NorthoftheBorder

According to BD3, it is still up in the air whether the TEA will take over BISD.  I do not know if they will or won't.  My question to the posters of this board is this: with the plethora of evidence we have about the management of BISD over the last 5+ years (school board and administrators), what would it say about the competency of the TEA  if they in fact did not take over BISD??  Just asking for everyones views!!

I think that he probably learned from the master!!!

Well if things were to happen in a way that would benefit the students and our local economy, then the truth would come out, all criminal activity would be prosecuted and the offenders would serve appropriate jail time. Those currently within BISD who are problems and not up to the task of running a first class school district would be terminated, and leadership, whether appointed, hired or eventually elected would actually be committed to a first class education of all students within the district. The community would lay down decades of bitter feelings and mistrust and come together unified in the mission of great education.  This would build the foundation for a great community that would pay dividends for our kids and grandkids!!  Does anyone see it play out like that???  Just asking!

Which one of the gods do you believe created all the matter???  So you are advocating for the "theory" that "some" God "spoke" the universe into existence??? 

Did you get our tickets so we can sit together for his appearance in Beaumont???  I have your Longhorn shirt you can wear for the event!!!

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I think he means me Smitty!!!

I guess what we need to know is (and I have not done the research) whether the actual press releases from the White House and the Vatican as they are reported in in the "Washington Times" are accurate!  If they are, then it doesn't matter if they are a legitimate news source and they give their editorial opinion as to the their feeling about the meeting and what each side said.  They reported what each side actually put out in a press release accurately and you and I can form our own opinion, which is almost always different in the political realm!  But that is ok, I still enjoy reading your posts!!

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You are right, but the death will be with all those schools who are not in the "power" conferences plus ND!!  Those guys can afford to pay the players and can pay much more than the smaller conference schools.  The unintended consequences are yet to be known from all this.

Here is what I will say to your assertion about the bad behavior of "Christians".  There are a lot of "goats", or to say it another way, many who call themselves Christians who are really just that in name only because the "fruit" of their lives in no way shows that Jesus Christ is their "Lord"!!  Their behavior in the "name of Christ" in fact defames the name of Christ and makes anyone who is watching who has no knowledge or only a nominal knowledge about Christianity actually turned off completely to the truth of the Bible!!  Christ himself said that on that last day the goats would be seperated from the sheep!!!

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Point them out my friend!!!  What you cannot explain "scientifically" any better than I can is how the very first piece of matter was created.  You believe there was complete nothingness: absolutely nothing, energy or matter, existed and yet spontaneously they came into being!!!  Sounds like you are as much of a believer in miracles as I am!!!!

Forty years that is!!

The data isn't in yet, and won't be for another for years!!! 

Look for the economy in Wisconson to improve and a lot more of it's citizens to prosper!!!

Thanks for joining.  You will find that you have some "brethren in arms" on this board, who, like little birds, sits with their mouths open waiting for every little worm their mother bird feeds them!! Translation: waiting for the current liberal regime to feed them what to think next!!!!

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Of all the posts that I can remember you have made, this is by far the one that I agree with whole heartedly!!!  :)

Teams like Mercer can't get a game against a team like Duke unless it is at Cameron with ACC (friendly) refs where the deck is stacked and they have little chance to win.  But on a neutral court with neutral refs, a good mid major has the chance to show they are really pretty good and not so inferior as the elite conferences, supported by the media (Vitale et al.....) will tell you continuously.  This is why, the elite conferences embarrassed by the losses, will freeze out the mid majors from the opportunity and the money to play in the NCAA tourney by changing the rules to eliminate them.  It's coming!!! 

This stuff is just so rich!!!!

In a world where there is not respect for authority or others, yes you can see how this will turn out!!!!

My point exactly!!!

What we need to be looking at is the overall growth rate of the Beamount/PA metro area (Golden Triangle).  That growth is anemic at best in a state that is setting the pace for population and economic growth in the USA!!  Growth of the metro area is going to be dependant on the major population centers of our area ie....Beaumont and to a lesser extent PA and Orange.  While not the single factors, the political and educational conditions of our areas are not condusive to economic expansion and relocation.  What little bit of growth that has happened is seen in the small suburbs of the region, with Lumberton being the biggest benefactor of population growth.  That is by no means an indication of growth in the area but rather a sign of the problems of our larger cities!!!