Greg Abbott Twitter Fun

[FuzzyLumpkins]

here is the video of Al Qaeda thanking the FSA for the TOW weaponry gifts... Guess Santa came early....

ISIS already got a ton of an ank weapons and worse a long time ago. I'm not sure how this video proves anything even if you show a bunch more of the with TOWs.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

So FSA headed by that defecting colonel and all the rest that actually started this revolution in the first place? You're just shoehorning into a monolith and applying guilt by association. We cannot give them to the kurds because if we do then Turkey will have kittens. Them joining NATO was a strategic coup and the Ukraine is next.

We definitely don't want to give it to the al-Nusra, Hezbollah, or a mullah driven jihadi group. OTOH, if the Russians are bringing in T-90s and stuff like that then it needs to be countered. Really the only politically safe place to put them is with the former Syrian Army people. The same guys we've been sending our special forces and spooks to work with in ever increasing amounts for the past few years.

It is interesting how the russian media preys on the gaps in information people have in nuanced cir stances. Makes for an interesting sort of contrarianism as well.

[hater]

I'm not shoehorning anything. They shoehorned themselves when they joined into an alliance with Al Qaeda. There is no guilt by association. This is a formal alliance plain and simple. So I restate, by arming a part of the alliance you are arming its allies.

And you got it the wrong way. First the CIA sent the TOWs to destroy Syrian tanks then Russia countered with the immune T90s.

Oh and the links I provided have nothing to do with Russia media. So not sure where your last statement came from.

[Blake]

Texas is ed and un able amirite boutons?

[Blake]

Because that's what Jesus would do

[boutons_deux]

Texas is ed and un able amirite boutons?

yer rite, quoting the Bible is Pharisaical bull if Christ-like actions don't follow

[Blake]

It's so embarrassing to be a Texan some times. So embarrassing...

[boutons_deux]

It's so embarrassing to be a Texan some times. So embarrassing...

I'm not embarrassed. Repug ain't my .

[Blake]

I'm not embarrassed. Repug ain't my .

no man......the low intelligence levels of many of our politicians and worse of some of the Bible beating voters putting these hacks into office is shameful.

I mean ....now the whole country is aware that we voted a guy in as governor for a decade solely because he has a great belief in God and a greater belief in haircare.

[boutons_deux]

15 states' governors 'grant frequent and regular pardons' but not Greg Abbott, yet

Regular readers know Grits remains frustrated at Gov. Greg Abbott's parsimonious pardon policy in his first year in office, in which he granted four clemency pe ions for penny-ante in the run up to Christmas without even issuing a press release to highlight the governor's miserliness regarding mercy.

When he took office, Grits considered it notable that Abbott had never spoken publicly on the topic, and one year in it's clearly only barely on his radar screen, even though it's one of only a handful of core duties of the office. As Attorney General, his office had ruled the governor could issue posthumous pardons, but beyond that we know little of Abbott's opinions on clemency. No reporter has ever asked him, to my knowledge, or if they did they didn't publish the quotes.

As such, we have answers to only a few of the questions Grits offered up a year ago before Greg Abbott ascended to the governorship:

One also wonders as pardon season approaches about Greg Abbott and what his clemency policy will look like as governor.

Rick Perry rejected two thirds of positive recommendations he received from his appointees on the Board of Pardons and Paroles.

Will Greg Abbott approve them at higher rates?

What instructions will he give BPP appointees on clemency?

What questions related to clemency will his staff ask potential BPP appointees during the vetting process? Might he be willing to revisit clemency requests which were approved by the BPP but rejected or never acted upon by Rick Perry?

Will Gov. Abbott treat clemency as an ongoing, year-round executive function or limit pardon announcements to a few, symbolic Christmas-time public relations gambits?

Nobody ever asked the governor-elect any of these questions on the campaign trail so I guess we must wait and see.

Most of those questions remain unanswered, though Abbott ending the year with this rdly batch of four under-the-radar pardons three days before Christmas doesn't bode well.

http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2016/01/15-states-governors-grant-frequent-and.html

[Blake]

[Spurminator]

I am shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you, at the lack of any statement from Greg Abbott regarding the Baylor situation.

Seems college is still a more dangerous place for women than trans-friendly bathrooms.

[boutons_deux]

I am shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you, at the lack of any statement from Greg Abbott regarding the Baylor situation.

Seems college is still a more dangerous place for women than trans-friendly bathrooms.

Repug politicians have molested more juveniles and kids over the decades than transgender women (biological men) have molested (little) girls in women's restrooms.

Repugs INSULT the intelligence of non-Repugs, but of course flatter the ignorance, stupidity of their supporters.