Texas Bill to Ban Suggestive Cheers Stalls

[CatWoman]

Sunday May 15, 2005 7:31 AM

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A bill approved by the state House to ban bawdy cheerleading routines apparently isn't going anywhere in the Senate this year. The legislation prohibits ``overtly sexually suggestive'' cheerleading routines at school events and gives the state education chief the authority to ask school districts to review performances. It does not define sexually suggestive.

The House approved the legislation May 3 and sent it to the Senate Education Committee, where it is expected to die.

``We have some very important work to do in the next two weeks, and that's not one of them,'' Republican state Sen. Florence Shapiro, who chairs the education committee, said Friday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-500...

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. You know...

I think they throw these things out to try and keep us off-balance.

We have to learn how to react better and more efficiently.

[Malocchio]

2. bwahahahahaha!

Oh darn!

Like cheerleading isn't stoopid sexist drivel anyway. Are these people effin' crazy or what?

Why have cheerleaders at all if not for the "sex" factor....

[TahitiNut]

4. Well, why not ask the Cheerleader in Chief?

Sexy, huh?

[struggle4progress]

19. " .. Perhaps there have been other presidential candidates who have ..

.. dressed in drag, flaunting their legs from beneath a (fairly short) white skirt. But George W. Bush is probably the only one who has done it in front of a camera. A photograph showing George and friends wearing wigs and employing falsies to fill out their sweaters appears in a yellowed copy of the school newspaper of Phillips Academy here in Andover, near Boston. It was 1963 ..."


June 10, 2000
GEORGE W. BUSH'S JOURNEY The Cheerleader
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
http://texasturkey.us/backup/061000wh-bush.html

[TahitiNut]

7. Perhaps the media expert on cheerleading can help?

Katie Couric gives a whole new meaning to "Y".

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

11. OK, that picture is foul.

Could you maybe replace it with a picture of some dead Iraqi children or something less offensive?

[sarcasmo]

3. It takes a women to see through this stupidity, Thanks Flo.

[BlueEyedSon]

5. Simple solution: distribute burkas to all the high schools.

[CatWoman]

6. Jerry Springer reported

that it was a Democrat who introduced this bill.

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[rainbow4321]

25. We have a shitload of DINO's down here..

TX teachers were denied a $1,000/year increase in health bennies...why? Cuz SEVEN of our DINO's literally left the room just as the lawmakers voted. One DINO's excuse: His mother was sick and he had to take a phone call about her..ummm...so you had to take 6 other dem co-workers to help you FIND the phone??? Had these DINO's voted as real dems, the increase would have passed.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/31355...

Seven Democratic state representatives, three from Houston, found reasons to be absent recently when the House voted on a key Democratic budget amendment.

The measure would have passed had they voted for it, and some of their party-mates claim at least some of them walked to gain favor with Republican House Speaker Tom Craddick, who opposed the amendment.

The amendment by Rep. Jose Menendez of San Antonio would have restored a $1,000 health stipend to teachers and other school employees that was cut in 2003. It failed by five votes.

<snip>

But party stalwarts are watching Turner and the other Democrats on the leadership team, referring to them as Craddick Democrats for being more loyal to the speaker than some Republicans.

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There were also 5 DINO's who voted to ban gay/lesbian couples as foster parents...yet a West TX repub voted to allow the couples to continue.


Basically, in TX (just like on the national level) someone having a (D) after their name doesn't mean they are one of the good guys.

[kaos]

15. Democrat who introduced this bill.

Democratic Rep. Al Edwards the bill's sponsor, has argued that sexually suggestive cheerleading exhibitions are a distraction that results in pregnancies, dropouts and the contraction of AIDS and herpes.

Please catwoman let's not bring facts into the story ..How else can the children keep blaming it on the religious right?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,156564,00.html

[sonicx]

18. "How else can the children keep blaming it on the religious right?"

Show me the post in this thread where someone did this.

[smoogatz]

8. So if the bill passes, the state education chief

would essentially become the Texas cheer-leading inspector, traveling from school to school, giving various moves and routines the thumbs-up or thumbs-down? Uh--

where does one apply for this job, exactly?

[LiberalFighter]

21. How many would end pregnant after his inspection?

[Sandpiper]

10. The new Texas Cheerleader Uniform - a la Bartcop

[TahitiNut]

12. I thought those were the new bathing suits.

Well, count on the fans to bring Super Soakers.

Go figure. From the state that brought us the demure and modest Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders! (I never knew that a woman's elbow and forearm was regarded as an erogenous zone in Texas.)

[LiberalFighter]

22. Jon Stewart Daily Show had them in garbage bags doing their cheers

[DemocracyInaction]

13. The land of Boom-Boom Cheerleaders, Beauty Queens, & big hair

look at this as a threat to their very essence and being. These are the people who keep sending us the lame, the stupid and the corrupt to lead our land. They are a soap opera of a state and their state government spending it's time on this drivil while their schools suck, their air sucks and their politicians belong governing in banana republics is par for the course. The state that really needs to be "tread on"..............

[LeftyMom]

14. Can't they deal with the real chearleading scandal?

Why the hell do the uniforms cost so much? Hundreds of dollars for maybe 2 yards of polyester, it's a huge freakin' ripoff! If you're going to pay that much for a skirt, it should cover your ass cheeks and have material that doesn't feel like Yugo upholstery. Then another hundred dollars or so for some nurses's shoes with a tiny panel of the school colors on the side, as if anybody in the stands can see that the tiny colored bit.

Oh, and the matching duffel bags, because if you don't carry your three square inch uniform and your pompoms in matching custom bags with the school's logo, the terrorists win, or something. Never figured out what the point of the special bags was, if they just go from your car to your locker anyhow.

[Jack_DeLeon]

16. Nice bit of propaganda here...

the kooky democrats are the bad guys, and the republicans who do "important work" are the heros.

but really what were they thinking, dumbasses, I'm glad it died regardless of political party.

[cruadin]

17. It must be hard for political comedians to think up jokes.

It keeps getting harder and harder to lampoon the absurdity of the real politicians.

[realcountrymusic]

20. In this crazy country, it may take . . .

the ultimate political battle between empty-headed narcissistic republicans who love their sleazy, youth-sexualized pop culture and the fundies-4-real who believe all sex is tantamount to damnation, even if it's all in someone's mind to finally shake this right-wing-cabal apart. Lie us into catastrophic war? Big deal. Destroy the last remaining pristine place on the continent? Go right fucking ahead. Take away my bouncing titties on TV (or at the HS game)! Over my dead, McDonald's-eating, SUV-driving, Hannity-sucking ass.

They have to be careful with this outrage thing. It works if they can then turn it into prurient spectacle (a la Janet's exposed boob or Michael's magazine collection). But even the amoral US mainstream media isn't going to run long clips of HS cheerleaders doing "suggestive" routines in order to debate whether such things are "immoral" endlessly while their viewers salivate as they express SHOCK at such things. Oh wait, I forgot. HS girls in skimpy outfits IS mainstream TV already. So the problem here is not that it's too taboo; it's that it is too boring.

Better go pick on gay people again, fundie assholes. The cheerleaders are off limits.

RCM

[Rex]

23. So they like the fact that "sex sells" but only if you're 21 or older?

More proof that the old folks in charge don't know jack about this new generation. They see the hypocrisy of adult msgs and rebel against it.

[truthisfreedom]

24. goofballs. they don't give a flying f*** what they waste their time on.

they still get a friggin' paycheck on the public's back.