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This is probably accurate. It's already happening at a national level. Even though our area is still fairly conservative there are plenty of outspoken advocates who will work to push for this. 10 years seems like a good guess to me.

This. I taught in beaumont for 15 years at the head start, where students only qualified if they were low socioeconomic. It wasn't uncommon for parents there to get $10K+ tax returns when they either didn't work at all, or worked some menial part-time job for minimum wage. It drove me crazy.

Quanell X owes $345K to individuals and families who say he took cash for advocacy he didn't perform (msn.com)

Many of us are upset about funding other people's education. The president of the NAACP is upset for a different reason: "If the rumors are true, we've got a problem. And tragically, we’ve experienced this so many times before," NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement on Tuesday. "This is not how you treat Black voters who turned out in record numbers and provided 90% of their vote to once again save democracy in 2020." AKA: You think the votes you're buying from us are only worth 10k? NAACP slams Biden over reported student loan debt cancel plan (msn.com)

extremely solid win by the cards. UH went 13-5-2 last year in a decent conference, and also beat lamar 3-0.

Starlettes (pronounced star let's)

Pentagon spurns DC mayor's second request for National Guard help with migrants (msn.com) I think this is hilarious. 6K immigrants bussed from Texas to DC and the city is falling apart, but they've criticized Texas' handling of the situation when we face hundreds of thousands (if not more) a year. At least the govt is consistent and not helping them either, i guess.

Opinion: Democrats are fooling themselves about the midterms (msn.com)

A tikka .270 has been my go to for the last few years. That thing is a tack driver

For about the 8th year in a row I've failed to get anything ready to bow hunt. I keep saying I'm going to put a stand up behind my house, but I've yet to do it. I think mostly because I don't have much of a desire to kill any of my "pets", and all of the pigs are nocturnal, with it being a very rare occurrence that I see one in the day. When I do, it's only about 210 yds from the back porch to the tree line, and I knock down about 4 out 5 that I shoot at from the porch. As for my actual deer lease, it's all family and nobody else bow hunts. It's a 3 hr 45 min drive from the house, and my dad has about 2 1/2 hrs in from outside dallas. A big motivator for me going that far north is hunting with my dad, and he won't be up there until gun season. I don't really want to put in a bunch of time bow hunting when it would just be me and my uncle (lives there) hanging out.

Godspeed.

1. Beaumont United 2. Houston Lamar 3. Magnolia West 4. Sheldon C.E. King 5. Port Arthur Memorial 6. West Orange-Stark 7. Orangefield 8. Jasper 9. Coldspring-Oakhurst 10. Lumberton 11. Silsbee 12. Corrigan-Camden 13. Diboll 14. East Chambers 15. Hardin 16. Kirbyville 17. Kountze 18. Newton 19. Franklin 20. Deweyville 21. Evadale 22. Timpson 23. Tenaha 24. Richland Springs 25. Houston Second Baptist

They’ve been opened back up for a couple of years. It’s hard to beat Lercy’s, but considering the lack of options in the HF area the longhorn isn’t bad. There’s a new bbq place called Burton’s that took over the restaurant space where the Shorthorn cafe and then Cooyos were (attached to the gas station where you turn off 124 to go to the stadium). I’ve heard good things about it, but also that it’s expensive, but realistically everywhere is expensive now. It seems like everywhere I go is costing me $5-$10 more than it did two years ago. And FYI, raider, Lercy’s only serves lunch or I would send you there.

It’s only about 3 miles from my house. Just checked their hours, and it looks like they’re supposed to be open for dinner on Fridays. I thought they only did lunch. Tbh, once I discovered Lercy’s for lunch in Winnie I started driving past the Longhorn. That said, I always liked the food when I did go there, although it’s probably been a year and a half since I’ve gone.

lol.

i agree with the last part for sure. and i respect the fact that we can always have these conversations and move on past them to something else when it comes up without it following us into unrelated issues.

I really try to give some leeway on these types of matters. You flat out insulted people about 6 times in less than two pages of this thread, some involving profanity. It more than warranted a warning. How many hundreds of your posts could have been nitpicked over your time on this site to find insults, some thinly veiled and some not? You're asking for a warning for me saying you're intentionally dense. That isn't an insult. It's a statement saying I believe you're intentionally misunderstanding my point in an effort to not have to make a legitimate argument against it. I could've typed it out as such, but I assume that you're capable of understanding it's meaning. It's certainly less of an insult that calling me a naive fool, which again, I don't really consider that big of a deal. I'm not threatening anything, merely pointing out that if "intentionally dense" is worthy of a warning, the "naive fool" most certainly is.

again, for the 1,000th time, those card-carrying democrats were conservatives. period.

My thinking is that if the republicans started Antifa 150 years ago back when party platforms were reversed, and the dems today tried to use Antifa being started by the reps as a criticism, most of you guys would be in an uproar.

I said that you were being intentionally dense. I'd say that's a far cry from calling someone a dumbass. But if you're that thin-skinned i can certainly give myself a warning. Of course I'd probably have to ban you for calling me a naive fool if we're really going that soft, right?

you're hilarious, I'll give you that. you suck up every slanted news piece, no matter how dubious the source, as long as it goes along with your tinfoil hat theories and misinformation campaign. When others post similar things you jump in line for backslapping and blind agreeance. You calling me a naive fool is like Kevin Hart making fun of someone for being short, or Gabriel Iglesias calling someone fat. I can absolutely put a label on you, because you've made over 2K posts in the political forum showing exactly who you are. There are plenty of folks on here that I disagree with that show at least a modicum of common sense, and respect for other people, but I've come to expect the opposite from you. Why would I need a flux capacitor to go back in time, when about 95% percent of the modern day republican's platform aligns with the democratic platform of 1860. That's called common sense. I'm not surprised it's missed you.

This is some hardcore denial. Did you mean to ask what party were all of the southern governors and politicians who had to be forced to end segregation? Literally every state that was still requiring segregation when it was finally abolished was in the conservative south. And bringing up the KKK and the democrats is kinda the same as bragging about the republicans ending slavery. when the democrats started the KKK their politics were conservative, and align with the right today. You wanna take a guess as to the political affiliation of every KKK chapter that still exists? You may not, if we're honest.

They know. The funny thing is that they want credit for republicans abolishing slavery back when the parties were switched, and take complete offense at the thought that the party they would've actually been aligned with back then was the racist party that fought tooth and nail to keep slavery. Nope, they want to place that squarely on the democrats. It's kind of hilarious considering once the parties switched, the republicans were behind every racist policy enacted in this country for about 50 years. Don't get me wrong, some of the reverse racism crap the left is pulling these days is insane, and I strongly disagree with it. But the idea that republicans today who would've been hardcore democrats in the 1850s are virtue signaling about the greatness of the republican party due to their banishing slavery is completely misguided at best, and morally repugnant at worst. Blame the democrats for slavery, switch platforms, and then spend the next 6 decades trying to do everything you can to fight de-segregation and equality, but then have the nerve to brag about banning slavery. Realistically, considering that the republican party is now the party of wealth, big business, and minimal government intrusion, your average republican politician today would've been a slave-owning democrat if they'd been a wealthy politician in the 1850s.

About to start handing out more warnings in this thread. No personal attacks allowed. I'm in the middle of two fairly heated debates on this thread where I strongly disagree with someone who strongly disagrees with me. we've been able to find ways to be critical of each other's opinions (and even each other) without throwing insults or name calling. Keep it civil, regardless of how you feel about each other.

One of those semantics sort of situations where the republican party doesn't endorse it, but only republicans fly it.