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The success of Texas depends on all children being able to contribute - not just yours. Every child that is not educated is your problem and mine. Throwing money at education isn't the solution. BUT, adequate funding is a necessary component in that solution. We need to train good teachers. We need to pay good teachers good salaries. We need to provide safe facilities. We need to provide excellent textbooks. All of this costs money. We need to quit whining about paying our fair share of the cost of the most important thing our government does - educate our children.

You read 'HuffPost Celebrity'? Really?

and other teachers will be unhappy. I'm waiting to see how you turn this into an indictment of our president.

Hi Rick, Honestly now. Are you really concerned about America's wildlife or is this just another chance to take a shot at Obama?

Kram, Can you give examples of 'rouge' agencies the President was not interested in reigning in?

I favor expansion as long as expansion doesn't include any more Sun Belt refugees. Which means I don't favor expansion.

Where do you live/family:. Canyon, Texas with wife of 8 months, 7wk-old baby boy, 5 dogs, & 1 snake. Degree/Year attended/graduated UNT:. MS, 1978, Ph.D. 1988 Favorite NT Memory: 1) walking home across campus following a snow storm with my then fiancee. 2) watching the streaking in the late 70s. Favorite NT Sports Memory: watching Booger & his buddies sack the UT QB over-and-over at Memorial Stadium.

It's a shame when a tragedy is used for political purposes.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/tim-tebow-named-most-influential-athlete-by-forbes-050613 Really? An out-of-work third-rate QB? Why? Oh wait,... I know why.

No. Science doesn't say emotions don't exist. For science to study emotion and reach a conclusion about whether any particular emotion exists, one would first have to define the terms so that the study could be conducted objectively. Oh, and science can study religion - it's a productive field within anthropology. What science has a hard time with is the study of 'God'. He/She/It can't be seen, heard, touched, or smelled. That doesn't mean God doesn't exist, only that science works on data - not magic.

12 starters on defense? Three starting running backs? Reminds me of a UIL all-district team.

You know Lonnie, for an omniscient, omnipotent god, YHWH has screwed up a lot with his creation.

Mean Green Texan, Your religion seems preoccupied with death. That doesn't seem to have changed under the 'new covenant'. As for me, I prefer life.

I think Joshua 6:21 exemplifies genocide quite well.

The best way to 'hurt' the SBC (& I'm not sure why we should care) is to leave them the way they are now.

MeanGreenTexan, Thanks for the detail. As I read the Bible I find a concept of a God who wasn't very likeable. The demand for animal sacrifice? Sheesh! The demand for genocide? Sickening. The stoning of adulterers? If your god exists he isn't worthy of worship.

Oh! I need to mention that I mean no offense to the religious. I'm just a bit tired of hearing that science somehow supports religious dogma. It doesn't. Science and religion address very different issues.

Interesting BBC article on Peter Higgs, the physicist who predicted to Higgs Boson (aka, the God Particle). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22073080 I'm not sure why I found this amusing but I did...

Why do I always run out of negative votes before I run out of UNT90's posts?

So one police officer leading a CHL class demonstrates that most police officers want more concealed handguns in public venues?

Wait just one second, TAMU-CC ain't a bad academic program.

Yep. I have a loaded M1 carbine next to my nightstand in the bedroom and a Walther P38 in my desk in my office at home. Oh, many years ago I accidentally fired a 7.92mm Mauser through the ceiling of my bedroom at home. Stupid thing to do but accidents happen. I'm glad that accident didn't happen in a classroom. I'm not sure I want some kid with 10 hours of CHL classes to be defending my class from a bad guy.

No, I'm unlikely to carry a gun into a classroom & if I did I would be unlikely to have an irrestible urge to shoot someone. I don't have the same confidence in the behavior of other people carrying guns in the classroom. No, but even the best trained sometimes have accidents. My cousin, on his second tour in VN, managed to shoot himself in the leg. He was well trained but he did something stupid. People tend to do stupid things. When they do stupid things with guns....

Actually, "the poster" probably has more guns than you do. Some of my guns would probably be classified as 'assault weapons'. My guns belong in my home - not in a classroom.

Do you really want a bunch of guns in your classroom? Does that, for you, meet the ideal of a university? I know safety is important, but should craving the completely-safe-environment (which ain't gonna happen) out-weigh other considerations?