CardinalBacker

When my boys were 15 you couldn’t get them to sit down and do their driver’s ed courses, and they had a license waiting as a reward. There’s no chance they’d do anything school-related without somebody standing over the top of them. Most households don’t have the luxury of doing that. I say just hit the pause button. Hold off on reopening schools until we’re all comfortable. But halt teacher and administration pay until they reopen. Kids don’t advance in grades, either. If they don’t graduate high school until they’re 22 or 23, so be it. So much for that five grand raise we gave em all last year. Now they won’t even show up and do their jobs anymore. Ive been saying for years that teachers collectively overestimate the value of their profession, and the pandemic is just proving my point. If you can leave your job undone for five months and be asking for that leave to be extended for an indefinite period, and nobody cares except for the loss of babysitting.... well, there you go.

No... I’ve noticed it for years. I’ve just never asked. Curious, though... why would you idolize a pimp who openly defrauded the welfare system by pulling up in a limo to get his food stamps? Among many, many other things that would show a pretty complete lack of good character. Doesn’t seem like something a guy with your background would typically support.

What you’re saying makes sense, but those aren’t the rules any more. If somebody holds a “free speech” rally and some white supremacist jack@ss shows up, it’s a freaking klan rally. Everybody who showed up should lose their job, according to the left. EVERYBODY is grouped with the lowest common denominator. If somebody like David Duke comes out in support of a Republican, we’re all a bunch of racists. So if you’ve ever supported BLM (or even a democratic candidate for city council), you’re nothing but a rioting, looting, punching old people on the street for no reason, burning up cop cars piece of crap. Anytime some whack job comes out and says something ridiculous from a liberal viewpoint, guess what? He was speaking for you. Period. Y’all made the rules... now we’re all gonna play by them.

It’s the same thing. You don’t get to pick and choose. You either support BLM , their ideals, their violence and looting, or you don’t. It might have meant something good at one point, but now it’s been hijacked by the far left and must be denounced as the hate movement that it is. Kinda like that ol’ rebel flag.

I used to wake up to them every morning. I quit that years ago. Just too much negativity.

Nobody is comparing the two... I’m sorry that you’re having so much trouble understanding basic comparisons. REL died in 1870 and was widely hailed as a hero at the time of his passing by most people, believe it or not. At the turn of the century (1900-1920) they were throwing up monuments and naming schools after him. Move forward a hundred years (2020) and he is a traitor who is to be scorned and universally despised based on “new” ways of thinking. On the other hand, you have MLK who died in 1968 and was widely hailed as hero at the time of his passing. At the turn of the century (2000-2020) they were throwing up monuments and naming schools after him. Imagine that a hundred years from now (2100-2120) and he is considered a traitor who is to be scorned and universally despised based on “new” ways of thinking? Because that’s what the left is doing today.... who says that it won’t happen again? That’s a pretty good comparison if you ask me.

Honestly, though... can we name any quantifiable activity on the planet of Earth in which women are the best? Best Scientist? Dude. Best Athletes? All have penises. Best Chef? Call him "sir." Best business people? All guys. Best artists? Males. Best musicians? Y chromosomes. Don't get me wrong... I love the skirts-they make world go 'round. But stop pretending that they're "holding up half of the sky." If they are holding up half, they're using more bodies.

All we need is a hurricane and all talk of Covid will disappear from the news. Kinda like it did while there was unrest over George Floyd. Now that people stopped looting, we're back to the talking heads saying "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE OF COVID-19!!!!" Covid-19 is real, and people are dying. It's a new fact of life. We've got to adapt and move on, or just give up and die. Those are pretty much your options when you're dealing with a disease with no vaccine, little treatment, and no apparent end in sight. Whether or not we should shut down everything (well, except for those "essentials") and pray that it goes away on its on in our lifetime while we collect unemployment or whether we just get back to work is almost completely divided upon partisan lines. Lockdowns will work as long as we stay locked down. That's what's been proven. But once they're lifted, you'll see a resurgence of cases. We can't stay locked own forever, regardless of what school teachers would like to have happen. We just can't.

