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That is where I first started eating nachos and with “real” jalapeños, not the mild Texas A&M peppers today. A couple of mugs of beer and 4 large nachos covered in jalapeños. Awesome…. until next day.

…. But I don’t think that is going to happen.

I realize that you don’t have an answer and honestly don’t expect one. Under your premise we should have this problem solved in about six more months. I am going not very far out on a limb to say that in six years it won’t be solved. So let’s go back two years for when Biden took office. Certainly this has been an issue much longer than that with the new green deal but let’s keep it simple. If we start with a single value of 100 as in 100% of knowledge known at that time. In six years we should have 128 times the knowledge as we did in January 2021. Contemplate not twice the knowledge and not eight times the knowledge but 128 times more knowledge than existed a mere two years ago. Surely any issues with disposing of batteries to not nearly enough of an electricity grid to affordability should be a thing of the past. Imagine the technology expanding to 128,000% increase. Amazing!! We should all be driving reasonably fair priced EVs with little cost to operate and put almost no strained on the new and massive and cheap electric grid. The contamination to this new green environment from the past extremely toxic batteries should be solved also. I can assure you that any skeptics like me would love to be wrong. I would be ecstatic to buy a $40,000 EV that costs almost nothing to operate, will not cause blackouts and have the side benefit of cheaper home utilities. You cannot contemplate how much I would love to be wrong. I imagine the most hard-core right wing critics reading this forum would love to be with me, saying oops, you got it done.

I got that but what is fake? Meatless or plant based hotdogs? I agree that tofu dogs would be fake and disgusting and I like tofu.

No but you weren’t accusing White people of lynching White people and selling their babies. Toss in the president raping his half sister who was a slave. What was she half of… half New York White person and half Virginia White person? Nice try but anyone who reads your comment and thinks that you were not talking about race or color is as stupid as the comment.

Does that include the Black slave owners who did the same in this country and the Black slave owners and captors in Africa who captured and sold their own people for profit? Black history seems to be a popular topic which is great but the evil side is ignored. There would be no African slave trade without willing Africans taking control over who gets sold. “You people” is a mighty broad brush.

Yep… one to grow on!! I actually laughed out loud…. 😂

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.

Fake?

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”.