Texas Can Fix Crises When It Tells The Truth

The fastest way to lose your grip on reality is to let headlines do your thinking for you. We start by calling out how clickbait media and “outrage wording” shape your emotions even when you swear you’re staying objective, then we bring that same skepticism to the biggest Texas stories on the board right now.

We dig into two Laredo cases tied to human smuggling and assaults on federal agents, using them to argue that the southern border crisis is not just desperation but a criminal business model with real physical consequences. From there, we pivot to the New World screwworm outbreak in South Texas: the free online screwworm training Texans can take, what it teaches, how it can expand the inspector pool, and why federal funding for the Texas Animal Health Commission is a rare example of government cooperation that actually looks like basic civil order and food supply protection.

Then the pace stays local and practical: Fort Bend County’s mosquito health emergency and aerial spraying plans, the trust gap that makes people doubt “solutions,” and a Houston heat advisory outlook. In the second hour, we take on the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) and its summer leadership institutes, why training pipelines and continuing education credits can become power pipelines, and how parents get treated like a communications problem instead of a constituency. We also cover the Lone Star College Tomball lockdown over an alleged rifle threat, the predictable push for gun control, and the deeper cultural questions nobody wants to argue honestly.

We close with a big-money grid story as Texas utility regulators pause parts of a major high-voltage transmission line plan, plus an extradition update in a Harris County capital murder case that spotlights bond failures and the slow gears of justice. 

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Transcript

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Opening And Today’s Big Themes

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative here on Patriot Talk 920. Good to be with you this five. We made it Thursday, Thursday morning, June 18th. And I'm very excited for a lot of the stuff we have to get into with you this morning. Because a lot of this ties back to conversations we've been having a very long time. Conversations that we've had to have, unfortunately, in our country for a very long time. You know, conversations about the border, smugglers, immigration. And I mean, it's obviously connected when we talked about the screw worm, which we have an update on the screw worm, by the way, that we'll we'll have to get into here later in the show. But all this stuff going on, it certainly makes the headlines, right? It's certainly big news. You kind of need slash have to pay attention to it. It's kind of just constantly in your view. And you can't really miss it.

Media Clickbait And Emotional Manipulation

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Even if you're kind of trying to, it's difficult to miss it. And there's a reason for that. And that's because a lot of these headlines, a lot of the things that are happening on the surface certainly sound explosive. And in many cases, I think they're important to address. And I say that every day. My whole job as a radio host is to come on the show and to present what's going on in our city, our state, and our country in a way that is digestible, in a way that at least paints the truth of the story, gives some commentary, food for thought, all that sort of stuff. But I think the problem, and I see this in my own life. I I see this in the lives of people that I'm close to. I think part of the problem with this constant inundation with the news and the way that things are intentionally presented in the news is it there used to be something called journalistic integrity. There used to be a standard that journalists had to follow, that there had to be complete and total transparency and honesty. And there was an expectation that you had character and virtue, that people could trust you. And now you look out at the mainstream media generally and you realize that that's just simply not true, that we're being fed a whole bunch of lies all the time. And then you look even at right-wing media sometimes, a lot of the time, that's filled with people that are doing what's called, I don't know if you've heard of this, it's called clickbait, where they're they're baiting you into clicking something that maybe you wouldn't regularly even care to read with uh whatever the picture is. This happens all the time. YouTube is especially known for click baiting, where there'll be a video with a really good cover photo and a really wild title, and you're like, oh my goodness, I just can't pass up watching that video. So you click on it, and about halfway through you realize, this is I don't really care about this. But they baited you into watching it with their title and their photo. And the news is doing that all the time now. Uh so much of the news that's coming out these days, I don't want to say that it's not true or it's not happening. In some cases, a lot of cases, in most cases, it is. But the way that things are being worded and the way that we're constantly being battered over the head with that wording, it's having an impact on people. And that's why I caution people from where you get your news. I've said this before. I know that a lot of people, I know people who are like, well, I just want to I want to get a balance of things. So I go to I go to CNN as much as I go to Fox News. And I always try to tell people that do that. Um, I I go and I say, you know, you'd be significantly better off, significantly better off if your goal is to be unbiased, finding as unbiased an organization as possible, and just reading that one, if that's what you're going to do. If your goal is to get a wide range of reporting because you don't want the bias, you'd be better off because there are organizations that arguably only report specific facts with no specific light behind it, which is very difficult to do, but there are organizations that supposedly do it. You're better off trying to find one of those. Because what a lot of people are doing by reading balancing amounts of bias by reading both Fox News or or whatever. I mean, Fox News isn't even really that far right, so it's difficult to compare it. But you read Fox News and you read CNN, the issue comes in that there are a lot of people who and they don't want to believe this. They would if you ever approached him, if you ever approached the conversation at all, they would deny it immediately. But they're being impacted by the things they're reading and the things they're hearing. There's a reason we're told to guard our eyes and our ears. There's there's a reason for that. And the reason is that you don't have to necessarily agree with something to be impacted by that thing. And when you're constantly putting yourself through the ringer of CNN, if you think that you're not walking away with some sort of impact on you, you you're mistaken. Right. I I don't go read CNN unless it's absolutely necessary for a specific research project. I won't read it. Because I know what's on there. I I know what comes out of these left-wing publications, right? I know what's coming out. And there's no real benefit other than some sort of I get to pretend I'm holy by saying that I read everything. Oh yeah. I read a wide balance and I'm unbiased. I'm not unbiased. I'm happy to admit that. I I am biased towards truth and logic, which just so happens to be right wing in nature. So, no, I don't care to read CNN. I don't need to read left-wing radical publications in order to interpret the facts of what happened. I I don't need to go to these radical liberals to report on things in the most biased light possible in order for me to know what happened. And I know there are people out there that say, but I don't want to read only the biased stuff. But the real issue is that when we when we put ourselves through this, and this is what's happening, we're not coming away being, you know, better people. We're not walking away from reading CNN saying, yeah, I'm I'm really glad I'm now a balanced conservative. No.

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No, no.

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All we're doing, and I'm not even saying that it's gonna convince us of something evil and that you're gonna change your ways and it's gonna change your mind. The bigger concern is how how you walk away feeling from that. I know, because I've had I've been at the time of my life where I I said, Oh, I want to be a balanced guy. So I'm gonna I'm gonna read CNN and I'm gonna watch CNN and I'm gonna pay attention to NBC and AB and I did that for a while. I said, that's what I got to do, or I'm being biased. And then one day I woke up and realized that I was just miserable. Not only with the amount of news that I was ingesting, um, but with the way it was being described, the things I was hearing, the way I was being made to feel evil by seeing it, like the way that they would word things about conservatives, about white men, all these sorts of things that would come out in their stories in little little paragraphs of their story that weren't really related, but would would it would demonize people. And at some point, it weighs on you. And so if you need the news, if you want the news from our local area and from around the state, my recommendation is not CNN. My recommendation is here on the morning show at Patriot 920 from 6 to 8 a.m., where I will do my very darndest to give you all the true facts of the story with plenty of biased commentary to go alongside

