Cowboyfan89

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Every small town south of 1-10 looks just as poor and run down as any poor rundown town in Red River Parish.

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Have to disagree here.

Nine of the Top 10 parishes by percent of population under the poverty line are north of Alexandria, and the 10th is Avoyelles. North Louisiana has always been poorer than south Louisiana.

I've always thought this argument was ridiculous. It's a much smaller set of people than you're even calling out, because anyone west of the Mermentau or east of Mississippi gets called out as not being "real cajun" of "south Louisiana" just as much as north.

The thing that always cracks me up are the ignorant people that draw the lines for "east Texas", "cajun country", "south Arkansas", etc., and always draw places like Ville Platte and Opelousas out of Cajun Country when there is more cajun heritage in the pinky toe of T-Bob Fontenot out in Mamou than 75% of the population in Lafayette.

Lafayette isn't any different from Lake Charles. It just gets a pass from everyone because they French up the street signs and fall right in the middle of Acadiana.

I will say that north Louisiana sucks for one reason though...too many damn pine trees.

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Louisiana Ecological Forestry Center. Does some good stuff, teachers education and handicapped hunts.

LEAF Center

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This.

Its going back in the right direction, but doubt it will ever be public again.

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It's BS that coaches are not allowed to argue a call. It's part of baseball.

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To what end? Like the ump is just going to say, "oh you're right, nevermind bros, that was a ball"?

At some point, enough is enough.

And why did Schnall decide the bottom of the 1st inning was the time to argue over THREE pitches?! All of you white knighting for this guy are insane.

The ump sucked, but Schnall acted like a clown and got what he deserved. And he proved it in the post game with his "Own It" followed by a "but this is everyone else's fault".

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I still think he should have been given a little more rope.

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Bad take.

Its the first inning--he shouldn't have been arguing balls and strikes in the 1st inning with a runner on 2nd.

What legitimate manager/coach, in that game, is arguing balls/strikes that early?

And let's not forget that it's the first base coach that started it. Maybe the ump didn't help things if Schnall asked for an explanation, but he most definitely didn't help things when he came out the dugout throwing up 3 fingers and cussing at him.

Curious how OP feels after the "I'm a man, I'm not going to be SHOOOED" presser.

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I don't know how anyone is seriously defending the way he and his first base coach acted. It was the first inning. Everyone wants to say the umps shouldn't have been so quick--well why were they so quick to argue balls and strikes?

I dont think I've ever seen a coach argue balls and strikes in the 1st inning before.

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Schnall said he stood up and said “two game suspension, bumping an umpire” … Schnall said he was then arguing that he didn’t even touch him and then that’s the “excessive arguing” part

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The first base coach got the same thing.

Not a single report on this (right now) says anything about bumping the umpire. Everything says its a direct result of him continuing to argue balls and strikes after he was ejected.

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I mean it is embarrassing that ump flopped and then got up and said 2 game suspension

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Except that is not even remotely the reason that was given during the broadcast.

The NCAA ruling was a 2 game suspension for continued arguing.

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Any traffic cameras are in violation of the Constitution, period.

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Even if they aren't, the ones in front of the courthouse in Opelousas are in violation of state law. They put them within a half-mile of where the speed limit drops from 35 to 25, which is illegal.

The fact that this nonsense is in this bill is just further proof that someone in OP is getting kickbacks from those cameras.

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Would it be a stretch to say that most of their biologists are democrats?

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Yes.

There's a mix of repubs and dems, like almost any other field. Alot of biologists became biologists because they love hunting, fishing, and the outdoors.

Out of the 2 dozen or so classmates I had in college, maybe 3 or 4 of them were liberal. The rest were good ole boys, and half of them would make you question how they ended up in college...:lol:

The natural resources agencies (well, the ones that actually have to deal with the public, anyway) probably have more conservatives than any other government agencies. I used to work for NRCS--most of those guys were farmers/ranchers or came from farming families. Not what most would consider liberal by any stretch of the imagination.

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Do they have to put it back the way they found it? Do they have to smooth out the ruts and plant grass back or anything?

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There's more to this question than meets the eye.

If anything they are working in is classified as "wetland", then their permit (likely a Nationwide Permit) requires them to restore those areas to pre-construction contours. Failure to do so is a violation of the permit conditions, and could land them in hot water with the Corps of Engineers.

However, if they are operating in wetlands and not using board mats, then they probably aren't even worried about permits to begin with, because that's also a basic condition of that type of work.

This also wouldn't do anything for you in non-wetland areas, and would likely default back to the easement as everyone else has pointed out.