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I think that it’s now safe to say that we Texans now live in a failed state.  30 years of GOP rule, setting our own standard, living the “Texas Dream,” which they’ve bragged about relentlessly…and let

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Young voters have to rise up and take this state back …..  

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We had three miscarriages between our first and second child, two of which were late and required D&Cs. Without them there's almost no chance we could have had been able to have a second. Fuck any

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1 minute ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

just got notice that the state registration and inspection requirements go away at the end of the year. but still required Dallas, Houston, Austin and eventually SA. gonna be a lot more broken down cars along the interstate. lovely.


 

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5 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

just got notice that the state registration and inspection requirements go away at the end of the year. but still required Dallas, Houston, Austin and eventually SA. gonna be a lot more broken down cars along the interstate. lovely.

years ago worked with this very conservative/libertarian type. He complained to no end about the inspection and smog check being unconstitutional. Of course, his pos car spewed smoke and I guessed he added a pint of oil per week. One day he shared a story that he spent a Saturday afternoon finding a state inspection station that didn't really check his car.

I always wanted to add that he was the reason that we had these inspections not the rest of us but my goal was to avoid any unnecessary conversations with the guy.

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32 minutes ago, royiv said:

School shooting: Cops stand around while kids get murdered

Cop gets shot (not killed) five hundred miles away from me: wake up the entire state of Texas

royiv gets it.

The lives of a school full of children are worth less than the life of a single cop.  You all have empirical proof from Uvalde and Hall County.  The truth stares us right in the face - believe it.

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7 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

just got notice that the state registration and inspection requirements go away at the end of the year. but still required Dallas, Houston, Austin and eventually SA. gonna be a lot more broken down cars along the interstate. lovely.

Registration doesn’t go away, just inspection. The required inspections in the urban areas will be emissions testing only. FWIW, I lived in AZ for nearly 20 years and they have the same setup. Emissions testing only for Maricopa County and no other sort of safety or mechanical inspection. In reality, I saw no difference in the vehicles on the road. I see multiple vehicles on the road here in Texas every single day that can’t pass the current inspection. People just don’t get them inspected. We have posters on this board who have admitted that they haven’t registered their vehicles for years meaning they also haven’t had them inspected. On the surface, it does seem stupid, but I don’t think inspections do anything meaningful to keep unsafe vehicles off the road. 

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12 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

just got notice that the state registration and inspection requirements go away at the end of the year. but still required Dallas, Houston, Austin and eventually SA. gonna be a lot more broken down cars along the interstate. lovely.

Registration will still be required because it's essentially a road tax, but the standard inspection is being done away with. For the big metros, I imagine that they still need to be inspected because they tend to be (or are very close to it, like Austin) EPA air quality nonattainment areas.

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2 minutes ago, royiv said:

Registration doesn’t go away, just inspection. The required inspections in the urban areas will be emissions testing only. FWIW, I lived in AZ for nearly 20 years and they have the same setup. Emissions testing only for Maricopa County and no other sort of safety or mechanical inspection. In reality, I saw no difference in the vehicles on the road. I see multiple vehicles on the road here in Texas every single day that can’t pass the current inspection. People just don’t get them inspected. We have posters on this board who have admitted that they haven’t registered their vehicles for years meaning they also haven’t had them inspected. On the surface, it does seem stupid, but I don’t think inspections do anything meaningful to keep unsafe vehicles off the road. 

 

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Registration will still be required because it's essentially a road tax, but the standard inspection is being done away with. For the big metros, I imagine that they still need to be inspected because they tend to be (or are very close to it, like Austin) EPA air quality nonattainment areas.

I stand corrected!

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47 minutes ago, royiv said:

School shooting: Cops stand around while kids get murdered

Cop gets shot (not killed) five hundred miles away from me: wake up the entire state of Texas

Somewhat related, but a few months ago in Downtown LA, I got stuck in traffic on the outskirts of downtown. And when I say stuck, I mean car did not move for over 30 minutes, drivers were getting out of their cars to walk up the street to get a look. Once I got to work - an hour late - I learned that the LA County Sherriff's department was holding a funeral for a fallen deputy in the downtown Cathedral, and they figured they better block off most access to the area, for unknown reasons. No prior notice. This impacted thousands of workers who were delayed in getting to work.

Learned later that day that the deputy died of cancer. 

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5 hours ago, The Royal We said:

Some cop got into a tussle 7 hours away from me so I have to be screamed at by my phone at 4:30am. 

