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BCP had a lot of black students, but I don’t know if I’d call it a black high school. They did have a very diverse student body. My (white) mother graduated from there in ‘79. I’ve seen her yearbooks and I bet the student body was around 50/50. edit: I commented before I read through the thread and saw that others already made this point.

Pretty crazy stuff. They were diving the canal looking for a man who went missing about ten days ago and found him, but also found a car with remains in it that matches the description of a car driven by a port neches man who went missing 14 years ago. It kind of makes you wonder how many missing persons cases would be solved if police stations could devote a dive team to just search all of their water ways for some set amount of time until all likely places had been searched, although I’m sure it would be pretty expensive and time consuming. There’s a YouTube channel called Adventures With Purpose that has a couple of divers who’ve solved 23 cold cases since 2019 by searching likely waterways in areas where people went missing, and a couple of those cases were solved coincidentally while looking for other people.

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I’ve heard lots of stories where people are trying to buy hydrocodone on the streets and end up getting fentanyl from their street pharmacist. You expect one thing and get something significantly more powerful, but use it like you would your regular drug. If you’ve developed a tolerance to Vicodin and it takes 3 to get you high, you’re in big trouble if you think that’s what you’re taking but instead something that can be 50x stronger than heroin. Or even if you realize it’s fentanyl but don’t understand how much more powerful it is.

Saw this and it had me cracking up. I’m not a big Abbott fan, but this is one of his best moves.

Would seem more valid than the one taken at his keynote event.

He got 20 years. The plea deal he backed out of limited the sentence to 30, but there’s no guarantee he would’ve gotten it.

For what it’s worth, this poll was taken at an event for student activists where trump was the keynote speaker. Just for what it’s worth.

I believe I read in the testimony that neither officer was wearing a seatbelt. I wonder if things would’ve turned out differently if they had. What an incredible tragedy, and this kid deserves to be put away for a long time.

Lost my appetite yesterday. Came back a little today, but some toast and soup was all I could handle. The ribeye is gonna have to wait a couple days 😉

No loss of taste. No appetite yesterday, but that’s a little better today. Minor dry cough, fever off and on, lethargy, some aches and chills. Diarrhea has been the worst of it.

Finally got the rona. Haven’t worn a mask since they dropped the mandate and didn’t get any boosters once the milder variants showed up. Hopefully the symptoms stay relatively mild. Basically feels like the flu right now.

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From the article: “We think it is not fair that we were not allowed to be a part of this decision about our working conditions, nor for Starbucks to claim they could not provide a safe experience for our workplace,” said Mari Cosgrove, an employee at one of the Seattle stores that is closing. Am I think only one on here who finds it hilarious that employees that essentially amount to burger flippers are crying that they don’t have a say in what the national chain they work for decides to do with its franchises?

Insanity.

It always bothers me when I see stories like this. Out of one side of her mouth she says she wants the truth, then out of the other side of her mouth she says it could’ve been avoided, and that the officers had other options. If you don’t yet know the truth then how can you possibly say that the officers didn’t do the right thing? If the criminal rammed a cop car with a stolen vehicle and then jumped out with a handgun, this is about as justified as it gets. I saw an interview with one of this guy’s friends when it first happened and his buddy put all of the blame on him and his bad decisions. I was pleasantly surprised.

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And somebody else’s. I personally know three people who’ve been convicted of intoxication manslaughter. Every case was wildly different from the other, but all three took lives with bad decisions.

Sad deal. This happened close enough to my house that my power was out for 3 hours due to the crash. I didn’t know the man, but everyone I’ve heard from that did said he was a really good guy.

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Biden won the last election by not being Donald Trump. With the disaster that is currently our economy, the only way the dems will have a shot in the next election is if they again get to run a campaign under the “Not Donald” mantra. Apathetic dems and swing vote moderates are not going to be motivated to vote for a mediocre Democratic nominee, but many will still get out to vote against Trump.

I’m decent with a pistol, and I can fire a full magazine (15 rounds) in 7-8 seconds, maybe even a little quicker. At a fairly close range (let’s say the distance between the car doors of two vehicles that are touching nose to nose, such as in this instance), even when shooting for speed rather than accuracy, the majority of those 15 rounds will land in a grouping not much larger than a saucer plate. A human torso is probably 12-15x the size of a saucer. A human head is 1.5x the size of a saucer. Even with a moving a target, some, if not many of those 15 rounds are going to hit what I’m aiming at. I’m not telling you these things to brag. I know many people who shoot better than me. I’m telling you this to explain why a police officer is absolutely not going to wait for someone to shoot at him before he starts to shoot. Even if the criminal is a bad shot it only takes one lucky round to end an officer’s life. if he’s even marginally skilled with a pistol, especially inside 30 ft, the odds of an officer getting hit is much too high for him to wait and see if a criminal is planning on using the weapon or not. Far too often people expect police officers to do things that create unnecessary added risk to an already incredibly dangerous job in order to avoid hurting or killing dumb criminals making stupid choices. A few examples: 1. Police should wait for someone to shoot at them before they pull the trigger. 2. police should aim for people’s legs so they can “stop the threat without killing anyone.” 3. police should shoot one or two times and then stop and see if the criminal is giving up. If the criminal is still shooting at them, then police can shoot again. 4. police should always try to use a tazer first when faced with a deadly weapon. what it all boils down to is that police officers don’t have to put the safety and well-being of criminals who are in a position to hurt or kill them ahead of their own.

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