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pyrohornIII

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  1. After wading through the last half dozen pages of stanco dumbassery, I finally caught up. If we arm all the teachers, then they become prime target one every time. Most times the teacher is going to be concentrating on teaching, not defending, so to be in the perfect place to thwart a maniacal gunman would be pretty low odds. Yes, maybe they would be prepared after alerted, after the gunman had decimated an entire classroom. Too little too late. Like so many have said, who wants to sign up for that along with all the other shit teachers have to deal with? We are talking small town rural Texas. These people (and I know them well, since I am one) get the worst LEOs for employment. We're certainly not talking cream of the crop here. Think Barney Fife. They are ok with intimidating regular citizens, but too often wilt under threat themselves. So even with the best guy filling the chief or sheriff position, his pool of possible employees is pretty dismal. Having mental health issues is bad enough, but having them in small towns where everyone knows you is really hard. Already you are "different" and an easy target for those who need to tear someone else down to feel bigger. Kids are notoriously cruel. Word leaks out that you are engaging counseling then you are further stigmatized and targeted. Your pool of friends goes to nearly nothing. And that's assuming your parents and family are fully supportive. No the issue isn't mental health as much as it is the fear of the stigma of seeking it. And now you see these fools like MTG and her slimy ilk saying "we just need god, not counseling" and that gives people something to hide behind. So blaming it on mental health is a cop out. There's a lot more to it, but of course none of that will be considered, since it's all window dressing, what they are tossing out. As far as hardening targets, lets say that path is chosen. Use that figure someone put out claiming around 130,000 schools (schools alone). On average, say to get and maintain decent, non Barney Fife LEOs, you need about $300,000 annually for staffing. That's 39 billion annually. Not including any structural modifications or training. Maybe try something else then. Like paying legislators across the country a decent working salary and in so doing, invoke massive election funding and lobbying reform. Get the money out of politics. Without getting into the weeds too much, let's just stay general and see what that would cost our country. US senators 100 $1,500,000 $150,000,000 US representatives 425 $400,000 $170,000,000 State senators 1972 $500,000 $986,000,000 State representatives 5411 $250,000 $1,352,750,000 $2,658,750,000 Offer them all housing allowance, make their salaries non taxable, give them the finest healthcare and even toss in some retirement options and still all that costs maybe a tenth of what the most basic target hardening would do. 39 billion vs 3-5 billion? Seems like a deal. Not to mention you could tie in bonuses based on job performance. Let people vote on bills after they have taken effect a few years. Good bills? Bad bills? Let the public score them out and those who wrote, supported or voted for the good ones get bonuses for doing their job...others get black stains on their records. I know, it's all pie in the sky. But I figure winter is coming. After a long maddening summer filled with much more of this. But at least offer some logical options besides God and prayer. Give these people a salary they can live on and let them do their jobs.
  2. There's something to be said about a party that wants to save the innocent unborn, but has no issue with people gunning down elementary kids. Guess once they get into PreK, they lose their innocence? Going to be interesting to see why this guy was even at the school..so many rumors running around.
  3. I missed that. Never heard of a PSF.
  4. And I imagine there will be a lot of long lines still at 7 trying to vote, and those precincts have to allow everyone in line by 7 the right to vote. So those extra hours will delay things before even the trek to the central count office.
  5. I'm so dumb, didn't read the small print. PUF is only higher level education right?
  6. Conspiracies have always sold well to aggy. BMOC ring a bell?
  7. What does abortion or CRT stances have to do with running the RRC?
  8. To me there are two camps here. First you have people who don't care about the babies or the fetuses. THIS is the only issue they can try to pin on liberals that could be considered cruel. That is why they push so hard to make it about babies, not fetuses. Makes us murderers. In their mind it's their only "whataboutisms" and bothsiderisms." This way they can scream "You can't call us immoral or despicable, we don't kill innocent babies!!" That's all it is...never was about the kids. And with the Catholic church, it's about guilt...and control. Hello Walton family. You have to wait for them to start feeding on themselves. Cawthorn is gone and apparently Boebert is next. Kemp is going to beat Perdue. Find a way to start them fighting amongst themselves and feed that. That should be a part of the plan.
