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Great start to the season!

Watson looked better than savage, but still needed a lot of help from the refs to get that drive into the endzone

So they have a year's more of experience, bigger, stronger, older. I'd assume they'd improve some

This cool front saved us. If not for it likely all three would've hit somewhere on the gulf coast

You're trying too hard

Disastrous collapse, and I'm not getting on here gloating. That was unbelievable! What a disastrous weekend for Texas college football in general

We HAD cold beer, but cooked ribs day before yesterday and fried fish last night. But the convenience store got a fresh shipment yesterday, so we could probably make it happen for you

It's been awesome seeing all of the stories of people helping one another this last week. We were blessed to stay dry in fannett, but most of our neighbors were not so lucky. We're doing what we can to help out. We've got a family of 5 from up the road staying with us right now. We only knew them to wave to in passing, but I saw them try to get out Tuesday morning and have to turn around and return to their flooded house. I told them to grab what they could and come on, and they've been here 4 days. Turns out we've made some great new friends. We're also having people come from Beaumont to get a hot shower, refill water containers, and wash clothes. We have 3 showers (including two walk-ins that are fairly handicap friendly, and two sets of washer and dryers. If any of my setxsports buddies need to bring your families out, get ahold of me tomorrow (today) at (409)781-3185. due to the uniqueness of my relationship with you guys, as we've mostly never met, this offer is only extended to people who've been well established on this board. I feel like I know many of you, despite not meeting face to face, but I'm a little leery of some stranger seeing this post and trying to take advantage of my generosity and trying something. Never hurts to be a little cautious. As an aside, my wife got a little upset with me this morning. I had to explain to her that, although our freezers have a pretty good supply of meat, she needed to take down her Facebook offer to feed any and all people involved in the local rescue efforts. While I'm grateful for what they're doing, supplies are tough to replenish right now, and we're currently feeding 9 mouths a meal. She didn't consider the fact that if the Cajun navy showed up for dinner we'd be reduced to eating dry cereal and canned beets for the next week

If they would've jammed the roads trying to evacuate millions of people, the death toll would've been in the thousands, maybe tens of thousands. Lots of the evacuation routes ended up under 8 or more feet of water very quickly.

I posted this on Catt's Facebook, so I'll post it here as well, with a few modifications: Reading the whole story, the Rangers were in a tough spot. I'm not saying I totally agree with what they're doing, but I understand why they did it. The Astros have the division locked up, but the rangers are in the middle of fighting for a wildcard spot. Had they switched series, the Rangers would've had to end the season on a 4-city, 12 game road trip, while possibly still fighting for a spot in the playoffs. This would greatly reduce their chances to make the postseason. They offered to play the games this week in Arlington as the away team, while giving the Astros all revenue from the games. Not perfect, and not necessarily the right thing to do, but not exactly how Reid Ryan is portraying it, which is that the Rangers were just trying to be dicks. Rangers GM Jon Daniels said that he was "cringing" while negotiating with the Astros over switching series, but since the Astros team itself is not in danger, he chose to do what was best for his team and fanbase. I'd hate to be in his position, where doing what's best for his team looks bad, but making a hollow, almost meaningless offer to the Astros that hurts his team makes him look good. I think the Rangers should've instead offered the revenue from the games to Houston flood relief, rather than to the Astros themselves, and it would've been a better move. If that had been the case, both teams could've come out okay, with the Rangers not hurting their playoff chances, while donating millions of dollars to flood relief, and the Astros giving up the revenue of a few meaningless home games (which they've now done anyway) that would go straight to helping flood victims. to me, this would afford much more tangible help to Houston than giving them a couple of meaningless home games in a playoff race they've already won. I think it's also fair to say that of the 100,000 or so fans that would have benefited by attending these games in person, many or most will not have been directly affected by flooding, and even if they were, there are many more flood-effected Rangers fan in the Houston area who would gain a similar "morale boost" by seeing the Rangers make the playoffs. Just my two cents on the matter.

Kinda totally different things. I have no doubt that if the series didn't coincide, and the Rangers had an empty stadium, that the Astros would be playing in it this week.

