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Lumberton - When Will This End (Korn)

[quote name="LumRaiderFan" post="1096445" timestamp="1319766346"] [quote author=True Blue link=topic=87540.msg1096420#msg1096420 date=1319765830] Questioning America's minimum wage has somehow become a rite of passage in the Republican presidential primary. Michele Bachmann has said she wouldn’t rule out lowering it. Ron Paul has predictably said it should be eliminated entirely. And Rick Perry, in his book "Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington", has rued the role the commerce clause played in "creating national minimum-wage laws" and "establishing national labor laws." But when it comes to battling our $7.25-an-hour wage floor, these contenders have neither the vision nor the resume of current frontrunner Herman Cain. Cain's time in the restaurant business was marked by a long and largely successful battle against minimum-wage increases, and even today, some 15 years later, many of the nation's waiters and waitresses have Cain and the restaurant lobby to thank for a federal minimum wage of $2.13 for tipped workers. And that not the top 1% now is it???? [/quote] So if you want to make minimum wage...vote democrat! [/quote] Kind of I guess. What it really means that if you have a minimum wage job and you are at the peak of your ability and have no hopes for any meaningful job, vote Democrat because that may be the only pay raise you get the rest of your life. On the other hand you could actually finish high school, gets some training or college and do the unthinkable and show up for work on time, be a responsible employee, etc., and not worry about minimum wage as a career.

[quote name="BLUEDOVE3" post="1096282" timestamp="1319761445"] Fox poll says Fox News is failin . Most Americans not scared o Obama's reelection [Hidden Content] [/quote] So you go to a progressive Democratic website to try and convince yourself how good Obama is doing from their viewpoint? If you want a Fox poll, their poll in January 2009 just before Bush left office showed 79% of the people dissatisfied with the direction of the country. That pretty much led to the Obama win. You would have a hard time saying that Fox was slanted in their poll when almost 80% of the country was not happy. That same poll today showed that 73% of the public is not satisfied with the direction of the country. It also shows that only 32% of independents approve of Obama's handling of his job and the direction of the nation. Those are the same independents that got Obama his job. If you want to hang what you believe is reality in a KOS poll, be my guest. The ostriches need some company.

... and if you are talking about gasoline prices, the Democrats repeatedly (and still in this forum) blame Bush for high gas prices but 3 years into Obama's term seem to think that it is just the market that controls it.

[quote name="ABSENT!" post="1096078" timestamp="1319748074"] [quote author=tvc184 link=topic=87540.msg1096035#msg1096035 date=1319745429] People are out of work and hurting. Even the ones that do work are paying more for essentials like food. [b]Gas prices remain high after promises to get them down. [/b] A few days of good stocks or other gains won't help unless there is a corresponding large drop in unemployment and communities not being on the verge of bankruptcy. The [b]American economy will always turn around no matter who is in office[/b] as long as we keep the free enterprise system. [/quote] Double Speak, anyone? [/quote] It is historical and cultural . Americans like to buy things and always will. It doesn't matter if Ronald Reagan or Barry Obama is the president. What sets Americans apart from the rest of the world is our standard of living and our desire for more. There is no double speak.

[quote name="invictus" post="1095791" timestamp="1319730246"] [quote author=tvc184 link=topic=90383.msg1095248#msg1095248 date=1319667796] Most districts have to hire off duty officers since most districts do not have their own police departments. [/quote] Really?  I thought all districts had gone to having their own department due to school shootings, etc. [/quote] Not hardly. If they want security it is usually much cheaper to hire city police on contract than to have a police department. The problem is that the school can't have control over those city police like they can school district police. Hard to sweep things under the rug when the city is putting out press releases.  8)

Having a decent gain in some indicator has little effect. People are not  mad at Obama because the business pages are not good. Who many of his supporters even read such news? People are out of work and hurting. Even the ones that do work are paying more for essentials like food. Gas prices remain high after promises to get them down. A few days of good stocks or other gains won't help unless there is a corresponding large drop in unemployment and communities not being on the verge of bankruptcy. The American economy will always turn around no matter who is in office as long as we keep the free enterprise system. The only difference is the policies that dictate how long a recession or depression will last and how big the recovery will be. Americans like to spend money and will hold off when times look bad but eventually some will say to heck with it and start spending that money again when they think things have bottomed out.

