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- Bad Deputy: "WEATHERFORD -- A former Parker County sheriff's deputy accused of stealing from a memorial fund set up for the family of a fellow deputy has been indicted on felony theft charges." Good grief, man.
- Sometimes I think the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office is nuts: They've ruled as a homicide a guy who had a seizure and fell off of a stool in his home. Homicide? Well, he did receive a gunshot wound 26 years ago so the two are obviously related, says the ME.
- Someone noted a two year old sign on a vending machine at the Decatur ISD multi-purpose building. They made the reference that it showed "passive aggressiveness."
- Ticket Fans: Did you catch 1920s Reporter Guy asking Laker's coach Phil Jackson a final question at his press conference yesterday?
- Driving through Grapevine on 114 causes me white knuckles. I hate it when there the shoulder is taken away by a concrete barriers.
- I started off Mother's Day in pretty good standing but got a "You do realize it's Mother's Day all day long?" when I issued a Piddling Alert later on in the morning.
- Really don't know about the cheerleading issue over at Bridgeport High but it's gone public based upon a Special Agenda that's been posted. (pdf) Edit: Keep away from personal attacks, please. We all know Texas cheerleading is a hot button.
- WBAP's Steve Lamb on the Rangers game yesterday, "You don't see a Grand Slam very often." Yeah, if you consider at least 120 or more a year in MLB "not very often."
- The best documentary ever on the background of 9/11 is National Geographic's "Inside 9/11". I watched a part of again this weekend and my ears perked when I heard the main culprit in the first Trade Center attack, Ramzi Yousef, was captured in Islamabad, Pakistan in a house owned by Bin Laden in 1995. No wonder we were looking for Bin Laden in that area.
- If Bin Laden hadn't been found in the raid last week, I guess we would have never heard about it. And if Pakistan did make news of the raid public, I suppose we would deny it. Which begs the question: I wonder how many raids we had conducted where Bin Laden was not found?
- Heard on the radio: Was there really much of a difference between Bin Laden's home and a prison?
- Awkward moment on Fox 4 News this morning when they flashed a picture up of two of the crew members at Mayfast with a random person between them. Anchor Lauren Przybyl quipped, "That poor man in the middle!" It was awkward because that was not a guy.
- More proof we're doomed: Philadelphia police release video in an effort to find those involved in parking lot assault. Man, there's one guy who is a complete goon.
- Found myself cutting out those hair tie thingys out of the Second Grader In The House's hair after she went swimming. Her ponytails were in "knots", she said, and it seemed like necessary emergency action.
101 comments:
Not a bad pic, but the claw with the orange fingernails kinda freaks me out.
Is the cheerleading mess based on some of the, how do I say this, uppity ones having a fit because they haven't kept their grades up to par and got booted from the squad?
Okay, someone outline the details of the Bport cheerleading issue.
Awww, man! Why'd you hafta bring up the cheer thing? They've already been inserting it into every thread, and now you've officially opened the can of worms. We'll never hear the end of it, even after the end of it.
Hey cheer moms: As Bill Parcells once famously noted, "Just show me the baby. I don't want to hear all the details of the birth." Figure out your little problem and let us know the results.
What's the big deal if there are 127 or so cheerleaders on the sidelines? Maybe it'll increase my chances of catching a t-shirt or mini-football
Not much of a basketball fan, but I am fairly pleased with myself for taking a mild interest in the Mavs' sweep of the Lakers
Minor headline in today's posted front page: "US says it wants access to bin Laden widows"
"How much for the women? I want to buy your women...sell them to me."
Triple Fake Joliet Jake
It's true, you don't often see grand slams. Just because there are 120 hit in an average season, it's kind of hard to be in that particular stadium at that particular game to see it. I've been to maybe 30 or 40 random Rangers games in the past 20 years; have never seen a grand slam.
woof woof.... where you finding these
dogs lately....
Today's random thoughts are so lame, I refuse to comment
Good grief do you cheer parents not have a life! It's not gonna kill Susie to share the sideline with Betsy! Get over it already!
