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Your attempt at wit has fallen way short. The more you talk, the more you show how little you know.

How even liberals could defend this weaponizing of the DOJ/FBI is beyond me. Aren’t you folks the least bit concerned? Yes, folks at Trump rallies hollered “lock her up”, but she had broken the Law. And did Trump have the FBI go after her? No, he didn’t. So if you find this type action at the very top of our government exhilarating, let’s talk about a similar scenario. Trump does get re-elected. He has the FBI do a full court press on the Biden Cartel, the Pelosi’s, the Schumer’s. Via the law and the courts virtually wipes out any opposition to his agenda. Would you find that as gratifying? Even I, as a conservative, find that unsettling. That’s not how our government is supposed to work. But here’s the deal, that’s pretty much the road we’re going down now.

In my opinion, there is no economist alive today who has done more to eloquently, articulately, and persuasively advance the principles of economic freedom, limited government, individual liberty, and a free society than Thomas Sowell. If your open to differing opinions then this might help you. 1. Knowledge. The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today. 2. Obamacare. If we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical drugs now, how can we afford to pay for doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical drugs, in addition to a new federal bureaucracy to administer a government-run medical system? 3. Economics vs. Politics I. Economics and politics confront the same fundamental problem: What everyone wants adds up to more than there is. Market economies deal with this problem by confronting individuals with the costs of producing what they want, and letting those individuals make their own trade-offs when presented with prices that convey those costs. That leads to self-rationing, in the light of each individual’s own circumstances and preferences. 4. Economics vs. Politics II. The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. Politics deals with the same problem by making promises that cannot be kept, or which can be kept only by creating other problems that cannot be acknowledged when the promises are made. 5. Predicting the Future. Economists are often asked to predict what the economy is going to do. But economic predictions require predicting what politicians are going to do– and nothing is more unpredictable. 6. Politicians as Santa Claus. The big question that seldom— if ever— gets asked in the mainstream media is whether these are a net increase in jobs. Since the only resources that the government has are the resources it takes from the private sector, using those resources to create jobs means reducing the resources available to create jobs in the private sector. So long as most people do not look beyond superficial appearances, politicians can get away with playing Santa Claus on all sorts of issues, while leaving havoc in their wake— such as growing unemployment, despite all the jobs being “created.” 7. Health Insurance. Whatever position people take on health care reform, there seems to be a bipartisan consensus— usually a sign of mushy thinking— that it is a good idea for the government to force insurance companies to insure people whom politicians want them to insure, and to insure them for things that politicians think should be insured. Contrary to what politicians expect us to do, let’s stop and think. Why aren’t insurance companies already insuring the people and the conditions that they are now going to be forced to cover? Because that means additional costs— and because the insurance companies don’t think their customers are willing to pay those particular costs for those particular coverages. It costs politicians nothing to mandate more insurance coverage for more people. But that doesn’t mean that the costs vanish into thin air. It simply means that both buyers and sellers of insurance are forced to pay costs that neither of them wants to pay. But, because political rhetoric leaves out such grubby things as costs, it sounds like a great deal. 8. Diversity. Many years ago, there was a comic book character who could say the magic word “Shazam” and turn into Captain Marvel, a character with powers like Superman’s. Today, you can say the magic word “diversity” and turn reverse discrimination into social justice. 9. Greed. Someone pointed out that blaming economic crises on “greed” is like blaming plane crashes on gravity. Certainly planes wouldn’t crash if it wasn’t for gravity. But when thousands of planes fly millions of miles every day without crashing, explaining why a particular plane crashed because of gravity gets you nowhere. Neither does talking about “greed,” which is constant like gravity. 10. The Anointed Ones. In their haste to be wiser and nobler than others, the anointed have misconceived two basic issues. They seem to assume: 1) that they have more knowledge than the average member of the benighted, and 2) that this is the relevant comparison. The real comparison, however, is not between the knowledge possessed by the average member of the educated elite versus the average member of the general public, but rather the total direct knowledge brought to bear through social processes (the competition of the marketplace, social sorting, etc.), involving millions of people, versus the secondhand knowledge of generalities possessed by a smaller elite group. The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from ‘society,’ rather than from individual choices and behavior. To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by ‘society.’ 11. There’s No Free Red Tape/Obamacare. Do you seriously believe that millions more people can be given medical care and vast new bureaucracies created to administer payment for it, with no additional costs? Just as there is no free lunch, there is no free red tape. Bureaucrats have to eat, just like everyone else, and they need a place to live and some other amenities. How do you suppose the price of medical care can go down when the costs of new government bureaucracies are added to the costs of the medical treatment itself? And where are the extra doctors going to come from, to treat the millions of additional patients? Training more people to become doctors is not free. Politicians may ignore costs but ignoring those costs will not make them go away. With bureaucratically controlled medical care, you are going to need more doctors, just to treat a given number of patients, because time that is spent filling out government forms is time that is not spent treating patients. And doctors have the same 24 hours in the day as everybody else. When you add more patients to more paperwork per patient, you are talking about still more costs. How can that lower medical costs? But although that may be impossible, politics is the art of the impossible. All it takes is rhetoric and a public that does not think beyond the rhetoric they hear. 12. Helping the Poor. It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who got us off the ground, not the Federal Aviation Administration. It was Henry Ford who ended the isolation of millions of Americans by making the automobile affordable, not Ralph Nader. Those who have helped the poor the most have not been those who have gone around loudly expressing “compassion” for the poor, but those who found ways to make industry more productive and distribution more efficient, so that the poor of today can afford things that the affluent of yesterday could only dream about. 13. Income Mobility. Only by focusing on the income brackets, instead of the actual people moving between those brackets, have the intelligentsia been able to verbally create a “problem” for which a “solution” is necessary. They have created a powerful vision of “classes” with “disparities” and “inequities” in income, caused by “barriers” created by “society.” But the routine rise of millions of people out of the lowest quintile over time makes a mockery of the “barriers” assumed by many, if not most, of the intelligentsia. 14. “Giving Back.” All the high-flown talk about how people who are successful in business should “give back” to the community that created the things that facilitated their success is, again, something that sounds plausible to people who do not stop and think through what is being said. After years of dumbed-down education, that apparently includes a lot of people. Take Obama’s example of the business that benefits from being able to ship their products on roads that the government built. How does that create a need to “give back”? Did the taxpayers, including business taxpayers, not pay for that road when it was built? Why should they have to pay for it twice? What about the workers that businesses hire, whose education is usually created in government-financed schools? The government doesn’t have any wealth of its own, except what it takes from taxpayers, whether individuals or businesses. They have already paid for that education. It is not a gift that they have to “give back” by letting politicians take more of their money and freedom. When businesses hire highly educated people, such as chemists or engineers, competition in the labor market forces them to pay higher salaries for people with longer years of valuable education. That education is not a government gift to the employers. It is paid for while it is being created in schools and universities, and it is paid for in higher salaries when highly educated people are hired. One of the tricks of professional magicians is to distract the audience’s attention from what they are doing while they are creating an illusion of magic. Pious talk about “giving back” distracts our attention from the cold fact that politicians are taking away more and more of our money and our freedom. 15. Government Assistance. Do people who advocate special government programs for blacks realize that the federal government has had special programs for American Indians, including affirmative action, since the early 19th century — and that American Indians remain one of the few groups worse off than blacks?

