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Yeah, drilling can absolutely start up and get the product to market in 8 weeks!! Even a person modicum of knowledge would know that you can’t prepare to drill for offshore, where there fields were opened, much less have an exploration being done and getting the product to market. Even on land, if it was said today to start exploring and drilling, that by next week we will have millions of barrels a day flowing? At least come up with something that makes sense.

WAIT, in two months things have not turned around??

It could hold up. It is hard to beat an incumbent though. In I think the 2010 Texas gubernatorial election, a lot of people wanted RINO (claimed) Rick Perry out. A very popular US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson from Texas announced that she was running for governor in the Republican primary. One poll showed her up 56% to around 30% for Perry. Hutchison had high profile endorsements like GHW Bush, Nolan Ryan, Roger Staubach, former Secretary of State James Baker and so on. A year later in the primary she lost to Perry by I think 21 points. This guaranteed new governor got blown out of the water. Who knows, Paxton might actually crush Cornyn. Counting your chickens before they hatch is not always a good indicator of outcome.

He supports stricter gun laws which is usually claimed as a RINO move.

A third term is so far fetched, but constitutionally possible (depending on a future Supreme Court decision), that it seems ridiculous other than to drive people crazy… as you stated.

That is exactly what many people were claiming with Biden. Someone behind the curtain was playing puppet master.

Certainly we have no clue. Going by social media, including local and national, there seems to be about an 80%-90% of the people saying there has to be something up with this. Their outright statements are that they were all involved in something crooked, etc. Obviously, anything is a possibility since we have no clue. There is a very good possibility that these deputies did not even know each other. A couple were retired. I have a hard time remembering, but I believe that I have known six police officers who have killed themselves. Two were coworkers. This is not a huge area compared to the greater Houston area. Some causation of the fairly short time frame possibly had to do with the mentality that if a couple of others did it, it must be somehow acceptable. There was a case, maybe 15 or 20 years ago where several teenagers in a community had committed suicide. I don’t think there was any connection. When some teens are struggling and not knowing what to do and a couple of others in the same community take their own lives, I believe that it somehow gives them justification in their own mind as a reasonable solution. Like, well Mary and Robert did it so….. Policing is a profession which already has a fairly high statistic of suicides. To see so many personally (no telling how many I have seen) and seeing death every week and then topping it off with other officers from the same agency, I think it might make the decision easier. Maybe someone with mental health, professional experience can chime in. But who knows if they were related. My suspicion is that they were not.

Not really.

Let me help you. In removing DEI from the government, the administration has removed obstacles such as set asides such as requiring a certain number of contractors or minimum of anything. So they can’t hold contracts for certain people or companies That has been taken to mean in this political opinion piece, that we can now return to segregated lunch counters. When the article brought up that the Civil Rights Act was still in place and discrimination is against the law, the response was….. “The Civil Rights Act of 1964 still bars discrimination, and segregated facilities, in the United States. But civil rights groups have feared that Mr. Trump’s war on D.E.I. programs has signaled the federal government’s willingness to retreat from enforcing it”. So… we fear that something may happen. Nothing has happened and nothing has been proposed. But by golly, we know that he has something up his sleeve!!! It is more meaningless dribble. It is an, “in our opinion” piece. More hard core journalism. 🤣

Why would voucher money go to a public school? I thought each school got a certain amount for each student. So if a kid left HF and went to HJ, his standard fee from the state would follow him. Correct?

🤣🤣🤣 Accuse? Where do you come up with your rationale? Feel free to show any comment where anyone on this forum defends a child being molested.

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It’s $31B that wasn’t in taxes. Apparently 1/3 of the money from gambling known as the lottery goes to schools and 2/3 goes to the players. That 1/3 set aside pays about a week worth of education statewide. Is that a ripoff? Let’s go out on a limb and say 100% went to schools. Of course, then the question comes up, who would play the game if they were never any winner? But let’s set that aside for now and just say that every dollar someone spends on the lottery goes back to the schools. So instead a funding one week worth of schooling in each school year, the lottery at 100% returned to the state, would pay for only three weeks. Is that a problem with the program or the way it was sold or the fact that that’s just how many people are playing? At 1/3 is a pretty good profit for a voluntary program but even doubling it to 2/3 would only pay for two weeks of schooling. 🤔

Kelly had his fingers crossed behind his back. 🤞🏼

Ridiculous? You throw up your logical fallacy straw man as a response. Who on the left defends this stuff? Classic! So who on the right in this forum defends child molestation? Surely even you can see the folly of your rationale. On second thought….. 🤣

TDS is in full display from CB. Better hope TDS as a mental illness doesn’t become law. 😂😂😂 I am sure that no Democrat, especially at the state level, has ever been charged in a child sex crime Oh wait… [Hidden Content] [Hidden Content] [Hidden Content] Yep, better hope TDS doesn’t become a certified mental illness. We know it exists however…. 😎😎😎

The conservatives aren’t anti-green. That is yet another logical fallacy. They are against forced actions. I had never seen conservatives or Trump tell people not to buy electric cars. They are against the government forcing companies to make electric cars and giving thousands of dollars of incentives for people to buy them. If you want to buy an electric car and run your home off of solar panels, go for it. The demand for electric vehicles is small with the government wants to force people‘s decisions. That is what confused you… Again.

