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- Am I reading this story in an obscure trade publication correctly? Targa Resources Partners is building a brand new $150 million cryogenic natural gas processing plant in Wise County to begin operation in 2013. Doesn't that mean jobs? Isn't that big news?
- If that was a "National League" type game last night the Rangers were involved in then give me the National League. I'll take 2-1 instead of 9-8 any day of the week.
- The Rangers 9th inning was a string of "oh mys". Kinsler barely getting his hand on the bag when stealing second. Kinsler being held up at third on the ensuing single. Andrus making it to second to eliminate the force on that same single. Then back to back sacrifice flys. It was a clinic.
- Think I had Tired Head when the Three Females In My House told me after the game they were pretty sure three world series games had been played.
- StubHub page for the next three World Series games in Arlington: $410 is the cheapest seat for Saturday although lots of "standing room only" in the $300s.
- From the Update: "The Decatur Economic Development Corp. ["EDC"] agreed Thursday to pick up the tab to ship the EDC’s trade show booth to [the MGM Grande] in Las Vegas in December." That's taxpayer money.
- You would think the U.S. would at least make some objection to the outright murder of Khadafy on the streets of Libya. (Sidenote: How many different ways did you see his name spelled yesterday?)
- And Saddam Hussein was executed in much the same way. Sure, they gave him a trial but it was nothing but a sham. Recall his accusers got to hide behind a curtain and weren't identified.
- So now we've got an unstable Libya, an unstable Egypt, a soon-to-be-very-unstable Iraq, and Syria may not be far behind. There might come a time when we wished for the good ol' days of the Ruthless Dictator.
- I came home to find a fake graveyard in my front law yesterday.
- I haven't been through Grapevine in a while because of the highway construction, but it sounds like a beating. Kind of a related note: First Financial Bank, which has three branches in Wise County, also had a branch in Southlake right by 114. As part of the expansion of the highway, the State took the property for $1.3 million from the bank (after tax.)
- "Don't be surprised now when I say it's more fun for us to play on the ROAD than it is at home. At least the opposing team's fans show up, and the game experience resembles what I dreamed about rather than the pee-wee football experience we have here where it seems only the players' parents are in the stands." -Texas college football player in an op-ed printed in the school newspaper. Wanna guess before you click?
- NBA labor talks have broken down. The start of the season continues to be delayed. Clap.Clap. Clap-Clap-Clap.
- October may be my favorite month.
- Weird headline of the day: "Lewisville Basketball Coach Facing Child Trafficking Charge."
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On December 21 2012 we will all look like Khadafy.
Who gives a $hit how Ku-Daffy was killed? Oh...a liberal would. My bad.
The Random Thought Girls in quality order this week:
Monday (bottom center)
Tuesday
Monday (bottom left)
Monday (top right)
Friday
Monday (top left)
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Check out what the Messkin Prez is accusing the US of...!
http://news.yahoo.com/mexican-president-us-dumping-criminals-border-195654498.html
So what did you find in your back law?
Is the Decatur EDC ran by a bunch of Democrats and or Liberals? Frivolous unwarranted spending seems to be a serious problem with those two parties.
Someone please tell me again why we care about what goes on in Libya or any other country for that matter? And don't throw out the we need to control every country in the world bologna or the fact that they have all those natural resources we need.
Nice Friday RT gal...
"Decatur Main Street director Frieda Hanley agreed to help staff the booth..."
What a sefless act. What a team player. She is SOOOOO giving.
8:54 It's "RUN" not "RAN".
I never knew that I would see eye to eye with the liberal Barry. Today his views on the Middle East are my views.
And who is paying for her trip to Vegas???? TAX PAYERS....
9:16, There will allways be greater and lesser persons than youself.
Rangers notes - even-stevens edition:
~ Great medical advice from Wash during post-game interview, regarding nail-biting games: "Those of you that have bad hearts, watch yourself!"
~ Elvis' flippin' glove-flipping play was awesome! During the replays, it just hangs there forever before Ian ever shows up in the frame
~ This morning Junior Miller said he would rather see close low-scoring games, like the last two, over slugfests (like your "I'll take 2-1 instead of 9-8..."). Huh? Did he/you forget it's the Rangers playing? Their lineup is loaded with hitters. The ones that don't hit homers are great contact hitters that come through in the clutch. The philosophy has changed over the last few years, but I'll still take the bats over pitching to win any day. Years from now, I want to recollect how (X player) hit that HR in the Series, not how all those players struck out. Unless it's a no-hitter or perfect game...different story
Good old days of the Ruthless Dictator:
Al Davis...dead!
Steinbrenner...dead!
