saintonan posted: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. This a million times. I grew up in a small Texas town. The population was 5k and the nearest town bigger than that was an hour away. We had once been a town of 50k back in the early 1900s because of Oil and because of that we had several old money families with fortunes in the 9 digit range while most people were below the poverty line. Fracking brought the oil back in a big way recently also. The level of corruption and entrenchment of the good ol' boy system is unbelievable. Meth is huge there. There aren't many murders, but the ones that do happen are always "suicides". The entire police force is on the take and a few of them have been known to sell drugs directly out of their cop cars. When my friends mother tried to apply for funds through the county indigent health care fund (she qualified) she was told straight up that the county uses that money for other things and doesn't spend it on "you people". There have been quite a few Texas Ranger investigations but somehow they never amount to anything. I have countless stories of corruption and hosed up things that have happened and nobody has ever gotten in trouble.
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I don't have rural stories like that being from DFW, but I remember talking to a retired police detective for a DFW-area department who worked on organized crime and counter-terrorism task forces, and he said they outright avoided dealing with rural counties east of the metroplex because of corruption. Think Kaufman County. Edit: Oh I forgot to mention this, but here in Denton County, the crooked Tea Party sheriff got primaried. He was the subject of a recent Dallas Observer investigation which included, among other things: allegations of bribery, falsifying evidence, campaign finance irregularities and an affair with his kids' 17-year-old babysitter. The most amazing thing is his name is William B. Travis and he played up an ancestral connection despite the fact he's from Mississippi. A bunch of Flower Mound voters fell for it, and still voted for him this time around, but Denton itself swung hard for his opponent and got him voted out. Thank God. http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dentons-scandal-prone-sheriff-8047734 His opponent was Tracy Murphree, who ran as a clean, True Conservative cop. But gently caress, even a lot of Denton liberals were talking about switching parties to vote for him because Travis was so awful. (Murphree won.) BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Apr 12, 2016 |
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This came across my Facebook feed, courtesy of my hipster brother-in-law: https://www.change.org/p/mayor-mike-rawling-dallas-city-council-adopt-the-pegasus-and-the-trinity-as-the-official-flag-of-dallas Because nothing symbolizes Dallas better than a hosed-up boondoggle river and an oil company mascot. Presumably they couldn't figure out how to put redlining on a flag.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:This came across my Facebook feed, courtesy of my hipster brother-in-law: Edit: I unironically think they should replace the Dallas flag with that of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza: Reference to this: https://books.google.com/books?id=u...kennedy&f=false BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Apr 12, 2016 |
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Some fine reading for a rainy Tuesday. https://www.texastribune.org/2016/04/11/analysis-rough-day-class-2014/
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# ? Apr 12, 2016 17:09 |
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Here's a little article about the 'Jesus shot' that Sid Miller got: http://fusion.net/story/282538/jesus-shot-michael-lonergan-oklahoma/ $300 for a B12 shot administered by a self-proclaimed bipolar, convicted felon who had his license to practice medicine revoked by Ohio's medical board? Sounds legit.
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zoux posted:Some fine reading for a rainy Tuesday. Greg Abbot is such an embarrassment.
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blue squares posted:Greg Abbot is such an embarrassment. I reckon that Sid Miller is more of an embarassment. He causes much more self-harm through having a big mouth and idiots running his social media - and pretends there's nothing wrong with it. Other than that, I don't actually know if he's doing an acceptable job (though I vaguely recall something about returning fried food to school lunches).
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# ? Apr 13, 2016 16:17 |
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Hawkline posted:I reckon that Sid Miller is more of an embarassment. He causes much more self-harm through having a big mouth and idiots running his social media - and pretends there's nothing wrong with it. Other than that, I don't actually know if he's doing an acceptable job (though I vaguely recall something about returning fried food to school lunches). Guess
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# ? Apr 13, 2016 16:20 |
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Hawkline posted:I reckon that Sid Miller is more of an embarassment. He causes much more self-harm through having a big mouth and idiots running his social media - and pretends there's nothing wrong with it. Other than that, I don't actually know if he's doing an acceptable job (though I vaguely recall something about returning fried food to school lunches). Oh boy glad I looked at his Facebook page just now. gently caress you, Texas voters.
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# ? Apr 13, 2016 18:03 |
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War of Northern Tax collecting, Lamestream media, Hollyweird... our loving state. should be an armadillo or something doing a
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# ? Apr 13, 2016 18:36 |
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MariusLecter posted:War of Northern Tax collecting, Lamestream media, Hollyweird... our loving state. This is what happens when education is terrible and the party in power only wants it to be worse.
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# ? Apr 13, 2016 18:45 |
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Sid Miller is if your hot-takenest uncle held public office.
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# ? Apr 13, 2016 18:45 |
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I'm not sure what's wrong with either of Sid Miller's facebook posts there...
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# ? Apr 13, 2016 18:57 |
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blue squares posted:I'm not sure what's wrong with either of Sid Miller's facebook posts there... He wears a suit with a cowboy hat.
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MariusLecter posted:He wears a suit with a cowboy hat. That's known as Texas Casual.
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# ? Apr 13, 2016 19:05 |
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Fuckin Suits and Boots man.
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# ? Apr 13, 2016 19:05 |
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Yeah if you really wanted to post something terrible from his Facebook you should go with the time he said we should nuke the Middle East.
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# ? Apr 13, 2016 19:05 |
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Was it him that said he's slap anyone that said "happy holidays" to him?
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# ? Apr 13, 2016 19:10 |
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ReidRansom posted:Was it him that said he's slap anyone that said "happy holidays" to him? None other.
