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  Come on man...... I distinctly remember BD vehemently defending George Zimmerman saying that he was innocent until it could be proven otherwise. 

The problem is that most of the people committing these crimes are not reading the newspapers...................... 

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The way things are going, I wonder if the name "The Butch" will remain on the stadium on IH-10 or how soon it might come down? 

The state may not have to take over. If people keep getting arrested, there will be no one left.  :D

  I have no doubt that some are having the same conversations. The difference is that in some communities, speaking out against the party line will draw immediate and vile accusations that most are not willing to face and it will come from within that very community. 

  .......... and what was happening. Unless his job as the person that is second in charge of a huge district with hundreds of employees is only to play tiddlywinks in his office while Rome burns, he had to know that something was amiss. He might not have known about any criminality but he must have been blind or completely uncaring if he couldn't see millions of dollars disappearing and improprieties happening.    It is not like this was a stunning set of revelations. The accusations of wrong doing and/or poor management have been there for years but because it may have some from the wrong neighborhood, it was ignored (and still is) under the guise of racism. 

  Here is the problem that I have with the often stated, "If they are old enough" answers.   Because a very limited few people volunteer to take a risk, do you really want to be on the roads with a new crop of 17 year old kids that can now legally drink? It seems that we are trying to lump all people in with a few that are willing and mature enough to serve their country.   The "old enough" arguments really have no bearing on reality of life.    Also for those putting their lives on the line, I believe that once outside of the country, 18 is the minimum wage. A cook in the Air Force that never leaves TX is hardly putting his life on the line. If called to duty overseas, then he can drink at 18 when he actually is "putting his life on the line".    To take the reverse of the very few that are willing to take the risk and therefore "all" 17 or 18 year old people should be able to do whatever, think of this. In TX you can be criminally certified as an adult at 14 years old. Although it is only a limited few people have that happens to (just like joining the military), it is possible for any child so let's just lower all ages to 14. Perhaps we should then end child molesting if the "child" is at least 14 and consents to sex. So if the 35 year old neighbor talks your 14 year old daughter into sex, who cares? A 14 year old can go to prison so no matter how immature, they should be able to consent to anything... right? How about a 15 year old signing a contract? And if they can do all of these things that they have been deemed by some as having earned by age, can the parents legally abandon them at those ages?    The "old enough" argument, while on the face of it seems interesting, opens up a can of worms that a majority of people will think is ludicrous. 

I can see them banning the sale on base or ship. I can't imagine the banning of its use. 

    Just like with Calvin Walker cheating them out of millions of dollars and even when discovered, they wash their hands of it, act like it never happened and then renew the same criminal's contract.    Of course their, "Let's live and let live" attitude might change if the people involved were of a different demographic. It is sometimes amazing how quick the same people are to point fingers when it is someone else and completely dismiss it if it involves "your own".    Gwen Ambres is a perfect example of someone not liking the good ol' boys club until she in the the club and why BISD cannot and will not solve their own problems until someone forces it or takes over. 

  Who cares? Maybe 80 million American Catholics.    Isn't birth control a great thing? You bet it is. In fact about 70% of Christians are in the various Protestant versions and have no problem with birth control and that means a majority of all Americans. What those protestants believe in is religious freedom and not in the beliefs of the Catholic church. They believe that their fellow Christians have the right to choose for themselves what services that they give their employees, not the federal government and they believe that it is a violation of the First Amendment. 

I have read two articles about this poll and the report or the responses make excuses about people needing to actually be here to know what it is like. Maybe like outside press is hurting us.   In both articles that I have read, apparently the people are missing the part that says they gathered the data by calling people in the actual area and asking how it was. This was not one of those polls where somebody or group in a room tucked away in Des Moines, IA made some kind of arbitrary decision based on perception. They called the people "here" and got the negative responses. 

  Yep, I understand that. Just like I can be suspended from work for something that is not even a crime.    But in this case, they took a guy's livelihood away for at least three years for something that is a crime. His claim in the media is that the other person "recanted". That means the person made a second statement that the first statement was false.    That leads me to only two questions. If she actually recanted or claimed that it never happened, why would he then sign a document admitting guilt or is he simply lying and the "victim" did not recant the story?

