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So - since we're talking about Texas and if it's Texas voter fraud has to be pro-Republican:

https://www.houstonchronicle.c...

https://empowertexans.com/arou...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-s...
Since this one was vague about party affiliation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Here's the one you're fond of: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/lo...
Notice it's primaries and run-offs. You can't be sure she wasn't voting Republican to try to make sure the weaker / less harsh on her issues person was the opponent. She may or may not have been a Republican, I don't know, I don't know her and I'm not a Republican, but sabotaging the opposition in primaries isn't unheard of. In Texas we have open primaries, she could still have voted Democrat in the actual election had her butt not been in a sling.

Oh look, another one that makes a point of avoiding the mention of party affiliation - isn't it incredible how left-leaning journalist fail to mention these sorts of things when reporting on their own kind? http://www.themonitor.com/mvtc...
Considering the perp was basically hired from Illinois to do the bribery campaign I'm going to say it's fairly safe to say they're Democrats. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr...

http://www.star-telegram.com/n...

You notice when it's Republican they make a point of saying so but when they're not - for lack of further info I'll call this one unknown.....
https://www.twincities.com/201...

sexual assault is a kind of assault

In many cases, it's absurd to classify "sexual assault" as "assault". For example, an unwanted kiss is widely considered to be a "sexual assault":

https://www.nbcdfw.com/investigations/Student-With-Autism-Kicked-Out-of-College-288108301.html

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/reminder-groping-and-unwanted-kissing-is-definitely-sexual-assault_us_57ff9f7be4b0e8c198a6642f

Nevermind the fact that women are notoriously ambivalent about whether they want to be kissed or not, and one really doesn't know whether the kiss was wanted until after the fact.

Was sleeping beauty sexually assaulted? Does the Disney film teach sexual assault? Did Has Solo sexually assault Princess Leia when he kissed her while they were inside the giant space-worm?

Hmm, let's see... recent terror attacks in the west:
Salman Ramadan Abedi (British)
Anis Amri (Tunisian)
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel (Tunisian)

- and yet neither Britain nor Tunisia were on Trump's proposed travel restriction list.

Meanwhile, in the USA, domestic terrorism is alive and well.

(Note, this isn't a political point. All this was going on before Trump. But the idea that simply keeping out people from a few countries, apparently hand-picked for their non-involvement with violence to date, will do anything to help is just bizarre.)

Here's one.

sexual assault of child, indecency with child

Here's another.

Christopher Hambrook — who claimed to be a transgender woman named Jessica — has attacked four vulnerable females between the ages of five and 53 in Montreal and Toronto over the past 12 years.

Hambrook, 37, pleaded guilty in February 2013 to two counts of sexual assault and one count of criminal harassment involving two women — a deaf and homeless Quebec woman and a Toronto survivor of domestic violence — while he was living at a Dundas St. W. shelter and the Fred Victor women’s shelter in January and February 2012.

Another

Maddison began hormone treatment while in prison, and was transferred to a women's prison (Mulawa Correctional Centre) in 1999. She underwent sex reassignment surgery while in prison in 2003. At Mulawa, it was alleged that Hall had sexual relations with several female prisoners, allegations that resulted in Hall being returned to a male prison after 3 months. Hall was charged with rape in relation to one incident, but the charge was dropped due to the victim having left the country upon being released from prison in fear of her safety.

Another

Richard Masbruch brutally raped and tortured a Fresno woman in 1991. Today, in a case that may be the first of its kind, he lives in a women’s prison.

Masbruch, who was reclassified by prison officials as a woman after he castrated himself, is the focus of an inmate complaint that says Masbruch is a danger to other prisoners at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. (Fresno Bee)

Another

A JURY has been told a woman alleged to have been raped by a transgender man was found with 49 separate injuries.

Nadine Williams, also known as Dean, 39, is on trial at Swansea Crown Court after denying one count of rape and two of assault by penetration.

I can keep going if you would like.

I don't know Montana, but that Texas tollway described in the original post has feral hogs.

And so it starts exactly as I predicted here: He went to the emergency room with flu like symptoms and they ... wait for it .... SENT HIM HOME.

You are not buying stuff at the same price as 6 years ago, maybe you should actually pay attention to the receipts.

beef, pork, avocado, fruits, veggies, almonds, pinenuts, walnuts, mozarella, cheddar, other cheeses, seafood, grains, soy, soy, palm oil, milk, gasoline, beer and more beer, limes, canadian bacon, barley, restaurants, restaurants, restaurants,electrical energy, car rentals, hotel rooms, cab fairs,

air travel and air travel gets more expensive in many other ways, various extra fees, less room, more seats on planes

aluminium,

It also falls when you consider that the pilot can simply dump the fuel once he is out past a point of no return and force a crash when the remaining fuel runs out. He could even accelerate that crash by flying faster or slower then optimal speed and altitude.

777s have knowingly dumped their fuel in the past to make emergency landings and such.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/loc...