We're not gonna talk about the fact that Newton built public housing and sucked all of the life out Burkeville?

Thats why people talk about EC that way. It's a great program, facility and faculty to help raise your children and provide them with the best possible public school education in the area, possibly outside of Devers ISD, for the young ones.

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It's easy to talk about being impeached twice. But let me ask you: What high crimes and misdemeanors did Trump commit while in office to warrant this action?

Let’s wait for the season to play our first before that is talked about. It is only the 2nd day. This team will be extremely young, I will tell you that now. But the current sophomore, freshman, 8th are huge, big, and athletic. I look for many great seasons with that bunch. You know every few years teams and talent take a dip, then all of a sudden make huge deep runs. Let’s let the coaches coach and players play first several games and let barrow and company dial them in before that talk comes about

talk about depth(when you have what looked like a 100 kids on the sideline) Bay City backups for the most part would have been starters at most schools. Our DAWGS were just give out, worn out, exhausted by the end of the game.

Did BISD ever redo the school lines and make it a even split? I remember that was a talk on here

I know its not the sexy district to talk about but for all my district foes it will give us some thing to pass some time. Who knows what about what teams as of now. Galena Park, GCM, PA Memorial, H Austin, H Wisdom, Porter, New Caney, King Wood Park.

And the icing on the cake - DC is a Sanctuary City. C’mon Mayor, if you’re going to talk the talk, walk the walk. You’re sitting up there, almost 1,800 miles away feeling all magnanimous, talking 🐂💩 but when it’s dumped in your front yard, BAM. Now it’s call in the National Guard. Yep, probably should - to round up you & Biden’s Administrations and the 535 Clowns in Congress. Bowser? Sounds like a mixed breed dog.

That's classic coach talk. Little Cypress stopped surprising people after the Kinkaid game. Home definitely has its advantages but fortunately the two games that they could miss are both non-district. And it may get them ready to play Vidor at their stadium. But I don't think the visitor side will be bare this year. In fact it may be very "bear".

If you would've heard what Abseck said to CE King's coach about Crosby at the THSCA convention you would understand why their hype video looks like that. Common responses to the "What do y'all look like this year?" talk around the coffee pot in the morning from local teams' fans/parents. GCM: "Man, it's going to be tough. I'm just glad my boy is out there." Lee: "I mean, we're going to beat the other Baytown schools" Sterling: Their fans don't even like discussing football at work Anahuac: "I'm not sure but I think we were pretty decent last year. Have you seen our new subdivision though?" Dayton: "We really wanted Crosby this year, we think we can play with y'all. I think we'll be good though." Crosby: "We should be pretty decent. We're just hoping to stay healthy and make another run at state" BH: "I don't remember who we open with but we play Crosby the 4th game of the year" I'll see if I can find the video from the Vype photoshoot a couple of years ago when they asked the BH players about the upcoming season. Their response was akin to the hype video.