My wife and I are supposed to go to Florien, Louisiana for a funeral this weekend. Gonna try to leave tomorrow night after her meet the teacher. I'm not real happy right now. They're saying that Galveston might get 50 mph gusts and heavy rain as soon as tomorrow night, and that's not far from us in fannett. Not looking forward to driving through this crap.

The problem with Big Girl's plagiarized statement is that it implies that all racists are white. as of late I've seen many, many overt examples of racism directed TOWARDS white people, and the perpetrators most certainly have "taken a left."

In my case, at least when I post on issues where I'm left-leaning, I don't feel shouted down. But I have gotten overwhelmed at times. It can be difficult to make a point that is rebutted by 6 people in 3 hours. I end up in a bunch of separate debates and feel like I'm talking in circles.

I deal with many, many people who have Medicaid and no job, or part-time jobs.

being outnumbered 10 to 1 on here makes it tough on the liberals. Anyone making a point gets shouted down. That being said, a lot of them don't make very good points to begin with

FYI, smitty left after a (very light) verbal warning by a (conservative) moderator because he was spamming the crap out of the political forum with what trump would refer to as fake news. 10-20 articles a day at one point, many of which were patently false. When asked to slow down, he opted to take his websites and go home. As for me, although I am more conservative than I used to be, I do in fact have to agree with Westend that I find the conversations in this forum stale. There's still a lot of fringe propaganda from both sides, and very little productive discourse. Every now and then I see an article I feel like voicing an opinion on, but generally it feels like a waste of time.

Reading the article, after getting through the political fluff, it appears that trump saved at least 700 people their jobs for at least 10 years. The company is choosing to lay off other people in other sections, but I don't really understand the criticism of trump here.

Could those lives also be saved if the recipients weren't allowed to mooch off the government, forced to find jobs, and thus able to secure healthcare for themselves? stevenash makes good money. If he quits his job, and no longer makes any money, I can "save his life" by buying him food and water. That being said, if he starts working again, he can "save" his own life without needing others to pay for it.

I can't find a reputable source for this, just a few fringe sites copying each other. It does appear that the lawsuit was filed, so I think this has actually happened. This seems like something fox would pick up. That being said, I have a very hard time believing that a judge said: “We know we are violating numerous constitutional rights here, but if you do not comply, we will remove the boy from your home,” the judge said.

I think it's safe to say that whatever he does will be the wrong decision in your opinion.

I've always heard that the east side of the storm is the "dirty side", but I didn't realize what that meant until just now.

Can we all agree that it would be a great idea if they used stripper names to name all storms one year? This idea struck me when my tired eyes misread Cindy as Candy awhile ago.

Reading through the comments here, a couple of people mention that he was reaching for the documents the officer asked for and not the gun. That's all well and good, except he had already handed them to the officer. He then informed the officer that he had the gun, and was told not to reach for it. It would then appear that he did in fact reach for it, or the officer wouldn't have screamed multiple times for him to stop reaching for it. The officer says "don't pull it out", and to me, Castile can clearly be heard saying "I have to pull it out", and is shot seconds later as he apparently continued to reach towards his gun. Now, he was high on marijuana, which may have affected his comprehension skills and judgement, and he may not have (and most likely didn't) had any intent to shoot the officer with his gun. But this video in my mind (and in the mind of the jury that tried him) clearly shows the officer was not guilty of the charges against him. Don't reach means don't reach, and he clearly had a gun that was in the general vicinity of where he continued to reach, even after the officer clearly told him multiple times not to. It seems that in today's society some folks feel like police officers don't have the right to defend themselves unless they've already been shot at or stabbed. My sister is a cop, and I hope that if she's ever in a situation where she needs to defend herself she doesn't hesitate due to the fact that she might possibly be tried and convicted by the media before she ever has her day in court.

I noticed a ton of that in the only BC game I saw live this year as well. an umpire isn't likely to give your team the borderline calls if he's been harassed all night. That being said, I'm still not convinced this was a borderline call.