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Re: Beach Vacations
Duke 22
53 minutes ago
Do yourself and family a favor and try out Ana Maria Island, awesome beaches great food and your not elbow to elbow with tourists. It's not on the cheap side, but you get what you pay for.
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Re: Teacher Shortage?
patriot07
1 hour ago
I don’t reply to some posts because I learned long ago you can’t argue with stupid because you’ll never win. Yeah...fair enough yep electing old donnie will solve world hunger, we will find a cure for cancer, and cats will sleep with dogs and our education problems will be solved bigley...:) And old joe...well he will do something....just ain't sure what..:)
I don't care who is elected President. It will take state governments participation to fix the issues being discussed here with support from the US Congress. Now if anyone really thinks either one of the two old pharts running for President really has a clue or can really do something about our education system....I've got some nice ocean front property in Arizona I can let you have for a good price...:)
90% of education funding and teacher pay is controlled by your state legislatures. And you elect those people...so you are getting just what you asked and voted for. So while everybody is hollering to put religion back into schools (not that it was ever really there..or at least it wasn't when I was in school in the 60's and 70's) , or let them say gay ( it wasn't made a big deal of it in those years either), or whatever your issue hot button is that won't fix anything when it comes to how we educate people.
I'll say this again...and will probably get jumped on....stop with the whole liberal/conservative nonsense and teach literature, science, mathematics and humanities and let kids ask questions you might be uncomfortable with and let them learn to discern what to believe or not believe. Because both sides are equally guilty of trying to indoctrinate kids whether they acknowledge it or not. Basic human values of right and wrong aren't liberal or conservative and we don't need religion or government to know that.
They will survive....we all did and built the country we have enjoyed for the last 50 years.
The problem is that legislatures are made of lawyers and politicians that know exactly nothing about public education. They shouldn't be in the business of funding something they have no clue about. We didn't used to have an NEA and TEA. Need to go back to letting education be run at the local level.
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Re: Cowboys Vander Esch retiring
patriot07
1 hour ago
He's a young man with major health issues. I'm glad for his own sake that he's retiring I do not believe he has major health issues, as long as he does not play NFL football I think he will be just fine health wise. Great guy, wish him the best, maybe he will get into coaching. What I meant (but didn't say) was that I think he's headed for major health issues if he doesn't do the smart thing and get out now. I agree he's fine now. And I agree I wouldn't hate to see him on staff as a position coach
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Re: Cowboys Vander Esch retiring
Clearwater7
2 hours ago
He's a local boy here in my neck of the woods. Went from a super small town in rural Idaho to playing on the big stage for "America's Team"... There isn't many better underdog stories out there.
I use his story to show my boys that it doesn't matter where you grow up. If you're good enough, someone will give you a shot no matter where you're from.
Sad to hear he's hangin em up, but probably the best for his long term future.
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Re: Lake Baccarac
Clearwater7
2 hours ago
Congrats! Sounds like the trip of a lifetime. I would love to go there one day. Was safety a concern? I've heard that it's not that safe down there.
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Re: Share Lunkers
Smurfs
2 hours ago
Looks like the SALs are starting to make their presence known.
15.8 caught today at Ivie. (not sure if it got turned in) Link, pics? Kyle Halls FB page, it’s definitely a fatty.
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