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MGM gonna MGM MGM Resorts appears to be charging $15 extra per room, per night if the room was reserved through a human. The charge will show up on your final receipt upon checkout, where it’s called an 'ICE Contact Center Fee.'" Casino.org reported. The fee does not apply for people who book through the company's online reservation system.

They ditched it for something like "You know we're RIGHT!"

Husband admits adding cocaine, MDMA to wife's Cokes in hopes he would marry her daughter An Indiana man admitted to putting a poisonous "off-white powdery substance" into his wife's Coca-Cola so he could kill her and marry her daughter, according to state court records. Alfred Ruf, 71, pleaded guilty to aggravated battery in July for trying to poison his wife. He was sentenced on Monday to four years in prison and five years of probation, Indiana court records show. Ruf told officers in January 2022 that he had been "spiking" his wife's drinks over the last few months with a substance given to him by his wife's daughter, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by USA TODAY. Ruf's wife, who called the Wayne County Sheriff's Department and told them about her husband's actions, gave the responding deputy a pill bottle that contained the unknown powdery substance, the affidavit says. She also gave the deputy a Coca-Cola aluminum can that she drank and cut open. At the bottom of the can was an "off-white residue," the document continued. Another deputy took Ruf's wife to a hospital where she tested positive for having MDMA, cocaine and Benzodiazepines (Benzo's) in her blood and urine, according to the affidavit. She denied using the drugs, the document says. "Once the state changed the nature of the offense, he took responsibility for what he did wrong," John Lawrence Tompkins, Ruf's defense attorney, told USA TODAY on Tuesday. "That's the appropriate thing to do." When deputies interviewed a then-69-year-old Ruf at the sheriff's office in January 2022, he told them that he was sexually involved with his wife's 31-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, the affidavit says. He then explained that his wife's daughter gave him the pill bottle with the powdery substance in September 2021 and instructed him to put it in her mother's drink, the court document continued. Ruf was the only person charged in connection with the crimes. Ruf told the deputies that the drug cocktail would make his wife go to sleep for "13 hours or so," the affidavit says. He also confessed that he put the drugs in the drink to "eventually kill (her)," according to the document. The daughter and her female friend would call and tell Ruf to give the drugs to his wife, he told the deputies, per the affidavit. "Alfred would then sprinkle some of the white powder in (his wife's) Coca-Cola can and then wait for her to fall asleep," the affidavit says. "(The women) would then come to Alfred's residence and put more of an unknown substance in (Ruf's wife's) drink and have her drink it." Once Ruf's wife was asleep, her daughter and her daughter's friend would put on a "show" for Ruf, according to the affidavit. The show involved the two women putting on Ruf's wife's negligees and then performing "sex acts on each other," the court document continues. Ruf also told authorities that while he was having sex with his wife's daughter or her friend, one of the women would steal some of his wife's personal items. He also admitted to paying the women to perform sex acts, the affidavit says. The victim's daughter told Ruf she wanted to "get mom out of the picture" once she found out they were selling their home, according to the affidavit. The victim's daughter also mentioned a life insurance policy to Ruf that her mother had in place, the court document says. Ruf confirmed to deputies that he gave his wife the powdery substance 12 times from September through December 2021, the affidavit says. He also told deputies the victim's daughter said she and Ruf would get married after they "took care" of his wife, according to the court filing. Although Ruf acknowledged that he knew the drugs would eventually kill his wife, he also said he gave her the substance just so her daughter and her daughter's friend could come over and have sex with him, according to the affidavit. Ruf came clean to his wife because he "felt bad," he told deputies, per the affidavit. The last line is why I know it wasn't anybody from here.

I am a member of the politely knock on the door and get boarded club. Our luggage didn't make it until the next day, but we made the flight. That was the trip that convinced me to be carryon only. But, it was a LONG time ago.

