TigerTattle

Unless he's a problem inmate, the parole date will likely be a lot sooner than 17.5 years.

Someone familiar with Texas corrections policies will need to chime in, but I believe Karmelo will start out earning 20 days good time for every 30 days served. If at some point he achieves trusty status he'll earn 30 days for every 30 served. There are probably routes he can take that will earn him even more. All he has to do is behave and enroll in some prison programs.

The guilty verdict and sentence (somewhat) might seem like justice to some, but the Metcalf family's battle has only just begun. They'll be attending parole hearings and monitoring appeals for many years to come just to keep their son's murderer behind bars where he belongs. They will have no peace.

Jurors need to be more aware. They walk away thinking, okay, thirty-five years is a just sentence for what KA did. It is not. If they wanted him to serve thirty-five years they should have sentenced him to seventy.

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Where a kid can do hood rat shite with their friends

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Where a kid can do hood rat shite with their "parent"

He looks like Mickey Rourke after the facelift.

Pure blood, purely MAGA :usa: :usa:

Is he going to get the "white glove" treatment, indicted but released to come and go at his pleasure, live as usual, while the case plays out?

I want to see him and others actually arrested, in cuffs, doing the perp walk, then placed in cells.

They won't need Boasberg. O'Neill has put Tim Walz in charge of the Somali childcare centers auditing.

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Mrs. O'Leary, we hardly knew ye.

Great ideas.

The photo ID requirement would need some teeth. There will be stores where the photo isn't checked. Maybe stiff fines for those establishments, followed by denial of reimbursement funds for continued infractions.

I've always leaned toward eliminating the stamps altogether and distributing commodities. MREs would work, too. If they're good enough for our military, they're good enough for able-bodied nonworkers.

Something has to be done about the qualification process, as well. It's rampant. So many women never declare the income of the man in the house; nope it's just them, the poor single mom who lies to qualify for stamps, AFDC, Medicaid, housing/utilities/internet/childcare.

My first job out of high school was in a welfare/food stamp office. Back then, recipients had to prove they had a refrigerator and a cooking device or they were denied and directed to a charity. There were also "Welfare Visitors" who randomly visited the homes of recipients to check compliance, but I don't think that's feasible these days. One, it would take an army of "visitors," and two, it would be too dangerous.

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My wife grew up without running water or air conditioner in an open tin roof house with 7 siblings.

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Similar. Three room shotgun shack, one cold water faucet in the kitchen, and an outhouse. Luxury was a used, ten-inch oscillating fan. Back then, kids knew better than to stick their hand in the thing.

The assassin received support at home for the indoctrination he was receiving at school.

Per the Governor: In conversation at their dinner table, a family member and the killer discussed Charlie's upcoming visit and that they disliked Charlie and his messaging. The family member also stated to the killer that Charlie was full of hate and spreading hate.

I would like to know who that family member was. I'm guessing the mom, possibly a sibling or other relative. As a member of law enforcement, if the dad did it he was exceedingly stupid.