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The troll is completed in Pease Park. How long until some deranged, repeat offender, homeless dude burns it down? I give it a year.

Rahm's Masters dinner menu.

What I find surprising is with the big business of privatizing jails, I thought an enterprising jail building and running business owner would've donated copious amounts of money to our elected officials to build more jails for jail based competency restoration programs. That alone should grease the wheels for some sort of reform.

Bozo is right. The system is fucked and citizens are the most fucked. Bend over and take it, no lube. Crazies have free reign to do whatever the fuck they want. What I want is more Jail Based Competency Restoration, or just more whatever facility to get these fuckheads off the streets. Here's a long law review on Incompetent to Stand Trial. https://texastechlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/TTLR-Vol.-55-Book-1.Mitchell-Snead.PUBLISHED.pdf Here's an article which summarizes the issue. It's about Montana but I imagine it's the same for Texas. https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/mental-illness-dropped-charges-competency-care/

Why did you stab that person and maim him for life? Because I'm crazy. When do I get out of jail? Thanks, Garza.

Revolving door for criminals, if you are crazy, which basically is our homeless population. The city/county attorneys are fine with letting them back on the street, repeatedly. Fuck both Garzas. City/county services can't address the matter appropriately. So it's the fucking citizens and business owners who get fucked, repeatedly, in all of it. The asshole committed a crime. He needs to do the time. I don't give a shit if he's crazy or not. There are thousands of reasons why fuckheads commit crime. I don't give a fuck what the reason is. Why should crazy be the magic get out of jail card. If you repeatedly commit crimes, you belong in prison. Put his ass in prison until a bed in the loony bin opens up. Fuck both Garzas! https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/gap-in-the-system-addressing-crime-suspects-mental-health-in-travis-county/ AUSTIN (KXAN) — Craig Staley, the owner of Royal Blue Grocery, a local downtown grocery chain, said a man who has been in and out of jail has put him out about $20,000 in window repairs. Staley said the man has repeatedly broken into his store, even after getting arrested for the alleged crime multiple times. The courts have found this suspect perpetually incompetent to stand trial. We are not identifying the man because of the mental health component involved. Police told KXAN the man is experiencing homelessness. According to court records, the charges keep getting dismissed. The Travis County District Attorney’s Office said people found incompetent and unlikely to restore cannot be prosecuted for a crime. “It’s terribly frustrating, and to know that it’s going to happen again,” Staley said. Smith said there’s a mental health screening for everyone who comes into the jail. From there, staff will refer people they have competency concerns about to the courts. If a person is deemed incompetent to stand trial, they’ll be put on a waitlist to go to the state hospital. Travis County’s director of inmate mental health programs addresses what he calls a gap in the system. (KXAN photo/Brianna Hollis) “That process is quite lengthy, it could take up to two years to get to a bed,” Smith said. District Attorney Jose Garza’s office explained that this is different if the case involves someone who’s unlikely to restore their competence. “Individuals found to be incompetent and unlikely to regain competence certainly need treatment and other services, but they cannot be expected to receive this support through the criminal justice process. Therefore, it is crucial for government and non-profit organizations to collaborate and enhance mental health services in our community,” Garza’s office said in a statement. MOST READ: When, how to plant bluebonnets in your Texas yard Smith said the challenges his staff face on this front are due in part to what he called a lack of community resources. He said he also can’t force someone to get treatment who the courts haven’t required to do so. “Unless that person is a danger to self or others though they can decline those services and walk away and that’s often the case,” he said. Smith added that it also be difficult to intercept inmates with mental health needs to make that initial contact before the inmates get released, contributing to the revolving door aspect. “It’s a challenge with people coming in and out very quickly. Often, times people will come into booking overnight, then we interview first thing in the morning, and then within hours we’re getting a list that they’re being released, so providing services for them is very challenging, especially if you’re dealing with things like homelessness,” Smith said.

They need to catch this piece of shit, castrate him, and feed him his balls. Stabbed twin females, killed one of them, because one of them rejected his advances. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/one-dead-one-seriously-injured-twin-sisters-stabbed-new-york-deli-rcna143822

One disappeared in a very popular city for tourists around the country. The other disappeared in Corpus Christi, a somewhat popular city for Texas tourists.

