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Ha ha she punched her dumb@$$!

EXCLUSIVE: Movie massacre suspect sent chilling notebook to psychiatrist before attack Jul 25, 2012 3:01 p.m. James Holmes, the accused gunman in last Friday's midnight movie massacre in Colorado, mailed a notebook "full of details about how he was going to kill people" to a University of Colorado psychiatrist before the attack, but the parcel sat unopened in a mailroom for as long as a week before its discovery Monday, a law enforcement source told FoxNews.com. Police and FBI agents were called to the University of Colorado Anschutz medical campus in Aurora on Monday morning after the psychiatrist, who is also a professor at the school, reported receiving a package believed to be from the suspect. Although that package turned out to be from someone else and harmless, a search of the Campus Services' mailroom turned up another package sent to the psychiatrist with Holmes' name in the return address, the source told FoxNews.com. A second law enforcement source said authorities got a warrant from a county judge and took the package away Monday night. When it was opened, its chilling contents were revealed. "Inside the package was a notebook full of details about how he was going to kill people," the source told FoxNews.com. "There were drawings of what he was going to do in it -- drawings and illustrations of the massacre." Among the images shown in the spiral-bound notebook's pages were gun-wielding stick figures blowing away other stick figures. The source said the package had been in the mailroom since July 12, though another source who confirmed the discovery to FoxNews.com could not say if the package arrived prior to Friday's massacre. It was not clear why it had not been delivered to the psychiatrist. The notebook is now in possession of the FBI, sources told FoxNews.com. Both sources said the intended recipient of Holmes' notebook was a professor who also treated patients at the psychiatry outpatient facility, located in Building 500, where the first suspicious package was delivered. It could not be verified that the psychiatrist had had previous contact with Holmes, who was a dropout from the school's neuroscience doctoral program and had studied various mental health issues and ailments as part of his curriculum. Holmes is accused of killing 12 and injuring 58 at a midnight showing of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" at the Century 16 Theater in Aurora. University of Colorado spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery said she was not aware of the contents of the package or who had sent it. Agent Dave Joly, of the FBI's Denver Division, declined to comment on the matter, citing a gag order issued Monday by Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester. Arapahoe County District Attorney Carol Chambers' office and Aurora police also could not comment due to the gag order. Police believe the July 20 attack was meticulously planned. Holmes allegedly tossed tear gas canisters into the crowded theater, and then fired his 12-gauge shotgun at the ceiling before turning it on the crowd. As panicked movie watchers raced for the exits, he switched to a .40 Glock pistol and a .223 Smith & Wesson M&P semi-automatic with a high-capacity drum clip, sources told Fox News. The gun jammed, likely preventing far more deaths. After the gun jammed, Holmes allegedly walked out of the theater through the door he'd entered and was removing his body armor beside his car when he was confronted by the officers who took him down, the source said, adding that the gunman seemed surprised authorities arrived so quickly. Before mounting the horrific attack, Holmes allegedly booby-trapped his apartment and left music blasting, possibly to create a diversion that would occupy police and rescue personnel several miles away from the theater, the source said. Fox News has learned that the door was wired with a booby-trap and a backup system that would have triggered an explosive designed to "cut in half" the first person through the door. After that, explosions and flames would have likely consumed the entire building, presumably with the intention of trapping other residents as they slept and forcing a massive response of police and rescue personnel. Holmes, who made his first court appearance Monday and looked disoriented and disheveled, could face the death penalty.

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So a mother and her son would probably be dead if liberals had their way. Just another example on how fire arms are not bad like people think. It's the people that use them the wrong way that's bad.

Texas' voter ID law to go on trial in Washington Jul 9, 2012 3:34 p.m. By HENRY C. JACKSON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The state of Texas and the Justice Department gave opening statements Monday in a trial over Texas' new voter ID law, setting the stage for a legal battle over the federal Voting Rights Act. At issue is a 2011 law passed by Texas' GOP-dominated Legislature that requires voters to show photo identification when they head to the polls. The state argued Monday that the law represents the will of the people and does not run afoul of the Voting Rights Act, passed in 1965 to ensure minorities' right to vote. "Texas Democrats, like their national counterparts, have been wholly out of step with their constituents," said Adam Mortara, a lawyer representing Texas. "Voters want photo ID." Mortara said the state's new statute is in line with similar laws that have cleared legal challenges in Indiana and Georgia. He also said the Justice Department would not be able to prove that any voters -- and particularly minority voters -- would be hindered by the law. "It's really quite difficult to find anyone who's registered to vote who doesn't already have a photo ID," he said during Texas' opening statement. Lawyers for the Justice Department strongly disputed Texas' view. Elizabeth Westfall, in her opening for the Justice Department, said the evidence would show as many as 1.4 million voters lack any form of acceptable identification under Texas' new law. She also stressed Texas wouldn't be able to prove there was no intent to discriminate against minority voters when it passed the law. "Texas will be unable to meet its burden," she said. Westfall noted the law was passed in the Texas Legislature under "the uniform objection" of minority lawmakers and that the Justice Department would show evidence it does in fact discriminate against minority voters. "We look forward to explaining the flaws in the state's argument," she said. The opening statements set up a case that will test the limits of the Voting Rights Act. The Obama administration blocked Texas' voter ID law in March, citing the Act. Texas, in turn, filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department sending the case to federal court in Washington. A three-judge panel will decide whether Texas' law passes legal muster. The trial is expected to last five days. Testimony from witnesses began immediately after opening statements, with Texas calling Brian Keith Ingram, an official with the Texas Secretary of State's Office. Ingram told the court he knew of at least four verified instances when someone voted who had recently passed away according to records and said there could be as many as 239 such instances. "It's more common than we thought, and it is troubling," he said. Under cross examination, Ingram said that there's a possibility some of those instances are the result of clerical errors. The trial marks the second time in months that Texas and the Justice Department have argued in Washington over the Voting Rights Act. In January, the two sides spent two weeks arguing in front of a similar three-judge panel about Texas' redrawn congressional maps. No final decision has been made in that case, but a federal court has approved interim maps that have allowed Texas elections to go ahead. Many of the key players in that case have returned for this one. As in January, Mortara is serving as one of Texas' lead attorneys and several Justice Department lawyers who worked on that trial are working on this one. One of the judges in this week's trial, Rosemary Collyer, appointed in 2002 by President George W. Bush, is also involved in both cases. The way I see it is that it's law to always have some form of Id on you at all times so why is this even an issue?

