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Haynes King was also pretty good at times his first season at GT and had more TDs passing but a lot of interceptions. He was good last season at GT when he wasn’t injured. Jimbo tried to force his offense onto him at A&M and kept getting him injured there and indecisive, but King has become the true duel threat QB that many expected of him after getting away from Jimbo. If Jimbo adapted his offense to King’s strengths he probably isn’t fired in 2023 (not that Jimbo cares with his buyout).

Just getting to double digits in passing TDs this past weekend, being at the lower end on the top 50 in total passing yards, and possibly being at GT doesn’t garner him as much attention; but he also has more rushing TDs than passing TDs and leads the team in rushing and rushing TDs.

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Saying that the funds would be segregated is hardly a summarization of “we would have to create an entirely new government from scratch”.

No inherent problem, beyond a ton of costly government redundancy that people who live in and around the city of Baton Rouge will have a majority in and will therefore be able to dominate, if they so choose. We have to play nice in a consolidated government; deconsolidate and it becomes a base political contest.


More EBR residents live outside of BR than inside BR.

It is funny that you feel BR currently has to play nice with parish politics in a consolidated govt. 5 years of delays to do what the people voted for must be a nicer gesture to the people of StG than I thought it was (and BR still didn’t get its finances straightened out).

Everyone living outside of BR and in another city already has to deal with the city govt and the parish govt (along with Sheriff and so on). The unincorporated areas will have the same amount of levels as before as well. Only BR will get an additional independent layer of govt added on top of the city govt to deal with.

What was merged becomes unmerged and like most of the parishes in the state. Nothing is really being created from scratch.
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Any state govt funding for certain roads would also still exist. Any federal funds would as well.

And the local match would be diluted.


It’s diluted already by being focused on BR instead of the majority of the parish’s residents outside of the city of BR.

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adding back only adds another layer of government and more gov't employees.
It only adds another layer on top of BR since they will not run the parish govt anymore. Everyone else will still have the same levels of govt.

The number of employees being a large issue would imply a large duplication of services which shouldn’t happen. Maybe BR allows that to happen. There might be more, or there might be less. Each will be allowed to adjust on their own by either cutting services or increasing taxes.
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Probablly because they are smart enough to realize that they need the collective tax base of the parish in order to get the infrastucture improvements necessary to supprt their growing communities.

Would Central have been able to pay for the road improvements to get in and out of thier city over the past 20 years with just a local base? Same could be asked for St Georgians as well.


And the parish govt would still exist when the BR metro parish govt gets dissolved. Any state govt funding for certain roads would also still exist. Any federal funds would as well.

What would not exist is the intermingled general fund and the office of the mayor-president between the city of Baton Rouge and the entire EBR parish.

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We just ignoring that the vast majority of that 139K population is located in municipalities that have their own city police departments separate from TPSO?



Is it really the vast majority? Hammond’s official population inside the city limits is just above 21,000, Amite City is just above 4,000, Kentwood is just above 2,000, Independence is below 2,000, and Roseland is below 1,000. Some villages as well, but I can’t see them having enough population to push incorporated populations above 50% of 139k or whatever the current parish population is.

Could it be similar to BR where people just assume some of the places right next to them are inside the city limits of some of the cities in the parish when in reality they are actually unincorporated like StG used to be.

Also, at most I think to incorporate these incorporated municipalities only need a police chief while still being able to use the Sheriff’s Department for additional needs. They can have more, and Hammond does have additional officers and staff besides the chief (Southeastern has its own police as well). I am not sure about the others or the number of officers required to handle all calls for each city. It just seems like unless they are all well staffed that they rely on the sheriff more than a fully funded city police department does.

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I guess a tiny victory is okay. What about the 10.5% sales tax because the parish can’t seem to manage itself with anything less than 5.5%. We have some irresponsible fricktards in charge of this entire state’s financial standing.


What’s the current break down of the sales tax?

re: Blue Lights on BBC/HBO Max

Posted by dallastigers on 11/15/25 at 10:18 pm to
1st episode of season 3 of Blue Lights has arrived on Britbox.
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When are we getting our tariff stimulus check?


When Congress authorizes it.
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Lynda Carter was the most beautiful woman ever created by the Lord.
Nudes and sex scenes in the movie Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (awful movie otherwise).


If you fast forward to only watch certain scenes it’s a great movie…

I think these were from the scenes I skipped over.



And just because


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Have a city fund.
Have a parish fund. Problem solved.


The Metro/Parish consolidation govt needs to be dissolved. Let the city of BR run its govt and tax its residents, and let the parish govt handle the business of the parish based on taxes paid across the parish regardless of incorporation.


Unless something has changed since 2020 more people in EBR parish now live outside of the city of BR than inside the BR city limits, and that’s not the situation this govt was designed to deal with when it started in the 1940s.
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it’s happening right at the walls Claudia Sheinbaum built around the presidential palace


I thought she was against building walls…
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Yeah I got that, it was obvious, I'm not a complete moron.


Lighten up Francis… To me it was just as obvious that Carol changed her mind and got her back, and the show just skipped to her being back with Carol on the plane. I was just thinking by your comment that you hadn’t been able to see the episode much past the opening and just asked the question.

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I am confused, or missed something, E2 ended on the tarmac as she's flagging down AF1, but E3 doesn't pick it up there. Maybe later?