Laredo Smuggling Cases And Agent Assaults

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it. We're gonna kick it off this morning talking about uh these these illegal aliens, or maybe illegal alien. A federal judge has sentenced an illegal alien and a man out of Laredo, each to three years in prison after they pleaded guilty to charges of transporting illegal aliens and assaulting federal agents in separate cases. According to the DOJ's office, both Juan Lopez, who's 34 years old, and Adrian Pimentel Garcia, who's 20 years old, they're gonna face three years in federal prison. Pimentel Garcia, who is not a U.S. citizen, will likely face removal after completing his sentence. On December 4th, Lopez was arrested by Border Patrol agents in Southwest Laredo while attempting to transport seven illegal aliens. After resisting arrest, he and Border Patrol agent fell from a 12-foot cliff. One of the illegal aliens that Lopez was apparently transporting testified that he had agreed to pay Lopez 160,000 Gizales, which is about $21,000 monthly to be smuggled into the country. A day later, Pimento Garcia was caught smuggling four illegal aliens in South Laredo. While attempting to escape, he jumped off a rooftop and kicked a border patrol agent in the face. Because when you're caught, the the best thing to do is just to make it worse. He later admitted that he had smuggled multiple groups and was to be paid one hundred dollars per person transported. Sounds like he was getting a much worse deal than the other guy. The cases are part of Operation Take Back America, we know, which is this ongoing repelling of illegal aliens and all this what have you. But again, these are people that are coming across our border, right? I think people need to be aware of this. The people that are coming across are not simply, oh man, oh man, they're just, you know, and this is the lie of the left all the time. They will point to intentionally cherry-picked cases where you have men who are trying to provide for their families, and they'll use those guys as the critical example of what immigration is as a defense of the thing. So you know they do this with abortion, you know they do this with LGBTQ issues, you know they do this, right? When when you talk about boys and girls' sports, they don't they're not they're not gonna willingly debate the issue wholesale. They'll start talking about a boy who would who would who wants to feel like a girl who has gender dysphoria. And if you don't affirm him, he's probably gonna kill himself. And then they go and they say, so you better let him play in the girl sports league. And you know, they and and you know, you get to a point where you just have to say, like, in in response to all of these, yeah, but that doesn't change the facts. I get it. Right? And there are situations that we could look at individualistically and say, hey, you know what? This this doesn't feel like the greatest thing in the world, right? When you see some of these families that have been sent back home, you go, you know, I didn't I didn't I don't, you know, I'm not saying that I feel good sending some of these guys back. But then you look and you say, but the policy's true, it's good, it's beneficial for the American people, it's virtuous, they broke the law, it's just and you say, time to get over it and do what needs to be done, right? And so don't don't fall for the garbage of, well, they just want to come build a better life for their family. I'm sure they do. I I'm sure they do, many of them, at least some of them. Right? They they do, and even the ones that do want to do it by living off of the welfare that you pay for, working the jobs that I think Texas young people and and Americans are owed. And by by continuing to raise housing costs all across the country. So sure. And that's that's in a best case scenario from the good ones, right? The arguably, you know, quote unquote good ones. And so uh of course, this is one of those border stories in this particular case that tells you just about everything you need to know about what's going on at the national level right now, right? Two separate cases. I know they kind of were patched up together at one because they're both at the same time, same day. Um, but but two different accounts where you had, to a degree, an assault on a federal agent, right? Both out of Laredo. Both of them are these smugglers that are trying to get men further into the interior of the U.S., obviously. And in both cases, what did you find? Well, border patrol agents were put in immediate physical danger because our country has spent years and years and years pretending like the border is not actually a border. It's just, as James Talerica would call it, a welcome mat. And I know, I know. Michael, quote the context, there he said there was a lock on the door. Yeah, but that's like that that that's adding wording after the fact to make it sound like he's not insane. That's what he did. I believe that our border is a border. And when you don't treat it like one, the end result is that people are going to have to be will people are going to get hurt trying to fix it. Right? Juan Lopez, this guy who's trying to to to transport seven illegal aliens, um, and him and this board agent roll and they fall off a 12-foot cliff. Right. Think about that. Twelve feet is not like a massive cliff, but you consider it for a minute and you realize, okay, that's that's also not a small little area. That we it that we're blessed, thank goodness, that nobody got seriously injured slash died, but it certainly could have happened to him or the Border Patrol agent, right? Because this smuggler decided that getting away was more important than the life of the man that's trying to enforce the law. And that's how people who are committing crimes feel a lot of the time. And then at the same time, you have this other guy who's jumping off a rooftops. You gotta you gotta kind of picture like a Mexican James Bond. He's jumping off of rooftops and kicking border brutal agents in the face. And he's only getting paid $100 per person for his service. So, you know, he again, I think he's being undercharged there a little bit. But either way, this is not just desperation, right? This is this is an industry. Again, the left wants to cherry pick these stories in order to make you feel some sort of sympathy for the affected parties. Well, don't you know this guy has a family? Well, don't you know he's just trying to provide in a lot of cases that's true. But when you look at what's going on at our border with the human smuggling, the traffic, the trafficking, the drug trafficking, guns. I mean, the the variety of different traffickings that are that are ongoing. You have to be aware, you need to understand that that this is not just desperation. This is an industry, right? This is the business model, this is the way things go. Human beings are moved and treated in every conceivable way, like cargo. Border communities are just the staging grounds, and federal agents are being assaulted while the leftists in Washington all over the country continue to pretend like the problem is compassion, that we're not compassionate enough, that we are radical right-wingers who don't care about people because we're psychopathic, while border patrol agents are getting kicked in the face by a guy jumping off a rooftop. I I mean it could not be clearer than that. Right. Of course, it's incre I I believe that it's actually incredibly cruel to the Border Patrol agents that are expected, right? It's part of their job. It is an expectation that they are going to stand between us, we the American people, and the chaos at the southern border. And then the political class wants to demonize those guys and and for doing their jobs and say that they're crazy and you should dox them and you should assault them and you don't have to obey all these sorts these sort of crazy claims. It's also, by the way, cruel to the migrants, right? If you want to really talk about compassion, I've said this before, but they're handing massive sums of money to smugglers, cartels, and then criminal networks. And they're doing all of that while while they're possibly facing prostitution, sex trafficking, in addition to the fiscal, the money situation that they're having to pay, they're having to face a variety of these sorts of hardships while they're being smuggled over here in the worst conditions possible. So if you have to have any compassionate sympathy for them, you'd want them to stay home. You just say I just don't do that. But they are. And you know why they're doing that? Because again, the political class has made it appear as though if they can get here, they can stay. And so they're willing to go through whatever it takes to get here. And this is why I keep saying that we can't simply say secure the border as some sort of slogan, close down the border, shut down the southern border. We can yell at all we want, but we've been saying that for years. We need to be honest about how we get how we got here and and and about how we get out of here. Because this crisis did not did not come out of nowhere. And I understand there are people who want to separate legal and illegal immigration. You really can't do that. You can do it in a certain way, right? You can say obviously that one is breaking the law and one isn't, that one is different than the other, right, for sure. But they're interconnected in the sense that this argument that's been going on from the left for the past few years has been the same argument that we've been uh adjusting to on a legal side of things for 60 years. We know that, right? The political class told Americans when they when they changed our immigration system that it would not transform the country. Turns out they lied. It did. Right? They told us that the numbers that they would immigrate would remain manageable. Again, they lied. Those numbers are not manageable. And they told us, obviously, that assimilation would automatically happen, it would happen naturally, and everything would be just fine. News alert. They lied. That didn't happen. And now, of course, we're stuck holding the bag, we're stuck left with the consequences. And you have to understand that all of the things going on with illegal immigration, all of the arguments coming from the left who justify it, they're the exact same sympathetic, compassionate arguments that came out of the 1960s and have justified the American people being subjected to mass immigration, mass cultural change, and and the inability to stand up for one's country. Because obviously, every name in the book gets thrown at the guy who says that. If I say, hey, 1960s really messed things up, we shouldn't have immigrated so many people, automatically I'm I'm gonna be I'm gonna be the hateful guy, right? Automatically I'm called hateful and whatever. I don't care about the names, but that's inevitably how I'm looked at by a wide percentage of the population. Automatically. Without even addressing my argument or trying to understand it, that's where it goes. But if you think that illegal immigration just came out of nowhere and just one day, wow, people are coming in, you you're missing, I think, the broader picture of what they've been doing. Or I keep hearing, well, you need to be a citizen to vote, you need to be a citizen to vote, and we have to pass the act. And I keep thinking to myself, that's fine and dandy. And yeah, that would be a step in the right direction for sure. But I see a lot of people thinking it's a fix-all. And all I can think to myself is they've been mass immigrating these people for 60 years and making them citizens. Those people get to vote. All of the Muslims and the Hindus and the Buddhists and the whatevers that come into this country legally, they'll get to vote. And we'll face the same problem. We'll just call it legal as we march to our own cultural devastation. That's not that's not better. So if you're a fan of the SAVE Act because, oh man, these people should not be voting, we should be careful who can vote, all this stuff. You you need to understand what has been intentionally perpetrated against our country for 60 years. You have to, right? Because, and this goes back to the we've had the conversation on the economy over and over, but we're not. A nation is is not just like this economic area, right? It's it's not simply a labor market. A nation is a people. That's what makes a nation, are the people in it. Right? I don't wanna I don't wanna, you know, start quoting Marvel movies, but if you guys have ever seen any of the the the I mean they're a little bit older now, but the Thor movies, there's a line where he says that Asgard, which is I mean, even if you just understand Norse mythology, you couldn't get this. Asgard, which is where, of course, the the in Norse mythology where you'll have the the gods is not a place. It's a people. Right? And I would argue it's a little bit wrong, because I think it's a place and a people. America is not simply the land from Washington State down to Florida or from South California up to up to Maine, right? America is that place, but it's filled with the people that have a shared inheritance, a shared heritage, a shared culture, bare minimum. When you start stripping that away, whether you do it legally or illegally, it it loses all meaning. We have to understand that. We cannot be manipulated by these sentimental arguments that confuse compassion with lawlessness, which is what they're attempting to do, that that are that are forcing us or trying to force us to say, yeah, I I'm okay with with things that I'm not okay with, under the guise of being tolerant, compassionate, kind, loving, whatever word they want to throw your way, in order to bully you into affirming their narrative. And and I think it's crazy. And I think whether it comes from illegal or illegals, it's the same problem. It's not gonna get better until we're willing to admit, hey, maybe mass immigration, whether you call it legal or not, is really bad. With that being said, we did get a text in that I want to read before we go to the break. It says, Can we stop pretending like illegal immigrants don't use social security numbers of citizens and obtain fraudulent social security cards by which they can use to obtain identification and vote? Oh, certainly. I mean, that's certainly happening. We know it's happening. And so th the the fraud is actually much more widespread than will be reported on just by nature of we don't even know how often it's happening. Right? We we don't even know which number were fraudulent because we don't have any proof that they were. But we know it's happening. Some of them have been caught, by the way. And so we know this is an issue and they're participating in these things. And it just so happens, I know this is gonna come as a massive surprise to everybody, it just so happens that all of them seem to want to vote for the left. I mean, it just it just so happens that they are consistently voting for the same political party every time they have an opportunity to vote. And I think that's for two reasons, uh, not the least of which is that the left is the one giving them their benefits and everything they want and letting them stay. With that being said, we get back from the break.

