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  1. I typed something similar last night but never posted it. YEAR: 2075, the children who were in 1st grade at WOS in 2022 are now grandparents and… WOSHS is looking for a new head football coach. There is concern in the community however because Dan Hooks scheme might change if an “outsider” is brought in. But…. wasn’t Hooks an outsider?
  2. The fair way to do it is to eliminate the property tax and go with an income tax. That thought however it’s repugnant to most people, especially those who do not own property. I believe the Texas Constitution forbids an income tax so it’s not merely a matter of enacting a law, the Constitution have to be changed. That would take an election of the people and I can just about guarantee that people will not want any income tax and again, especially those who do not own properties.
  3. It is highly unlikely. Percentage wise it was not that many people and generally speaking, the homicide rates dropped after Katrina and then Rita. The other major crimes have remain virtually unchanged from 2006 to today.
  4. Because homicide is the most violent it is what everybody thinks about when mentioning crime, not shoplifting at Walmart. However….. If you read my post I mentioned all major crime. Beaumont has a 200% higher than the national average and Port Arthur has a home 150% higher than the national average. That is not homicide but burglaries, sexual assaults, arson, etc.
  5. I started to make a comment about that possibility…….. As in, what was the motive?
  6. I have to wonder at the level of stupidity. It isn’t because some teenagers got something to drink. OMG!! Shocking!! Uhhhhhh……. No. For two people in their position however, what were they thinking? Let’s see, surely these teenagers will keep their mouths’ shut and not talk to anyone about what’s happening and thereby causing us to lose our careers and become criminals. It should be a crime just to be that stupid……. They should have been charged with two crimes. One for giving alcohol to minors and a second for being an almost unbelievable level of stupidity.
  7. Apparently it is not widely accepted because that half of the argument all along. If a person had Covid and it was confirmed by both diagnoses and antibodies, why should a vaccine be forced to keep a job? I am against the force 100% anyway but the federal government makes no exception for a person that has had Covid and recovered. So if they inject you with a created serum so that your body will produce antibodies to fight off the disease, why are the same antibodies naturally created no good? It sure gives a strong argument that it is about people control, not disease survivability.
  8. Insurrection in this case is hard to prove because it didn’t exist. The analogy makes no sense because both examples given are the same crime which is a class C misdemeanor or the equivalent of a traffic citation.
  9. It sucks when you chase a guy down and murder him…..
  10. Now suspect in custody. Loud bang…..Flash bang?
  11. I just read a report that the two hostages were released. A suspect is inside of the apartment and (according to Kevin Steele) a loud bang was just heard.
  12. Might be willing to make a deal on some of those colonies…. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland…. We might take a wait and see on Virginia and Pennsylvania. Right now North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia can get a pass.
  13. Back to the original topic…. You have to be a special kind of stupid to even remotely compare Pearl Harbor and 9-11 to the protest on January 6. 2021 or… your party is in a desperate situation and you were hoping that much of your base has no clue what you were talking about and accepts your lies as fact. It should be relatively simple because many people of voting age today were not born when 9-11 happened or were too young to recall it. I doubt you could get anywhere past single digits percentage of the population to explain what the attack on Pearl Harbor was to anyone under 35 years old and probably older. So let’s go back and make a comparison. I think in 1937 The Japanese invaded China in order to take over the country. Prior to that they invaded and conquered Korea in 1910. United States and others protested the killing and slaughtering of millions of Chinese including women and children. The Americans put economic sanctions on Japan to stop the slaughter of millions and for that the Japanese performed a sneak attack on the United States, a country that they were not at war with and had diplomatic relations, with the intent to cripple the American Pacific fleet and keep the United States from interfering with their slaughter of more Chinese. In Hawaii a little over 2,200 people were killed. What is not often mentioned in history is that the Japanese also attacked other American bases around the world including in the Philippines, Wake Island, etc. It was not merely an attack at Pearl Harbor but it’s several other United States military installations. The attack on Pearl Harbor was the biggest that drew the attention of the public. So we had a foreign government kill several thousand Americans in several sneak attacks. On 9-11-01 a sneak attack was performed by at least 19 foreign nationals. These attacks killed over 3,000 people. Apparently the current administration wants to compare those attacks by another country or y foreign nationals to a protest that occurred on January 6, 2021. In that protest, which was by American citizens and not a foreign government or foreign nationals, the protesters killed…. well they didn’t actually kill anyone. The sad part of it is not that they disgustingly compared those two attacks with the protest. We can likely understand even insane politics. The really sad part is that they are probably 30-40% of Americans who don’t understand it and probably believe it’s true. “Well, Kamala Harris said it’s just like Pearl Harbor so it must be really bad…..”.
