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  1. 8 hours ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    People are strange re: “Let me recite this whole weird song down to the lyrics that O’Kavanaugh for sure sang when I was a nerd and he was a cool kid, but I mean, those aren’t the exact lyrics because remembering them 40 years later is weird, but that’s the gist of it!”

    O’Kavanaugh seems like he sucks and not because he was a normal cool high school kid or because someone accused him of rape or assault which he likely didn’t do. I wish someone else would be nominated but this is who we have. RIP dignity and decorum!

    I'm pretty sure Kavanaugh wasn't a cool kid.  He might have thought he was cool, and those douches he hung out with thought he was cool, but he comes across as a pretty insecure bully whose family had pretty deep pockets to keep paying for his partying.  After reading the statement of his father, I can understand why he grew up to be how he is. 

     

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  2. 9 minutes ago, deadshank said:

    It was investigated and reported by  The Texas Observer which has a pretty good reputation for investigative reporting.

    Yeah, i didn't read the whole article.  I haven't seen anywhere else where this went? 

    Apparently it fizzled out due to local concerns:

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    In the 1980s, Segundo Barrio was considered a "rough neighborhood."[14]

    Flooding in 2006 affected Segundo Barrio. The area was evacuated temporarily in August 2006.[15] A historic building which dated from 1910, the Casitas del Norte Apartments were damaged by the flooding and subsequently renovated by the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG).[16]

    In 2010, the City of El Paso devised a Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy.[17] The strategy was known locally as "El Plan," and was written up initially by the Paso del Norte Group.[10] The plan was intended to help "address El Segundo's substandard housing as well as its high levels of unemployment," however, the plan also advised demolishing many historic and important cultural buildings.[1] The City would use eminent domain to take property in Segundo Barrio.[10] Approximately 168 acres were slated to be destroyed and about 157 acres would be designated as historic areas.[10] The public was furious, creating a group called Land Grab Opponents of El Paso.[18] The outcry against destroying buildings in Segundo Barrio caused the city to change its plans.[18]

    PBS video on El Segundo Barrio

  3. 9 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
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    Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos told the Houston Chronicle that the state's voter rolls have grown by 1.6 million since the last midterm election in 2014   Election records show that Texas has seen a 400,000-voter increase since March. The state on average added just over 100,000 voters a year between 2002 and 2014.

    Yeah, you know that most of those 1.6 million who have signed up recently have done so because of the Beto campaign.  Most of those who will be voting red already are registered. 

    People are starting to realize their vote can matter.

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  4. 21 minutes ago, M12BH said:

    I'm the one in the pink

    .  42846171_10217469578360189_3634629087990

    You go, girl! 

    Honestly I sit on an island over here in rural East Texas, an island surrounded by Trumpkins.  On top of that some of my old friends are full blown Qtards now.  I come here to seek and find like minded people.  Watching a lot of you wake up and get behind Beto has been very encouraging, and I appreciate both the venue to discuss our enthusiasm,. and those like M12BH who keep a running narrative of their activities, what they are seeing and doing.  People talking about donating or attending events.  An excellent synergy. 

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  5. 2 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
    2 hours ago, Message Board User said:
    I’d bet that approximately 98% of GOP voters don’t even know who George Soros is, other than they’ve been told he’s someone to be scared of.

    I pay relatively close attention to politics and i only kinda sorta know who he is. He's become quite the bogeyman for the pubs

    I admit, I knew very little of Soros, only just what a Qtard I know spewed at me once.  

    So I wiki'ed him and he has quite a track record of pushing progressive agendas across the globe. 

    Apparently he fell out of grace with the pubs when he vowed to get shrub out of office and put some money behind that.   Seems his point was that the War on Terror was not the best way to go about being the biggest and best nation.   Fox News, particularly O'Reilly started the ball rolling and then Q picked it up later.   Their main thing against him is that he pushes one world government, thus diminishing the power of the US.  At least that is what my Qtard posits.

    The guy has quite a list of accomplishments and philanthropy.  I might not know enough about him to debate my Qtard, but i know enough now to not give much credence to anything the right says about him.

  6. I doubt seriously that Beto wants to stop the oil train.  I have never heard him say anything about it other than it is important to Texas.  I would wager he would want stringent regulations on the industry to protect the environment as well as us.  

    On the other hand I have seen him talk about renewable energy systems as a new source of jobs as well as energy. 

    So why not both?  Continue fracking, but do it under closer supervision.  More jobs created in the supervision end as well as the preventative end.   More jobs created in renewable energy projects too.  

    Cruz won't talk about renewables, I suppose because they feel it will immediately kill off O&G.  Or that is the scary picture they are painting. 

    But then the pubs are running more on fear than hope these days. 

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  7. I  think he's going to be so neck deep in the fallout from the Trump Organization and its shady dealings, the tax returns will be a moot point.  The thing that is going to get him will be when he is exposed as considerably less than a billionaire.  That will sink him. 

  8. It's almost more a competition between the PACs and the regular people.  We keep hitting goals, it's got to be putting a dent in the confidence of the red party.

     

    We need something to come out to quiet Q, they keep crowing about red november.

  9. 26 minutes ago, tantric superman said:

    correct nomenclature is "....at Floore's Country Store".  Or "at Floore's.  Not "the Floore Country Store".

    At least I think.

    Yeah, John T Floore was the orginal owner.  Not sure if he is still around.  We seldom made it over there, the Farmer's Daughter was closer for us. 

