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PostNouveau posted:Texas is still imprisoning an inmate who was found innocent in 2008. Kind of a misleading title since the Court of criminal appeals overturned the district courts ruling.
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The Mayor of Crystal City (you know, the one where every official except one council member is under indictment) wants to run again: http://www.texastribune.org/2016/03/26/resigned-and-indicted-crystal-city-mayor-running-a/quote:Lopez — who says he has no steady job beyond selling used cars he buys on Craigslist (Crystal City does not pay its mayor or council members) — shrugged off his legal troubles. He spoke of political affiliations not in terms of Democrats or Republicans, but factions lined up behind families. He portrayed himself as a would-be reformer who was forced out of a government riddled with corruption elsewhere. Sounds legit.
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Mar 28, 2016 00:29
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Not paying the mayor and city council sounds like a fantastically bad idea. Yes let's copy the Roman method of ensuring we get the most corrupt and incompetent officials possible.
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Mar 28, 2016 03:50
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VitalSigns posted:Not paying the mayor and city council sounds like a fantastically bad idea. Even the state legislature only gets like $600/month (and they meet every other year). This has the result you think it will. e: Going off Wikipedia they also get a salary for every day they're in session, but again it's really small. The 2 year term pays $43,000.
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Mar 28, 2016 04:21
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"They should have to earn a living just like the rest of us!" OK, Mom. So you want the people making the rules that everyone has to follow to be as informed about fishing rights in the Gulf as you are? Or did you just mean that you want it to be financially impossible for anyone that isn't independently wealthy to be in charge of the state government? She actually stopped saying that after I pointed out the consequences of it that way, so 
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Mar 28, 2016 05:57
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VitalSigns posted:Not paying the mayor and city council sounds like a fantastically bad idea. For most cities of that size, the city council is part time so they don't get paid at all. The city manager is supposed to basically run the entire city, and the council meets every two weeks to make high-level decisions.
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Mar 28, 2016 05:59
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Crystal City is a great example of what happens when you drop a sleepy little dying town into the middle of the Eagle Ford shale. There's shitloads of money flying around there, and when you ask people who've had no money ever to choose between money and no money, the answers will be very obvious.
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Mar 28, 2016 14:15
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I'm glad an entire subthread has proven when life begins, and when killing a baby isn't murder, and also keeping the great thought in the back of their minds that "well even if it is murder its actually good!" (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mar 28, 2016 14:23
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Badger of Basra posted:The Mayor of Crystal City (you know, the one where every official except one council member is under indictment) wants to run again: http://www.texastribune.org/2016/03/26/resigned-and-indicted-crystal-city-mayor-running-a/ I wish I could find the clip from King of the Hill where several city council members have to recuse themselves from some situation because they are all under indictment.
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Mar 28, 2016 14:24
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anne frank fanfic posted:I'm glad an entire subthread has proven when life begins, and when killing a baby isn't murder, and also keeping the great thought in the back of their minds that "well even if it is murder its actually good!" Lemme just drop this here epic troll at 7:20 on a Monday morning.
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Mar 28, 2016 14:25
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zoux posted:Lemme just drop this here epic troll at 7:20 on a Monday morning. Real shitpost hours. If you up, smash that mf 1-vote.
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Mar 28, 2016 14:26
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I enjoy defending human life at all hours of the morning, but I still have not heard a logical response to actively supporting the killing of babies except "well it seems like life maybe doesnt begin until 3.1253 months as opposed to 4.249283 months but its inconclusive but whatever" and "well so what! I heard a political party say another bad thing so baby murder is good"
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Mar 28, 2016 14:38
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anne frank fanfic posted:I enjoy defending human life at all hours of the morning, but I still have not heard a logical response to actively supporting the killing of babies except "well it seems like life maybe doesnt begin until 3.1253 months as opposed to 4.249283 months but its inconclusive but whatever" and "well so what! I heard a political party say another bad thing so baby murder is good" drat, the guy who killed a guy on wikipedia reduced to "actually, Republicanism is good" in D&D smh.
