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LeftInTX

LeftInTX's Journal
LeftInTX's Journal
October 20, 2022

Office Depot jacked up their print price on me

Office Depot advertised 40% off printing on orders of $150 or more. The online price is 55 cents per copy. When I completed my order they jacked up the price to 74 cents per copy. I was so mad. I complained to the store manager who said, "The prices are higher here because it's a certain class of clientele". I was so mad. I was livid. I showed them the online price. The store has never charged more than the online price before. But now that they have 40% off, guess what??? He just said, "Well we have a different class of people in the store"....

I got him to bring the price down, but I felt violated...

October 15, 2022

Not Gilligan's Island: Texas man killed by quicksand on the San Antonio River

Records obtained by mySA.com reveal a man died last summer after getting stuck in quicksand on the San Antonio River and drowning in South Texas.

The extremely rare quicksand case, which previously went unreported by news outlets, is the only one of its kind in at least five years in Texas, according to records detailing the 580 deaths that occurred on rivers and lakes in that time period, obtained from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Quicksand-Texas-river-dead-rare-9227418.php

This happened in 2015, but I never heard of it. I never hear of anyone dying from quicksand, (except in the movies) but it happened in South Texas of all places!

October 15, 2022

Syndicate of Sound - Little Girl....(Great song, but love the comments)

I just love this YouTube thread. I see this more and more with some of these groups, but this was really cool!

&ab_channel=bordeneuve
October 13, 2022

The Upstairs Inferno - Tearjerker - LGBT Documentary- Watch for Free

The Upstairs was a gay bar in New Orleans. It caught fire in 1973. (Arson, but I don't want to give too much away) 32 people died.
This documentary is just so heart breaking.

The way everyone (those who survived and those who died) was treated because they were gay just breaks my heart.


https://tubitv.com/movies/561897/upstairs-inferno?start=true&utm_source=google-feed&tracking=google-feed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UpStairs_Lounge_arson_attack

Rated 8.0 on IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3088882/

This was soooo sad......
What a tear jerker.....

October 5, 2022

Texas can withhold list of people it thinks are noncitizens and can't vote, appeals court rules

A federal appeals court has ruled that Texas does not need to release details about a list of 11,737 registered voters whom the state has identified as potential noncitizens.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit on Thursday reversed a lower court’s ruling in August in which a district judge had found Texas was violating federal law by refusing to release the list.

The appellate court found that the five civil rights groups suing the Texas secretary of state for the list did not have standing to sue. Circuit Judge Edith H. Jones wrote in the ruling that the groups have neither established injury to themselves from the state’s refusal to release the list nor sued on behalf of any voter included on the list who could be harmed.

The coalition “offered no meaningful evidence regarding any downstream consequences from an alleged injury in law under the NVRA [National Voter Registration Act],” Jones wrote. “The lack of concrete harm here is reinforced because not a single Plaintiff is a Texas voter, much less a voter wrongfully identified as ineligible.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/30/texas-appeals-court-noncitizen-voter-ruling/?emci=eba2307b-1044-ed11-b495-002248258d38&emdi=ee263180-2744-ed11-b495-002248258d38&ceid=6866360
October 3, 2022

S.A. native, former Army counterintelligence agent, could be at center of DeSantis immigrant flights

snip:

Sources confirmed the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office considers Perla H. Huerta — 43, a former Army combat medic and counterintelligence agent — a “person of interest” in its criminal investigation into the incident.


Snip:
U.S. Army spokeswoman Madison Bonzo confirmed Huerta left the military in August and served as a combat medic and worked in counterintelligence.


Snip:

There is limited public information about Huerta. Most of the social media information about her vanished over the weekend after the flights. Her Facebook and LinkedIn pages and posts by others that linked to her were either removed or were restricted, including one congratulating her for joining an England-based company that sells water pumps.

A photo on one of those Facebook pages showed her with blond hair. Another photo of her — published two years ago in the Hays Free Press in Hays County — shows her with darker hair attending a screening of “The Breakfast Club” that featured an appearance by actor Anthony Michael Hall.

https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-native-and-former-Army-17483495.php


She is from San Antonio originally.
She is divorced (Her married name was Wilbur)
She was enlisted
She retired in August
She has scrubbed her social media
She resides in Tampa (Home of Cent Comm)
She recently told a neighbor that she wanted to move to Europe


She is in the yellow shirt

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Image source: Hays Free Press https://issuu.com/haysfreepress/docs/hfp_020520/1
September 22, 2022

Operatives linked to DeSantis promised to fly migrants to Delaware -- but left them stranded

San Antonio, Texas
A black, luxury SUV with tinted windows pulled into a parking space along the side of a drab, two-story La Quinta motel planted on the northwestern edge of 12 lanes of highway that loop around downtown San Antonio.

A woman with straight, light-colored hair got out of the rented Infiniti. She took the outdoor stairs, walked to the far end and knocked on the doors to rooms 243 and 241, where a group of Venezuelan asylum-seekers had spent five anxious days waiting.

She brought them food and a message: They were being sent to Delaware. The bus to the airport would be leaving at 5 a.m. the next day — Tuesday, Sept. 20 — she said, according to interviews with six migrants housed at the hotel.

The migrants didn’t know that they were being swept up in an operation that bore striking similarities to one organized the week before by operatives for Gov. Ron DeSantis that ended with 48 Venezuelan migrants dropped off on a Massachusetts island.


https://amp.miamiherald.com/article266089771.html
https://archive.ph/7urPq

Whoever, picked them up left some of them stranded at a La Quinta motel 11 miles from the migrant center
They were told they could no discuss their travel plans to Delaware with anyone z
Disgusting...Who is DeSantis hiring?
I'm sure these people are criminals...

September 15, 2022

Martha's Vineyard-bound flights carrying migrants originated in San Antonio

Source: My San Antonio.com

According to the Vineyard Gazette, 48 people landed "unexpectedly" at the Martha's Vineyard Airport. Massachusetts State Sen. Julian Cyr told the local media outlet that the plane originated in San Antonio. Martha's Vineyard airport employees assumed the flights were chartered planes carrying corporate groups for golf retreats and other events, which are common at this point in the year. It wasn't until the plane landed that officials realized the arrival was another plot from a Republican governor.

Previous plans from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott have sent planes to Chicago. On Thursday, September 15, Abbott said online that he had sent two buses to Washington, D.C., but his office told the New York Times that Texas was not involved in the Martha's Vineyard plans.

NPR also reported the planes originated from San Antonio.

According to flight tracker website, FlightAware, two flights from company Ultimate Jet Charters originated at Kelly Field in San Antonio arrived at Martha's Vineyard on Wednesday at 3:12 p.m. and then at 3:28 p.m.


https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/marthas-vineyard-san-antonio-flights-17443733.php

Read more: https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/marthas-vineyard-san-antonio-flights-17443733.php



According to flight tracker website, FlightAware, two flights from company Ultimate Jet Charters originated at Kelly Field in San Antonio arrived at Martha's Vineyard on Wednesday at 3:12 p.m. and then at 3:28 p.m.

Evidence of the two flights.
They did not originate at San Antonio International or Stinson (Public airports)

Kelly Field is a former AF base.
It is a federal government contractor-secure site.
It is not available for commercial aviation.
It is where the president lands when he flies into San Antonio.
It is also a maintenance site for large military planes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Field

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About LeftInTX

Always a Democrat. I can't understand conservatives. I try to understand them, but I can't. They don't make sense. Our country has gone so far right since 1981. I was just an average American who took many Democratic values for granted when Reagan was elected. It was like the rug was pulled out from under our society. Reagan ruined our country.
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