Seriously fuck these state wide alerts about a missing person or murderer 6 hours away from me with no pictures provided. Fucking idiots. 

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On 10/4/2024 at 6:58 AM, Pam Cummings said:

Is there anything more useless than a "blue alert"? Get fucked.

 

 

 

I care.

That shit has now woken me up TWICE in the last week in the middle of the night.

WTF? 
I don’t get amber alerts or Silver alerts.

Yet I get those shits at like 3 am.

In what world do I as a citizen need to know about a person on the lose who’s killed a cop if i don’t get an alert for EVERY murderer on the lose?

I could potentially find and make a difference for a kidnapped kid. I could also keep an eye out for a wayward old.

A cop killer? I’m getting the da fuq out of there and hunkering down. That’s their fucking job to hunt that MFer down.

I don’t need to lose sleep bc of it.

Sorry.

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1 hour ago, pacman said:

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/03/doctors-boycott-texas-conferences/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1727988300&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook,twitter

 

Nothing like hurting tourism dollars and health care outcomes all at once

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57 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

As long as the gun shows come they don’t care

Exactly. We don’t need to seek out intellectual conferences here when gun/nazi paraphernalia shows just travel non-stop across Texas cities.

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2 hours ago, miguelito said:

His action itself is enough to scare some people from showing up to vote, fearing that they might be arrested for voting.  You can't get much more un-American than this guy.

At least it shows how scared Republicans in Texas are.

They wouldn't be trying to purge almost half-a-million people if their numbers were great.

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13 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Tomorrow is one of my favorite Saturdays of the year, but I still have to suffer a bit watching that feckless dipshit wheel up and down the Texas sideline.

What if Ted is pushing the wheelchair?

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A federal judge, Clinton appt, has been on the states ass for a decade to get its shit together on its broken foster care system. Finally resorted to a 100k daily fine. 
 

state sues and says the penalties are too harsh and that judge is beyond biased, the joke that is the 5th circuit says you’re right, fines erased and judge is booted. 

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52 minutes ago, bluto said:

A federal judge, Clinton appt, has been on the states ass for a decade to get its shit together on its broken foster care system. Finally resorted to a 100k daily fine. 
 

state sues and says the penalties are too harsh and that judge is beyond biased, the joke that is the 5th circuit says you’re right, fines erased and judge is booted. 

 

that’s what I thought, the 5th did the state a huge favor here. were any of those fines ever paid ?

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4 hours ago, bluto said:

A federal judge, Clinton appt, has been on the states ass for a decade to get its shit together on its broken foster care system. Finally resorted to a 100k daily fine. 
 

state sues and says the penalties are too harsh and that judge is beyond biased, the joke that is the 5th circuit says you’re right, fines erased and judge is booted. 

Opinion by Edith, she-wolf of the SS, Jones, joined by Edith, Eva Braun, Clement.  And some dipshit I have never heard of named Cory, which tells you all you need to know.

But this is exactly how Cannon can be removed by the 11th Circuit.

Crazy that the 5th and 11th Circuits were once one and now the 11th is the sane(r) one.

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44 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Opinion by Edith, she-wolf of the SS, Jones, joined by Edith, Eva Braun, Clement.  And some dipshit I have never heard of named Cory, which tells you all you need to know.

But this is exactly how Cannon can be removed by the 11th Circuit.

Crazy that the 5th and 11th Circuits were once one and now the 11th is the sane(r) one.

It's so funny how the fascist fucks keep their bench while the judges trying to protect children from a horrific foster care system get the boot. 

Must be that much vaunted justice system I hear so much about

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19 minutes ago, Captainant said:

It's so funny how the fascist fucks keep their bench while the judges trying to protect children from a horrific foster care system get the boot. 

Must be that much vaunted justice system I hear so much about

Banning abortions is the solution to solving the problem of the foster system.

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23 hours ago, South Austin said:

Tomorrow is one of my favorite Saturdays of the year, but I still have to suffer a bit watching that feckless dipshit wheel up and down the Texas sideline.

I’m hoping his wheelchair pulls a Sooner Schooner, tips over and we can point and laugh at that asshole lying on the ground.

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46 minutes ago, hornmpa96 said:

I’m hoping his wheelchair pulls a Sooner Schooner, tips over and we can point and laugh at that asshole lying on the ground.

Wish I knew who made this.  I’m guessing somebody who was wronged by one of his policies.

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