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Houston Grand Jury Brings Organ Trafficking Charges Against Figure in Planned Parenthood Exposee -- Namely, The Videographer Who Exposed Planned Parenthood's Organ Trafficking
Months after the release of undercover videos detailing Planned Parenthood’s scheme to traffic aborted baby body parts, a grand jury has finally brought brought criminal charges. Not against Planned Parenthood, but against David Daleiden, the pro-life activist behind the undercover sting videos. A grand jury in Harris County, Texas, returned two charges on Monday afternoon against Daleiden, the activist who planned and organized the undercover sting videos. Although the grand jury allegedly investigated Planned Parenthood, no charges were brought against the nation’s largest abortion provider, whose executives were shown in multiple videos attempting to sell trafficked organs and other body parts harvested from aborted babies. One Planned Parenthood executive, while haggling over the prices of aborted baby organs, noted that she needed to get the right price because, "I want to buy a Lamborghini."There is no more truth, just cult dogmas.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Lauren at January 25, 2016 07:14 PM (Kqit+)
Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at January 25, 2016 07:15 PM (4KoRb)
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 25, 2016 07:15 PM (btH0m)
Posted by: Methos at January 25, 2016 07:15 PM (ZbV+0)
Posted by: Grey Fox at January 25, 2016 07:16 PM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: Doomed at January 25, 2016 07:16 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: steevy at January 25, 2016 07:16 PM (8HTq1)
America is turning into Thunderdome.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 25, 2016 07:17 PM (gA69l)
Posted by: Boone at January 25, 2016 07:17 PM (ED1dM)
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 07:17 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: ElKomandante at January 25, 2016 07:18 PM (Ql4Nd)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 25, 2016 07:18 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Alex Jones at January 25, 2016 07:18 PM (CbGSW)
Doesn't it take two to traffic?
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 25, 2016 07:18 PM (rwI+c)
Grand jury reform must happen immediately. This system can not stand.
Posted by: Lauren at January 25, 2016 07:18 PM (Kqit+)
They are turning back the clock to 1861, is what they are doing.
Posted by: Grey Fox at January 25, 2016 07:18 PM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: Qoheleth at January 25, 2016 07:18 PM (iIzG7)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 25, 2016 07:18 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Ben "toldyaso" Franklin at January 25, 2016 07:19 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: Facebook Clickbait at January 25, 2016 07:19 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 25, 2016 07:20 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 25, 2016 07:20 PM (FkBIv)
Posted by: Lea at January 25, 2016 07:20 PM (vmMMi)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 25, 2016 07:20 PM (2lndx)
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 07:20 PM (2x3L+)
Bringing in a variety of alphabet agencies to investigate True the Vote while Acorn and lord knows who else is busily committing voter fraud.
And on and on.
Our country is gone.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 25, 2016 07:20 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Doomed at January 25, 2016 07:21 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 25, 2016 07:21 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 25, 2016 07:21 PM (r1fLd)
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Nothing like radical capitalists at The Federalist suddenly bashing free enterprise when it appears alongside women's rights.
Posted by: RioBravo at January 25, 2016 07:22 PM (NUqwG)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 25, 2016 07:22 PM (oVJmc)
This indictment seems like a local crime story.
Posted by: Red Enchilada at January 25, 2016 07:22 PM (+i7ay)
I am strongly coming to the conclusion that we need to abolish Austin, at least as a capital city. Keep legislators in their home districts, and don't provide a place for the bureaucratic hangers-on to congregate.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 25, 2016 07:22 PM (2lndx)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 25, 2016 07:23 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 25, 2016 07:23 PM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 25, 2016 07:18 PM (rwI+c)
My understanding was it was illegal to have the intent to buy or sell the baby parts. So, only one side could have the intent. Of course, this is a strange interpretation of intent since the intent was to show they would sell.
Posted by: WOPR at January 25, 2016 07:23 PM (LTDSy)
Wisconsin John Doe persecutions, IRS persecutions, countless thousands less-well-known cases.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 25, 2016 07:23 PM (bLnSU)
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 07:23 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 25, 2016 07:23 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 25, 2016 07:24 PM (B8JRQ)
Posted by: OK, Thanks, Bye at January 25, 2016 07:24 PM (ucB75)
Is the prosecution of Perry still ongoing I guess? I think he had one ruling in his favor, but it was not all done.
Posted by: Illiniwek at January 25, 2016 07:24 PM (5Gpe2)
O/T Greta is about to interview the freed Christian pastor. He is going to describe what he went through, and what he saw done to our former Marine.
Anyhow, imagine the harvesting of Obama princess' aborted baby body parts. Do you think there could be a black market for them?
Punishment Special: Name your parts!
And this is the sick, disgusting world we live in.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 25, 2016 07:24 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 25, 2016 07:24 PM (45oDG)
Posted by: Barry Preezy at January 25, 2016 07:24 PM (UBS9M)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 25, 2016 07:25 PM (rwI+c)
Houston government is a shithole. Governor abbot demanded the investigation and Houston prosecutor thought they could preempt it by cherry picking the prosecutor and jury
Sorry to say I suspect the people working at PPHood were of color, the jury was of color, and the film makers white, and from CA. Don't think that doesn't matter here. Prolly had Sheila Jackson Lee staffers on the Grand Jury
Posted by: ThunderB at January 25, 2016 07:25 PM (zOTsN)
The point of these videos was to say, "hey 'pro choice' women -- you know those "clumps of cells" you tell us about? Yeah. They have livers, hearts, brains, kidneys, etc. And guess what else? Part of PP's business model is to harvest these 'clumps of cells' in such a way that they can give big pharma human body parts to do their experiments on. You get upset when big pharma uses monkeys to test drugs on? How about human babies?"
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 25, 2016 07:25 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 25, 2016 07:25 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 25, 2016 07:25 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: WOPR at January 25, 2016 07:23 PM (LTDSy)
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Isn't the fact that Daleidan filmed what would have been an illegal transaction proof that he wasn't really interested in pursuing it?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 25, 2016 07:25 PM (jR7Wy)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 25, 2016 07:26 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: two of spades at January 25, 2016 07:26 PM (4h1Pl)
Posted by: Tunkhannock at January 25, 2016 07:26 PM (goOhI)
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PP - Houston, Harris County
Perry, Austin, Travis County
Posted by: RioBravo at January 25, 2016 07:26 PM (NUqwG)
They have too much discretionary power both in the Grand Jury process and the pre-trial and trial. And the judges who are suppose to be supervising them just go along with it all.
the load up charges to force indigent defendants into plea bargains (even those known to be innocent) and lower the boom on anyone with the temerity to attempt to get their case before a jury.
The Prosecutors have become judge and jury with no intervention needed.
Disgusting. And amazing that the system is only now getting so bad it's noticeable.
Like everything else, our ethics have become non existent.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 25, 2016 07:26 PM (Xo1Rt)
And yes, I'm sure the jury was made exclusively of people who hold up pink signs saying how much they want you to get out of their vaginas, while simultaneously shoving things in their vaginas.
Posted by: Lauren at January 25, 2016 07:26 PM (Kqit+)
They will certainly win at trial, or on appeal.
The process is the punishment.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 25, 2016 07:26 PM (rwI+c)
There's no moral basis for this country anymore, it's grab everything not tied down and laugh at those too late to the party.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 25, 2016 07:27 PM (B8JRQ)
Posted by: ThunderB at January 25, 2016 07:27 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Fritz at January 25, 2016 07:27 PM (BngQR)
Posted by: jim at January 25, 2016 07:28 PM (VwhRo)
The facts don't matter at all. It was purely political.
Posted by: Lauren at January 25, 2016 07:28 PM (Kqit+)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 25, 2016 07:28 PM (oVJmc)
I'd like to be at the trial the day they admit the dead baby into evidence. If I was the defense attorney, I'd be taking that out of the bag it's stored in and waving it under the jury's nose every ten minutes.
Posted by: Sharkman at January 25, 2016 07:28 PM (t8P62)
At the very least, they need to be pariahs, ostracized from decent society. Name 'em & shame 'em.
At. the. very. least!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 25, 2016 07:29 PM (McRlu)
That's how cold these assholes are.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 25, 2016 07:29 PM (FsuaD)
Tiller should have gone to jail. He clearly, clearly broke the law. But his political connections got him off.
Then those political connections destroyed the DA who had the balls to go after him. They got him disbarred.
Posted by: Lauren at January 25, 2016 07:30 PM (Kqit+)
Posted by: two of spades (promotion pending) at January 25, 2016 07:30 PM (4h1Pl)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 25, 2016 07:30 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 25, 2016 07:30 PM (kpqmD)
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 07:30 PM (2x3L+)
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January 25, 2016 07:22 PM (2lndx)<<<
Close all the bars?
Posted by: Cottonwood Kulak at January 25, 2016 07:30 PM (Dd0xD)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 25, 2016 07:31 PM (jJRIy)
Posted by: jim at January 25, 2016 07:31 PM (VwhRo)
No Justice... just Law...
And when in the course of Human Events...
Posted by: Don Quixote, formerly BB Wolf, formerly Romeo13... at January 25, 2016 07:31 PM (f7rv6)
A LEO who's "just doing his job" will dutifully execute the warrant. Will y'all hope "he just makes it home to his family at night, because that's all that matters" ?
Because ... you know who else had that slavish loyalty to authority ?
1930s Germany.
Posted by: Irony at January 25, 2016 07:31 PM (qmMG2)
Posted by: navybrat at January 25, 2016 07:32 PM (8QGte)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 25, 2016 07:32 PM (jJRIy)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 25, 2016 07:18 PM (8ZskC)
Can we have those frilly golden kind like Frazier Thomas used to wear on "Garfield Goose"?
That'd be great.....
In fact, just elect Garfield Goose. Hell, what the fuck?
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Staring at the Lake in the rain at January 25, 2016 07:33 PM (WWdgA)
Let's be polite to the demoncrats and the libs as we are better then them they said.
Oh they don't really mean us harm they said.
Oh they can't do that, it's unconstitutional! they said.
Ergo Trump. Stop playing nice and get mad already. Democrats? fuck them! Liberals? fuck them! GOPe? fuck them!
