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Limited immunity perhaps?

That is a huge number for one organization. I know (working in the system) that others might avoid arrest or having charges filed by turning into state witnesses to go after higher ups.

Like Sears, Woolworth, KMart and others, at one time they were innovators and set trends but could not or would not change to keep up with the market and middrn trends.

I doubt that Walker gets the nomination but if so, this is politics. What does Perry bring to the ticket for votes?

Why Perry?

Any business whether public or private can have a crooked person working for them. That alone has no reflection on the organization. So far maybe half a dozen people have been indicted at BISD. Those numbers alone or almost staggering in my opinion.

Technically it was a school shooting. Realistically it was just a murder suicide thing could happen anywhere.

Yes, that is commodity speculation. It is almost like day trading and trying to guess future prices. Worker's salary and benefits have very little to do with the cost of gasoline at th pump. That was my only point.

The militarization of police is mostly nonsense. I started on SWAT almost 30 years ago and we had those same weapons. The difference is that the city/county/state had to purchase them outright. I carried a full auto machine gun (Galil) but it was purchased by the city I work for. Now the federal government is giving away or loaning surplus gear which is exactly the same but it saves local taxpayers the expense.    The local police are not getting M1A2 Abrams tanks, not getting Stinger missiles and not getting F-15 Strike Eagle jets. What most people are calling "military" does belong to the military but can be purchased by almost anyone. It is millions of pieces of surplus goods that have to be stored, destroyed or given away. My city has a huge piece of military surplus..... a standard tanker truck that we see dozens of every day on our local streets. We have it on standby in case of another event like a hurricane so we can fill it and have enough fuel to run the city for a few days. Wow, we are almost like the First Armored Division. Better move out of the way!!! 

I don't see how plant workers and their salaries are bothered at all by current crude oil prices no matter what they are. I had a friend in the business that just retired after about 35 years at a local plant and he said that when his unit was running at full capacity, in 2-3 days they ran enough product to pay all of the operators on that unit for a year.    Prices are currently around $50 a barrel. That is $50 for 42 gallons of crude or about $1.19 a gallon.   That is when it leaves the ground. It has to be shipped, processed, had additives added to it, shipped again to a gas station and they get their final product. TX adds a 20 cent a gallon tax and the federal government adds another 18.4 cents. So we are paying a bit over 38 cents a gallon just for tax.    That means you have a gallon of unrefined crude at $1.19 and 38¢ added by government or a total of $1.57 a gallon..... before you add in shipping at least twice, refining, additives, profit for the oil company and profit for the end seller. At $1.90 a gallon that least about 33¢ a gallon to ship, refine, ship, sell.    How is a union worker (which I am not) adding much to the cost of a gallon of gasoline? I am guessing that maybe 5-10¢ a gallon goes to paying workers. If they worked for nothing, that would mean that a $1.90 a gallon of gasoline would go down to $1.85.    I am just not seeing a strike or salaries as an issue. I might put a "scare" or a claim that a strike is out there to try and justify it in a public relations move but in reality worker's salaries have little to do with oil prices. When you consider that oil in crude form and taxes makes it $1.57 or so to start, that doesn't leave much to the shipping companies, workers, wholesalers, private stations, etc. Oil makes their money on volume.    As a nation from all uses of oil, we consume almost a billion gallons a day. If I only make 10¢ per gallon profit, that is $100,000,000 a day profit or $30 billion a month. If I could sell that many cans of Campbell's Soup at Walmart a day (1 billion), I could make only 1¢ a can profit and still have almost $40 billion at the end of a year..... again, at 1¢ per can.    Explain to me how hourly workers have anything to do with price other than a convenient blame game which is a fallacy? 

    Make it white chocolate w/ macadamia. 

  Let's see, you say that it would creating taxing marijuana and then put...   Tax revenue - Check   What does check mean if not to endorse taxes?    Then try to explain it away when personal freedom is checked and the other two on less taxes on court. It looks like you are denying what everyone sees. 

  The first mistake that you made was your claims of conservatives. Since when are they in favor of higher taxes? Since when are they against law and order and keeping non-violent offenders out of jail?    Try coming up with a statement that makes sense, then maybe you can get an answer. 

  Into hyperbole much? We have 10 "every day" for the last "5 years"?   A quick look at this political forum and we can see that in the last week 5 anti-Obama threads have been started by one person, Smitty. In that same time frame 6 anti-Republican or conservative threads have been started by you are New Tobie. Let's see, 7 days times 10 per day should be.... about 70 new threads, not 5. Then take into account the opposing viewpoint and the liberal/Democratic side has started more.    A straw man argument is hereby defined in this statement. 

  More like two people. Is that what you base your opinions on?   Do you want me to show you videos of sitting Democratic members of Congress that think an island can sink or that there are two Viet Nams and that we "won" the war? I suppose that proves that all Democratic congressmen are stupid..... or is it just a few?

  You are putting the cart before the horse.   We don't know yet. In early 2006 how many people had even heard of Barack Obama and who thought that he would be the nominee, much less the president?    You are demanding an answer that the Democrats did not have when Bush was the president and two years out from the next election. In fact as much as people want to hang their hats on Hillary, who else do the Dems have? If she decided not to run, then what? 

What is a "non-operational" handgun?

We have had them here before. 

  A standard general statement when someone doesn't have an answer. 

I am sure the officer got a description like a guy that is 5'11", 185 pounds with a blue shirt with beige jogging pants and saw a guy that was about 5'11", about 185 pounds with a blue shirt and beige jogging pants and SHOULD HAVE said, "Hey, that guy looks like a 3rd year chemistry major at Yale and can't be the guy I am looking for".... but NOOOO, he has to stop and harass the guy to find out if it is in fact the suspect.    The officer must not have had much experience. I can usually look at people and instantly tell their criminal record if any, what school they are attending if any, their date of birth, their address and any other pertinent information. There is rarely any reason for me ever to detain someone because an experienced officer at a mere glance can tell everything there is to know about someone. 

  That is some of the best food ever conjured up by mankind.    Where else can you get unidentified meat, a nondescript barbecue sauce and black pepper and onions into such a delicacy? 

Maybe the awful food had a lot to do with the awful finances.    Except for the McRib...............

  It probably did not really happen and was photoshopped to throw up a smoke screen. 

  Also note, if Texas carried the nation away from the recession (which is very likely) but with Texas now facing layoffs due to the low oil prices, if they then lose all those jobs, will it put the nation right back into a deeper recession and higher unemployment?  Since Obama is claiming victory (which would not exist without Texas) for the US economy spurred by the Texas boom, will he then claim the coming attraction if the Texas economy fails? 

  I guess that was why bg was laughing so hard.... "Oh yeah, the oil boom".   Imagine that for Texas. Who'd have thunk it.............