Posted on 09/20/2019 10:09:46 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
In September 2016, when FBI agents first started tailing Redrick “Red” Batiste, he seemed to be an ordinary young man leading an ordinary life. Batiste was 36 years old, tall and slim, with dark eyes and an easy smile. He lived with his two bulldogs in a two bedroom, 956-square-foot house in Acres Homes, a modest neighborhood twelve miles north of the skyscrapers of downtown Houston.
By most indications, he was exceedingly straitlaced. He dressed well, usually wearing pullover polo shirts and tightly belted cargo pants. Once a week, he went to a barbershop to get a haircut and a manicure. He was so meticulous about keeping his house clean that he asked visitors to take off their shoes before coming inside so they wouldn’t track dirt across the carpet. “Red even had the toilet paper coming out over the top of the roll,” said Tommie Albert, an older man in the neighborhood who’d known Batiste since he was a boy. “He said it looked better than toilet paper coming out from behind the roll.”
Batiste regularly visited his aging parents to check on them. A few times a week, he went to see his girlfriend, Buchi Okoh, their eighteen-month-old daughter, and Okoh’s five-year-old son from a previous relationship. Okoh, a striking, gregarious woman in her early thirties, worked in sales at a Cadillac dealership. On occasion, Batiste would take her to a nice restaurant, but most of the time they stayed home and played with the children. Okoh told friends that her boyfriend was a budding real estate developer, buying and renovating small homes. He was a good man, she said, intelligent and ambitious. He read self-improvement books like Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success, by the hip-hop mogul
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I beg to differ. I think that it tears more cleanly when the paper is dressed to from under the roll.
But, occasionally people have strong opinions about relatively unimportant things.
From the author of "Serenity Now!"
36 yo is NOT a young man.
It is my understanding that according to medical standards he would be somewhere around middle age.
Sort of a way to call him boy.
Two things missing from the paper's narrative:
One, the vastly aberrant psychology that the perpetrators had in committing a string of murder-robberies and
Two, the vastly aberrant psychology of the people making excuses for these criminals' activities (including the author of the article).
We are dealing with brains that don't work normally and until we face that situation, more atrocities and wasted lives will happen.
Hear, hear!
I tend to agree with your comment because statistically and mathematically it makes sense.
But I knew it was wrong as when Googled it is actually considered to be between 45-65. This 45-65 does not make sense, and I have no way of knowing how this play on words came about.
My biggest gripe in the word-play department is referring to the very central states (ND down to TX) as the midwest. Geographically speaking, this is the exact center of the nation as the actual geographic center of North America is near Rugby, ND.
When I tell people I live in the most north central state in the lower 48 they have no idea what state that is.
Do You!: 12 Laws
Do you need a colon after an exclamation point? The exclamation point finishes it. 12 starts a new sentence. No colon needed. Get Mr. Lippman on the phone!
This guy was a psychopathic murderous scumbag who killed people in cold blood yet every article about Batiste tries to play him up as some exceptionally clean, ambitious, doting, gentleman destined for greatness.
Do you call Noonan home?
Grammar Police On Patrol
Or lose the exclamation points!!!
Anyone who has “real estate ambitions” must be more creative than kneeling at the citadel of banks. My wife and I bought 4 houses in one year with no bank involvement. It was in the early 80’s when creative financing was the rage.
There is seller financing, there are real estate options, there are real estate partnerships, and lots more.
This guys “real estate ambitions” are on par with being a “budding rap star”.
Sorry, but I prefer the reality that over the roll minimizes chance of hand contact with the unsanitary wall next to the toilet.
“,,,and one Day
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We’re going to Get That Chicken!”
“I beg to differ. I think that it tears more cleanly when the paper is dressed to from under the roll.”
Sorry, but I prefer the reality that over the roll minimizes chance of hand contact with the unsanitary wall next to the toilet.
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Got something like this through the lehmanns catalog in white. screws into the stud, easy to use. love them replaced them in all our bathrooms.
I have no inside cats.
It is to me.
Nope. We live about 130 mile straight west of there.
Why would you suspect Noonan?
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