Bluto Blutarsky was right.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 25, 2016 07:33 PM (ej1L0)
Posted by: Josephistan at January 25, 2016 07:34 PM (7qAYi)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 25, 2016 07:34 PM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 07:20 PM (2x3L+)
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BTW, the mayor is now an 'African-American' man - Sylvester Turner
Posted by: RioBravo at January 25, 2016 07:34 PM (NUqwG)
Posted by: Lauren at January 25, 2016 07:34 PM (Kqit+)
I currently live in Dallas, it's already reached Hoston level shithole status, thankfully I'll be moving in a few months, can't get out of here fast enough.
Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 25, 2016 07:34 PM (1Wyg2)
Posted by: major major major major at January 25, 2016 07:34 PM (OYDWd)
http://tinyurl.com/zpmogft
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 25, 2016 07:32 PM (jJRIy)
Nip, the prosecutor going after the videographer is Lauren Reader. Devon Anderson is a different prosecutor, and would appear to be one of the good guys.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2016 07:34 PM (Z8fuk)
We want to live in the sewer. The sewer is becoming comfortable to us. The light is too bright when you're constantly living in the dark. We like the darkness. We like it. If we didn't, we would collectively change it. We won't, because we don't.
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 25, 2016 07:35 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 25, 2016 07:35 PM (BK3ZS)
How can they only indict ONE part of a criminal act?
Posted by: Don Quixote, formerly BB Wolf, formerly Romeo13... at January 25, 2016 07:35 PM (f7rv6)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 25, 2016 07:35 PM (DLIIY)
Perhaps it is time to either force Houston to annex enough Republicans to change the government of Houston or to allow the Republicans near Houston to incorporate and be safe from annexation, causing Houston to go the way of all Democrat run cities to unpayable debt and death spiral.
This particular cute trick might be the nudge the legislature needs to remind the people who rin Houston that the Democrats are not a majority in the legislature any more.
Posted by: obnoxious ahole at January 25, 2016 07:36 PM (MpvuV)
Posted by: ThunderB at January 25, 2016 07:36 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 25, 2016 07:35 PM (DLIIY)
that was travis cty iirc
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 25, 2016 07:36 PM (AkOaV)
So, the only crime committed was making it look like they were buying and selling baby parts, right? Right?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 25, 2016 07:36 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 25, 2016 07:35 PM (DLIIY)
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No. This is Harris. That was Travis.
Posted by: RioBravo at January 25, 2016 07:36 PM (NUqwG)
And yes, I'm sure the jury was made exclusively of people who hold up pink signs saying how much they want you to get out of their vaginas, while simultaneously shoving things in their vaginas.
Posted by: Lauren at January 25, 2016 07:26 PM (Kqit+)
Of course all the article I read said was that she was a Republican.
Posted by: WOPR at January 25, 2016 07:36 PM (LTDSy)
They have too much discretionary power both in the Grand Jury process and the pre-trial and trial. And the judges who are suppose to be supervising them just go along with it all.
the load up charges to force indigent defendants into plea bargains (even those known to be innocent) and lower the boom on anyone with the temerity to attempt to get their case before a jury.
The Prosecutors have become judge and jury with no intervention needed.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 25, 2016 07:26 PM (Xo1Rt)
And look at how many prosecutors use their office as a steppingstone to higher office. Which means they also use people as steppingstones, even those they know are innocent.
Posted by: rickl at January 25, 2016 07:36 PM (sdi6R)
NOW HOLD ON !!!
I've been told repeatedly that this shit can't go down in Texas. What the fuck !!!
Seriously though - and I've worked in Texas time and again - this is a Urban vs Rural thing. And that's what's going to make it so messy.
Posted by: Irony at January 25, 2016 07:37 PM (qmMG2)
Posted by: Josephistan at January 25, 2016 07:37 PM (7qAYi)
Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2016 07:37 PM (hk3Fb)
This is, indeed, using process as punishment. I would love to see the full transcripts, had I the time for the inanity.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 25, 2016 07:37 PM (bLnSU)
which non-liberals tamper with federal documents. Heads would explode!
"You mean, like with a cloth?"
Posted by: Lizzy at January 25, 2016 07:38 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: ThunderB at January 25, 2016 07:38 PM (zOTsN)
What that?
What Government document did they tamper with?
Posted by: Don Quixote, formerly BB Wolf, formerly Romeo13... at January 25, 2016 07:38 PM (f7rv6)
Posted by: RioBravo at January 25, 2016 07:34 PM
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Thanks for correcting me. Anise Parker is out? I missed that. The name Sylevster Turner sounds familair. Maybe city councilman? I'm sure he'll be worse than Parker
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 07:38 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 25, 2016 07:38 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Don Quixote, formerly BB Wolf, formerly Romeo13... at January 25, 2016 07:35 PM (f7rv6)
Because they want to. Prosecutorial discretion, see?
Posted by: Sharkman at January 25, 2016 07:38 PM (t8P62)
Posted by: huerfano at January 25, 2016 07:38 PM (NSb9d)
Posted by: Paul "Barry's Beard" Ryan at January 25, 2016 07:39 PM (H9MG5)
Seriously though - and I've worked in Texas time and again - this is a Urban vs Rural thing. And that's what's going to make it so messy.
Posted by: Irony at January 25, 2016 07:37 PM (qmMG2)
Yes, and suburban. Fortunately the suburbs are growing fast and tend to be red.
Posted by: stace, Gary Johnson/SMOD 2016 at January 25, 2016 07:40 PM (CoX6k)
WZ
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And that's why we murder Christians and Jews.
- Headchoppers Local 911
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 25, 2016 07:40 PM (Nwg0u)
Just lovely.....
Posted by: pookysgirl at January 25, 2016 07:40 PM (K27gs)
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 07:38 PM (2x3L+)
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The lesbian was term-limited out. Turner (in at first of the year) is a former Democrat state rep who was in that office since 1989.
Posted by: RioBravo at January 25, 2016 07:40 PM (NUqwG)
Posted by: ThunderB at January 25, 2016 07:41 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: navybrat at January 25, 2016 07:32 PM (8QGte)
This.
It takes real ignorance, or incredible hubris to spit in the eye of the Almighty. I wouldn't want to be in their shoes come the Judgment.
Posted by: Moki at January 25, 2016 07:41 PM (7q2ch)
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 25, 2016 07:41 PM (MNgU2)
Posted by: Jean at January 25, 2016 07:41 PM (cXiMR)
Why? I have no idea. I guess there aren't a lot of checks and balances in Common Law.
Must be why lawyers like it so much.
Posted by: AmishDude at January 25, 2016 07:41 PM (JIElb)
Yup, couldn't agree more.
Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 25, 2016 07:42 PM (1Wyg2)
meh. He supports one of the PPs, as he sees it.
http://dailysign.al/1ZOKfYR
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 25, 2016 07:38 PM (rwI+c)
Correct Grumpy, Trump is all over the place on PP and abortion. I meant the anger that gives rise to Trump is what is needed to defeat evil such as PP. Playing paddycakes with assassins only gets you dead.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 25, 2016 07:42 PM (ej1L0)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 25, 2016 07:35 PM (DLIIY)
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No. This is Harris. That was Travis.
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The point is there both Texas. TEXAS!!!
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 25, 2016 07:42 PM (Nwg0u)
that made me sick: Young, hipsterish women getting cleared out by the
police while holding a giant orange banner proclaiming "ABORTION ON
DEMAND AND WITHOUT APOLOGY."
Just lovely.....
Posted by: pookysgirl at January 25, 2016 07:40 PM (K27gs)
It's the Red Guards for our own horrible cultural revolution
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 25, 2016 07:42 PM (45oDG)
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 25, 2016 07:41 PM (MNgU2)
Didn't read the link, I expect.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2016 07:42 PM (Z8fuk)
Posted by: kzintius at January 25, 2016 07:42 PM (Tf8s7)
The progressive spiral.
Posted by: Cottonwood Kulak at January 25, 2016 07:42 PM (Dd0xD)
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 25, 2016 07:43 PM (MNgU2)
Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 25, 2016 07:34 PM
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That's why I left TX to head to the mountains and live in the middle of nowhere. Plus, the heat and humidity became intolerable for me. Glad you're getting out too.
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 07:43 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 25, 2016 07:43 PM (NGd+i)
Posted by: ThunderB at January 25, 2016 07:43 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Global Warming caused Hillary's alcoholism at January 25, 2016 07:43 PM (ZufZo)
???
Not here in Philadelphia. The burbs are getting bluer with people leaving the city but keeping their politics. And Barry's "forced bussing" of Democrats into the burbs is changing things all over the country.
Posted by: Josephistan at January 25, 2016 07:43 PM (7qAYi)
A LEO who's "just doing his job" will dutifully execute the warrant. Will y'all hope "he just makes it home to his family at night, because that's all that matters" ?
Because ... you know who else had that slavish loyalty to authority ?
1930s Germany.
Posted by: Irony
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Ironic that irony constructs such shitty straw-men.
Posted by: Tilikum Moderately Nefarious Killer Whale at January 25, 2016 07:44 PM (hVdx9)
These betrayals of the rule of law happen because there is zero pain or loss associated with the practice of using law to punish those who offend the narrative.
So, I disagree. We shouldn't be in "let it burn" mode. We should be in "burn it to the ground and salt the ashes" mode.
Less passive. Lots more active.
Posted by: Grimmy at January 25, 2016 07:44 PM (uUsh9)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 25, 2016 07:44 PM (DLIIY)
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It's like they say, you start with mass murder and next you're jaywalking and returning library books late.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 25, 2016 07:45 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Tunkhannock at January 25, 2016 07:26 PM (goOhI)
It would be Iraq over here, complete with drones.
Because where would you draw the lives?
Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 25, 2016 07:45 PM (oxcuH)
Let them cheer. Their judgement will come.
Posted by: Lauren at January 25, 2016 07:45 PM (Kqit+)
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I would argue, but I'm pretty sure the social gospel crowd does worship the same god as the mohammadans.
