Kingshakabooboo

Up 3% since Feb. Up 13% year over year which is more important to me.

I am 52 years old in September. Counting the house I grew up in and the 4 I have owned, none of the 5 houses I have lived in were more than 30 miles away from each other. Three were in Shreveport, fourth in Haughton and most recent and likely last one in North Bossier.

However I have traveled a great deal domestically and some over seas. My paternal grandparents lived in Key West and we went pretty much every summer for two weeks at a time to visit. My father was a truck driver and went on trips with him all over the country during the summers. I took my family on trips all over the country as my kids were growing up.

We hiked and camped in Sedona, Arizona. Saw Grand Canyon and rafted the Colorado River. Went to Wyoming and saw Yellowstone. Canoed the Buffalo River and pretty much every state park in Arkansa. Spent a week in the Smoky Mountains. Beaches in Gulf Coast. Disney a couple times. Toured everything in Washington DC. Too many trips to Dallas to count. Took them to see the Alamo and NASA. Spent a week at Resort in Playa Del Carmen but traveled around and did the ruins and some senotes. Visited an Uncle who was stationed in England and toured England and did a weekend in the Netherlands.

My wife’s family is all from Crowley and Mamou. She grew up in Scott. So we have spent a great deal of time all over south Louisiana as well. Couple trips to Nee Orleans for Jazzfest, tons of various LSU games.

I know there is a lot wrong with our state economically and politically but I honestly have never wanted to live anywhere else. With work I have been to LA, Detroit, Chicago, Miami, Cincinnati, and New York. You couldn’t pay me enough money to live in any of this major cities. While I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else, I am very thankful that I have seen and been able to expose my children to so much of the beauty of our country.

Now that my kids are grown, married, and have children of their own, they both bought homes within 5 miles of my house. So I guess despite everything they saw growing up, the need to be close to family is one of their priorities as well.

After SloFloPro gets thru hacking off to reading that, he will pop up in here defending the books and telling us how we are overreacting.

Twice. Both accidents.

Dad was a truck driver. On trip with him one summer and he was backed into loading dock. I was sitting on a bench on the walkway up to the dispatch office. Another driver was striping down a double stack pallet of roofing pallet. While on top of trailer unrolling his tarp he tripped and fell off the trailer landing head first on concrete below. I was 20 feet away. Sounded like a watermelon splitting open. As soon as he hit he sat straight up, looked right at me and asked what happened. Then just laid back down and died. I was about 10.

Second time was also on trip with Dad. Cruising down interstate up on east coast . We were in right lane. There was a car pulled over on the inside median but very close to the road on the left side lane. It was a hatch back. A pickup in the left lane swerved just a little bit the left as he was approaching the car. Can gut the rear right corner, came up over top, shearing off part of the back and then flipped on rolled down the highway. This happened ahead of us so my dad had to block on the brakes and pull the truck over to the right. I was 15 or 16 at the time. We both jumped out. My dad ran over to the pick up to check on driver. He was banged up but nothing too serious. I, unfortunately chose to run tongue hatch back. There were two passengers in front who were ok. Not a scratch on them. However there was a decapited body sitting in the back seat. So much blood everywhere. I never saw where his head ended up. I just remember staring at the body in horror and not being able to look away for what seemed like a very long time. I’m sure it was just a moment. Then I puked my guts out and went back to the truck. That image stuck with me for a very long time.

Seen a few other pretty serious industrial accidents over the years but none fatal.

