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I was going through my emails the other day and discovered I still had emails I sent out just before my daughter was born, which is over 18 years ago at this point. But I didn't save the email for my FADE IN purchase, so I just bought it again (it was worth it).
The only Kevin I ever got advice from told me to go to Arizona State. Had he had any other name, I'd have gone there.
I mean, a birth certificate doesn't have my picture on it. Plus, we know how Trump feels about birth certificates proving where a person was born.
I wrote a whole book at work while trying to look busy when I had nothing to do.
That’s why I’ve been kicking every one I can find right in the shins.
Move over Coppolas and Houston’s, we’ve got a new ‘most talented family’
St. Tammany Parish SO wrongly arrested this guy and sat him in jail for two weeks while his sister went and got exculpatory video evidence. And even after the DA refused the charges, the Sheriff can't be bothered to update or remove this press release touting the wrongful arrest.
I mean, my Dad did teach me many such tips (not mortgage fraud specifically, but a lot of tax fraud) in the years before he became a convicted felon for bankruptcy fraud.
The Attorney General of Texas did similar, but nobody cares (mostly because "Ken Paxton committed a crime" happens so often that it's lost all meaning).
Shoulda workshopped this one a bit longer.
The permissions must be signed by parents every year.
The same law requires parent permission before teaching that, say, George Washington had a wife or refer to the race of Frederick Douglass.
New Texas laws are really stupid. For example, it is now against the law for a school nurse to give a kindergartener a Band-Aid unless the parent has given prior written permission for the nurse to do so.
I’m sure the current Court would say that it can’t be criminal because it’s not manifestly outside the outer perimeter of the president’s official duties.
The JFK assassination conspiracy claims another victim, only 62 short years after the assassination.
Why not Salt Lake City or Lubbock (Texas) or Amarillo (Texas) then, if we want him to illegally send troops to cities with higher violent crime rates than Chicago?
By the by, the city where I grew up (Amarillo, Texas) has a significantly higher violent crime rate than Chicago (and than even Dallas, Texas), but since Trump won the area with 70%-80% of the vote, they never get mentioned in conversations about crime.
My daughter thought the British Royals were driving Prince Philip around in the back of a car after he was dead because he looked so bad in pictures. I could see someone making the same mistake here.
I don't get the thinking behind shooting someone for ringing doorbells. www.fox26houston.com/news/houston...
By the by, when racist activity was reported to be happening in Plano ISD, the AG was completely silent. When video surfaced of a teacher physically abusing a special needs student, the AG was silent. Ken Paxton is nothing but performative culture war bullshit.
Whoops. (I am surprised that a person was given bond on a capital murder charge, though).
A cold front came through Texas yesterday and Ted Cruz instinctively flew to Cancun.
How dangerous are these children?
Jerry Adler actor, best known by me as Mr. Wicker on 'Mad About You,' and cousin of famed acting coach Stella Adler has passed away at age 96. I thought he was funny.
How much of the land Italy, Japan, or Germany acquired by force during the war stayed with those countries at the end of the war? I'm pretty sure all three countries ended up with even less territory than they'd had before the war.
I remember it was controversial when Nancy Reagan spent $210,000 on new White House China in 1981.
If you can't win legitimately, make it harder to vote.
The Fifth Circuit did something good for once. www.chron.com/news/article...
Weird that no one has ever asked me for my license plate when I went to vote in person.
India-Pakistan (with both sides saying Trump had nothing to do with it). Rwanda-Congo (US negotiated peace deal that doesn't include largest armed group) Iran-Israel (US bombed Iran) Armenia and Azerbaijan (Russia is credited w/mediating) Kosovo-Serbia (pure fantasy) Egypt and Ethiopia (no deal)
I mean, there's no evidence anything he says is true, but the biggest users of mail-in voting where I live are senior citizens, and they tend to skew more toward Republicans on average.
It says "Low Price" right on the tag. Doesn't that convince you of its value?
The dealership in question is Southwest Kia of Dallas, owned by Lithia Motors, but they're almost all like that. Lithia owns 298 dealerships in the US and Canada and is based out of Oregon, so it's not even your local car dealership jackass getting rich off bilking Texas consumers.
I guess millionaire/billionaire car dealerships give a lot of donations to the Republican Party which means they can break the law at will while the rest of us get taken advantage of.
Our Attorney General, Ken 'Dipshit' Paxton, who regularly sues companies for borderline-at-best deceptive practices when it touches on culture war bullshit issues does absolutely nothing to these giant corps who clearly violate the letter and the spirit of the law.