Posted by: Methos at January 25, 2016 07:45 PM (ZbV+0)
When does it end? When do these people abusing government institutions to punish their opponents pay the price?
Posted by: MTF at January 25, 2016 07:45 PM (TxJGV)
I read it and live here. What's your point?
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 25, 2016 07:45 PM (MNgU2)
Remember this prosecutors office refused to go after Karpen, who is every bit as bad as Gosnell.
Posted by: ThunderB at January 25, 2016 07:46 PM (zOTsN)
Secret videographers David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt were both
indicted on charges of tampering with a governmental record, a
second-degree felony that carries a punishment of up to 20 years in
prison.
Daleiden received an additional misdemeanor indictment under the
law prohibiting the purchase and sale of human organs. The second indictment for Daleiden suggests that the grand jury found that he went too far in trying to get Planned Parenthood to admit to selling tissue. The crime, a class A misdemeanor is committed if a person intentionally offers to buy or offers to sell a human organ, including fetal tissue. If convicted, the maximum punishment is a year in jail.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 25, 2016 07:46 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Ghost of kari at January 25, 2016 07:46 PM (oxcuH)
Posted by: Jean at January 25, 2016 07:41 PM (cXiMR)
Seems like they're not thinking this one through to end.
Posted by: Sharkman at January 25, 2016 07:47 PM (t8P62)
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 07:47 PM (2x3L+)
It's a Democrat sinkhole, like almost megacity in 'Merica.
It's the abortion capital of the Lone Star state.
Posted by: the littl shyning man at January 25, 2016 07:47 PM (U6f54)
Yep. Texas is different from most places in this way. One of the reddest areas of the state is the county just south of Austin, and it's also the fastest growing.
Posted by: Lauren at January 25, 2016 07:47 PM (Kqit+)
Happened in Athens, Tennessee after WWII
of course, after the action, the NY Times was still screeching that the vets should have let the "authorities" handle it
Posted by: Grad School Fool at January 25, 2016 07:47 PM (A9KzJ)
And the leftist jackwads are now crowing about how this indictment proves the videos were lies and PP did nothing wrong.
And that's how this will go down now. PP was victimized by right-wing nutjobs, and womens's healthcare suffered.
What a stupid time to be alive.
Posted by: Kensington at January 25, 2016 07:48 PM (7Kbxu)
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 25, 2016 07:45 PM (MNgU2)
The point is that Lauren Reeder, the assistant DA scrunt spearheading this prosecution cherry-picked a grand jury that returned this indictment. It was just "bad jury, I guess."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2016 07:48 PM (Z8fuk)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 25, 2016 07:48 PM (zLP1L)
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And I'm Kate Upton. Excuse me. I've got to go play with myself.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 25, 2016 07:48 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2016 07:48 PM (Z8fuk)
Posted by: Lauren at January 25, 2016 07:45 PM (Kqit+)
The problem is that it will also be OUR judgment. To sit by and only comment (as I do) about how evil this is while allowing it to happen year after year is going to be hung around my neck at Judgment Day, I fear.
Posted by: Sharkman at January 25, 2016 07:48 PM (t8P62)
Posted by: guy nobody's ever heard of who was arrested for making a YouTube video almost no one saw at January 25, 2016 07:49 PM (H9MG5)
masturbatory glee over this. There is a profound lack of fear of God in
this country. Not good."
Let them cheer. Their judgement will come.
Posted by: Lauren at January 25, 2016 07:45 PM (Kqit+)
Not soon enough
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 25, 2016 07:49 PM (45oDG)
When inaction becomes less tolerable than action.
Posted by: Lauren at January 25, 2016 07:49 PM (Kqit+)
Posted by: ThunderB at January 25, 2016 07:43 PM (zOTsN)
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The referendum to trash the ordnance did make it to the ballot last year and won. That was sweet. My how the lesbian was annoyed! (That's not who we are, etc.)
Posted by: RioBravo at January 25, 2016 07:49 PM (NUqwG)
Posted by: lurkingestlurker at January 25, 2016 07:49 PM (6fpC6)
- Michael Douglas, Falling Down
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 25, 2016 07:50 PM (Cq0oW)
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This is why I can not sing nor hear the song "God Bless America". Do not so shit like this and then have the audacity to ask God to bless it.
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 25, 2016 07:50 PM (dFi94)
As someone who is not benefiting from corruption, I can't say that I'm enjoying the experience.
Posted by: shibumi who is awaiting SMOD at January 25, 2016 07:50 PM (gisJf)
Posted by: ThunderB at January 25, 2016 07:50 PM (zOTsN)
- Michael Douglas, Falling Down
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 25, 2016
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You don't know how often I feel like that.
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 07:51 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Lauren at January 25, 2016 07:51 PM (Kqit+)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2016 07:52 PM (Z8fuk)
Second American Civil War started?
Posted by: Tunkhannock
Third War of Northern Aggression....
Rather surprised Abbot didn't come out with a statement specific to the lawfare in the case. Just a generic, "the state is still investing blah". A declarative, "these two people were guilty of nothing and I will pardon them instantly" would have been nice.
https://t.co/T2W7KSgRay
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 25, 2016 07:52 PM (kdS6q)
It's Clintonian
Posted by: ThunderB at January 25, 2016 07:50 PM (zOTsN)
Hitlerite, Stalinesque.
I went there. Yes I did.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 25, 2016 07:52 PM (zLP1L)
Posted by: ThunderB at January 25, 2016 07:52 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at January 25, 2016 07:52 PM (TpR7w)
Posted by: MTF at January 25, 2016 07:53 PM (TxJGV)
"He is facing up to 20 years in prison and allegations that his "intent in committing the offense was to defraud or harm" Planned Parenthood"
He being Daleiden
Posted by: Lauren at January 25, 2016 07:53 PM (Kqit+)
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 07:47 PM (2x3L+)
Yes he is though I'm listening less and less these days. Seems he's gone all anti-Tump.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2016 07:53 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Grad School Fool at January 25, 2016 07:47 PM (A9KzJ)
Let the authorities handle you into poverty, prison or the grave - for being a dissident, or even just inconvenient.
Sounds like the New Duranty Times, all right.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at January 25, 2016 07:53 PM (bLnSU)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 25, 2016 07:53 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Josephistan at January 25, 2016 07:54 PM (7qAYi)
When inaction becomes less tolerable than action.
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Another blogger I read made the statement regarding the latest Bundy thing that:
When it's time you grab your rifle and head for the door.
If you're the only one outside with a rifle, it's not time yet.
Posted by: Methos at January 25, 2016 07:54 PM (ZbV+0)
Posted by: Locarno at January 25, 2016 07:55 PM (oaHu2)
Posted by: Fritz at January 25, 2016 07:55 PM (BngQR)
- Michael Douglas, Falling Down
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 25, 2016
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You don't know how often I feel like that."
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The difference, though, is that Michael Douglas's character actually was the bad guy. These @sshole leftists and msm jerkwads aren't Robert Duvall righteously taking us down. They're stupid and corrupt, and they're just enjoying the spoils of their cultural dominance.
Posted by: Kensington at January 25, 2016 07:55 PM (7Kbxu)
http://read.bi/1S7nuk4
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The correct term is "pre-Americans".
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 25, 2016 07:55 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 07:20 PM (2x3L+)
____
The WoodLands
Galleria
??
??
??
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 25, 2016 07:55 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2016 07:53 PM
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That's disappointing. He seems like someone who would like Trump.
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 07:56 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 25, 2016 07:56 PM (zLP1L)
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They are our Babylonians
Posted by: Methos at January 25, 2016 07:56 PM (ZbV+0)
Abortion isn't one of my hot button issues. I don't get worked up about it per se.
But this is utter bullshit. One law for me, one for thee?
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at January 25, 2016 07:57 PM (1xUj/)
Posted by: Sharkman at January 25, 2016 07:48 PM (t8P62)
I don't know, Sharkman. I think the Lord looks at your heart, and knows your intent. But if you want to do something, locate your nearest Right to Life chapter, and volunteer with them, or with an unplanned pregnancy home. Get a group together and start gathering items for layettes for new moms, or a baby sitting service for unwed moms who need help while they go to school, look for jobs, or work. If you are a church goer, encourage your Sunday School class to "adopt" a mom, and disciple her through the pregnancy, and raising the baby. There are so many ways we can do a little, or a lot, like adopting a baby, that show the Almighty we have great respect for His kingdom, and His children.
And I'm going to work on these things too. Thanks for giving me a kick in the pants!!!
Posted by: Moki at January 25, 2016 07:57 PM (7q2ch)
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In a world of lies, truth is a crime.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 25, 2016 07:53 PM (Nwg0u)
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 25, 2016 07:57 PM (kpqmD)
Abortion isn't one of my hot button issues. I don't get worked up about it per se.
But this is utter bullshit. One law for me, one for thee?
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at January 25, 2016 07:57 PM (1xUj/)
Every issue IS a hot button issue. Or else none is. And then we are conquered.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 25, 2016 07:58 PM (zLP1L)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2016 07:58 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 25, 2016 07:58 PM (0LHZx)
Sean Davis
One of the prosecutors in the Harris County DA's office has been a Planned Parenthood board member since 2013
http://thefederalist.com
Picky, picky, picky.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 25, 2016 07:58 PM (kdS6q)
She's gone now, but she was also the one who was insisting that church pastors within her jurisdiction submit drafts of their sermons in advance to her office, to be vetted for political correctness.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 25, 2016 07:59 PM (noWW6)
Been so since before Marius and Sulla
I think what I hate most about the Left is that they prefer such political climates whether they win or not
Posted by: Grad School Fool at January 25, 2016 07:59 PM (A9KzJ)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 25, 2016 07:53 PM (Nwg0u)
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Yes. One day it will be me. Or you. It's important to prepare ahead on how best to take a stand.
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 25, 2016 07:59 PM (dFi94)
Galleria
??
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 25, 2016 07:55 PM -----
Inside the loop. River Oaks. Tanglewood.
Katy, Sugarland and N. Houston suburbs are still safe and inhabitable.
