OlDawg

The way it’s built, you seem closer to the field than old Bulldog—even with the bigger track—and you can hear the crack of helmets & pads from the top seats. The bands & students will sit in the end zone curve where you can still hear them, but you won’t ‘feel’ them right next to you. Can’t wait for the season to start. Apparently, a lot of other people can’t either because there were probably 3-4,000 people there for a Spring game. Never seen that many for an intrasquad spring game.

It’s something else again my friend. Speaker system all the way around for every section, elevators to every level, 6 cameras to catch action/replays for every part of the field, concourse goes all the way around so if you have friends on the other side you can walk around, lighting is the best I’ve seen, excellent handicap seating, 2 suites & VIP room that I haven’t seen-but a friend who did said ‘WOW’, 30 picnic tables on the concourse for eating if you want instead of at your seat (also some shade), video screen is awesome… (Video outside stadium also for updates, etc.) Tailgating will supposedly start at 4:00-7:00, then shut down & concessions take over inside. I was told LP is one of only 3 high schools in the country with the film/video classes they have that produce LPSportsnet. Also was told 4 former students were already working at ESPN because of what they learned at LP. This stadium is loaded with tech. LPSportsnet will be better than ever with the upgrades. ***PS- Simon looks like he put on about 40 lbs and didn’t lose a step, the talked about up & coming QB threw a 45 yd TD first series he came in, and some lineman moved from somewhere in Sasquatchville because he’s one of the biggest dudes I’ve ever seen. They looked very solid. I expect a good run—barring injuries. Longer than last year is a definite possibility.

Aldi has them at $3.27. Usually, they’re less. They’ve been $2.97. Milk is $2.22/gal. Gas around here is $2.41 - $2.51. Most I’ve seen are $2.45.

Yes. I’ll try to let all know ahead of time if they’re going to have all the pregame tailgating w/food trucks, restaurant tents, etc. If you like the horseshoe college stadiums, you should like the new Bulldog. The players should also like the new wood chip filled turf. Supposed to be much cooler than rubber, better traction, and less injury prone. Just don’t miss the left turn into the stadium complex, or you’ll literally drive into Galveston Bay. 😱

Missing out. Best eggs you’ll ever eat.

Just pulled in 29 Muscovy eggs this morning. I can make a 3 egg omelette with 1 egg. 😁

How the Executive Branch got this so different than the original readings is beyond me. I read exactly as @tvc184 has explained. Best explanation I have seen without all the legalese in the briefs. In most cases, the interpretation closest in time to the original is the most accurate. Whether SCOTUS rules this way or not is debatable. I think they’re going to need more time to rule on the actual merits. I wouldn’t be surprised if they just negated the previous injunctions, put one of their own on, and asked for further review before judging the merits. They have limited time before their break, and this is a very big decision. On a side note, it would be typical if it was just some clerks way back when who decided it was too hard to keep track of everything, so they just started making everyone—except for a very limited few—be automatic citizens, and it just continued without anyone really questioning until recently.

DCTF has our game as a highlighted must see Top 10 non-district game in the state.

More patience than me & I just saw I have a typo. Should be a 6 instead of an 8. ☺️

You just don’t get it, do you? Below is from the Congressional Record and what is being discussed as a backdrop issue of this specific case. Read the bolded. There is some evidence to support the thought that automatic citizenship wasn’t meant for the bolded below. For the first almost 80 years after the 14th Amendment was written, citizenship was treated differently than now. More recent tradition and practice for over a century says automatic citizenship for almost everyone. Tradition doesn’t necessarily make it correct. Also doesn’t make it incorrect. I’m done discussing this with you and wasting my time. Just read the bolded below. It’s the words of the author of the 14th Amendment. Sen. Jacob Howard, Republican of Michigan, proposed the Citizenship Clause and stated on May 30, 1866:

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Nate must have had a good time yesterday. He showed clips again this morning. Fox 26 Houston already has The Border Battle (La Porte vs. Deer Park) as the first Friday Football Frenzy of the season. They’ll be at La Porte all morning at least. This rivalry will test the attendance limits allowable right off the bat. In years past, they’ve had the bands/drill teams sit in chairs on the track areas where they could sell the extra seats, and still had people standing around the fences looking in. 😂

…and soooo many people cared, it was only in the school newspaper.

Please post when you find out. I don’t know if the Fire Marshall has an allowable limit for SRO on the concourse or anything, and don’t know the VIP & Suite capacities. Just heard them say the actual stadium seats are for 8,000.

Apparently, this new process doesn’t require watering? I assume this is the product (Brockfill) they used. [Hidden Content] New to me…

Yeah. I was reading up on the materials a little bit earlier today. Sounds like that’s actually part of the reason they can stay so much cooler and forgiving and still have better traction. Water absorption. Said they don’t mold, etc. Some kind of synthetic treatment process.