New World Screwworm Training And Funding

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We have an update on the new world screw worm. Uh actually more than one update, but the biggest one coming out right now, it's sort of breaking, is uh that federal funding has opened up. Federal funding has now been given to Texas in order to immediately combat the screw worm. That additional funding is going to be used to hire more inspectors as part of the response. Um, but by the way, lots of stuff actually is going on specifically with the screw worm. We we we got another update. I don't think it was lasting. I just think it was, I think it was actually earlier this week. Um, we got an update that we've launched this free screw worm training as cases have been rising. So we'll talk about all the screwworm updates when we get back. As always, if you want to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord willing, I'll be right back after the break. Stick around. Talk soon.

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative here on Patriot Talk 920. Let's kick it off talking about this new free screw worm training, and then we'll also kind of talk about the federal funding coming out. So Governor Greg Abbott announced the launch of an online course that will allow Texans to identify screwworm infestation in their own animals, an action that is, of course, supporting the state's response to the flesh-eating pest. The New World Screwworm Preparedness and Response Education online course launched late last week and focuses on training Texans to identify the pest in their own animals and to address the shortage of inspectors, which kind of ties back into this federal funding problem. The course trains attendees on the life cycle of the screw worm, surveillance, monitoring, reporting, and discovery procedures, how to conduct animal inspections, how to apply approved treatment protocols, all that sort of stuff. Texas AM AgriLife Extension, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, as well as the Texas Animal Health Commission and Texas Parks and Wildlife, developed the course. Again, completely free, but available online. They said, Abbott kind of put out, he said, AgriLife and TAHC moved quickly to launch this training. Now more people, including private industry, will be able to inspect and certify animals for movement. Through this program, Texas will protect our ranchers, ensure the security of our food supply, and keep businesses strong. And by the way, not only is it a course that's like just great generally for your education, if you do have animals and you're concerned, whatever, but also keep in mind that if you not only if you do the course for more than just your own info, if you actually take the course and you uh you meet the eligibility standards and pass the exam in the course, then you're eligible to apply to become a TAHC certified New World Screwworm Inspector. And you'll have the authority, by the way, to then issue official treatment and movement certificates to move animals outside of infected zones. And so that's pretty cool, by the way. If you want to do a grassroots version of solving this problem, that's really the way to do it. But that's not the only thing going on. We also have, of course, this update from the federal funding side of things. Governor Greg Abbott has also announced now that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is providing additional funding to the Texas Animal Health Commission to combat the recent New World screw worm outbreak in South Texas and expand the state's response. Quote, this federal funding allows us to place more inspectors in the field and bolster our state response. The release funding will allow the TAHC to hire 15 employees, including 10 field inspectors, to help contain the outbreak, which will expand the position uh to the flesh-eating pest, this insect. And so he said, uh, you also have Brooke Rollins who came out. She said today's announcement will help us ensure we have ample strategies and resources to identify and combat the pest. I'm so grateful to have a partner in Governor Abbott who is focused on delivering for all Texans as we continue to respond to this current situation and eradicate New World Screwworm forever. You know, more than just pushing it back to the Daring Gap, I think we could just kill it. Is that also on the available list of options? That's something we could just do. Um, nevertheless, everyone needs to be aware. As of the last update I saw, and there could be more now, so don't quote me on this, but as of the last update I saw, there were 12 cases confirmed. Originally there was the one, and then there was an outlier, and then there were three. Well, now there's at least 12, and so I want everyone to be aware of that. I also want people to understand that that we shouldn't miss this. On the surface, obviously this is this pest outbreak, New World Screwworm, it's grotesque, it's dangerous to livestock, affects wildlife, right? It's it's not good. Um but underneath that sort of immediate story of what the pest is, I think there's a broader, very important lesson to take away from this about what proper government cooperation should look like. Because you have the federal government providing some funds, you have the Texas Animal Health Commission putting in more inspectors, you have the governor activating the State Emergency Operations Center, you get this declaration of uh a disaster declaration, you've got Brooke Rollins, the USDA secretary, who's working with state officials, you have a legislature holding this hearing, you've got inspectors, ranchers, landowners, veterinarians, everybody kind of all stacked together, being asked to stay alert and cooperate with one another. Right? And I think this is how generally serious problems should be handled. And look, I'm as skeptical of Washington as anybody. You guys know I'm not a big truster in big government. You guys are well aware of that. That is not new. I that is not a surprise. I'm not just saying that because it sounds good. You you are well aware if you've listened to the show that that's how I am. But and and I don't want the federal government running every inch of our lives. But we but there's a difference, I think, between the federal government doing what it is constitutionally and practically supposed to do, as opposed to an obvious crisis designed to centralize control. I don't think that's what this is. And so protecting the food supply, protecting livestock, protecting the border, stopping the sped spread of the screw worm is not woke bureaucracy. I think that's basic civil order. And I'm I'm I'm actually quite pleased with the way currently the government is operating in terms of handling this by being willing to come together and figure all this stuff out. I think it's quite good. I think it's quite indicative of how much better we can work when we're willing to do so. Um and I think I I uh the biggest thing is that I wish I would see this more often. Now, with that being said, speaking of health emergencies and pests, Fort Ben County has also declared a health emergency, and they plan aerial spraying as mosquito issues are surging. We'll talk about that when we get back. If you want to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. M. U.S. Michael Wilson, you are listening to the Lone Star Conservative. And Lord willing, I'll be right back after the break. Stick around.

