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A true what the heck moment. An 18 year old student, who signed a scholarship to play football in college, is a star on the basketball team (about to play Beaumont United coincidentally) in the state championship tournament …. decided it was a good thing to bring a gun with him and throw it in his gym bag. It went off and shot another student in the foot. She other went surgery and is on the way home. So now he may be facing up for 20 years in prison and losing his free college…. because maybe he wanted to be cool? What dangers did this kid perceive while with a team in a heavily guarded event that he felt he needed to bring a pistol with him to a basketball game? I have a hard time believing that he actually felt he was on some grave danger. [Hidden Content]

There is generally no issue with females moving to male sports. There is usually such a physical difference that there is no unfair advantage, at least after puberty. I coached in Little League in the early 1980s and had a 12 year old girl on my team and if I remember correctly, she made the All Stars. This was 40 years ago folks and nobody cared. That is because she had no unfair advantage. Once the guys’ voices started getting deeper and stubble started growing on their faces, her equality and skills went away. So women crossing over into men’s sports, even when they can, seems as equal at best. Men crossing into women’s is anything but equal. In practically any professional or college level sport, the top women probably would not crack the top 500 for men. There is just that huge of a disparity in strength. I think all you have is a bunch of male losers who cannot compete against their own level of competition so wish to bully a weaker person. Let’s say a male was number one in the world in a sport such as for example the 400. He had record setting times and is on the USA Olympic team for the next Olympics. He is an overwhelming favorites to win the gold. Is he going to opt out and run as a woman because he has feeling feminine or gay or transgender or whatever? I think not!! So yes, let’s allow them to have their own competition. It can be like the minor leagues in baseball, JV in football, the men’s softball league, the everybody gets a trophy league or whatever.

After being a cop for almost 4 decades, I see a lot of humor (as probably do ER nurses, EMTs, doctors, etc.) in a lot of situations that other people might think is sick. I don’t ever recall having a desire, even in jest, in making such a comment about a beautiful woman who was brutally was murdered by an abusive husband. At least it is anonymous…….

The judge DID NOT give him 30 years. There was no punishment phase of the trial and it was about to be argued and then go in front of the jury. During the lunch recess, a plea deal was reached between the DA and the convicted murderer. This is my opinion on that plea deal…… Yes it was a light sentence. I would have likely not accepted the deal as the DA without at least 50 so he would have 25 to do minimum. Of course that is easy for me to say sitting in my house watching it on YouTube. However….. It is always a roll of the dice in front of a jury. A jury with a little sympathy could have given him 10 years and then probated that so he would actually do no time in prison. I watched it live on YouTube and I think there was nine women on the jury. Would that tend to show sympathy? So the DA could accept a 30 year sentence as opposed to risking a potential probation. I think the number of women could have actually worked against him also. That is the roll of the dice. I think I saw four or five black women on the jury. That could be the wildcard either way. The DA might have seen them as having sympathy for the black defendant however….. They and the other women might have had just the opposite effect. There is a reasonable chance that the women either have a relative or a friend who is going through or has gone through abuse just like the murdered woman was claimed to have gone through. Rather than being sympathetic toward the convicted murder, they might have been the ones that wanted to throw the book at him. The murderer, who up until he was found guilty was proclaiming his innocence, as part of the plea deal agreed to file no appeals and the verdict would stand as final along with the sentencing. So the murderer and/or his attorneys looked at that jury and said we might go see if the DA will make an offer. I think I only saw three men on the jury. It is obviously just my opinion but I thought it was great and think it was a black women on the jury who pushed the murderer to accept a plea deal with no appeal possible. He could have still made a plea in from of the jury for a lighter sentence and probation. Rather than seeing them as an easy touch (they could’ve easily held out for a lower sentence), the defense might have seen them as sympathetic toward the victim. So both sides have something to risk by going in front of the jury. Even though they got a conviction, a light sentence with probation would have been a slap in the face to the DA and the victim’s family. Then the murderer could’ve hoped for that light sentence but he also could have had the jury give him 99 years. With both having a lot on the line, they came to that agreement. I have no way of knowing but I suspect and thought it was a great that black women may have been the deciding factor. Their presence on the jury might have been powerful but obviously we will never know.

No, I glanced at it and missed the prescription part.

This officer did not kill Breonna Taylor but he returned fire after a partner was shot. He fired into the apartment where the gun fire was coming from and did not hit anyone but a couple of bullets with him to the neighboring apartment. The officer who shot Breonna Taylor was not charged (correctly) So I think they charged this officer with endangering. Fortunately the jury saw through the charge and acquitted the officer. [Hidden Content]

Probably can if you don’t have a script for it.

I think the keyword there though is “impaired”. If you are impaired then I don’t think a legal prescription helps. I underwent several random drug screens as part of our contract as a police officer. If I had a lawful drugs in my system, as long as it was prescribed, I was okay. Even if lawful however, if I showed up for work impaired, I could be disciplined up to termination. Impaired has the same definition in the law usually as intoxicated.

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that the world possibly being on the brink of nuclear Armageddon might seem more serious at this point.

My older brother was a Navy corpsman for 26 years including treating combat casualties. I can assume that I could be able to perform minor surgeries….