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 07:59 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: bjk at January 25, 2016 07:59 PM (x2rNW)
Posted by: Mr. Estrada at January 25, 2016 08:00 PM (SUClo)
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 25, 2016 08:00 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 25, 2016 08:00 PM (jJRIy)
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 07:59 PM (2x3L+)
Mostly because they are outside the city's limits and/or in a different county.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2016 08:01 PM (JO9+V)
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They are our Babylonians
Posted by: Methos at January 25, 2016 07:56 PM (ZbV+0)
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Babylonians - exactly.
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 25, 2016 08:01 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: rrpjr at January 25, 2016 08:01 PM (s/yC1)
Is that a "strawman" or an "ad hominem" ?
Don't mean to pick on you - just the opposite. You called it. It's "Orwellian" in my book. "Clintonian" is just as good.
But who does the jailing ? My mention of that earned at least two "strawmen".
But hey ... at least the jailers made it home to their families. Amirite, or amirite ?
Posted by: Irony at January 25, 2016 08:02 PM (qmMG2)
Posted by: Nip Sip at January 25, 2016 08:02 PM (jJRIy)
comment (as I do) about how evil this is while allowing it to happen
year after year is going to be hung around my neck at Judgment Day, I
fear.
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If you've accepted Christ and repented of your sins, you have nothing to fear come judgement day.
However nations do not exist in eternity and must suffer judgement in this world. That, well I wouldn't really recommend fear so much as to have some lowered expectations of what life here is likely to be like until the flood of wickedness currently drowning the nation has been driven back.
Posted by: Methos at January 25, 2016 08:02 PM (ZbV+0)
Posted by: bjk at January 25, 2016 07:59 PM (x2rNW)
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Over how?
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 25, 2016 08:03 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 25, 2016 08:03 PM (0LHZx)
Posted by: jewells45 at January 25, 2016 08:03 PM (CNHr1)
Posted by: Sharkman at January 25, 2016 08:04 PM (t8P62)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2016 08:01 PM
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I thought the city annexed them to get the tax revenue?
No?
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 08:04 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: jewells45 at January 25, 2016 08:03 PM (CNHr1)
Charlton Heston, "Planet of the Apes."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 25, 2016 08:05 PM (zLP1L)
In the late eighties and early nineties, it was common to be assaulted by Act Up if you were outside an abortuary. Even if the police saw it, they did nothing.
This was so back in the day that Tammy Bruce was still a pro-abort and I saw her frequently in SoCal at major events.
Posted by: Who Knows at January 25, 2016 08:05 PM (W+Itt)
In a word? Yes.
Now it's a little more complicated. The Perry indictment happened because of a stupid "lets all sing kumbaya" bullshit rule that gives Travis county jurisdiction over politicians no matter where they actually live. Basically it lets liberals threaten to indict anyone.
That's the department headed by Rosemary The Spitter.
In general though, prosecutors and judges are the Achilles heel of Texas politics. I've voted in many an election where there was no Republican judge even running.
Posted by: Lauren at January 25, 2016 08:05 PM (Z/8dZ)
Posted by: Ray Nitschke 66 at January 25, 2016 08:05 PM (Lyz+r)
Posted by: Hank at January 25, 2016 08:05 PM (BtG7l)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 25, 2016 08:06 PM (erRNA)
It's another problem with Ace's $%^* vote for D to punish R idea.
What if there's a big lever behind St. Peters desk with Pro-Death on the handle? Connected to trap-doors under every place in line. Houston has express lanes and EZ-Pass right?
Posted by: DaveA at January 25, 2016 08:06 PM (DL2i+)
We are there kiddies.
Posted by: JR at January 25, 2016 08:07 PM (Ioe/6)
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 25, 2016 08:07 PM (MNgU2)
Sometimes I think that the rising islamist tide is God's scourge upon the West.
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They are our Babylonians
Posted by: Methos at January 25, 2016 07:56 PM (ZbV+0)
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Babylonians - exactly.
YEP
Posted by: JR at January 25, 2016 08:08 PM (Ioe/6)
juries are rubber stamps. I know what's up with them. But what's up with
the prosecutors? Tom Delay, Rick Perry, Justin Carter--what the hell?"
TX has a weird system. The statewide "public integrity" unit is actually run by a specific county DA. The county that the Legislature picked for this honor was Travis County, i.e., Austin, i.e., a Democratic fever swamp.
So you had "public integrity" prosecutions all over the huge state of Texas being handled by the likes of DUI queen Rosemary Lehmberg.
"CAWL GRAY-UG! DID YOU CAWL GRAY-UG LIKE I DONE TOLE YOU? GRAY-UG! CALL HIM! CALL HIM NOW!!!"
Posted by: torquewrench at January 25, 2016 08:08 PM (noWW6)
Don't worry, they'll find the videos inadmissible in court and depend on the testimonies of the PP officials.
Posted by: jim at January 25, 2016 08:08 PM (VwhRo)
Posted by: ThunderB at January 25, 2016 08:08 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 25, 2016 08:08 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Don Quixote, formerly BB Wolf, formerly Romeo13... at January 25, 2016 08:08 PM (f7rv6)
Posted by: Mr. Estrada at January 25, 2016 08:00 PM (SUClo)
I dunno. Here in San Antonio, the city that no one knows exists except for the jillions of people moving here for jobs, our city government is of course Democrat, but we had a Repub DA for years.
In the last election, a personal injury attorney from Corpus Christi pumped $1 million into the Dem challenger's campaign, and he won.
I'm not saying trial lawyers are the cause of all the prosecutor problems, but I am saying that trial lawyers are the biggest source of funds in the effort to turn Texas blue.
Most big cities in the US are run by Democrats. We're relatively lucky here in TX in that the Dems here tend not to be socialists who want to kill off the job creators. Even petite Julian Castro knew not to do that.
Posted by: stace, Gary Johnson/SMOD 2016 at January 25, 2016 08:09 PM (CoX6k)
Posted by: Rorschach at January 25, 2016 08:09 PM (7qAYi)
The witness lists should be yuuuuge.
I know a way to make that happen ...
... get Trump to show selected parts of Daleiden's videos at his rallies and the debate ... yuuuuge.
Posted by: Arbalest at January 25, 2016 08:09 PM (FlRtG)
Posted by: Sal at January 25, 2016 08:09 PM (MRX6w)
Posted by: Bizarro at January 25, 2016 08:10 PM (FkBIv)
Posted by: Irony at January 25, 2016 08:10 PM (qmMG2)
Right, Civil War part 3 ;-)
I'm afraid the lines won't be drawn so neatly this time around.
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 25, 2016 08:10 PM (NGd+i)
Posted by: Mr Pink at January 25, 2016 08:10 PM (yoy3R)
Posted by: obnoxious ahole at January 25, 2016 08:11 PM (MpvuV)
Posted by: Lower Class person whose opinions need to be guided at January 25, 2016 08:11 PM (fC+Kl)
Posted by: ThunderB at January 25, 2016 08:11 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at January 25, 2016 08:03 PM
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I can't disagree with this. Rural TX is entirely different, but the entire state is going down bc of the big cities and all the illegals and LIV and Free Shit Army that vote. It will go the way of NY and the west coast within a short order of time.
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 08:11 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Irony at January 25, 2016 08:12 PM (qmMG2)
but because somehow in january 1973 7 fuckin assholes in black robes found abortion in the 14th amendment its all ok for panned parenthood to do it...
Posted by: sound awake at January 25, 2016 08:12 PM (i7LpU)
Wasn't supposed to be a damn "how to".
Neither was "Camp of The Saints" & "Idiocracy" wasn't supposed to be a documentary.
Posted by: Josephistan at January 25, 2016 08:13 PM (7qAYi)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 25, 2016 08:13 PM (FKWJm)
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because TX has no moose to tell em the state is full.
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 25, 2016 08:13 PM (Cq0oW)
Posted by: Arson Wells at January 25, 2016 08:13 PM (UnJ7w)
Posted by: stace, Gary Johnson/SMOD 2016 at January 25, 2016 08:13 PM (CoX6k)
Posted by: Temple Money Changer at January 25, 2016 08:13 PM (oca9z)
Posted by: Let It Burn! at January 25, 2016 08:14 PM (Mrl1e)
Posted by: Irony at January 25, 2016 08:14 PM (qmMG2)
Posted by: ThunderB at January 25, 2016 08:14 PM (zOTsN)
Investigative Journalism.... Freedom of the Press...
And these people did exactly what LAW ENFORCMENT does on a daily basis in this country....
Create the situation so the Perp entraps themself...
Posted by: Don Quixote, formerly BB Wolf, formerly Romeo13... at January 25, 2016 08:14 PM (f7rv6)
In the late eighties and early nineties, it was common to be assaulted by Act Up if you were outside an abortuary. Even if the police saw it, they did nothing.
This was so back in the day that Tammy Bruce was still a pro-abort and I saw her frequently in SoCal at major events.
Posted by: Who Knows at January 25, 2016 08:05 PM (W+Itt)
It was not unheard of for the cops to join in roughing up the pro-lifers too.
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 25, 2016 08:15 PM (kpqmD)
when we remembered Zion.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 25, 2016 08:15 PM (Nwg0u)
No?
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 08:04 PM (2x3L+)
No. Last major annexation was Kingwood (NE Houston) in 1996. In the aftermath, the TX Legislature in 1999 passed new laws that will likely keep the city of Houston from grabbing more areas. Plus, according to our County Judge (county "mayor" if you will), the city of Houston cannot afford to undertake any more annexation attempts.
He said that if the unicorporated parts of Harris County were a city, it would be listed as the 5th largest US city, right behind Houston.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2016 08:15 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: jewells45 at January 25, 2016 08:15 PM (CNHr1)
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 25, 2016 08:07 PM
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He is right but off by 5-10 years from Houston becoming Chicago or Detroit.
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 08:15 PM (2x3L+)
If so you are deluded
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No, I think a Hillary that has lost the nomination will, her usefullness thus expired, be made an example of to let the plebes believe there is still a justice system in this country.
I still intend to be entertained.
Posted by: Methos at January 25, 2016 08:16 PM (ZbV+0)
Posted by: BobinNH at January 25, 2016 08:16 PM (Pa42b)
The Republican party decided to roll over on abortion.