Appeasement in an international context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict.[1] The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of the UK Governments of Prime Ministers Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and most notably Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy[2] between 1935–39. Source: [Hidden Content] That's what I was trying to figure out-what you meant. Are you suggesting that the victorious North had "appease" the South and to try not to upset feelings after winning the war, wrecking the great portions of the Southern states and devastating the Southern economy? Practically every city out there has a MLK Drive, Boulevard, and/or Street. It doesn't matter if we're talking about Northern or Southern cities. And it wasn't done exclusively by African Americans, either. Across the board we like to recognize people who have made great accomplishments. How would you feel (and this isn't unthinkable) if it comes to pass that MLK is somehow considered to be anti-LGBTQ because of his stances on homosexuality? If suddenly the left cries for renaming all MLK streets, dismantling the MLK Memorial in Washington, and moving all traces of him into museums because suddenly the Bible's teachings against homosexuality are now considered "hate speech?" It's not that hard to imagine. How would you feel then.... everything that MLK has done will be vilified because he, like most at the time, felt that homosexuality was sinful? That's the danger in trying to examine and rewrite our history in today's context.

I don't really see how a conservative movement to keep things the way that they are is traitorous.... but the name sure as heck suggested it, lol.

I used to sign my arch enemy/coworker up for everything. Email and phone. "Why do I keep getting emails from a comedy club in Houston?" My plan took a while, but it came together eventually.

Can you point me towards what you speak of? I've always understood "Appeasement" as it described the position taken by the British and others while Hitler was advancing in Europe. A quick google search didn't bring up any relationships between that word and post Civil War America. "Appeasement in an international context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict." If what you're saying is that the North made concessions to the South in order to avoid conflict, I kinda disagree. The North just won... they weren't forced into doing anything.... They recognized the value of reconciliation. It's been speculated that Reconstruction might have been even less adversarial if Lincoln hadn't been assassinated.... He understood the need for Unity, and his killing made Northerners even less generous than they would have been otherwise... It's like this. My grandfather had a fight over property with an adjacent landowner in Polk County in the 1950s. They actually had a fistfight at one point (for which my grandfather was arrested), and ended up settling their differences in Civil Court. My grandfather prevailed in court on that particular dispute and they eventually ended up doing a mutually beneficial swap of 20 acre tracts (one of which was the disputed tract). At an even later date, my grandfather actually hired the guy to dig some ponds on his place. They still had skirmishes from time to time over stupid stuff, but across the board things were okay for the most part. They've both gone on to their heavenly rewards now. If I was to go to Mr. Jones' grandson and try to re-argue my grandfather's position that he held in the mid 1950s over that first disputed 20 acre tract, every reasonable person would think I've lost my mind. It's settled. It's been settled. The affected parties have all passed on. My grandfather won. What am I so upset over? That parable kinda explains the ridiculousness of trying to re-examine and re-fight the Civil War in 2020.

It so short-sighted. If you take away athletics, their only way out will will be rapping. (Obvious sarcasm.... I have a bad habit of reacting to racially divisive statements like hers with equally ridiculous statements of my own which I do not actually believe).

I’ll go as far as saying that it was a key issue. But the majority of the South weren’t slaveowners. Poor Southerners didn’t march off to war so that rich Southerners could keep their slaves. They joined up because their state was at war with other states. But I agree... slavery was a key, if not the key issue to a lot of people. That’s the problem with revisiting and rewriting history 150 years later. People are letting today’s opinions override what those who lived through it believed. Think about it... Union Soldiers and Officers all had friends and possibly family members who died at Southern hands. You’d think that naming army bases after Confederate Leaders would be a problem for those people... but it wasn’t. Now we have “smart’ people digging through textbooks and going “holy crap... Fort Polk is named after a confederate, too! I’m offended and it has to go!” while people who actually fought against the south didn’t have a problem with it. People who lived through it knew that we all needed to move forward. 150 years later you have the left wanting to re-punish the South. The fact that most of the South votes Republican has a lot to do with it, too.