I have seen claims saying that this is a racist situation. The local (there) NAACP came out in support of the attacker. I guess no support for the victim who was assaulted. There was a rally to support the girl charged in the crime. She is being targeted supposedly. Please ignore what you saw on the video.

What immunity has Israel been given?

I think she would have been better off admitting it and immediately. She could have pleaded that she had a horrible spur of the moment reaction, it was neither her parents nor coaches fault as they taught her to do the right thing but she messed up. Now she has gone on international news and claimed basically that is being railroaded with her fake crying. It’s hard to have sympathy and her parents just spurred on the situation so we see where she probably gets it from.

Anytime you think, this Bizzaro World can’t get any crazier, the Dems come up with a new one…..

WHAT? Don’t people run races, especially sprints, with their left arm across their chest, and their right hand raised above their head??

I am assuming that most people have seen the race where one girl beat the other in the head with a baton. She had a tearful interview that seems to have gone viral where she proclaimed that it was not intentional. She has now been charged with assault. [Hidden Content]

🤣🤣🤣 More false claims but we understand. An article from that well known conservative news source Fox News had an article in May 2024 showing that Biden lied when he claimed inflation was at 9% when he took office. In fact the change in prices in the year leading up to Biden’s inauguration was 1.4%. It rose to just over 9% 16 months after he took office. His claim was completely false. WAIT, I am so sorry, I made a mistake. It wasn’t Fox News, it was CNN that well known ultra liberal news outlet [Hidden Content]

Yes and no. Assuming that I have a grasp on a little (or never) used law Can a president line item veto a budget? No. Congress passed a bill when Bill Clinton was in office to allow a line item veto. He used a line item veto against New York City and they sued all the way to the Supreme Court. NYC won. Under the separation of powers, Congress passes what money can be spent and the president can only veto or accept. The Supreme Court also ruled that a president is obligated to carry out the money spent. So if Congress approves money for 100 new battle tanks, the president cannot refuse to build those tanks and he cannot use the money elsewhere. That is within the authority of Congress. The president’s constitutional authority is to veto or accept. So can a president veto a budget item? Yes. You might ask, WHAT? I thought the president could not veto something that Congress has passed as a line item. He has to accept all or nothing. Correct. However….. In the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, after a budget item is signed into law ordering the president to carry out many actions, the president in writing can ask if Congress will approve a change to their spending items if he sees something that is not needed or wanted. For example, let’s say that Congress passes a budget authorizing an $800B budget to keep the government running until September. The president’s constitutional authority at that point is to sign it into law completely or to veto it and potentially shut down the government. Not wanting to shut down the government, he signs the bill. In that bill is $20B for the Department of Education. The president does not want to spend that money, however he cannot line item it. Under the Impoundment Control Act, he can send that written request to Congress to review that particular part of the budget and ask them to delete it. Congress if within 45 days take no action m, case it is over and the money is still in the budget. Congress can bring the request up for a vote however. If it passes both chambers, the item is removed or essentially a veto by “request” is granted. This would not conflict with the Supreme Court ruling on the line item veto because it would not be the president going against the separation of powers on the budget but Congress itself would make the change and they do have that constitutional authority. But wait….. The Senate rules require 60 votes in cloture to end the filibuster and allow it to come up for a vote. With currently 53 Republican senators, there is no way that seven Democrat senators are going to support the president and vote for cloture. But wait….. The Impoundment Control Act only requires a simple majority vote. So with control of both houses, the Republican Congress could pass the bill to uphold the president’s request for a kill a line item by one vote in each house. Will the Republican Congress back up the president if he requests deleting a budget item? We don’t know. Also can the Act allow the cutting of a budget item from a previous Congress? Like if the last Congress under Biden passed the budget to spend $25B annually for the next four years on a program, can the current Congress undo what the previous Congress authorized? I don’t know. Is there a time frame built into the Act such as a president has 180 days to request amending a budget item? I don’t know. Congress always has the authority to change the budget under the regular passing of any law but they always run up against the rule on cloture. Under the Impoundment Control Act, it changes the game. Will it ever be used……..