  9. Still waiting on your Truth Social account to start working?
  10. Less innings is kind of like letting the clock run.
  11. I work a 4 hour shift on the voter hotline most days during early voting and on ED. Been helping a lot of people find out if their mail in ballots were received and counted. Suffice to say the Secretary of State ballot tracker mandated by SB1 works about as well as Abbott's lower extremities. (Oh and I blocked a few trolls here)
  12. Sadly, she's more likely to be assassinated by some right wing psycho than getting divorced in that time span.
  13. Their common threads are what they do (tilt government in favor of the wealthy) and how they do it (fearmongering and hatred). It's the two pronged cornerstone of all CPAC attendees, American or not.
  14. I didn't know where to put this, but it's infuriating. All these people going on about how BLM is overreaction and such. In the meantime this shit is happening all over the state on local levels. They gerrymandering has been in play at all levels, and not only just for blacks. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/20/galveston-redistricting-black-voters/ It's a long read and I am not going to post all of it. It's not paywalled.
  15. Nope I only negged you because of your takes. You are right about that. I agreed with them and not you. You must really feel guilty about what you have and what you will do to hang on to it, to be this vitriolic about people you know absolutely nothing about. Maybe their POS neighborhoods are like that due to redlining and ghetto landlords like Kushner. Maybe if they had a chance to actually buy their own places, they might put as much into them as their vehicles.
  16. I negged you several times in the 'have more white babies" thread because you derailed it with a lot of obtuse remarks, many of which were very derogatory to other posters. I don't have you on ignore, like I have many others, because I do enjoy some of your postings on other sections of the boards. However, you seem to delight in taking threads off topic and make them about you and your kind being victimized because of your personal stances. I get tired of that. I would imagine Beau Vine negged you like I did, in hopes to just get you to go away and let the thread get back on topic. You are definitely persistent, but tiring.
  17. So not engaging in all the fatty trolling nonsense. But back on topic. I know a guy whose always been a bit of a grifter. He was in my VFD for about a month, until he realized we weren't going to change everything to meet his way of thinking. He told me that his responsibility was to help repopulate the world with white people and he married his wife more for her child bearing hips and eagerness to have a large family than love of her. He wasn't worried so much about within our borders, but more that christianity was falling behind globally to "mooslims." He was very pro Catholic. They home birthed most of their kids, and she miscarried twice I seem to remember. That was 16 years ago. They had 6 kids as a couple, and are now divorced. The kids for the most part are good kids, just kind of different. They all lean heavily right and godfearing. So yeah, it's been a thing for a while. It's probably been expanded from being a global problem to more domestic. He's now a realtor. Big shock.
  18. I'm thinking we know where Kyle gets his dry sense of humor more than his dad leans maroon. I'd bet that gear has the tags still on it so he can take it back to whatever Krogers he bought it after the joke. So confused. Jimbo's dad would slap him if someone else lied? "Maybe someone should have slapped him (jimbo's dad) for not pulling out."
  19. Thanks so much for the input. I'm learning a lot. Bevo has been messaging me as well. Part of the problem is because her mom hasn't worked much over the past year and a half, due to being in hospital or rehab facility due to Covid, her credit was really damaged. She was a paramedic and caught covid on the job before there were vaccines available. It's been a long 18 months. So that will be the next part, finding someone willing to do the work on a payment system. But yeah, her daughter is really feeling it. She started cutting her own hair off the other day because some kids at school teased her about it. Just sickening.
  20. Are F250s still a thing?
  21. He looks like a kid sitting at the kitchen table being grilled after he got his hand caught in the cookie jar. All wide eyed, "BUT Daddy sneaks cookies all the time and no one says anything!"
  22. I knew I should have written that better. Should have hired a ghostwriter myself.
  23. I grew up eating burgers from the Dairy King in Taft. Burgers, fries and milk shakes. They were small burgers meant to be eaten while driving a truck or tractor usually. It's not one of these big stacked burgers, but the seasoning is spot on. I always have one when I go back down. The place doesn't look like much, but from what I have heard from friends the food is just as good, and the menu has expanded a lot, with redfish tacos being popular. I've never tried, since I always go for the burger. https://restaurantguru.com/Dairy-King-Corpus-Christi
  24. I miss Holiday House, but used to live on Hilbert's and Dirty's OT special. Damn there were a lot of great places in Austin at that time. I'll kick in Schroeder's Place in Thorndale. They have unique hours so check before you go. https://restaurantguru.com/Schroeders-Place-Thorndale-Texas
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