Bacon Scale
1 out of 5
She is ok
Look at the names of the Bridgeport cheer parent on the meeting agenda, enough said.
Good thing you're not a statistician because backing up your dig at Steve Lamb with trivia from the first month of the 2009 season is weak cheese. I agree that Steve Lamb is just as big of a sports idiot as Richie Whitt but you don't have to be one either. Take your 120 grand slams and divide it by 2,430 games and you get about a 5 percent chance of seeing a grand slam. Not rare at all.
Just for kicks, look at the anomaly of the 2000 season which came three years after expansion and at the height of the PED era, how will the sabremetricians and baseball historians sort this out?
That is all. Keep up the good work.
Cheerleading should be done away with and Pep squads only. IT's the same thing with GT programs,status for Moma's and their baby's.
Oh please parents, post the truth about the latest cheerleading fiasco and how the BISD administrators couldn't even come up with the correct way of handling this situation if the instructions were written on the bottom of their boots filled with pi$$.
Seems like they raised the standards to make the squad, agreed to it, voted on it, made it the gospel. But then several Miss Suzie Q's didn't make it so their fat mommas got all up in arms and complained. The BISD administrators wussed out and reverted to "all get to make it". Now the legitimate winners have to share the squad with a bunch of losers with pushing, whiny, bitchy mommas.
Come on Bridgeport, vote these trustees out of office next time.
Re chances of seeing a grand slam; 30 teams, 162 games, 120 grand slams each year... 120 / (162 x 15) = 4.9% of seeing one if you watched every game played. Obviously it goes way down because you can't watch every game.
Re cheerleading: I believe they changed the rules this year for making the team. Scoring for try outs included a category for grades. As got more points than Bs, etc. Seems silly. You don't get a starting spot on the football or baseball team because you had better grades than someone else. Everyone has to pass and then it should be performance. Seems very odd how the competition rules were changed this year. #shrugs
Maybe it's because David was a family friend, but I say good for the TCME!!!!! I hope they really do something about it.
What about that little loud mouthed neegra girl that was causing trouble down at Subway?! What was the outcome of that??
Way back when in Bridgeport one cheerleader per class was chosen the freshmen year and was kept throughout high school because the school couldn't afford a new uniform every year! All the other girls were in the pep squad or in the band. And some poor kids made it while the "upper class" kids didn't.
Kids will survive not being the outstanding running back or the varisty cheerleader.
Sorry, Mr. Honcho. But if you watched every game you would have a 100% chance of seeing a grand slam.
To break it down further than the 4.9% of games having a grand slam, consider the number of at-bats: 131,220 minimum per year (if no one reaches base) with only 120 of them being grand slams. That means that less than .09% of at-bats result in a grand slam. And you had better not be in the restroom when it happens.
-Fake Stephen Hawking
10:07 Sticks and Stones my break my bones, but words will never hurt me.... you are a joke!
You have no clue what you are even talking about....
Shame on you.
Can you have a contest or competition and make sure it's fair if you already have 25% of the results 60+ days before the actual tryout.
The answer is of course not!
Shame on you BISD for allowing this to be done to these girls in the first place.
It gets worse, when you alter that 25% because a group of momas don't want their baby's spanish grade to count.....
Well then you get 26 cheerleaders!
DEAL WITH IT!
GOOD JOB BISD BOARD!
Hey dipwad, there is not a post @ 10:07.
10:07??? Huh???
Apparently you have no clue.
Another way of looking at the Grand Salami thing...
There are 30 stadiums in MLB and 120 Grandslams per year.
120/30 = 4 Grandslams per stadium per season on average.
Double Fake Babe Ruth
Looks like to me 10:33 got your attention....lol
I think Bridgeport has a very good school board that has done a great job dealing with finances during some really difficult times. As far as I know not one teacher is losing their job and even managed to get the additions to the schools done too! Some very good business people!
