tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post9083500386161202011..comments2024-03-29T09:07:03.373-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: A lesson from Uvalde: "You get the police department you deserve"Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-68047425154093189212022-06-25T06:00:34.439-05:002022-06-25T06:00:34.439-05:00No one wants to shoot the wrong duh-versity with t...No one wants to shoot the wrong duh-versity with too much melanin in them and be Derek Chauvined. <br /><br />Or if you are a private citizen that shoots the wrong the person with too much melanin. Look at those three White men in Georgia that did nothing wrong or George Zimmerman that also never should have come to trial. <br /><br />Yet Alec Baldwin walks free. The Lab Managerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17314871529571094106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-49867533360258671762022-06-24T09:34:46.675-05:002022-06-24T09:34:46.675-05:00As well taken as Greg Ellefritz' observations ...As well taken as Greg Ellefritz' observations are, two pieces of information I came across recently make me wonder if he's missing a larger picture. <br /><br />1. The Center for Immigration Studies' Tod Bensman noted that Uvalde sits on the crossroads of two major cartel trafficking routes into the US.<br /><br />2. San Francisco would seem to be as far geographically and culturally from Uvalde as you could get. But <a href="https://www.ntd.com/the-criminal-order-beneath-the-chaos-of-san-franciscos-tenderloin_796450.html" rel="nofollow">Real Clear Investigations reports</a> that behind San Francisco's notorious shoplifting crisis are highly organized businesses run by. . . cartels.<br /><br />From RCI:<br /><br />“Everyone knows what’s going on. The cops, mayor, and D.A.,” said Tom Wolf, a recovering addict. “Everyone knows it’s organized and cartel-backed. They just don’t think it’s worth it to stop it, because nothing’s going to change anyway. They’ve surrendered.”<br /><br />". . .Taken together, the dealers, boosters, and fences comprise a vast illicit industry that generates the cash that pays a Mexican drug cartel to import narcotics into San Francisco’s streets."<br /><br />Could this be part of Uvalde and San Francisco "getting the police departments they deserve?"Peter Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15122781534685443942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-63685767373257187372022-06-24T02:16:59.597-05:002022-06-24T02:16:59.597-05:00Our old homeschool co-op has at least one armed pa...Our old homeschool co-op has at least one armed parent up front on the only unlocked door at all times. Homeschool or Die!!! as VD says.BrentGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12118113513672770394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-9620944048671770172022-06-23T12:58:02.932-05:002022-06-23T12:58:02.932-05:00I was going to post about how it's actually ha...I was going to post about how it's actually harder to get to the kids in a daycare than in a school, based on the rules here in Florida, but I remembered that many daycares are run out of someone's home, and none of them have secure playgrounds.<br /><br />So instead I am going to be grateful that I only read about these things, rather than having them impact my life directly (knock wood) and pray that this remains so in my life.Dragon Ladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09123927712474461296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-84750489596861039322022-06-23T11:54:34.715-05:002022-06-23T11:54:34.715-05:00God willing, my daughter will deliver twins, proba...God willing, my daughter will deliver twins, probably in September. Grandparents on both sides have/are retiring in order to provide daycare and homeschool services. (There are other reasons, but on the Freeholder side of things, this was the biggie.)<br /><br />This is a sacrifice, but our grandchildren are worth it.<br /><br />You do make me think, though. There is talk that the Republican sellout gun control measure is going to "harden schools". Wait until the spree killers figure out that daycare centers are about has hardened as your average grocery store.The Freeholderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09989697995675652792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-41186361590842660872022-06-23T11:22:12.950-05:002022-06-23T11:22:12.950-05:00I can see the point of not doing anything, it'...I can see the point of not doing anything, it's sad but I can see it.<br /><br />You wrote: "Turns out big public schools are also shooter magnets. If someone has a beef with society, and wants to go out in a torrent of blood and a blaze of publicity, a perfect target-rich environment awaits him in the public schools of this nation."<br /><br />What has happened that would allow someone to decide to go out and shoot up a school? That is just nuts! Where did anyone get the idea this was ok? No one asks what has changed over the last 20 years that has brought on this kind of thinking/insanity... I think it's the drugs big pharma sells to control kids who think differently. <br /><br />I'm sure you have seen the those 60 second prime time drug ads with the fast talking 45 seconds of side-effects? What are the side effects of the drugs the school shooters are taking? Are those side effects causing this insanity?<br /><br />Never any talk on the billion dollar companies with their huge ad spends on causing the insanity that allows these things to take place. All the talk is on the tool they use...Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05450082315014407506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-51726345494084432202022-06-23T10:59:56.807-05:002022-06-23T10:59:56.807-05:00I don't understand why people don't homesc...I don't understand why people don't homeschool kids more. While my daughter is technically in public school, Florida Virtual School has been online since the dialup days, and they do it very well. The academics are more stringent than the local high school, the only class that leans left is English ("write a paper about Jane Eyre thru a feminist lens". Meh- she got an A, and never finished the book), and I am more aware of what she is learning than the parents of her friends in the local schools.<br /><br />And when there was a cop killer on the loose in the area for a week, she was safe at home, and I was in my office with a weapon at hand.Dragon Ladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09123927712474461296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-55488543486925665132022-06-23T10:34:08.928-05:002022-06-23T10:34:08.928-05:00"reward and promote inept cowards, yes-men, a..."reward and promote inept cowards, yes-men, and suck-ups"<br /><br />Welcome to <i>The Screwtape Letters</i>.Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17805361716666159604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-60115573078651112292022-06-23T09:26:11.142-05:002022-06-23T09:26:11.142-05:00Some of us do the right thing. Of course as member...Some of us do the right thing. Of course as members of the old, "brutal", white, aggressive Police of th 1960s-1980s we were called racists. So we left and those that replaced us are being hired using standards that rank fear, feelings, and fright as virtues.<br /><br />I as one of Irma's supervisors and was two city blocks away when the incident occurred. Irma and her partner had seconds to make the correct decision, act on it, and saved the lives of children and their families. <br /><br />https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-irma-ruiz-30-years-20180928-story.html<br /><br />https://www.odmp.org/officer/11612-police-officer-irma-c-ruizga6https://www.blogger.com/profile/06995898324916115728noreply@blogger.com