<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Texas passes new &quot;Pole&quot; tax : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/"/><tagline>Texas passes new &quot;Pole&quot; tax : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-11-18T15:04:19+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Texas passes new &quot;Pole&quot; tax]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/45087/1/" /><id>45087</id><summary><![CDATA[Texas passes new &quot;Pole&quot; tax]]></summary><issued>2007-12-23T10:24:05+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-23T10:24:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Starting January 1st, there will be an additional $5.00 cover charge at 150 different strip clubs in Texas.  All because the State thinks Strip Clubs lead to sex crimes.<br/><br/>What's next?  A $10 per fetus tax on abortion clinics?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[&quot;One State, Under God.&quot;  Texas adds four new words to state pledge]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29971/1/" /><id>29971</id><summary><![CDATA[&quot;One State, Under God.&quot;  Texas adds four new words to state pledge]]></summary><issued>2007-08-02T17:19:40+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-02T17:19:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Texas students will have four more words to remember when they head back to class this month and begin reciting the state's pledge of allegiance.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Texas Cashier Clubs Deaf Customer For Not Talking]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37797/1/" /><id>37797</id><summary><![CDATA[Texas Cashier Clubs Deaf Customer For Not Talking]]></summary><issued>2007-10-09T11:48:13+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-09T11:48:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Texas...the new Florida.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Texas bans nibbling fish pedicures]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/79043/1/" /><id>79043</id><summary><![CDATA[Texas bans nibbling fish pedicures]]></summary><issued>2008-10-08T22:40:25+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-08T22:40:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The US state of Texas has banned <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/science/l/62690/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">fish</a>, <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/weird/l/69516/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">pedicures</a> over health and safety concerns, denying salon customers the opportunity to enjoy the sensation of hundreds of small fish nibbling away the dead skin from their feet.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Son of Evel Knievel jumps 21 Hummers in Texas]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sports/l/64756/1/" /><id>64756</id><summary><![CDATA[Son of Evel Knievel jumps 21 Hummers in Texas]]></summary><issued>2008-06-09T01:17:02+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-09T01:17:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Next time, he'll do it on a bike...(just kidding)<br/><br/>Daredevil Robbie Knievel, son of the late Evel Knievel, rode his motorcycle against a stiff 30-mpg headwind over 21 Hummers, at the at Texas Motor Speedway  on Saturday.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[52 Girls Removed From Texas Compound]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/57113/1/" /><id>57113</id><summary><![CDATA[52 Girls Removed From Texas Compound]]></summary><issued>2008-04-05T08:06:29+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-05T08:06:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Officials from Texas Child Protective Services, escorted by state troopers, took 52 girls, ages 6 months to 17 years, from the remote retreat on Friday afternoon.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Texas Is No. 1 Carbon Polluter In U.S.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/47503/1/" /><id>47503</id><summary><![CDATA[Texas Is No. 1 Carbon Polluter In U.S.]]></summary><issued>2008-01-16T21:04:33+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-16T21:04:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The headquarters state of America's oil industry spewed 670 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2003, enough that Texas would rank seventh in the world if it were its own country, according to the most recent figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Texas Ballot: No Obama or McCain?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/73905/1/" /><id>73905</id><summary><![CDATA[Texas Ballot: No Obama or McCain?]]></summary><issued>2008-08-28T02:22:38+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-28T02:22:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Section 192.031 of the Texas election code says that political parties must certify their presidential and vice-presidential candidates for the November ballot no later than 70 days before the general election.<br/><br/>Neither the Democrats or Republicans have filed, and the deadline has passed.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Lightning strikes twice in Texas Pick-3]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28402/1/" /><id>28402</id><summary><![CDATA[Lightning strikes twice in Texas Pick-3]]></summary><issued>2007-07-22T09:27:42+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-22T09:27:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An unlikely but possible event occurred this week in the Texas Lottery when the same numbers were drawn on two consecutive days.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[North Texas school district will let teachers carry guns]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/72482/1/" /><id>72482</id><summary><![CDATA[North Texas school district will let teachers carry guns]]></summary><issued>2008-08-15T16:42:01+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-15T16:42:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A tiny Texas school district may be the first in the nation to allow teachers and staff to pack guns for protection when classes begin later this month.