Cheerleading should be treated like any sport-only the best should make the squad and grades should not factor in unless a student is failing. (i.e.) no pass no play!! It should be based on 25% student body voting 25%teacher voting and 50% outside judging (which judges on skill)
12 varsity (juniors and seniors) and 12 JV cheerleaders (freshmen and sophmores)
Varsity cheers at only varsity functions and JV cheers at the rest
TA-DA prob solved
I've been to maybe 30 or 40 random Rangers games in the past 20 years; have never seen a grand slam.
I identified the problem for you.
Cheerleading is a fake sport any damned way. Don't need 'em....
cheerleading summary: a new consitituion was voted in this year which included grades as part of the overall score during tryouts, issue is not if grades should be inlcuded but should you change the rules right before tryouts that include past performance that those trying out did not know were going to be part of the qualifications. In the end a bunch of girls who had been cheerleaders but may not have had the best grades did not make the squad, additional issues in this have to do with many freshman making the varsity squad therby bumping some seniors off the squad by proxy. So complaints were filed and BOOM, now you have one squad for all teams, 26 girls cheering freshman, jv, and varsity games
My opinion: grades should matter but dont change the rules before tryouts, freshman should only be on a freshman squad, sophmores should only be on a JV squad, JR's and Seniors should compete for varisty squad, oh and the judges should always be impartial, never a friend of the sponsor or the girls, and finally.. dont make Cheer Dynamics part of the requirements if you make the squad.
I just want to say thank you to the BISD board that had the guts to fix this issue. It was not fair from the start and you did the only thing you could do.
Again, I only know the kids involved, don't have any ax to grind, but fair means fair for everyone!
When do you think they should change the rules?
I heard that little niglet girl (Subway incident) got beat up...
Has Tom Bishop ever actually landed an Airplane or somethin?
12:52 Good question! Change the rules before tryouts if you need to, but don't count grades that the kidos had no idea were counting last semester. If they wanted grades to count should have told the girls that and how they would be counted at the beginning of the school year.
Done!
Next CASE!
How to count the grades was changed from the parent meeting to the tryouts. Went from use grades in all classes to some classes, from point system to actual grades, and AP was extra and then not extra, and Pre Ap was extra even though its not AP. Do you see the issue more clearly now.....
The school board figured it out pretty quickly.
I think tryouts should be reheld with an unbiased team of judges, possibly MSU cheerleaders, to determine the squads. All girls should have passing grades at the time of the initial tryouts and girls should be picked according to their cheer/atletic ability. Freshman/Sophmores on JV and Juniors and Seniors on Varsity. No teachers, mothers, sponsors or peers involved.
Amen 1:45 Its easy to see if people would just open their eyes. The issue is fixing to get a lot worse,after these cry baby parents go before the school board and screw it up for all the girls.I have a lot of money and your making my daugher cry.So fix it before I own this school.
So what are you saying 1:45? Kids who want to be a cheerleader are only going to improve their grades in order to become a cheerleader instead of maintaining good grades at all times to simply better their education?
Why go thru the trouble of using a drama filled activity like cheerleading to make the kids keep good grades? Why not just put something on the end of stick and wave it from time to time in front of the kid while saying, “Looky here __________, if you keep your grades up, you can have this ______ on this stick”?
Seems like a lot less trouble if you ask me.
why the f do you have to have a certain "grade" to particpate? their parents pay school taxes so they should get to be a cheerleader if they want. no tryouts - just get out there and have fun. same for other sports too. quit taking this high school sports sh*t seriously. and dont feed me this "theyre in school for education first, extracurricular activities second" crap. we all know how terrible our public education system is to begin with.
Congrats to all the young ladies that made cheerleader. Way to come in strong freshman class.
There have been at least one case case where an assault charge went to murder years after the attack from an infection incurred in a nursing home- he wouldn't have got the infection from being in a vegetative state if some dude hadn't worked him over with a tire tool so an ag assault charge went to murder.
I can see a seizure disorder that was the result of an assault causing the death of the victim leading to a homicide ruling.
2:04, how in the heck can you say that it is going to get worse after tomorrow night? These parents are the parents of the girls that did make the grades and were chosen by the judges. Why are they cry-babies? This would not have been an issue if some of the parents, who live vicariously thru their children, had not caused a problem because their senior daughter wasn't quite good enough to make the cheerleading team. Very proud of the girls that were first selected as JV and varsity cheerleaders in the initial, offical tryouts. And God Bless the parents of the girls that have caused this mess in the first place.