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Mar 28, 2016 14:42
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anne frank fanfic posted:I enjoy defending human life at all hours of the morning, but I still have not heard a logical response to actively supporting the killing of babies except "well it seems like life maybe doesnt begin until 3.1253 months as opposed to 4.249283 months but its inconclusive but whatever" and "well so what! I heard a political party say another bad thing so baby murder is good" Let me help you there.... *ahem* It's none of your damned business, and you don't get to set the lines when it comes to medicine based on arbitrary religious ideology about birth and pregnancy. Troll somewhere else.
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Mar 28, 2016 15:37
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CommieGIR posted:Let me help you there.... When does life begin? (Source?)
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Mar 28, 2016 23:47
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anne frank fanfic posted:When does life begin? (Source?) Life begins when you start paying property taxes
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Mar 28, 2016 23:54
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The trouble is that "life" is a really fuzzy medical determination. But the inability to nail down when it occurs actually argues strongly against blanket declarations of abortion being illegal past an arbitrary time via legislation instead of letting people and their doctors make the call. If you do the former as our state has done you get things like this (posted in the Austin Reddit a day ago):quote:Me and my wife were expecting our first child. She had been pregnant for over four months. We did all the check ups, all the screenings. By all accounts he was a happy, healthy, big for his age little man, with his father's nose.
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Mar 29, 2016 00:10
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anne frank fanfic posted:When does life begin? (Source?) Nobody knows. Not even you. But let's talk about the horrors and heartache you've decided to forcibly put expectant parents and desperate mothers through by locking them out of legal and safe medical procedures you pretentious dick.
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Mar 29, 2016 00:48
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Well, you can't live without lungs and lungs are one of the last things to be formed in a fetus which is why I find those ads about when the heart is formed a bit silly.
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Mar 29, 2016 08:19
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VitalSigns posted:Not paying the mayor and city council sounds like a fantastically bad idea. In Denton they aren't paid, but they make up for it by being uninformed and terrible.
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Mar 29, 2016 08:25
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anne frank fanfic posted:When does life begin? (Source?) 2.7-3.5 billion years ago.
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Mar 29, 2016 09:06
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Someone else elaborate on the unborn are sacred, post-born can get hosed angle please because I have to leave for a doctor's appointment. Maybe the Why the gently caress don't you support comprehensive sex ed then part as well.
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Wulfolme posted:Someone else elaborate on the unborn are sacred, post-born can get hosed angle please because I have to leave for a doctor's appointment. Because women are whores and should pay for having sex outside of marriage or even enjoying sex at all. Their bastard offspring must suffer with them No seriously. I've been told that by someone who was dead serious. But men who have sex get high fives and well wishes.
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Mar 29, 2016 14:58
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Boy y'all can't help yourselves huh?
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zoux posted:Boy y'all can't help yourselves huh? What's your hypothesis, then?
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Mar 29, 2016 15:59
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GreyjoyBastard posted:What's your hypothesis, then? "Don't bite on obvious trolls"
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It's less biting on an obvious troll and more jerking off right onto his exposed face after he posted a sign asking us to. That doesn't make it sound better, does it.
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Mar 29, 2016 16:08
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Legalize drugs and murder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zNG63rf9LQ
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zoux posted:"Don't bite on obvious trolls" Oh, you meant the start of the exchange. Good point.
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Shifty Pony posted:The trouble is that "life" is a really fuzzy medical determination. But the inability to nail down when it occurs actually argues strongly against blanket declarations of abortion being illegal past an arbitrary time via legislation instead of letting people and their doctors make the call. If you do the former as our state has done you get things like this (posted in the Austin Reddit a day ago): The worst part is that he named his kid Fox.
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Gay Hitler posted:Many community leaders also dressed for charity and I was certainly not the most shocking costume. He better supply pics of the other costumes if that's his excuse.
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Mar 30, 2016 22:52
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A straight Hitler costume would be worse right? Might have been one there.
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Jewish Hitler maybe. Gay Hitler is certainly in the top tier of unbelievably provocative costumes though.
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Mar 31, 2016 00:12
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Ehehehehe https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/719582074512879616
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So what's the over-under on how long it takes to worm his way out of this one? Three, four months?
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He hasn't wormed his way out of the criminal charges yet.
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Lol Ken Paxton
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An Angry Bug posted:So what's the over-under on how long it takes to worm his way out of this one? Three, four months? he goin2jail
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It's a civil trial right now. https://www.texastribune.org/2016/04/11/sec-charges-paxton-securities-fraud/
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