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[quote name="VPirate" post="1061065" timestamp="1316508259"] Polls are fine, but I think you have to wait until the 4th or 5th game of district to really get a feel of where these teams are in relation to a playoff run......imo. [/quote] Obviously. If polls were always correct we wouldn't need to play the games. They sure make for interesting conversation though and that is all they are good for. For that, they are excellent.

I didn't know about their strategy but I figured it out. All along I believed that Obama and the Dems idea with health care was to get everyone forced to be on it and once we are all on it, we can't go back. The Cloward-Piven strategy is based roughly on the same thing. Get everyone stuck on the government dime and then no one can get off of it. Of course it will eventually collapse when no one wants to be the provider when everyone is treated the same. It takes the free enterprise system out of it.

It's Piven, not Pevin.  ;D

[quote name="westend1" post="1060039" timestamp="1316380902"] There you go.  In one post you say they could have done it and in the next, you explain why they couldn't do it. [/quote] I see that you missed it so I will try again. The Democrats led by Obama would love to tax everyone at a higher rate and restrict gun ownership. The Republicans and a few conservative leaning Democrats stand in the way. In truth, a couple of western state Democrats stand between gun control and the right to bear arms. The voting records stand for themselves. It would be easy to ignore their intent under the premise that they will lose but that is to be ready for defeat when it is a couple of votes from disaster.

[quote name="westend1" post="1059856" timestamp="1316369561"] [quote author=tvc184 link=topic=87540.msg1059854#msg1059854 date=1316369049] TB does have the ability to ignore the entire picture and take a snippet out of it. How about this one TB, the Democrats had a super majority for two years. There is nothing that the Republicans could do to stop anything that the Democrats wanted to do. What do we have to show for it? They could have pushed tax increases, tax cuts or whatever else they wanted. They did not even want to submit a budget so the public would not see the tiger in its true stripes. [/quote] Could have, but didn't.  so why do Republicans still cry and fret over guns, taxes etc?  Glen Beck has you guys scared of your own shadow. [/quote] I don't watch Glen Beck so you will have to tell me what he is saying. Way before Glen Beck came along, Obama and others of his ilk have wanted to ban firearms and in particular handguns. They have also wanted to raise taxes. The only thing standing in the way is almost every Republican and a few conservative leaning Democrats. Let's not forget Obama saying that if he lived out in the country he could understand owning a gun but needed "common sense" for city dwellers. Obama backed Chicago and their gun ban that flew in the face of the Second Amendment. Let's not forget that only 12 Democrat senators voted for the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 4 Democrats voted for the 2003 tax cuts.  The idea that the Dems are pro tax cuts and pro Second Amendment is laughable. They are brought kicking and screaming but then want to claim support once it passes. The votes don't back up that claimed support.

TB does have the ability to ignore the entire picture and take a snippet out of it. How about this one TB, the Democrats had a super majority for two years. There is nothing that the Republicans could do to stop anything that the Democrats wanted to do. What do we have to show for it? They could have pushed tax increases, tax cuts or whatever else they wanted. They did not even want to submit a budget so the public would not see the tiger in its true stripes.

[quote name="True Blue" post="1059730" timestamp="1316355754"] Bad news for you REPS.  Top 10 Companies Hiring This Week ,  Sears, Chrysler - Mopar , Dollar General , Aflac,  Verizon,BAE Systems,Morgan Stanley,Chipotle,Wells Fargo, Spirit Halloween Superstores. South Texas Enjoys Major Boom From Oil Fracking.  No solid estimate of likely production has been made, but the American Petroleum Institute said the field should yield billions of barrels of oil. The project already supports [color=red]12,600 fulltime jobs,[/color] and by 2020 could account for [color=red]$11.6 billion and nearly 68,000 jobs[/color] in a 24-county area, according to study in February by the University of Texas' Center for Community and Business Research. Thing are getting better, To bad, no gloom and doom [/quote] It's always good when someone is hiring but there has always been someone hiring, even in the worst of times. The problem is losing more jobs than those starting. If we create 20,000 jobs this week but lose 50,000 then we are minus 30,000 jobs for the week. According to government figures, last week alone saw 428,000 new jobless claims and up since the week before which had 417,000 new claims. So in the last two week almost one million people have filed new claims for unemployment. You post information that shows (even if correct) that south Texas is going to create up to 68,000 job BY 2020. The last time I looked, that is 8+ years from now. I am not sure how that is going to help Obama's election chances in 13 months.

