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I'm not sure how the valedictorian leading a prayer at a school function is different from cheerleaders holding up signs with scripture at a school sponsored event? Is it because the prayer itself was not sanctioned by the administration, where the cheerleaders were getting resources from the school to make their signs?

Yeah, I bought a tundra in November and I love it

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No? I'm saying it was the coaches' fault that 4 boys ended up in the hospital peeling out their own muscle tissue.

I have two. My first car was a '65 mustang with a straight 6. nothing fancy, but the inside was clean and the paint job was killer (high performance red). after about a year i had to be honest with myself and admit that i simply didn't know enough about working on cars to keep a car that would have a problem every couple of months, and at 17 i didn't really have the money to fix it when it had problems. The second was a 1997 Toyota T-100 4x4 with a small lift kit on it that i drove from when i was 18 to 23. I got it with 110,000 miles on it and sold it with 230,000, and never had anything worse than an AC motor go out on it (even though i was in college and likely treated it a little like crap). I used that little truck to dig some BIG trucks out of the mud over the years, and i never got it stuck where i couldnt get it out. It was a sharp looking truck as well.

Good Will Hunting is another one that i will watch until the end when i see it.

I hope this isn't a backhanded reference to the criticism the football coaches received for putting four kids in the hospital.

Both authors have multiple series, but for Sandford his "prey" books are good, and Connely has the Harry Bosch series.

Cormac McCarthey is one of my favorites. Stephen King as well. I also enjoy Michael Connely and John Sandford, who both write murder mystery type stories.

I read It about a half dozen times. Scared the crap out of me as a kid

Perhaps the media age has given a group of people that is generally self contained in rural areas more of a voice?

He's another author who I've read all of his stuff, most of it more than once. I'm excited about them coming out with a movie for the gunslinger series

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I know there have been other polls with a significantly higher number of native Americans saying they were offended by the term. Either way, the fact that a term that is considered a slur by a decent amount of the population is used as a mascot is pretty ridiculous. I'm curious how many people who don't see a problem with the name would walk up to a Native American and say "what's up, redskin?" I'm willing to bet that number is zero.

I'm actually a pretty avid reader. I've read every book written by Cormac McCarthey more than once. all of his work is phenomenal. And you're right, the Cohen brothers did a great job staying true to the book with the movie.

I trapped a couple of piglets a couple of weeks ago. I went out to check on them after the hail and they're hanging out in 4 inches of water. I actually had water come over my mud boats walking out there. We got a LOT of rain this morning

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Anytime I'm flipping channels and I see Shawshank Redemption, I stop every time. No country for old men and Forrest Gump usually stop me too.

We had quarter to golfball sized hail for about 10 minutes this morning. Between getting misted on yesterday at Sabine, and the storms last night and this morning, I think the meteorologists got it wrong talking about our beautiful weekend we were going to have.

I'm not arguing that odor isn't guilty of using hard slides to break up double plays, but I will argue that the intent was different. He's sliding hard to break up a double play in this picture, which was legal at the time, and he's not cleats up a foot over the bag in this picture either. I would argue that Bautista clearly intended to injure Odor, as the slide was more dangerous, and also because Bautista knew his slide would result in an automatic out, meaning the only thing he had to gain on the play was possibly hurting Odor.

The peg, whether you agree with it or not, is part of the "unwritten rules of baseball." Exactly 100% of the teams in MLB would've have beaned him for that bat flip. When he got hit, that should've ended it. To me the slide, which was a clear and deliberate attempt to hurt Odor, was by far the worst part of all of this. bautista didn't slide until he was at the bag, then tried to plant two cleats into Odor's stationary plant leg. If Odor hadn't done a fantastic job of avoiding him he'd have a shattered leg or a torn acl. I don't blame him at all for reacting the way he did. And Bautista squared up to him and balled his fists, so I don't know why anyone is so upset about him taking one to the face.

Odor is my new favorite player. Its worth noting he's still only 22, and has been in the league since he was 20, so he's definitely got some maturing to do, but Bautista is an arrogant prick, and got what was coming. On a side note, there's no way Bautista wasn't on PEDa during his career. There's no way he went from consistently hitting 15 homers a year to consistently hitting 45-50 in the span of one off season at the age of 29 without cheating. That type of power surge in a player at that age is almost unprecedented. The only clear example I can think of is Barry Bonds...

That slide isn't legal anymore, and starting a slide when you're already at the bag into an opponent's leg in an attempt to hurt him would've caused problems even before they changed the slide rules this season. He can't even claim he was trying to break up the double play, because that slide turns it into an automatic double play now

it all started in the playoffs last year when Bautista hit a game winning homer and threw his bat about 50 feet in the air. So yesterday Texas finally got around to beaning him for it, which should've made everything even (unwritten rules and whatnot of baseball). But then Bautista goes and tries to end Odor's season, and Odor wasn't having it. He also got a good lick in on Josh Donaldson as well. I personally thought it was great. I lost all respect for Toronto, their team, and their fans last year when they were crying about a (proper) call and starting raining down full beer cans on the field, one of which hit a baby.

Way to go, Hawks!!!