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Mosquito Emergency And Trust In Tech

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So they probably got more rain since they originally announced that the surge of rain meant a surge of mosquitoes. So you probably have even more now, even more of an emergency. Fort Bend County Health and Human Services received 1,505 mosquito-related complaints from May 1st to June 2nd, just a month and a day. Over twice the number following Hurricane Barrel in 2024. Mosquito tribes have caught up to 5,000 mosquitoes in a single collection period, exceeding typical even peak season levels, according to the county. Fortman County judge Daniel Wong, who by the way, I had on the show. If you guys go check out the podcast, you can just search the Lone Star Conservative on Apple or Spotify. We had Daniel Wong on the show while we were at the GOP convention. It was a really good time. I thoroughly enjoyed that conversation. Great guy, a lot of great energy coming out of that office now, and we'll see how it goes. He came out and he said predating the health, safety, and quality of life of Fort Bent County residents is one of our highest responsibilities. Our health and human services team has documented mosquito activity at levels that require immediate action. This declaration allows us to utilize every available tool to address the problem and provide relief to our communities. So that means they'll also be able to work alongside the FAA on aerial spraying operations, which will be carried out by licensed and qualified applicators, of course. You can't you will you you cannot just go out and do it yourself is basically what they're saying. But I mean, look, we live in a day and age, and and I understand that a a little a little struggle, a little bit of uh a little bit of trial and tribulation is good for you. I'm well aware of that. I also think that we live in a day and an age where with modern technology, it should not be difficult to get rid of these guys. And maybe it's not, and and I've mentioned this before, and I've thought through this a bunch. Maybe the reason we can't is because we don't have enough institutional trust in the people that could do it to do it without damaging us. Right? Like if you hear that Bill Gates has designed a thing that can end mosquitoes who bite and inflict itch on you, you would probably then go, I don't want him to do that. I don't know what Bill Gates is gonna put out in the air, but I don't want to breathe it in. Or whether it's not even in the air, even if it's just the type of mosquitoes, I don't want the mosquitoes that he's he's probably putting out steroidal, steroid inflicted West Nile bugs. I don't want Bill Gates anywhere near this project. But when you start looking, okay, so who has the resources in private industry to do this? It you start to realize that the people who could do it you don't trust to do it. So maybe they could. Maybe it is something that we should consider because I I, for one, am really fed up with mosquitoes. I don't I cannot think, and I've thought about this before. You know, there are unintended ecological consequences. Anytime that you take an animal out of the food chain, we've seen that happen before. It it can be disastrous if you're not really careful. Or you introduce a new animal into the food chain, same issue. Uh you can see Jurassic Park, if you need an example of how adding an animal back into the food chain is a bad idea. But at the end of the day, I've researched, I've looked, I wanted to make sure, and I'm I'm like 98% confident that specifically removing mosquitoes that they can bite you will do nothing bad for the environment. It'll have no negative downstream effects whatsoever. So, look, if we're gonna focus on anything, if we're gonna say, hey, we have the technology, if you have the technology to put up AI cameras that can remember where I work, who I am, my car dents, and then cross-apply that with kill switches that can turn my car off. I certainly think that you have the capability of ending biting mosquitoes. Can we at least compromise a little? If you want to do constant minority reporting tracking of the American people like Big Brother, can you at least make sure we don't have to deal with mosquitoes? Can we at least right now you know the old line those who trade security for liberty deserve neither or will or will earn neither, whatever it is. It's you understand that. But right now, we're trading liberty and getting nothing back. Like we we get nothing in Return, and that just seems like the worst possible deal. It seems like the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals. Yeah, let's give up our essential liberties, and what do we get out of it? Nothing. Like I know the companies are claiming that we're getting safety out of it, flock and all these. You're not. It's not making anyone any safer. So you're not even trading your liberty for security. You're getting nothing out of it. Can we at least kill the darn mosquitoes? If we're gonna do anything. If we're gonna, if we're gonna do this tech stuff, can we please figure out how to how to murder and slaughter and genocide the mosquitoes? With that being said, to wrap up the first hour of the show, we get back, we're gonna have, of course, the bottom of the hour weather report coming up for you guys. What do you see going on now that the rain has kind of shifted eastward a little bit throughout the rest of today, tomorrow, the weekend, and kicking off next week? As always, if you would like to text into the show, let us know your thoughts on any of the stuff we're going over, any of the stuff you want to hear more about, feel free to do that. It's 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. And Lord willing, I'll be right back to wrap up the first hour of the show with our weather report after this break. So hang tight. We'll talk soon.

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Heat Index Forecast And Weekend Weather

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So now that that we've had this tropical thing out on the coast kind of move on, it's giving way to, of course, a new threat of weather, dangerous heat that could send heat index values. That's what it feels like outside, to as high as 115 degrees this weekend. Of course, uh the all of the rain, most of the rain, I should rephrase that, because you never know about all. Most of the rain and the remnants of the tropical stuff will be east of Texas by today. Uh but the tropical moisture left behind could linger, right? By with saturated soils, abundant sunshine, and the high pressure that's kind of strengthening overhead. That means very high humidity levels and very warm nights. Uh we have a heat advisory in effect from 11 a.m. today through 10 p.m. tomorrow for Houston and most of the greater Houston area, with dangerous heat expected to persist through the weekend and into next week. The Regional National Weather Service Office for Houston and Galveston typically issues a heat it a heat kind of warning when the heat index value surpasses 108. So we're we're certainly there. That's what we're expecting out of today and tomorrow. Highs are gonna climb into the lower 90s, but those heat index values are gonna push that up again. Um, and so that's also I mean, again, that advisory is coming everywhere from College Station to Huntsville to South Houston, Galveston, all the coastal counties. Uh due point temperatures also, air is getting uncomfortably muggy. That's what we're gonna have for the entirety of at least the the next week. Uh and we're not gonna get a lot of relief overnight. That's the other problem, is that overnights are only gonna fall to around 80 degrees over the weekend, which means that any recovery time, say let it cool off and enjoy this. No, not coming. And so that's that's kind of what we're seeing, right? We're seeing hot and mostly dry, really for the next week. There's not a lot of rain on the agenda. There's mostly sunshine, high, high humidity, muggy, hot, warm overnight. That's the general expectation. We're kind of there's some small chances of rain that I know been talked about for the weekend. They're very small. They could still come, we don't know. And I'll make sure to check back tomorrow for our tomorrow's weather report. But that'll do it for the first hour. With that being said, we can get back from the break. Lots more news. We'll kick it off in the next segment with TASB, the Texas Association of School Boards, and what they're doing with summer training to expand their influence on board of trustees in school districts. Text in 713-779-5978. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You are listening to the Lone Star Conservative. We'll be right back at the top of the next hour.

