Mark F. Barnes

Teagan Presley was born in The Woodlands

Bree Olsen is from Houston

Meggan Mallone (Powers) is from Houston

Syvette Wimberly is from Kingwood

Chloe Jones was from Silsbee but lived and stripped in Houston, was a playmate and Porn star died in Houston at 29 from liver failure

Carmen Kinsely, Jana Jordan, and Jack Venice are all from Houston

Nicole Graves is from Cypress

Nicole Graves is from Houston.  she lives in the Cy-Fair area currently.

Otto Bauer and Audrey Hollander have a house in south Houston

Lizzy (or Lizzie) Tucker is from Houston.

Jesus sevfiv or somebody, please start a thread for the best pollsters and let this one get back to something else. ALL Polls are rigged to reflect a certain agenda, by those doing the polling. That's what pollsters do. Jesus get a clue will you. Why not just hurl Yanni LP's at each other at 30 paces or something.

Two years ago they would have gotten away with it, no more..........

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Yeah. Name one media source that actually is fair and balanced. I don't believe one exists any more than an honest politician.

BINGO! We have a winner.....where do I send the gift card to.

Smoked Boudin and Bugs. Had some last night. Smoked 20 pounds of Boudin, it's better as left overs. The smoke flavor really comes out the second and third day, if it makes it that far.

With the Chinese hold two trillion in bonds, a few vessel issues and jib jabbing, should be the least of our worries. It's would no surprise me to see a correlation in new administrations and boundary testing. Not that far fetched if you think about it. They just may be checking his oil. It's not like there isn't enough distractions around as it is.

I thought the early 80's, with the price of fuel going through the roof, was the oil boom in Houston, with lots and lots of new businesses, restaurants, charitable giving, building, etc.

Then, when OPEC opened up the valves, that's what led to the oil bust, about 1986 or so.

That is exactly what happened!

I find it sad that you felt compelled to bring up the Bush family name in talking about oil crises.

Especially considering Bush was only vice president at that time.

Tiger, he's referring to the S&L Crisis and the Bush's not the Oil Crisis. Neil Bush was at the head of Silverado, that cost the taxpayers almost a billion and a half dollars. But it was just a drop in the bucket of all the failures going on, but his dad being V.P. at the time, made him a lightning rod for all the media fallout. Besides dad did pull a few strings to keep him out of prison.

Very cool photos

In July 1986 the oil priced dropped to $9.85 per bbl, the impact was felt immediately, and by 1987, banks all over BCS were closing and changing hands, and like I said, 10,000 people in Brazos County lost their jobs. In 1985 Oil was still over $30 per bbl, and not too bad, 1981 was a peak time for Oil prices, near $40.00, and spending was pretty frivolous back then. In 1982 things started trending down, but the bottom fell out in July 1886. By 1987 Bass Boats and Harley's were for sale everywhere. Repo's were a dime a dozen. I was Expat at the time, and didn't feel it like a lot of the locals did then. I had a lot of friends that lost everything

And to the second part of your question, being from the area, 1987 was devastating to BCS. Hundreds of Oil based jobs vanished overnight, literally. About ten thousand people in Brazos County, lost their jobs. Banks closed all over town, things were tough. But as Niche said earlier, The oil crash was a mere ripple on the pond, as to what is going on now.

Today bugs will run you:

Southeast Texas Crawfish Farm

11093 Bill Gaulding Rd

Beaumont, TX 77705

409-794-1387

Med/LG 2.60/lb purged

Doguet's Crawfish Farm

(409) 752-5105

Med/Lg 2.85/lb purged

Broussard's Crawfish Farm

(409) 253-2144

Nome, TX 77629

Med-LG 2.75/lb purged

Pickin's are pretty thin, they are not catching a lot. After this front blows through, prices will drop back down. to 1.50/lb. Traps are coming up short right now, so prices are holding. Two weeks ago, harvest was bwtter and the were a buck-fifty a pound, all large.

You are exactly right on that, Perry is grandstanding as usual. Don't know enough about Jindal, I really just think he's just inexperienced and is getting some bad advice. Perhaps he's slicker than I think and is doing some political posturing, and I'm to naive to see it. But Perry is a real piece of work. He's definately looking out for Rick Perry, per the norm. If the GOP has any thoughts of running either of these two in 2012, they might as well just forfeit the win to Obama and be done with it. I may not agree with all of Obama's stuff, but I darn sure don't want to see either one of these two clowns in the White House. Perry has screwed Texas so hard to date, we ought to all be on birth control. I wish Steve (Ogden), would get off his lazy butt and run for Gov.

HCAD or any County Appraisal Officials cannot go inside houses without permission. They can estimate external measurements from property lines, but cannot cross the property lines. Appraisers have the legal authority to enter businesses for tax valuation purposes, but cannot enter a private residence without the owner's permission. This can be a two edged sword. If you piss them off enough, they can set your appraisal at whatever amount, and then you are forced to go through the lengthy appeal process, and then open your self up for a review, which can open you up to a closer look. Next thing you know you have a County Judge granted HCAD permission for all sorts of scrutiny. It can get sticky if they really want to do it.

According to Jim Robinson, "There's no statutory authority to go into anybodies house. I don't let my people go in, because in an urban environment and that can raise problems I don't even want to deal with." So if an appraiser stepped foot in your home, I think you can complain to him or Peggy Mason, Taxpayer Liaison Officer. (713) 812-5800. All other personnel of the appraisal office are employed by and accountable to the chief appraiser.

1.18 million

6.96 million

8.14 million votes

9.52 million votes - Obama Margin of victory

Things that make you go Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Screw them and their Valet Only Parking Policy!