So the Republican party no longer stands for anything. They have no agenda other than the election of Republicans.
Posted by: the guy who always divides people into typeswing plover at January 25, 2016 08:16 PM (cfrRc)
Posted by: steevy at January 25, 2016 08:16 PM (8HTq1)
Hence the ever popular "Racketeers for life" buttons.
Posted by: Lauren at January 25, 2016 08:17 PM (Z/8dZ)
I hope this is just an anomaly.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 25, 2016 08:17 PM (MNgU2)
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 08:17 PM (2x3L+)
Katy, Sugarland and N. Houston suburbs are still safe and inhabitable.
True, but some of us are not allowed to vote in mayoral elections.
Posted by: Miss80sBaby at January 25, 2016 08:17 PM (YjDyJ)
Well my goodness 242. What an ad hominem strawman burning you've just did.
Gracious my.
because of 7 fuckin assholes 50 million babies died
and counting...
only a fuckin asshole could look into the 14th amendment and find abortion
Posted by: sound awake at January 25, 2016 08:18 PM (i7LpU)
Posted by: jewells45 at January 25, 2016 08:18 PM (CNHr1)
It won't be Gettysburg, it will be Sarajevo.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 25, 2016 08:18 PM (rwI+c)
You know ... as a non-Church Attender who thinks the Book of the Month Club is just too much commitment ...
... when you can't speak up for the scraping of kids out of the mother's womb - what exactly are you willing to speak up for ?
Posted by: Irony at January 25, 2016 08:19 PM (qmMG2)
Posted by: xnycpeasant at January 25, 2016 08:19 PM (WL/ot)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 25, 2016 08:19 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Sick, Tired at January 25, 2016 08:19 PM (Y8P5w)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 25, 2016 08:19 PM (fC9RO)
Posted by: Shiggz at January 25, 2016 08:20 PM (G7wcY)
Posted by: Geraldo at January 25, 2016 08:21 PM (7qAYi)
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster at January 25, 2016 08:21 PM (uURQL)
Posted by: LadyS at January 25, 2016 08:21 PM (xYNhJ)
Well ... I'm starting with my previously declared pile of guns, ammo, food, bootleg medicine, books, tools and materials ...
... your mileage, of course, may vary.
Posted by: Irony at January 25, 2016 08:22 PM (qmMG2)
... when you can't speak up for the scraping of kids out of the mother's womb - what exactly are you willing to speak up for
Posted by: Irony at January 25, 2016 08:19 PM
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Exactly right. Perfect comment.
They're all liars.
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 08:22 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Doomed at January 25, 2016 08:22 PM (bGLSw)
There are some really unethical bastards in positions of public trust.
Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at January 25, 2016 08:23 PM (laMCB)
Because when they finish flushing consent of the governed, they will be living in most interesting times -- they won't like this new world they are creating nearly as much as they think they will.
Posted by: acethepug at January 25, 2016 08:23 PM (RHPFv)
Yep. Piney Point village is one example. Right in the middle of Houston (outside the loop).
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 25, 2016 08:23 PM (MNgU2)
Houstonians generously opened their doors to New Orleanians after Katrina.
Very charitable of them. Also very foolish of them.
The Houston metro area crime rate absolutely skyrocketed as soon as the first big wave from NOLA arrived and set up shop.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 25, 2016 08:23 PM (noWW6)
Your GOP
Posted by: steevy at January 25, 2016 08:24 PM (8HTq1)
He was told that it was discriminatory, so he stopped performing any marriages.
Today, the The Oregon Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability sent a recommendation to the Oregon Supreme Court that he be removed from the bench for refusing to perform gay marriages. (They threw in a bunch of other charges, but they were going after him solely because of the gay marriage issue.)
These assholes are not going to tolerate any dissent whatsoever.
Posted by: Let It Burn! at January 25, 2016 08:24 PM (Mrl1e)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at January 25, 2016 08:19 PM (fC9RO)
Habeas Corpses
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 25, 2016 08:24 PM (kpqmD)
Posted by: Gem at January 25, 2016 08:24 PM (c+gwp)
So the Republican party no longer stands for anything. They have no agenda other than the election of Republicans.
Posted by: the guy who always divides people into typeswing plover at January 25, 2016 08:16 PM (cfrRc)
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I held my nose and voted (R) for years. 2008 and 2012 come to mind. Even when I thought the candidates were stupid I voted (R) because they had that Pro-Life plank in their platform, and I was foolish enough to think it meant something. Perhaps at one time it did. God bless those who fought the party when they said blah blah blah. God damn those who mouthed one thing to us voters, only to abandon ship at the first excuse.
I have removed myself from voting (R). Maybe they can find a more wishy-washy constituency who enjoys being lied to. I'm done.
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 25, 2016 08:24 PM (dFi94)
Tearful Obama, announcing new EO's on gun control, "If it saves just one life..."
Theoretical lives vs. living, breathing lives having their organs harvested.
Tomayto, tomahto.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 25, 2016 08:25 PM (NOIQH)
Yep, we are being "Balkanized". Fundamental Transformation, Social Justice, BLM, and other exampled too numerous to mention. Its a purposeful destruction of the foundations of Western Civilization. It will lead to Utopia and then the Death Camps.
Gee, I'm in a cheery mood.
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 25, 2016 08:25 PM (NGd+i)
Posted by: jewells45 at January 25, 2016 08:15 PM (CNHr1)
As Planned Parenthood "Mengeles" more black people in a week than the KKK did in its entire history, Juan Williams opens his cake hole.
Perfect.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 25, 2016 08:25 PM (zLP1L)
Do you know why some media talking heads, such as Beck, hate Trump?
Because Trump makes all those mealy-mouthed sycophants obsolete.
Who needs Glenn Fucking Beck or Michael Medved or George Will or Bill Kristol or Cato or Brookings Institutes? They serve NO PURPOSE except to line their own pockets and sell their own stupid books.
People are sick of the do-nothing Conservatives. Trump showed up and the first thing he said No More Illegals. Period.
It doesn't matter whether Trump can or will do it. What matters is that Trump is putting it people's heads that it is possible to end the illegal and muslim menace with immediate action, and that doesn't sit well with the crowd of book-sellers who urge patience and processes, i.e., sit on our thumbs and wait for a better day.
No more fucking around. Just Fucking Do It, Already.
Republicans don't like people with that message or mindset. It upsets the applecart. The Republicans like the status quo. Republicans love obama.
Posted by: the guy who always divides people into typeswing plover at January 25, 2016 08:25 PM (cfrRc)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 25, 2016 08:25 PM (DUoqb)
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 25, 2016 08:23 PM
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I've driven through there! It's quaint and serene.
Also Memorial Drive is mostly good. I forgot them.
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 08:26 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Stephanie at January 25, 2016 08:26 PM (eLvFT)
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no.
they don't know nor care how pissed the rest of the nation is. and they haven't the breadth of experience or common sense to fear that.
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 25, 2016 08:26 PM (Cq0oW)
Their Problem is our Solution.
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster at January 25, 2016 08:27 PM (uURQL)
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Decorum in the face of the apocalypse.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 25, 2016 08:27 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: steevy at January 25, 2016 08:27 PM (8HTq1)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 25, 2016 08:25 PM (DUoqb)
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I think that is very true.
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 25, 2016 08:27 PM (dFi94)
Their Problem is our Solution.
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster at January 25, 2016 08:27 PM (uURQL)
Sigh
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 25, 2016 08:27 PM (DUoqb)
At the top, yes, they sold their soul to the devil for riches and power in this life.
At the bottom, no, they sold their understanding for a virtual innocence.
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster at January 25, 2016 08:28 PM (uURQL)
Posted by: Doomed at January 25, 2016 08:22 PM (bGLSw)
Except they were trying to stave off widespread slaughter.
Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at January 25, 2016 08:28 PM (kpqmD)
It is entitled "There Is No Republican Establishment."
Here is the article, in full (hopefully transmogrified into Pixy-friendly ASCII):
There was once a Republican Establishment. There isn't any longer, no matter what you're hearing. Here's the story.
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Even Commentary Magazine's own web servers are choking on the GOPe's Official Party Line.
"There Are FIVE lights, John-Luc Podhoritz, can you not see them?"
"Oh, yes, righto, no problem, one, two, three, four, five, yep, five there are!"
Posted by: filbert at January 25, 2016 08:28 PM (s5o+q)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 25, 2016 08:25 PM (DUoqb)
Since 2009 and for real since 2010, every instrumentality of government has engaged in crushing any and all voices of opposition to its agenda.
Lois Lerner is not an outlier. She is typical.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 25, 2016 08:28 PM (zLP1L)
I asked earlier and I'd like an answer:
If the GOP ceased to exist in 2011, how would things be different today?
Posted by: the guy who always divides people into typeswing plover at January 25, 2016 08:28 PM (cfrRc)
Yeah that's where a lot of Houston's sports stars live. I say a lot relatively speaking.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 25, 2016 08:28 PM (MNgU2)
Posted by: Lauren at January 25, 2016 08:29 PM (Z/8dZ)
I agree with your statement ... and I no longer believe.
I had my suspicions during Clinton, my belief during "W", and my proof during Obama.
Posted by: Irony at January 25, 2016 08:29 PM (qmMG2)
I believe that the proper response from the legislature should be to either allow the unincorporated parts of Harris County to incorporate, making them safe from annexation or the legislature should force them all into Houston at once.
Posted by: obnoxious ahole at January 25, 2016 08:29 PM (MpvuV)
Italian Prime Minister hails agreements with Iran, saying they are just the beginning.
THIS is what happens when America loses it's balls
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 25, 2016 08:29 PM (DUoqb)
Obeying the law is no longer a matter of ethics, but merely one of consequence.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 25, 2016 08:29 PM (rwI+c)
To me, nothing exemplifies the intellectual decline of the postmodernist media-obsessed modern world quite like the proliferation of cute cartoon mascots. There's a sort of an unvoiced belief that cute cartoon mascots are somehow able to ward off evil, that bad things can't happen in real life just as long as we cling to childish symbologies all the way through adulthood.
