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I was about to start another thread about this. Canada on August 1: “Oh yeah, Trump is imposing tariffs on us!? We will retaliate with a 25% tariff on US goods. That’ll show them!!” 3 weeks later… Canada: “Okay, we will drop our tarrifs.” 😎 I said it months ago about the trade imbalance. Canada has about 20% of its GDP coming from exports to the US and for Mexico it’s maybe 35% with much more reliant on Mexicans working in the US and sending money home. Mexico would likely crumble if trade to the US was halted. They can play hardball if they want or they can negotiate with Trump.

I am assuming that the Nederland first team offense played for one quarter against the WB first team defense. Then they swapped. The second teams came on and did the same. Then the one quarter game conditions… kind of. If that’s what I watched, only the WB second team obviously had more depth. What I am assuming were the first teams played fairly even although it was so highly regulated it was hard to tell. It seemed like anyone within about 5 feet of the quarterback was considered a tackle but they called it for both teams. It is better to be safe in a practice.

They kicked extra points so 7-7.

So possibly lose a quarter of a million dollars in state funding for a very small district in order to go to a lower football classification?

According to the article it’s not the score but a campus that has had an F for 5 consecutive years. It was more like 8-9 years but they got the covid exemption. So for almost a decade they have a school not meeting the minimum standard.

What does DOGE have to do with fighting crime? You could be the most frugal person, but how do you deal with law enforcement, firefighting in the military? We can save many trillions of dollars every decade by simply doing a way with those three groups or simply cutting them in half. If that’s your solution, great.

And a caveat, certainly one of the options is to merely allow BISD to close a campus or campus. Okay, where do the students go? Do other nearby campuses have the capacity.?

Either shut down a school(s) or we are taking over…… again. Like Yogi said, something like, this feels like Déjà Vu all over again. 🤣 So for the second time in recent history, it looks like the TEA is going to come in and kick the BISD school board out. Interesting in the article is where it mentions BISD hiring an outside company to operate several failing schools. Is it just me or does it seem odd that you elect and pay the school board to run the school district and part of that duty is to hire trained school officials to run the schools from the superintendent, principals, counselors, teachers, etc. BISD’s response , let’s hire a company to run our schools! I am going to guess that many of those school officials are being paid handsomely…. to let a company run them?

I believe that was what he was referring to, enrolling at SPISD and withdrawing from PAISD. There are four schools districts inside the boundaries of the Port Arthur city limits. I don’t know about now, but Sabine Pass used to run a couple of school buses up to the Intercoastal Canal Bridge in the mornings and afternoons to pick up PAISD student transfers in order to keep parents from driving all the way down there and back every day.

Depending on what you mean, that is part of “circumstances”.

I don’t know about this claimed state of emergency but I suspect that it frees up funding that she wants to get her hands on. I do think the woman is a nut case and extremist. She suspended Second Amendment rights in a couple of counties because of an “emergency”. Like, I don’t like guns in private hands so I will just declare an emergency. I didn’t take long for that silliness to be slapped down by a federal judge. Maybe interesting, a Biden appointed federal judge ruled on the case. Although this case is not a gun issue, her prior using of an emergency declaration to curtail fundamental rights should bring questions into her actions. It seems like her trump card (NPI) when things don’t go her way is to declare an emergency.

Public profanity or abusive language can be a crime or it can be protected speech. It depends on the location, people in the area and what was said. The exact same words can be both protected or a crime depending on circumstances.

Well, if it didn’t happen to me, it must be false. 🤣🤣🤣 That’s the Ostrich Effect.

Two billionaire brats. Shocking!! I don’t care about personalities, I am not looking for legal scholars and if I want religion I will seek out fellowship at a church. I care about the economy, right to bear arms, heavily regulated immigration laws, etc.

Exactly. A majority in the Senate requires 60 votes to end the filibuster and allow a bill to come up for a vote. It only takes 51 votes to win an issue but 60 to allow the vote. In the House where there is no filibuster and limited time to debate, a one vote majority is actually a majority because the opposition can’t stop a vote. In the Senate the Republicans (or Democrats) could have a huge 59 - 41 advantage and yet can’t pass a bill without support from the opposition. In the House if one party has 218 representatives, leaving the other party with 217, they have an effective majority of in order to allow a vote. In the Senate an effective majority is 60 in order to allow a vote. So when I see comments on, “why don’t we just pass a law”, the answer is that they can’t without at least some bipartisan support from the opposition. They don’t have the required 60 vote majority.

But the Republicans don’t have the majority in the Senate.

…. and gerrymandering.

At the end of September it looks like PBS will be shutting the doors and ending their broadcasting.

Annual inflation rates from Trump’s first term: 2017 2.1%% 2018 2.4% 2019 1.8% 2020 1.2% Annual inflation rates of four years under Biden: 2021 7.0% 2022 6.5% 2023 3.4% 2024 2.9% Annual inflation rate for six months under Trump: 2025 2.7% Let me know when you’ve got something…..

Better hurry up and say what you feel quickly. According to Biden (or his Puppetmasters), Trump is dismantling the Constitution. 😎

Except when you can’t define a woman because you’re not a biologist… 🤣🤣🤣

Are y’all that blind? Who doesn’t associate smoking hot women advertising in the free market with the slaughtering of millions of people based on race and religion??? ….. and they wonder why they are doing so poorly in the polls. 🤣🤣🤣

Sure they have and more than once. You just don’t like the answer. They might overturn or clarify earlier rulings but they most definitely have ruled. I have posted this more than once but in Elk v Wilkins the Supreme Court ruled that a Native American Indian born in Montana on US soil, was not an American citizen. Even though born in the US, Elk was not a citizen because he was a Native American and owed his allegiance to another country, that of the Winnebago Indians. Elk later moved to Nebraska and registered to vote. He was denied as he was not a US citizen. Elk surd claiming that because of the Fourteenth Amendment and he was born on US soil (as a Native American no less), he was a citizen. Elk even renounced any allegiance to the Winnebago Nation. The Supreme Court said that it doesn’t matter, you are not an American citizen. It was such a landmark ruling that 40 years later, the US Congress enacted a federal law, under their constitutional authority, giving American Indians citizenship at birth. The Fourteenth Amendment did not so it took an act of Congress to make Native Americans, Americans. Even today Native Americans have sovereignty on reservations as independent nations. They can have their own laws and courts outside control of US law and hold jurisdiction over Native Americans who are on reservation land. In Wong Kim Ark the Supreme Court ruled that a child born on US soil to two Chinese citizens was an American at birth but his parents were lawfully in the US. So while you have the right not to agree with the Supreme Court, they most definitely have ruled. Just like Plessy v. Ferguson which upheld separate but equal laws on race was later overturned by Brown v Board of Education and Roe v. Wade upholding abortion rights was later overturned by Dobbs v. Jackson WHO, the Supreme Court could in an upcoming decision overturn Elk and clarify Wong Kim Ark I made exactly that prediction in this forum weeks ago. The Supreme Court would take the case and essentially modify Wong Kim Ark and declare a person born on US soil has birthright citizenship. To say that the Supreme Court hasn’t ruled is simply not correct.

The Supreme Court has a different opinion.

Only if his mother was an illegal alien. Did she sneak into this country?