Tom Hicks...well, not dead - but overthrown, which is as good as
Triple Fake Sports Blutarsky
For a free trip to Vegas I would step up and man the booth also...
"So now we've got an unstable Libya, an unstable Egypt, a soon-to-be-very-unstable Iraq, and Syria may not be far behind. There might come a time when we wished for the good ol' days of the Ruthless Dictator."
A few hundred years ago we had a very unstable America, more recently on several occasions we had a very unstable World. In all instances many died, suffered, and were brutally murdered, but in the end things got better. Knowing our own history, the pain and suffering, loss and sacrifice that took to build a great society I would think the average American would look at the instability in the Arab world as a sign of better things to come.
Why the hell did that basketball coach drive all the way to Messico yo find cheap labor?!?! Hell, he coulda just pulled up to Primo's and three or four wetbacks will jump into the bed of your truck!!! ♫
The devil is in the details.
Well put Lucifer
Frieda keeps my banjo in tune.
Maybe Barry could put in a good word for the Decatur EDC with the Obama Administration. Could be some big time money involved.
For example, $500 million to Solyndra, a company that was in such bad shape that its own accountants included a notation in the company's annual report that they had "significant questions as to whether it could continue as a going concern" (before the energy dept gave them the loan)
Then in 2009, $500 million to a company called Fisker to produce an electric car called the Karma (to sell for $97,000 retail). Fisker is partners with a venture capital firm co-owned by Al Gore. They used up the money they say for "engineering work" and opened a plant in Finland. So much for creating jobs
We've got to think global. This roping stuff in Vegas is small potatoes. I hereby volunteer for a trade mission to be held for 10 days in Bali this December. Details to be provided later. I am positive it will create jobs.
Why would Frieda man the booth? What do we pay Jody Adams for? Main Street and EDC are two separate entities. She should stay home and take care of Main Street. Taxpayers are getting ripped doubly!
Amazing that the DISD board can pay over $125,000 for bleachers and playground equipment!! That would pay the salary for at least 2 teachers! But who cares about academics and overcrowded classrooms!
8:54- No, the EDC are self proclaimed Republican conservatives. At least by what they say.
I would think the average American would look at the instability in the Arab world as a sign of better things to come.
And when heir democracy ends up being like Iran's, you'll change your mind.
That's OK though, others are ahead of you and you can catch up.
If you want to know what all of these places will be like, just look at why Bush Sr. didn't go in and depose Saddam--he knew Iraq would be a big shit sandwich and we'd all have to take a bite. And so did Cheney, until he was CEO of Halliburton and wanted to help them, so in his later role under Bush Jr. he was more than happy to invade despite saying openly under Bush Sr. that it was a bad idea.
Rage
I stand corrected. I said only a liberal would care how a state terrorist leader was killed. Turns out the UN is "concerned" and wants an inquiry. What's that you say? Liberals and the UN are pretty much the same thing? Oh... guess I was right the whole time.
DF Gipper
10:27 - oh goody -less twang when you strum your instrument!
And mzchief yips at the lil baby devil.
NRS trade show booth in Vegas paid for by taxpayers? That is socialism!!!!
Isn't Hillary a Yankee fan also?
EDC = Decatur Republicans
12:00 Have you checked out the baseball complex on Deer Park Drive? Many improvements there as well, and each time I pass it (which is daily) I think of the teachers' salaries it would pay. But hey, look at those bleachers! DISD is going to hell in a hand basket and has been for quite some time. Priorities are just screwed.
Funny how there is nothing proven as fact that any of the Wise County Schools are suffering with less teachers.
Rage, you seem to forget that the world was a much different place back then during Sr's time. Maybe you forget the shit sandwich that part of the world sent us a decade ago.
The problems in the middle east will get worse before they get better, but if we collectively refuse to believe and to help these new democracies this moment in history will be lost.
You stick by your murderous, heavy handed dictator, I will give these new regimes a chance. The one thing history does prove is that every now and then you need a few big ol' stinking shit sandwich's before you can move on to a Cochon de Lait Po’Boy!
Yet another example of "conservative" hypocrisy. Is Wordkyle going on the EDC trip, too?
12:41:
Your the one that is being "played" and you don't even know it.
In your solar powered dream machine. Where everything is lovely and life is beautiful.
Oh,Goody!
Are the people on EDC and the DISD school board one in the same?
I had to buy my tickets to the NFR they should have to also.
Rage, you seem to forget that the world was a much different place back then during Sr's time. Maybe you forget the shit sandwich that part of the world sent us a decade ago.
Really? Sounds like Bush Sr. was right. We wasted a lotta dollars and American lives in Iraq, and that place is worse off than ever.
