Bobcat1

Repeal Dodd-Frank!   Thank you Rubio for finally bringing that up.  
 
Thoughts Hippy?

I just got word that Mrs. Myers passed away this week. The area lost one of it's biggest girls basketball fans. I can remember the Myers girls playing at Lamar and my mom and Mrs. Myers raising the roof at every game. Prayers to the Myers family and to the Orangefield community, you will be missed.

Somebody enlighten me, why do you think is it so important to evangelicals that we label all Islam as evil? Or for that matter, why is it so important to those of that persuasion that somebody, anybody,be evil?
For the longest time, the churches and conservative media railed about godless communism and how it was going to take over the world, if the god-loving peoples of west didn't take a stand. So we let fear mongering politicians and talk radio hosts and empty suits scare everybody in supporting action against the spread of this evil. This fear mongering let to the support by the American people of the wars in Korea and Vietnam, as well as countless other skirmishes and covert actions. All of which were completely pointless. The young men and women who gave their lives in those actions died for a principal that was wrong, trying to stop a threat the didn't exist. At the time, the people who spoke out against these wars were labeled as unpatriotic and discounted. Now we KNOW that they were right...but we are still fighting like hell to make the exact same mistakes.
Communism fades out under its own weight (which it would have anyway) and now we have a new fear mongering tool. Islam! (queue foreboding music). Islam is RADICAL it is SPREADING it is SATANIC and if the good god fearing people's of the west don't do something, it will destroy the world as we know it. And the beat plays on....already two meaningless and never ending wars, undoubtedly more to come, and anybody who speaks up is unpatriotic.
So now every time a Muslim commits a crime, we have morons wanting to wage a war against an entire religion that has billions of followers, hundreds of sects, and practitioners across the spectrum from the barely involved to the violently fanatical. 
I know that you really really really really want to think of yourselves as "the good guys" and in order for that to happen..you need some "bad guys", but real life isn't a movie, as long as you mouth breathers keep pushing and voting for war mongering politicians who care more about being considered "tough" than the lives of Americans, people will continue to die for nothing.
 
So please. Stop.  

@NBCNightlyNews: BREAKING: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) announces he is running for president http://nbcnews.to/1a1lTrl http://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/585436954357063680/photo/1

Buddy, if you run, I want a sign in my yard! Otherwise, I want someone not named Bush or Clinton.
I'd like Rand Paul, but I don't see that happening.

You know, I have my own beliefs that I sometimes care to share and sometimes not so much. It seems these days when people are passionate about something they go to the extreme. Religous folks will make the claim you are going to hell if you don't believe as they do (or as the Bible says - or as they interpret it, or both), Gay people will claim that people that don't support gays or gay marriage are "haters".
 
I was always taught at a young age, you will get more people to listen to you if you talk TO them, not at them or down to them.
 
I would think people would have  figured this out by now.....after all, Christians want everyone to confess their sins, live by their rules so everyone goes to Heaven.....and Gays want acceptance.......
 
anyway, I'll call that thinking out loud.....
 
I apologize for getting off topic.....

BC-3 OF-6. Great game! Two good teams trading shots.

Governor aims to curb religious freedom bill  
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/04/01/arkansas-governor-urges-changes-to-religious-objection-bill/21160312/

It all amounts to this......
If the players are working hard during the off season and all year long on the skills they will need, OF
will be back where they were years ago. In my opinion, Coaching helps but you cant build players in the 
few short months during the HS Season. It is up to the players and parents to get the players in a position
to make a run at State. True talent helps alot and a good coach will attract the talent to get kids to play
and buy into the system but it is all about the off season.....PERIOD.
You could get the best Coach in the world to Coach HS Basketball but if you have no players that have
prepaired themselves for the long road to state, then OF basketball will continue to be what it is.
Nothing against the OF team from this year. It had a bunch of kids with tons of heart and would never
give up but that is only a PART of what  takes to WIN STATE!!
Little Dribblers program and playing in a few off season tournaments help but it takes a HUGE
OFF-SEASON 100% Commitment from the kids!!!

Are both of you done slap-boxing behind keyboards? I suggest both of you PM each other. 

I happen to work in a place that I see a lot of different professions on a daily bases. Today, a pastor walked in and I brought up our topics on religion.
 
What stood out the most in our entire 45 minute conversation was something he said when I ask if Gay people would go to Hell or "Little Johnny", our Buddhist friend from the other thread would go to hell......His response was, "I don't know, I don't judge. It is not in my job description to judge. It is way above my pay grade, I will let the Man upstairs make those decisions. My job is to love my fellow man and let everyone know the word of God."
 
Which brought up Luke 6:37:
 
Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned. 38"Give, and it will be given to you.
 
So, why are some of you condemning Little Johnny? Why are you judging Gays?
 
Is that not above your pay grade?
 
I think those are valid questions and worth a discussion......

Exodus 35:2 Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death

I understand the thinking, but I've known too many homosexuals that have told me differently. And considering how disgusting the idea of homosexual sex is to me, "choosing" to be homosexual would be impossible for me. Could you make that choice? There have also been too many kids that I've known when they were very young, and I could already tell, and then sure enough, 10-15 years later, they turn out to be gay. Our sexuality is the strongest urge we have, and I can't imagine any straight person making a CHOICE to be ostracized by society, shunned by religion, and in general be thought of as a lesser person for the reason of... just because?

