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And with the escalator always reminds me of this, government workers taking an escalator to work…. [Hidden Content]

Riding the Sears escalator was an adventure like a train ride.

So much Bill Cosby never being accused of anything…. 🙃

…. and there was still in my memory some chocolate candy that you could only buy at Sears. I think you had to buy it by the pound. It was blocks of chocolate and I swear I can still taste it.

In addition to Sears and the Toy land, the streets in Beaumont were completely lined down and across the streets with lights put up by the city. There were very few parking lots and we usually had to walk up and down the blocks. I don’t know if anyone even locked their vehicles. There were lots of faults back then but safety was not one of them.

Yeah, even for trivia, that is trivial.

I believe the bill was to rescind the previously passed $87 billion to hire new IRS agents. It is irrelevant however, since the Senate will not take up the issue. I believe it was Representative Jim Jordan, I saw a few days before the speaker was even elected, who said that the Republican led House was going to pass several single item bills. That means one issue and one bill. That also means not half a dozen riders like $1 million for a new art center in downtown NY. So when the 2020 for elections roll around and the independent and undecided voters ask, what did you do in the last two years, the Republicans can list several bills that were attempted to be passed into law but they were stopped by the Democrat controlled Senate. Such as: We passed a bill that would lower your taxes. We passed a bill that would defund the IRS hiring new agents. We passed a bill, requiring the closing the border. We passed a bill…… Because the noncommitted and center voters are the ones who are going to decide the elections.

My opinion is that the last shots (and especially the last one) was completely unnecessary, making it illegal. The penal code uses the phrase, “immediately necessary” to justify force or deadly force. In other words, had the threat ended? Reaction time is such that even if the threat ended, a person may fire a couple more shots before the cease firing reaction is transmitted to the finger that is pulling the trigger. When we learned driving in driver’s ed, most of us learned that there is a 1/2 to a 3/4 second reaction time before hitting the brakes. Even if you see something ahead such as a child running into the road, there will be a lag time before that is transmitted to you hitting the brake. Your eye saw the child instantly because of the speed of light but by time your brain processes it and sent the message/nerve impulse to your feet, you will travel a distance. I believe it is the same thing with shooting. While it may be easy to see a person going down, when you were pulling the trigger at 3 to 5 times a second, it will take a couple of shots before you stop shooting even if your eyes perceived the threat ending. In a case like this, I understand a person pulling the trigger multiple times in a second or two. The people online that claimed it should’ve been one or two shots probably have no clue what they’re talking about. Using an electronic timer, about five years ago an officer was testing me on shooting skills. It was about 20 feet away and it all had to be head shots on target, not simply center mass. I could not start shooting until I got the audible beep from the timer and I could not be pointing at the target already. After the beep I had to the move the pistol on target and make the shots in the very small aiming point. The entire time was 2.3 seconds from the beep to the last shot. Counting the actual lag time between me hearing the beep and then having to move my hands into the shooting position, the five hits in the head size target was probably about 1 1/2 seconds. That is having to shoot a bit slower to try to make sure the pistol was on target. The only point of that is, when shooting that fast and if it was a real human trying to hurt someone, I believe it would be extremely hard to stop shooting the moment the threat ends. With that in mind, what appeared to me was that the shooter put multiple shots on the guy for a couple of of away and he went down. It looks like he dropped the gun and was no longer a threat. I have no issue at all with the number of rows fired while the guy was standing. But there was lag time with the shooter to perceive what was happening because he then got out of his chair and moved over to the now what appeared to be down and out of the fight robber. It looked like the shooter pumped a couple of rounds into him and that time. Even after that, it was a very obvious lag time and it looked like the shooter then made a final kill shot, probably to the head. Was that "immediately necessary"? The two shots after the shooter moved in on the guy and shot him in the back while he was faced down (and I think dropped the gun behind him) was questionable but then with the pause and what appeared to be a headshot, was almost certainly not necessary. In my opinion, the way, the Penal Code is worded, questionable actions are in the favor of the shooter going by the Penal Code definition of a defense to prosecution. The final shot however I did not appear to be questionable. It seemed clearly unnecessary. BUT…. will it cause an indictment? Part of me says absolutely not and part of me says absolutely yes. The shooter under Texas law, and in my opinion, had the right to use the deadly forcethat likely killed the robber. Even if the last shot was unnecessary, can you kill a dead person? If the autopsy shows that he would have died within a few seconds regardless of the last three shots, would it, then be unlawful? I don’t have a clue. Probably not but who knows how the DA will present the case? There is that old saying in Texas, some people just need killin’. So after that long winded reasoning, I don’t have a clue but I would probably lean toward a no-bill.

