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Ballot harvesting is illegal in North Carolina and Mark Harris and his campaign weren't just accused of collecting ballots and turning them in. They were destroying ballots that voted against him, filling in those that were left blank and forging witness signatures.

That is ILLEGAL in EVERY state.

California law allows a mail-in voter to designate any person to return the ballot to the elections official from whom it came or to the precinct board at a polling place within the jurisdiction. . There has been no evidence to suggest any ballots were not turned in or were marked by the "ballot harvesters" in California.

In Texas, it looks like the harvesters pleaded guilty or are currently awaiting trial.

Forgive us for not having heard about ballot harvesting for a county commissioner and a school board seat in a Texas town of about 17,000 people or even not having heard about an alleged scheme to harvest votes for unspecified "down-ballot candidates" in a city the size of Fort Worth. Interestingly enough, the Texas AG who is prosecuting the latter has been under criminal indictment for over 3 years. And what are those Republicans doing meeting with one of the accused in jail?

And I'd bet you didn't notice these Democrats who were convicted and sentenced in Arkansas either:

Hallum pleaded guilty last September to felony conspiracy to commit election fraud, resigning his seat on the day of his plea.

Yes, most of us didn't hear about a corrupt state legislator in Arkansas either.

BUT in North Carolina, we're talking about a candidate for the US House of Representatives in a very contentious battle between Dems and Republicans to win as many Congressional seats as possible. Of course anyone who is paying attention has heard of it.

https://www.star-telegram.com/...

You cannot make up a story to get someone else to shoot someone (who reasonably felt the need to). It is all about intent.

Pass a federal law that taxes all corporate subsidies at 150% of the subsidy, to account for Hollywood Accounting. With the important exception being: companies can avoid the tax if the state or local entity giving the subsidy gets an ownership stake equivalent to the value of the subsidy.

Example: the Dallas Cowboys are valued at about $4 billion dollars. If Jerry Jones wants a billion-dollar stadium constructed for his team and doesn't want to pay for himself, he can choose between paying half that again in taxes, or giving 25% ownership of the team to the city of Dallas. This would allow state and local governments to work to encourage industry - but give them an ownership stake in return for asking taxpayers to engage in corporate welfare.

You never hear about mass shootings in Texas

Oh really? Never hear about them?

I guess this list is bogus. No mass shootings you say? Perhaps you're not looking hard enough.

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

So someone on a tech site, with all its intricacies, can't understand that usage of a potentially dangerous device may benefit from instructional videos.

Oh I can understand it. I just think when you cater to the lowest common denominator holding a deadly weapon you get what you deserve: brother's shooting sisters because one won't hand over their game controller. http://www.star-telegram.com/n...

Maybe some things should be handled only by experts and shouldn't be dumbed down for idiots.

Bullshit. All the polls say that Hispanics are much more likely to vote Democrat than Republican.

Did you know there are quite a lot of Russian illegal immigrants in Texas? I'm serious. If you go to most construction sites in Houston, Dallas, Ft Worth, you will meet some of them.

How do you know the "100" illegal votes that were supposedly cast by immigrants according to your fake article weren't all cast by Russian immigrants voting Republican? You don't, and you know why? Because the State of Texas didn't prosecute those 100 for voting illegally. And by the way, did I mention that the "empowered texas" site is fake news?

The only person prosecuted in the recent past for voting illegally in Texas was a green card holder who supported Republicans and voted for Trump.

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

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...

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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...

I generally prefer to peruse at least another source or sometimes even two.

The fact that primary crossover is relatively rare is not reflective of its importance because of the relatively small numbers in which people vote.

and it also wouldn't be much of a surprise if on-site/near-site illicit dumping by individual operators looking to avoid paying for collection would be pretty common

Uh, restaurants get paid for their grease, this might not be the case right now since soybeans had a good year last year and crude is so cheap that biodiesel isn't going to be in high demand, but over the last 10+ years it's been the case. That's why people working on B90 conversions have to be sure to ask the restaurants before they take grease for their vehicle.

