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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. 

  I have to work right at two and a half months to make the same thing on the taxpayer's dollar. I would rather simply not show up one day and get the same thing.    I am liking that idea. 

Well, Zenobia Bush defends BISD on the grounds that all of this is racism.    Bush says that it isn't corruption but racism that is the problem.   I guess it was racism and not corruption that allowed Calvin Williams to bilk BISD for $4 million... then after he was convicted, rehire him. I guess it is racism and not corruption where the federal courts ruled against BISD on their election. I guess it is racism and not corruption where some BISD administrators are now on leave after raids by the FB (under control of Obama and Eric Holder) make it appears as though they are scamming hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars from the district. I guess it is racism and not corruption that might cause the TEA to take over the district soon. I guess it is racism and not corruption that has allowed BISD to be the only district in the state to not receive accreditation. I guess it is racism and not corruption where several thousand dollars are missing from the athletic booster club. I guess it is .................   From KBMT: "But not everyone wants Chargois to step down, several people spoke in his support, including Trustee Zenobia Bush, who says the district's problems don't stem from corruption, but racism."   Yep, no problems here except racism. I guess when all other cards in the deck fail...........    [Hidden Content]

I will not go to Longview for only $10,000.    I expect that check soon............... 

  You bet they do.    They want to live in a reasonably peaceful environment and have their kids actually graduate school with the ability to read and write basic English. They will drive where they have to in order to earn a living and then return to their safer haven.     But not so long many of those people that live in BC, Lumberton, Orangefield, etc., lived in Beaumont, PA and Orange. They didn't leave the city, the city and school districts left them.

  Several of the articles say that the investigators (cops) say that there was an argument. That to me leads me to wonder how much "fear" was involved as opposed to "anger".    Like I have said a few times though, you can be as guilty as ever if they don't have the evidence to prove it. 

I am about 50/50 on it. 

  I read several stories on it before I commented which is my usual practice. At least one of them (I remember one was from Fox News which is also the source in the OP) said that he went to the bedroom, saw the boy and then went back to get his gun. Several of the articles mentioned the ensuing argument, again giving a good chance that he and the girl told that he was invited in.    At least a couple involved interviewing neighbors that said that the kids had a saying not to go around that house because of fear of the father. I can  see that it was for good reason but it also might show some of the insight to a person that was enough of a loose cannon that the neighborhood kids talked about him. 

  Feel free to do anything that you believe you can get away with.   TX law does not allow deadly force for trespassing and this kid was not even doing that.    I have a hard time wondering why so many are fervently defending the father for killing what we know was an innocent kid. Maybe the kid lunged for the gun and caused his own death but short of that, I can't see a justification for killing him.    I can just about assure you that if this kid was the child of a parent in this forum, we should be seeing a huge difference and outcry on how a person that was guilty of nothing but having a stupid girlfriend got the death sentence by a guy that was in such fear for his child that he left the room to go get a gun and come back. If I thought that a guy was armed and a danger to my child, I have a hard time believing that I would leave the room, probably with my child in there that I claim that I am worried about.    Yes I am looking at it from a law enforcement standpoint and the law and I have said more than once this guy will probably get away with the shooting but that does not mean that what he did was right or legal.