Every Olympic Games has its own carefully crafted cute cartoon mascot. I have somewhere a picture of a giant mural of the cute cartoon mascot from the Sarajevo Olympics. Barely recognizable because the wall it's painted on is so heavily pocked with shellfire holes.
I fully expect to live to see depictions of Mickey Mouse and Hello Kitty and the like similarly defaced by horrific violence.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 25, 2016 08:30 PM (noWW6)
for everyone but PP, the prosecutor and the abortion industry
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 25, 2016 08:30 PM (DBrmc)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 25, 2016 08:30 PM (Nwg0u)
I would have had to kill a government official trying to take my guns or been killed.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 25, 2016 08:31 PM (MNgU2)
Posted by: the guy who always divides people into typeswing plover at January 25, 2016 08:28 PM (cfrRc)
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I think for all intents and purposes, they HAVE ceased to exist. Now it's just the powerful versus those out of favor.
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 25, 2016 08:31 PM (dFi94)
It seems like Kingwood is the small town that got bypassed by the railroad / interstate highway.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2016 08:31 PM (JO9+V)
I asked earlier and I'd like an answer:
If the GOP ceased to exist in 2011, how would things be different today?
Posted by: the guy who always divides people into typeswing plover at January 25, 2016 08:28 PM (cfrRc)
We might actually have principled people in office and SCOAMF would've been chucked out on his ass.
Possibly.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 25, 2016 08:31 PM (zLP1L)
for everyone but PP, the prosecutor and the abortion industry"
Oh they've shredded everything.
Which sadly means a lot more than just paper in this case.
Posted by: Lauren at January 25, 2016 08:31 PM (Z/8dZ)
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 25, 2016 08:31 PM (dFi94)
The Connected vs. The Rest Of Us.
Posted by: filbert at January 25, 2016 08:32 PM (s5o+q)
The GOP is a tool of the Democrat/Fabian Socialists, to ensure that all effective opposition to the counter-revolution is crushed.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 25, 2016 08:32 PM (zLP1L)
Posted by: Irony at January 25, 2016 08:32 PM (qmMG2)
Gee, I'm in a cheery mood
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cheer up!
LOL
and do you know- that Oregon standoff is poised to go sideways next
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 25, 2016 08:32 PM (Cq0oW)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 25, 2016 08:32 PM (rwI+c)
Prez cands reax:
Per twitter, nothing from Trump, Cruz or Rubio. The Huck making some noise about the grand jury.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 25, 2016 08:32 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 25, 2016 08:30 PM (Nwg0u)
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I think I remember you mentioning that you were considering retirement? Was it you that was kind of thinking out loud about looking at other things to do?
Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at January 25, 2016 08:33 PM (dFi94)
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Weak with history. I don't understand this comparison. Explain the difference btwn the two?
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 08:33 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 25, 2016 08:33 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich
Perhaps the rest of the nation is perfectly content.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 25, 2016 08:34 PM (FkBIv)
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster at January 25, 2016 08:27 PM (uURQL)
Sigh
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 25, 2016 08:27 PM (DUoqb)
I didn't word that well. Lemme try again:
We stop believing in the justice system because of the injustice; the injustice isn't from our lack of belief.
Stopping belief in a fake justice system is the first step to restoring justice and solving the problem of injustice.
That does create a problem of chaos and ... other things. Blood soaked lands will do that.
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster at January 25, 2016 08:34 PM (uURQL)
Half the country agrees with the Left.
That's just a fact. At fault for this is the so-called Conservative Movement lead by the National Review crowd and the Republicans who have been elected to Congress. They killed Conservatism. And we helped them by continuing to vote for them and continuing to listen to them on the boob tube.
In Iowa at a Sanders rally, a grown woman CRIED like a little child in front of the whole crowd because she, a divorcee and a college grad, couldn't "buy presents" and had to live with her parents. It wasn't fair that others had so much and she had so little, you see.
The crowd applauded her. Sanders said she was brave for sharing. This is who were up against along with the fake conservatives who support obama.
We're in very very bad shape.
Posted by: the guy who always divides people into typeswing plover at January 25, 2016 08:34 PM (cfrRc)
Posted by: dogfish at January 25, 2016 08:34 PM (0O2Lr)
One reason for that is construction of the Grand Parkway.
Posted by: Miss80sBaby at January 25, 2016 08:35 PM (YjDyJ)
Fine ... yours is not the same as mine.
Give it time. Who, exactly, do you think will be enforcing all this shit ?
Who enforces it now ?
Posted by: Irony at January 25, 2016 08:35 PM (qmMG2)
Your perspective is not the same as ours.
Posted by: Irony at January 25, 2016 08:32 PM (qmMG2)
Not sure what you mean by that?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 25, 2016 08:35 PM (DUoqb)
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 25, 2016 08:36 PM (KCxzN)
I think for all intents and purposes, they HAVE ceased to exist.
Well, yes. The GOP is, in essence, no longer a political party. The GOP is nothing more than a mega lobbying firm who happen to occupy seats in Congress.
Posted by: the guy who always divides people into typeswing plover at January 25, 2016 08:36 PM (cfrRc)
Posted by: Blano at January 25, 2016 08:37 PM (3eoPa)
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I think the GOP died last week with National Review's RINO Rampage special.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 25, 2016 08:38 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: ThunderB at January 25, 2016 08:38 PM (zOTsN)
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Weak with history. I don't understand this comparison. Explain the difference btwn the two?
Gettysburg - Battle of American Civil War, big armies from North and South lined up and shot at each other in extremely bloody battle.
Not so familiar with Sarajevo, but is part of ethnic conflict between Muslims/Christians in former Yugoslavia. Former neighbors ethnically cleansed each other from their neighborhoods.
Difference between killing guys from some other state ... and killing your neighbors.
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster at January 25, 2016 08:39 PM (uURQL)
Sarajevo was more of a Hobbesian "war of all against all", with a virtually infinite variety of tiny factions all vying violently with one another, than was Gettysburg, which was a far simply classical "two sides" set-piece battle.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 25, 2016 08:39 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: A Ham Sandwich at January 25, 2016 08:39 PM (me6xG)
Lawrence M. Krauss*
Most satisfying news! Grand jury investigating Planned Parenthood instead indicts 2 anti-abortion activists!
*Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist, Public Policy Advocate
Phil Plait*
Whats the word Im looking for? Ah yes: Justice. Poetic, and literal.
*"Bad Astrononmy" guy
Wonder why so many astronomers, at least the ones with book deals, are such utter asses.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 25, 2016 08:39 PM (kdS6q)
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Weak with history. I don't understand this comparison. Explain the difference btwn the two?
Posted by: L, Elle
The Civil War was divided between North and South (I'm speaking geography. I don't feel like rehashing tired old arguments). The Balkans were not divided like that.You'd have pockets of Serbs in Croatia, Bosnians in Serbia, etc. Plus you had Islam, Catholics, Orthodox in the mix. Plus ancient grievances rearing its ugly head and you get the Balkans. It was a nasty war (early-mid 90's) that has happened many times throughout history. Borders criss cross, one tribe/religion takes hold, another war happens, line crosses, genocide happens, a shaky "peace" happens and then it happens all over again. The Balkans is a pessimists paradise. I'm sure I gots lots wrong in my half assed Cliff notes version.
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 25, 2016 08:40 PM (NGd+i)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 25, 2016 08:32 PM (rwI+c)
No, Neo-Carthage.
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster at January 25, 2016 08:40 PM (uURQL)
Posted by: Rusty Nail at January 25, 2016 08:40 PM (S2VsH)
It means one of at least two things ...
1) I misread that you're an Officer (Dentist?).
2) You're an Officer (Dentist?), therefore drawing a Federal check, and just possibly more interested in keeping this shit going a bit longer than I am.
Other possibilities exist. Please advise.
Posted by: Irony at January 25, 2016 08:41 PM (qmMG2)
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Yup. I'm semi-retired now.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 25, 2016 08:41 PM (Nwg0u)
George Orwell wrote about the left playing with fire and not even understanding that fire is hot.
Posted by: obnoxious ahole at January 25, 2016 08:41 PM (MpvuV)
Good times, good times.
Posted by: Furious George at January 25, 2016 08:41 PM (RIzwy)
Posted by: ThunderB at January 25, 2016 08:38 PM (zOTsN)
Oh so that was not his first "off" comment? Why have I missed
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 25, 2016 08:41 PM (DUoqb)
Posted by: steevy at January 25, 2016 08:42 PM (8HTq1)
1) I misread that you're an Officer (Dentist?).
2) You're an Officer (Dentist?), therefore drawing a Federal check, and just possibly more interested in keeping this shit going a bit longer than I am.
Other possibilities exist. Please advise.
Posted by: Irony at January 25, 2016 08:41 PM (qmMG2)
Speak english to shut the fuck up. Keep what going?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 25, 2016 08:42 PM (DUoqb)
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 08:11 PM (2x3L+)
Welcome to the state of many states. Michigan is the same. Detroit, Flint, and Pontiac ran this state for years. Drive five miles outside of any of them and you'll think you landed in the different universe as far as voters, attitudes, etc.
I found the same thing a few years ago on a trip to California. I was in Northern California and found many folks were , um, conservative. Hated what had happened to their state, the freaks in SF and LA have no understanding of the rest of the state at all.
The problem is one is outvoted by these locales.
Posted by: Jen the original at January 25, 2016 08:43 PM (TKQrK)
We need to decide real soon, like right now, if want to be sitting here exactly one year from now saying we'll have our revenge in 2018, woo hoo!! and continue to grasp on that silly hope that electing more better R's will help us.
On January 25, 2017, I don't want to be sitting here lamenting the swearing in of clinton, and wishing and hoping that the R's can hold the line. They can't and they won't.
Time for a new party.
Posted by: the guy who always divides people into typeswing plover at January 25, 2016 08:43 PM (cfrRc)
that's what's meant by it
also see Sarajevo Rules
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 25, 2016 08:43 PM (Cq0oW)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 25, 2016 08:32 PM (rwI+c)
No, Neo-Carthage.
