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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?

[Hidden Content] A collection of clips of BLM assaulting members (and pastors) and disrupting church services. The media won't tell the truth about what's happening, and good people are supporting these thugs believing that they have good intentions for the black community. If you support BLM, you might as well be in the crowd punching kids and stuff. Period. You don't get to choose which parts of the terrorists' platforms for which you approve or disapprove.

I read through it and both sides drew guns, then de-escalated and separated. Apparently the "other" side wasn't over their grievances. Who knows what all really happened, but it's not as cut and dried as "somebody said all lives matter and got shot in the head."

Can you believe it's already been 4 years since Kap started kneeling? It all started in 2016. Got kinda quiet in the meantime.

Good to know.... what was Cartwright making false statements about?

I think the President should. It's what Ford did when Nixon resigned. People didn't like Nixon getting off, but it was for the good of the country. I wasn't kidding when I said that I felt like Trump should have pardoned Hillary just to keep us all moving forward. We're all gonna wish that somebody had pardoned Trump before it's all over with, too, IMO. Also, the governor a state can't pardon a federal crime... those have to go through the President.

You and I agree that he didn't deserve the way he was treated. You and I disagree on whether or not the knee caused his death... that's okay, and I'm kinda tired of talking about it. If Robert E. Lee was such a traitor, then why was he offered command of the Union Armies before they were given to Grant? This was from a letter written from REL to his sister upon resigning his commission in the Army and agreeing to help his family fight off the invasion of Northerners. "Now we are in a state of war, which will yield to nothing. The whole South is in a state of revolution…and though I recognize no necessity for this state of things, and would have forborne and pleaded to the end for redress of grievances, real or supposed…I had to meet the question whether I should take part against my native state. With all my devotion to the Union and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the Army, and, save in defense of my native state, with the sincere hope that my poor services may never be needed, I hope I may never be called on to draw my sword." A man who served 36 years in the military but refused to take up arms against his own family... a traitor? Gimme a break. What the South did was no different than what the 13 Colonies had done barely 80 years earlier. You seem to forget that the Colonies formed a Union of States... it wasn't until after the Civil War that we began to see ourselves as a country instead of a confederation of states. I guess you'd be the kind of sorry person that would fight his own family if it came down to it, huh?

Every video shot during the unrest has somebody screaming "WHAT'S YOUR BADGE NUMBER?!!!!" at the cops. That's step one of the "Every one around me was speeding, too" crowd's handbook.... file a complaint. "Let me talk to your sergeant." Trust me... 1 complaint per year is probably below average. I don't remember the numbers, but all but something like 2 were considered without merit. People filing false complaints has made the existence of prior complaints against an officer a non-issue. And that's unfortunate, but false complaints are not the fault of the falsely accused.

No.... if a person is headed to federal prison for "helping" the President's campaign and then the same President pardons him, it's unethical by any objective standard. Most of the time the President will pardon someone after they've served an amount of time. Kinda like Blagojevich, Scooter Libby, etc... I can't think of another instance where a person was pardoned before even making to prison. Much less a person whose crimes involved the person (Trump) granting the pardon. If you think there's nothing wrong with the scenario, you're not being objective.

I would, but I can't. I can afford the house, I just can't afford the junked cars and used appliances I'd need to put in the yard to fit in over there.

My response to you was more harsh than it needed to be. I’m going to keep expressing my ideas, but I’m going to TRY to do so without insulting people. Or at least without insulting people as often. It’s the same attitude that we always hear. Everybody wants to excuse and ignore the behaviors that created the situation, and place all blame solely on the police. When some redneck in Kentucky gets methed up and is beating his ol’ lady when the cops show up and he ends up dead... white people really don’t care. We’re like “yeah... he kinda had that one coming.” George Floyd literally did time for pressing a pistol against a pregnant woman’s belly during and armed robbery, and they paint murals of him with a halo... no joke. He was high on fentanyl, passing funny money, and mildly resisting arrest when all of this kicked off, and people say “well, he would have been alive if the cops hadn’t made bad decisions.” It’s all about accountability... I won’t start to lose weight until I admit that I’m fat. Saying “well, everybody could stand to lose a few pounds“ isn’t going to fix my hypertension. If your community has high crime and tons of people get arrested, the solution isn’t “abolish the police and dismantle the justice system.” The solution is to address the amount of crimes that occur.

Of course they’ve all granted pardons, clemency, and sentence commutations. I just can’t recall an instance where the pardon was for an individual (Stone) who was so closely aligned with the person granting it. It seems like Trump is thanking Stone for keeping his mouth shut.

I guess if you were unfortunate enough to be born down in a jungle and never even heard His name, you never even had a chance, and God’s plan wasn’t meant for you. I wonder if God will at least apologize to them before banishing them to hell? You won’t convince me that God sent his Son to die for just the ones of us who heard the right message, knowing that all those who never heard it would be lost anyways.