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bullets13

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  1. neither has made it yet, but they're both favored.
  2. couple hundred across the nation. but Harris county is one of the biggest agencies in the country. While 4 is abnormally high, it's far from unbelievable, especially with the consideration of copycat suicides, which is fairly common. Awhile back a friend on facebook posted a picture of some guys that graduated a couple of years ahead of me at HJ. 10-12 years ago all three shot themselves within a couple of years of each other. In 2024 Harris County lost 4 officers in the line of duty. In 2022 they lost 5 in the line of duty. I guess 4 to suicide doesn't seem that farfetched.
  3. A couple hundred officers commit suicide a year. The job is getting worse and those numbers are going up. HCSO has 4200 employees. I’d be a lot more suspicious if they had 400 employees.
  4. 7/8 correct in sweet 16 matchups isn’t too shabby for me
  5. maybe i'm wrong, but it just seems like a $100k investment into post season play doesn't sound like much when you're talking about a university the size of lamar. Both teams are trending up, and even a little extra exposure could go a long way.
  6. you're probably right. that's as disingenuous as someone in their 50s that looks like they're in their 50s claiming they look 20 years younger
  7. To be fair, most republicans want the dems to be more like Trump. Her calling him that is the most Trump-like thing she's done while in office.
  8. I'll never understand how the judge of the district court of columbia can block a nationwide deportation program and demand that the president give him flight information on deportations. Stuff like this happens all the time. Some nobody circuit judge issues a ban or block or restriction on some policy the president is trying to implement and it's somehow valid? Now, that having been said, a lot of the things Trump is doing he's either ignoring previous case law, making up rules as he goes, or creatively interpreting previous laws and statutes to fit his needs, which leaves him vulnerable for a lot of it to be overturned. But I still don't understand how Joe Blow in District Court Irrelevant has the power to make rulings that stop the president from doing things.
  9. Nope. And private schools will increase tuition next year as well to make more money. The main purpose of this is to give the wealthy a rebate, nothing more.
  10. Possibly, if Kelly or Legacy would even accept them. It’s not like they have to, and they’re gonna avoid having their scores go down unless it’s a good athlete or something.
  11. Arkansas helped me out today. Had them advancing
  12. Fitting end to the horns season. Need a new coach. They have no offensive game plan.
  13. They were going to be deported because they weren’t American, and led disruptive protests on an American college campus. It makes sense. If you’re not American, hate America, and IN America, it’s probably best if America helps you out and sends you home.
  14. I wasn’t stirring the pot, I bumped and tagged yall in this thread because yall were doing the stuff this thread was made for in another unrelated thread. If I recall. That was almost a month ago.
  15. It defies all odds and logic that Nederland managed to tie 9 of 14 district games. I don't even see how that's possible.
  16. Personally, I love it, but a judge has temporarily halted it. Judge temporarily blocks deportation of arrested Palestinian Columbia student | Reuters
  17. Assuming they lose to Tennessee tomorrow they’ll end the regular season at 19-15 and 6-12 in the SEC. Some really good wins, but some really bad losses as well. Doesn’t seem like a tourney resume to me. If they hadn’t been projected as on the bubble already I’d assume they’d need to upset Tennessee tomorrow as well. But who knows
  18. As a big Texas fan, I’ll admit that I don’t understand how they’ve come into this tourney on the bubble with the season they’ve had. That being said, if they were on the bubble, I don’t see how these two quality wins don’t get them in.
  19. I agree with this. A program designed to predominantly help the wealthy and upper middle class, but will help a small portion of the poor and underrepresented is not the answer. Taking $1B from the public schools where the majority of these kids in poor options already attend isn't the answer either.
  20. Here's some data from other states doing school vouchers: In Arkansas, 95% of voucher recipients did not attend public school in the year prior to receiving vouchers. In Arizona, 75% of voucher program users were already in private school. In Ohio, the percentage of voucher students who had already attended a private school jumped from 7% in 2019 to almost 55% in 2023 after the expansion of the EdChoice program. In Iowa, two-thirds of students who received a voucher were already enrolled in private school. As the legislation is currently worded, Texas will be closer to Arkansas than Ohio. You're absolutely right, some deserving students will benefit. But more often than not it's going to benefit those who don't need the help. Your argument is not unlike the democrats criticizing the dismantling of USAID. Their supposition is that all of the mismanagement, fraud, misuse, and theft isn't a good reason to end USAID because some of what they do is beneficial, which is inarguable. USAID does some good things. The same can be said for school vouchers. I'm personally not okay with $1B being taken from the public school coffers for a program that will likely in 80-90% of instances benefit those who already can afford private school, despite the fact that the program will help a small percentage of poor and poorish students. And that's not even factoring in that a good portion of public school kids who will take advantage of the program are going to be solidly middle class who just choose to leave a good school to go to a private school.
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