I don't know what this means but it sounds like my dorking around on the internet time might be affected.
Posted by: eleven at January 25, 2016 08:43 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Miss80sBaby at January 25, 2016 08:35 PM (YjDyJ)
I don't think so. The Grand Parkway just opened 2 or so years ago from Katy to Fairfield. The segment from Fairfield to I-45 is still under construction and won't open until later this year.
What I'm talking about is since it's 1996 annexation, Kingwood development seems to have stagnated. *taps chin* Hmmm City of Houston ordinances perhaps?
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2016 08:43 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 08:44 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 25, 2016 08:44 PM (Cq0oW)
The Civil War was divided between North and South.....The Balkans were not divided like that.
Posted by: Puddleglum
Some states had the same sort of internal Balkanization. Bleeding Kansas and so on. And that whole "West" Virginia thing.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 25, 2016 08:45 PM (kdS6q)
Oh so that was not his first "off" comment? Why have I missed
Nothing new. And nothing "racist". As a matter of fact - I think you two support my position. Not the other way around.
Some people, regardless, will support the structures that ultimately lead to their demise - come hell or high water. And some people - regardless of the signs - will follow authority to hell ... but they won't make it back.
People that suggest to the contrary are "off". Or their comments are not "enjoyable".
You should have them banned.
Posted by: Irony at January 25, 2016 08:47 PM (qmMG2)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 25, 2016 08:45 PM (kdS6q)
And Maryland. DC vs Baltimore.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2016 08:47 PM (JO9+V)
that's what's meant by it
Time to take notes on how your neighbors vote.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at January 25, 2016 08:47 PM (TpR7w)
Posted by: Shiggz at January 25, 2016 08:48 PM (G7wcY)
Not a pleasant prospect at all.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 25, 2016 08:48 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 25, 2016 08:49 PM (W0RfD)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at January 25, 2016 08:47 PM (TpR7w)
Finding good neighbors is better.
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster at January 25, 2016 08:49 PM (uURQL)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 25, 2016 08:50 PM (DUoqb)
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 25, 2016 08:50 PM (MNgU2)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 25, 2016 08:49 PM (W0RfD)
Maybe or a reasonable facsimile
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 25, 2016 08:50 PM (DUoqb)
Does the left understand what they are doing?
George Orwell wrote about the left playing with fire and not even understanding that fire is hot.
Posted by: obnoxious ahole at January 25, 2016 08:41 PM (MpvuV)
Their worldview is based on opposition to objective reality, at least in the scale of human events. It all starts with an assumption that there is not and can be no objective truth in human relations and politics. From there, they then come to the conclusion that the success or failure of ideologies and causes is nothing but random chance. There is no good or bad. But then they see that Western Civilization has been succeeding since the Ancient Greeks first put pen to paper. This fills them with outrage. We have to be cheating, and cheaters have to be punished. Their idiotic worldview can come to no other conclusion.
They are not only playing with fire, in the political sense, but they believe that their fire is burn cream for a burnt world. The thing about objective truth is that ideas based on it succeed and succeed repeatably, so by rejecting the very concept of truth, they end up rejecting everything that works. They reject everything good and right in the world. They believe that they have to tear down everything that has succeeds constantly and repeatably so all of the "victims" of our success can have their "fair chance" which they believe has been denied.
In their idiotic fantasyland, Communism can work, and we're the reason it hasn't yet. In their appallingly stupid anti-philosophy, there's no difference between ISIS and the United States. Without good and evil, there is only false equivalence. When you reject truth, all you have left are lies and madness.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 25, 2016 08:51 PM (HalrA)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2016 08:52 PM (Z8fuk)
It's certainly a lot simpler and cleaner than the alternative.
In a Gettysburg scenario, there may be slaughter, but when one side wins, the fighting thereafter stops. Gettysburgs are definitive. Sarajevoes instead deliver all of the slaughter without the prompt and tidy resolution.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 25, 2016 08:52 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: the guy who always divides people into typeswing plover at January 25, 2016 08:52 PM (cfrRc)
I think I see puddy-tat!
"Perry was indicted . . . by a grand jury in Harris County, Texas (which includes Houston) for withholding funds for a statewide public integrity unit after the local district attorney, Rosemary Lehmberg, refused to resign for being caught driving under the influence of alcohol."
I do! I do see a puddy-tat!
Posted by: starboardhelm at January 25, 2016 08:52 PM (hOtJL)
Katy to Fairfield. The segment from Fairfield to I-45 is still under
construction and won't open until later this year.
I am referring to Section F2, which runs from 249 to 45. A number of businesses were already moving into the area (which is more upscale) and now they are constructing all those motels and hotels. Furthermore, the entire project benefits The Woodlands because it makes it easier for people on the West side to drive to The Woodlands. I also think The Woodlands proximity to Conroe is a factor.
Posted by: Miss80sBaby at January 25, 2016 08:53 PM (YjDyJ)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 25, 2016 08:54 PM (l6jrM)
"Perry was indicted . . . by a grand jury in Harris County, Texas (which includes Houston) for withholding funds for a statewide public integrity unit after the local district attorney, Rosemary Lehmberg, refused to resign for being caught driving under the influence of alcohol."
I do! I do see a puddy-tat!
Posted by: starboardhelm at January 25, 2016 08:52 PM (hOtJL)
Ah...so what is going on in that County?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 25, 2016 08:54 PM (DUoqb)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 25, 2016 08:54 PM (l6jrM)
You should feel lucky and honored
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 25, 2016 08:55 PM (DUoqb)
Posted by: Chris M at January 25, 2016 08:56 PM (6RZos)
It was Travis County that indicted Perry.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 25, 2016 08:56 PM (MNgU2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 25, 2016 08:56 PM (iHjB5)
Nope ... been here quite some time. I post regularly. Look it up.
But I do make points that aren't popular or approved. And that shit is usually barked down rather than argued down.
You know - like Authority Worshiping Progressives do.
I've said it before. Will say it again. Democrats and Republicans differ on the Ends. But the Means are so damn similar it's funny.
Criminal Immunity for the Military acting On Duty in Domestic situations ? Yeah ... that's a great fucking idea. Can't see where that's ever went wrong.
Good Fucking Grief.
Posted by: Irony at January 25, 2016 08:56 PM (qmMG2)
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crazy man! did you wear white pants maybe?
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 25, 2016 08:56 PM (Cq0oW)
I know. I was trying to keep something infinity complicated, simple.
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 25, 2016 08:56 PM (NGd+i)
It's going to be a police state targeting families who try and "opt out" of a corrupt system. They will be aided by an increasingly Orwellian technological advantage (gait scanners, facial recognition, micro drones)
The burning will not be a war or a series of battles, it's going to be more like the Holocaust.
Posted by: Max Power at January 25, 2016 08:57 PM (q177U)
So it's true.
A Prosecutor CAN get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at January 25, 2016 07:23 PM (Xo1Rt)
But not baby-back ribs!
Posted by: Joey Mengele at January 25, 2016 08:57 PM (8iiMU)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 25, 2016 08:58 PM (dBmVV)
And financed by the IRS
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 25, 2016 08:59 PM (FkBIv)
All day long at work dealing with the Takers directly and then reading
the news should make me suicidal but I can watch an episode of Bob's
Burgers ( right now) or anything that makes me laugh and all is good.
Thanks God.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 25, 2016 08:50 PM (MNgU2)
I used to have a job like that. In my opinion, the second you get a chance to jump at something that doesn't involve dealing with the Plunderers all day long, do it. Even if it means less money and belt-tightening. There's nothing you can get out of it that's worth putting up with it. It's not good for your mind to have a front row seat to just how badly you're getting screwed every day, for 8 hours a day. The TL;DR version is I did end up suicidal after a few years of it, but on the upside, it lead to me beating my depression and leaving the Florida version of Plunderville for greener pastures in Texas.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 25, 2016 08:59 PM (HalrA)
OT questions:
1. What do you consider "middle age?"
2. When you were a little kid, how old was middle age to you?
When I was a kid, people in their 40's were middle aged. When Vic was a kid, it was probably closer to 32.
Today I consider 50's middle aged.
Posted by: the guy who always divides people into typeswing plover at January 25, 2016 08:59 PM (cfrRc)
or like MLK who decried evil communism, but loved the idea of government "giving/assuring" everyone a high paying union job.
Those that aren't self reliant think a government should provide, out of fairness, and by force. They can't/won't connect the inevitable contradictions to the utopia, that arise when government forces one party to provide for another. It's always the other guy that isn't providing enough food, or high speed internet. They just want a little use of the hammer ... on the other guy.
Posted by: Illiniwek at January 25, 2016 09:00 PM (5Gpe2)
Where is Vic, btw?
Posted by: the guy who always divides people into typeswing plover at January 25, 2016 09:00 PM (cfrRc)
It's going to be a police state targeting families who try and "opt out" of a corrupt system. They will be aided by an increasingly Orwellian technological advantage (gait scanners, facial recognition, micro drones)
The burning will not be a war or a series of battles, it's going to be more like the Holocaust.
Posted by: Max Power at January 25, 2016 08:57 PM (q177U)
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And it will become the 'new normal,' and people will be uncomfortable with it at first. Then, they'll adjust to it, and then accept it, before expecting it.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 25, 2016 09:00 PM (/33sy)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 25, 2016 09:00 PM (AkOaV)
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They talk at times about a Social Contract, which they rewrite as they go, but they seem to think this chimera is a protective talisman.
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 25, 2016 09:00 PM (Cq0oW)
Posted by: Zombie Dick Nixon at January 25, 2016 09:00 PM (r3rgu)
Well yes, currently development in the area is exploding and can be attributed to the Grand Parkway. My point is that in the decade plus since annexation in 1996 and before the Grand Parkway project ever even started, Kingwood sorta stagnated compared to other areas. Annexation was not good for Kingwood.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2016 09:01 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: the guy who always divides people
It is. If you live to 100.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at January 25, 2016 09:01 PM (FkBIv)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 25, 2016 09:01 PM (AkOaV)
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at January 25, 2016 09:02 PM (1xUj/)
Posted by: the guy who always divides people into typeswing plover at January 25, 2016 09:02 PM (cfrRc)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 25, 2016 09:02 PM (DUoqb)
It's going to be a police state targeting families who try and "opt out" of a corrupt system. They will be aided by an increasingly Orwellian technological advantage (gait scanners, facial recognition, micro drones)
The burning will not be a war or a series of battles, it's going to be more like the Holocaust.
