CardinalBacker

You're entitled to your opinion, but in this case you're wrong. That place is still on the tax roll up there in Silsbee.  LP paid just over $180k in property taxes on land and equipment for 2018 alone.  
Property tax abatements can be a fantastic blessing.  Nobody remembers when they moved the Walmart in Groves and the Nederland Walmart about 15 years ago... both went into Port Arthur City Limits when they rebuilt because PAT was willing to play ball with property tax abatements.  
Nederland and Groves got to keep their property taxes for future years on the old years, but PAT abated property taxes and gained 100% of the sales tax revenue generated by two super Walmarts.  Advantage PA, especially when the abatement period ends.  And by my math, it probably already has.
Sometimes people (like AOC in this case) get a little caught up in their beliefs and lose sight of the big picture.  25k good paying jobs, plus who knows how many more supporting jobs in the community, and she celebrates killing the project because of inherent corporate greed?  Some other place will happily step up and accept Amazon coming to town, and the locals in her district can stagnate.
 
 
 
 

You're entitled to your opinion, but in this case you're wrong. That place is still on the tax roll up there in Silsbee.  LP paid just over $180k in property taxes on land and equipment for 2018 alone.  
Property tax abatements can be a fantastic blessing.  Nobody remembers when they moved the Walmart in Groves and the Nederland Walmart about 15 years ago... both went into Port Arthur City Limits when they rebuilt because PAT was willing to play ball with property tax abatements.  
Nederland and Groves got to keep their property taxes for future years on the old years, but PAT abated property taxes and gained 100% of the sales tax revenue generated by two super Walmarts.  Advantage PA, especially when the abatement period ends.  And by my math, it probably already has.
Sometimes people (like AOC in this case) get a little caught up in their beliefs and lose sight of the big picture.  25k good paying jobs, plus who knows how many more supporting jobs in the community, and she celebrates killing the project because of inherent corporate greed?  Some other place will happily step up and accept Amazon coming to town, and the locals in her district can stagnate.
 
 
 
 

Of course I would...that's our rulebook.  
The SC also says it's OK to kill babies...unlike you, I don't agree with anything they spew out just because they are "scholars".
I guess if the SC ruled that slavery was OK you would go along with it?
The interpretation of any case is based solely on whether the SC is tilted conservative or liberal...if these folks were all experts and knew it all, the vote would always be 9-0.

We wouldn't have a problem with that.
#wesoft 

That’s because you have people who only want to come on here and talk trash when their team is winning. Then there’s the others who just love High School football talk and support their team as well.

And that's what I be digging.  Lol

Maybefor the comical value. Save some of what you've been smoking. You might need it for medicinal purposes afterward.

He won't do either. He has been very confrontational. Even with his fellow BC peeps. But quite entertaining. Hurry up and set a date so we can all make arrangements to be there.

This is the most entertaining thread on the site right now...

Ok, fellows.  That's enough.

Look, this started with asking me three party platforms that are most important to me. I did not mention abortion among them. I’d appreciate you not throwing that card at me every time you feel the need to vilify liberals.

True.  Get the right coach in and start winning and you'll get a lot of those kids to turn out.  Winning solves a whole lot of problems. 

CB it looks like your city turned on you. You can become the Lickem backers we gonna win some football games this up coming season. 

It's not that they hate football.. they just love baseball.  Everybody grows up wanting to be a pitcher for the baseball team... nobody wants to be the qb.  
It's not being hateful... it's just the truth.  There are an army of kids that grow up wearing purple and wanting to be the next Dustin Long or Roschon.  If those same kids lived in BC, they probably just play select baseball and little league. 
When the ISD hired Shea Landry (who had recently won a ring as baseball HC at WOS) to be the assistant baseball coach at BC,  but runs off a decent football guy like HC/AD like Dubois.... well, it doesn't make the haters like me look wrong.  I mean, I'm sure they put as much effort into securing another football HC last year (nope, we just bumped Deshazo up) or offensive coordinator this year. 
I mean... are we interviewing any football HCs with recent State Championships to see if they'd like to come be the Offensive Coordinator for the Cards?
Gimme a break... and it's baseball guys like DLivingston that try to pretend like it doesn't keep happening over and over.  