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

The second person you're referring to does not have Ebola.

Well, you can understand the confusion, since Texas TV stations national news sites and newspapers were reporting exactly the story I relayed.

http://www.wcnc.com/story/news...

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/1...

I think you need to work on your reading comprehension there... for one thing, wcnc.com isn't a Texas TV station, national news site, or a newspaper. It's a local Charlotte, North Carolina TV station. While just about every TV station has a web site these days, accessible from around the world, WCNC still a local station, with news geared for a local audience--it's no CNN or New York Times. And secondly, neither site reported "exactly the story [you] relayed". You claimed that there was a "second Ebola patient"--one of the sheriff's deputies. However, neither site says that the deputy contracted Ebola--just that he was feeling sick to his stomach/having stomach issues, and since he had been in the Ebola victim's apartment, the hospital wanted to observe him "out of an abundance of caution." FYI, the test results are back, and he doesn't have Ebola. You also said, "When offered protective gear, he declined." However, the articles never say that he was offered protective gear, or that he declined it. One simply states, "No one who went inside the unit that day wore protective gear."

Are you kidding me? You are saying that it won't spread in your very fucking post. Look below at what you fucking wrote. And yes, it has spread, due to exposure to the first guy.

I'm an official? And no, it hasn't. Netcraft confirms it, the guy doesn't have Ebola. You're uninformed and ignorant.

Considering 6.7 million moved to a different state in 2010 (quickest I could find with googling) it could affect quite a large number of people actually.

sea levels to rise almost a meter more than present over the next century ... hardly a doomsday scenario

I believe you don't realise quite how many people live within a vertical metre of sea level.

Well, that's a valid point however hamanity's war with the sea is nothing new and the Dutch have become quite adept at it (with 20% of their country being reclaimed land). Now, that has a whole bunch of caveats about how much trouble they face is that system ever fails and we've all probably heard about that. I would bet that if people believed these reports, some relatively inexpensive measures could be taken to prevent a much more expensive catastrophe. I don't know how much these efforts could help Florida -- an occasional hurricane might make them a bigger problem. But engineers have been tackling this problem.

For the United States, I think a bigger doomsday scenario of this is for agriculture in Texas. Texas already lost $7.62 billion in agricultural this year and if you're telling me that that part of North America is going to get more arid? Well, droughts are something that humans have long had problems with. You can build all the irrigation you want but when that's dried up, there's not a lot you can do. If you like to eat beef and if you like Texas to be a productive state in the union, you should probably be concerned about this.

From the Ed Wallace column in the Star Telegram Oil: The Never-ending Story , Gary Gensler, formerly a Goldman Sachs executive and now head of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, laid the issue out for all to see. As published by McClatchy Newspapers on June 9, 2011, "Gensler cited May 31 data that show end-users accounted for just 12 percent of the 'long' positions in futures contracts for benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude oil. That means that 88 percent of bets on price hikes for oil were held by financial players - mainly Wall Street investment banks and hedge funds that invest for the ultra wealthy - not interests seeking to use the oil."

I don't think states have regained the right to secede. The only state remotely stupid enough to try would be Texas, and only 60.9% of its residents are natives. (Per http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/05/17/3083057/in-many-northeast-tarrant-cities.html)

The other 39.1% - many of which are all the educated engineers and professionals that got their quality public eduction somewhere else in the U.S. then moved to Texas for their career - aren't that likely to go with the secession. Nor, more importantly, would be all the corporations doing business in Texas. I think that would kill any real effort right there.

If you live in Fort Worth, you must realize it grew by approximately 40% in the last 10 years. It is your city that is the outlier. It would be pretty hard for an established local chain not to grow under those circumstances, while it lasts.

oregon has no sales tax.

But Texas has jobs.

But Texas has no Amazon.com jobs.

oregon has no sales tax.

But Texas has jobs.

Funny, I thought his fellow service members were busy betraying their principles by colluding in the organised rape of children that Manning helped expose.