  10. On 9/28/2018 at 1:21 PM, RPM said:

    I've been meeting with the President of Chile. Beautiful country. We've been discussing very important things. I like beans. Do you like beans? Of course you would, I mean your from there, beautiful country. Beans. /Trump

    I think he is confused

    original-chili-with-beans-57559.png

  11. 3 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/i-knew-brett-kavanaugh-during-his-years-republican-operative-don-ncna907391

    I used to know Brett Kavanaugh pretty well. And, when I think of Brett now, in the midst of his hearings for a lifetime appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, all I can think of is the old "Aesop's Fables" adage: "A man is known by the company he keeps."

    And that's why I want to tell any senator who cares about our democracy: Vote no.

    Twenty years ago, when I was a conservative movement stalwart, I got to know Brett Kavanaugh both professionally and personally.

    Brett actually makes a cameo appearance in my memoir of my time in the GOP, "Blinded By The Right." I describe him at a party full of zealous young conservatives gathered to watch President Bill Clinton's 1998 State of the Union address — just weeks after the story of his affair with a White House intern had broken. When the TV camera panned to Hillary Clinton, I saw Brett — at the time a key lieutenant of Ken Starr, the independent counsel investigating various Clinton scandals — mouth the word "bitch."

    But there's a lot more to know about Kavanaugh than just his Pavlovian response to Hillary's image. Brett and I were part of a close circle of cold, cynical and ambitious hard-right operatives being groomed by GOP elders for much bigger roles in politics, government and media. And it’s those controversial associations that should give members of the Senate and the American public serious pause.

    Call it Kavanaugh's cabal: There was his colleague on the Starr investigation, Alex Azar, now the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Mark Paoletta is now chief counsel to Vice President Mike Pence; House anti-Clinton gumshoe Barbara Comstock is now a Republican member of Congress. Future Fox News personalities Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson were there with Ann Coulter, now a best-selling author, and internet provocateur Matt Drudge.

    At one time or another, each of them partied at my Georgetown townhouse amid much booze and a thick air of cigar smoke.

    In a rough division of labor, Kavanaugh played the role of lawyer — one of the sharp young minds recruited by the Federalist Society to infiltrate the federal judiciary with true believers. Through that network, Kavanaugh was mentored by D.C. Appeals Court Judge Laurence Silberman, known among his colleagues for planting leaks in the press for partisan advantage.

    When, as I came to know, Kavanaugh took on the role of designated leaker to the press of sensitive information from Starr's operation, we all laughed that Larry had taught him well. (Of course, that sort of political opportunism by a prosecutor is at best unethical, if not illegal.)

    Another compatriot was George Conway (now Kellyanne's husband), who led a secretive group of right-wing lawyers — we called them "the elves" — who worked behind the scenes directing the litigation team of Paula Jones, who had sued Clinton for sexual harassment. I knew then that information was flowing quietly from the Jones team via Conway to Starr's office — and also that Conway's go-to man was none other than Brett Kavanaugh.

    That critical flow of inside information allowed Starr, in effect, to set a perjury trap for Clinton, laying the foundation for a crazed national political crisis and an unjust impeachment over a consensual affair.

    But the cabal's godfather was Ted Olson, the then-future solicitor general for George W. Bush and now a sainted figure of the GOP establishment (and of some liberals for his role in legalizing same-sex marriage). Olson had a largely hidden role as a consigliere to the "Arkansas Project" — a multi-million dollar dirt-digging operation on the Clintons, funded by the eccentric right-wing billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife and run through The American Spectator magazine, where I worked at the time.

    Both Ted and Brett had what one could only be called an unhealthy obsession with the Clintons — especially Hillary. While Ted was pushing through the Arkansas Project conspiracy theories claiming that Clinton White House lawyer and Hillary friend Vincent Foster was murdered (he committed suicide), Brett was costing taxpayers millions by pedaling the same garbage at Starr's office.

    A detailed analysis of Kavanaugh's own notes from the Starr Investigation reveals he was cherry-picking random bits of information from the Starr investigation — as well as the multiple previous investigations — attempting vainly to legitimize wild right-wing conspiracies. For years he chased down each one of them without regard to the emotional cost to Foster’s family and friends, or even common decency.

    Kavanaugh was not a dispassionate finder of fact but rather an engineer of a political smear campaign. And after decades of that, he expects people to believe he's changed his stripes.

    Like millions of Americans this week, I tuned into Kavanaugh's hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee with great interest. In his opening statement and subsequent testimony, Kavanaugh presented himself as a "neutral and impartial arbiter" of the law. Judges, he said, were not players but akin to umpires — objectively calling balls and strikes. Again and again, he stressed his "independence" from partisan political influences.

    But I don't need to see any documents to tell you who Kavanaugh is — because I've known him for years. And I'll leave it to all the lawyers to parse Kavanaugh's views on everything from privacy rights to gun rights. But I can promise you that any pretense of simply being a fair arbiter of the constitutionality of any policy regardless of politics is simply a pretense. He made up his mind nearly a generation ago — and, if he's confirmed, he'll have nearly two generations to impose it upon the rest of us.

    I had to go look up who David Brock was.   Looks pretty credible to me.

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    David Brock (born July 23, 1962[1]) is an American liberal political consultant, author, and commentator who founded the media watchdog group Media Matters for America.[2] He has been described by Time as "one of the most influential operatives in the Democratic Party" while others believe his tactics led to Hillary Clinton's defeat in the 2016 presidential election.[3]

    Brock began his career as a right-wing investigative reporter during the 1990s.[4] He wrote the book The Real Anita Hill and the Troopergate story, which led to Paula Jones filing a lawsuit against Bill Clinton. In the late-1990s, he switched sides, aligning himself with the Democratic Party and in particular with Bill and Hillary Clinton.

    In 2004, he founded Media Matters for America, a non-profit organization which describes itself as a "progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media".[5] He has since also founded super PACs called American Bridge 21st Century and Correct the Record, has become a board member of the super PAC Priorities USA Action and has been elected chairman of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).[6][7]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brock

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