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Why Listener Engagement Matters

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative here on Patriot Talk 920. Just a quick reminder for you guys, I am incredibly grateful to each and every one of you that's tuned in. I know that we have people that that are here that don't generally text in. We have some people that text in regularly, some people that are always first-time texters. We get quite a few of those each week. But I want to thank everyone for being here. Regardless of if you get to interact or I mean, maybe you're driving. You can't text in. And there's there's a legitimate excuse. Whatever the case may be, every single person that's here listening is a person that is choosing actively to spend their time and and their brain power. It's limited, by the way. You're choosing to spend that listening to my show. And and that's a time commitment, it's a resource commitment. It is it is again, you know that you get influenced by what you hear. So even if I'm not coming at it from a I influence you perspective, you know that if you listen to this regular, you're gonna be influenced by things. That's how the life works. What I listen to, I'm also influenced by. And so you trust me enough with with your thoughts, your ears, that you're willing to listen. And I just wanted to say to start off the second hour that I appreciate each and every one of you. You guys are great. I I don't think I've met a single person that listens to my show, which I've met a lot of you at at conventions and gun shows and hour events. I don't think I've met a single one of you that I watch by saying, Man, I don't like that guy. Or man, she was weird. I don't think I've I don't think I've had that happen a single time. So, which is surprising, by the way. You'd expect there'd be a couple of weirdos. No, you guys are well-adjusted, normal people. Um, maybe that's the type of show it is. I don't know. But every single person I met that listens has been great, and I'm I'm very appreciative for each and every one of you tuning in. Again, I it's not lost on me that this is early in the morning. If you listen to the show from start to finish, you're up at six in the morning. And for a lot of people, for most people, that's quite early. Right? There are some of us who, of course, because of our jobs or whatever, get up earlier than that. But for a lot of you that are choosing to tune in, you're actively choosing to get up early to listen to the show. And I just wanted to say thank you and that I appreciate you. And I hope that each and every morning I'm making it worth it here on the on here on the broadcast by giving you the news that you need to hear with good commentary alongside it, building you up, not tearing you down, encouraging you, not discouraging you. That's why I always try to make sure I I highlight wins and losses, and I highlight that even losses mean that we have to win more, win more bigly. I say all of that because, of course, at the end of the day, that is that is the solution. We could be discouraged. We can hear all the bad and say, oh, I guess we can just give up. Or we can hear all the bad and say, no, God put us here for a reason for such a time as this, and we're not cowards. That's not in our blood as Americans. Uh you'll you'll find in American history and Western history in general, cowardice, not on the list of adjectives used to describe people of American descent. It's just not there. It's not a common thread, doesn't happen. And so we're not cowards, we're not afraid, we're very courageous. And I appreciate you being willing. I know many of you tune into the whole show. I know there's some of you that you know you you start work and you're only able to hear the first hour, the second hour, whatever it may be. But there's there are many of you who listen to both hours of the show. That's a lot of time. I mean, that's five days a week, that's not quite a twelfth of of your time. But you you take out, you know, sleeping, you're down to 16 hours. You know, that's now an eighth of your waking time. That's an eighth of your waking day that you spend listening to the show on weekdays. And that's incredible to me. I I I I really I am not trying to like blow smoke and say, oh man, you guys, you're the best. I I mean it when I say that because I know it's a time commitment. I understand that. And I'm very grateful for each and every one of your and the the cool thing about our listeners that I think we got a lot of people beat on, um, and I don't say that lightly, I say it very importantly, is that our listeners are very active in the sense that unlike a lot of people who just kind of listen passively and then don't do anything, a lot of our listeners show up. They come out, they get involved. A lot of our listeners are going to school board meetings and they're impacting their local areas and they're talking to their neighbors and they're texting in to say, hey, I heard this thing happen because I'm paying attention to what's going on in my community. Can you talk about it? That's that's so encouraging to me. I don't know that you guys know you are a massive part of the encouragement in my life. Seeing that, you know, to a degree, you're listening to the show, you're getting involved, you're being a part of what's going on, and and that is a massive encouragement. Right? And it reminds me every day I I have a big responsibility. And God has put me here. And we all have different jobs and different talents and different things that God has called us individually to do as a society, as a people. And I it's not lost on me the responsibility that I have, and I'm very grateful for each and every one of you that allows me to be a part of your life. And that comes and get I get to meet you. You're part of my life too. Vice versa. And I'm very appreciative. I want to talk in this segment.

