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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Texas is ranked 28 in education.
For those of you in Texas, that is below average.
Yes, true....

But, considering they have to educate all of the illegal border crossers in their school system, who barely speak English, they are doing rather well.
They are a big part of bringing down the Average scores.

Let us look at Baltimore, which has the highest funded schools in the nation, who also RELIABLY scores in the bottom 3 percent in the Nation.
They have all the funding you can imagine, and have fewer non-American born students. But then, they are handicapped by liberal leadership.
 
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Texas is the keto-vegan-crossfit state of our great union. It is quite literally the equivalent of the kid coming home to brag about the "C-" they got on a spelling test.

I'd talk more shit, but all of my Texas ex-pat neighbors would hear it aand start hollering about how great their state is again...from their homes here in Oklahoma.

Yep, we might be the indigenous state that has the screen door JB welded to our '82 Datsun...but at least we didn't come 11 votes away from Senator Beto.
 
Texas is the keto-vegan-crossfit state of our great union. It is quite literally the equivalent of the kid coming home to brag about the "C-" they got on a spelling test.

I'd talk more shit, but all of my Texas ex-pat neighbors would hear it aand start hollering about how great their state is again...from their homes here in Oklahoma.

Yep, we might be the indigenous state that has the screen door JB welded to our '82 Datsun...but at least we didn't come 11 votes away from Senator Beto.
But you did give half your state away to those previously conquered, and for no good reason.

“And you get a Casino! And you get a Casino…!”
 
Had a Kawasaki utility version in the early to mid 80s. I can't tell you how many times I got pulled off by my leg getting caught by the rear tire or flipping it in a turn etc. Had a girl in my class, 7th grade, who was killed on one. Her twin sister survived.

It had racks over the front tire and rear. I think I once had five people on that thing. And got busted by the popo twice for riding on the roads. First time by buddy was driving and he got a huge 18 point ticket that would've kept him from getting his DL at 16. His and my dad an us went to court for his court date. We talked to the DA and his dad started in with everything wrong with the ticket and the DA told him he could correct any charges on the ticket he wanted to. My dad jumped in and did the whole we're country folks and these kids don't drive and we don't have time to chauffeur them everywhere and this is how we get around and how we know it's wrong and we're very sorry, etc, etc. IIRC, the DA dropped everything, which I think he was planning on after giving us a ear full until my buddy's dad came at him, and off we went. Only to get caught a few months later. Fortunately this PO had a more urgent call come in while talking with us. Told us to go home and stop driving this on the road. Got our DLs probably a year later and the three wheeler was forgotten.
 
Says the state that is turning purple and allowing itself to be over run with Californians.
Hardly. Most coming are not the left wingers KKalifornia is known for.
We also changed the road signs on I-10 and I-40 showing Austin is now in Eagle Pass, home to Los Zetas cartel.
Apparently none have left Eagle Pass…
 
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Texas is ranked 28 in education.
For those of you in Texas, that is below average.

I know the comment was intended to be humorous but I have to reply...

I'm one of those dumb Cajuns from Louisiana. I'd rather them (#48) and those Texans (#28), Tennesseans (#35), and/or Kentuckians (#16) have my back than all those "smart" and well-educated people from #1 Massachusetts, #2 Connecticut, #3 New Jersey, etc. At least if I look over my shoulder I won't have to worry about them sticking a knife into it or if they are still there. Dumb-asses like that, probably dressed in rags and bare-foot stood with my ancestors and their friends at the Battle of New Orleans and gave the well-equipped, battle-hardened, and numerically superior British force a good ass-whupping. And I am confident they will do it again, without hesitation, should the need arise.
 
Growing up in the middle of no where South Dakota, it was disheartening to see our education system ranked so low "nationally". After joining the military, meeting people from every state, and traveling to 40 different states, it was painfully obvious the "rankings" were skewed in favor of certain states, that are actually stupid MFers.
 
Growing up in the middle of no where South Dakota, it was disheartening to see our education system ranked so low "nationally". After joining the military, meeting people from every state, and traveling to 40 different states, it was painfully obvious the "rankings" were skewed in favor of certain states, that are actually stupid MFers.
There is a difference between being educated and being credentialled. Most "education" is about getting credentials, teaching to the test and the like, and precious little education is gained in the process.

People without credentials are very often better educated.

It rare to find people who are both educated and credentialled, even in the STEM fields. I would far rather work with a mediocre machinist than a mediocre engineer. Too many engineers have never made anything with their hands, and it shows.
 
There is a difference between being educated and being credentialled. Most "education" is about getting credentials, teaching to the test and the like, and precious little education is gained in the process.

People without credentials are very often better educated.

It rare to find people who are both educated and credentialled, even in the STEM fields. I would far rather work with a mediocre machinist than a mediocre engineer. Too many engineers have never made anything with their hands, and it shows.
^This.
Datams from non working features, tolerances that make no sense, from using the default setting on thier software.
I'm an OK machinist by my standards. I may not be an engineer but after 23 years of making thier stuff and fixing some of it, I can tell a good one from a bad one regardless of thier status within a company.
 
Texas is the keto-vegan-crossfit state of our great union. It is quite literally the equivalent of the kid coming home to brag about the "C-" they got on a spelling test.

I'd talk more shit, but all of my Texas ex-pat neighbors would hear it aand start hollering about how great their state is again...from their homes here in Oklahoma.

Yep, we might be the indigenous state that has the screen door JB welded to our '82 Datsun...but at least we didn't come 11 votes away from Senator Beto.
The irony is, lots of out-of-staters are coming into Texas. And lots +5th generation Texans are selling, making a pile of money, and buying more acreage in Oklahoma. Texas is doing many things wrong. Oklahoma is too, but it's also doing many things right.