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[F-16s at Scene of U.F.O. Sighting in Texas]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/48244/1/" /><id>48244</id><summary><![CDATA[F-16s at Scene of U.F.O. Sighting in Texas]]></summary><issued>2008-01-24T11:46:16+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-24T11:46:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[As the hype around a U.F.O. sighting in Texas garners an unusual amount of attention, a local Air Force reserve base stepped up on Wednesday with a statement that either completely debunks the story or fuels it further, depending on who you ask and when you ask them.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Texas Independence Relay]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sports/l/40171/1/" /><id>40171</id><summary><![CDATA[Texas Independence Relay]]></summary><issued>2007-10-31T15:36:57+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-31T15:36:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Texas Independence Relay is composed of 40 relay legs of various lengths, totaling 200 miles. The course starts in Gonzales, TX, where the Texas Revolution began, and it finishes at the San Jacinto Monument, where Texas Independence was won! <br/><br/>I'm trying to get the <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/sports/f/1872/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Texas Chainsaw Repairmen</a> to run this one.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Endangered turtle nests found in Texas]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34566/1/" /><id>34566</id><summary><![CDATA[ Endangered turtle nests found in Texas]]></summary><issued>2007-09-05T07:32:39+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-05T07:32:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Wildlife officials counted a record 128 Kemp's ridley sea turtle nests this summer on Texas beaches.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Sex Toys Now Legal In Texas]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/50672/1/" /><id>50672</id><summary><![CDATA[Sex Toys Now Legal In Texas]]></summary><issued>2008-02-15T03:15:36+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-15T03:15:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Sex toys are now legal in Texas, after a 1970s law banning the sale of &quot;obscene devices&quot; was overturned in court.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The foot bone's connected to the...]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/68699/1/" /><id>68699</id><summary><![CDATA[The foot bone's connected to the...]]></summary><issued>2008-07-14T11:48:07+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-14T11:48:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[ankle?   Not if you live in Texas. <br/><br/>In the newest way to increase revenue, texas orthopedics (bone doctors) have sued to prevent podiatrists (foot doctors) from treating any aliments above the heel. And they won, the ankle no longer exists in texas.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Sprawling spider web engulfs Texas park trail]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/33730/1/" /><id>33730</id><summary><![CDATA[Sprawling spider web engulfs Texas park trail]]></summary><issued>2007-08-30T08:33:59+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-30T08:33:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hardcore Molesters to Face Death Penalty in Texas]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/12462/1/" /><id>12462</id><summary><![CDATA[Hardcore Molesters to Face Death Penalty in Texas]]></summary><issued>2007-03-07T08:45:09+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-07T08:45:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Repeat sex offenders &#1089;ould be sentenced to death in Texas after the bill named Jessica's Law was approved this week by Texas House of Representatives.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA['Catastrophic' storm hits Texas]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/76033/1/" /><id>76033</id><summary><![CDATA['Catastrophic' storm hits Texas]]></summary><issued>2008-09-13T05:52:29+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-13T05:52:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Hurricane Ike has made landfall on the Gulf coast of Texas, where it is expected to cause &quot;potentially catastrophic&quot; flooding and damage.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Video: Plane lands on top of another at Texas airport]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62105/1/" /><id>62105</id><summary><![CDATA[Video: Plane lands on top of another at Texas airport]]></summary><issued>2008-05-16T12:38:13+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-16T12:38:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This was the amazing scene at a Texas airport today after a plane trying to land ended up touching down on top of another plane waiting to take-off.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Car hits child. Bystanders start to attack driver. Passenger intervenes. Crowd kills passenger. Yes, it's Texas ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/24505/1/" /><id>24505</id><summary><![CDATA[Car hits child. Bystanders start to attack driver. Passenger intervenes. Crowd kills passenger. Yes, it's Texas ]]></summary><issued>2007-06-20T13:37:21+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-20T13:37:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[One injured child and one dead passenger. Texas street justice in action.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Texas Mayor in Mess Over Shih Tzu Theft]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/50735/1/" /><id>50735</id><summary><![CDATA[Texas Mayor in Mess Over Shih Tzu Theft]]></summary><issued>2008-02-15T11:49:28+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-15T11:49:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Grace Saenz-Lopez was forced to quit her job as Mayor of Alice, Texas, for keeping her neighbor&#8217;s dog, but insists it was a rescue.<br/><br/>*Pic unrelated.]]></content></entry></feed>