An incredible story. Glad she didn't die but damn. Well worth the read. https://www.kuow.org/stories/cougar-attack-washington-state-cyclists An autopsy of the wild cat revealed it was between nine months to a year old. It was healthy, and its body showed no signs of physical distress. It did not have rabies. Why the wild cat attacked Bergere will remain unknown. The autopsy solved one mystery, however: Where Bergere's earring disappeared to. Sgt. Carlo Pace of Washington Fish & Wildlife Police asked Bergere if she was missing an earring. They had found one in the cougar's belly. Did she want it back? Sgt. Pace asked. “Absolutely,” she said. Bergere said she would hang it, as a souvenir of sorts, and a testament to her friends’ courage. “All these ladies came up with superhuman strength,” she said. “They’re teeny ladies, and I know that the Fish & Wildlife shot the final shot to kill it. But these ladies killed that cougar with their bare hands and no weapons. I’m eternally grateful to each one of them.”

Cause dumb motherfuckers love strip malls and suburban hell.

Good news keeps rolling for Boeing. https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-737-max-ed-pierson-whistleblower-recognized-model-plane-boarding-2024-3 A Boeing whistleblower said he was meant to take a domestic flight last year but ended up leaving the plane before takeoff because he refused to travel on a Boeing 737 Max. Ed Pierson, a former senior manager at Boeing, told CNN he was set to fly from Seattle to New Jersey with Alaska Airlines. He said he made sure to select a flight that didn't use a Boeing 737 Max. Pierson's flight was in 2023 — before the January Alaska Airlines door-plug blowout. "I walked onto the plane — I thought, it's kind of new," Pierson said. "Then I sat down, and on the emergency card it said it was a Max." He quickly got off the plane just as a flight attendant was closing the front door, he said. Pierson told CNN that he managed to book an Alaska red-eye flight leaving that evening that wasn't on a Max. He said he had to spend the day at the airport but it was worth it. Alaska Airlines didn't immediately respond to a request for comment about the apparent last-minute change of aircraft. Boeing didn't immediately respond to a request for comment regarding Pierson's account. Pierson previously told the Los Angeles Times that he would "absolutely not" fly on a 737 Max because of safety concerns. Pierson worked at Boeing between 2008 and 2018. He has said that during his time working at Boeing's 737 factory in Renton, Washington, he witnessed overworked employees, parts shortages, and quality issues, which he said made the planes produced by the factory unsafe. He said he recommended to the company's leadership that it close down production at the factory but it ignored his requests. He testified to Congress in 2019 about production in the factory after two Max 8 crashes in October 2018 and March 2019 killed nearly 350 people — all the passengers and crew on board. Also: Is he now a "celebrity" since he's on the news? And can I add him to the celebrity death watch, suicide of course.

I posted this article in the Failed State thread but it's apropos this thread too. https://www-dallasnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2024/03/14/defeated-republican-calls-texas-state-government-the-most-corrupt-ever/?outputType=amp&amp_js_v=0.1&amp_gsa=1#webview=1 Q: When you say “corruption at the highest level,” what do you mean? Rogers: Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks are the two most powerful men in state politics. And they’ve created a compliant Senate for the most part. And they’re seeking to have a compliant House. The election results go a long way to a compliant House. That should be very alarming to Texans. Having a few billionaires have that much control over state government is not the Texas way or the American way. They finally spent enough money and told enough lies to defeat me. You wrote that aside from privatizing public schools, the billionaires want to turn America into a theocracy. Rogers: Lord knows we need God today with all the problems we have. But we don’t need these radical Christian nationalists’ beliefs that are really dangerous to democracy and religious freedom.

Reading some of these posts reminds me of reading texags threads about junction boys aggie and redasses lamenting about how the younger generation aglets aren't redass enough. Texas and aggie, they definitely are states of mind. But they I remember that this state is has firmly embedded its mindset with aggie mindset and it all makes sense.

I have no desire to live in any of the places you listed. I was mainly thinking of the entire mid-west region: Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and the Dakotas.

That pesky electoral college system which gives more power to BFE states where no one wants to fucking live except people who are too stupid to be able to leave.

MAGAts are the dumbest people on the planet.

you just pissed off the whole gaggle of tesla fanbois.

Incompetent to stand trial. https://www.fox7austin.com/news/machete-attack-teen-suspect-incompetent-auditorium-shores-lady-bird-lake Also, the West Campus stabbing, well one of the West Campus stabbings, the stabber was also found incompetent. https://www.kxan.com/news/crime/man-deemed-incompetent-in-june-2023-west-campus-stabbing/

This is how fucking stupid the elected douchebags think their voters are. They pass a basically unenforceable law. Their fake christian dipshit voters masturbate to the idea of saving children from watching porn and again vote the douchebags to stay in office.

Gubment bad. But let me give all my personal info to the gubment to watch porn so the gubment can protect the yewts. I want to see a leaked list of the fucking idiots who sign up for this shit.

Montgomery Ward's bra section satiated my youth.