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That's funny.

  That is the Democrats mantra over the years. It is over, the Dems have control and the Republicans are finished as a party (or any individual).   I have been hearing of Rick Perry's demise every election. Even some Republicans claim "this is the year" we get another candidate. The latest was in 2010 when popular Kay Bailey Hutchison retired from the Senate to announce her candidacy for governor. On some forums that I read she was already crowned the new queen of Texas. Oops..... Hutchison was long gone at the end and was beaten by the "unpopular" Perry by 31% in the primary. So much for the queen.    Perry won his first election in 2002 with just under 58% of the popular vote. In 2006 with four candidates on the November ballot, he won a with only 39% as the votes were split over four people with Republican Carole Rylander/Strayhorn running as an independent when she lost the primary. She pulled almost 20% from Perry and he still outdistanced his closest challenger, a Democrat, by 10%.    In 2010 with the typical one Democratic challenger, Perry popped right back to 55% and a 13% margin over his challenger, the claimed savior of the Democrat Party in Texas, Bill White.    Perry was the longest serving governor in TX history and could probably been serving as long as he wanted. He lost almost no support (less than 3%) from his first win and his last.    It is the same when the Dems took full control over the US Congress with Obama's first term win. The same calls continued then and even today in this forum that the Republicans are dead as a party. Well that dead party took back the House in a fairly historic change of seats two years into Obama's presidency and will continue to hold it for the last 6 years of the Obama administration. The Dems are really worried that they may be about to lose the Senate also in November.    But the chorus is still the same, Perry/Republicans are all but dead. Maybe it is to try to convince people not to show up at the voting booth. You can bet that the national Democrats and the Texas Democrats don't think the GOP is all but dead and had Perry decided to run, it would not change. The best thing that has helped Texas Democrats is Perry stepping away after 14 years in office as at least now they can cling to a hope of a victory, slim that it is. 

Yes because it is (maybe for a change) a valid topic. 

  I have played in many softball leagues. 

I coached LL for a few years. We had a girl try out (I think the first girl to do so in our league) and my team drafted her. She started on the infield on my team and made the LL all stars. That was 32 years ago. Girls making the all stars is hardly new. The fact that it is more common place now is great.   Girls have played in the LLWS before, I think 17 before Mo'ne Davis.    It just makes me wonder how many people will read just the headlines and think she is the first female LL'er and ignore what others have done before her. This girl deserves her headlines but it is hardly groundbreaking (but I'll bet it sells a lot of SI magazines) . I makes me wonder if some of the others should have gotten more when they broke ground. Maybe had the internet been around back then they would have.   

  Actually most of this entire fiasco can be summed up in that three word statement. 

  Which is really all that matters. 

  Obviously you aren't thinking clearly. The officers could have shot him in the fingernails on his strong hand, causing him to drop the knife and give up. 

Any of the above.   With absolutely nothing to back it up except personal experience from so many years ago that it is probably not valid, the top two if it might be in saltwater. 

  I think a lot of these sidewalk commandos need to sign up for the next police civil service test and show us how it's done. 

  He probably ran home after the shooting and had his wife hit him in the head with a baseball bat to try and justify the shooting. 

If Brown tried to get the officer's gun and briefly walked away a few feet and then came back at the officer then in my opinion deadly force is justified. It is just as a jury ruled in the Zimmerman case when Martin was "unarmed" and just like a grand jury ruled when the off duty officer in Orange shot the "unarmed" man. That has not been shown yet. Unfortunately there are many people that do not know the law and/or do not care about the law as long as a political agenda is met.

.......... and Shepard Smith is the king idiot. 

  I have seen some of the most idiotic statements from Fox reporters and guests. 

  ......... or you could just go ahead and take "the" test, I think next month. 

  6'4 1/2" and 290

  A lot easier in a confined unit.    On the streets that may be armed and a guy is 6'5" 300........... 

  With 4-5 working at one time?

  Nowhere.

    What kind of admin?   We have departments under admin that might have openings like dispatcher. 

  ..... or he was 25 feet away lunging at you. 

  What does that have to do with the premise of the article? 

  Actually Michael Baden said it was from front to back. It entered near the right eye, existed at the jaw and went into the shoulder. That is not back to front. 

  One article said an "exchange" of gunfire. I think that implicates a shootout. 

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