Rage
"Really? Sounds like Bush Sr. was right. We wasted a lotta dollars and American lives in Iraq, and that place is worse off than ever."
There is a little thing called the future that you are leaving out and I would seriously doubt many Iraqis are longing for the good ol' days of Saddam. I am sure you have evidence that Irag is "worse off than ever", or are you just jumping at the headlines everytime you read about a suicide bomber like BG.
1:49, you haven't heard anything because the teachers who are still in the schools are so overloaded that they have no time to even speak out! I know! I AM ONE!! Where are you parents? Classes are over the 22:1 ratio, there is no money to even purchase needed materials! Parents, we need you to speak out!
9:37 what good does appealing to parent do? They all voted for Perry and the Republicans who have continued to cut funding for schools. Perry has greatly expanded state government payrolls while claiming to be anti-government. And the voters of Texas can't figure it out.
3:00 - banjo posts are irrevelant.
The more money spent in schools, the worse the education. Or at least the dumber the students become.
Money is NOT the answer.
Nice to know of a teacher who can't handle her job, 10:45.
8:28 Well said. Dems/libs/teachers have been hollering for years that we don't spend enough. We are one of the very highest per capita education spending nations in the world and every year we drop further and further behind. We need to stop wasting money, stop coddling bad teachers, start rewarding good teachers, discipline children, adjust our curriculum, stop the stupid standardized testing (a good thought in theory but it has been a disaster), and focus on the basics (Science, math, reading, and writing). We also need non-partisan textbook writing (which does not require the intense focus and state mandated addition to history books of every non-consequential gay/lesbian/bi-sexual/transgendered person, thank you California.) As a country we need to seriously prioritize education and stop letting politics (from either side) turn public education into indoctrination (particularly applies to the left, whereas the right is guilty of foisting standardized testing on us.) if we don't do this, and soon, it won't matter what we do in government and politics because our country will become a second rate nation and will no longer serve as a "shining city on a hill" for the rest of the world. Without America in that position the world will be a much worse place for everyone.
Is that really the Post's front page? They diss A Rod??? LOVE IT! My husband doesn't believe its real.
Amen to 10:29. I am a teacher and I do agree teachers aren't paid enough. With that being said, the educators would be happier if they were allowed to be in their rooms and just teach. Not have to worry about standardized testing, following a script (thank you Cscope) and not have their discipline undermined by weak administrators and parents who are afraid to discipline. I don't mean just punish, but teach kids how to behave, how to take responsibiltity, how to be respected citizens.
I blame parents for much of this. Parents feel that to be a good parent they have to defend their children against the big bad teacher. Those helicopter moms who keep hovering around the elementary schools all day do nothing but make their children more dependent on them. Let them walk into school on their own. If they're old enough to go to school, they're old enough to walk to class.
Not all teachers are good, but most are frustrated and feel thwarted in their jobs. Let them teach. The vast majority are very good!
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3:11, you had me until that last half of your post. I agree with you about the helicopter moms, however I find it ironic that parents can drop the kids off at the curb in the morning, but the administrators have the us trotting out to cars like Sonic carhops to deliver kids to the car door.
I think that the people running the show are too worried about collecting data, fitting the word rigor into every conversation, and monitoring that nobody is doing anything fun with crayons, watercolor paints, or scissors (at the elementary level). The high school teachers are too busy with crowd control to do anything that is close to educational or fun. It's become quite clear that teachers have ZERO say in anything that goes on in the classroom whether it be a discipline issue or what kind of test that you give. For that matter, it appears that principals are equally powerless from what many teachers say off the record. Principals have become nothing but pawns in a rabbit hole of number crunching. I'm really not even sure why principals even exist except to cover tracks of inept superiors.
Decatur is the third district I have taught in (husband's job has relocated us twice)and it's not like this everywhere. I have a perfect track record of PDAS evaluations. There is something very dysfunctional here and this will be my last year in this district, even if I have to get a job stocking shelves at Walmart at night. If you have a kid in this district, they are being ROBBED of an education.
All those acronyms hurt us. TAKS, STARR, CScope. They have nothing to do with normal teaching.
The reason why kids are trotted out to cars in the afternoon is to make sure they get in the correct vehicle. Society has done this to us.
I agree that parents are responsible for some of this. Adminstration is so worried about test scores and parents are worried about discipline that is makes it very hard for education to go on. Frustrating to say the least. I have grandchildren in DISD and the elementary school where they go is nurturiing, caring etc. They feel safe and really enjoy it I just pray they come away with an education. Fortunately, they have parents that keep it up at home. Not enough parents do this.
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