[quote name="VPirate" post="1057800" timestamp="1316136075"] [quote author=bigdog link=topic=88038.msg1057789#msg1057789 date=1316134924] All right, this topic is getting way out of hand.  Stay on the topic without the bashing of players or posters or the thread will be locked. [/quote] Go Pirates!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ;D [/quote] Now THAT is out of hand!! ;)

[quote name="LumRaiderFan" post="1057087" timestamp="1316040597"] rip, don't get him started!  ;D I'll just add that big bucks in Texas are nothing new...folks been killing them here long before the 13" rule! OK, I'm done! [/quote] Too late. Yes, I have seen some huge bucks killed in east Texas every year. With the habitat you would think that it would lead the state in trophies but killing a good deer on one lease is not indicative of the area in general. Management is the key but the truth is that a majority in this area are more worried about pulling the trigger than quality. ;D

It works, period. It is not perfect and a good management plan would be better but most of these leases could have gotten a management plan years ago but would rather go by the east Texas, if it's brown, it's down rule. Soon people in east Texas will start taking some nice (not necessarily trophy) deer with some trophies scattered in with them. It beats taking spikes and basket 4 or 6 pointers.

[quote name="bullets13" post="1054616" timestamp="1315730461"] went out tonight, and it wasn't that great.  we probably caught close to 100 specks, but only 4 keepers, although one was a really nice 23 1/2 incher. [/quote] Although I haven't been lately, a couple of guys at work have fished around the channel at night and none have caught a keeper. Plenty of fish but nothing of legal size.

[quote name="True Blue" post="1054494" timestamp="1315707536"] So [size=10pt][b]your trying to say that the fire cheif that gave that report to a national reporter is lieing [/b][/size] but you on a computer hiding behind the screen are telling the Facts and the Truth :o :o [/quote] Yes. And the hiding comment is ludicrous. So go ahead and post your name, address, where you work, etc. Unless of course, True Blue is your given name.

More HuffPo nonsense. Most firefighting is local or volunteer and does not come from the state. The new Texas cuts in the budget have only been in effect for one week as the new budget goes into effect. Any prior lack of equipment as mentioned in the article have nothing to do with this year's budget cuts. I know that our city budget goes into effect October 1st and we will order new vehicles but they will not be delivered until some time next year like in January. Even if our budget is cut, it will not show up for several months because that is the way capital purchases are made. So this year's budget had nothing to do with equipment at the scene or resources. The local fire chief that is complaining about the lack of a budget needs to complain to his city council or county commissioner's court. The political spin doesn't hold up very well to the facts.

But he left off the first part of the article.

[quote name="BLUEDOVE3" post="1052820" timestamp="1315596411"] [quote author=PN-G bamakid link=topic=87540.msg1052816#msg1052816 date=1315596166] [quote author=BLUEDOVE3 link=topic=87540.msg1052806#msg1052806 date=1315595217] LOL! You Repubs are sneaky! Gotta watch you fellas. 80% of the poor had air conditioning. I bet 70% worked for what they owned. [/quote] Just 70%? Shouldn't the other 30% work for it as well? [/quote]Not in our type of system. [size=11pt][b]The system is geared towards having the poor remain below a certain poverty level.[/b][/size] [/quote] I could not have said it better myself. You are correct that the system is geared toward keeping the poor down. Almost to a person they vote Democratic. Ever care to guess why they keep them down with welfare? When you can keep a family living in the same government housing project for 3 generations, you have a built in voting bloc.

I must have missed the news stories of the kids in a predicament on how they are going to die. In fact, I missed the part about any of them burning or freezing to death. I need to read MSNBC more I guess.

