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					<h1 class="entry-title">Texas deserved the destruction wrought by Hurricane Harvey for Voting Republican</h1>
					<p class="headline_meta">by <span class="author vcard"><a href="http://granitegrok.com/author/Steve" class="url fn">Steve MacDonald</a></span></p>
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<p><a href="http://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/Hurricane-Harvey.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-137376" src="http://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/Hurricane-Harvey-560x374.jpg" alt="Hurricane Harvey" width="560" height="374" srcset="http://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/Hurricane-Harvey-560x374.jpg 560w, http://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/Hurricane-Harvey-250x167.jpg 250w, http://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/Hurricane-Harvey-768x513.jpg 768w, http://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/Hurricane-Harvey.jpg 960w" sizes="(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px" /></a>A <a href="http://www.wmur.com/article/professor-fired-for-saying-harvey-is-instant-karma-for-texas-republicans/12138782" target="_blank">Professor is out of work</a> after claiming on social media that Texas deserved the destruction wrought by Harvey for Voting Republican.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong class="dateline">TAMPA, Fla. —</strong>The University of Tampa has fired a visiting assistant professor who suggested in a tweet that Hurricane Harvey’s destruction is “instant karma” for Texas because it voted Republican.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Sociology professor Kenneth L. Storey posted the tweet and two responses on Sunday before removing the entire thread and his profile photo.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">University spokesman Eric Cardenas said in a statement Tuesday that Storey was fired after the school weathered an outpouring of online outrage over the comments.</p>
<p>Weathered an outpouring&#8230;seriously?</p>
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		.ssp-mejs-container .mejs-time-slider{
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			color: #999;
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			clear:none;
			margin:2px 0 0 0;
			padding:0;
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			width: 100%;
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			white-space: nowrap;
			overflow: hidden;
			top: 0;
			left: 0;
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