Make the drive over to Sasaki.....it's worth it. Wesrhiemer at Fondren

Don't have to drive all the way to Baton Rouge. Go on down to South East Texas Crawfish Farm, Exit 833, and then take the Frontage RD down to the next exit, they are on the South side of I 10. (409) 794-1387. They prepurge them for you and they are really nice mud bugs, prices are the best around.

Lot's of murdering going on in that case. The fetal heart begins to beat between 4 and 6 weeks. Most women don't even know their pregnant by that point. So basically you are anti-abortion.

FYI In almost all states it's legal up to 24 weeks.

Make getting a voting card just like getting a drivers license, you have to be able to pass some sort of civil competency test. And if you let it lapse over a number of years, you have to re-take the test. Now if you served a day in the service and were honorably discharged, you should have the right to vote, no matter if you work or not, disabled or whatever. You bought that vote with placing your life in harms way, or at least gave yourself the potential to have to either way.

On the other hand, if you are registered to vote, you should be held accountable to do so. Use it or lose it so to speak. Cast some sort of vote, even if it is for a write in candidate. I believe it is your civil duty to vote, people died to give you the right to do so. If you chose not to vote, don't register. So you would have the freedom not to if you don't want to. Just don't register.

Of course you know we have just stretched the Constitution beyond all recognition.........

@HtownWxBoy: I don't remember the left being called "unpatriotic"....

Tiger take a moment to research the issue for yourself. A quick search on google for the phrases "called unpatriotic" and "tired of being called unpatriotic" results in a tsunami of results, almost all from journalists, bloggers, and the occasional politician, bemoaning an apparent wave of aggression towards their anti-Bush or anti-war positions. Unsurprisingly, most of these claims are heavy on self-righteous martyrdom and light on evidence. For every exasperated defense of liberal patriotism, one has to search ten times harder to find an actual example of an attack on it. Most of those crying out for an end to such character attacks never bother to actually identify an incident in which such an attack took place. Those very few that do are usually vague and generalized, relying on the accounts of various unnamed friends who have been confronted by rabid right-wingers in an unnamed town for some unnamed reason. A precious handful of such protests refer to one or two select politicians making statements about other specific politicians, and these examples tend to similarly lack any sourcing.

He hasn't left, he's just dealing with a career change currently and hasn't logged on in a month.

Well Farmers Mutual covers my fencing due to weather or weather related damage, just not Drunks leaving FM149 and running through it. I've had to replace my stone entrance a couple of times over the years due to the latter.

Well this thread has gone into the crapper, I am going to stick to the Bailout thread.

I think luck is always a factor. Both of us (I assume) were lucky to be born in the US. I was lucky to be born with genes for good health and intelligence. I was lucky to be born into a family that could afford to buy books for me to read when I was a child. I was lucky to have a gift for the sort of problem solving required for computer programming at the precise time that computer programming was a valued skill. You can't see any good fortune in your success?

As for hard work, most wealthy people in the world are born wealthy. Some of them may work "hard", but their hard work isn't responsible for their wealth, and they usually have the freedom to pick some sort of work they enjoy. And, in my experience, those not born to wealth who became wealthy happened to be in the right place at the right time. They had the intelligence to take advantage of opportunities, but that rarely required a great deal of effort on their part.

Luck is not a factor in me being born in the US. My Great Great Great Grandfather Samuel F. "Gransir" Barnes came to the North Carolina Colony in 1755, at 20 years old, from the caves in the Highlands of Scotland, after his family lost everything in the Battle of Inverkeithing, and was forced to the highlands and live in mud huts and caves, and die off slowly due to influenza, fever and plague. Gransir took a job on a sailing vessel in return for his passage to the colonies. Gransir toiled on a sailing ship for several months to get me here, I don't call that luck. He worked in the tobacco fields and learned the Dairy business as a sharecropper. He loaded up his family, (Nine Boys and their family in wagons and came to Texas in 1833 from Iredell County NC, by the lure tales by James F. Perry of the Spanish land grants of the Austin Colonies, where he was heading back to. He had come out to Iredell County to trade for dairy cows, of which Iredell County was plentiful with. Gransir traded James Perry 8 cows of the 16 he owned to take him in his family to Texas, in search of all this free land spoke of. Traded half his wealth to trudge 1200 miles to settle in Brazos County Texas at 98 years old, in a wagon pulled by mules. Not knowing what was waiting for him on the other end, and not even knowing if he'd actually live to see it. He lived to be 106 by chance and is buried in the Boonville Cemetary, next to his wife, that joined him 3 years later. All nine of his sons were granted land grants, (1 section of land) in return for their service in the Texas Army. Three sons joined a Ranger Company, the rest served in the regular Militia. My Great Great Grandfather may have been lucky no to have been killed in the Battle of the Sabine, when he was shot in the back, and since he carried a horseshoeing hammer in his ruck, the 50 caliber ball spared him, and only left him with the definite impression of a farrier's hammer on his lower left lumbar region. But I really don't think that had any involvement in gaining any wealth by luck. After the Independence of Texas, all the brothers returned to Brazos county, where they established the only business they knew, the dairy business. Two Brothers decided to continue Rangering, and the rest along with their kids established the Barnes Creamery, which to this day still operated on Dilly Shaw Tap Road. No luck, just hard work and determination. If you have read my blog, it will explain that I left that dairy at 16 to find my own way.....and as Paul Harvey would say....."that's the rest of the story." No luck involved, just a lot of hard work. Now I can sit around and discuss frivolous crap with some people who have no clue, and some that do.