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Philadelphia Eagles hiring Brian Johnson, a Baytown Lee graduate, to join Nick Sirianni's staff as quarterbacks coach. Awesome!

Another who believes victimhood claims are the exclusive province of the left

Just so you don’t get confused, I would also be thrilled if HJ made it to regionals and/or state. I would think we would all be thrilled with his other two (United and EC). Huffman I would be thrilled if they got bounced on their ear in the first round again. That’s unlikely but a second round exit could be highly possible. Carry on...

That little speech John Kerry gave on shutting down the Pipeline, and it’s affect on workers, was the most arrogant, heartless, elitist, condescending bunch of 🐂💩 I’ve ever heard. Him and his freaking private jet, talking about environmental problems is analogous to a rich person trying to telling you how bad money is. 🤮🤮🤮

@TxHoops lol he had this one coming though saying an asinine statement like he did

The story said that by April of this year, Wal-Mart could be self check-out only. So, shop for your groceries, scan your groceries and pay for your groceries. I stopped going about a year ago when my local Wal-Mart didn’t have a check-out person. You can’t get down the aisles, they’re rude and that was simply the last straw. Brookshires is more expensive, but they are friendly and they have checkers. I know most of you youngsters like all the fancy delivery and load-n-go options, but shopping used to be where you’d see old friends, catch up with people. [Hidden Content]

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it’s hard to find American made products in Walmart People only catch up via technology now a days. Very sad.

Seeing how the brackets are, if NW wins district, I don't see anyone in their path till regional finals.

It is not unlike the ammo and gun craze during the Obama administration. That was when it looked like they were going to try to outlaw guns, magazines and/or ammo or tax them to death where they would be legal to buy however too expensive to pay the taxes on. That gun/ammo buying frenzy was in effect, like a stock market bubble. People for example who are buying guns at Academy like an AR 15 for $650 and then selling them for $2,000. The store shelves were empty because of that panic. Many people saw this at their last chance chance to ever by a gun. Because of that buying spree, people could not get their hands on a gun or ammo and there was the fear that they would soon be banned and could never again buy any. If you could get your hands on a gun at retail cost to you, you could almost certainly turn it for a 200% or 300% profit. I bought three guns during this time at Academy as I was walking to the store and saw them put a couple on the shelf. This is about the only time you could buy because they would only stay there a few minutes. I still have those guns and did not buy them to sell but just to have my hands on them just in case. Many people back then were buying guns just to sell which is not unlike stocks. You buy for a low price and hope you sell it for a higher price for profit When stocks rise in price because of a solid business performance (or speculation thereof) such an Amazon, Exxon/Mobil or Apple and it is for a long range gain in profit, it makes sense. That is what many or most people’s retirement is based on. You buy stocks from solid companies in hopes that 20 or 30 years later it will have increased in value more than The cost of inflation. What happens if the rise in stock prices (usually rapid) is based on nothing but any irrational hope or fear? That is the bubble that will eventually pop. With a gun and ammo buying frenzy a few years ago, people paid $3000 for a $600 AR15 and then six months later we’re stuck with it because they frenzy faded away and guns were now back to a normal price. Sure they could keep the gun however have they waited a few months they could’ve gotten the same gun and saved over $2000. Now they can’t sell it because the prices have come down, to some extent even lower than what they were before the crazes because of these now glut in guns and ammo. I was buying 9mm ammo a year ago $8.75 a box and that was delivered to my house. That was tax, cost and shipping combined. A new gun and ammo bubble going on now has been created because it appears as though Biden and the Democrats are going to make a hard push to take away gun rights. Will they be successful? I don’t know but right now what was nine dollars a box for ammo a year ago is now costing $50 a box. People are actually buying at that price. So what happens a year from now if it returns to normal and you can buy that same box delivery for $8.75 again? You will still have the ammo but you will have spent a small fortune trying to get it because of the frenzy. That is what is happening with GME right now. The stock market is based on volume of buying and selling and what do you think something will be worth. People started buying GameStop (GME) stocks and what appears to be a coordinated effort to convince people to keep buying. In a way it was almost like a pyramid scheme, but legal. The more people bought, the more the prices went up. People buy stocks to make a profit and when you see profits going through the roof then you want to get in on the game. If you buy a stock at $1 and two weeks later it was $10, you made 1000% profit. So if you spent $1000 on a stock in that case, it would be worth $10,000 at the end of the week. Many people sell on the way up which is their intent and people continue to buy thinking they too will make money. It will s like this, a guy buys in stock and $1 and sells at $10. The guy he sold it to at $10 hangs on until maybe $15 and then he sells. Another guy wants to get it on the action and he buys it at $15 in sales at $25. So GME went up 8,000% in a year. Have you been able to predict it and hold your poise, you could have spent $10 in stocks a year ago and had $80,000 last week. That is a pretty good return on a $10 investment… But it was based on wishful thinking and nothing more. Again, if that was based on a solid business model and GME was looking to make a huge profit selling video games next year, it would make sense to rise in price. The problem is that GME is a troubled company and might even be declaring bankruptcy soon. So you were buying a stock for maybe hundreds of dollars but reality reality it’s only worth a dollar because the company is about to go under. You can bet that people became millionaires during this deal but what about the people that just bought after the 8000% rise when the bubble pops? Like the $50 box of ammo that is now worth $10, you lose. With the ammo at least you could go shoot it. If you bought a stock with $500 and a week later it is worth $10, you just lost a ton of money. Unlike bullets, there is no product in hand. You were just buying a stock hoping that the company makes money in the future. If that future does not exist then you just as well go set your money on fire in the front yard. The bubble like that will always burst because there is nothing to support the frenzy. It is just emotional buying and selling and wanting to get in on the get rich quick scheme. If you get in early enough you might get your wish. At some point people are going to quit buying in the last people in our going to lose big-time. it is exactly what happened in the 1929 stock market crash but it was not a single stock but pretty much have market wide incident. clear as mud?