TASB And The School Board Power Pipeline

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After that, I want to go into TASB because it's the Texas Association of School Boards, you might not have known the name, it's TASB. If you've heard of that group, you might you might not have. Many people have. Um, they are now hosting their summer leadership institutes as a way of training new board members. But critics, as they should be, are warning that that the institutes are spreading this left-wing taxpayer-funded lobbying influence into school boards. Uh TASBI held its first conference last week in San Antonio. An organizer scheduled this week's conference in Fort Worth. TASBY's website describes the Summer Leadership Institute, the SLI, as the group's quote, flagship training conference designed to offer new and experienced school trustees a place to create their own learning journey. The event allows trustees to earn required continuing education credits as well. The organization, of course, drawing renewed scrutiny after the Texas GOP condemned both TASB and the Texas Association of School Administrators, TAS A, I suppose TAS A and TAS B. The party's resolution accused the groups of advancing systemic intimidation, coercion, and attempts to force trustee recusal from legitimate governance and oversight duties, often through use of association-tied legal counsel and risk management providers. The resolution also alleges that conservative school board members have been subjected to coercive tactics and isolated when challenging policy positions and training mandates. Because TASB controls so much of the training pipeline in general for our school boards. Critics, of course, like myself, would argue that it it sort of bakes their viewpoint, their left-wing ideology, into the credits they offer. And so not just that they're left-wing, but that they're offering legitimacy on top of it. It kind of reminds you of college institutions in general. And I was actually, I went to men's fellowship with my church yesterday with that once a month. And one of the conversations we had was what I call credentialism, where critical thinking is replaced or is is legitimately replaced by a piece of paper where I get in debates with people and and I know people have been asked, I've been asked, hey, where's your PhD from? As if that makes one smarter or more well-informed. And I know this because I've I've talked to people who have PhDs in history that are woefully unaware of real historical facts. They're woefully unaware of what real history looks like because they've not studied it outside of the legitimacy, quote unquote, of the school system that promotes a certain view of history. And that applies to every topic in the book psychology, psychiatry, um, social studies, history. I mean it's even spread into mathematics and STEM degrees at this point, unfortunately. But it's the same sort of credentialism where your critical thinking is replaced by left-wing ideological tactics in pursuit of legitimacy. I want the continuing credits. This is a win-win for them, for me, but at the end of the day, they're using it to spread this heinous ideology into school boards. And so, according to the schedule for the Fort Worth conference, some of the main sessions include improving student outcomes, a panel discussion with state lawmakers, financial planning, teacher retention, and legislative advocacy. All of that sounds good on surface level. You just look at the names. Okay, that sounds good. But including included on the agenda is how community engagement became key to a successful bond, which highlights how attendees will see how thoughtful outreach and transparent communication can support a well-informed community during a bond election. And and yet we know, and that's not the case, that much of the time when bond elections come out and when they pass, it's because of low voter turnout and because of strong, not because of strong community support, right? Raising questions about whose support is being cultivated, it's a small minority of people that you're getting to show up. That's what that is. That's not strong community advocacy that's manipulated turnout. And so presenters for that session include the superintendent of Ferris Independent School District and the Director of Communications and Bonds from Claycombe Associates, which is an Austin-based architectural firm specializing in school facilities. So I there's no conflict of interest in having the people who are building the stuff talking about how important it is to get low voter turnout to mean more bonds, right? Obviously not. And so another session entitled Leadership Under Public Scrutiny in the Social Media Era is on the agenda and tells attendees that they will learn how to respond thoughtfully rather than reactively to online narratives, balance personal and professional social media presence, and protect mental well-being while serving in highly visible jobs, which is presented by trustees from the HUDO Independent School District and will share practical strategies for navigating public scrutiny while staying focused on government and student success. In other words, how to get away with being an absolutely on insane radical online while continuing in your position, basically. And so, of course, you you see this this online narrative, because of course concerned parents have used social media, as they should, to voice concerns over bonds, student safety, the outcomes of our educational system, test scores, grades, uh explicit books that have been found in school libraries, as well as predatory teachers, by the way. And so, of course, we have a lot of questions surrounding whether the training on how to navigate the social media space is encouraged trustees to treat online criticism as a narrative problem rather than a warning signal from the people that needs transparency and reform in response. They're treating it, well, this is just an online narrative that we don't really want to deal with in the first place. Here's how you navigate it with polished language rather than actually pursuing genuine reform to the issues being brought up against you. And so uh you also have sessions that have been offered during past events hosted by TASB, which have labeled parents who air their concerns online, who said, Hey, I have a concern, I have an issue, I have a problem with what you're doing. They've labeled them as cyber terrorists and cave people. Cave meaning citizens against virtually everything. Meaning they're highlighting the parents who are concerned with the educational system and with TASB influence. They're saying, Well, you just can't be pleased, so we don't care about you. That that's what they're arguing. They're also off uh holding an annual conference in October, another big conference coming up as well. Uh but what we're seeing with TASB is not just another professional conference, though a lot of them are going this way. Um, it's it's not just trustees sitting in ballrooms, taking notes, collecting their education credits, and going home. This is undeniably about power. For years, conservative parents, conservative activists like myself, among others across Texas have warned that TASB is not some neutral organization dedicated to service, right? TASBY functions as this ideological system where they lobby, they use their legal, they they use their legal connections and their training for the government education establishment. We know that. And that's important because board members, school board members, are elected by the people. They are not elected by TASB, they're not elected by administrators, they are not elected by by bond firms or lawyers or lobbyists or superintendents, they're elected by we the people. They're elected by moms, by dads, by taxpayers, and by ordinary citizens. But the moment that you get a new trustee elected, especially by the way, i uh you know, the the nail that's a little poking out kind of thing, the moment that it's a conservative trustee, that system has been built to disfavor him intentionally. The training is already there, the legal advice is already there, the policies are already there, and so the administrators already know the language. The consultants already know how to get them to do what they want them to do. And before long, that trustee that was so called conservative, you wonder, well, why did they flip? What happened? Well, I can tell you what happened. They were bullied and intimidated using coercion into just playing the game and following the rules. Don't rock the boat, trust the experts. You hear that all the time. Stay in your lane. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't mess with the way that things are. Respect leadership, all these sort of things. Don't let politics interfere with governance, though that's exactly what's happening anyway. And of course, all that sounds reasonable, right? We want to make sure that we're cooperating and things are working and things are making sense. That's what makes it so dangerous. Because I as I said before, like in in regards to the New World Screwworm, in a lot of cases, cooperation is good. In a lot of cases, cooperation is a wise decision. Sometimes you should work with other board members, with administrators, and even with outside organizations to accomplish something that benefits the students and benefits the families in your district. But and we are Christians, right? And we are conservatives. We do believe in limited government, not no government. We're not anarchists. I've said that numerous times on the show. We believe in law and order and in the reality of institutions. And we believe in peace when peace is possible. But scripture also warns us very heavily about wolves in sheep's clothing. That's the point. Evil doesn't usually walk in and say, hey, we're the bad guys. I said this yesterday. And it's the same thing here. It does not usually say, Hey, I'm here to undermine your parental rights and advance left-wing ideology, protect bureaucrats, and help local governments pass more debt to fund the mega corporations. It's not usually how it goes. Usually it comes dressed up like leadership training and continuing professional education credits. And and the best practices for governance and equity and community engagement. Very neat and well, well oriented and organized. And again, some of those things in certain instances can be legitimate, right? Trustees do deal with pressure. They do need training. They do need to be aware of the law. And they do need to govern wisely. And it's good to have people behind you helping you and aiding you in that. But the question that we should be asking is who's doing that training? What worldview are they teaching? And whose interests are the ones being protected? Because if it's not the parents and it's not the families, then you're already you've already messed up, right? And this is where we need to wake up a little bit because the history of the education establishment in in this country is the history of local control being just stripped away from the people while the language of local control stays on the pamphlet, stays on the brochure. You get to see it, oh yeah, local control. And it's m meaningless words, right? So the the design of school boards were to be close to the people.