But I'm sure they'd never tie the data in to the "voluntary" DNA swabbing done last month.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/11/20/017241/texas-drivers-stopped-at-roadblock-asked-for-saliva-blood http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/North-Texas-Drivers-Stopped-at-Roadblock-Asked-for-Saliva-Blood-232438621.html

According to news reports:

"Fort Worth police earlier said they could not immediately find any record of officer involvement but police spokesman Sgt. Kelly Peel said Tuesday that the department's Traffic Division coordinated with the NHTSA on the use of off-duty officers after the agency asked for help with the survey."

The actual contractors doing the sampling weren't cops; but they were accompanied by cops (who, no doubt, made every effort to convey that they were off-duty and not involved in any sort of law-enforcement exercise or official capacity; but merely being used because a 100% voluntary sampling operation needed a security force punchier than generic rentacops, or um, something?)

look at pizza where they pay low and don't really pay the costs of useing a car much less auto insurance that covers pizza drivers.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Texas-Family-Awarded-32M-in-Deadly-Dominos-Delivery-Crash-221784091.html

If the women had asserted their fifth amendment rights and not answered any questions, they most likely would not have undergone an invasive road-side body cavity search. Even though the women answered the police officer honestly, the officer used their words against them to claim they were acting suspiciously and claim that they did not deny that they were in possession of marijuana (that last bit is from memory and not in the attached link).

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Women-Suing-State-Troopers-Over-Roadside-Cavity-Searches-184009281.html

See also this. It has a better description of how much blood and where it ran.

And yes, that much blood IS toxic to the environment and can lead to fish die-offs in the same way that fertilizer runoff can. It can also create an awful stench as it decays on the banks.

And it's 12 months after a citizen presented rock solid evidence of wrongdoing. It was years since the complaints started.

yet it's perfectly acceptable for every dude with a John Wayne fetish to suggest that had *he* been there with his gun, things would have turned out differently.

Well, because when John Wayne does have his gun on him at such an event,
fewer
people
die.

It sounds great to say "guns bad, kids died, don't go there today!", but in situations like these, more guns do save lives.

Well, there are degrees of safety, and what they are using for the mosquitoes are synthetic pyrethroids. These break down quickly, and are sprayed at night to minimize the effect on beneficial insects like bees, which stay in their hives at night. http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/health/What-is-Duet-Adulticide-Aerial-Spraying-West-Nile-Virus-166325486.html

Living is terminal. In the grand scheme of things, pyrethroids are pretty low risk for humans and, dispensed properly, should be low impact for wildlife and beneficial insects.

There was just one two years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Austin_plane_crash If that's not enough, here's some more TSA Fail: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/newark-airport-terminal-shut-baby-checkpoint-unscreened-article-1.1068800#ixzz1tHJ5bW5z http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/new_jfk_security_breach_PB8L58gzpwjmyqktLHRssN http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/TSA-Agent-Slips-Through-DFW-Body-Scanner-With-a-Gun-116497568.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357012/TSA-causes-outrage-confiscating-pregnant-womans-insulin-ice-packs.html http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120509/10161518848/congress-tsa-is-wasting-hundreds-millions-taxpayer-dollars.shtml http://consumerist.com/2011/12/tsa-agent-finds-pot-in-rappers-bag-leaves-note-rather-than-confiscating-it.html http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/boarding-pass-arrest-nigerian-slipped-jfk-airport-security/story?id=13963831

Just today we hear of another TSA screener busted, this time for stealing iPads. How hard would it be to find one who would happily pass anything at all through his checkpoint if the price was right?

I wonder how much distraction it takes for a bunch of TSA Airport Security Screeners to miss a handgun five times out of five with their shiny new toy.

Depends on where you park it, or where the car parks itself if its computer crashes and the fail-safes cause it to park itself.

Driver Dies After Officers Crash Into Stalled Vehicle

I don't think "tragic accident" is the most appropriate way to describe what happened to that kid. Tragic? Yes. Accident? No, this word does not accurately describe the situation.

It seems pretty clear that the cop was grossly negligent. Read the article. Watch the news footage.

The cop was doing 72 miles per hour when the speed limit was 40. Even if he had his lights and siren on, which he did not, he should have not been going more than 30 miles per hour over the speed limit. Not only that, but he didn't even swerve to avoid the kid.

This is insane. This kid is looking at 10 years for modifying hardware while another story linked right at the bottom of the same article describes a cop getting a one day suspension (with pay) for running down a child with his car

on the right hand side of the article, did anybody notice the poll that allows you to rate the story?

your options are ... "We are ..." a.) Laughing b.) Furious c.) Bored d.) Sad e.) Thrilled f.) Intrigued

I voted Furious ... cause the charges are kinda ridiculuous ... and I'd be pissed if it happened to me.

But the current scores are ... Laughing 50%, Furious 33%, Bored 17%, Sad/Thrilled/Intrigued 0%

But that 12 50 seems a little odd. That would be either "[DLE] P", or $46.88 which seems a lot for a packet of cigs.

This story says the $46.88 charge came from eating out at Wolfgang Puck's restaurant, in which case the $23 quadrillion dollars seems legit.

Maybe you missed, but we have a new administration now. W is in Dallas pursuing other opportunities