I raised this issue at the time and I got jumped because I questioned law enforcement's unrestrained and unsupervised use/misuse of Flock's nation-wide AI-enabled camera network of license plate readers to track people.
Whenever I think about the Texas attorney general or governor or lieutenant governor, the image that comes to mind is governor Greg Abbott in his wheelchair. The very next image that comes to mind is Leon Klinghofer, and I start hoping that governor Abbott and AG will take a Mediterranean cruise.
Ta, Robyn. I cannot say what I think about this sick shit without risking the banhammer. I borrowed My Life by Isadora Duncan from NYPL on your recommendation, and began reading it on my morning commute today.
Note to shithead cops in shithole states: you might want to confirm the boyfriend isn't a massively abusive piece of shit before taking up his cause because in the very likely event he is, it's going to be embarrassing for you.
I used to be so proud of being a 5th generation Texan. But the last 30 years has filled that shiny Lone Star until it is nothing but a black star-shaped hole that is sucking us all down to the pits of despair.
So the sheriff who claimed he was “worried for her safety” was actually hunting for a charge that didn’t exist, then rewrote the story once the press caught wind of it. And this is the same man later arrested for harassing women on his staff.
Texas keeps proving the point: it’s never about protecting life. It’s about controlling women.
Shouldn't Paxton spend the resources of Texas investigating himself for the three different houses he listed as primary residences on his mortgages? After all, mortgage fraud is the greatest crime there is.
I'm thinking the fellow who assaulted his partner and held her at gunpoint in front of their child, demanding she beg him for her life, should not be anywhere near women or children or anyone else he can terrorize, abuse, or impregnate for a very long time to come.
Maybe if Texas law enforcement were as manly and tough as they like to believe, they'd make this a priority.
I’m reminded of an incident with the Portland police in 1997, when an officer claimed to have seen a caiman (for those unfamiliar, caimans are South American crocodylians that can grow to and sometimes exceed the size of an alligator) in the Willamette River. Because Portland’s Finest had solved all crime (including waving a stern finger at the Russian car theft gangs working unopposed and in the open in downtown Portland), everybody and I mean EVERYBODY had to get on a boat looking for that caiman “before it attacked a child or pet.” For weeks it went on, with officers showing reporters credulous even for Portland goose tracks on sandbars and exclaiming “See? Caiman twacks!” October moves to November, air and water temperatures drop, and reptile authorities and enthusiasts (including me) noted that temperatures were far too low for a tropical reptile to survive. That led to a redoubling of efforts, because now it wasn’t about saving the public from a meat-eating saurian. No, now they had to spend even MORE time out on boats instead of dealing with junkies and hipsters, because “Now we need to find it before it DROWNS!”
As I said, that was the end of 1997, and I escaped Innsmouth West the weekend after Thanksgiving, with no reports since of the Portland police finding that caiman. I have a sneaking suspicion that they’re still looking, with a perk for perfect attendance or so many days without a self-inflicted gunshot wound is to ride the Caiman Boat to the Columbia River and back all week.
It was probably a log. A log that is stuck in the sand below the water or caught on an unseen obstruction can absolutely look like a gator in certain circumstances. I've seen it myself.
I raised this issue at the time and I got jumped because I questioned law enforcement's unrestrained and unsupervised use/misuse of Flock's nation-wide AI-enabled camera network of license plate readers to track people.
When asked why he waited so long to report this to the police, the partner said that “he had to process the event and call his family attorney.”
Read: "When the cops didn't come arrest me after a few days, I called the cops on her instead."
Whenever I think about the Texas attorney general or governor or lieutenant governor, the image that comes to mind is governor Greg Abbott in his wheelchair. The very next image that comes to mind is Leon Klinghofer, and I start hoping that governor Abbott and AG will take a Mediterranean cruise.
This makes me both angry and depressed. What's wrong with these people?
A classic
https://youtu.be/eCL_IiUXiBc?si=OPV33cMUIyFpR2Ae
Ta, Robyn. I cannot say what I think about this sick shit without risking the banhammer. I borrowed My Life by Isadora Duncan from NYPL on your recommendation, and began reading it on my morning commute today.
Note to shithead cops in shithole states: you might want to confirm the boyfriend isn't a massively abusive piece of shit before taking up his cause because in the very likely event he is, it's going to be embarrassing for you.
I used to be so proud of being a 5th generation Texan. But the last 30 years has filled that shiny Lone Star until it is nothing but a black star-shaped hole that is sucking us all down to the pits of despair.
So the sheriff who claimed he was “worried for her safety” was actually hunting for a charge that didn’t exist, then rewrote the story once the press caught wind of it. And this is the same man later arrested for harassing women on his staff.
Texas keeps proving the point: it’s never about protecting life. It’s about controlling women.
Well, there go those "small gub'mint" Republicans again, doing all sorts of big-government and downright oppressive things.
Textbook abuser MO. Pattern matches the obfuscation practiced for eons.
Shouldn't Paxton spend the resources of Texas investigating himself for the three different houses he listed as primary residences on his mortgages? After all, mortgage fraud is the greatest crime there is.
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/ken-angela-paxton-mortgage-primary-residence-homestead-exemption/
I'm thinking the fellow who assaulted his partner and held her at gunpoint in front of their child, demanding she beg him for her life, should not be anywhere near women or children or anyone else he can terrorize, abuse, or impregnate for a very long time to come.
Maybe if Texas law enforcement were as manly and tough as they like to believe, they'd make this a priority.
No surprise
ANOTHER day under an authoritarian regime.. thanks merica
I’m reminded of an incident with the Portland police in 1997, when an officer claimed to have seen a caiman (for those unfamiliar, caimans are South American crocodylians that can grow to and sometimes exceed the size of an alligator) in the Willamette River. Because Portland’s Finest had solved all crime (including waving a stern finger at the Russian car theft gangs working unopposed and in the open in downtown Portland), everybody and I mean EVERYBODY had to get on a boat looking for that caiman “before it attacked a child or pet.” For weeks it went on, with officers showing reporters credulous even for Portland goose tracks on sandbars and exclaiming “See? Caiman twacks!” October moves to November, air and water temperatures drop, and reptile authorities and enthusiasts (including me) noted that temperatures were far too low for a tropical reptile to survive. That led to a redoubling of efforts, because now it wasn’t about saving the public from a meat-eating saurian. No, now they had to spend even MORE time out on boats instead of dealing with junkies and hipsters, because “Now we need to find it before it DROWNS!”
As I said, that was the end of 1997, and I escaped Innsmouth West the weekend after Thanksgiving, with no reports since of the Portland police finding that caiman. I have a sneaking suspicion that they’re still looking, with a perk for perfect attendance or so many days without a self-inflicted gunshot wound is to ride the Caiman Boat to the Columbia River and back all week.
It was probably a log. A log that is stuck in the sand below the water or caught on an unseen obstruction can absolutely look like a gator in certain circumstances. I've seen it myself.
Sewer Croc probably- there are now thousands under the Rose City...