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They were supposed to represent local families and what's best for the families in that particular district, they were supposed to make sure that the schools in that district reflected the values of the community that they're in. But over time, you have this professional class of administrators and associations and lobbyists, and they're paid either directly or indirectly with your dollars. And many of them have a very vested interest in making sure that their version of the machine keeps on running, keeps on paying the bills, keeps the lights on. And so when a parent stands up at a board meeting or an activist stands up at a board meeting and says, Hey, why is this explicit book in the library? The machine doesn't, is not willing to hear that it's a mother protecting her child or a concerned family member saying, hey, this is dangerous, it hears disruption, right? When a father says, Hey, why are the test scores failing? Why are less than half of students at at the state-oriented grade level proficiency? Why are students not performing how they should be? Right? It's not hearing, hey, we need better accountability measures. The machine is enticed to hear, hey, this is hostility. This is negative. And so when you ask, hey, why are you pushing another bond election when families are already struggling to afford any money they're already paying, they're not hearing, hey, we need better fiscal responsibility. They're saying no, this is the opposition to progress. And you hear that all the time. And so th this is the real issue with TASB. It's not just that that the trustees are receiving some sort of training, it's a concern and a legitimate one that the same institution which is offering training is also part of this ecosystem of establishment people that is shaping the policy, advising the districts, and then lobbying the legislature, which is not neutral. It is it is widespread influence in every level of government. And when that influence is funded by school districts, which it is, which are funded by taxpayers, we have every right and and really we have an obligation to ask why we're funding an organization that works against the interests of our values of our as the taxpayers who are funding them in the first place. And look at the sessions, right? You know, community engagement. I mean, who could oppose that? It kind of dice you back to the the conference that's going over DEI themes. Who could oppose belonging? Well, is this really about belonging? Or in this case, is this really about informing the community, or is it learning how to pitch debt to voters so they go for it? And you can entice certain voters to turn out during low turnout elections so that you can get more money for your district. Because we know that there are many bond elections with low voter turnout. We've seen districts use consultants and messaging campaigns, very carefully selected committees of people to persuade voters to approve these massive spending packages. And then when we object, we say, hey, maybe billions of dollars in debt is not in the best interest of the families in the district, we're the ones that are anti-school, anti-teacher, and and anti-community. But that's not true. Right? We're actually pro-taxpayer, we're actually pro-family and pro-accountability. You also have public scrutiny in social media. That's a very dangerous one, by the way, because that's that's what they're saying needs to be managed as a narrative is the very thing that they should be looking at as accountability, right? That's the divide. They're seeing any sort of criticism as a communications problem while we're looking at it and saying, no, this is not a communications issue, this is a governance problem. How you're governing is bad. Right? They ask, how do we manage the narrative? And we're asking, why are why are you hiding things? Why, why are you trying to protect people from public pressure when they need public pressure in order to face the reality of what's going on? And historically, again, this is the same pattern we see over and over and over again all across the country. COVID is a good example of this. Parents were told, you gotta sit down and be quiet and just go with the flow of things. We don't care if you don't like the mass mandates or the school closures or the critical race theory and gender ideology that came out of that time period. You're the extremist if you're not on board with all of that, right? Which is why the phrase cyber terrorists became so infamous in this fight in the first place, because it revealed the way that this ruling establishment comes out and sees you as a parent when you're not submitting without any questions at all to their authority. And look, I I'm not coming out saying that threats and violence are good. That's not my claim at all. We reject that. But but a peaceful, public and and and this sort of even aggressive and relentless pressure for accountability is not terrorism. That is the basic duty of citizenship. Right? It's what men do, it's what fathers, it's what mothers do, it's what Christians do when the souls and and minds of children are on the line, which they are. This is why the wolves in sheep's clothing analogy is so crucial here, because they're not going to announce themselves as enemies. Um, they're speaking in these soft tones and saying we just want to benefit the community engagement. They're seeing these conferences and giving out certificates. But if the result of that is that our conservative trustees are being pressured, parents are being d dismissed and called extremists, and we normalize debt and woke ideology, then then I think we need to recognize who the wolf is in this case. And and let me say, if there are any conservative trustees that are listening to the show, let me say this very plainly. You were not elected to be managed by a lobbyist organization or to be absorbed into the system. You were not elected to make TASB happy and the other school boards happy. You were elected to govern at the will of the people, which means reading the documents and asking hard questions and challenging bad legal advice. That means that you need to continue demanding transparency and saying, hey, I'm not gonna be ashamed of calling out what's going on in our district. I'm not gonna be afraid. I'm gonna be courageous to say, hey, there are problems and they need to be addressed, and they need to be addressed well in a way that benefits the people and to the parents out there that are listening. Do not give up. Right? Do don't let them convince you that that any sort of pressure is bad and and improper. Don't let them tell you that posting clips and asking questions and organizing voters and exposing things on social media is somehow evil. That's what accountability is. Tell the truth, right? Be honest. Don't be don't be afraid, don't be bitter, right? Be bold, be clear, be aggressive and righteous, right? Don't become TASB, part two, right? Because this is a spiritual fight as much as it is a political one. And it is. I know that when I say, like, oh, well, don't let politics interfere with it is. It is inherently political. And the left has known this for years. They know whoever shapes the children shapes the future of the country. I've highlighted that dozens of times. Schools are not as much as people want them to be, just about math and reading. They form loyalties and assumptions about God and family and authority and sex and country and history and ultimately all of those things combine into one overall genre, which is truth. And that's why this bureaucracy of the establishment in education is so willing to fight tooth and nail so hard to keep their control. And why we cannot treat these as minor elections or minor problems, they're not small offices. They are the front lines. School boards are. Even if they're not big, sexy races, they're the front lines of this problem. And so uh we should have as much cooperation as we can, as much as it depends on us to maintain peace, but that does not mean that we should be naive, right? When we see an organization that is protecting the establishment and and and going after conservative trustees and shutting down parents and activists, it's fair for us to say that's evil, that's wrong, it's not beneficial to parents, we need to be, we need to be we need to have more scrutiny, and the answer needs to be reform. And where necessary, to root out evil and the wolves in our midst. That that's all I can really say about it. With that being said, when we get back from the break, there was a a lockdown over at Lone Star College in Tombaugh after there was a reported rifle threat in the library, according to officials. The threat was allegedly made by a visitor who was not a student or a staff member at Lone Star College. We'll talk about that issue and violence and the culture when we get back from the break. As always, if you would like to text in, have any questions, concerns, thoughts, let me know. 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. And Lord willing to be right back with that lockdown story after the break.

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back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative here on Patriot Talk 920. A lockdown at Lone Star College Tomball was lifted a little earlier this week after an afternoon after campus police investigated a reported threat involving a rifle and determined there was no danger going into the future for students or staff. The campus was placed on lockdown shortly after one P.M. after a report was made to Lone Star College System Police Department regarding a threatening statement allegedly made by a visitor inside the campus library. According to Lone Star College officials, the individual allegedly said they were going to go to their vehicle to retrieve a rifle and return to campus. An employee who heard the statement immediately reported it to police, prompting officials to issue a campus-wide lockdown. An emergency alert, which was sent to the campus community, stated, Attention, LSC Tomball Maine, lockdown now. Go to nearest room and lock the door and stay quiet. This is not a drill. College officials and Lone Star College system quickly intercepted the individual. After making contact officers determine the person did not have any weapons, it was an empty threat. They said the individual individuals that appear to be a student or employee of the college. That lockdown was then lifted after the campus was determined to be safe. Campus officials said LSCS Lone Star College takes seriously and fully investigates all alleged threats to ensure the safety and security of our students, employees, and facilities. No injuries reported. It remains unclear as of now. We've not heard that there's any charges that have been filed. But the investigation is ongoing to determine if there will be any charges. But of course, what the left's gonna do, and you know this because they do this every single time, they're gonna hear stories like this. And it doesn't matter that no one actually had a firearm at all, right? That's not actually even relevant. They're gonna say, but what if they did? Because it's so easy to get a gun. What if they did have that? What if they what if they were gonna do that? And and and people could be dead right now. And you say, Yeah, that would be really awful. They'd say, So how do we stop that? And you say, Well, I think there's a cultural epidemic of violence and of attention seeking, and we have glorified that through our music and through our films and through our games, and we've said this is this is culturally acceptable, and we've we've given these kids pills, and we've told them that their identity is not rooted in anything objective, that it changes day to day, and they've they've grown up with no sense of identity or normalcy or or expectations of behavior. And then, of course, the reply would be, well, that's not very nice. That's not very nice. Why don't we just ban guns instead? How about that? And and if you look at them like that's one of the dumbest arguments you've ever heard, well, you're the bad guy. Even though it is, arguably, one of the dumbest arguments I've ever heard. That there's a tool that people are using for evil. Therefore, the tool is the issue and not the fact that we have evil people, and we should be working to rectify that. Because again, as I've highlighted before, you know that that's logical based on evidence. You can go the evidence route and say, hey, so guns are not any more available to people than they were 50 years ago. In fact, I would argue they're less available. We have actually stronger stipulations on procuring a firearm, how we have to store firearms in the home for children to have access to them. We're actually much more strict on guns today, and yet mass violence with guns is an all-time high. That would lead me to believe that it's not the guns that are the problem. That there's something else going on here. And the left doesn't like that argument because they don't want to talk about evidence and facts. They, of course, want to do what they have to do to gain more power. And the number one thing standing in their way, as we always highlight, is your right to keep and bear arms. That is the number one accountability mechanism against government tyranny, especially from the left these days, which is why they're so heavy about going after you. You know, they'll they'll say all the time, well, we want to ban these big weapons of war. And it's like, you know, that most of the murders are committed by handguns, right? Do you want to ban handguns? Well, no. But they do. They just can't do it yet because it it they they don't have the argument on their side. But they start small and they work their way up. That's how things work. And you have to stand up against them. You have to say that doesn't make any logical sense, and we're not willing to give up our rights because people have done horrible things. And that's where our sponsor, Gun Owners of America, comes in. Gun Owners of America is really the only true no-compromise gun lobby that actually operates effectively in the country. And they do that through a variety of tactics. Of course, they have to campaign for good people to get into office who are going to support and defend your rights. We can't get anything done if the people that get elected are not willing to defend your rights. And then once they're in, we have to hold them accountable to actually do that. We have to say, hey, we actually need to defend and support the Second Amendment. That means lobbying for good bills and against bad ones to be ended and make sure that they don't pass. And then if if goodness gracious, you know, a bad law does go into effect, or an ordinance or an executive order, whatever it may be, there's a variety of ways that these things come into effect. Gunners of America is there watching and waiting and saying, hey, we're willing and able to take this to court. But the able part of that, the willing part of that is them. The able part requires your support. It requires you being a member. And you can do that by going to goahuston.com. That is G Oahhouston.com. It is a $25 annual membership, $25 per year, which goes right back to their ability to continue to do everything they do for your God-given rights. Because the Second Amendment is your right to even bear arms, which shall not be infringed. And they believe that. Again, that is G-O-A-Houston.com. With that being said, we got another very important conversation coming up after the break.