Yeah but in local politics, name can sometimes carry a lot of weight. When you have a justice of the peace whose only name recognition is that her husband is an evening news anchor….. It does not mean that they will not be a good judge but people literally vote for a name. I’m not telling you anything you don’t know it just mentioning the obvious. I worked with a police officer who they wanted to go to advanced traffic investigating school to learn to reconstruct fatal accidents.. He said he wanted no part of it and he hates doing math. The commanders’ rationale? The officer’s brother was an accountant for a large company. That makes about as much sense as name recognition.

A definition of job would be required to fully comprehend the importance of your conclusion.

In the tank fatalities that I worked and talking with witnesses at the scene, when one man collapsed, another went in to get him out. He apparently at some point realized the mistake and tried to climb up the ladder to get out but did not make it which was only a few feet. We will never know but in my opinion the second man died as a hero because he probably realize what was happening to the first man. I believe he thought that he could go down to get the man and pulled him up a few feet. The speed at which he was overcome was very quick. Nitrogen is not caustic and is not poisonous in itself. It is not like being in chemical fumes where you can feel it in your lungs, your eyes might burn, etc. Without oxygen you probably collapse in less than five seconds. From the way the firefighters on scene described it to me, going into a pure nitrogen environment is almost like sucking the oxygen out of your body. You are breathing in what is a major component of the atmosphere we live in but there is no oxygen in it to keep you alive. I think in the case that I worked, the second man probably started getting lightheaded within a couple of seconds, realized what was happening and tried to get out but could not make it up the 6-8 foot ladder. I asked the firefighters just for an opinion, had somebody with a breathing apparatus been able to go down immediately and get the men out and immediately start giving oxygen and CPR, would they have recovered I was told that likely yes. The nitrogen does not kill a person but simply keeps your body from getting oxygen because there is none. We always hear that if a person can get oxygen restored within four or five minutes, there is a good chance of survival. Like if a person goes underwater and you were able to get him out immediately, if you could get CPR started and get oxygen into the person, there’s a good chance of survival and maybe without any lasting effects. I am guessing that the problem with that information is that even though your body can survive for a few minutes without oxygen, that does not mean you will be conscious. You might go unconscious within moments and will depend on someone else to restore your oxygen within a very few minutes. That might be some dangerous bit of information because if a person believes he can take a deep breath and go into a compartment and have a couple of minutes to retrieve another person, that could be a fatal mistake. In truth under exertion you might be only able to hold your breath for maybe 20 or 30 seconds. The moment you have to take another breath, you are likely at the point of no return. You had better get out of the compartment within a couple of seconds or you also will go down. We might be able to live for 3 to 5 minutes without oxygen. We can only stay conscious however for 3 to 5 seconds. In my non-medical opinion…..

I worked a scene like that at a tank in Port Arthur about 10 years on a barge. About 25 years ago I was at a swat training day and we were training with the Coast Guard. We were practicing assaulting a ship with active shooters on board. At one point we were going down a ladder on the ship and when the first officer got to the bottom of the ladder, a CG instructor tapped him on the shoulder and said you are down. So the second officer quickly moved down the ladder to the door to cover the fallen officer as if he had been shot. The instructor tapped him and said now you are down. I was the third officer in this stack and I started pushing my team backwards at that point and retreating up the ladder. The Coast Guard instructor asked me what the heck I was doing. I said I don’t know what just happened but I know I’m not going down that ladder. I heard no shots and saw no blood yet there were officers falling. The scenario was that there was a gas leak which is absolutely possible on a ship or to go into an enclosed container with nitrogen, some other gas or chemical or even a rusty room could kill you. That was the lesson. Don’t rush to your death when you see people start going down.

Nederland comes back from 8 down in the 3rd.

Nederland 64-63 final

0.03 Nederland at the line

Timeout Nederland 0.05 63-63

Timeout Angleton 0.09 Nederland 63-61

0:50 61-61

2:00 59-58 Angleton

2:20 Angleton 59-55

6:00 left, Angleton 50-46

I don’t think the governor has any say so in property taxes. Most of Texas tax problems are a lack of an income tax. Much of the public pays basically nothing in taxes if they don’t own property. Of course the argument is that property taxes are passed on somewhere down the line like if you rent a house, you are paying taxes to the owner because he is charging you extra. Does anyone believe that if we got rid of all property taxes next week, rent would go down $1? If all property taxes are passed on, why not just do away with all sales tax, gasoline tax, etc., and just raise our property taxes? Shouldn’t that be the rational solution if all property taxes are passed on to someone else? Of course not but for every dollar you do away with from property tax, you have to raise another dollar somewhere else. How is anyone going to help secure the border if: 1. The United States Constitution only allows the federal Congress to make rules for immigration enforcement? Arizona tried that and it was struck down by the Supreme Court. 2. Texas could put billions of dollars to put more fencing and personnel to at least turn the people crossing back toward federal authorities even though the State has no authority to take them into custody. That however will likely cause a huge increase in taxes. While the governor is a head executive of the state and technically is in charge of the military, he cannot spend money that is not authorized by the Texas Congress. If Prather for example says, I’m going to spend $2 billion next month securing the border, where is he going to get it? New property taxes? I honestly think that he would do a decent job and it certainly would not offend me if he or West or Huffines was the next governor. Out of the four major candidates, I trust Huffines the least because of his outrageous claims. I know he’s not telling the truth, he knows he’s not telling the truth but at least make it somewhat believable.

Yes, Robert E. Lee did “exactly” the same thing as George Washington. Washington was a colonel in the British army but then joined the rebels. He was a traitor to his country. Had the British won the Revolutionary War, would Washington be a villain or a hero to freedom lovers?