Posted on 05/05/2020 3:12:26 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
Yeeee-hah!!!! – In a press conference held Tuesday afternoon, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that a raft of additional businesses are fixin’ to be allowed to reopen on Friday, May 8. Those businesses include barbers, hair salons, cosmetologists and tanning salons. He also announced that gyms will be able to reopen on May 18, albeit at 25% capacity.
Excerpt from a report at the Texas Tribune website:
The businesses will be required to follow certain rules as the state continues to grapple with the coronavirus. Hairstylists will be able to work with only one customer at a time. People waiting in barber shops will have to maintain 6-foot separation or wait outside.
Meanwhile, gyms will be required to operate at a maximum of 25% of capacity. Showers and locker rooms will be closed, and equipment must be disinfected after each use.
Abbott acknowledged people may want to see another type of business reopen — bars — but said the state is still figuring out how they can do so safely and did not offer a timetable.
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Finally, I’ll be able to go get my shaggy head trimmed up!
Of note, Governor Abbott’s announcement comes one day after Virginia Governor Ralph KKK Northam extended his own lockdown order through May 16. It also comes as Democrat governors in California, Michigan and Oregon, and Republicans in Alabama and Ohio are finding themselves under increasing pressure to relent on their own draconian orders.
In California, a city councilman has personally sued Gov. Newsom over his idiotic beach-closing order:
Newport Beach City Councilman Kevin Muldoon personally sued Gov. Gavin Newsom in federal court Monday over Newsom’s beach closures targeting Orange County.
Muldoon, a vocal proponent of lifting the weeks-long lockdown imposed to stem the coronavirus pandemic, filed the suit on his own behalf and was footing his own legal costs, he said. He called Newsom’s directive, handed down Thursday and put into effect the next day, unconstitutional.
Newsom’s order applies only toOrange County. A reopening date is unclear.
“Defendants have shown by their actions a willingness to ignore and to violate the fundamental civil rights of California residents,” the lawsuit reads. “Their actions … are persistent and capable of repetition unless they are enjoined by this court.”
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In Michigan, the Detroit News published an editorial by its editorial board condemning Generalissimo Gretchen Whitmer for her rampant abuse of power and and endorsing the legislature’s decision to file a lawsuit against her:
Whitmer is attempting to assign a noble purpose for her unilateral power grab, saying she needed to continue her emergency powers to protect health care workers from being sued by COVID-19 patients.
But the Legislature Thursday approved a bill that would enshrine that immunity in law, proving lawmakers are capable of working with the governor to protect Michigan.
They had offered to grant her another short-term extension of her powers, with oversight. But she refused to accept any conditions that forced her to collaborate with lawmakers.
The Republican-controlled Legislature Thursday also passed resolutions authorizing the speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader to sue the governor.
That lawsuit should be filed ASAP.
From the beginning of her tenure, Whitmer has show disdain for both the law and regular-order governing, looking for every loophole to avoid dealing with the Legislature.
This time, she’s taken the state to a very dangerous place.
There’s no reasonable defense, in a representative democracy, for a governor to strip the legislative branch of its constitutional authority and assume dictatorial powers in perpetuity.
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In Oregon, radical Alinskyite Governor Kate Brown eased some of her own abusive restrictions after coming under intense pressure in recent days:
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has announced a limited opening of some state parks, outdoor recreation facilities, and other areas for day use in a partial easing of restrictions put in place because of the coronavirus.
Officials say day-use will slowly return to other state parks starting next week. The popular Columbia River Gorge parks and recreation areas and coastal areas will remain closed for now. Brown says Oregonians should recreate responsibly.
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What all of this is teaching us is something most Texans have known for all of our lives: We are damned lucky to live in the Lone Star State.
Thank you, Governor Abbott, and God Bless Texas.
That is all.
Look at what China accomplished..they successfully turned the United States of America full communist and Bernie Sanders didnt have to get elected to accomplish it..all China had to do was release a virus, that simple
“Entertain a clown and you become part of the circus”
“Weak people fight. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”
Well, we've been good little lemmings so I guess we deserve it.
RIP Texas. We thought you were the last of the breed but it turns out you let the Lone Star State become another nanny state like most of the pathetic rest.
Yep, I smell HUGE lawsuit. HUGE!
Indeed...what about that, Abbott? AG Barr? Hello?
“”Hairstylists will be able to work with only one customer at a time””
I’ve never been to one who was capable of working with more than one customer at a time...
Will customers be required to show proof of residence so non-Texans won’t try to sneak into the state for a haircut?
RIP Texas. We thought you were the last of the breed but it turns out you let the Lone Star State become another nanny state like most of the pathetic rest.
Thank that asshole Rick Perry for going after California companies....and bringing their assholes with them.
Oh thank you most benevolent Dear Leader, Gov. Abbott! Your subjects thank you!
I f-ing loath politicians!
The salon owner in Dallas that has to spend a week in jail and pay $3500 fine doesn’t feel so lucky.
That’s great. I’m in Atlanta, and I got one LAST weekend. Who would have thought the largest state east of the Mississippi, would be freer than the second largest state west of the Mississippi? LOL
Good point. The Blueification of a Red State.
His posts are worth reading and appreciated by many people. He even posts in full and not exceprts so no need for your usual self appointed nonsense.
The other day on the local News, some beauty salon and barber shop owners from St Pete, all BLACK, logically and sensibly explained why their businesses are essential. Small business owners are racist?
I already got mine on the black market last week here in Michigan.
There’s a lot of irony in your statement for sure.
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