Yeah, finding out my country was funding that could quite possibly put me "in a bad place emotionally" and lead to a "fit of pique". Of course, I'd probably call it "righteous anger" and "exposing corruption", but spin it however you will. After all, it's easier to call people "drama queens" and "ego maniacs" than it is to actually believe that your saintly government could be involved in corruption.

No doubt you will be relieved to know that those claims are false.

DynCorp disputes WikiLeaks allegations

A salacious, scandalous story involving allegations of child sex that has unfolded on blogs and websites over the last two weeks seems to implicate DynCorp International, a major Fort Worth employer.

The problem, say both DynCorp and the U.S. State Department, is that the story is exaggerated and the worst parts of it untrue.

The recent release of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks prompted the reports. Among the cables is one that discusses a meeting with Afghan Minister of Interior Hanif Atmar, who wanted the U.S. to help quash a possible newspaper article about foreign employees of DynCorp hiring "dancing boys" to perform at a party.

Britain's Guardian newspaper published an article Dec. 2 about the memo and the minister's meeting with embassy officials. The article tied the reported party to "a long [Afghan] tradition of young boys dressing up as girls and dancing for men ... that sometimes crosses the line into child abuse with Afghans keeping the boys as possessions.".....

In the Afghanistan case, both DynCorp and the State Department say what occurred was far less sinister than portrayed in such reports.

According to a detailed statement provided by DynCorp spokeswoman Ashley Burke, a going-away party for a departing Afghan employee was held at the regional police training center in Kunduz. The party organizer, a local employee, hired "a 17-year-old local dancer who performed at ... weddings and other celebrations, to perform a traditional Afghan dance."

Shortly after the dancing began, a DynCorp manager "recognizing that the situation was culturally insensitive ... stopped the performance," according to the statement.

The company conducted its own investigation of the matter, "determined that the leadership of the team exhibited poor judgment and were subsequently terminated. That is the whole story; no alcohol or drugs were involved, or other illegal behaviors occurred."

The State Department concurred, saying there were no drugs, no alcohol and no boys procured for sex.

"There was no evidence of any of that," said Susan Pittman, spokeswoman for the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement.

Both the bureau and the Office of the Inspector General investigated the matter, Pittman said, including reviewing videos of the party.

For several days after the leaked memo was published, DynCorp's Burke said, none of the online media writing about it bothered to contact the company or the State Department. Eventually, one blog, TalkingPointsMemo, did and reported the company and State Department side of the story.

The leaked memo says the Afghanistan government was prosecuting two Afghan police officers and nine other persons for "the crime of purchasing a service from a child."

Publication of the leaked memo didn't actually break any news. The Washington Post reported on the party in a July 2009 article about DynCorp. The Post said the company was taking steps to strengthen its ethics

US Contractors in Afganastan pimp out young boys and the State Department coverd it up:
"The Guardian reported on a cable describing an incident in which employees of DynCorp, a U.S. military contractor, hired a âoedancing boyâ for a party. The term âoedancing boy,â also known as bacha bazi, is a euphemism for a custom in Afghanistan in which underaged boys are dressed as women, dance for gatherings of men and are then prostituted. Read more. The incident allegedly involved soliciting local Afghan police for a bacha bazi as well as usage of illegal drugs. The cable detailed that Hanif Armar, minister of the Interior of Afghanistan, urged the United States to help contain the scandal by warning journalists that reporting on the incident would endanger lives. "

Not quite.

DynCorp disputes WikiLeaks allegations

In the Afghanistan case, both DynCorp and the State Department say what occurred was far less sinister than portrayed in such reports.

According to a detailed statement provided by DynCorp spokeswoman Ashley Burke, a going-away party for a departing Afghan employee was held at the regional police training center in Kunduz. The party organizer, a local employee, hired "a 17-year-old local dancer who performed at ... weddings and other celebrations, to perform a traditional Afghan dance."

Shortly after the dancing began, a DynCorp manager "recognizing that the situation was culturally insensitive ... stopped the performance," according to the statement.

