So, I read about the arrested at the Buna Schools online. Next thing you know, I am having people ask me about it from around the state of Texas....Then, it on the news....In Alaska......And people are asking Buna natives about it from all over the country......Oregon....Maryland......Florida.....
That's bad when people from Florida are turned away to look at what happened in that State of Lunatics, and find happening in Buna interesting.
And I have heard so many stories about what really caused the incident that I do not know what to believe...
And please, don't explain what your version of what happened is.....
I spent 20 years trying to make people know that Buna is a decent place to live, and the kids, people there are good folks. It takes one incident like this publicized, to make us, yes, I said "US" because I spent most of my career working to make Buna seem like a good, sane place, make me look like a liar......And don't explain, yes we are good folks, and I generally you are, but it only takes one incident to to blow any good PR away.
And the thing is, they were charged with misdemeanors. The jails are so full now, local prisoners are often"farmed out" to other jails, the county paying other counties to take their overflow..... and they'll probably get a fine and some probation....a slap on the wrist. And the way they were pictured, smiling like a Cheshire Cat, they know not much will happen to them. And if they get a good lawyer, they may get much lesser charge.
British ancient historian Francis Grose first used the term in the 1700s, long before Lewis Carroll.......I'm going off the top of my head here.....
" He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of any one who shows his teeth and gums in laughing."
Again, I am a waste of a good education.....
-We now apparently are running for office year round now.
It's happening in Jasper County, it's happening with people I advise holding office.
It's tiresome.
Every move any politician makes now I view as " I'm running again in 2028, I need to make a splash now." " And keep making a splash the next 4 years."
Often making stuff seem worse than it actually is....
Remember this of any politician. Be suspect of anything they do. And while this has been true in the past, with social media, heck, any of the electronic media, internet of today, it is worse.
- Finally, let me remind you, there has been a " War on Drugs" since Nixon started the "War." We're talking right at 60 years now......If anything it has gotten worse.
And I am not "stop trying to do something about it, stop it," Fentanyl, Crystal Meth are just awful drugs. Ruin people's lives. I was given Fentanyl patches after a very serious surgery I had a number of years ago in Houston. I could not handle them. I vomited and they were patches. I carried the box back to the drug store. Told them I can't take them. The pharmacist whom I've known for years even told said " I wondered if you could handle them?" cut them up in front of me, then put them in a lock box. to be destroyed.
I can't imagine what people are like who eat the pills like M&Ms.
That said, people on this stuff need help. We've tried law and order for like I said 60 years, and it is worse, not better. I am not sure this is somehow designed and I don't mean locally.
And the thing is, the economy is going to get bad. Really bad. I know people who've put out 150+ applications for jobs, and not a sniff from anyone..... Some people are going to turn to using and selling, either ease the pain, or try and/or make a living.
Somebody has to come up with an answer. And so far, jailing folks ain't working.
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