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Better nfl player than college player. Far from the GOAT here

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2010 Bednarik Award Winner (Nation’s Top Defender)
2010 Thorpe Award Winner (Nation’s Top Defensive Back)
2010 First-Team All-American (AP, AFCA Coaches, Walter Camp, Football Writers Association of America, CBSsports.com, Rivals.com, CollegeFootballNews.com)
2010 Southeastern Conference Defensive Player of the Year (Coaches)
2010 Southeastern Conference Special Teams Player of the Year (Coaches)
2010 First-Team All-Southeastern Conference Defense (AP, Coaches)
2010 First-Team All-Southeastern Conference Special Teams (Coaches)
2010 Second-Team All-Southeastern Conference All-Purpose (AP)
2010 SEC Special Teams Player of the Week (vs. North Carolina, vs. West Virginia)
2010 Lott IMPACT Player of the Week (vs. North Carolina, vs. Alabama)
2010 Hornung Award Versatile Performance (vs. North Carolina)
2010 Jim Thorpe Award Player of the Week (vs. Mississippi State)
2009 Second-Team All-America (Sporting News)
2009 First-Team All-SEC (ESPN)
2009 Second-Team All-SEC (AP, Coaches)

CAREER
The top defensive back in college football in 2010, earning two national awards (Thorpe and Bednarik) as well as being a consensus All-America selection … Three-year starter at cornerback for the Tigers … Played in 39 games, starting 30 times … Finished career with 135 tackles, 22 pass breakups and seven interceptions … Scored touchdowns three different ways during his LSU career – punt return (2), interception, and return of a blocked field goal … Projected as a top five pick in the 2011 NFL Draft, opted to forgo senior season.

You sir are a dumb arse!

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Is it just me or does that sound dramatized?

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Nope it’s just you. You can clearly hear other 911 operators in the back ground taking other calls in the 911 call center.

The reason it sounds dramatized to you is that you are probably some anti 2A lib that has never touched a gun in his life. A person who has been around firearms, has practiced with firearms, and is comfortable with firearms, and also has a strong conviction that it is ultimately up to one selves to protect life and property sounds like this woman sounded.

I know this because I was once in a some similar situation. Thankfully I didn’t have to actually shoot the perp but was prepared to do so.

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The tech guys have any formal traiing or experience in reading contracts or government accounting? Having autistic computer skills doesn't equip you to evaluate contracts or do accounting lmao.

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Yes there are a bunch of computer nerds on this Doge team, but what makes you think there aren’t also a slew of forensic accountants as well. Trump owns how many different businesses. I’m sure he is very experienced with setting up accounting and auditing teams.

And oh dang, they promised to find a trillion dollars and so far it’s only a billion. Guess we should just go ahead and quit looking for all the waste and fraud then.

Sounds like a lot of good paying jobs about to be created as we ramp up wood production in the US. Would be nice if this made IP reconsider shutting down their Campti, La plant. That’s going to absolutely crush Red River Parish. It’s already poor as hell.

Most people opposed to the second amendment like to try to make the point that the thought of armed US citizens fighting a war against the US military is ridiculous. And honestly it is. But that’s not how I believe it holds off a tyrannical government in today’s time.

Let me pose this as an example of how it does protect us today. Back during Covid, look how extreme some countries became. Australia for example. During Covid they were sending buses around to local schools, collecting children, bussing them to a local arena and giving them Covid vaccines. This was being done without the knowledge and consent of parents.

Now ask, why wasn’t our government doing that here. They were obviously hell bent on everyone getting vaccinated. I believe the reason was they knew local law enforcement would be met with very pissed off armed resistance. They couldn’t have those optics spreading around in social media.

Just one example. No people aren’t going to share off on a battlefield against the US Military. But in smaller scales it does keep the covering check.

So let’s look at a typical factory job. The majority of the employees will be the factory floor workers. The will likely be fairly low hourly pay but decently higher than minimum wage and likely include healthcare benefits. These positions will also not require much education. Without a strong manufacturing base in this country, people with minimum education or trade training are relegated to service jobs which are mainly minimum wage. So now instead of working min wage at fast food or retail store they can get a slightly better paying job and one they are likely more proud to work for.

But keep in mind. Not every position is a floor workers. A factory will also need a maintenance crew. These are good paying jobs. Then there is the office support staff and finally management.

Anyone thinking that more manufacturing jobs is bad is a fool. Go look at how many small towns in America literally have died off once the local plant shut down. Now think what will happen to small town America once these plants reopen.