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Evadale wins 35-6

KP wins 51-34

56-0, final

What a comeback!

In all seriousness, I was 11 games back after week 3. With that considered, I'm pretty pleased about being 16 games off the lead at this point. I've probably been one of the top 5-6 over the last 6-week period.

I'm more of a "what have you done for me lately" kinda guy.

1. CE King 2. Summer Creek 3. College Station 4. Lufkin 5. Magnolia 6. United 7. Baytown Lee 8. PA Memorial 9. Barbers Hill 10. Crosby 11. Dayton 12. PN-G 13. Huffman 14. LC-M 15. Vidor 16. Jasper 17. Hamshire-Fannett 18. Orangefield 19. WO-S 20. Coldspring 21. Newton 22. Kountze 23. Anahuac 24. Kirbyville 25. Mount Enterprise

When do I receive my cash reward?

Absolutely.

Freedom of religion. If Barack had wanted to take the oath on a Quran, he could’ve done that as well.

I don’t think Christianity is bad. My wife takes the kids to church, and I’m all for it. I just disagree with some of the assertions being made about “how much better things were” when Christianity was more prevalent in public society. And I think a lot of the nonsense and overreaction we’re seeing from the left these days is a direct result of very real problems that were present when Christianity was more prevalent.

The general practice of wanting prayer broadcasted everywhere, but also of wanting to suppress other religions. You say you’re not like that, so good on you, but there’s plenty of Christian outrage when other religions are brought to the forefront. I assure you setx would lose their mind if a local school starting saying Muslim prayers over the loud speaker every morning.

I hate Christmas music. My wife has already started playing it in the house. Does me not singing along (participating) mean that I am not being affected in any way by the Christmas music? If you get a new neighbor who has a habit of blaring rap music at 2 AM, that should be his freedom, right? If you're not singing along, you're not having to participate.

This is exactly it. Christians want the right to religious freedom, the right to practice that freedom at the expense of the rights of anyone that doesn't have a choice but to hear it, and the right to decide when and where other religions are allowed to practice their own "religious freedom".

That's not even remotely what I'm talking about. What does a preacher preaching about something in church have to do with forcing people to listen to/participate in Christian activities at government-sponsored (school) events?

you want your grandkid's schools playing those other religion's prayers on the loud speaker every morning?

like the lifestyle of being a lesser person because you're black? of not being allowed to marry people of another race? Of getting less and lower opportunities at jobs, education, and pretty much everything else in this country based on your skin color? it was good white Christians who perpetrated that belief for about 180 years. There are lots of people who are still alive today who weren't allowed to attend certain schools or go into certain places because of the color of their skin. So let's quit pretending that Christian morality was making the world a whole lot better place 50 years ago. Racism and discrimination are not nearly the problem they were a few decades ago, and people on the left do use them like a weapon, but that doesn't change the fact that they were both fully a part of the white, Christian belief system back when things were "so much better in this country."

It's tradition. Several presidents have not done so.

Literally the mandate you were describing as the good old days in the original post I quoted, where you were missing when Christianity forced on you in public schools, government buildings, and all other sorts of places.

This nation was founded on religious freedom, not a Christian mandate. In God We Trust was first used in our country nearly a century after we won our independence. I don't have a problem with Christianity, but I definitely have a problem with it being forced on people, as it was for about 150 years. And while I don't disagree that there are a lot of problems today, there were a whole lot of problems when Christianity was integrated into all aspects of our society as well.

I agree with this. It has gotten better, at least. I think knowledge of the virus and treatments have both improved, and more medications and options are on the way. I hope that at some point it will become as easy to treat and recover from as the common flu.

David Marcus: Manchin smacks Biden's placeholder presidency (msn.com)

I watched the movie once about 20 years ago, and couldn’t remember much about it, other than the N-word was pretty prevalent, and that I thought it was pretty funny. I was googling your reference to Pryor and Wilder and Blazing Saddles popped up, and then read an article talking about Pryor encouraging the N-word in the movie, so I thought he must’ve been the lead. I couldn’t pick Clevon Little out of a lineup of two black men (unless he was in the lineup with Richard Pryor)

Kind of a weird one. As I said, I see it as self defense, but I could see the prosecution arguing that he instigated the attacks by bringing a rifle to a “peaceful protest.” Not my belief, but I can see them saying it, combined with the argument that it was illegal for him to have it.