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zoux posted:Sid Miller is if your hot-takenest uncle held public office. Obligatory text so I'm not empty-quoting.
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blue squares posted:I'm not sure what's wrong with either of Sid Miller's facebook posts there... Nothing wrong with Sid's posts, it's the comments on the posts, hence: The Mandingo posted:gently caress you, Texas voters.
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# ? Apr 13, 2016 20:17 |
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Sid is under investigation by the Texas Rangers: https://www.texastribune.org/2016/04/13/texas-rangers-investigate-ag-chiefs-statepaid-trip/
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Badger of Basra posted:Sid is under investigation by the Texas Rangers: https://www.texastribune.org/2016/04/13/texas-rangers-investigate-ag-chiefs-statepaid-trip/ quote:The investigation follows complaints filed by the liberal advocacy group Progress Texas, which asked the department's investigative unit to review two state-paid trips the Stephenville Republican took in February 2015 after media reports indicating he may have traveled for personal benefit, including to participate in a rodeo and to receive a controversial injection known as "the Jesus Shot." 1. Rodeos are official Texas business. and 2. Religious freedom being infringed upon by liberals, of course!
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# ? Apr 14, 2016 18:19 |
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Hmmm so an unintended consequence of them moving the PIU from Travis Co. to DPS is now instead of "XXXXX investigated by the Travis Co. DA" headlines, they read "The Texas Rangers are investigating" which sounds way way worse.
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zoux posted:Hmmm so an unintended consequence of them moving the PIU from Travis Co. to DPS is now instead of "XXXXX investigated by the Travis Co. DA" headlines, they read "The Texas Rangers are investigating" which sounds way way worse. Texas Rangers always get their man.
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# ? Apr 14, 2016 18:22 |
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https://twitter.com/AshleaGraves/status/720457525783633921 She's Houston ISD's comm director.
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# ? Apr 14, 2016 20:03 |
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What, another one? I thought it had already been ruled unconstitutional some time ago but that no change has been made yet to address that.
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ReidRansom posted:What, another one? I thought it had already been ruled unconstitutional some time ago but that no change has been made yet to address that. When is the court finally going to solve the issue by setting up an income tax through judicial fiat?
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ReidRansom posted:What, another one? I thought it had already been ruled unconstitutional some time ago but that no change has been made yet to address that. You're thinking of the one that was five or six years ago. That was to respond to the "no state prop tax" constitutional violation, this one is on the "fair and equitable" violation. I think it's cool that our state constitution basically makes it impossible to craft a constitutional school finance system because it's almost impossible to create a fair and equitable system based on local property tax collections.
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zoux posted:I think it's cool that our state constitution basically makes it impossible to craft a constitutional school finance system because it's almost impossible to create a fair and equitable system based on local property tax collections. Also it does not help that our state constitution is a just a few paragraphs long with about 700 or so contradicting amendments stuck to it. Just a big,convoluted, byzantine mess that no wants to fix.
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an iksar monk posted:Also it does not help that our state constitution is a just a few paragraphs long with about 700 or so contradicting amendments stuck to it. Just a big,convoluted, byzantine mess that no wants to fix. This is the same state government where one of our governors barricaded himself in his office to keep out the anti-carbetbagger mobs so we stapled on an amendment somewhere to give the real authority to the guy beneath him. And we've just rolled with it for a hundred plus years. We're basically that village from Fiddler on the Roof. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V2lxFWBqfI TRADITION!
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# ? Apr 15, 2016 04:10 |
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i had no idea that was the reason we have a weak governorship
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# ? Apr 15, 2016 04:11 |
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https://twitter.com/chucklindell/status/720975363325698048
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# ? Apr 15, 2016 15:07 |
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The Don is in full on troll mode, it seems. http://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2016/04/reporters-notebook-could-it-be-satan/ quote:The devil is in the details… It may be a while before City Council members are willing to accept amendments offered to their resolutions by Council Member Don Zimmerman, no matter how inoffensive they appear at first glance. On Thursday, a discussion over a symbolic resolution to declare Austin a “compassionate community” was prolonged significantly after Zimmerman announced that language in his amendment – as accepted by the resolution’s sponsor, Council Member Ann Kitchen – had in fact been lifted from the website of the Satanic Temple. This language was a largely innocuous call for compassion and empathy, but Zimmerman delighted in displaying what he saw as Council’s hypocrisy, since Kitchen had rejected two other amendments he offered that included specific references to Christianity. Kitchen responded earnestly that it was not her intent to endorse any particular religious view, and Mayor Steve Adler urged his colleagues to strike the amendment and pass the resolution. He didn’t want a “meme” to emerge about Council endorsing Satanism, and, just as important, he didn’t believe city government should be spending so much time debating a purely symbolic measure. Council voted to strike the amendment and then voted 9-1 to approve the resolution, with only Zimmerman opposed. Council Member Ellen Troxclair was absent.
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# ? Apr 18, 2016 16:57 |
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Uh oh looks like Whole Foods Cake-gate might be fake.
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# ? Apr 19, 2016 20:51 |
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zoux posted:Uh oh looks like Whole Foods Cake-gate might be fake. That it was fake was pretty obvious from the beginning. (Especially to anyone who has actually been to that Whole Foods locations. I can't picture any of the sleeve-tattooed, giant-ear-gage pierced, omnisexual punks working at that store deciding to do something like that.) I'm just surprised that Whole Foods was willing to do the legwork to prove it. EDIT: Also, never trust a Texas preacher.
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# ? Apr 19, 2016 21:17 |
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In Conroe news,
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computer parts posted:In Conroe news, Is that a leash?
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PostNouveau posted:Is that a leash? A responsible tiger owner
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