Do the kids really care.....or is this a case of parents living through their kids
2:10
You just lost your job, sorry but we have decided to take 30 minute lunch breaks instead of 45. For the last 10 years it's been 45, but last month we changed it and we forgot to send you the memo. I know it doesn't seem like a big deal, but that's the rules and we can change them anytime we want.
We don't have to tell you either, you should have eaten a little faster and been more productive...this is really your own doing.
YOU GET THE PICTURE NOW!
You can't use those classes to score her that way.My daugher is in 8TH grade. Thats not fair for her. You must use the classes we want you to so she can make varsity. I'm going to the school board and ask DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE DEALING WITH? You better fix this or else?
to 3:18pm sounds like you have a senior daughter that did not make the cut due the the 8th grade girls that did.
Hey 3:07 if you want to be proud of someone be proud of the cheer coach. She is the one who listened to the eighth grade parents about not using some classes,but using others so little miss perfect can be a four year varsity cheerleader.( WE have money so we want everything else to )
3:17
I don't have a dog in this hunt (no pun intended), but, you are talking apples and oranges.
3:17 Hello? If my employer wants to change the lunch time then so be it. It's their company to do with whatever they like. DUH
Can we do some blog comment fighting... like:
2:10 (sucker punch to right ear)! 3:18 (judo kick to jimmy)
2:04 (roundhouse kick to rolex)
3:11 (I ain't messing with you)
I feel much better now!
2 things:
Some of you keep harping on grades.... So take the grades out and see who still makes the cut.
Some of you insinuate that the new rules were dragged out at the last minute.
I understand there were several weeks between the rules presentation and the try out.
Funny that it wasn't until after the fact that (that suzie didn't make the squad) that these complaints are being voiced.
What's sad is that now, whatever the outcome, the district spirit suffers. I hope I'm wrong about that.
3:43, that whooshing sound you heard was a joke flying over your head.
or was the whooshing sound of a senior getting scholled by an 8th grader.
I have watched these four Freshman cheerleaders and there are two who could be on Varsity, the other two - NO! I am sorry, but on Friday Nights we are looking for cheerLEADERS to pump up the crowd, which in turn pumps up the team. We are not sitting in the bleachers wanting to know whose grades are the highest? No Pass/No Play is the rule. Let that be the rule. Like I said there are two Freshman that are Loud, Spirited and can Tumble like no other ... but none of the four are All-Star Cheerleaders!
OMG people, the parents raising cane about their kids cheerleading is usually the same parents that are supplying their underage kids and their kids friends alcohol so the parents can be cool parents, or buying their kids a chance to kick the ball at half time by purchasing all the tickets just for bragging rights. Stop trying to be your kids friend and be a parent instead of trying to relive your youth. I fear you parents that do this will see a sad result from your parenting skills.
So what are the people whose names on the .pdf complaining about?
but on Friday Nights we are looking for cheerLEADERS to pump up the crowd, which in turn pumps up the team
Sorry, but the players don't give a damn about the crowd. Or the cheerleaders, except to get blown or bounce up and down on them after the game. No real football player even hears the crowd.
Rage
4:51
That's what I'd like to know.
Rage...if no football player ever hears the crowd why do they spend so much time waving their arms to try to get the home crowds riled before a big play? You might want to put a little more thought into that comment!
In Texas, cheerleading is serious business. Remember the cheerleader mom down close to Houston who put out the hit contract on the mother of her daughter's main competition? Man, that is serious cheerleader moxie. Never cross a cheerleader's mom.
My Other Brother Darryl
They don't want their kids to have to share varsity cheerleading with 25 other kids.
They want the "new constitution" back that has got to be the most laughable document every written.
RAH RAH REE KICK EM IN THE KNEE! RAH RAH RASS KICK EM IN THE OTHER KNEE! GO BULLS!
if no football player ever hears the crowd
I said real football player. Not attention whores or bench warmers.
