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I lived in Beaumont after i got out of high school for a year or so, over on magnolia, on the Northside. I was working at the Eastex paper mill in Evadale. I was making good money doing that, but I had one problem. I didn't like shift work. I have problems with insomnia. If I sleep more than 4 or 5 hours in a night that's a good night. Shift work had me all messed up. To save face, being I didn't want to just up and quit that good paying job, I joined the military, the US Coast Guard. So, I have lived in Beaumont. I think Irving street has a lot of night clubs, if you want to call them that. I never was much of a night life person, so I didn't hang out over there. The way i see it there is good and bad. Evil and not so evil, kinda good. Racism is a subset of evil, getting algebraic with it. Put it like this, if I am out driving in a new, nice car and i stop someplace, maybe Irving st. I get jumped, the guy, a fellow black person, shoots me dead and takes my car. Question is, was I dealing with evil or racism? Maybe he was a little of both. It really doesn't matter because I'm gone on to kingdom come. Maybe the police catch this guy. By the laws of the land they judge him a criminal and put him in prison. Crime and criminality is another subset of evil. I'm no logic and philosophy expert, but I think somewhere in all that I made a point. I was trying to anyway.

Racist, evil, serial killer whatever you want to call this guy I don't think he will be seeing life outside of prison bars for a long time, probably life. I am tempted to say that I wouldn't walk down Irving street either at 9:00pm on a Saturday night. The only problem is it has been so long since I lived in Beaumont, Silsbee and the greater golden triangle I don't remember where Irving street is. I would have to drive into Beaumont then use gps to find it.

I left my home in Silsbee to join the coast guard. I've never really lived in Silsbee since, but I visit from time to time. I would have loved to have seen coast guard Helos flying ops in my hometown.

I am sure the schools and school district has beefed up the security and police presence, because some type of conflict is going to break out. It probably already has.

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i hope everyone is okay and coping well with the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. In regards to students displaced by the storm, from the UIL: The University Interscholastic League is providing a waiver process for displaced student-athletes who wish to participate at their new location after the wake of Hurricane Harvey. While the League said in a press release that the hope is all students return to their original schools, it might not be ideal considering the damage from the storm. Information regarding the waiver process has been provided to UIL member schools and will be made available on the UIL website in the next few days. Additionally, the UIL announced it will provide flexibility to affected schools as the impact of the storm is assessed and necessary accommodations are determined on a case-by-case basis. This should get interesting.

I've never been to Lakewood. The last time I was in that building it was at a Rockets game. I don't watch Osteen on tv either. That's just me. So, I don't have an opinion about him opening his church to evacuees.

I drove around some Saturday & Sunday. I've been in this area 20 + years. I've been through several floods and 3 or 4 hurricanes. I have a good idea where to go & what I can get away with in terms of flooding. Saturday the local Krogers,, 2.5 mi away, was open. So were a few restaurants. McDonald's on hwy 249 was closed. I found that interesting cause they hardly ever close. I went the same way Sunday and Krogers was closed. The street in front of the store was flooded. All the restaurants open the day before were closed. Today I haven't ventured out. I don't want to press my luck. I had to go N to go the route I took both times. Going South is flooded. I don't even have to look. I know it is flooded. I've seen it flood many times before. It's a nice area when it is dry. When it rains, it is as ghetto as anywhere you want to see. A lot of the Houston area is like that. When I am at work I can't wait to get home. When I am home, especially when I am stuck in the house or the neighborhood, I can't wait to go to work. Can't please human beings. I work South of here. So, all that is going to have to dry up before I can get back to work.

In 2005, two or three weeks after Katrina hit New Orleans, hurricane Rita, a category 5 storm, was threatening to smash Houston. A mandatory evacuation was ordered and 2.5 million hit the highways, at once. Fights broke out on the road. People suffered from heat stroke while waiting in traffic. A bus filled with nursing patients caught fire and blew up, killing 24. More died in the evacuation than were killed in the hurricane. Meanwhile Rita weakened to a category 3 by the time it made landfall-in East Texas. It is not an easy decision to make, no matter who the mayor is.

Calling the shots on the mandatory and quick evacuation of 4.5 million people is no easy matter. That is a massive, unprecedented exodus. You're dealing with a fickle, storm, which may do this or may do that. If you cram up the highways and the storm moves on out of the way you look bad. If you don't call for evacuation and the city is swamped somebody is going to turn that in to a left/right political football and kick that for what it is worth. It is a no win situation.

