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Thanks man...tune in tonight if you can. That goes for the rest of you aside from KRAM.

Damn right. 4 games over .500....oh yeah and J-Ham is back....nice oppo-dong tonight in a 6 run 7th. Derek picked up his 1st win as a big leaguer....Feldam is much better as a starter.....great times.....and great calls tonight on Diamondtalk.

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I do wish that we spent more money on education in the right areas. However, it does irk me that Most school districts make money off attendance figure and standardized testing like TAKS. I do think that we need more trade schools as alternatives for kids, instead of the widespread expectations of all HS seniors going off to college, which most can't afford. If we had more trade schools there might be more pride in blue-collar jobs in this country - and maybe we could have less industries going overseas. Just a thought. Curriculum does need to be more of a challenge for kiddos in public schools. HS was way too easy for many and they have no idea how to adjust in college. Also, parents need to take much more responsibilty in the education process - don't expect our watered down public schools to give a top notch education when we don't pay our teachers enough, and have administrators that won't take a stand against idiot parents.

She was 17 when they were taken.

If you are going to rip PBS I have nothing left to say. Maybe more people here need to tune into PBS. By the way I am so sick of the socialism tag. Helping people is not a negative thing. If the right wants to label it as socialistic - whatever. I am just so beaten down with airing my views, and people here saying that I want to murder babies and take away their guns when I have made no such claims. Just ridiculous.

I don't think that anywhere in any post did I say we need to do away with the 2nd amendment, did I? I am just showing that, yes, there is a gun problem in this country compared to others. Do I want to do away with the 2nd amendment? No. Would I like it to be a hell of a lot harder for people to obtain guns? Yes. As far as 'blanket labeling' goes...I am talking about the actions and the ideals typically held by certain camps in the country whether it be Republican, Democrat, Extreme conservative, extreme liberal, the educated, the uneducated, the rational, and irrational....etc. Am I bias to my side? Yes. And if you think that I am the one here that is spewing all the hate, then look closer at the board and see all of the mis-guided hate toward the liberal half of the country. If that is not prejudice, then I don't know what is.

It has everything to do with civil rights, and those who want to get married or have a civil union are not what I would call flaunting their sexuality - if anything they want to have legitimacy and a sense of social acceptance about their relationship. Being gay is not a choice, although the bible thumpers want everyone to believe otherwise.....but they don't trust science either....so what are you going to do.....Everyone should have equality in this great land of ours. Period. End of story. And I also like how you assume I think drugs should be legal because I am under the age of 30. That is pretty presumptuous.

Well, if you want to keep acting like it's 1950 instead of 2009 be my guest. Gay rights is the civil rights issue of this generation, and if you want to be on the wrong side of history go ahead. 5 states have made gay-marriage legal, the rest are coming. It's just a matter of time. Oh yeah, and we don't have a gun problem in this country. Firearms are the second leading cause of traumatic death related to a consumer product in the United States and are the second most frequent cause of death overall for Americans ages 15 to 24. Since 1960, more than a million Americans have died in firearm suicides, homicides, and unintentional injuries. In 2003 alone, 30,136 Americans died by gunfire: 16,907 in firearm suicides, 11,920 in firearm homicides, 730 in unintentional shootings, and 232 in firearm deaths of unknown intent, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Nearly three times that number are treated in emergency rooms each year for nonfatal firearm injuries. But I guess I am just a textbook liberal wanting equal rights and people to not be so free an easy with weapons that kill people. Also I never once said that TV networks don't have a political bias. So slow down there speed racer.

Man, that sure showed up last November.

I have seen nothing from the uber-christian conservatives in this country, especially here in Texas that tells me they are not racist, gun-crazed, hate gays, and tolerant of other religions....just going by what I see dude. I am not lumping all conservatives under that umbrella....if anything it goes back to what I posted earlier today about there being a real divide within the republican party. I know tons of conservatives that are pretty rational, its just the morons that compose a great percentage in your party are dragging the rest of you down. And if you think that Fox news is not slanted you are an absolute moron. Wake up.

Obama is the most Regan like president we have had since....It's true. Oh yeah, go to a Nascar race, Wal-mart, or the American South in general and try to tell me that people that claim to be conservatives aren't racist, gay-hating, gun-crazy, and demeaning to women....The country will only move backwards if it goes more right....if anything we need more balance and both sides working together....and if that means more moderate- so be it. I also love how the media is the ultimate scape-goat for conservatives. Fox news is right next to MSNBC and CNN on my television. And the Dallas Morning news is more of a conservative newspaper - so don't call all media liberal there pal.

I do love the organic flow of the debate here, but I do think it should be re-visited that many conservatives in this country are sort of championing torture...The republican party is in general disarray. That the extreme right is casuing a real rift and showing a stark difference between themselves and the more moderate conservatives in this country. As a liberal it does amuse me a bit, but I would love to see the Reps sort of get their crap together so something can get done in this country in the near future. A devisive mind-set between Dems and Reps is bad enough, but the Reps are having a hard enough time galvanizing their own party.....kinda sad. When morons like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are the public voice of the Republican party - they have massive F'ing problems. Who is actually going to be a legit voice for the conservatives over the next decade?? I do think that the religious right have gone way too far right and are sort of ruining the overall momentum of what once used to be the party of intelligence and business, but now is one that doesn't value civil rights (gays), some in the party are desperate for a Christian-theocracy, and on top of it all Gun crazy. If I were a rational conservative in this country I would be very upset over the current state of the Reps, and would do my best to distance and possibly give the boot to those who are not helping forward momentum. But hey, Ronald Regan wanted the Christian vote back in the 80's - and now it is coming back to bite the party in the arse.

good stuff here

agreed

No matter our differences it is appreciated. You too man.

sounds like fear mongering....a staple of the conservative christian playbook.....at least that playbook might include some TE's or some snaps under center.

So God wrote the bible??....I had no idea.

So only Christians are God's people?? I don't follow.

If this is scoilaism,all I have to say is....not.that.bad.

Are American's God's 'new people'? I sense that many that post here truly feel that way.

Don't foget the socialist institutions of public school and the post office.

Will I wear a costume to the game??....No. I will be significantly less visual than you will. I will stop by - we should have plenty of time to discuss our differences when we are down by 5 scores in the 2nd half.

I like how you jump to that....classy....I will see you this fall when you act like a jackass in the stands.

You are a real moron. But at least you have this inflated sense of mis-guided patriotism that gets you through the night. By the way here is some info on waterboarding....here I also like how you sound like a middle-school bully who wants to pick a fight when the smart kid calls him out on his ignorance. I also like how you think that because we fundamentally disagree on something that I am the one with countless problems. By the way-what is it like to go about your day to day life and act like you know everything no matter the topic??