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What the hive is doing the entire day across the globe has just been explained by the ones trying to keep the 13 fat and happy.

I don’t think that’s entirely true. I mean they consolidated all of the food, medicine, etc. around the world so that they could manage distribution more efficiently. That wasn’t for the 13 immune people.


That’s not what I said. The reasoning and actions across the globe have just really been explained to us by the ones in the hive with or around the 13 we have met in the show to date. I didn’t say it was all for the 13.

Our view point or the narrative of their actions and goals have been relatively controlled just like Carol’s. Since the morning after the incident outside of some continued cleanup and maintenance moments like when the dirty “pirate” walked thru her town or Carol finds the group having seizures or the empty Sprouts in Albuquerque we have not independently seen much around the globe that the hive didn’t set up or know about in advance (like the meeting in Spain). We have been given an extremely narrow scope of the hive’s actions across the globe which I think will be expanded a little with the immune guy Carol called in upcoming episodes including why they didn’t know about him at first.


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I am confused, or missed something, E2 ended on the tarmac as she's flagging down AF1, but E3 doesn't pick it up there. Maybe later?


I have kind of already forgotten which is partly due to episode 3 being less than the first 2, but if it was the ICE hotel it was a flashback. The clock was at like 2600 something days and counting down to the event.
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She failed at creating a movement with the English-speaking immunes, which made her angry, so she tried to reach out to the guy in Peru who is keeping his distance. His keeping distance from the hive mind probably kindled the idea in her that they were of like minds, so she would finally have someone to join up with and try to fight this. But he outright rejected her (he may not have known she was an immune), which... of course... made her angry.


The voice actor for this character is listed as being on the next 6 episodes with his mother on at least one episode, so I think it was more about the not knowing she was immune. I think her derogatory comment about his mother right before hanging up probably makes him start to realize she was a lot different from the attempted contacts by the hive.

Obviously based on the other immune we have seen so far her anger and interpersonal shortcomings aren’t behind her immunity, but I think they are both keys to her not being sucked into what the hive is offering. It also scares them and may trigger the individual fighting for control like a reversal of them being taken over. They give the others family drones or sex drones & Air Force 1 and so on to keep happy, pacified, and/or distracted, but she really hasn’t yet bit on much they have thrown at her. Not letting go of her lesbian pirate fantasy hive member may end up causing her an issue later.


What motivation does the hive have if inherently happy without any negative motivations or a sense of self with no other goal but to keep as many living for as long as possible using less resources. What are they working to build back up in the areas and cities where one of the 13 doesn’t live or travel to. What the hive is doing the entire day across the globe has just been explained by the ones trying to keep the 13 fat and happy. Is that truthful or maybe is it accurate if the drones are clueless?

At a minimum they have at least already been made easily conquerable and ready to be enslaved in the name of making their conquerers happy and not killing them, but this all could be something fully controlled by the sender of the code to prepare the planet and its people for their arrival with a lot being done by them we have not been allowed to view yet.

13 people across the globe should not be as much of a focus to convert or to keep happy unless both are keys to reversing this and shows the hold on people is more tenuous than it appears. If not a key to making hold less tenuous they would be ignored unless actually getting in their way.

How much of sense of self is kept by a drone but just pushed to background isn’t really known yet as well.
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So they were just in their regular vehicles. Does each vehicle have its own guide???

If that is an actual picture just before the attack that lioness looks huge. Maybe that male is a juvenile and not run off yet (or I am just thinking larger vehicles would be used than actually used) as at least in pic the female looks noticeably larger in the trunk/body area.
Not sure why mirror and the express are treating this like it just happened instead of it happening back in 2015 like it did, but this is one of the GOT episodes she worked on:
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Katherine, a special effects editor, was part of the Game of Thrones team that bagged an Emmy for the 2014 episode The Children.


If vehicle driven by a guide why would it get so close to a lion in a vehicle where the windows could be rolled down by the passengers?

You would think they would child proof those windows and lock them just before they enter the lion enclosure. There is always someone who thinks wild animals are safe enough to do the unsafe things around that they are constantly told not to do.
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Scott Simpson, the assistant operations manager at Lion Park, launched an investigation into the incident alongside police. He said: "When you drive through into the lion enclosure, which is separate from the rest of the park, you get handed a slip of paper at the gates reminding you to keep your windows closed at all times. You also have extensive signage absolutely everywhere warning people to keep them shut."
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Cynthia Erivo

I have no clue who or what this is.

I feel like this is pushed to this type of crowd.
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Ray has been gray for so long I wonder why he dyed his hair and beard. Is for another show and not just for this reunion?

Also, Ray on Doris Roberts:
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Here's how good she was: She played the most intrusive, overbearing, nosy woman—always starting fights and whatnot and meddling in our business—and yet when I asked the fans who their favorite character was, all the time it was her. She was so good at portraying the love that was underneath.


She was in a few episodes of The Middle with Patricia Heaton as Brick’s teacher in 2010-2011. Ray was in one episode as well.
The President was not authorized any funding by congress to pay this during shutdown, but we were still collecting taxes and sadly can still print extra money when needed.

I still think only those who actually still had to work during shut down with limited or no pay should be paid that back pay in the full. Anyone else should only be paid a partial amount.