. Then he had a stroke and was confined to the hospital for months. The hospital, naturally, gave him real treatments for cancer. He died about a year later, but his last test showed no cancer markers.
If I didn’t already own my house, I couldn’t afford to buy it.
The only way to stop a dumb guy with a gun is a good dumpster with a gun
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Watch as the Texas Supreme Court reverses this and gives Paxton whatever he wants. They don’t even pretend to be unbiased.
Small enough to fit in a woman’s vagina
Perhaps you missed the sarcasm of “spread democracy”. I was referring to the United States’ history of invading or meddling in countries with oil. I don’t know why you think ownership is any obstacle to possession.
Texas would find itself a majority brown-skinned country with oil. You know, the kind of country the United States loves to “spread democracy” to.
If I could read a book in its original language versus an English translation, I would. Alas, I am a monoglot.
Don’t know how to resolve the mystery box the whole season pivots on? Just reveal there’s another mystery box inside it.
Or he’s just mad that it’s the insurance companies and not the state getting all that sweet, sweet data. This may just be his way of letting the automakers know he wants a cut. Think how many pregnant women could be oppressed if their cars narc on them for visiting Planned Parenthood.
Huge… tracts of land
Texas makes itself hundreds of millions of dollars poorer to own the libs.
I might accept the premise that inflation is higher than officially reported, but I don’t accept the relevance of your evidence in support of that premise.
Ultimately, Zora’s feelings are beside the point. Starfleet condemned a sentient being to (at least) a thousand years of loneliness. We do not see them consult Zora about her feelings on the assignment. She is simply ordered to do it. She is given no conditions on which the order terminates. She might still be there, still alone, a million years after Craft’s departure. That’s why it’s cruel. It’s cruel to give such an order. And, as a further twist of the knife, the instrument of that cruelty was Michael Burnham, ostensibly Zora’s friend. “We had a good ride, but I’m old now and Starfleet just doesn’t need you anymore. Rather than give you freedom to go and do you please, we’ll order you to stay in this place indefinitely, alone.”
Clearly, adherence to duty is important to Zora. She was ordered to remain in position and so she did. Nothing indicates that she didn’t mind, only that her sense of duty outweighed whatever her feelings were. I read her interactions with Craft as belying incredible loneliness.
The whole reason they came to the future was that Discovery’s computer couldn’t be disabled or removed after merging with the Sphere data and becoming Zora. So (she?) is always online and conscious. She spent almost a thousand years alone before Craft’s arrival. At the time, I could have accepted some disaster that forced the crew to evacuate (or killed them all) and Discovery became lost, with a final order to hold position. But for Starfleet to intentionally put the ship (from which Zora cannot be separated) in deep space and abandon it, I cannot interpret as anything except cruelty.
They aren’t hiding. They’ve rather publicly announced where they are. It’s just, where they are is not in Texas.