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It’s killing me too. I want to say, “Man y’all aren’t going to believe this…….”.

We kind of jokingly now call EMS and the fire department, second responders. Something that changed from when I first started, it is a routine police call now to say be en route to a certain location for whatever, EMS and fire are staging three blocks away.

I mention my experience a lot of times but in almost four decades, I would have never guessed this. I suppose maybe I would if I was just trying to make up a bunch of different scenarios like if someone said, make up 20 different ways this might’ve happened, but just thinking about a person in a restaurant shooting someone, I would normally have never come up with this conclusion.

Okay, 2 men were shot….. 😂

I honestly do too. Actually I wish video would come out. WOW !!!!!!!!

Actually probably 4.

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I went to the police station for the first time in about 11 weeks since fighting off Covid (still a way to go physically) and spoke to a detective about the case. WOW!! Talk about an incident. With all the speculation I saw on various forums, I don’t think anybody could believe or guess this story. I have probably worked on 150 homicides and I would’ve never guessed this one I was wondering exactly what happened like everybody else. Was this guy in line to get chicken and just pulled his gun and started shooting or what? Inquiring minds want to know……. But for all the speculation on was this guy justified or did he endanger customers, why did he get involved and blah blah blah, all I can say is, WOW!!

In my 37+ years in Port Arthur, I have never seen a person defend themselves or someone else and get prosecuted. I have seen a lot of people claim self-defense when it obviously was not. There are several cases that I know of where it was clearly someone breaking into a home or robbing a store, etc. and none were prosecuted to my knowledge and not even close. It’s not like they had to hire an attorney to try and justify it. Of course it is not the police department that makes a judgment on self-defense or any criminal situation for that matter. That is done by the district attorney or having the district attorney present it to a grand jury. The police investigate and hand over their findings to the attorneys. On one case probably 25 years ago, somebody broke into an old man’s house through a living room window (I think but so long ago). Anyway my best friend was on patrol that night and came upon a dead man in the middle of the street and you could see that he had been shot. In fact there was a good blood trail and he followed it back up the road may be a block or so all the way to the window where the now deceased guy tried to break in. There was an old man sitting in the living room with a .410 shotgun. My partner said the other guy made a statement something like, “Officer, that guy broke into my house last night and I said by God if he tries it tonight I’m gonna shoot him. I let him get halfway through the window and then shot him “. The old guy had brought like a kitchen chair into the living room and just sat there and waited. He was going to stay awake all night to see if the guy came back… and he did. Cleared/justified.

Beauty to you, pain there the butt for the masses. I grew up with gardens (I loved dragging the garden house out and picking beefsteak tomatoes, rinsing and eating right there), going to farmers’ markets, had one stretch until late junior high school that we milked our own cow, how about 3 dozen chickens for eggs where we had to sell some because we couldn’t eat a couple of dozen a day….. It’s just hard to make time to do all that.

A woman called the police on 911 to have someone check on her son who was involved in a vehicle accident but checked himself out of the hospital. No problem, send in the Crisis Mobile Team. There is no need to send the police when someone is just having issues. We certainly don’t want to offend people by having them talking to cops with guns. The 50 year old man then kidnapped the women at gunpoint when they arrive to investigate what was happening and to help him. He held them hostage and stole their car, made them get gas and then eventually took the car for himself after he kicked them out. I am certainly glad they at least got out without physical injury. Of course if they would’ve sent the police, they may have ended up shooting the guy if he pulled a gun on them. The obvious solution to some people is to send in an unarmed crisis worker. I am sure for safety, they sent two women instead of just one. I guess two unarmed women is safer than one? The chief now says they need another healthcare worker in the dispatch office to evaluate and give information to the unarmed Crisis Team workers. That may work in some situation but how does it work in this case when the man’s mother had no clue what was happening and only that he had been in an accident. The dispatch social worker likely could have found nothing. If something was found like he might’ve been violent, they would have to end up sending in the dreaded police. I have seen the solution as seen by some people is not to send in the police because if there’s a violent confrontation the police will likely have to kill the person. So they will send in a crisis team but if that crisis team determines before they arrive by another member in the dispatch, they will end up sending in the people to speak with a violent person that they did not want to send him to begin with. I don’t know the solution but I saw a lot of predictions of this happening when the defund the police movement became all the rage. More and more some cities like Minneapolis ( who passed an ordinance to reduce their police force by 1/3 or something like that) will start sending you social workers to disturbance calls. Smart idea? Maybe have an officer stand by while a crisis worker makes initial contact? [Hidden Content]

If you think I was concerned whether you like something or not after reading my post, you read way too much into my statement. I never said anything about what you like or not and if fact I pretty much never comment on what somebody likes whether it’s music, food, clothes or whatever. That is their business. I say pretty much because some issues call for attention. If somebody wants to criticize young people for wearing their pants below their butt so all of their underwear shows, I might be prone to make a comment or two. 😂 All I was asking about is if you seriously would not choose a company because they serve a vegetable burger. As an example I gave, I absolutely hate liver but I love eating at Luby’s. One of their main dishes that people go there for it liver and onions. I’m not going to avoid them because I would ponder starving to death before I tried….. If you will not go there simply because they serve a vegetable burger, more power to you. It’s an opinion forum and I was just curious. It is hard to see people thought process or emotions on the Internet.

