PN-G bamatex

Are you saying that the Ukraine was on the verge of a civil war prior to the Russian invasion of Crimea?

I have more than 5,000 posts on this site. I'm begging you: please go back and find one where I've ever said we need to take a reduced role in the world. You're talking to this website's biggest advocate for involvement in Syria from day one, and the guy who was behind US actions in Libya. Heck, I wanted us supporting the Twitter revolution in Iran in 2009. Now with that in mind, can you honestly say that I would be against US involvement in the Ukraine if Obama had taken a more proactive role, simply because of who's president?

  Uh, maybe because he wanted to invade Crimea and there was no fully armed, pro-Russian military faction in Ukraine to do it for him at the time?

  For starters, put a boatload of extra troops at every military base in Eastern Europe (to be fair, he sent the 101st Airborne to Poland, but that's not really enough). Deploy the missile defense systems that he took down in 2009 back to Eastern Europe to reclaim the trust we lost with our allies over there when we pulled them, and to show the Russians that we can't give them things they want in good faith if they're going to turn around and start invading their neighbors. Then, in a very, very public way, offer the Ukraine everything they could possibly need to fight a full scale war, from financial assistance to supplies, and convene the leadership of NATO for the explicit purpose of considering making an offer to the Ukraine for membership. Then keep them convened and deliberating that prospect every day until the situation's over. Oh, yeah, and all that economic stuff, too.

No. He's pulling them out because there's a fully armed, pro-Russian faction starting a civil war in the Ukraine that can do his dirty work for him.

[Hidden Content]   They couldn't have picked a better representative to chair the committee. If there's anything there, Trey Gowdy will find it.

I will never understand why someone takes that risk. I know way too many people who have, and they have no idea how lucky they are.

  In the State of Texas, we have independent school districts. This means that, unlike other states, schools are not tied to county or municipal governments; hence, independent school districts. So in short, no, the mayor does not share responsibility since the schools are governed by an entity completely separate from the city.

Well at least they finally disowned the Butch.

It's been stung by a poisonous dart, shot twice, hit by a truck and horned by a bull, but it's still going. See, that's the thing about corruption. Once it's entrenched, it's all but impossible to kill.

  I know there's an exception to the degree requirement for people with 10 years of experience doing the mafia's accounting, but I don't know about the military. Did you do any embezzlement?

If Putin doesn't feel he's going to be held accountable, he'll do whatever he wants.   You always deal with the Russians from a position of strength. Anything less, and they won't respect you. Kowtowing to them from day one isn't maintaining a position of strength.

  No, it was because Carter toasted the Shah in the months leading up to the end of his regime, and the revolutionaries refused to let him get credit for getting the hostages back.

    Could, and likely will. Which is why I said the entire administration needs to be replaced. That way, whatever superintendent takes over after TEA returns control to local voters will have an administration that isn't saturated with cronies privy to this kind of corruption, and would thus have a harder time getting away with it in the short term.

Corruption as serious as what exists in BISD is too pervasive and too entrenched to be removed with a simple replacement of a superintendent and temporary dissolution of the a school board. BISD cannot have as many problems as it has without most, if not all, of its administration being either aware of or complicit in the criminal activity. The only way to fix this problem is to uproot and replace the administration in its virtual entirety.

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  Dr. Simmons would be, by far, the best candidate to lead BISD out of this mess under TEA supervision.

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[quote name="AggiesAreWe" post="1427702" timestamp="1377484161"] [quote author=PN-G bamakid link=topic=113554.msg1427689#msg1427689 date=1377483299] [quote author=football04 link=topic=113554.msg1427479#msg1427479 date=1377457184] I think that was a girl in the bear suit. [/quote] No, it was a guy. LC-MCISD later decided that [b]only girls could be the mascot [/b]because of this incident. [/quote] Really? I know some pretty mean and physical females. ;) [/quote] ... am I to take that as marriage advice? ;) ;D

[quote name="football04" post="1427479" timestamp="1377457184"] I think that was a girl in the bear suit. [/quote] No, it was a guy. LC-MCISD later decided that only girls could be the mascot because of this incident.

[quote name="dmeast11111" post="1426765" timestamp="1377315617"] Seems like last year they never gained confidence on either side of the ball. [/quote] Man, you have no idea how much truth there is to that statement.

[quote name="bigdog" post="1414514" timestamp="1371652843"] [quote author=ndn2016 link=topic=112271.msg1414432#msg1414432 date=1371606046] Jacob Broussard dominating Nederland in ?2008? never saw a player play like he did. He became a verb, I'll Jacob Broussard you!!! [/quote] Must have not been 2008. 2008          Nederland 41, Port Neches-Groves 21 [/quote] I think he's referring to the 2007 game.

[quote name="DemDAWGS!" post="1412357" timestamp="1370886705"] I dare say some colleges see LESS people at games than our high schools. [/quote] That's no joke. That's a proven fact. I know football players that have remarked on the difference in attendance between the high schools they attended and the colleges they now play for.

[quote name="$MTC-28$" post="1411043" timestamp="1370456114"] [quote author=PN-G bamakid link=topic=112270.msg1411040#msg1411040 date=1370455983] [quote author=$MTC-28$ link=topic=112270.msg1411035#msg1411035 date=1370455690] [quote author=PN-G bamakid link=topic=112270.msg1411023#msg1411023 date=1370454863] [quote author=$MTC-28$ link=topic=112270.msg1409474#msg1409474 date=1369950769] Found it. Now I see where bamakid has been. This is gonna be fun. [/quote] bamakid actually started there long before coming here. [/quote] Lol where ya been man??? [/quote] I've been around. I've been checking in every once in a while. Just haven't been posting. [/quote] Well welcome back lol. [/quote] Thanks.

[quote name="$MTC-28$" post="1411035" timestamp="1370455690"] [quote author=PN-G bamakid link=topic=112270.msg1411023#msg1411023 date=1370454863] [quote author=$MTC-28$ link=topic=112270.msg1409474#msg1409474 date=1369950769] Found it. Now I see where bamakid has been. This is gonna be fun. [/quote] bamakid actually started there long before coming here. [/quote] Lol where ya been man??? [/quote] I've been around. I've been checking in every once in a while. Just haven't been posting.