Perry: Texas won't expand Medicaid Jul 9, 2012 3:39 p.m. By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Gov. Rick Perry said Monday that Texas won't establish an online marketplace for patients to shop for insurance or expand Medicaid, two key elements of the federal health care overhaul. In a letter sent to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Perry said both elements "represent brazen intrusions into the sovereignty of our state." "I will not be party to socializing health care and bankrupting my state in direct contradiction to our Constitution and our founding principles of limited government," Perry said in a statement. The Supreme Court upheld most of the federal health care law last month, although it said the federal government can't withhold states' entire Medicaid allotment if they don't expand Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor and disabled. If states choose not to set up a health care exchange, an online service for people to comparison shop for insurance, the federal government will establish one for them. About 6.2 million Texans -- a quarter of the state's population -- are uninsured. Expanding Medicaid would add millions of people "into the already unsustainable Medicaid program, at a potential cost of billions to Texas taxpayers," said Perry, a Republican. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has estimated the Medicaid expansion would cost the state $27 billion in the first 10 years, a number many Democrats dispute. The state has estimated about 2 million people would be added to the Texas Medicaid rolls in the first two years if it went ahead with the expansion. Texas House Speaker Joe Straus, another Republican, said he hoped voters would address the issue by electing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has promised to repeal the health care law. He would not say what he thought the state would do if President Barack Obama is re-elected. "There are a lot of stakeholders we'd need to hear from before we could make a decision on that," Straus said. Texas Medical Association survey given to The Associated Press over the weekend found that the number of Texas doctors willing to accept government-funded health insurance plans for the poor and the elderly has dropped dramatically amid complaints about low pay and red tape. Only 31 percent of Texas doctors said they were accepting new patients who rely on Medicaid. In 2010, the last time the survey was done, 42 percent of doctors were accepting new Medicaid patients. In 2000, that number was 67 percent. Texas Democratic Party spokeswoman Rebecca Acuna called Perry's announcement "both cruel and negligent." "Rick Perry's Texas solution is to let Texans stay ill and uninsured," Acuna said. "That is not a health care plan. Once again Perry is putting partisan political pandering in front of the interests of Texas." A message left seeking comment from Sebelius' office was not immediately returned Monday. Associated Press writer Chris Tomlinson contributed to this report from Austin.

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I'm with you dog, if you threaten me or my family or property I don't give a d@mn what color you are. It's not a matter of race just self preservation. Notice how Dallas didn't have problems this year like they did last year. More and more people in Texas have their chl's. Drive by a range on the weekend around here and they are packed with people taking classes

Guess I'll be stopping on the way home for more ammo!

That's nothing! Have you heard they are throwing parties to put more people on food stamps? They invite low income families to these parties and try to get them to qualify for food stamps. Pathetic! I don't know how to post links on here but just google it. Food stamp parties

Way to go neighbors. Again where the hell is Rick Perry? Time to light a bonfire under his ass about a few issues!

And don't y'all forget it!! Lol

Looks like someone needs to kick Rick perry in his @$$ to jump start something here in Texas or maybe just replace him with someone who will do something

And I'll tell them I'm just fine right here with my own arsenal to protect myself and if they have a problem with that they can go to hell!

Are you and scrum suggesting Obama maybe going after BIG people? I can't watch the video right now because I'm out in the middle of nowhere and don't have a strong Internet connection on my phone

Well now gods gonna have one bad@$$ car to cruise in

Oblahma will take credit no doubt!

I KEEL YOU! We need to get these idiots out of office!

GO Spurs BOOOO! Spurs suck! Jk lol my team already got knocked out dang it!

I could have sworn that I saw an interview with Ron Paul where they asked him if he will run independant if he is not nominated and he said that he would NOT run. I like Ron Paul and would vote for him In a heartbeat. But he already stated he won't run independant so the talk about splitting the vote shouldn't happen.

I agree it is sad to take advantage of this case for gains. And yes I agree Zimmerman should not have followed trayvon but IF and I emphasize IF trayvon attacked Zimmerman like he says he did then he was well within his rights to defend himself. Trayvon was almost twice zimmermans size. But I still say Zimmerman should not have followed trayvon

I've got some ocean front property in Arizona, from my front porch you can see the sea. As soon as California falls off into the ocean from a big earthquake. No offense sportfisher

Texas needs to get on the ball. Arizona is leaving us behind