I think their defense expert testified that she was 6%-39% likely to die had she been wearing a seatbelt. I watched that part of the trial live on YouTube. I do not know how he arrived at those numbers however at the judge pointed out, she was almost 40% chance to die anyway. So I’m thinking about 50-50. I have commented on so many different forums about this topic that can’t remember if I did so somewhere on SETXSports. It is about the definition and Penal Code section on Causation. It basically means that you can’t blame me if it would’ve happened anyway. There was an article on one of the local television stations a few days before the trial and a local attorney gave his opinion on possibly some new evidence might make a difference. I think that’s just lawyer talk (in this case) as they are paid to argue. I have no problem with them arguing, that is their job. I just did not agree in this case and listed the reasons. The judge agreed with me. I Causation says that if your act caused the result, even if combined with another cause, would it have happened anyway? Then, is it also true that the other cause would have been clearly sufficient to cause the result? The defense gave their best shot saying there was a pet cat in the car and maybe that caused her death by distraction or they didn’t swerve fast enough or they were not wearing seatbelts. The way I read Causation is this, did Torres being intoxicated and driving the wrong way on the highway and hitting the car head on cause a death? If yes (obviously), was there another cause? Sure and at the very least, seat belts. In this case, was having a pet cat in the car and not having on a seatbelt caused their death or serious injury? No. They could’ve driven around the entire shift and that would not have killed her had it not been for intoxicated driving. With no head on collision, she does not die. In this case the judge did not allow the expert witness to testify in front of the jury. The hearing I watched live was after they had removed the jury from the court room which is not uncommon during a debate what is legal procedures for evidence. Judge Steven’s statement after that testimony outside of the jury, under Causation (he read the law aloud) was about the part where it says the other circumstance was clearly sufficient to cause the result alone. As the judge noted, the defense’s own legal expert said there was almost a 40% chance she would’ve died anyway. So how can you blame not wearing a seatbelt when your own witness almost makes it a 50-50 chance she would’ve died anyway?

LET'S GOOO!! Top 40 under 40. Thanks for posting this. @Matthew328 I (along with everyone in town I talk to) look so forward to the future of Jasper football. There is most definitely an energy filled excitement in the community. So happy to have Coach Crumedy back home.

I actually spoke to Jimmy Johnson privately one time for a few minutes. It helped being in police uniform. Jimmy was at an event at the Holiday Inn in Port Arthur and I ran into him. He was more than happy to talk and have a conversation.

Of course, natural grass is best for players to play with less injuries. My opinion is that all about is MONEY and doctor such as sports medicine make more money. Talk money and they don't care about injuries and want money. That is fact. Again, it is my opinion. Sadly, we will see more turf and more years later that natural grass will be gone!

don't get me wrong, the atmosphere was great! Considering it was the 7th oldest stadium still in use that last year it had lasted the test of time. the parking was miserable though. lol talk about feel like your in the game, have you ever been to Athens stadium? Wow! you feel like your on the field during the game. it's not as big and fancy as alot of stadiums but it's one of my favorite!

They happen frequently. So what’s so significant about this to deserve a posting? It’s 3 young black women attacking a 57 year old white woman, proclaiming they hate white people and the way they talk. Blacks have had Carte Blanche on attacking whites. I couldn’t believe this story at first. You’d think we’d eventually get passed all this, but the Dem agenda of divide and conquer only perpetuates it. [Hidden Content]

And wowsy! Anyone else wonder what they were logging into? This’ll take some getting use to, lol. Most of us rarely get to know famous people. I know a few infamous ones like @TxHoops, lol. About the only famous person I knew was Johnny Preston (Courville) who sang the 1959 #1 hit for 3 weeks, Running Bear. It was written by the Big Bopper who was from Beaumont. Johnny was from Pt. Arthur. I was working at a local Plant & we had Union construction workers, and at the time (labout 1970) Johnny was with Pipefitters local 195. He was a great guy and had a beautiful voice. While performing at a local club he sang RB & dedicated it to my wife. We had a great time. He passed away in 2011 of heart failure. When folks talk of PA, invariably Janice Joplin, who, in my humble opinion, had no singing ability whatsoever, comes up. Me, I’d rather think of Johnny. RIP old buddy.

Alabama 18’s which is the Alabama Raw Dogs select organization travel team & not a Babe Ruth League All Star team will probably be the toughest team Mid County will face. Plus the Raw Dogs organization leaders will be hosting & running the tournament in their back yard. Usually very arrogant & disrespectful team from top to bottom. Was a lot of fun beating those Jack legs twice & run ruling them back in 2017 winning the regional in Dumas, Tx & then the World Series. Hope you guys beat them this year, so i can talk some smack on their social media pages😎

Talk about country strong. Jesus....

The talk is a swap for an imprisoned war lord arms trader. How warped is that? She will probably return as some sort of victimized hero.