For the most part, locker room talk needs to stay in the locker room. In that venue, it should be perfectly acceptable. I can guarantee there are things that I hear in the locker room at work that I would not want to hear in the public but it isn't meant for the public. This was not even worthy of being looked into much less anyone resigning. Not only that, the coach was entirely correct. I know nothing about this "team" but you can tell that the rant was directed at some players and those players chose not to do what was best for the team but to further tear it apart by taping the locker room speech and then posting it. Sometimes a team is saddled with a person or persons that believe they are above the team and it sure appears to have been happening in this instance. The whiner that did this will probably be a loser the rest of his like. Heck, he might later point to this as one of his "accomplishments" in life. Good luck loser.

Most districts have to hire off duty officers since most districts do not have their own police departments.

[quote name="eagleswoodville#1" post="1094480" timestamp="1319600201"] Okay so Woodville beats Anahuac @Anahuac, 36-21. Anahuac beat Buna 42-21. But yet Woodville is unranked and Anahuacs #7 AND Buna is at #5?? Makes perfect sense huh? [/quote] Maybe, but.... 1. Woodville is not even over .500 and the other two teams are. 2. Buna beat unranked Orangefield yet Woodville got beaten by Orangefield 28-7. 3. Corrigan-Camden is ranked at the bottom and they thumped Woodville to the tune of 42-14. Would you propose being ranked above a team that drug you through the woodshed? I could go farther but do you see the point? If you base rankings on a single game and comparative scores, it would be almost impossible to do any rankings short of a team that is undefeated. If Lamar played a ranked Big 12 school next week and pulled off a huge upset (like when they beat the current Southwest Conference champion Baylor back in the 80's), does that vault Lamar into the BCS bowls?

[quote name="rip2506" post="1094348" timestamp="1319591480"] [quote author=tvc184 link=topic=90389.msg1094247#msg1094247 date=1319580089] The ranch that I am going to next weekend near Freer or Tilden in south Texas is managed land. I think it is a 7,000 acre ranch (low fence) and the Parks and Wildlife gave them tags for 90 bucks and 85 does this year. When you hunt on MLD (managed land) they really want you to take of the needed deer and you cannot use your own tags. You must use the state tags so really it is unlimited on how many deer a hunter can take as long as the managed land still has tags. You can do the same in east Texas but many people in this area don't want to be told not to shoot any deer. If the person or lease has 1,000 acres they might be able to take 35 deer off of it but they want to be able to take 200 of deer crossing their property. It is still an "if it's brown it's down" area. [/quote] just curious do you believe the allocation would really be as generous as 35 deer for 1000ac. not being a smart blank just really curious. I hunt a 1100 eastex lease and we never kill that many deer.. closer to a dozen. [/quote] If the lease is holding a healthy population, yes. If not then it would be severely reduced. A lot also depends on the buck to doe ratio which in east Texas (at least in many areas) is way out of whack. I wouldn't be shocked to see some areas at about a 6:1 (or even greater) buck to doe. The antler restrictions should help that also in addition to letting bucks mature. The ratio should be in the vicinity of 1:1. I still know people that don't think that you should kill does and it damages your herd but in truth it is just the opposite. A healthy doe should in many (or most) instances have twin fawns. So a typical east Texas area of 1,000 acres might be holding 80 does and 30 bucks. From that they might drop 140 fawns next year. So theoretically the herd will grow from 110 to 250. Of course predators such as coyotes will take some as will disease and hunters but you can see the problem. I hunted for 7 years near Chester (until last year) and in a three year period on 965 acres we killed about 50 does. Now there are way more and bigger bucks than we have ever seen on that lease going back about 25 years. You talk of taking a dozen deer a year in more land than we have and we were taking more than 15 does a year, much less total deer. That doesn't mean that deer in your area aren't over harvested because you are not only talking about your lease but all the ones in your area since the deer don't exactly respect property lines. You can run a great lease and your neighbors might slaughter everything that moves. That is one reason why I love the 13" buck rule. In the long run in my opinion, it is good to go with the MLD. It opens up a lot of hunting for many people and eventually for all. Most depends on where your deer herd stands at the moment. I would think if you had half of a healthy deer herd on 1,100 acres, you would be killing more than a dozen deer total from an MLD. That is just a guess. I know that it rubs a lot of hunters in our area the wrong way though and it is like swimming upstream.

The ranch that I am going to next weekend near Freer or Tilden in south Texas is managed land. I think it is a 7,000 acre ranch (low fence) and the Parks and Wildlife gave them tags for 90 bucks and 85 does this year. When you hunt on MLD (managed land) they really want you to take of the needed deer and you cannot use your own tags. You must use the state tags so really it is unlimited on how many deer a hunter can take as long as the managed land still has tags. You can do the same in east Texas but many people in this area don't want to be told not to shoot any deer. If the person or lease has 1,000 acres they might be able to take 35 deer off of it but they want to be able to take 200 of deer crossing their property. It is still an "if it's brown it's down" area.

