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Identify or accusation politics. Even the accusations against Brett Kavanaugh were stupid. They started out with and keep referring to it as a sexual assault. No such accusation was ever made. Kavanaugh was said to be a drunk teenager at a party and kissed her and she what that meant and ran away. So…. a teenage boy was drunk, grabbed me and kissed me so I knew that he wanted sex so I ran away! OMG… tell me it isn’t so….. And tell me what the crime was. Then they had the FBI investigate the “incident”, a kiss… from 40 years ago?? If you say that a teenage boy either intoxicated or not, wanted to have sex with a girl, you would probably be correct about 97.5% of the time. That is how we are programmed as a species. Actually forcing sex is a terrible crime and it should be. But “wanting to”, especially as a hormone filled teenager? You would probably have to exclude 99% of males and 95% of females from public office. The insanity of Democratic politics.

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We are in reality days and you are wanting to end reality for technology that doesn’t exist and will not for a long time. We aren’t trading a horse and buggy for an automobile. We are only changing the propulsion. Let me know when you get this all EV public which can charge a car quickly, without shutting down the power grid and also do so relatively economically. It will be decades so I won’t live to see it. Mankind has been thinking of space travel since the late 1800s. Robert Goddard got a patent for a liquid fueled rocket in 1914. It took 12 years to actually launch a rocket and almost 40 years to get rudimentary rockets built to get a man into space. Then another decade to get us to the Moon and that was spurred by an intense race between super power governments dumping trillions in today’s money to get there. It took another 13 years to get the Space Shuttle flying in 1982. So it took about 100 years of planning and development to pull it off routine space travel. You are claiming to be ready to put the international space station in orbit but in reality you are in about 1955. Feel free to explain how we will get around for the next 15-25 years while this non-existent technology is hopefully developed. This is a horse and buggy discussion but you are the one in the buggy while claiming you are about to get into space travel.

“Will develop” is not very reassuring at this moment. If this was anything other than an anti-fossil fuel and money making scam/agenda, this concept would be blistered by the left. Like, WHAT DO MEAN that we will find an answer at some point in the future!!? Oh, it’s a green new deal item? EXCELLENT!! I don’t think anyone has a problem with an economical electric vehicle. Heck, why not more economical than oil based? Maybe in the future a way can be invented that makes EVs virtually free to run off of some new free electric energy source. I (and probably everyone else) would personally love a vehicle with almost no fuel cost. That isn’t in the near future however. Forcing a technology that is not ready and will currently do more harm than good under the heading of, it will eventually develop, would never be accepted except as part of a green new deal fiasco. This goes under the cliches like, throwing the baby out with the bath water and cutting your nose off to spite your face.

It is interesting to the point of it being at least somewhat revealing, if not completely factual. I especially wonder about how many drunk driving arrests were made within a year….. But they aren’t saints! 😂 And he doesn’t know how many people are in Congress.

The Taser has a couple of doors/covers that blow off when it is used. Then it scatters tiny confetti with the serial number of the Taser cartridge (so the police can identify who fired the cartridge in case of denial). Then there are the wires and cartridges themselves. All of that leaves things to be marked. With the article you posted, a witness claims to have seen a Taser used. That seems like it “may” have been the evidence markers that caused so much concern on Facebook with people thinking it was shell cases from a shooting. It seemed like a logical conclusion. BUT…. It could be something entirely different….. I wonder how many people know that the Taser cartridges have dozens of tiny pieces of confetti discharged that identifies the serial number on the cartridge and that officers have the cartridge assigned to them just as if the one use disposable cartridge was a firearm.

On the behind the scenes thoughts, I have been trained in several levels of the Nation Incident Management System/NIMS (as I believe all police and fire to at least basic levels) including command staff levels. NIMS and ICS was put in place after 9-11 showed so many flaws (more like a fiasco) in control of any incident. I have also been to critical incident command school at Texas A&M. With that, I might know 1% of what goes on. I understand much of it and some protocol but sometimes it is on a need to know basis and I don’t need to know. We can be assured that the train derailment is being looked at from every angle.

Headlines are (as we all know) almost always attention grabbing click bait and rarely completely true. 😆

You can bet that sabotage or a terror act is/was being considered. I was the shift commander one day several years ago. A woman saw a small duffel bag or satchel on the Veteran’s Bridge. No big deal right… but she said the suspicious package might be a…. and used the “B” word. The bridge was shut down, the fire department was on standby on the bridge and our emergency management was in the phone with Washington DC. The bag turned out to be empty. Bridges in this area such as Veteran’s, Rainbow, Purple Heart Memorial (Neches River in Beaumont), etc. are considered critical infrastructure. As such a potential device that could cause detonation is a major concern. When a highway is locked down in Jefferson County, Texas and Washington DC is on the phone with the military on standby ready to move in to secure the package because of it being unknown, we can bet that it is being looked at with a major and potentially catastrophic train derailment. There is much that goes on behind the scenes that we are completely unaware of.

All he is moving is the research division. The global headquarters and several million square feet plant are staying in Texas. The people that think up new toys are going to CA.

The photos show evidence markers which several people on Facebook say are shell cases. The chief however said that no shots were fired. There is virtually no way to cover up shots being fired, much less with the Rangers investigating and possibly family on scene. The Facebook lawyers say otherwise but I will go out on a limb and guess that those evidence markers are the plastic doors and/or barbs and wires from Taser cartridges or maybe something dropped by the deceased. I have been on scene when a guy believed to be doing drugs was hit with Tasers from my Street Crimes Unit. He didn’t make it either. I don’t remember what the autopsy showed. There is a term called excited delirium or agitated delirium. It is sometimes ruled as a cause of death but I think it is not universally accepted as a diagnosis among doctors themselves. This looks like it might be a case of a person going into cardiac arrest from some cause which could be without any injuries other than a Taser.