Houston is not totally under water, but it's close. This particular area, this subdivision, this house have not flooded yet, thank God, but a couple more days of rain like this and anything is possible. It floods bad in areas South of here, near Antoine @ Victory, Antoine at Little York. I was in Silsbee This past Thursday. It was sunny and hot then. I drove thru Sour Lake, Dayton, (not in that order) Kountze, Silsbee, of course, parts of Beaumont. It was a nice visit.

More exposure for Dill.

Winning 4A was hard enough. If homeboy hits that corner jumper, then maybe Argyle is the state champs, or Brazosport.

Has Silsbee ever played Big Sandy?

Reminds me of a game Between Ozen and NYC Rice several years ago.. It was at a tourney in Houston for nationally recognized teams. This was during the Kendrick Perkins era. Ozen was definitely a nationally recognized team at the time. When they lined up for the jump ball it was obvious Ozen had the height advantage. Once the ball was tossed into the air those NYC ballers took off! NY was playing chess while Ozen was playing checkers. Everybody on that NY Rice team had mad handles and advanced moves. It was more than a blowout. It was a basketball clinic. I think NY Rice is close down now though.

Cypress is much easier to get to from here. Cy is 15 to 20 mi. away. Mo City/Sugarland is 35 to 40. That's like a trip out of town. Ft Bend has good facilities. Cy Fair probably has even better. They build something new every six months or so it seems. DISD tourney streams the semi finals and finals. Sweet! At least they streamed last year. All a team has to do is make it that far. Good competition in SA as well.

There's been gangland violence in Chicago since before the roaring twenties. Main stream America gets a kick out of that stuff. How many St Valentines Day Massacre movies have there been. At least three. People been staring at their TVs, yelling "go Al" (al capone) Then there are the other gangster movies like Bonnie & Clyde, Good Fellows, The Godfather I, II, III. There has been gang violence in Chi town for at least 100 years.

I stopped paying attention to the news for a few days and when I come back there is a group out called Antifa.

Lemme see they got Chris Martin, Langdon Tyler..who else is coming in or moving up in the rotation?

Year in, year out gun crazed white males shoot more police officers than anyone. Obama, Sharpton, etc. don't have anything to do with it.

Here’s another personal and neutral observation I had of a near riot, or mini riot situation. If it was necessary you could title this post “The Day Streaking Died in Beaumont, Texas.” I was a Jr in high school, Silsbee High School. i had my driver license and all. i think it was 1973. Streaking (a streaker was someone who would take off all their clothes and run through a public place nude, in case no one remembers) was a national fad. It was a short lived fad, thank goodness, but for a moment a lot of people were doing it. The local media would report it in the news with a whimsical smirk and everything. Word on the street had it that a lot of streaking was happening on the campus of Lamar U. I had a feeling this social phenomena wasn’t going to last long, but I wanted to see it in action before it disappeared. So, after class one school day I drove to Lamar U to see what was going on. Sure enough there was some streaking going on. It was a bunch of middle class students male and female. They mostly were stripping down to their underwear. I parked several blocks away and found a safe place to observe all this. There were three or four streakers in their underwear on top of a two or three story dorm. One of those three or four was this nubile co ed, whom the crowd was trying to convince to go all the way and take her underwear off. She was thinking about it when all of a sudden two or three black and white BPD squad cars showed up. The police got out in their regular uniforms. They had not developed shields and helmets and swat teams by then. Anyway, those officers got out of their cars with batons in hand. They didn’t say too much they just started swinging and cracking people upside their heads. Blood started flowing. My southern black male folkways and mores (some call it common sense) told me that if they are cracking the heads of those middle class students, they would definitely do the say to me. So I sneaked off, found my car and drove home. From that day forward I don’t recall hearing about streaking again, at least not in the golden triangle region.

Back when I was younger and "bullet proof", or so I thought, I went downtown in Houston to see a planned KKK march. I knew it was potentially dangerous, but I went anyway. The passion and fury I saw, amazing! The crowd was definitely against the protesters, at least back then that was the case. Today I don't know. HPD did a good job of keeping the peace and not letting it get out of hand. I told myself I would never do that again. Too much potential for violence and blood shed, not to mention death.

My thing is he should of copied Jim Brown. Play 10 years or so. Make your money, tap dance during your 15 minutes of fame. Then Retire. Hopefully you took care of your money and you can live comfortable. Then you can be all the activist you want to be, if that's what you want to do. But if you do the stuff he did, on tv, in front of everybody, you can expect to not play long. Call it racism or whatever. You are not going to play. I didn't know he hooked up with a muslim female. I'll have to check in to that. That puts a new wrinkle into the narrative.

It is bred into many on the so called christian far right. Btw they have tenets and beliefs similar to those mentioned in this part of the message board.