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This is a typically slanted article that ignores reality or many other similar laws or situations. It is made to look like TX has stupid laws.... which they may but not in this instance.   
Of course if you are anti-abortion then this seems like some valid point, which it isn't.  
First, like it or not, the US Supreme Court has said that abortion is legal and must be legal in all states. Since that is a legal fact, do you then let another person get away with murder simply because abortion is legal?  Do people believe that life does legally begin at conception allow a person other than a doctor to kill an unborn child? 
But let's forget about abortion for the moment. By the letter of the law, if your doctor gives you a flu vaccine, he can get a year in jail. If he gives your 10 year old child the same thing, he can get up to 10 years in prison. If a police officer arrrests a 16 year old, the officer can get 10 years in prison and so on. If your son tackles the quarterback on an opposing high school team then he can spend years in juvenile detention or the county jail depending on his age. 
All of those laws say something like "this law does not apply to_______" or "it is an exception to this offense if committed by a _________" or "it is a defense to prosecution that _________". 
 
This is typical in all laws and it has to be that way. If not and a guy breaks into your home and you have to kill him to defend your family then you might go to jail for life. Again however, the law says killing in that situation is lawful. 
I am against abortion in belief but this article is for the most part nonsense. 

I thought it was kind of funny that the agent released a big statement about dumping him where the agent portrayed himself as a good guy for doing so.  He wanted to give off the impression that he did so because Manziel is a screwup, but Manziel has been a screwup since he's been in the league, and the agent didn't dump him until his earning potential dropped into the abyss.

HJ wins 6-1

keep trusting these politicians they'll keep letting you down.

Yup, but that'll be the week your gut was right...

Please, oh please let this end any chance of the Cowboys spending a dime on this kid.  Given a choice, I'll take RG3 and a bag of hot Cheetos over this clown any day of the week. 

Having a pretty good night.  I was at 16-7 last I looked I think 

if i don't go out of town i might wander over.  ford park is a nice convenient drive for me.

Best stat I heard tonight.  HJ's group of senior basketball players (9 kids total) have a group GPA of 3.5!  That's an incredible number and something to be really proud of.  Keep that up and they will all be going places! 

as a moderate, all of these candidates are terrible.  go rubio.  i guess.

Lee wins 69-52

HJ won't have Silsbee, but Shepherd, Huffman, Cleveland, Tarkington, and Liberty will be a much tougher schedule than HF, BC, OF, WOS, and LCM. 

HJ definitely benefits more than Silsbee.  I can't imagine Cleveland not getting back to their quality teams pretty soon, and based on playoff history I could see that being as big of a rivalry as Silsbee, and the rest of the district as a whole is better than the one they're leaving, apart from Silsbee.  I'll miss that rivalry, but having at least decent opponents every district game will benefit HJ more than playing Silsbee twice and having a bunch of 20-40 point blowouts in pretty much the rest of their district games.  That being said, it won't matter much once HJ gets to whichever Houston AAU team they end up playing in the 2nd or 3rd round of the playoffs every year. Silsbee loses the one team they have to get up for in district and adds a team that won't win a game against the teams that silsbee has been beating by 60.  That is not a good thing for the Tigers

I'm thinking maybe in the parking lot of Jack's Pack-it

I'm thinking maybe in the parking lot of Jack's Pack-it

Well there's a BOLD prediction!

Yep

Good, sensible, well reasoned post.

Please.  Blasted by a LOADED (questionable) roster of D1 talent.  Sterling was at least an all Houston team with 5 seniors playing who outplayed Silsbee .  You can maybe question the Sterling team but there is NO DOUBT that the Bridgeport team was a scam and disgrace on the part of the UIL.

Ranked #2 and made it to the state final game. Not sure if "got hot in the playoffs" is accurate there.  And by college kids I mean good enough to play in college.  They just ran into a team who was just as unfairly in 4A with even better players 

yup.  and keep in mind that in houston isd you have 47000 high school aged kids.  in HJ its' more like 650..  so when you divide it in half and take the girls out, Houston has approx 23,500 boys in it's district to fill the teams of 40 high schools,  HJ has approx 325 boys to fill one team.  HJ is lucky to get a college quality player or two every couple of years (generally juco, D2, or D3).  Houston has hundreds of them.  So when kids in houston can team up with their AAU buddies and field 4A teams full of D1 and D2 talent, despite being a town of over 2,000,000 people, it's pretty frustrating when you're a fan of a really good small school team such as Hardin-Jefferson (Sour Lake, population 1800) or Silsbee (population 6,700).  HJ made a really nice run last season, pulling a last second upset over a really good (and legit small 4A school) Navasota team, only to lose to Sterling and their team full of college kids, and then Sterling beat Silsbee two games later to go to state.  I thought that was crap then, and i still do now.  The fact that a whole lot more teams like that just dropped in is crap as well.  I'd love to see classifications be factored using school AND city size to keep stuff like this from happening.  

I think of 4A and lower as small town ball.  I don't like seeing these schools drop down, especially considering that the kids move wherever they want to play sports in those towns.  I'm honestly not sure why there are public schools being run with less than 1200 students in them when the city they are in has millions of people.  seems like a waste of taxpayer money to me.

warren 56
hardin 50

when i was at D3 ETBU, a bunch of us soccer guys played intramural basketball.  One of the intramural teams we played was full of guys who'd failed off the basketball team, guys who'd used up all their eligibility, and guys that had been kicked off for disciplinary reasons.  At the half we were down 6, and ended up losing by less than 20.  Bear in mind that not a guy on our team was over 6 foot tall, and they started 3 guys 6'3'' or taller, plus an all-conference point guard.  Many of these guys had been multi-year starters for the ETBU basketball program.  While i was there ETBU was competitive in their conference.  So these guys  had all played (in various capacities) for a college team in the top quarter of the conference, and they came out and were up 51-45 at the half to a team full of short little soccer players.  My point being that Bullock and Williams would've been all-conference type players for those etbu squads, and i don't believe that the conference has improved that much since i've been there.  I would say that pretty much any kid with above average height or above average skill can find SOMEWHERE to play basketball if they want.  I think the reason you don't see a lot of smaller schools sending a lot of players off of one team to play in college is that most of those kids don't care enough about basketball to go play for bad programs far away from home.

CONGRATS COLTON ON RECEIVING NJCAA DIVISION 1 NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE WEEK!!!