Yes, the Republican Party, with all the tens of millions of dollars Republican candidates receive from the major oil companies in every election cycle and the massive number of Republicans who hold office in districts where oil is a major part of the local economy, would be against the Keystone Pipeline if it had simply been the president's idea. That makes total sense.

I had heard that they chose the time to make sure everyone was home from work and all kids home from school.

I know that it is easy spit out that "others did it" but what was the orders under Reagan or Bush that gave blanket amnesty to aliens by declaring their status? 
 
While it is easy to say "others did it" because you read it all over the internet from quips made by Democrats, what was those orders? They never name them. 
 
Congress under Reagan passed a bill that he signed into law, which strangely is the way the Constitution says that it is legal. Again note, Congress passed an immigration law and Reagan signed it. 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Control_Act_of_1986
 
Parts of that law did not specify how to obtain the results and Reagan is reported to have issued orders on how to execute the law passed by Congress and signed by him into law legally.
 
I have been a police officer the entire time that G W Bush was president and also under Obama. When Bush was the president we could detain and bring in any illegal alien for something as minor as a traffic citation. I even arrested some working at chemical plants that had been here for years late in Bush's term and they had not violated any law other than being in the country. When I contacted ICE agents they had me bring them in for deportation. So where was the executive order from Bush stopping enforcing of laws? Again, it is easy to say it because Nancy Pelosi and others have put out this information on the various news channels. But what is it based on? Name the order that Bush gave that stopped deportation of millions of illegal aliens and gave them legal status to stay in the country by coming forward and declaring they were illegal. 
 
Under Obama and even before this executive order we can no longer detain illegal aliens that commit crimes that can land them in jail for up to a year. I can arrest an illegal alien DWI, get him convicted and serve time, arrest his again and have him serve time again and he will not be deported. All the talk is that we are now stopping more than ever at the border which may be true. But if they get past the border, there is no enforcement.  It is like a cop saying that if he catches you in the act of shooting someone he can arrest you but if he finds you two blocks away with gun still in hand, he cannot. That is ridiculous but it is the current rules we are under. It is no wonder that the Obama administration was against of detaining illegal aliens and reporting them to ICE, which by the way the Supreme Court found was legal. 
 
This executive order issued by Obama grants legal status to about half of all illegal aliens. He has no such authority under the Constitution under Article I, Sec. 8 which says all naturalization laws are under the authority of Congress. The exact same Sec. 8 says that Congress can assess taxes. Under Obama's reasoning, he can simply issue an executive order and raise your taxes. He can use the same reasoning, that Congress has not acted and we are running up debt. I have a funny feeling that if he did that from the same section you might feel that it is unconstitutional as the president has no authority to enact legislation but in this case of illegal aliens that is exact what he has done. 
 
What is really revealing in the Supreme Court case of AZ v. US when Arizona passed their own immigration law, the Obama administration contested the law under Sec. 8 saying that only the US Congress could pass naturalization and immigration laws. Hmmm..... when it fit their argument, they used the Constitution saying that only Congress could pass laws but when the Dems just lost the last election, the same administration is making the opposite argument for Obama. Go figure. 

I bought a bird feeder. I hung It on

my back porch and filled it with seed.

What a beauty of a bird feeder it was, as I filled it, lovingly with seed.

Within a week we had hundreds of birds
taking advantage of the continuous flow

of free and easily accessible food.

 

But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table,
and next to the barbecue.

 

Then came the poop. It was

everywhere: on the patio tile,
the chairs, the table...
Everywhere!

 

Then some of the birds turned mean.

They would dive bomb me and try

to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket.

 

And others birds were boisterous and

loud. They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food.

 

After a while, I couldn't even sit on my

own back porch anymore. So I took down the bird feeder and in three days the

birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio.

 

Soon, the back yard was like it used

to be... quiet, serene....
And no one demanding their
rights to a free meal.

 

Now let's see...
Our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care

and free education, and allows anyone
born here to be an automatic
Citizen.

 

Then the illegal's came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly, our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments
are housing 5 families; you have to wait

6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor; your child's second grade class is
behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak English.

 

Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box;

I have to 'press one' to hear my bank
talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than 'Old Glory' are
squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties.

 

Just my opinion, but maybe it's time for

the government to take down the bird feeder.

 

If you agree, pass it on; if not,
just continue cleaning up the poop. 

 

It's good to know that a state still has some input on such issues.  Doesnt seem to be that way for states like Arizona when it comes to law enforcement and immigration issues.

And I think we are both not happy about that.......
 
and Obamacare was named specifically for the increase/decrease.....

Mine increased and coverage dropped - We no longer have a 90/10 plan. 

Both of you, tone down the personal insults.

They won, even without the players that should be on varsity?! Shocking. 

as far as child support.....that right there is a joke....its not enforced enough to scare the payee to actually pay.  a travesty....no real man or woman allows someone else to take care of their kid.

No, I want to quit paying for people that won't pay for their own. 

Orangefield wins 62-43.