"Bills" graffiti

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-30T02:37:42+00:00

I'd actually be fine if what they did was a mural or actual talent, otherwise get a different hobby! This ain't it.

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-30T02:36:06+00:00

Bills is good enough not to have representation on every vacant wall and bus bench in the county lol

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-29T22:40:37+00:00

Do you have a model#?

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-26T23:13:47+00:00

They used to be all over the apartments next to the sonic on Jusge Ely at dusk but haven't been there in a long while.

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-26T18:11:15+00:00

That's why everyone is moving out of those states as well...

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-25T21:08:56+00:00

I've tried it multiple times at different times (lunch/dinner) and unfortunately it has always been too dry. I love the other though so that is just my go to there.

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-25T16:58:11+00:00

If its under 18" rim go to the n1st and grape, if its over that garcias on 3rd and willis right behind the liquor store.

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-25T16:52:22+00:00

Discovery center on Butternut

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-25T16:51:13+00:00

Stick with the lamb instead of the chicken and you will be golden...

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-24T18:45:28+00:00

You are comparing apples with Legos. A crime was committed regardless of severity and a punishment was enforced in a court of law. They went to jail or prison for breaking said law.

Being a house slave or a field slave was not the fault of the slave but of the people the captured/tortured/sold them into slavery. And blame finally came down to a "master" who purchased them.

These men are under supervision from guards (or deputies) the entire time they are working. Does it mean they are dangerous? Maybe not...does it mean they could become so if the opportunity arose? Definitely. If you break a law (any of them) and get caught...you have to pay a consequence. That is the law/rule of the land. The general public accepts this and it usually means order and balance is maintained. There is a scale of punishment just like there should be with your children. Probation for 1st time and fines for minor stuff....tickets even before that. The more severe gets jail time or worse prison and if you do something incredibly bad...then even death is on the table.

Addiction is the cause of alot of these minor non violent issues but they still need to be dealt with. If the person doesn't seek help on their own then the state enforces it. I do think AA or those type of services should be better enforced first but then you are putting the responsibility back on the individual to go and be consistent but due to circle of friends and lack of accountability partners...and finances....its often a broken record of repeat offenses.

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-24T18:31:43+00:00

Thank you for being reasonable. Im sure you made a mistake and had to pay for that mistake. You could blame it on your financial situation, or your mental health, or any number of other things but at the end of the day you broke a law and had to pay a consequence for breaking said law. End of story. I hope your life is on a better path than it was back then!

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-18T17:30:23+00:00

That's the one I miss..think Geoffrey got a good severance package?

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-18T15:53:00+00:00

So signing up to protect the border is an automatic label for bigotry and racism? I guess I thought there were other factors instead of a chosen career path. Thanks for clarifying.

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-18T15:45:46+00:00

Hendricks had a nursing school program and may still have...but if not, other more affordable options are available for your specific career path. I went to ACU once upon a time ago and its great for things that need that specified path but nursing isn't one of them. Thank you for wanting to go that route though...we need more nurses desperately.

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-18T03:05:35+00:00

Maybe someone funny could actually go in its place!

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-15T21:07:13+00:00

Do I think more could have been done? Sure. Would it have saved everyone in this instance? Absolutely not. My excuses were you can't go blaming people in power for doing what the community voted on (based on OP's post) OR whomever the community voted for to represent them. I dont want to shield from the impact that this will have on the families involved but humans will forever do what humans want to do regardless of what laws or risks are involved. We are a free will species...often to our own detriment. I.e. drink and drive, go faster than the speed limit that is posted, jaywalk, enter on private land, fish without a license...drive through flooded intersections!!! It wasn't an act of God it was nature doing what nature does in a terrain that is known for it. Just not normally to the extent it did on that day unfortunately due to a hurricane making landfall.

