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http://cityhall.blog.statesman.com/2016/09/02/zimmerman-slams-salamander-dna-testing-while-austin-has-rape-kit-backlog/ Zimmerman, you unbelievably dumb bastard, gently caress you.
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Sardonik posted:http://cityhall.blog.statesman.com/2016/09/02/zimmerman-slams-salamander-dna-testing-while-austin-has-rape-kit-backlog/ The rest of the article could have just been "The rest of the council proceeded to dunk on Zimmerman". Be more efficient with your word count, Statesman.
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Sweet Christ alive I want to believe.
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Shinjobi posted:Sweet Christ alive I want to believe. I think Clinton is at her ceiling in Texas, so I'm sharing Gary Johnson links to every Republican I know around here. If he can stay in the double-digits, we're gonna have ourselves one hell of a November. EDIT: If there is a god he'll correct the mistake he made in creating Ted Cruz by having Cruz endorse Johnson...
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Maybe the pollsters are trying to scare the old republicans to death so they can't vote: a self fulfilling prophecy.
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Apparently this poll is weird for reasons I don't fully understand so take it with a grain of salt.
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If Texas goes blue I will drown to death partying in blue agave tequilas and stuff mixed with blue curacao.
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MariusLecter posted:If Texas goes blue I will drown to death partying in blue agave tequilas and stuff mixed with blue curacao. I think if there was a real chance of Texas going blue, Hillary would have a field office here.
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Spacebump posted:I think if there was a real chance of Texas going blue, Hillary would have a field office here. HillDawg not even taking off her warmups and Timbs to 3 point Texas. 
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Spacebump posted:I think if there was a real chance of Texas going blue, Hillary would have a field office here. What about the possibility of Johnson acting as a major spoiler here? I'm seeing yard signs, youtube ads, and hear plenty of libertarian-voting talk. Is Texas ready for the Johnson?
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sorta cross posted from the freep thread, but should probably go here too: The Dallas Morning Times endorsed Hillary for President. Their article on why is really good and you should read it, but the Editor of the paper posted some reader responses on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mWilstory/status/773576924195016704 https://twitter.com/mWilstory/status/773577020814991360 https://twitter.com/enemywithinn/status/773473432885424128 https://twitter.com/mWilstory/status/773564779600359428 https://twitter.com/mWilstory/status/773573701287587840 I should note that he also posted sane, supportive responses, but these are the humorous ones
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Literally Elvis posted:sorta cross posted from the freep thread, but should probably go here too: 
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Literally Elvis posted:sorta cross posted from the freep thread, but should probably go here too: Hahaha, these are great. So glad I got the gently caress out of news.
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Awesome Welles posted:Hahaha, these are great. https://twitter.com/Francis_Lam/status/773221506172215296
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Feds Accuse Texas of Misleading On Relaxed Voter ID Requirementsquote:[U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales] Ramos last month ordered Texas to spend $2.5 million to educate the public about relaxed identification requirements for the looming elections — an attempt to ward off any confusion after a federal appeals court struck down the state’s strict photo identification law — often referred to as Senate Bill 14 — as discriminatory. Worth adding that this comes after at least a few Texas officials - including, of course, Ken Paxton - have said or heavily implied that voters could face charges if they can't prove they were incapable of obtaining one of the forms of ID required under SB 14.
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Booooooooooo McRavenquote:In an impassioned memo sent three days after San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick ignited national controversy by refusing to stand for the national anthem before a football game, University of Texas System Chancellor Bill McRaven urged his athletes not to repeat the gesture of protest. https://www.texastribune.org/2016/0...tent=1473374450
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Badger of Basra posted:Booooooooooo McRaven His response is NOT surprising in the least. I mean yes he's military, but the dude is as white as they come.
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Badger of Basra posted:Booooooooooo McRaven Other than the Revolutionary War, when has the US ever fought to end imperialism?
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Jiro posted:His response is NOT surprising in the least. I mean yes he's military, but the dude is as white as they come. It's hilarious because after Kapernick did that, veterans hashtagged their support for his gesture.
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e_angst posted:That cap metro ad is absolutely awful. I don't quite know why they are trying so hard to court the "pretentious broke guy" demographic. Ask Badger
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It's been like 8 years since I've had a Mezcal and this stuff is dank like my memes.  
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http://mezcalphd.com/2012/10/on-the-trail-of-the-misterios-coyote-and-another-chapter-of-agave-varieties-relevant-to-mezcal/ small-batch local oaxacan stuff can get really, really good some local moonshine i found was probably the most sippable straight liquor i've ever had
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Aliquid posted:http://mezcalphd.com/2012/10/on-the-trail-of-the-misterios-coyote-and-another-chapter-of-agave-varieties-relevant-to-mezcal/ Pro click. quote:I have no idea if we we will ever see it in the U.S., but it might be worth a trip to Oaxaca to find one! drat gringo coming down and stealing our liquor. 
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a friend of mine runs a distillery and tourist trap outside oaxaca city (a little past the town with the big tree) and he gets coyote; he was able to sell it to tourists for about eighty bucks a bottle before the currency crashed a year or two ago. he'd go on a long salesman spiel about how it was mystical and the only agave that was mildly hallucinogenic but i never bought into it. that stuff was excellent but still doesn't beat the poo poo old farmers sell in plastic bottles on the side of the road
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https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/775353550541119488 Our thoughts are with Badge at this most difficult time.
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Looks like big box stores are now saying "If you're going to make us pay property taxes, we are going to leave and create a giant abandoned building in the middle of your suburb, you had better value our property at what that decaying eyesore of a closed store is worth or we swear we'll do it." http://www.dallasnews.com/business/retail/20160912-will-big-box-retail-s-dark-store-strategy-lead-to-fewer-taxes-in-texas.ece quote:A strategy successfully used by some big box stores to cut local property taxes paid in Michigan and other states is now being tried in Texas. In at least four counties in Texas, the Lowe’s home improvement chain has challenged its tax bill, saying its property should be valued as if the buildings sat empty. Only the stores, which are in Bexar, Harris, Hunt and Taylor counties, remain open. The so-called dark-store strategy was coined for the industry term that describes a store that’s been vacated. Retailers who use the argument to protest their property values say if the business leaves, the empty building would be hard to fill. So far, North Texas counties haven’t seen the strategy used by big boxes, but they worry it could be spreading. And they say if large stores are granted big reductions, the tax burden will fall increasingly on homeowners.
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Hm, if I were a complete sociopath I'd want this to work and then demand that my place be valued as if I abandoned it and left fetid pools all over to breed mosquitos. But I'm not nearly as sociopathic as a corporation. Oh well.
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Twerk from Home posted:Looks like big box stores are now saying "If you're going to make us pay property taxes, we are going to leave and create a giant abandoned building in the middle of your suburb, you had better value our property at what that decaying eyesore of a closed store is worth or we swear we'll do it." My mom's husband was on the city council for the small DFW suburb of Richland Hills about a decade or so ago. Sam's Club had pulled out of their location in that suburb and moved to another one, and had just left the building empty. It was a tough situation for the town, because the giant empty building on their one commercial street really prevented any kind of development from occurring. (Not to mention the loss of sales tax revenue.) Getting someone else to buy/lease the building was pretty much impossible because the only businesses at all interested in it (or capable of spending that much on real estate) were Sam's Club competitors that Sam's refused to sell/lease to. So yea, big box stores can gently caress cities over in a number of unexpected ways.
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