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Some Karen is concerned of people having fun.

The Pentagon has responded to a globally-released ‘Kill List’, asking law enforcement to give extra protection for military personnel whose personal information was released,News Channel 10 reports. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports the Pentagon spent the weekend notifying the soldiers who appeared on the list, and urged city police departments and military police to increase patrol in the neighborhoods where the targeted live. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) published the list days ago, a report that contained names, photos, and home addresses of U.S. Armed Forces personnel, causing alarm in cities potentially at high-risk....

These people are unfair and manipulate the judicial system. Jennifer Tharp should not be re-elected.

Prayers needed for BornToBeAmerican who is unemployed and searching for work. Wife, Jani, suffers from breast cancer and is undergoing chemo now. They live in Texas, near New Braunfels, if any FReeper can help with employment.

A middle school principal threatened to kill a group of science teachers if their students did not improve their standardized test scores, according to a complaint filed with the New Braunfels Police Department. Anita White, who taught at New Braunfels Middle School for 18 years before being transferred this month to the district's Learning Center, said Principal John Burks made the threat in a Jan. 21 meeting with eighth-grade science teachers. She said Burks was angry that scores on benchmark tests were not better, and the scores on the upcoming Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills tests must show improvement....

One public school district voted Monday night to begin offering a new bible class as part of its curriculum. The elective course is called "The Bible and its Influence." Board members voted six to one to approve the new class. "The Bible is a fundamental document," says Rosalyn Bratcher with the New Braunfels ISD. "It has had a great influence in terms of politics, art, music, literature." The district says this course does not violate the First Amendment. "What makes it compliant is that we are teaching the Bible as a textbook and a document," adds Bratcher. Northeast ISD already...

Danger! No alerts have been issued concerning the Canyon Lake dam near San Antonio, but much closer to New Braunfels Texas. The water level in Canyone Lake is so high, it has begun to enter the spillway, and even is now coming over the earthen dam which could break due to erosion of the soil as water passes over it. Never in the history of this lake has water come over the spillway, and most certainly, it has never reached 944 feet above sea level and then over the dam itself. So, if you live along the Guadelupe river south...