10 Worst Texans of 2013

Progress Texas has just released their list for the Top 10 Worst Texans of 2013. Oddly, our very on Goofy Gohmert failed to make the list this year. Shame on him. AG and gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott took the number one spot.

Homo Hater Goofy Gohmert

East Texas' very own Goofy Gohmert has won yet another illustrious award as one of Advocate magazines 2013 Homophobes of the year. Vlad Putin came in at number one. Gohmert was down the list this year at 13, but still making Texas proud:

"Gohmert is a prime contender for the title of most homophobic member of Congress, and the Texas Republican is certainly one of the most outrageous and illogical. In his antigay rants this year, he hit the usual notes of linking marriage equality to bestiality and polygamy, gay Boy Scouts to pedophilia, and hate-crimes laws to the end of religious freedom. But he also showed great, uh, imagination in putting gun control and evolution into the mix. In one of his choice comments, he said that limiting the amount of ammunition a gun owner can buy is “kind of like marriage when you say it’s not a man and a woman anymore, then why not have three men and one woman, or four women and one man, or why not somebody has a love for an animal?” Later he rhetorically asked believers in evolution, “How does the mating of two males evolve the species upwards?" 

Two Americas

If you ever wondered if there were different Americas for the rich and the rest of us, wonder no more.

It is good to be in the 1% of the 1%.

Case in point, a 16 year-old was recently acquitted of killing 4 people while driving drunk because ... he's too rich.

Really. That was what the judge said.

Ethan Couch was sentenced in a Fort Worth, Tex. juvenile court to 10 years probation for the drunk driving crash that ended the lives of youth pastor, Brian Jennings; Hollie and Shelby Boyles; and Breanna Mitchell.




The defense put forth the novel theory that Master Crouch suffered from "affluenza" and therefore was not responsible for his actions.

So in this country now if you are ridiculously  rich you can't be held accountable for your actions because ... you are too rich?

You can just kill four people and your winning defense is that you are too rich? And it works?

What do the lives of four of the little people matter?

Apparently in Texas, they don't matter at all.

What about all those kids that are too poor to know right from wrong? Is that okay? What about all of those poor kids on death row who didn't have parents that taught them the consequences of their actions?

Is this the America we want?

Time for a Progressive revolution.

FDR laid out the path for a true progressive, prosperous and egalitarian America. Lofty goals, for sure. But not unrealistic given the vast, vast wealth of this country. Notice that he speaks of a goal of lasting peace; we don't hear about that anymore. The war-mongering Right doesn't talk about peace as a goal. How could it when the immense military-industrial complex is built on perpetual war? The confused and rather sad Left doesn't speak of peace in any real terms either; just as beholden to the corporations of war and destruction.

Listen to a true leader address a future of promise and hope and -- yes -- peace:

It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth—is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.

This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights—among them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty.

As our nation has grown in size and stature, however—as our industrial economy expanded—these political rights proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.
We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.” People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.

Among these are
The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;

The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;

The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;

The right of every family to a decent home;

The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;

The right to a good education.

All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.

America's own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for all our citizens.

For unless there is security here at home there cannot be lasting peace in the world.