Drive down to the dealership and suddenly there's an additional $3,000 in junk 'warranties' and floor mats that are tacked on the price. They disclose it once you get to the dealership, but Texas Admin Code says it has to be shown in advertisements.
Why do we have consumer protection laws if they're allowed to be flaunted without repercussions by businesses? Like car dealers. Advertise a car for $21,998 plus TT&L with no disclosure of any caveats, and Texas law says the dealer has to sell the car to any customer for that price.
At least she has that fifth place medal and the sheer hate in her heart to keep her warm.
Why not let corn vote?
Shit dude, I have to beat Greg Abbott in 2026 before I can even think about running for president.
There was a time when some people thought Phil Gramm was going to be President.
I don’t know what the solution is, but driving through rural Texas and seeing all those farming communities struggling and disappearing is difficult to see. Except Estelline. I’m glad that speed trap is dying.
Gas seems a little pricey here in Murphy, Texas.
Very much enjoyed ‘Weapons’
If it’s so important for ‘history’ and ‘tradition’ to have a school in Midland, Texas called Lee High School, they could at least go find another Lee to name it after, like Light Horse Harry Lee or somebody like that.
My father, an impossibly kind and patient man considering both his generation and his upbringing, was still genially brutal about the difference between *feeling* discomfort and *being* unsafe. I don't know how you maintain a civil society in this context.
The man, big tough man, came up to me with tears in his eyes and said, 'Sir, I've been forced to hide dead bodies to make the crime stats look better. Only you can fix this and get the truth out there.'
But they should also care when school districts go out of their way to purge dozens of special education students even if there is a payment involved.
Our district just pays off the kids who file a complaint to leave - at a much lower amount than the actual cost to replicate the services the district is otherwise obligated to provide. But yes, if true, they should nip this extra charge thing in the bud.
Ha ha. Our local school district proudly refuses to properly serve disabled kids. The ACLU has repeatedly been made aware but the most response any of us has gotten is a list of lawyers we could possibly hire individually.
A similar Muslim-focused community has been proposed in Texas, and Ken Paxton and Greg Abbott were all over it trying to get it shut down before it even started. I kinda suspect Paxton and Abbott wouldn't have the same objections to this kind of community.
Plus, I sincerely doubt that Republicans would have reacted to Bork being confirmed by suddenly nominating more liberal judges (confirming Scalia - though Dems were in the Senate minority at the time of Scalia's nomination - didn't result in Reagan not nominating Bork, for example).
I mean, Reagan ultimately picked someone for that seat who got confirmed (Anthony Kennedy) who turned out moderately well for liberals compared to what Bork would've been. It's not like 2016 when the Senate just outright blocked nomination.
Reboot Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” but with Alan Dershowitz and the whole show is just enjoying him never getting food because he’s a querulous, joyless douche and he’s constantly demanding that the Laotian street vendor or whoever denounce Hamas before he’ll try the khao jee
So why then is the Trump Administration protecting them by refusing the release the Epstein files?
But 52 is so much better. 52 weeks in a year. 52 cards in a standard deck. 52 HZ is the frequency that the loneliest whale sings at. And so on.
This is like trading South Texas for promises by Mexico to crack down on undocumented immigration.
Yeah if anybody knows how to win in New York, it’s the guy who lost the city by 40 points.
So like a 99 Luft Balloons situation but somehow dumber?
Here's the thing. Are we really to believe that the people that Maxwell and Epstein procured these girls for were simply victims of Maxwell and Epstein and never engaged in such activity before or after they were no longer associated with Maxwell or Epstein?
I would think Cuomo would be embarrassed that nobody has to use AI to come up with videos of him saying stupid stuff.
Of course, the entire Republican Party is engaged in protecting a serial sexual abuser at present, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that sort of thing isn't frowned upon by Red State law enforcement.
This story is maddening and yet another example of how 'tough on crime' police don't give a shit about punishing those who railroad innocent people into convictions (and, in this case, protected a guy who repeatedly sexually assaulted a child).
Not the first time Republicans in Texas have done redistricting mid-decade (they did the same 2003), so the precedent was set two decades ago when they got away with it then with no consequences.
I mean, he got the most votes of any presidential candidate in the history of Texas because more people voted, but Romney, Bush (twice), and Reagan got a higher percentage of the vote in Texas.
When do the statues of Aldrich Ames, John Wilkes Booth, and the Rosenbergs go up?