The company conducted its own investigation of the matter, "determined that the leadership of the team exhibited poor judgment and were subsequently terminated. That is the whole story; no alcohol or drugs were involved, or other illegal behaviors occurred."

The State Department concurred, saying there were no drugs, no alcohol and no boys procured for sex.

"There was no evidence of any of that," said Susan Pittman, spokeswoman for the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement.

Both the bureau and the Office of the Inspector General investigated the matter, Pittman said, including reviewing videos of the party.

For several days after the leaked memo was published, DynCorp's Burke said, none of the online media writing about it bothered to contact the company or the State Department. Eventually, one blog, TalkingPointsMemo, did and reported the company and State Department side of the story.

The leaked memo says the Afghanistan government was prosecuting two Afghan police officers and nine other persons for "the crime of purchasing a service from a child."

Publication of the leaked memo didn't actually break any news. The Washington Post reported on the party in a July 2009 article about DynCorp. The Post said the company was taking steps to strengthen its ethics and employee behavior standards in response to U.S. government criticisms and, in part, because of the party with the boy dancer

Consider that cable about US Treasury funds ultimately being used to buy children for sex.

Not quite.

In the Afghanistan case, both DynCorp and the State Department say what occurred was far less sinister than portrayed in such reports.

According to a detailed statement provided by DynCorp spokeswoman Ashley Burke, a going-away party for a departing Afghan employee was held at the regional police training center in Kunduz. The party organizer, a local employee, hired "a 17-year-old local dancer who performed at ... weddings and other celebrations, to perform a traditional Afghan dance."

Shortly after the dancing began, a DynCorp manager "recognizing that the situation was culturally insensitive ... stopped the performance," according to the statement.

The company conducted its own investigation of the matter, "determined that the leadership of the team exhibited poor judgment and were subsequently terminated. That is the whole story; no alcohol or drugs were involved, or other illegal behaviors occurred."

The State Department concurred, saying there were no drugs, no alcohol and no boys procured for sex.

"There was no evidence of any of that," said Susan Pittman, spokeswoman for the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement.

Both the bureau and the Office of the Inspector General investigated the matter, Pittman said, including reviewing videos of the party.

For several days after the leaked memo was published, DynCorp's Burke said, none of the online media writing about it bothered to contact the company or the State Department. Eventually, one blog, TalkingPointsMemo, did and reported the company and State Department side of the story.

The leaked memo says the Afghanistan government was prosecuting two Afghan police officers and nine other persons for "the crime of purchasing a service from a child."

Publication of the leaked memo didn't actually break any news. The Washington Post reported on the party in a July 2009 article about DynCorp. The Post said the company was taking steps to strengthen its ethics and employee behavior standards in response to U.S. government criticisms and, in part, because of the party with the boy dancer DynCorp disputes WikiLeaks allegations

And the matter of 'Collateral Murder'?

You forgot a US corp pimping children to afghan warlords to win a contract and related coverup.

Not quite.

In the Afghanistan case, both DynCorp and the State Department say what occurred was far less sinister than portrayed in such reports.

According to a detailed statement provided by DynCorp spokeswoman Ashley Burke, a going-away party for a departing Afghan employee was held at the regional police training center in Kunduz. The party organizer, a local employee, hired "a 17-year-old local dancer who performed at ... weddings and other celebrations, to perform a traditional Afghan dance."

Shortly after the dancing began, a DynCorp manager "recognizing that the situation was culturally insensitive ... stopped the performance," according to the statement.

The company conducted its own investigation of the matter, "determined that the leadership of the team exhibited poor judgment and were subsequently terminated. That is the whole story; no alcohol or drugs were involved, or other illegal behaviors occurred."

The State Department concurred, saying there were no drugs, no alcohol and no boys procured for sex.

"There was no evidence of any of that," said Susan Pittman, spokeswoman for the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement.

Both the bureau and the Office of the Inspector General investigated the matter, Pittman said, including reviewing videos of the party.

For several days after the leaked memo was published, DynCorp's Burke said, none of the online media writing about it bothered to contact the company or the State Department. Eventually, one blog, TalkingPointsMemo, did and reported the company and State Department side of the story.

