roboneal

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by roboneal 10y ago
The U.S. may appear to be a broken democracy to most but it is a functional constitutional republic. This was was the purposeful intent of the founders to safeguard the sovereign interests of the individual states.
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by roboneal 10y ago
After reading the article, it's quite clear the residents segregated themselves.
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by roboneal 13y ago
(See Edit) Count me in the "me too" category. Pretty sketchy process. I've revoked their permission to my Facebook account and pray my cc info is not being sold on the Russian black market. Edit: Trevor at TinkerCoin clea
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by roboneal 13y ago
I'm calling you a troll for re-writing your comments without even noting the "edit" -- 4 hours later in a lame attempt to refine your propaganda. This isn't Reddit.
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by roboneal 13y ago
Why are you massively editing your comments hours later? You are a troll.
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by roboneal 13y ago
Nice document you supplied. Did you read it? This lawsuit is about repeated assurances to the MANY plantiffs that the only plans for the property were for "low rise" (below the tree line) water tanks and the company later deciding
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by roboneal 13y ago
Seriously? IANAL or a Texas attorney either but I can read... Page 4...Section 211.003..."The governing body of a municipality may regulate...the height, number of stories, and size of buildings and other structures"
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by roboneal 13y ago
So I can just build my own privately owned 160ft industrial structure wherever I want?
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by roboneal 13y ago
That's a lot of "mind reading" you've accomplished there -- complete with imagined quotes. Quite an accomplishment.
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by roboneal 13y ago
That's some fairly tortured logic. Legally it has no bearing. If the lawsuit was judged with your standards, a CEO of a water utility would be a hypocrite for opposing the same water tower being built "for municipal use" next
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by roboneal 13y ago
The actual lawsuit isn't against fracking itself. It is to prevent construction of a 160 water tower that would be used to fill trucks with water for fracking and other oil/gas exploration activities and this is in violation of t
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by roboneal 13y ago
I'm former Navy (Electronics Technician - Radio/Radar), but was in Army JROTC in High School. First step is to take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB). There is no obligation to take that test (despite the pre
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by roboneal 13y ago
The public also voted in a Republican House majority and flipped Ted Kennedy's seat to prevent a filibuster proof Senate majority to essentially prevent Obamacare being implemented without amendments. Yet, it was "deem and passed&
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by roboneal 13y ago
Since these is not typically a political discussion forum, at least outline your "overwhelming" factual evidence.
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by roboneal 13y ago
Let's leave it at this "It hasn't had a single minute of downtime". So with the shutdown does your Organizing For America paycheck still clear?
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by roboneal 13y ago
I hate to pile on, but this just came across my Twitter feed. "The federal government will take down a critical part of HealthCare.gov, the Obamacare web portal, for a portion of the coming weekend as programmers feverishly work to fix
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by roboneal 13y ago
You've made a bunch of hyperbolic (reads more like B35T W3BS1TE EVAR!) and unsupported statements in that reply. There has been no official release of how many people have signed up for actual plans -- Jay Carney said as much at his da
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by roboneal 13y ago
They hid all of that complexity behind an essentially non-functioning website....genius!
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by roboneal 13y ago
I think you missed the rather insightful point he was making entirely. The DEA's use of NSA intercepts "sounds" a whole lot more sensible (catching 'drug dealers') than what may be potentially 1000s of other horrifi
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by roboneal 13y ago
You asked for "evidence". Obviously, this evidence requires further investigation.
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by roboneal 13y ago
He said that on March 30, 2012, NOM became aware that the Human Rights Campaign, the pro-gay rights group, obtained confidential information of its donors and posted the information without redacting the names. That information later appear
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by roboneal 13y ago
Were you not the first person to inject "conservative" into the thread?
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by roboneal 13y ago
It also enrages me how they dismiss the metadata as a "nothing burger". Does it occur to anyone how much leverage you can exert with that information alone in such areas as finance, divorce proceedings, opposition research, leak i
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by roboneal 13y ago
A top secret program that the President of the United States has made extensive public remarks about: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/06/07/transcript-what-oba... De facto de-classification.
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by roboneal 13y ago
Apparently, even the NSA has a FOIA process: http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/foia/submit_foia_request/foia... If they don't have to respond to discovery, they certainly are legally required to respond to
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by roboneal 13y ago
Is the existence of the phone "metadata" classified anymore after national media debate and the public acknowledgement by POTUS? And unless this suspect is under a national security investigation, I can't see how his specifi
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by roboneal 13y ago
It's not like Sweden is a surveillance state or something http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_law
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by roboneal 13y ago
Considering the scope of the domestic monitoring, the definition of adversaries is disturbingly close to ordinary citizens.
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by roboneal 13y ago
Uhhh, "old school" Houston and Dallas metro areas are #1 and #2 respectively in job growth in the nation. While Austin may be an "exciting" center of research and technology, it's hardly a "job creation" engine -- at least not directly.
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by roboneal 13y ago
I actually hoped my comment would actually spark a discussion on the actual substance of the quote. Apparently, I've seemed to have only succeeded in flushing out the pro and anti-Ayn Rand camps. My mistake.

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