Good job, Austin!

Discussion in 'West Mall' started by Sangre Naranjada, Jul 7, 2019.

  1. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    What got 2 Live Crew banned when we were younger is mainstream now. Her big hit now is called "WAP," which stands for "Wet-*** *****." Ain't that tasteful?
     
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  2. horninchicago

    horninchicago 10,000+ Posts

    It certainly can be if cleansed properly, but I don't need to hear anyone "singing" about it. I hadn't even heard of that person above until you mentioned her.
     
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  3. nashhorn

    nashhorn 5,000+ Posts

    Bull, if you want to reform with the greatest result, defund Congress!
    I remember when I thought the song “I wanna kiss you all over” was disgusting for my kids.
     
  4. WillUSAF

    WillUSAF 500+ Posts

    The answer is no
     
  5. iatrogenic

    iatrogenic 2,500+ Posts

    How did a two year old serve so much time in the military?
     
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  6. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Teachers Unions should be abolished

     
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  7. nashhorn

    nashhorn 5,000+ Posts

    “in support of wherever this is headed.”

    omg!
     
  8. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    I remember my slightly older sister getting a ton of flack when my dad caught her listening to "I Wanna Sex You Up" by Color Me Bad and my older brother getting ripped for bringing home "Panama" by Van Halen. That stuff would be wildly tame today.
     
  9. mb227

    mb227 de Plorable

    And then after you take it away, the situation that comes up which justified the original purchase will give rise to the question of why LEO's were sent into a situation without proper equipment.

    Of course, if the left would allow proper clearing of the streets and prosecution of the rioters, then some of the equipment might cease to be necessary.
     
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  10. WillUSAF

    WillUSAF 500+ Posts

    The second half is true but I still can not see any situation that the equipment I used in Iraq and Afghanistan has a place on our streets. There is plenty of equipment to hold rioters at bay. Tear gas, barriers, rubber bullets, intel. Other cities have stopped riots without the military surplus. Here in Cleveland they had 1 night then shut down all streets downtown the next morning and nothing else happened. We need leaders that have balls to do something about the anarchists. Period.

    I'll say it again and again. They are Police NOT the Army or Marines clearing blocks in Mosul.....
     
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  11. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    Speak for yourself.
     
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  12. BrntOrngStmpeDe

    BrntOrngStmpeDe 1,000+ Posts

    I do agree that it is a little too widespread and it is sometimes deployed a little too quickly, but there is also a case to be made for having it available for advanced threats. And those do exists here. I worked for SOUTHCOM for a bit and there are a few gangs that have some serious stuff to contend with. Maybe the answer is keeping this kind of response in the Fed's hands where the training is more extensive, but LEO's at some level need Military grade gear. There is also a case to be made for "show of force" tactics. It is one of the foremost ways we use the Navy these days. You park an aircraft carrier on someone's front porch and they think twice. They same goes for a bad guy staring out his window looking at 45 cops geared to the hilt with an armored vehicle parked on your front lawn. Maybe that show of force causes the bad guy to do a little different math and give himself up instead of fight it out.
     
  13. WillUSAF

    WillUSAF 500+ Posts

    I definitely respect your opinion and to some degree I agree. But majority of these criminals are not intimidated by cops no matter what gear they have. Most have been to prison and are either: 1. not afraid to go back or 2. going out in a flame of glory. And to your point of leaving it up to the Feds that is agreeable but they have their hands tied by being restricted on what they can do and where they can do it.
     
  14. iatrogenic

    iatrogenic 2,500+ Posts

    Although this is not true, there is a reason to have overwhelming force behind the police.
     
  15. nashhorn

    nashhorn 5,000+ Posts

    Could not agree more, man or woman for that matter.
     
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  16. WillUSAF

    WillUSAF 500+ Posts

    I would love to hear your reason.
     
  17. mb227

    mb227 de Plorable

    Having spent nearly 35 years working with and around the Texas prison system, there is a reason many don't worry about going back...they are coddled ever since the courts sought to interfere in the late 80's/early 90's. Add in that too many DA's play Monty Hall with minimal sentences and people just aren't that scared of the consequence.

    It still isn't a place I want to call home, but it is nowhere NEAR what it was when building tenders ruled the roost...and nothing even remotely like what I saw when I first walked down the halls of Eastham in '87 (which at the time had just made a national magazine as 'America's Toughest Prison, admittedly based upon actions from two years earlier).

    I still remember touring an Illinois prison circa '91 and before the feds screwed THEM up...their holding pen for disciplinary hearings still had the hooks in the wall to handcuff waiting convicts to.
     
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  18. iatrogenic

    iatrogenic 2,500+ Posts

    It seems obvious, but since you don't see it, here ya go:

    So the police don't get killed.

    Ta da!
     
  19. WillUSAF

    WillUSAF 500+ Posts

    great expalination!! :tap:
     
  20. Garmel

    Garmel 5,000+ Posts

    My brother was in Eastham at that time I believe. You might have met him. :lol:
     
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  21. iatrogenic

    iatrogenic 2,500+ Posts

    Great response!:tap:
     
  22. WillUSAF

    WillUSAF 500+ Posts

    thats the 3rd most intellectual response to an argument I have ever seen.
     
  23. iatrogenic

    iatrogenic 2,500+ Posts

    I try to speak to the intended audience.
     
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  24. mb227

    mb227 de Plorable

    Cannot rule it out...although I usually knew the trouble-makers and NOT the ones trying to stay out of trouble ;)
     
  25. Garmel

    Garmel 5,000+ Posts

    My brother was a model prisoner. However, he never was a model citizen.
     
  26. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    Garme
    That is an interesting distinction.
     
  27. mb227

    mb227 de Plorable

    An interesting one, but hardly a unique one...prisons are filled with people who actually do well under actual supervision but cannot run their own lives for squat...

    Some of the best Clerk's we had back in the day were in for homicide...but this was also before the gang-banging thug nonsense took over. Most of the ones we had could be released and the biggest problem they might ever have again was drinking too much on a weekend...
     
  28. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Even if you are dead. Or a cat. Or a dead cat.
    Just send it back, dont worry about filling it in, we will do that for you
     
  29. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    The Austin Mayor flew in a private plane to Cabo San Lucas where he then filmed himself telling citizens to ‘Stay Home’

     
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  30. Orangeyman

    Orangeyman 100+ Posts

    Unfortunately, this is so predictable.
     
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