  14. Maybe cows do not get hiccups and if you identify as a cow, the problem is solved…. 😂
  15. Apparently the new district attorney in Manhattan believe that crime such as resisting arrest, armed robbery, certain sex crimes and so on need to be prosecuted as misdemeanors. There is no need to give a person a felony criminal record if he is holding people hostage at gunpoint. After all, armed robbery is really not much different than stealing a DVD at Walmart…. [Hidden Content]
  16. Ridiculous. Beaumont seems to have been more violent in the last few years. It seems like a rising crime trend. Sometimes it may appear that way because of what is actually put in the news as opposed to what really happens. Maybe it’s always been bad but lately more incidents make the headlines….. These kinds of crimes run in strings however. It was maybe 10 to 12 years ago that Port Arthur had 5 homicides in January (I was the on scene supervisor on 4). To put that in perspective, in 2019 the FBI reports nationwide that we had five murders per 100,000 people. That means Port Arthur should get 5 to 6 per year on average by population. So that year Port Arthur made their predicted average in four weeks. If that continued the city would have been 1,200% above the national average. I think they ended up with 9 on the year. So they had 5 in one month and then 4 in 11 months. Serious crime is like that. After writing that…. I just looked up the Beaumont FBI/UCR reported crime stats. They are complete through 2019. Homicides in 2019 were 16/100K or a little over 300% higher than the national average. Going back to 2013 it consistently runs 250-300% higher than the national average. Port Arthur has almost identical per 100K stats as Beaumont except in 2018 where they were 500% above the national average. To put that in perspective, everybody talks about the Chicago murder rate which is very high but in 2018 their homicide rate was 20% lower than Port Arthur. As far as perception, I see a lot of comments on Facebook and other forums that say something like, crime is the same everywhere. Since we were talking about homicide which is considered the worst crime, in a 14 year period ending in 2019: Nederland/Port Neches/Groves (Mid-County) had a combined 14 homicides or 1 per year combined. Port Arthur had 96. Mid-County has a combined population 20% lower than Port Arthur. So comparing by population Mid-County would have had 17 homicides. 96/17 (almost 700% higher) in cities that share common boundaries. Beaumont had 183 homicides in the same time frame. Again going by percentages in comparison of population, Mid-County would have 54 homicides so 183/54. So Beaumont only had a homicide rate 340% higher. There seems to be an upward trend in Belmont however. In a five-year period starting in 2006 they averaged 9 homicides per year. In the nine years after that they are averaging 15 per year. So there has been about a consistent 50% increase in homicides in Beaumont for the last decade. Robberies, assaults and sexual assaults have remained relatively static. While the homicide rate has spiked, other major violent crimes have not shown such an increase. Beaumont is consistently runs by 200% higher than the national average on major crime. Port Arthur runs about 150% higher. Mid-County combined runs about 10% lower.
  17. I have spoken out against almost everything to do with mandating this vaccine. However, just because an educated person makes a claim of something unlawful (lawless) because of a law or code that does not exist (other than a suggestion), I have to call nonsense.
  18. The NC was a suggestion. While the suggestions make for interesting reading, there is no law or treaty to validate or violate anything. It would be like me arresting someone because his/her vehicle does not get 35 miles per gallon in the city minimum. When the person tells me, there is no such law I could respond, well someone suggested it…….
  19. A part of 9 Super Bowls as a player with the Dallas Cowboys, and assistant coach for the Dallas Cowboys and the head coach of the Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons. Reeves what is part of a group of players in the 1970s, many of who are in the Hall of Fame.
  20. The police officers act as private security but with the policing authority of the state. If you see a uniform police officer anywhere other than in a patrol car, it is likely that he/she is working off duty for someone else. This is the same NFL that banned off-duty police officers from carrying a concealed weapons into NFL stadiums, although completely legal. That is, except Texas because that rule is a violation of the law in this state.
  21. But there is no Nuremberg Code. You cannot violate what is not law.
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