There is no love for McCarthy. Those weren’t his ideas, he was forced to concede which was the original intent. The rules were passed so now he is stuck with them.

He came in and gave a statement today.

They used to call it compromising. I remember Mrs. Kelley’s Humanities class in 6th grade (1967) during the government section of the class. She was telling us that a compromise (new word for us) was the way that most laws were passed unless everybody agreed on an issue. Both sides gave up something in order to come together and get a bill passed. Now it is caving?

What is ridiculous? Do you mean the 200 members of a party all think in lockstep? When the Democrats go behind closed doors, are they all robots? Are you saying that there is never a debate or is it that they want to act like they are all the same person? The Dems are like a man and a woman going behind closed doors to talk about an issue. They step out and the woman has a black eye and a bloody lip as they smile and announce that there were no differences in opinion and no debate was needed. Can you imagine what went on when Democrat Senator Joe Manchin behind closed doors told the rest of the Democrats that he was siding with the Republicans on not changing the 200 year rules on the filibuster in the Senate last year? His lone vote shut down a takeover that was ridiculous. I am sure there were group hugs all the way around. The only thing that Republican showed in this case was that everybody does not think the same. The Democrats are the same behind closed doors but they walk out with the bloody wife and smile and say everything was okay. They feel that honesty is best, kept behind the closed doors.

But it wasn’t Bogart. BD loses 1/2 a point…

Can’t answer that one without google. I think I remember on the American charts the Beatles holding all top 5 spots at one time.

I have a relative who was acting like it was the end of democracy. Oh my gosh, this has really turned Congress on its head kind of stuff. When I brought up that this is nothing but a comical media side show, the response was that I didn’t understand, the government was going to shut down because the spending ceiling resolutions would not pass, laws would cease to be enacted (a good thing) and blah blah…. It was pure Chicken Little nonsense. No Henny Penny, the sky is not falling and Foxy Woxy is leading you into a trap.

Again, a spirited debate confuses Democrats.

Should have used Google….. 🙃

And speaking of badge numbers…. About 4 years after I started, we finally got a computer system and started issuing permanent badge numbers beginning with 110 and progressing by seniority. Originally the numbers 96-99 were reserved for the command staff. The 96, 97 and 98 were division commanders and 99 was the chief. Those were not permanent badge numbers but just a means of knowing who was doing the talking. My permanent badge number picked by seniority? 184… which is coincidentally part of my screen name. So my original unit number 84 eventually became my permanent badge number of 184. When a few years later we got semi-permanent locker and mailbox numbers after I left detectives, I was assigned 84. And when was I hired? January, 1984 or…. 1/84.

I also remember Car 54, Where Are You? It was the first place that I remember seeing Herman Munster when he was just Officer Muldoon. When I first started on patrol we didn’t have badge numbers and only went by our unit number. I was assigned to Car 84. 🙂 🙃 And they probably never knew where I was….

So the new Speaker has been in office for less than 12 hours and you have been able to deduce that he is much worse?

There is no charge of fleeing from a crime scene that I have seen. I have said in other threads….. maybe he is a felon, maybe he has a warrant his arrest (even misdemeanor), is out on bail and not supposed to possess a handgun as a condition of bail, etc.

Apparently (I didn't see it) the shooter could be in trouble, not for the shooting but the aftermath. Supposedly the shooter got people’s money back and started handing it out before he fled. If true, that could potentially open him up to criminal charges for tampering with evidence. He could be cleared by a grand jury by self defense yet be indicted for what happened afterwards.

Now that the show is over, we can get on with the gridlock between the GOP House and the Democrat Senate.

This has been discussed quite a bit in other forums and on Facebook. A guy goes into a Houston restaurant, waving a fake pistol around in an apparent robbery…. [Hidden Content]

Intoxicated?