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Pausing The 765kV Transmission Line Plan

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In a unanimous decision yesterday, public utility commissioners voted to abate, that means to pause, to wait for the first segment of this proposed transmission project. A commission spokesman confirmed the decision will be delayed until administrative law judges offered their recommendation on the third of the five segments of the proposed transmission lines. Commissioners were considering the Longshore Switch Drill Hole, which is a 75 765 kilovolt transmission line proposed by electricity delivery company Encore, which would run approximately 160 miles beginning west of Forson and Horn Howard County and ending near the Colberson Reeves County line in West Texas. It's the western part of the dinosaur to drill hole import path. Um and it's it's one of three paths to bring power from East Texas into the energy-rich Permian Basin, which again, lifetime costs have reportedly said is approaching $100 billion. Those proposed lines, as you probably are well aware, is part of the Permian Basin Reliability Plan, which lawmakers authorize as a limited regional fix for a specific thing. Critics have said, rightfully, that the public utility commission, grid operator ERCOT, and Encore have expanded it to be this big statewide $100 billion project without any authorization from the elected people. And so the three paths are broken into five segments. Each of these segments has undergone hearings before the state office administrative hearings, where, of course, landowners have said, Hey, there's concerns about transmission lines coming onto my property. American Stewards of Liberty, a pro-landowner group, and 43 state lawmakers asked the Public Utility Commission of Texas to defer determining a need for any segment of all paths until the process has been completed. You have ASL attorney, American Stewards of Liberty attorney, who said a central question remains unresolved whether the underlying reliability need truly requires large-scale imports of power over long distances or whether local generation alternatives could satisfy some of the portion of that need. Before committing Texas to an unprecedented transmission build-out, the Commission should know whether local generation was studied as a potential alternative, and the record suggests it did not. It would only increase the cost if the delay means we still do it exactly the way we originally proposed. The purpose of the delay is for us to talk and say, hey, maybe this isn't the best outcome. Maybe this isn't what's best for the people and the process and the way this is supposed to go. Maybe we do it differently and more affordably. And of course, I core doesn't want to hear that, because that would not be beneficial to them at all. They're getting all these taxpayer dollars to do their projects they want that will benefit them. So of course they're they're arguing against it. He said we were asked to put four to six weeks between each of these filings, which was scheduled. This was done intentionally and con f in consultation with the infrastructure divisions, the legal divisions. And so the Commission's resources do not have all those cases fall under that one point at a time. We spread it out anyway. It's all fine, it's all dandy, except for the people are saying, hey, actually it's not all fine and dandy. Actually, we're quite upset with the way that this is going. And so you have the public utility commission of Texas Chairman Thomas Gleason, uh, who said that they they need to sh they need to kind of expand the timeline a little bit. He said the 180 days is very, very fast and it's perfectly appropriate for cases concerning shorter lines with less voltage, but the amount of voltage and the cost and the extensiveness of this project demands, hey, we need a little extra time to have these conversations because this is a wild thing to commit to without legislator approval. Taking these things and expanding them the way that you are at the taxpayers' expense is dangerous if not done correctly and fairly. And I think that's totally fair. Again, as I've always said, I'm not anti-progress. I'm not I'm not coming out and trying to counter signal economic prosperity and technological infrastructure. I'm not doing any of that. But what I am willing to do is to say, hey, every single project we endeavor to succeed in must be asked the basic question, is this beneficial or the most beneficial for Texans? And if you cannot immediately answer yes, then you either need to delay to determine if you can answer yes, or if the answer is no, you need to cancel. It should be that simple. Because progress is serving an ultimate goal. It's not some independent magical factor that if you achieve it, you win. Right? Progress can certainly mean that you win. It can also mean that you lose. And so the goal, the means or the progress. The goal is the benefit of Texans. And from all the complaints of the actual Texans in the room, I would argue this certainly doesn't sound very beneficial to Texans. But that being said, to wrap up the show when we get back, we're gonna know about this this update. You guys might remember the guy who was alleged to have committed murder and then he fled to Italy. The U.S. is now moving to extradite him to back to the U.S., back to Harris County, to begin a capital murder trial. Um, you know, and and so we'll see how that goes. But I have some things I want to say about that, some things that have been frustrating me on this particular story that I want to get into. So we'll talk about it with that update when we get back. If you'd like to text in again, the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You are listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. Don't go anywhere because we'll be right back to wrap up the morning show after this last break. Hang tight and we'll talk soon.

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Extradition Fight And The Bond Problem

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So attorneys involved in this case have confirmed as of yesterday evening that the Italian government has received a received a formal extradition request for Lee Gilly. Gilly, who's 39 years old, was scheduled to stay on trial this month in Harris County on a capital murder charge stemming from the October 2024 death of his pregnant wife, Krista Bauer. However, authorities say he cut off his ankle monitor. You guys probably have heard this story if you stuck around for my reporting for a while. Uh, while he was out on bond and used forged travel documents and a false identity to board an international flight to Milan in Italy. He has been he had been released from jail on a one million dollar bond, which again speaks to the issues of bonds and ankle monitors and all this sort of stuff. During a hearing, the prosecutors said the U.S. Department of Justice had 45 days to submit the extradition request to Italian authorities, and that proc that packet was in the process of being finalized. Um the Harris County District Attorney's Office declined further comment other than we've started the process uh because of a gag order in the case. So it's unclear exactly when the paperwork got submitted, and it's also unclear that the next steps will be in the extradition process. They've not set a new trial date for the Capitol Murder case. Um you also have th this this issue in general uh with with a separate legal battle involving the couple's children, which is going on. But I don't want to get into that because the bigger issue that I want to get into here is this the extradition stuff, actually. Because I I I've talked extensively about bond issues and why consistently bonds don't make sense. And the only reason we have them in the first place is because we can't seem to organize our course in a timely manner. That's evil. It's an injustice. It's an injustice to the people that have to sit behind bars for years and wait for their trial. It's also an injustice when they let them out to the people that suffer as a result. Here's the reality, ladies and gentlemen. The thing that I actually want to talk about, which is this extradition problem. What is going on? Are we not the United States of America with the Eagles and the American flag and we own I mean, hey, Joe Biden, but we own the finish line? Why in the world are we having to do deal with the demands of Italy? The little baby country. What are we what are we doing? I know they're not like a baby country. I'm being a little bit insensitive, I'm sure, to the Italians, but why why are we doing this? How about we go in and we say, hey, we're the US, that's our guy who faces justice in our country. We get him back now, or there's gonna be a problem. Do you want to have a problem with us? If your answer is yes, and this is the hill you want to die on for this guy, good for you. Enjoy that. See how that goes for you. I mean, we're out involved in Iran and Lord knows what else that's not benefiting Americans, but then we turn around and we say, hey, you know what? I'm sick and tired of other countries dictating how my sovereignty has to work. We are, we are the pinnacle of the world right now. Like it or not,

Final Thoughts And Sign-Off

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we are the best country that's ever existed. We're the strongest country that's ever existed. And for us to bend over backwards and say, okay, I guess we'll follow your extradition process is of a massive violation of our sovereignty. I don't have quite enough of it. As an American, as a red-blooded American, I think it's time we say, hey, you know what? Give us our guy back, or or we're gonna have we're gonna have problems with you. Uh that'll do it for the show today. I want to thank everyone for tuning in. It's been an absolute pleasure. Lord willing, I'll see you tomorrow bright and early at 6 a.m. in the meantime. Enjoy the rest of your Thursday, ladies and gentlemen, and Godspeed.