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Not much different from the 80's 90's and 00's but I would say it is a lot worse than in our parent's and grandparents time. Several reason's one being the money involved in professional sports ( and by default college sports), another the general changes in society as a whole and also the increase in "worship" of the public of individuals who are athletically gifted and the special way they are treated from early youth into early adulthood!!  Add to that the flourishing of the media and you have a real explosive situation.

I am no Klein fan either and he has a penchant for playing fast and loose with information (or the lack thereof).  Lets all be honest, the BISD situation is full of high emotion and has created a division of thought into two camps.  Now is not the time for hyperbole, name calling, stoking the fire and racial acromony!!  This will play out over time, and the hope of all of us should be that the facts and the truth will come out.  Those that are guilty of anything will be found guilty and appropriately punished.  Those that are innocent will be found so and exonerated.  No matter what side you are on, most likely you will be dissappointed somehow in the outcome.  What we need ( and I have little faith we will accomplish) is to all come together and do what is right for the public education of our youth so we give them a fighting chance to be as successful as they are motivated to be by giving them a quality education that will allow them to compete globally!!

Yes. that is indeed the issue!!

When are you guys going to tire of this very childish game that this poster plays every day!  Her MO is "Offense is a good defense!!  Since she doesn't have anything to rebutt Obama's devastating policies and their effects on the country, so she resorts to "so and so did this, and so and so did that and you supported them"!  No amount of facts, logic, or sound reasoning is going to have any effect on her beliefs!!!

Al Jazeera watchers complaining about any other news organzation being biased!!  You shouldn't show your intellectual deficiency like that!!

Does anyone on this board need to no any more about ECO!!!!  Let's see, Hamas fighters hide behind women and children as they wage war!!  Then they scream about their civilians being killed or injured.  Real character!!!  They are gutless!!!

Bamakid, she just ignores any reasonalbe and intellegent response that does not fit her ideological positions and keeps on saying the same things over and over.

the last thing I saw was his post.  there must have been quite a few garbage posts after that which deteriated the conversation to the pointo deletion.

There weren't tens of thousands of minors streaming accross the border unaccompanied by their parents during those 16 years.  So, lets just clear the deck right now on all issues!!!  Let's just say right now that George Bush was the worst president ever!!  What now, with only 2 years remaining, will Barack Obama do to fix the economy, the border, and the ever growing multiple interational crisis that could throw the world into chaos.  Remember, George Bush is not president and he can do nothing about any of these things anymore.  Moreover, do not give the excuse that Republicans are preventing him from doing anything.  GREAT LEADERS overcome obstacles and galvanize the support of their opponents to get the right things done!!!  Now I will sit back and wait for the unsual morass of exuses and hyperbole!!!

Well, that said I would say I am in favor of and LU would have to take the chance on them unless their is something really aggregious going on with thier dismissal or their past. 

Of course we have taken other D1 transfers who were involuntarily removed from their prospective schools with very little success.  It's not that they are not talented, but that their heads are usually not screwed on straight so that they can stay focused on football and perform consistently at the level that their talent would allow them too.

There is a very big and distinct difference in Judging a person as being "less than", unworthy or inferior so that you can feel "righteous" about mistreating them or worse; and observing their actions and making a judgement about their character and/or the decisions that they make and reacting appropriately.  Anyone who is a parent has made judgements about the kids that their children are around and has had the very audacity to limit or prevent their child from hanging out with or at least limiting the exposure they have to that child.  How dare you judge a person like that!!  Only God knows their heart and the fact that they are trying to convince your child to do something that is completely against your values is just plain mean and hateful!!

I hope that they are able to find the money trail!

After Bamakid made a post, it seems that a certain thread has been completely removed.

I have personally banned myself from responding directly to a certain poster.  Although, as always your response was spot on, I wish you would have asked her to provide proof of here statement as to intellectual superiority of the democratic voting base. 

Hippy, since I have banned myself from responding directly to a certain poster, you might give her the example of Dr. Ben Carson.  I think she will find that response quite pleasing.

Bingo!!!

Steve, I wonder if your favorite poster on this board will GOOGLE it????   Seriously, this is just another example that most all of our citizens of every race and nationality can and would improve themselves if, like Dr. Ben Carson's mom did him, they were held accountable, not allowed to make excuses, and provided with the proper education that would allow them to succeed.  Now, you can bet that our best friends who are really radical left schills will come on here with their radical garbage trying to dispute and demonize this program!!!

Because on a "per-capita" basis minorities have a higher percentage of their population on welfare, that presents our most delicate problem that prevents actual meaningful change: to point out that abuses in the system and to propose change that might actually produce change and improve peoples lives makes you racist!!  So non minorities cower in fear and nothing changes and things just continue the same or get's worse.  It is a vicious cycle of political correctness and destruction!!

I believe NewTobie that this could very well have been a factor.  I talked with one of the higher ups at the Port of Beaumont yesterday and he told me that this would be very beneficial to the PetroChem industry in our area.  Although the funding has not been put in place to start the project, kudos to the President for signing the bill.  Now if he would just sign the Keystone Pipeline bill.

I am sure you will have several birthdays before you get a response if you even do!!

A couple of things.   i wonder if ExxonMobil waited to see what would happen and until the changes at BISD were made before they even announced that they were looking at doing this here in Beaumont.  Could have had a bearing on their decision to expand here.  Also, maybe they are betting that ultimately Keystone will come to area as it is planned to if our esteemed leadership at the federal government will get it's proverbial head out of it's proverbial arse!!!

So the system being broke and excessive abouse is not an issue, the only issue is poeple who are upset that is is broke and the abuses (conservatives)???  Calling names never solves anything and at the end of the day only deepens the divide.  Bad behavior by one group DOES NOT JUSTIFY bad behavior by the other group. 

I have banned myself from responding to a certain poster but in response to your post, one of the great myths being put out by the radical left is that the "truth" of what is really happening is "a myth"!!  Now does everyone on welfare abuse it!  No!!  Do enough abuse it that the system is broke!!!  YES!!!!  That is what is unacceptable and causes hard feelings!!!

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