BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jun 21 - 06:12 PM

1600 migrant children held in appalling conditions in a tent city at Fort Bliss, with an threatening aura of secrecy around it reminiscent of the old Soviet Union, sounds like a Texas mess that no-one should be missing.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 22 Jun 21 - 05:53 PM

I desperately miss Molly Ivins.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: leeneia
Date: 22 Jun 21 - 02:31 PM

That's terrible, Donuel.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Jun 21 - 08:54 PM

Henry the VIII used miners to dig under walls and blow them up from underground.

TX is not special in nutty authoritarians. Prisons reach 150 F in the summer without air conditioning. When body temperatures reach 109 many prisoners die. The official response is "Its prison", besides they claim adding air conditioning costs 100 million for their average 26 million dollar facility. I don't buy it.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: leeneia
Date: 19 Jun 21 - 12:33 PM

You're funny.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: JHW
Date: 18 Jun 21 - 08:34 AM

'Surely any wall can be defeated by an explosive', Thats what builders of Mediaeval castles found so castles went out of fashion.
Anyway the Mexicans are going to pay for the wall, that's what Trump said and he was US Pr...

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Mr Red
Date: 17 Jun 21 - 05:55 PM

First cold now heatwave. And power outages for both. I would bet Elon Musk is buying his own products for the back-up power for his factories.
Well it wouldn't look good for his "spaceships to Mars" if he couldn't get off the ground because the lights went out.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: leeneia
Date: 17 Jun 21 - 03:50 PM

Surely any wall can be defeated by an explosive, by the right piece of heavy construction equipment or by a cutting torch. In some places, simple ladders are doing the trick already.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jun 21 - 12:40 PM

The governor of Texas is an idiot - none of the other border states have managed to raise money to build it through donations either. It's all hype for disappointed Trump supporters.

And, think about it. The federal government is the agency that does the eminent domain to take property to build a wall. The first time Texas tries it the landowner will take it to court and win because despite being situated on the border, the state doesn't have the authority to build an anti-immigrant barrier at the border. I'd bet money on it.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jun 21 - 07:32 AM

The Tex gov. says Texans will have to pay for the wall that was abandonned with taxes and crowd sourcing.

If they downsize those ambitions they might geterdone.
I have a few alternatives that come to mind;
The stuck bathroom stall wall.
The crawl wall, made of used pipeline full of fish hooks.
The Fire Ant wall.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Jun 21 - 03:35 AM

Texas has an economy equivalent to Russia and had a taste of a Russian winter. Its politicians are mostly in favor of Putin over Biden. T FOR TEXAS T FOR TENNESSES T FOR TOTALITARINSM THE THING THATS BEEN THE RUIN OF ME

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jun 21 - 08:09 PM

I spoke of DC weather.
Today Texas democrat lawmakers are in DC and met with VP Harris and behind a closed door met Manchin.
Manchin was shocked shocked that college state ID's are insufficient to vote in Texas but a hunting license is all you need to vote.
When the supreme court thought it was a good idea to remove federal voting laws and gave it back to the states...I bet they saw this modern jim crow day coming.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Jun 21 - 06:30 PM

I don't know where you're getting your weather information, Don. It's near 100^o today and has been very humid for the last month +.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jun 21 - 06:04 PM

Texas is in a humid drought. DC has a dewpoint of 54 (dry) and below 80.
Texas has an economy equivalent to Russia and had a taste of a Russian winter. Its politicians are mostly in favor of Putin over Biden.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Jun 21 - 11:48 AM

I don't see jim crow, I see Jim Crowasaurus
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/09/Texas-voting-GOP-suppression/

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Jun 21 - 07:42 AM

State sponsored cyberwar began with project Mt. Olympus from the bowels of the NSA. It was an invisible program that would infect any digital system. Isreal got a hold of it an used their version against its enemies. Sadly they made it visible. The program went worldwide in all its varients like Covid. Sure Irans centrifuges to make high grade fissible fuel spun out of control but the seeds of a new battle field of warfare had begun.

Now outsourced hackers can destroy a nation with a keyboard.
The US is sheepish in retalliation for obvious reasons.

Just as I was right about 9-11, pandemics, ufo's and hundreds of other fiascos I am right about this as our new sword of Damacles.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jun 21 - 09:16 AM

Russian malware closed gas staions here for a week. They have gone after hospitals during Covid. The Russian organizations call themselves '5 hands', dark side, REvil. Now they ransomed our hot dog supply. WHATS NEXT? For the 4th of July I'm guessing they will ransom Baseball and fireworks. The US will not respond in kind until Russian hackers shut off our electricity or Beer.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Mr Red
Date: 02 Jun 21 - 03:30 PM

Let's face it, who has the most to gain from a divided Europe? And a divided USA?

Iran, sure.... but.
China, notso - & their biggest markets outside China are?
Why would Russia meddle? Why wouldn't they?
Russia - well now who has the form? Who thinks nothing of killing ex-pat Russians in the UK? & then blatantly tries again, with a few "undecided" deaths along the way. Who just marches to Georgia, poisons the elected leader and while at it, annex a whole peninsular. And who hacked Hilary's e-mail and was brash enough to admit it?

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Jun 21 - 12:43 PM

Austin is such a nice, progressive town - but that's where Texas politics happens!

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Jun 21 - 11:17 AM

it was mentioned in our news last night ...

wishing you good luck!

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jun 21 - 10:29 AM

You should see it from inside the borders . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jun 21 - 07:44 AM

Russia is watchubg and is in full support of the US insurrectionists. Fascist Hungary is watching. So is Turkey, Myanmar, Phillipines. Ben Rhodes writes that Japan is onvinced the US is spiraling into fascism.
The playbook for fascism is similar to all countries involving conspiracy theories and internal hate, replacing judges etc.
Democracies playbook seems waker in comparison

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Mr Red
Date: 02 Jun 21 - 02:14 AM

There is a phrase that comes to mind, which is appropriate since politics is well ensconced as a branch of Hollywood:

"The lunatics taking over the asylum"

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Jun 21 - 11:46 PM

So long, mom!

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jun 21 - 06:14 PM

This thread is a much anticipated peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Its important but nutty.

Subject: RE: BS: Don't miss the mess in Texas
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jun 21 - 05:29 PM

The South shall antagonize
life, liberty and democracy
or they can finally grow wise
avoiding a rich man's autocracy.

They may prefer a military coup
to a massive bloody civil war
but it seems they want a zoo
of only one animal to adore

Subject: BS: Don't miss the Texas mess
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jun 21 - 02:45 PM

Recently the TX govenor called out the National Guard to oppose the ficticious invasion by U.N. troops. This winter they froze without power or water. Now the govenor has assumed powers of the legislature to not pay legislators in order to punish Democrat legislators for walking out instead of voting in the new voting restriction bill.

No need to miss a single moment of their antagonizing holocaust.
They also made buying a handgun as simple and paperwork free as buying a Snickers bar.