Trump beat out something like 2 dozen more experienced politicians (and Carly Fiorina and Dr Ben Carson) to win the Republican nomination.  If you go back to the first debate, there were at least 15 guys on that stage that were better prepared to lead the nation.  Anybody that argues any differently is probably not worth debating. 
Here's my opinion. I was surprised when the Dems selected Obama in 08 with so limited qualifications.  I was flabbergasted in 2012 when he was re-elected despite really accomplishing nothing except speeding up the implosion of the healthcare system.  I really felt like the Ds had harnessed the "stupid" vote and would continue to get re-elected over and over again.  The Rs proved in 2016 that the Ds haven't locked up the uninformed vote just yet. 
The scary part is that I'm afraid it's a trend and we can only expect more of the same.  You go from somebody like Bill Clinton (first to have NOT served in the military, but played a decent sax) to GWB who was a great guy but honestly probably not the best Commander in Chief we've ever had, to the coolest pres ever in Obama, to Trump.  The next step is gonna be a big one, and I'll be surprised if it isn't a cross-dressing wanna-be punk rocker from El Paso or some other whack-a-doodle who spouts off all of the benefits of socialism... like our fathers and grandfathers didn't fight wars (hot and cold) to stop it in the last 50 years. 
 
 

Ah, yes, that's what we needed, another experienced politician.
I'm sure with all their experience they would have picked better SCJs, renegotiated NAFTA better, given us better across the board tax cuts, cut many more Obama era regulations, and gotten the economy jump-started much better than Trump has.
Yes, I'm sure that's it, we need a seasoned GOP candidate that would have done a much better job...just ask the GOP, they'll tell you.

Trump beat out something like 2 dozen more experienced politicians (and Carly Fiorina and Dr Ben Carson) to win the Republican nomination.  If you go back to the first debate, there were at least 15 guys on that stage that were better prepared to lead the nation.  Anybody that argues any differently is probably not worth debating. 
Here's my opinion. I was surprised when the Dems selected Obama in 08 with so limited qualifications.  I was flabbergasted in 2012 when he was re-elected despite really accomplishing nothing except speeding up the implosion of the healthcare system.  I really felt like the Ds had harnessed the "stupid" vote and would continue to get re-elected over and over again.  The Rs proved in 2016 that the Ds haven't locked up the uninformed vote just yet. 
The scary part is that I'm afraid it's a trend and we can only expect more of the same.  You go from somebody like Bill Clinton (first to have NOT served in the military, but played a decent sax) to GWB who was a great guy but honestly probably not the best Commander in Chief we've ever had, to the coolest pres ever in Obama, to Trump.  The next step is gonna be a big one, and I'll be surprised if it isn't a cross-dressing wanna-be punk rocker from El Paso or some other whack-a-doodle who spouts off all of the benefits of socialism... like our fathers and grandfathers didn't fight wars (hot and cold) to stop it in the last 50 years. 
 
 

Thank you.

I agree... Whether or not Joe Wilson was right in his assessment, he should have kept it to himself.  That's not the time or place. 

Not exactly.... he is the nationally elected leader of the executive branch.  She is just one of 435 Representative from the House that was selected by her fellow reps to lead the house.  In short, she was elected by however people voted for her ONLY in her district, plus the reps in congress that voted for her. 
She's technically the third person in the chain of succession behind the VP.  But definitely not equal in stature to the sitting president. 

Yeah... you’re totally incorrect about that. The incident was in the spring of 2017... the tweet thing was from the 2016 game between BC and WOS. The kid that got hurt was from OF. And FYI, most of the kids from WOS (including the young man who was actually mocked in that tweet) were in the BC stands for our game against Silsbee a few weeks later... that whole situation was long since over and unrelated to the fight at the beach. 
And I guess I could also say that some of the young men from WOS (I think there were two still in school that spring) also might have gotten stuck paying the price for the group THEY were with.  
 

That game had nothing to do with what happened 

Lol.   It wasn't the league that kept scoring on the Saints D. And that ball wasn't catchable anyways. If you couldn't put the RAMS away in your own home, you don't deserve to go to ATL. 
Jeez... what a buncha babies.

I know that Dubois is the Slot-t guru but I have a hard time believing that BC is better suited for a more spread or even a I  formation team. Their success came from misdirection and aggressiveness. They don't really have the kinda of athletes that will just line up and be better that you. Thats why the misdirection was perfect for them. Forced teams with better athletes to play a discipline type of defense and then BC would just punch you in the mouth. I really enjoyed watching their offence. 

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