Your revisionist history is comical. The Africans and Vikings have no part in the history. Nice diversion however. Point out the schools that are teaching that there was no civilization in the Americas before Europeans arrived. OMG… schools are teaching that there was no civilization before Europeans showed up. How wrong!!! Yes, it would be Mr. Straw Man, if it was true.

Only because my mother used to talk about them. Was born and raised in Beaumont (graduating from Beaumont High School) and went to the games.

Ahhhh, yes…. the straw man again. I remember history in junior high school in the mid 1960s and I never heard anything near a claim that there was no civilization in the Americas before Europeans arrived. When did this become a teaching that Europeans were the first civilization in the Americas? It wasn’t taught 50 years ago when I was in school. The only perpetual lie is that this is being taught. And yes, Columbus did discover that there was a continent that was unknown to Asians, Europeans and Africans. Those continents were connected by land. They were not connected to the Americas. The Columbus voyages started what is known as the Columbian Exchange. Technology, foods, etc. began to be exchanged worldwide whereas much of it was unknown. As an example, today Italian food is widely associated with tomato based foods yet tomatoes came from native Americans. Prior to Columbus, there was no pasta dishes as we know them today. On the other hand, horses which are in many cased associated with some plains Indians in the Americas, came from Europe. There would have been no horse culture among some Native American tribes had it not been for Europeans. Those exchanges of cultures were started by Columbus. For I suppose for woke political purposes, that part of history is ignored.

Who has ever suggested otherwise? It wasn’t simply a one sided affair though. Virtually all slaves brought from Africa were captured and sold by Black Africans. Then in this country, some were bought by Black Africans. So we had Africans capturing Africans purely for profit and ended up selling them as a commodity to Africans. To act like Black Africans’ hands weren’t dirty in the process is ignoring history. If Blacks had not captured Blacks for profit, there would have been no African slave trade in North America.

There is no way to know all history. There have been many local “wars” and skirmishes throughout American history. Footnotes of history in a given area (like SE Texas) would take extensive knowledge like a master’s or doctorate. For every small community in this country, there are likely dozens of interesting stories of what happened in the past and many more lost to history. Not that it is hidden but how many people know that Port Arthur was founded and named for the founder of the Kansas City Southern Railroad? KCS today is trying to link with Canadian Pacific which if it happens, will be the only direct link railway system to join Canada, USA and Mexico. So possibly the most extensive north to south railway system in North America will be directly linked to the founding of Port Arthur, TX. Significant in US history? It should be but it likely won’t be and how many people even in this area know about it? How many people reading this forum? Black history, White history, Mexican history in the USA, etc. is just all history…. about 99.5% of which has been or will be lost.

But he had a more specific name…..

Anyone who commits mass murder is mentally ill. They are almost never insane. Yet again one that goes against “the narrative”.

In Texas and most states, this is probably not an issue, assuming the officers aren’t lying. I am also assuming there is plenty of car and body camera video. From what I read in a couple of different articles, apparently a guy was in a stolen car, the police chased him in a high-speed pursuit, they boxed him in and he rammed a couple of police cars to get away and as officers approached the car the suspect reached for a gun and that is when one officer used his shotgun! But he did not shoot the suspect. The officer hit him in the head with a shotgun in stock (butt stroke) to keep from shooting him. A blow to the head is considered deadly force just like shooting someone. Oh yeah, the gun turned out to be fake. But after the guy commits at least a couple of felonies and then reaches for a gun and gets only hit and taken into custody without serious injuries, it would seem like case closed. Job well done. Under that scenario I think an officer could’ve easily shot and killed the suspect and it would’ve been justified. Now…. If the police administration is just going through the steps to make sure the officers did not lie and did not try to cover up an illegal act and if this incident is as it seems, it should be a short investigation clearing the officer. The news articles mentioned the homicide unit and the district attorney showing up to investigate the officer for deadly force. That is okay but hopefully they are not looking for a police sacrificial lamb to appear more woke. [Hidden Content]

It worked…..

Ha… I just read an article on the chief. She was on one of the network morning shows in 2021 and called for “sweeping changes and police reform” after the George Floyd incident.

I keep reading (including on this website) there is more to the story, etc. Yep, poor hiring practices, police administration and supervision. Count me as not shocked that they may have been implicated on earlier abuse. The city should be taking a hard look at administration starting with the chief.

Then sent to an appeals court and by July we still won’t have a winner…..

I know that you have no counter-point but thanks for playing. Your claimed slow implosion will not sway any voters to the left side of the planet. It might change primary votes to another candidate (unlikely) but that won’t implode the GOP.

In the mid to late 1980s, Miami PD was lowering standards and wanting the push for minority officers. Part of the results was what was later called (I think) the River Cops and possibly others. About 20 or so Hispanic officers were running basically a mafia type operation within the police department. Murder, extortion, robberies, drug sales, etc. It led the discovery of more corruption and abuse. But they got their Spanish speakers…. I think we might be seeing the same thing starting to happen again. Imagine if there was a shortage of doctors and they wanted to target a demographic no matter the qualifications and accepted people who were not qualified in order to fill a slot.