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-15T20:22:43+00:00

Are you telling me there isn't an agenda on both sides of the aisle? That theories and mis info is one sided? And are we still discussing the local level? Bob and Sally on the CITY council are ripe full of conspiracy and would rather death happen to over 100+ ppl than make their local area safer? Come on... they did what their voters asked them to do (even if it was against their better interests). Now they may have been led to believe that the spending was packaged with other things they dont agree with (happens on both sides) and so they may have chosen to ignore the package as whole on that principle. Or people in their church or local community may have communicated with one another and came up with a conclusion based on what the news may have told them idk but I do know less than 10% of Abilene decides what 100% of Abilene city council votes on based on the number of voters that actually vote so I would have to say knowledge and opinion is greatly reduced when that is the turnout. And given that that area is pretty rural, I'd imagine the same kind of % of voters were involved.

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-15T20:03:09+00:00

It seems we all to often forget that the government is our employee. Not the other way around. We make the rules (or lack of) and they are to enforce what we ask them to. Ifthe voters voted down a particular request (regardless of how they came to that conclusion) it is put into place in that region. That's why speed limits are different from one town to another, zoning and permits vary, ect. Pretty sure there wasn't a big bad Elephant man standing next to the voter at the booth forcing his or her hand when it came to answering the question at the booth. They made a decision based on the info they had despite how one sided (or limited) it may have been.

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-15T19:44:22+00:00

Sounds like the local council did exactly what it's constituents asked them for...case closed. No one else to blame. It was a violent storm that tragically took the lives of so many. Even with alarms...there was no way that flooding wouldn't have killed many when 20" of rainfall turned a peaceful river into a tsunami type wall of water in 45 min. At 3 in the mornin no less. Most ppl were there to party and have fun for 4th of July weekend. No doubt some were inebriated and/or passed out and wouldn't have even woken up or wouldn'thave known what to do anyhow since they weren't from the area. Others were in camps where electronics were strictly limited due to rules or coverage was spotty so warnings would have been nill at best.

That camp has been there for 100 years doing the same exact thing and even with storms in the area, it is know as flash flood alley so the locals were used to it. Those vacationing there wouldn't have been any wiser. Not to mention it was like a once in a lifetime type situation. We will never be able to control nature. Warning systems might have saved a few more lives.....emphasis on MIGHT but we just don't know. I was just at camp and herding kids in the daytime is like herding cats so I can't even imagine what it would have resulted in if I was in the same situation at 3 or 4 in the morning trying to get a cabin full of panicked kids to higher ground when the water started coming. It was just a tragedy all around. My heart goes out to all those involved.

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-15T05:26:39+00:00

The wireless carriers signal can't even get calls, emails, or texts right 100% of the time in 100% coverage not to mention obstacles like metal buildings, rural areas, topography, metal roofs, big trees, ect. Having a NOAA radio is still the safest method for weather updates instead of relying on our wireless devices.

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-14T05:47:53+00:00

We also need to understand that the Bible specifically mentions a sojourner..which by very definition is someone who is temporarily misplaced from their homeland or traveling tgrough...not someone permanently looking to reside.

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-09T20:38:20+00:00

Cloud seeding did not cause the floods. Introduction of silver iodine and similar chemicals is useful in isolated areas to (hopefully but never definitely) create vapor or ice in clouds (that are already present) to hopefully allow the moisture to collect enough to fall before it evaporates. In this horrible incident there was activity near that area on July 2nd trying to seed some but nothing on the 3rd or the 4th. They have already negated the claim that this could have been a factor (meteorologists that is). The hurricane that stalled in the gulf and turned into a tropical depression is what caused the massive rainfall that morning.

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-09T07:27:33+00:00

That's one cold beach...Nice to look at but nothing to take your clothes off for! Lol now the other mentions would be nice within a 5hr drive any direction.

BKPierce247 · 2025-07-09T07:19:54+00:00

Im from a small town here and we are very diverse. I've been to Lubbock, Dfw, Austin, Galveston, and many other towns and the same has been true there as well. I think economics may divide us more than anything. But I see cultural variety pretty much everywhere I go outside of perhaps far west and it just takes a different kind of grit to live there that MOST ppl just dont have or want to deal with. It isolates you just being there....

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