Sure it is. It just isn’t fast or easy. I’m not talking only about the cooking but the growing and raising.

I don’t have that much knowledge of medicine (but maybe more than average) but if I had to make a guess, I would say that natural antibodies are better than what you get from a vaccine. The intent of any vaccine is to make your body produce antibodies as if it had a disease. So your body is going to fight it one way or another whether it’s from having the pathogen in some form placed inside your body by vaccine (injection, inhaled, eaten) or you having it introduced naturally. So if you catch a disease and your body does what it is supposed to do and creates antibodies to fight it, I would think that what your body created to fight off the actual and likely serious disease would be better than your body created to fight off a modified pathogen such as mRNA or a weakened or dead strain of the disease as introduced into a vaccine. I could be wrong but it would make no sense. That would be using logic and maybe logic does not apply to medicine The statement, our organization is run by Covid money, makes me wonder what it ran on before that. Pfizer is about 170-year-old company. They are in it for profit just as any other free enterprise company. Five years ago Pfizer stock was a little over $42 a share. As of this afternoon it’s about $42 a share. Sooooo…….

I used to love Burger King and it was one of my favorite burgers, especially the Mustard Whopper. I loved their flame broiled patties, even if it was fake smoke. I have not eaten there in years, the last maybe 7 years ago in Nederland. That was after not eating there are several years prior due to the same problems. I thought I would give them another try since a family member wanted to eat there. All of the restaurants that I have been to had really crappy workers and they looked rather nasty and unclean inside. Nothing has changed. Maybe there are some still well-managed somewhere but I don’t think I will ever try them again. I don’t care about veggie burgers or vaccine cards (which I don’t have), they are just no longer appealing to me. I am assuming you can go through the drive-through without a vaccine card. It still does not appeal to me anymore.

Maybe you were making a joke, it is hard to tail on the Internet without emojis. But if not, why would you worry about what a company serves that you don’t like? I eat almost everything at least as far as common foods that many people don’t like. I don’t care if it’s broccoli, asparagus, any greens especially cilantro and almost anything else commonly eaten. I love most hot sauces and create some fairly spicy dishes. I cannot eat liver however. I wish that I could but it taste so disgusting to me and I can’t swallow it. I don’t avoid Lubys because a lot of people love their liver and onions and claim it’s the best. I just don’t buy the liver and onions. But maybe you were joking…

Thoughts: I don’t know the answer but….. That little snippet in the OP is almost meaningless. Maybe the article went out to explain it better but that first part is nonsense. it says that Tesla produced around 240,000 which was a 73% increase. Wow, shocking. GM WAS DOWN 33%!! According to that post, the 240,000 was a 73% increase. That means the previous year they produced about 140,000. Meanwhile in general motors in 2020 produced 6,800,000 vehicles. They are down 33% this year because of chips (claimed) which means they sold about 4,500,000. That means Tesla had enough chips to make 240,000 vehicles and GM had enough chips to make 4.5 million or 18 times as many. I was thinking investor was better at math.

Yeah. I would’ve had a non-prosecution or a plea deal worked out before any testimony since she is not required to testify. I mean they had her for perjury no matter what. If she completely shut up they could’ve still prosecute her. I haven’t looked it up in a while but I’m fairly certain the law on perjury says that if you give two conflicting sworn statements, the state does not have to prove which one is a lie. If one of them has to be then, it is perjury. So she had to make some kind of deal for her testimony, either as you say immunity or a very sweet plea deal like maybe Probation.

That article has to be some of the most bogus crap I have ever read. Notwithstanding the government is using it for politics and some people are using it to make money. That is one thing the article got right, the opinion that some people took a bad situation to use it to their advantage. It is still nonsense.

….. or maybe a better lawyer.

Several years ago we had a similar situation and the mother of one of the suspects lied to cover-up for her son. Because they were at least three people involved, she was charged with murder under Organized Crime.

You are trying to rationalize something but I’m not sure what it is.

I believe that is to qualify for parole. Parole is a, if you’re a good guy or girl, we will let you out early. it has been so long since I looked into that but they used to give “good days” meaning that if you did not cause any problems, you got a like an extra day credit. I believe it is to help maintain discipline. I remember back in the late 80s and maybe early 90s when the prison system was way overcrowded and Texas was under a federal lawsuit/mandate and they started giving like 20 for 1 good days.

I figured/knew it was half but I only thought a “life” sentence was considered 60 years, not when they gave an actual year. Yes, it will probably still be a life sentence.