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Also under Texas law of nuisance abatement, the property can be shut down for a year. I am not talking about just a business being removed but the actual property itself being closed for business.

The police per se have no official presence at those venues. The locations are responsible for their own security and they sometimes hire off duty (not OT) police officers. Those establishments that allow such behavior are breaking state law. They cannot stop an incident from happening, which is typically beyond their control, but by law if it cannot be handled like a bouncer removing someone, it has to be turned over to the police. Many of those locations tend to cover up what happens on their property, including outside of the doors which they are also responsible for. If they have an alcohol license, which is almost a certainty, they are violating their license agreement and can be shut down and/or fined. I have personally gotten a couple of alcohol licensed locations, suspended and on one occasion had the bartender sentenced to two weeks in the County Jail.

In what I watched of his speech, I think he asked what their equivalent to our speaker of the house, to suspend parliament on March 23. If I understand the Canada parliamentary system, that would force an early vote to what we would call the midterm elections. Much like our electoral college, they have to have a majority of members vote for the Prime Minister. They have something like five or six political parties plus independence and no one has a clear majority. For that reason they have to put together a coalition, which would be like the American Republicans teaming up with the libertarian party to try and throw out the Democratic party.

…. but not until they name the leader of the Liberal Party. He is still trying to maintain power for the Liberals. It’s like replacing Stalin with Khrushchev.

The Safe Harbor date was huge in G W Bush being elected in 2000 when Gore contested the Florida results and asked for a recount. The Supreme Court ruled that the Florida recount was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment. That was because Florida had no standard way of recounting the paper ballots. Was the punch tab counted as a vote if dented, partially punched (the famous hanging chad) or completely punched out? What might be a vote for Gore in one county might be a no vote in another. The Supreme Court voted 7-2 that the recount as undertaken was unconstitutional and therefore invalid. This could be rectified by having a meeting to determine a standard by which vote were counted and to get that information to every single person who had to hand count millions of votes with both a Republican and a Democrat representative, looking at each ballot. The Supreme Court voted 5-4 that it was too late in the process because of Safe Harbor to come up with a standard method and to hand count the millions of votes. The way I read the decision, it basically said that had they gotten together and came up with a procedure of a standard way to recount, it would be lawful. The Gore team argued so long in court by contesting the standard for recounting that they ran out of time because of Safe Harbor. Also, if I remember correctly, in dissent the liberal side of the Supreme Court said essentially, to heck with the law. This is so important that we can simply disregard Safe Harbor. 😝 Law? What law? Anyway, that’s the only Safe Harbor story that I can think of at the moment.

Done deal. There are actually four dates for a president to take office. 1. Election Day 2. Safe Harbor day or the date where a state’s electors must be certified. Basically, any court challenges or recount must be settled within the state by the Safe Harbor date. I think they list the Safe Harbor date as the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December. There are then about 6 weeks after the election to count the votes in any state and settle any issues. 3. Certification of the election on January 6th at a joint session of Congress. 4. Swearing in of the President.

It’s kind of interesting that all of the money that was spent on him from outside sources (I think over a million dollars for basically a local election) was to get him to win the Speaker seat again. That much money and influence didn’t come from people because of a safe Republican seat Covey’s big push (also with a lot of money behind him) as far as voters were concerned was to keep Phelan from repeating as Speaker. Although Covey didn’t win, the people who wanted Phelan out were in effect able to keep him from being the Speaker. Not directly but all of the ruckus that was raised almost surely had an effect on the Speaker race and him dropping out.

That person/woman is a lawyer?

Internet comments can be so entertaining. Looking at Facebook, one guy claimed that the officer broke the law by jumping into the vehicle to apprehend the woman. 🤣

I don’t use Allstate, but I’m not really sure what he said or meant.

The article says that the driver was arrested for Intoxication Assault. That is a proper charge but I think the DA may seek an indictment on Aggravated Assault/Serious Bodily Injury on Public Servant. That carries up to Life or 99 Years.

What’s that, three in a little over a week? It is not a record but geez. But they can happen anywhere……

👍🏼 🤣 It’s not a terrorist event…. it’s improvised explosive devices. HUH? Apparently IEDs have nothing to do with terrorism. IED in reverse is…….

According to KBMT, the deceased suspect graduated from Beaumont Central.

Never mind. It finally loaded. Hopefully that nonsense will change.

I can’t open the link but surely they didn’t actually rule that it wasn’t a terror attack. That sounds like partisan propaganda but that’s why I am asking.

🤣🤣🤣 That’s how you bring down stats. Just declare a fact isn’t true.

…. and the second attack at Trump Tower in Vegas.

I have heard all kinds of things. Supposedly a vet, possibly from Beaumont and so on.

Sugar Bowl postponed 24 hours.

At least 10 dead after a person with an Isis flag (reported by the FBI) drives into crowd in the French Quarter. Apparently that is a new tactic of using vehicles for mass attacks. They didn’t identify any religion or group affiliation (except Isis flag) but the perpetrator was identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar. He was terminated by the police….

Gingrich was all of it. Clinton was smart enough to go along with it. That is smart politics.

And the assault weapon ban. But, he did sign the last balanced budget as presented to him by the newly elected Republican House. Clinton was a realist and not so radically divided like now. He was on the left side of the aisle but not so far left as to not compromise with the GOP. I believe it was Clinton who signed the defensive of marriage act and also didn’t open the border.

Thank goodness they slipped Clinton in between them.

This obviously went over your headhead which apparently isn’t difficult. That’s why I responded to no one. It was a stand alone post of my opinion. It’s equally obvious that free thought confuses you.