Posted by: Max Power at January 25, 2016 08:57 PM (q177U)
yep, insurgencies and counter-insurgencies...there will be no blue and grey uniforms, or pointing to a map and saying "there's the enemy". It will be a nightmare, but the Left cannot win.
What they want to destroy cannot be destroyed. What they want to build cannot be built. But they can create a shit-ton of misery.
Oh...and 4th generation warfare
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 25, 2016 09:02 PM (dBmVV)
Posted by: Max Power at January 25, 2016 08:57 PM (q177U)
The Holocaust only works on disarmed populations.
Disarming this population will immediately trigger Civil War 2.0.
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster at January 25, 2016 09:03 PM (uURQL)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 25, 2016 09:03 PM (DUoqb)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 25, 2016 09:03 PM (AkOaV)
And then Canada makes their move.
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 25, 2016 09:03 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 25, 2016 09:04 PM (KCxzN)
Be logically coherent or be gone.
Posted by: LadyS at January 25, 2016 09:04 PM (xYNhJ)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 25, 2016 09:04 PM (l6jrM)
I remember one gay activist in the early years of AIDS saying something along the lines of "It is the duty of medical science to cure diseases, not my duty to alter my lifestyle!" This is the same thing writ larger.
It makes me wish I was born 100 years ago. Not only would the future look inviting, but the music was a lot better. Downside: no internet. Upside: no internet.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 25, 2016 09:04 PM (B8JRQ)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 25, 2016 09:04 PM (rwI+c)
I surely do hope these issues can be addressed and solved through our political process.
I've advocated here for just that repeatedly.
Irony would be having that check I wrote to my country so long ago being cashed at this time in my life.
Posted by: irongrampa at January 25, 2016 09:04 PM (jeCnD)
Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 25, 2016 09:03 PM (rwI+c)
Their Manchurian candidate is still in the race!
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster at January 25, 2016 09:05 PM (uURQL)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 25, 2016 09:00 PM (/33sy)
and this is when a lot of cowardly Leftists get to start snitching on their neighbors for not praising the Emperor with quite enough enthusiasm at the block party. They always wanted to do that anyway...
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 25, 2016 09:05 PM (dBmVV)
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 25, 2016 09:05 PM (Cq0oW)
It's going to be a police state targeting families who try and "opt out" of a corrupt system. They will be aided by an increasingly Orwellian technological advantage (gait scanners, facial recognition, micro drones)
The burning will not be a war or a series of battles, it's going to be more like the Holocaust.
Posted by: Max Power at January 25, 2016 08:57 PM (q177U) "
Exactly. Technologies are being deployed every day that Orwell's Thinkpol could never have even dreamed of. When the State gets them all integrated, kiss freedom of opinion and liberty goodbye.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 25, 2016 09:05 PM (erRNA)
Posted by: eleven at January 25, 2016 09:05 PM (qUNWi)
Those
that aren't self reliant think a government should provide, out of
fairness, and by force. They can't/won't connect the inevitable
contradictions to the utopia, that arise when government forces one
party to provide for another. It's always the other guy that isn't
providing enough food, or high speed internet. They just want a little
use of the hammer ... on the other guy.
Posted by: Illiniwek at January 25, 2016 09:00 PM (5Gpe2)
Bastiat had a pretty good handle on it, with describing that mankind could only live by two means, and those were Property and Plunder. When you don't have as clear a vision of the means by which people live, you lose sight of the fact that "giving people free stuff" means taking the fruits of one man's labor and giving it to another unearned.
Or to put it another way, being charitable with somebody else's money is not virtue, it is dressing thievery in the clothes of righteousness.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 25, 2016 09:05 PM (HalrA)
No stinking recusals in Wonderland, it seems.
Can you buy tar and feathers on Amazon?
Posted by: dissent555 at January 25, 2016 09:06 PM (GdgAM)
Posted by: dissent555 at January 25, 2016 09:06 PM (GdgAM)
We'll know the future is here when we can deliver tar and feathers by remote drone over the Internets.
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster at January 25, 2016 09:07 PM (uURQL)
be uncomfortable with it at first. Then, they'll adjust to it, and then
accept it, before expecting it.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at January 25, 2016 09:00 PM (/33sy)
You're right about that. One thing a lot of people underestimate is the extent to which evil can become a mundane fact of life. The Soviet, Nazi, Maoist, Khmer, and so many other Socialist regimes were proof of just how that can happen, and in such a short time. Things that would have been unthinkable years before suddenly became routine, because nobody believed they could fight it.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 25, 2016 09:08 PM (HalrA)
Posted by: MostlyRight at January 25, 2016 09:08 PM (IouVP)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 25, 2016 09:09 PM (Z8fuk)
Mr. White's Little Girl: ABDL Ageplay Erotica
Posted by: The Great White Snark at January 25, 2016 09:09 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: dissent555 at January 25, 2016 09:06 PM
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If we can, just remember to use the Ace link.
Posted by: L, Elle at January 25, 2016 09:09 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 25, 2016 09:09 PM (erRNA)
Posted by: LadyS at January 25, 2016 09:04 PM (xYNhJ)
Succinct, and I like the way you think. Even when we disagree, we should have logically coherent reasons for believing as we do. We got to the mess we're in by means of moral inconsistency, and it has cost us dear. That's a habit we need to drop like it's on fire.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 25, 2016 09:10 PM (HalrA)
That happened before my time, so I would need to do more research. I will say that, compared to The Woodlands, Kingwood is "trapped". You have Humble and Atascocita as well as Bush Intercontinental and Lake Houston.
Posted by: Miss80sBaby at January 25, 2016 09:10 PM (YjDyJ)
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i used to think so.
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at January 25, 2016 09:05 PM (Cq0oW)
Or perhaps we'll go along to get along and restrict gun purchases to veterans (because of the potential of PTSD) as a reasonable compromise.
And next we'll...
Posted by: Hrothgar at January 25, 2016 09:13 PM (wYnyS)
Posted by: eleven at January 25, 2016 09:05 PM (qUNWi)
I'm "middle-aged" if I live to 120.
Posted by: M3tal H3ad at January 25, 2016 09:14 PM (cmE8J)
I don't think I could trigger it by myself but they aren't taking my guns without a fight.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at January 25, 2016 09:16 PM (MNgU2)
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at January 25, 2016 09:16 PM (HalrA)
A LEO who's "just doing his job" will dutifully execute the warrant. Will y'all hope "he just makes it home to his family at night, because that's all that matters" ?
Because ... you know who else had that slavish loyalty to authority ?
1930s Germany.
Posted by: Irony at January 25, 2016 07:31 PM (qmMG2)
That reminds me of the the horrible death my great -uncle suffered at Auschwitz. He died during a attempted prison escape. I still can hear the screams as he fell to his death from the gun tower.
Posted by: Ed Schultz at January 25, 2016 09:17 PM (r3rgu)
Anyways, interesting discussion. Thanks!
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2016 09:17 PM (JO9+V)
Go another 20 min South and West, and you'll find Santa Fe, TX. It is very highly, stereotypically Texan and if you differ with 'em on that, why, they'll just shoot your sorry ass.
Most of Santa Fe is acerage homes, with about 15% normal "surburbia" type developments.
Big chunk of the population there are oilfield and refinery workers, from production to highly degreed engineers. But, all of a type.
Texans. And they'll shoot yer sorry ass.
My condolences to Houston, for being Houston.
Not that Galveston is much better. It too, is terminally infected by the FSA crowd. We almost got rid of 'em after Hurricane Ike, but several years of their very well funded lawfare, paid for by an endless stream of out of state Big Government, Rent Seeking developers and grifters...... well, they won, we're stuck with 'em, and I plan to move out of here in just over a year, when the house is paid free and clear.
Time for me to buy another sailboat, and get some salt water under my keel again, this time, for good.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at January 25, 2016 09:21 PM (McRlu)
I believe that the proper response from the legislature should be to either allow the unincorporated parts of Harris County to incorporate, making them safe from annexation or the legislature should force them all into Houston at once.
Posted by: obnoxious ahole at January 25, 2016 08:29 PM (MpvuV)
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Texas has a lot of screwy laws and the state legislates a lot of shiite. There is also a lot of 'local interest' crap in the state constitution. If anyone ever begins their own state, do not use Texas as an organizational model - unless you want a mess.
Posted by: RioBravo at January 25, 2016 09:26 PM (NUqwG)
George Orwell wrote about the left playing with fire and not even understanding that fire is hot.
Posted by: obnoxious ahole at January 25, 2016 08:41 PM (MpvuV)
The Pathetic Left understands exactly what it is doing. They are trying to destroy us.
Posted by: Blano at January 25, 2016 09:31 PM (3eoPa)
They can't have anyone threaten the tool of abortion, because it would cause problems for their Caligula-esque mindset.
You could show them fetuses in a womb saying "Please don't kill me!" in perfect sign language and they'd still say, "That doesn't mean anything! It's a lump of cells!"
They will never let abortion be called into question, because it would mean changing their sexual ethic (if you can call it that).
Posted by: RKae at January 25, 2016 09:43 PM (Wt4BP)
Posted by: Titanium at January 25, 2016 09:52 PM (u9UgT)
all IRS agents ?
Posted by: Jeff at January 25, 2016 10:07 PM (4fD+6)
Posted by: lindafell de spair at January 25, 2016 10:55 PM (xVgrA)
Posted by: Tmitsss at January 25, 2016 10:58 PM (Pa9vP)
Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 25, 2016 07:34 PM (1Wyg2)
I live in a northern suburb and even though I grew up in Dallas, you couldn't pay me to live there now, except in a few isolated neighborhoods that I can't afford. It's falling apart quickly.
Dallas is run by a coalition of wealthy GOP establishment developers and race mongers.
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