I doubt if Wise County has a single one.
Rage
5:30
You said it!! They don't want to share the "spotlight" with the other girls. To me it's saying that those other girls aren't quite good enough to cheer with their daughters. When in fact these are the same girls that would have been cheering with them before the numbers were cut down so low.
And really, do we think the board is going to change their mind when these parents get there tomorrow night? They would look pretty foolish then, just sayin.
They are kids they can adjust to anything. Just accept it and go on. The girls will make the best of the situation. That is if we can get these parents out of it.
I bet there are a few people on that special agenda that wish there names were not posted on this blog for everyone to see.Now thats funny right there.I don't care who you are.HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA.Maybe this is good to get there names out. So the everyone can see who's complaining.HAAAAA HAAAAA
Wow, a bunch of Freshman Parents that are threatening to quit if they don't get their way.
I would say don't let the door hit ya on the way out!
7:42, you have it all wrong. Those parents aren't afraid to have their names on the agenda, they are just wanting to know why there were rules that are not being followed. Each student and her parents signed on knowing the rules and how things were going to be. The parents on this list are proud parents of the girls that actually made the original cut for cheerleader. Why weren't the names of the parents that were upset because their daughters didn't make the cut and had an audience with the abbreviated school board last week, released to the public. Fair is fair, let's get all the names out there so we all know the other parents who weren't happy because their daughters DIDN'T make the first cut!
7:32.
Even if they are kids that doesn't mean they have to accept everything! They have a right to their opinions too.
The girls who made the squad have every right to go up to the school board because the earned their spots by working hard not by complaining.
The 3 girls who did not make it were the ones that should have "accepted it!!!!" not the ones who actually have a spot.
But now theirs 26 cheerleaders!!! Make a walk on squad, why don't ya?
Rage, many real football players at the college and pro level obviously hear the crowd, and do some of their own cheerleading to get the crowd going. See it all the time in highschool as well from the better players. Never been a fan of it myself, but your point that "real" football players do not hear the crowd is purely absurd! Your ignorance about the sport is glaring!
Not sure why you make it personal about Wise County?
Heard of Ray Lewis much?
Cheerleading is a worthless effort anyway. I don't understand why anyone cares or why anyone would want to be one. What a bunch of drama mommas.
7:42
All names are public as well as all school board notices. It's all on the BISD web page under school board.
I bet the board does what the deep pocket parents want,just saying.
I don't think it's right, but that's how it works in B-Town
I get so tired of people talking about basically the "name brand" parents and children. If you want to be someone, get off your butt and do something about it. Be someone, make something of yourself, make some money!
The fact is that the rules were made, the kids & parents knew the rules and even signed a piece of paper stating that. Everyone was ok with it until the results came out and little Susie didn't make it. Life sucks sometimes and these kids have to learn that they don't get to make everything they try out for. You should learn from it and try harder next year. Your kids shouldn't just want to make good grades so they can make cheerleading, they should want to make good grades to make something of themselves! What are you teaching your kids???
By the way...don't we have bigger problems in our school to worry about??? What about drugs, sex, bullying and everything else that is going on? Priorities people!!!
Good luck to the parents tonight! Your girls made the squad & deserve to be on there and not share it with 26 girls!
11:36 are you speaking for the group tonite or is the Mrs.?
2:44 I wish I was because I have several things I would like to say but none of my family will be attending the meeting tonight. No cheerleaders in this family.
Come on cheer parents, quit posting anonymous. Make this more interesting.
BISD Cheerleaders -- grades should matter, freshman should only be on a freshman squad, sophmores should only be on a JV squad, JR's and Seniors should compete for varisty squad, oh and the judges should always be impartial, never a friend of the sponsor or the girls, and finally.. dont make Cheer Dynamics part of the requirements if you make the squad. HOWEVER -- it will be nice to see cheerleaders that actually cheer, not talk to their friends, snub the kids they do not like, get the fans involved AND resepect each other!
Thank God I have a son and don't have to worry about cheerleading!