Hey, it's that guy who, whenever I say I want to volunteer to run for office as a Democrat in my currently-Republican-controlled area, ghosts me.
We don’t innovate anymore. We just rent-seek.
This is so indicative of how business runs in the US these days. It’s never about creating a product or service that people need or want, it’s about buying existing businesses and monopolizing them so as to charge higher prices to a captive audience.
The NHL's Dallas Stars bought up all the ice rinks in the Dallas metro area, in several cases got taxpayer money to build the rinks, and now control ice time for youth hockey, jacking up club fees and forcing leagues to play by their rules. Wild story.
I guess he’s proud of the net negative job growth in his first term and wants to make sure he hits that goal in his second, as well.
I know one friend whose brother tried to rob a bank by giving the teller a note with the word "bomb" misspelled. He was thwarted when the teller asked him for ID, and he provided it, only for the teller to demand a second form of ID to rob the bank. As long as we're telling irrelevant stories.
I guess Biden should have said that "it's always convenient to blame political changes when you can't properly budget for groceries" when everybody was talking about inflation being an ongoing problem.
I'm not expressing an opinion on casino gambling, but if you hold public office and have an opinion on casino gambling, it should probably not be so easily influenced by a right-wing billionaire giving you a lot of money, especially when that billionaire traded Luka to the Lakers.
One could easily argue that listening to billionaires is what has caused the US a lot of pain and suffering. It's like how Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was against casino gambling in Texas until Miriam Adelson donated a lot of money to his campaign and now he loves casino gambling.
"When Judge Shah asked for the respondent's Virginia bar identification number, the respondent said that he did not have it with him, but he assured Judge Shah that he had a Virginia attorney identification card." Not sure how he Lionel Hutzes his way out of this part.
In fairness, it's a good scene and they had paid their $5.
Never seen a president brag about how much he's raised taxes on Americans.
The Wyly Theater in Dallas is also a cube, but I guess the lack of marble gets them off the hook.
Also, why stop and frisk when thoughts and prayers are working so well?
Nobody throwing 8 1/2 in there just for completeness?
Less than 1% of stop and frisk encounters resulted in recovery of a gun. And in my state, walking around with a rifle like thy is legal.
Texans don’t register with a party affiliation and it’s pretty gerrymandered.
That’s kind of a lot of flamethrowers for an underwater mining operation. #Leviathan
My wife’s chicken spaghetti is somehow even better left over. I always request she make enough for a whole week of meals when she makes it.
You can grant convicted sex trafficker, and known liar, Ghislaine Maxwell, immunity for 100 names of men who raped children or—hear me out—you could just release the Epstein files.
Even the Texas Comptroller is familiar with batteries. comptroller.texas.gov/economy/fisc...
I know actual morons who are familiar with the concept of batteries.
Doesn't getting Maxwell to name other names result in potential defendants who will presumably make every attempt to get hold of the files that Trump is so desperately keeping secret as part of their defense? The files don't disappear because the DOJ found another target.
So like the "political officers" that the Soviets would station on all their submarines except worse?
Release the files, and I'm sure everybody in it will face questions.
My similar story is that they evacuated all the government buildings in my home town immediately after the OKC bombing, but at least that made some sense since we were on the same highway and just 4 hours away.
The Russians hate us for our Nebraska. I grew up near the Pantex Plant in Texas, so we knew there were nukes nearby, but I was more worried about an accident at the facility than getting nuked by Russians.
The Attorney General of Texas has committed more crimes than many of the people stuck in this torture chamber and instead of sticking him out there in the swamps, he’s a leading candidate for election to the US Senate.
Mr. “The Law is the Law” is found to be breaking the law yet again. These kind of recidivist criminals need to be kept off the streets.
I saw one in the Dallas suburbs (near Frisco, but probably still in Plano) the other day, but we were on the tollway, so it was too hard to take a picture and weave through traffic at 600 mph at the same time.
"We will win by having fewer seats than the opposition because we've unilaterally disarmed and the opposition is leaning in to gerrymandering in a huge way" is a very Charlie Sheen way of describing 'winning'
"You're including a building that was built five years ago" sure fucks up the narrative Trump is trying to create.
STOP SPREADING THE FALSE REPORT that Ozzy Osbourne, Hulk Hogan and Chuck Mangione all simultaneously shot each other like at the end of Reservoir Dogs. They were not in the same location and passed of natural causes.
They should go after University of Texas next because they denied my application in 1989 because I didn't have enough math credits, which is clearly an anti-mediocre-white-dude policy.