This years team isn't even close to what they have had the last 4 years.

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We’ve done it once with a few items. I didn’t like it. Besides, if they sell alcohol, there’ll have to be someone to verify age. If they go to all self checkout, they’ll lose most of my business. Market Basket & Brookshires will get my dollars (Yes, I still use money, lol).

Good possibility. I have always been an advocate for the higher seed hosting 1st round games.

Just a little breakdown on the teams in our coverage area and ranked teams in their region that could represent at SA: (going off of the latest TABC rankings, teams in bold are our coverage area teams) 6A Region III #2 Atascocita #7 Fort Bend Elkins #8 Alvin Shadow Creek #9 Houston Bellaire #11 Humble Summer Creek 5A Region III #2 Beaumont United #3 Fort Bend Hightower #5 Manvel #18 Manor #19 Richmond Foster 4A Region III #2 Houston Yates #11 Hardin-Jefferson #12 Huffman-Hargrave #14 Austin LBJ #19 La Vega #22 Waco Connally 3A Region III #7 New Waverly #9 Malakoff #11 East Chambers #12 Coldspring-Oakhurst #15 Lorena #16 Diboll #18 Little River Academy #22 Franklin 2A Region III #1 Martin's Mill #4 Grapeland #5 La Poyner #9 Tenaha #10 Gary #13 Garrison #19 Douglass #21 Cushing 2A Region IV (District 25-2A Deweyville, H-D, Evadale, etc is in Region IV) #8 Port Aransas #12 Flatonia #14 Shulenburg #22 Hearne #24 Santa Maria 1A Region IV (our 1A district is in region IV) #3 Calvert #6 Rocksprings #8 San Pertita #9 McMullen County #14 Dime Box #18 Kennard #19 Neches #25 Chireno I would say these following coverage area teams have the best shot at making it to state semifinals: 6A Atascocita 5A Beaumont United 3A New Waverly I don't see any of our 4A, 2A and 1A schools having much of a chance to make it to semifinals. If I had to pick for those classifications it would be Hardin-Jefferson in 4A, Tenaha in 2A and Chireno in 1A.

Once we get to the regional and state tournament I yell for whichever local team is still in it. United has a real shot I think. I haven’t seen EC this year but I’m afraid the local 3A competition just may be down this year. The Bucs do have a really nice guard in Ceaser.

Until HF gets back to full strength Huffman, HJ and Shepherd are your 3 best teams for now

Oh no...they shoot the ball well once they get going and they have better than average guard play

Why longview .Two state championships in 50 or more yesrs

They still win by 20

But we’ll be saying it in Chinese.

Buna played a good fundamental game, but Dallas Lincoln was just bit better than Silsbee the year Mike McCain got hurt in the title game. Kountze was sloppy early and got themselves in a hole. However, this freshman group for Silsbee has been killing people on the court since they were little tikes. Kountze will be fine, but it is hard to argue that the team Silsbee had during Adams/McCain junior seasons was not the most complete team Buna has ever had.

biden moving to supplant obama as the worst potus in history, and doing so within his first week in office. Nothing that he has done has been good for America, eerily similar to obama.

You don’t cut any slack TW08. I like your style 😃

He has been strangely quiet

Is the fencing in DC to keep Joe from wandering off?

When we ALL stop choosing up sides based on skin tone we'll be in a whole lot better place.