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You beat me to that one. TDS is like Covid. A lot of people claim it’s fake but it isn’t.

Because of the utter moron running against him.

And I think only two of the six are Muslim or Arab.

How can 4 members of the House out of 435 force something to happen?

I have actually questioned a couple of dispatchers before, asking why they joined. I appreciate them donating money that we get to spend. I have heard them give the argument I gave above, they can be provided with a lawyer. Follow up was, yes but you have no rights other than federal law which is an EEOC discrimination in which case you don’t really need a lawyer. Our officers are covered by state law under civil service which covers hiring, promotions and all kinds of things and then by our collective bargaining agreement. Basically we have tons of rights and they have none except discrimination. But, I do appreciate their monthly donation to our association/union.

That’s what I talked about with our dispatchers. They can say, I am in a union. Can you bargained for wages? No. Can you bargained for working conditions? No. Can you vote on the police contract? No. Can you organize for collective-bargaining? No. But we are in a union..

I probably could’ve cut it short and said, anybody can call an organization what they want but only the police and fire in Texas can have collective-bargaining. We are like any other nationally accredited union in the country except that we cannot strike by state law.

If they cannot participate in collective bargaining, they have no union. You can call yourself a union and you can belong to an organization that pays to lobby or legal fees if you get in trouble. We had the same thing in the police department years before we went for collective-bargaining. We had no authority but the state police “union” would give us legal representation if we tried to organize and the police department tried to put a lot of pressure on us not to. I was at dues paying member of the national AFL-CIO…. yet we were not in a collective bargaining union at that time. But, we did have the authority to organize which we did a few years later. As an example some of our dispatchers belong to our association/union but they can’t bargain. They are also dues paying members. They cannot vote on our contract and are not affected by it, however being a member if they get terminated and they think it’s wrongful, the union will provide a lawyer. By being a member if they get terminated and they think it’s wrongful, the union will provide a lawyer. Simply put, they have no collective bargaining powers. That is reserved for first responders.

Like I have said a couple of times, there’s a lot to criticize in the city of Beaumont. That has nothing to do with people arguing with a private company on how much they will get paid. Again, except for police and fire there are no public unions in Texas. The city of Beaumont cannot negotiate a contract with the bus drivers. They are not city employees. The news article posted in the OP make it appear as the Beaumont in negotiating with their employees which is false. Beaumont is not negotiating and the employees are not hired by the city of Beaumont.

Everybody wants to be the first to know so they can text or Twitter or a post something on Facebook. “Hey, they just found his boyfriend dead with a suicide note. I KNEW IT!!!”.

Millions of people watch 48 Hours and other such investigative and particularly homicide shows. They are very popular. This is no different than the other shows except it’s playing out in front of their eyes. People are simply interested. Where did the crazy boyfriend go? Is the family helping to cover it up? Are they going to find him dead having committed suicide like about 90% of the people think is going to happen? Is he going to be cornered by the police and have a standoff and a shoot out? The border is not intriguing. Everybody knows what’s happening. There is no mystery like there is in the Gabby case.

The Democrats anointing Hillary and stacking the deck where she could not lose, created Trump. There is almost no way Trump would have won the election had the Democrats put up anybody other than Hillary but in the smoke filled back room deals, she was chosen. Trump with his obnoxious ways, created Biden. And truth be known, Covid created Biden. If Covid did not exist, Trump would have won a landslide but the fact is Trump put Biden in office. Biden will make this three in a row by likely creating the next Republican president. He probably will not even run if he even makes out his term but he is going to be so bad that he is going to drag Democrats down in the gutter. Have the Democrats had a decent vice president right now, Biden could always back out and have a chance to let the Dems turn things around however, they do not. Will the 2028 election returning things to normal with career politicians fighting career politicians? I think a lot depends on 2024.

Well, remains are Gabby and death is ruled homicide… [Hidden Content]

He is acting too guilty to be guilty? 😂

If this was a suicide, this guy must be the most stupid guy on the face of the Earth. Let’s see, my girlfriend killed herself so I’m going to act like nothing happened, refuse to talk with anyone when they realize that she has not been there for several days and then go in hiding… all while I had nothing to do with it.

But the drivers don’t have a dog in the hunt so to speak. They are hired by a private company just like many local drivers. Many of the construction jobs in this area have private bus companies that drive the workers to the job site like Hotard. It doesn’t matter how much the chemical plant makes, they are not working for the plant. That is the entire point of hiring a private company. They take care of all the personnel issues. You pay for a product and they are supposed to show up. As the press release that I posted above says, the city of Beaumont cannot be involved. I know the drivers want more money. Almost everybody does.

Then why hide it for several days, refuse to talk with the police when they finally find out she is missing and then disappear?

I think that almost all deaths are something other than the underlying factor. When people die of the flu, it is not because they have the flu. It is because they have COPD, congestive heart failure and other causes. The flu just pushes them over the top which is why the elderly more often die from the flu. It seems some people contribute secondary causes as a new phenomena under Covid.

Maybe it is maybe it is not. In my 60+ years on this planet I have never known a person to die of the flu. I have personally known seven people died of Covid. I have known several others that were hospitalized in critical condition. Add to the fact that at a 335 million people his country, almost 100% of them travel by vehicle. The numbers are not nearly so high for Covid. There is simply no comparing automobile deaths with Covid no matter what number should I use.

That’s a new approach. We need to get abortions so we can keep playing sports. Let’s see a professional athlete making a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year can’t afford birth control?

I called this a disservice by the news media. Anybody could look at that report and come to the same conclusion that you did. In fact they practically said it by calling them Beaumont transit workers which they are not. The news media somewhat of a joke (notwithstanding some good reporters) and they never explain anything and sometimes I think they don’t know either. I have done many interviews over the years on television, new specials, print media and hundreds of press releases. I can assure you that when you talk to them they sometimes never have a clue but don’t ask anything follow up. There is no problem not understanding a situation with something you’re not familiar with but that should be part of reporting, asking pertinent questions. “What do you mean by that” would go a long way. They just put what they think they heard and it might be totally bogus. I honestly don’t think they outright lie on purpose. There just seems to be very little investigative reporting, just filling up space in the news.

Let’s see, about 40,000 deaths a year an automobile accidents and 500,000 a year from Covid. Yeah that seems about the same. Not to mention practically everyone travels in a vehicle but only a percentage have had Covid.

I found this memorandum from the city of Beaumont from back in June. It clearly makes the statement that First Transit is a contract company and the union workers are in negotiation with that company. It goes on to say that Beaumont is prohibited from being involved in the negotiation. That is because like I said, public service unions are not legal in Texas except for police and fire. Again, there is a lot not to like about the way Beaumont is run but this is not one of those cases in my opinion. [Hidden Content]

I think it is an analogy. I don’t know but I believe that Blacks get abortions far greater than their population. I believe they are 12% of the population but probably receive 40-50% of all abortions. I think his reference is, you have a group of people that are advocating for the right to kill your own people You have a group of people that are advocating for the right to kill their own people at probably 400% more than your population. I think the analogy is, the unvaccinated are fighting like crazy for the right to remain unvaccinated and be more likely to die. At least that’s the way it appears to me.

It is obviously impossible to know but I believe that is very plausible.