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Nicole44

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  1. Well there were probably more police and fewer people in Austin back then? I’m not sure 2009 makes a lot of sense. You could pick any year from four years ago on. There is a crisis but honestly people will just shrug down the line when innocent people can’t be saved or 911 is spread too thin during large events until a guy with a machete shows up on their front lawn with a bucket full of sea bass. Then you are fucked.
  2. I also see in Oregon they are walking back decriminalizing drug possession. Cuz it ain’t working. Cuz this wasn’t gonna work. More drug overdoses than ever before there bc they let people sell drugs . I think marijuana ought to be legal with taxation and government oversight and standards. Use the taxes to protect the border but most especially put that money also into disadvantaged communities and their schools and community centers and whatever will best help them. Austin is dumb. Let’s try shit that ain’t working other places like with the police or be a sanctuary city or do this or that. Or fuck up I35 or go crazy vet bike lanes and other transit that isn’t going to work and have a ramped homeless issue and have more people than resources like water! People have to value the rule of law and a decent living. Value education and caring for others. Policies we think are meant to do that are doing the opposite with our homeless. With our mentally ill. With the gun laws issue. With disadvantaged people and with our poor minorities. With nearly every crisis we have this issue. The “my heart is in the right place and I want to do the right thing” but we choose the dumbest of all ways to accomplish it. We worry that we will offend. But our heart is in the right place so we think if we choose a dumbass direction that doesn’t work and can’t work and has never been proven to work but also has go overboard to appease people so overboard that it has to be the RIGHT thing when it is in fact—-WRONG! Sorry but this shit radically pisses me off. I’d wager we all feel the same way about wanting to solve all problems we have. I am compassionate but I am also not an idiot. Blind compassion fueling these horrible ideas that are then pushed onto the communities. But hey, one side got what they wanted. Five years down the road and it’s one crisis after another they will see they are wrong and shrug their shoulders and blame the world. Not their solution. This is absolutely directed at both parties which I do not support. Dumb ideas to solve real problems put into law by useless lawyers… rant over.
  3. Still in Atlanta for those keeping track. This could wind up in the drugs thread, homeless thread, or my crime feed thread. You just don’t know…
  4. Clearly I have no internet art skills but wish I could have made a sticker of a shot of him yesterday after X ran when he flashed the horns…the idea is there but the skill (mine) is weak… Anyway, happy for Worthy. He has been one of my all time favorite players.
  5. Awesome! Horns doing a lot at the combine! Really helping their draft stock! This in turn helps us! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
  6. 🤘🏼Dayum X! 🤘🏼way to fly!
  7. It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves!
  8. The death earlier this month of Foremost GroupCEO Angela Chao, the sister-in-law of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, is currently under "criminal investigation," a Texas sheriff's office said Thursday. Chao, 50, was found dead shortly after midnight on Feb. 11 after being pulled out of a car that had gone into a pond on a private ranch in Johnson City, Texas, about 40 miles from Austin. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/02/29/angela-chao-death-being-investigated-as-criminal-matter.html
  9. The camera moves around too much but damn. We know firefighters are fearless and brave…💜
  10. You can really see the scope of the damage here: 💔❤️‍🩹💔❤️‍🩹💔
  11. Cody Allen, 35, an Independence police officer, husband and father of two small children, was shot and killed Thursday. Independence Police Chief Adam Dustman praised Allen’s “heroic actions” after a civil process server called for help during an eviction. A Jackson County civil process server, identified as Drexel Mack, was also shot and killed. https://amp.kansascity.com/news/local/article286104501.html Killed trying to save a civil processor who was also killed. Suspect got evicted alright. To fucking jail where his dumb ass belongs.
  12. Also many of you remember this horrible shooting from last April: FORT EDWARD, N.Y. (AP) — A man who fatally shot a 20-year-old woman after the SUV she was riding in mistakenly drove into his rural driveway in upstate New York was sentenced Friday to more than 25 years to life in prison. Kevin Monahan, 66, was convicted of second-degree murder in the death last April of Kaylin Gillis. She was riding in a caravan of two cars and a motorcycle that was trying to leave after pulling into Monahan’s long, winding driveway while looking for a party at another person’s house in the town of Hebron. “I think it’s important that people know that it is not OK to shoot people and kill them who drive down your driveway,” Judge Adam Michelini said. Apart from the wider deterrent effect, Michelini said it’s important that Monahan remain behind bars rather than be free to harm more people.
  13. This was a huge story in Connecticut (and also a fairly large national story): A jury Friday found a Connecticut woman guilty of conspiring with her boyfriend to kill his estranged wife, a mother of five who disappeared in 2019. Michelle Troconis, 49, was also found guilty on five other counts of tampering with physical evidence and hindering prosecution connected to Fotis Dulos’ presumed killing of Jennifer Dulos, who was last seen dropping off their five children at school on the morning of March 24, 2019. The Duloses had been in the middle of a contentious two-year divorce battle and custody dispute, which placed strict restrictions on when and how Fotis Dulos could see the couple’s children. ——- The highlight of my day was watching that haggard bish drop her head on the table and weep as the charges were read. Guilty on all 6 counts! And then being led away in handcuffs.
  14. How many triangles????? I have the correct answer so all wrong answers will be strenuously mocked!
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