[quote name="kicker" post="1052041" timestamp="1315510445"] 1pm update has TS Nate heading right toward us [/quote] What update? I am looking at the 4PM NHC center update and it shows northern Mexico with deep south Texas in the cone of potential tracks.

[quote name="panamamyers" post="1051118" timestamp="1315369418"] Didn't Crosby just beat PNG? [/quote] Yes. And?

[quote name="ABSENT!" post="1047224" timestamp="1314998269"] You guys are something else! Paul/Palin has a better ring to it!  We would call it PeePee since they both believe is Trickle Down Economics! [/quote] Crossing your fingers and hoping for someone that Obama can actually beat is not much of a campaign strategy.

[quote name="True Blue" post="1047203" timestamp="1314997230"] [quote author=tvc184 link=topic=87540.msg1047196#msg1047196 date=1314996951] [quote author=True Blue link=topic=87540.msg1047188#msg1047188 date=1314996765] OK so lets take you facts and say that [size=12pt][b]after the Rep got control in 2010[/b][/size] we can give them the credit for the unemployment being 9% today. seeing in july of 2010 it was 7.5% [/quote] Got control of what? There are the House, the Senate and the president needed to pass a bill into law. The Republicans control 1/3rd of that equation. Exactly what are they in control of? All they can do is stop bills from being passed. They have already pass legislation in the House and it was quickly rejected by the Democrat controlled Senate. I or I would venture to say anyone else has a clue what you are talking about with Republican control. [/quote]You clam that the only reason that the Clinton yrs were good is because the House was under REP control. Now you have control again you wont to blame everything on the Dem white house. [/quote] Control of Congress means both houses. Controlling one just means you can slow down the opposition, not pass laws.

My completely uneducated (well not completely) opinion is that as long as the high pressure area that had had us in a gorilla grip for months stays in place, we won't see much of anything. Even Lee wanted to come toward Texas and got completely turned away. I have seen from some local to national weather people claiming that the dominating high over Texas was due to move as soon as two weeks ago. It just hasn't happened. The EURO had a low south of Sabine Pass a few days ago and Lee heading maybe into central or south Texas. It didn't happen and we are still holding on to the drought.

[quote name="True Blue" post="1047188" timestamp="1314996765"] OK so lets take you facts and say that [size=12pt][b]after the Rep got control in 2010[/b][/size] we can give them the credit for the unemployment being 9% today. seeing in july of 2010 it was 7.5% [/quote] Got control of what? There are the House, the Senate and the president needed to pass a bill into law. The Republicans control 1/3rd of that equation. Exactly what are they in control of? All they can do is stop bills from being passed. They have already pass legislation in the House and it was quickly rejected by the Democrat controlled Senate. I or I would venture to say anyone else has a clue what you are talking about with Republican control.

[quote name="True Blue" post="1047138" timestamp="1314995231"] I know that times or hard and work is short but he took the job from a fool  that drove the country here and he is having to deal with it as he goes, but you give him no credit and all the blame. [/quote] The last time that the Republicans had control of Congress and the presidency was in 2006. When the Republicans lost control of Congress in December 2006, the unemployment was 4.4% and was still at 4.6% when the Democrats won the House. That was after the Clinton recession that Bush took over and almost immediately into 9-11. Within 18 months of 9-11 and the unemployment topped out at 6.2% and then started falling and continued to fall until the Republicans lost control of Congress. Just to make sure that you didn't miss it, the Republican controlled congress has not passed any laws since 2006.

The landfall has shift pretty far east with this area not being impacted at all other than maybe some winds.

[quote name="westend1" post="1047019" timestamp="1314990367"] [quote author=tvc184 link=topic=87540.msg1046999#msg1046999 date=1314989818] The jobs report just came out for August and there were no net jobs created and the lowest total since last September or in other words, the worst economy in the last year. I guess those 4 points coming off the bench aren't working very well. [/quote] Based on 1 months numbers?  Really? [/quote] Yes, really. Have you checked the unemployment figures for the last two years? You seem to want to portray is as really making progress with a one month dip. Try again. And since Obama doesn't want to make any predictions anymore, care to make one yourself? Maybe next month will show a significant gain or maybe the next? Go for it.