The leaked memo says the Afghanistan government was prosecuting two Afghan police officers and nine other persons for "the crime of purchasing a service from a child."

Publication of the leaked memo didn't actually break any news. The Washington Post reported on the party in a July 2009 article about DynCorp. The Post said the company was taking steps to strengthen its ethics and employee behavior standards in response to U.S. government criticisms and, in part, because of the party with the boy dancer DynCorp disputes WikiLeaks allegations

whilst it's always good to see genuinely open formats in use, isn't there already an ISO standard document format? If there is, is it better to use the ISO standard or an open standard?

ODF is an ISO standard, as is Microsoft's OOXML format. However ODF is an open standard whereas OOXML is proprietary. As the Star-Telegram article says "If the Constitution was in WordPerfect 5.1 format, it would probably be difficult to read right now", substitute any of MS's formats and it would still be true.

Falcon

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram ran a dialup news-delivery service called StarText from 1982 to 1997. The Internet and newspaper's web site eventually supplanted it. Until a couple of years ago startext.com still pointed to the newspaper's web site.

Here is a snapshot from 1996.

A similar story ran earlier in the month: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/columnists/dave_lieber//story/260075.html

Basically, a girl bought an iPod from Target which turned out to be a box of rocks. They then got another iPod from a different Target location, opened it in front of employees, and found it to be also full of rocks.

As healthcare costs grow, more analysts are willing to argue for rationing of care. According to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), about 25 percent of U.S. healthcare spending is devoted to the last year of life of the 1 percent of us who die each year.

Totaling both VA and Medicare benefits, elderly veterans incurred an average of $43,795 in the final year of life, 40% more than an average Medicare beneficiary accrued during the final year of life. Costs for elderly veterans started increasing rapidly in the final year of life and accelerated sharply during the final 90 days of life. Most of the cost increase near the end of life was for acute hospital services; acute hospital care accounted for 44% and 60% in year 2 and year 1 before death, respectively, and 78% in the final 30 days of life.

StarText was an online ASCII-based computer service that was officially launched on May 3, 1982 by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Tandy Corporation. Its name was derived from Star representing the newspaper which would provide the content and Text representing the computer company which would provide the technology.

StarText was marketed in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex newspaper circulation area of North Texas, USA. It quickly evolved into an electronic magazine written by unpaid journalists who had paid to be subscribers of the service. Its eventual demise came with the growth of the Internet. In May of 1996 an additional Internet service was offered and called StarText. Net with the original service being rebranded as StarText Classic. The original service finally closed down on March 3, 1997 and in June of 1998, StarText. Net morphed into Star-Telegram Online Services which in turn eventually became a conventional online Internet service of the Knight-Ridder group.

My bullcrap-meter is pegging. I'd like to know how you can make that claim, especially considering how secretive the companies are about their adult entertainment revenues.

There was a big legal case where a local video store was accused of distributing porn and this was part of the findings. See this link for details.

1. Bin Laden comes home to roost - about the militant's CIA training
   
2. Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban - Opinion, references the $43 million in 2001
   
3. $70 million in aid to Afghanistan in 1997 - according to the CIA itself.
   
4. Who is Osama Bin Laden?
   
5. They can't see why they are hated - Opinion
   
6. Arab-Americans feel a backlash
   
7. Arab-American community 'keeping its head down'
   
8. Acts of Terrorism the Ultimate 'Faith-Based Initiative' - Opinion
   
9. Charity receives hate calls
   
10. Falwell says 'ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this'
    

BTW. 70% of people involved in this business vote Democratic.

Do you have a source for this statistic? Judging from the Houston Comical my experience says otherwise.

You can find George Will, William Safire, and William Buckley but not native Texan (and über-liberal) Molly Ivins.

It seems that the Comical doesn't mind effete Eastern intellectuals as long as they are conservative effete Eastern intellectuals!!! :->
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!

for another texan's opinion on gwb, read molly ivins.