Wood chip field. Top of the line. Read where it’s supposed to be a lot better on the joints, etc. & a heck of a lot cooler than rubber. He was real proud of that today on TV. Said they put it on all the fields (practice fields, etc). Texas High School Athletic Director Assn. was here earlier today for a meeting. Sure they got a good tour. Be interested if any asked about playing a possible PO game here already.

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Y’all can just ask your defectors. They’re the smart ones anyway. 😁😜

Your word is: S a n c t i m o n i o u s Would you like to hear it in a sentence?

Dr. Jackson said they were getting permits & permissions to have sanctioned tailgates with food trucks, etc. before every home game this upcoming season. LP has 7 home games this year. The local restaurants are all looking at how to set up food tents, etc. Said they want to make Game Days an all-day event for the community. Still some finishing needed inside Press Box & Development Center. But, there’s a team store, 2 large suites rentable by the public, and a large VIP room all in the 4 level Press Box. Seating in the stadium is 8,000. Don’t know how many the suites & VIP room hold. Some seating was lost to accommodate handicap seating, & expanded Press Box/Suites/Store. Still enough though for most events I think.

Fox 26 Houston is touring the stadium right now with Nate Griffin.

Obama ended the ‘dry foot’ policy as well while he was trying to play kissy face with communist Cuba. Truth be told, he probably ended the policy because Cubans are generally conservative voters. They don’t fit into the race-baiting Democrat playbook. That’s another very big reason why the authors of the 14th didn’t want birthplace citizenship. They spelled out ‘no foreigners.’ They wanted immigrants to assimilate before becoming a citizen. Today, everyone wants to be a ‘something-American.’ No one says they’re just an American any more. No assimilation. People live in their own little silos with like kind—usually based on race. I blame the racial politics of the Democratic Party. They’ve been splitting people apart by race since they began as a Party. It’s only gotten worse over time.

Again, no one is stopping asylum seekers, or legal immigration in any form. In fact, it’s being encouraged. I’m not a D or R. Nor am I a big Trump fan. But, no to amnesty & the administration looks to be correct on their birthright citizenship claim to my layman’s reading. They are definitely correct on their abuse of national injunctions claim. I wouldn’t want my dead dog in CPS custody. Not in Harris County at least.

Not just Party specific. A number to consider that some don’t like to talk about: 59% of families/households headed by illegal immigrants use at least 1 major form of public assistance per 2024 CIS data which equates to over $42 Billion/year. According to the data, legalization only increases the issue because of the low education level. In contrast, 39% of legal/citizen households use public assistance. Wait! I thought public assistance wasn’t being provided to illegal immigrants. WRONG! The child being a citizen receives SNAP, WIC, Medicaid, & housing assistance. Many other programs have no limits on who can receive. Thus, it goes to the family unit. Conclusion Illegal immigrants are a significant net fiscal drain -- paying less in taxes than they use in public services. The primary reason they create more in costs than they pay in taxes is their relative low levels of education. Based on prior research, 69 percent of adult illegal immigrants have no education beyond high school, compared to 35 percent of the U.S.-born. As a result, they tend to earn modest wages and make modest tax contributions even when income and payroll taxes are taken out of their pay. This fact, coupled with the relatively heavy demands they make on public coffers -- especially for education, health care, and means-tested programs -- is the reason they are a net fiscal drain. We estimate that 59 percent of illegal immigrant households use one or more major welfare programs, costing roughly $42 billion a year. At the local level, the largest single cost is for public education. We estimate the cost of educating the children of illegal immigrants, most of whom are U.S.-born, totals $69 billion per year. While illegal immigrants often receive other services for their U.S.-born children, even when we estimate the net fiscal impact of just the illegal immigrants themselves, excluding their U.S.-born children, we still find they create a lifetime net fiscal drain of $68,000 on average (taxes paid minus benefits received). Even though illegal immigrants are net fiscal drains, they do pay a significant amount in taxes. We estimate illegal immigrants pay $25.9 billion a year to the federal government. Unfortunately, their tax contributions do not cover their consumption of public services. The net fiscal drain is not the result of illegal immigrants being unwilling to work. In fact, we find that illegal immigrant households are significantly more likely to have at least one worker than households headed by the U.S.-born, and there is little evidence that immigrants come specifically to get welfare. Legal immigrants and U.S.-born Americans who have relatively few years of school are also a net fiscal drain on average because they too tend to earn modest wages, make modest tax contributions, and use social services extensively. None of this should be seen as a moral failing on the part of low-income people. Nonetheless, it is the reason why communities across the country worry so much about losing their middle-class tax base, as it is primarily middle- and upper-income people who keep public coffers full. The fiscal situation today is very different from the situation more than 100 years ago during the last great wave of immigrants, when federal, state and local government was a much smaller share of GDP. Also, at that time industrial jobs for the less educated were plentiful and paid, by the standards of the day, relatively high wages. But none this is the case today. We need an immigration policy that reflects current realities, and we need to rigorously enforce it. Otherwise, the fiscal costs will be significant, as many communities across the country are currently finding out. [Hidden Content]