So does Liberally Lean have someone covering the B'port schoolboard meeting?
Well the School Board has reversed their decision from last week admitting they made a mistake going against the school administration. They didnt have all the facts and now that they do, its an easy decision. They reinstated the new constitution and made the original 10 + 2 girls the varsity squad. At least they got something right! If cheerleading is that important to The other girls though, they do have the opprotunity to be on the JV squad.
Justice has finally been served. Great job BISD School board. It took two times but you finally got it right.
We have a ruling. Money does talk. The board reversed their previous decision.
You know funny thing is there are girls on the varsity squad who really didn't earn a spot. They are only on their because scores were messed up from the start. Those parents should teach their daughters lessons by stepping up and doing the right thing. Instead they are going to the board to make sure no one blocks the view of their baby on Friday night.
Just like I posted last year. It was started a year ago. When a Cheerling coach changed the rules to allow her daughter to be on Varsity Squad. So Bridgeport has a bunch of poltics watching out for school board buddies.
6:14 Well you wouldn't have ever been a cheerleader for BISD because according to your post, you cant spell!!
Was the entire constitution put back in place? Or just the parts these parents like? Look out high school, the 8th grade parents are on the way!!
Cheerleading at Bport is a joke. Even more so now! Good job parents - you might have played one on the board, but the students are a different story!
The original constitution said 10 on varsity 8 on JV but of course they are only going to see and hear what they want to. They didnt mind telling these girls last night oh never mind you are not on varsity so why are we not going back and reevaluationg the scores and moving off the girls who didn't earn it in the first place. We would only have 10 on varsity if scoring had been done right in the first place. Bet that wasnt brought up last night.
Yes, the 8th grade parents are on their way and no one is safe! Just ask the basketball coach they got fired this year ..........
I don't understand all the comments about the 8th grade parents, what have they done?
9:13 they got a basketball coach fired? They do have power! Couldn't pay me to be a cheerleader at BHS after all of this.
It is quite simply amazing how dumb people, without a clue of the truth, get on here and broadcast their dumbness to everyone who can read.
Eighth grade coach firing....
She got herself fired for sitting down everyday during practice and using a bullhorn to communicate with her students. She was simply too lazy to get on the court, oh unless her boss happened to show up.
Cheerleading...
The rule changes were discuss, the rules changes were voted on, everyone knew about the rule changes, everyone competed with the new rules applied.
Now several Susie Q's didn't make it so their mothers got all up in arms and went to the school board who, without having all the facts, ruled in the mother's favor. Now other parents whose kids competed fairly and won a cheerleading spot fairly, simply pledge their case. The school board, now armed with the whole truth, ruled back to keep the original results of the fair evaluation. It has nothing to do with 8th graders, except some of those 8th graders scored better than Susie Q did.
I know this is hard for those mommas to accept. But it is the correct way to handle it.
Educate yourselves.
Or shut up.
10:26 - so who was the "little group" that raised so much cane about the coach, wasnt a petition involved?? Oh ... it was this same group!!! Coincidence .. I think not! Don't worry ... you guys have the next four years in the bag!!
Doesn't one of our School Board Members kids go to Paradise? Shouldn't it be a rule that your kids have to attend BISD if you sit on the board ... what is up with that?
10:26
The word is SOME of them scored higher meaning they didn't EARN a spot on Varsity. Get your facts straight. Funny how the board didn't see those facts.
You're correct, SOME equals the 10 that made it, not the 16 that didn't.
Anything else STUPID to say???
OR did the Board Members change their ruling because one of the 8th grade parents caused such a scene at a Board Members place of business! Go into a man's business and cause a scene, a sick man at that - that is classy!
11:18
If you can read then you will see that 12 are on varsity now. That is because the scores were figured wrong and SOME (meaning 2) of those girls did NOT really make varsity but no one has the guts to tell them they really deserve to be on JV.
11:20 what are you talking about?
Read what you signed stupid.It says there will be 10 on varsity not 12.Now there is 12 not 10.Seems to me stupid,somebody messed up bad stupid.
3:03
You just sound STUPID now!
Stupid
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