There was a really conservative ex-military guy in my class that would argue with Dr Drury.... I never understood the wisdom in that. You’re never gonna move that guy’s way of thinking

If somebody else is having to do your job, then you aren’t on the job. I was actually dating a school teacher when all of this broke out. If she spent an hour a day “teaching,” I’d be surprised. She got ran off because she had too much time on her hands and didn’t understand that other people (like me) still had to work. I can’t imagine what she’d be like in the summers. Crisis averted.

There was a monument in the Texas Capitol that was pretty despicable, too.

Big Dogs like BC, WOS, and Newton know what it takes to win a championship, right?

So... if you’re a working mom who doesn’t have the option to work from home... how will this work? Put them in daycare and hope the daycare accommodates? If not, leave them at home and educate them after work? We have young mothers that work for us. They can’t do their jobs “from home”‘ with kids underfoot, and we can’t pay them to not work indefinitely. We’re going to have to replace them with people who are able to work if this continues. At this point schools are about the only group that isn’t back on the job.

The schools are having real funding issues. Lots of Texas school districts get a lot of taxable value from the oil/gas being extracted. When production tanks like it has, those revenues dry up. There are also going to be a lot of people unable to pay their property taxes on time this year because of Covid. Those landlords who haven’t received rent from their tenants since March won’t be paying their property taxes on time this year. They really need to cut teachers’ salaries out if they aren’t going to be teaching. Been off with pay since the first week of March and demanding to stay home. That’s not gonna fly much longer. *edit* I forgot to mention all of the permanently closed businesses that will no longer contribute.

I’ll take that ring, thank you.

I’m sorry to hear about your folks, j-dawg.

Slavery was one of a lot of issues that led to the Civil War. Anybody that says it was purely over states’ rights isn’t being accurate. And anybody that says it was purely over slavery isn’t being accurate, either. There were 4 million slaves at the time of the civil war. 3.5 million were in the areas that seceded (the South). There were 500,000 in the North. The ones up North weren’t freed until AFTER the war was over...yet today some believe that slavery was what the war was fought over. Why would the North go to war with the South to free slaves if they still held slaves of their own? [Hidden Content] Slavery was a horrible institution and we’re all better off now that is gone from our shores. Out of all of the slaves that were ever sold out of Africa, roughly 5% made their way to the US. But somehow we’re all led to believe that slavery was solely a Southern American atrocity. It just boggles the mind.

Amen... there’s too many “libtards, dimocrats, and Obummers” getting tossed around by the conservative posters on here. I used to recommend a couple of college level political science courses for anybody that is interested in politics/governance. The liberal bias by instructors was obvious back when I was in school, but it was manageable. It’s nutty over there now, from what I can tell. The professor that actually taught my poli-sci courses at Lamar was Dr. Drury.... He’s the liberal viewpoint whenever they have a political panel on the local news these days, lol.

Texas gained its independence in 1936. We joined the US in 1846. 15 years later the Civil war broke out. The same exact Texans had just fought a revolution to overthrow the Mexicans... the idea of bailing out of the Union wasn’t as strange as it seems now. The fact remains that Confederate veterans had the same benefits as Union veterans and I’m sure that means nothing to you. Even though people at the time knew that reconciliation was the key, “enlightened” people on the left would like to re-punish the South today. The states that seceded in 1861 were no different than the Colonies that declared independence in 1776. You’re not being honest with yourself. If this whole thing suddenly turned into Civil War tomorrow, you wouldn’t abandon your home, everything you’ve worked for, your family, and your friends to go up North and join their army and fight your family out of allegiance to the US. You’ve already admitted that the Founding Fathers and National Anthem mean nothing to you.... but now you’d abandon your whole life to go fight for them? Stop playing, Pamfam. The bottom line is this. People today are offended by things they’ve never experienced. “We need to tear these statues down.” I’ve got a better idea... why don’t we all get together and build a monument to our first black president, and put it right there where Robert E Lee has to stare at it all day?