So now the hired/fired/now suing future/past head coach for Ozen says that Chargois discussed his previous suspension and HR, AD and Ozen principal may have been in the room.   The question that I had as a police officer was that if the state suspended Atkins' teaching license, why wasn't he charged in a crime? Now Atkins says that the suspension was dropped after the student recanted the story and that was discussed in his hiring process.   And now he is going to sue probably the district and Chargois personally.   And the hits just keep on comin'...........     [Hidden Content]

Obamacare is a great modern example of why any form of socialism and many liberalism ideas do not work. It depends on going against human nature.

It appears that much of the opinions that take up for BISD's transgressions is melanin based. 

  Well the Dems are going to need such a surge because Walker won by 120,000 in his 2010 election and then in the recall against the same guy, increased his lead to more than 170,000.    That was before is was shown that cutting taxes for the middle class has helped them keep more of their own money.    The union whiners with their marches on the capital lost ground.    And I am currently in an AFL-CIO union and have been a past union vice president. 

And the hits just keep on comin'..........

  Not liking someone is racial?    I know this is hard to figure out but you do have some truth in what you say. The Republicans need to distance themselves from Nugent because the voters in the liberal block can't seem to tell the difference between a guy that has never held any political office and is a rock star from an actual politician that represents the party.    I wonder if the Democrats want to endorse the things that Rev. Wright or Kanye West have said about this country? I know they have never held officer but between them have said things at least if not more vile than Nugent. 

  I did not mention Mid-County but if you want.....   Yes, Nederland dropped less than 1% or 150 people according to the 2000/2010 US Census.     Port Neches and Groves together lost 285 people between the two cities of a combined population of 29,000.    Mid-County with a total of 47,000 people lost a grand total of 435 from 2000 to 2010 or about 14 people per year per city. Stunning right, around one person per month. Port Arthur on the other hand with about 54,000 or not much more than Mid-County, lost almost 4,000.    Your point... remembering that only you brought up Mid-County which I grant will shrink as PA encroaches on them.    Also remember this is a school districts thread, not of city size. Mid-County in the two high schools has a 2013 enrollment of over 2,900 and PA with 7,000 more people in the city has only 2,270 students. Hmmm... the smaller Mid-County has 600+ more students than the larger PA?  It looks like retired people might be moving out or dying off in Mid-County (barely) but not the families with students.    The population of Lumberton on the other hand has increased more than 35% while Orange with now only 18,000 or barely more than Nederland has lost 1,500+.  And if you further want to toy with numbers, BISD showed a total HS population between the three high schools of 5,432 students. Beaumont has a population of 118,200 or about 2.5 times the size of Mid-County. At that rate, BISD should have 2.5 times as many students as the two Mid-County school or about 7,250 students.    Hmmm.... for some reason they are almost 2,000 students short.  Care to compare any more numbers?

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  Many or most districts have abdicated their control of campuses from the ISD to the local cops, whether it is a district PD or the local PD that is contracted to come in.  It has become so rampant that the state just passed a law curtailing much of that action and stopped the police from doing routine school punishments at the request of the district. 

I am not so sure that I would want him appearing either at the city's festival. His language alone is enough for me to keep him away.    At a concert for paying customers that is not associated with the city, great. I'll bet that the Nederland Heritage Festival would not want him at one of their open air and free concerts with his continuous use of the F-Bomb and other such tidbits.    I agree with him on most of his political stances and in particular most of his pro-gun and anti-Obama rants but it is still not what I want an 8 year old kid to listen to or to have the city endorse. If a private promoter wants to bring him in just for a concert, go for it. 

  I agree that force never looks pretty. There is no way to shoot someone, hit someone with a baton, slam someone on the ground, etc., without it looking bad.    This case looks bad because to me it appears that he pushed his arm in the wrong direction. Was it on purposes?    I can't tell.   I know the TX law on that says that you "Intentionally" committed the act. Even under TX murder law, if you only "knowingly" kill someone (meaning no intent but you knew that it was possible), it is still murder. It takes no "intent" to kill, only that your act was dangerous. In the law on use of force, it takes an "intentional" act and merely knowing that such a result might happen is not a crime.    Inflicting pain is a part of taught use of force. After all, what is hitting someone, striking with a baton, using a Taser or using pepper spray than inflicting intentional pain?    With that in mind, did this officer intentionally break the arm or was he inflicting pain or trying to gain control over him and the arm broke?    I don't know. I know that it doesn't look good but I also would hate to be in that position because I have cranked on people's arms to get them to give up and have never broken one.