I had to get back to Seattle by a certain date or I was AWOL. Made it with 6 hours to spare. No shit about the rain though. It was the worst in BFE Southern desert between Lordsburg, NM and Tucson, AZ. Lightened up across Mohave, Bakersfield and then I got to Stockton, hit 5 and the rain came back with a fucking vengeance. Stopped in Weed tired and soaking wet, got a mercy bowl of stew from a cafe waitress, meanwhile her boyfriend stole my boombox off my bike. So no tunes for the last 500 miles. At least it stopped raining when I got to Portland. But, umm, she's verified okay, right?

fify They also have the license plate reader network to fill in the blanks.

I did Ft Worth - Seattle in 4 days in February on a Suzuki 750. Took basically the same route with a few desert shortcuts. It rained from El Paso to Portland.

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-tangle-cobwebs/ In June, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) signed an acquisition plan for a 5-year, nearly $5.3 million contract for a controversial surveillance tool called Tangles from tech firm PenLink, according to records obtained by the Texas Observer through a public information request. The deal is nearly twice as large as the company’s $2.7 million two-year contract with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Tangles is an artificial intelligence-powered web platform that scrapes information from the open, deep, and dark web. Tangles’ premier add-on feature, WebLoc, is controversial among digital privacy advocates. Any client who purchases access to WebLoc can track different mobile devices’ movements in a specific, virtual area selected by the user, through a capability called “geofencing.” Users of software like Tangles can do this without a search warrant or subpoena. (In a high-profile ruling, the Fifth Circuit recently held that police cannot compel companies like Google to hand over data obtained through geofencing.) Device-tracking services rely on location pings and other personal data pulled from smartphones, usually via in-app advertisers. Surveillance tech companies then buy this information from data brokers and sell access to it as part of their products. WebLoc can even be used to access a device’s mobile ad ID, a string of numbers and letters that acts as a unique identifier for mobile devices in the ad marketing ecosystem, according to a US Office of Naval Intelligence procurement notice. DPS’ Intelligence and Counterterrorism division has used Tangles since 2021, as first reported by The Intercept. The agency first purchased the software as part of Governor Greg Abbott’s multi-billion dollar Operation Lone Star border crackdown, doling out an initial $200,000 contract as an “emergency award” with no public solicitation. Each year since, DPS has expanded the contract: In 2022, it paid $300,000, and in 2023, more than $400,000, according to contracting records on DPS’ website. The agency’s new plan for a 5-year Tangles license, from 2024 through 2029, will cost about $1 million per year. In its acquisition plan, DPS states that Intelligence and Counterterrorism division personnel need the tool to “identify and disrupt potential domestic terrorism and other mass casualty threats.” The plan references two Texas mass shootings. In August 2019, a racist white man from Allen killed 23 at a Walmart in El Paso. A few weeks later, a different perpetrator went on a deadly shooting in Midland and Odessa. The plan does not mention the 2022 Uvalde school shooting, when 91 DPS officers formed part of a massive botched law enforcement response. “Following the attacks in El Paso and Midland-Odessa Governor Abbott issued several executive orders designed to prevent similar events,” the acquisition plan obtained by the Observer states. “In response to these orders, DPS [Intelligence and Counterterrorism division] dedicated staff to identify potential mass attackers and terrorist threats.” It is unclear how DPS has used Tangles or whether the software has helped stop any potential mass shootings. DPS did not respond to written questions or an interview request for this story. tl/dr: DPS has entered into a $5.3 million contract to a private firm which collects your location data from your cell phone. So how did the firm get the data? You've agreed to provide to the data to certain apps and the maker of those apps sold it to them. That firm took that data and created its own geo-fencing data which DPS wants. No warrant required.

Little plumbers is the preferred nomenclature.

You don't pull the mask off the Lone Ranger

Can't find it, but I watched an interview with Bill Lawrence yesterday and he said Lasso was never intended to only run 3 seasons and the last episode wasn't written as a finale.

Do not fuck with a Master Thespian.

He did not Sikh that coming.

To be fair, the train was the fire engine.

C'mon man, this is SO Chicago. We got a QB, we got a Coach! This is the year! Liev Schreiber: The quarterback... wore nail polish. While 'Flus did a makeover to his looks, the look in the field hasn't changed.

It's really a miracle they didn't kill each other. Hammond came close.