[quote name="westend1" post="1093979" timestamp="1319566864"] [quote author=tvc184 link=topic=90389.msg1093583#msg1093583 date=1319522510] One doe so far. I passed up a few more that I should have taken. The one I popped was with my trusty .223. I will be bowhunting in a couple of weeks and hope to get two or three more to finish out the year. [/quote]  What?  Were you poaching?    :D  Seriously, where do you shoot something with a .223 this time of year? [/quote] You can gun hunt private or lease managed land in Texas from October until February. I shot the doe near Harper or about 20 miles west of Fredericksburg in the Texas Hill Country.

One doe so far. I passed up a few more that I should have taken. The one I popped was with my trusty .223. I will be bowhunting in a couple of weeks and hope to get two or three more to finish out the year.

[quote name="Blackrose#2" post="1091186" timestamp="1319319588"] It does not matter how long a player is down on the field you should respect the other team as well as the player down and put a knee down. Its common courtesy. That shows you how much class some high school football teams in southeast Texas have or don't have. Not kneeing down for a player is like not taking your hat off for the national anthem. [/quote] I have a hard time equating an injured player to the National Anthem.

[quote name="TexasMinuteman" post="1089212" timestamp="1319217338"] How has the drought affected deer numbers and rack sizes?Any bow hunters out there that might have a hands on opinion to this? [/quote] I hunted last week and saw some good deer but it was on a lease and had some supplemental food. I am going bowhunting in a couple of weeks and place that I am going has some good ones but it is on a lease and again, has food and water. It might not be the same as public land.

[quote name="5 on 5" post="1086622" timestamp="1318907077"] [quote author=mat link=topic=82035.msg1084544#msg1084544 date=1318726781] Tried McFadden beach around 8:00 this morning. Great water and weather. The beach also looked good. Caught four bulls with just one rod out. Also had fun with some whiting. Left before noon. A really enjoyable day. [/quote] What's the best bait for the bull reds? [/quote] At the surf I always liked mullet or half mullet if they are real big.

I think that Vidor will have the best halftime show.

[quote name="Le Sgt Rey (French)" post="1076951" timestamp="1318073007"] Ko-ni-Chi wah.....(WHAT's UP) [/quote] That is good afternoon in Japanese. He is in Thailand.  8)

[quote name="AggiesAreWe" post="1073936" timestamp="1317825513"] Didn't you guys see my  ;)? Boy, some people just can't take a joke. ::) [/quote] Lots of blondes on the forum. Whoosh.... right over their heads.  8)

[quote name="Eagle11" post="1074540" timestamp="1317882746"] [quote author=TJ LAMBERT link=topic=89322.msg1074523#msg1074523 date=1317877834] If he assaulted her on July 5th, why did she go back on the 7th? [/quote] I agree with this.....and why is this just coming out in October? I am not taking his side. He needs the book thrown at him but does it take 3 months to decide? [/quote] It might be a sexual contact with consent. Obviously a 14 year old cannot give consent but that gives at least one reason why she would "go back". After all of the teachers having sex with underage students in the news lately, it is hardly a far fetched scenario. As far as the time frame involved, it is really not that long. The article states that they found DNA evidence from the examination that linked the coach to the crime. Getting DNA results back in less than three months is pretty good results. Sometimes it takes a lot longer. Not because how long it takes to run the DNA but the backlog of cases. I am not saying that he is guilty or not but simply pointing out that the girl went back or it took less than 3 months for a DNA test to be completed and linked to a crime scene is not unusual.

Can I buy a vowel?

[quote name="RocketMan" post="1074288" timestamp="1317850462"] Wow can we let this go now. [/quote] We were going to until you posted.  8)

[quote name="AggiesAreWe" post="1074194" timestamp="1317843394"] [quote author=tvc184 link=topic=88772.msg1074190#msg1074190 date=1317843153] Federal law about having alcohol on campus? [/quote] Is it state or federal law that prohibits alcohol on school premises? [/quote] I have never heard of any federal law prohibiting alcohol on school campuses. There is a federal law of "illegal" drugs on campus and although alcohol can be classified as a drug (also a pharmaceutical or food), it is not illegal.

Federal law about having alcohol on campus?