On this day in Texas history in 1858, Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas, offed himself in Houston in the former capitol building of the Republic. He is the only president of a sovereign nation buried in Harris County.
Jones was against annexation and was nearly overthrown for that position.
Meanwhile, public sentiment for annexation and resentment against Jones mounted. He was burned in effigy, and threats were made to overthrow his government, but he remained silent until Charles Elliot returned from Mexico with the treaty of recognition. On June 4, 1845, Jones presented to the people of Texas the alternative of peace and independence or annexation. The Texas Congress rejected the treaty with Mexico, approved the joint resolution of annexation, and adopted resolutions censuring Jones.
What would the people of Texas choose today?
Oh Tedtam, here lately your plate runneth over. And you are the tentpole holding your mother up. What hospital is she in?
New OC Thread is up y’all.
Keep us in your prayers. Mom fractured her shoulder and is now in ICU. It was touch and go last night but I was able to leave about 4 a.m. Back again to see what this day brings.
RIP David Bowie. He was definitely one of a kind and an extremely talented individual.
Good Monday morning Hamsters. Missed covering plants last night because clouds were moving in at bedtime, so here we are at 31 out in the back yard at 7 with no patio plants covered or moved onto the back porch. Shall see what damage occurred once daylight arrives. But there surely must be frost on the pasture grass and roofs.… Read more »
Well I’ve waited about as long as I can, so good morning. GJT was up early this morning too. It’s Monday, the first work day of the new week, so let’s get moving. Carpe diem.
#134
That’s funny as hell EG, so it’s not just us Houston sports fans with the jinx? Bet they never got shut out in a playoff game though, or Buffalo…. so there.
Voyeur.
Having vultures hanging around was an education. We have two types, red head and black headed versions. Our house has a window in front of the kitchen sink. Across from that is the single story flat roofed neighbor’s house. That was where the vultures spent most of their time whether I was tossing out chicken thighs or not. The point… Read more »
Here’s how some of the folks in Minnesota are taking today’s loss. Be sure to watch the embedded video clips as well.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/01/are-you-a-minnesota-sports-fan-no-congratulations.php
Nah, I’m in Barrioland, sandwiched between Mexicans Who Like Trains and Married Pretentious White People. The MPWP have priced themselves out of the Heights so they’ve been moving into Barrioland for a few years now.
New Dim mascot/symbol.
Grow the mustache out and twist it on the ends and you’ve got about 25% of the population of my neighborhood.
#128 Texpat
That must be a Mexican hipster that likes trains. That’s how Hammy’s neighborhood is labeled on the Judgemental Map of Houston.
Packers live to play next week, 35-18 over the Redskins. They looked like the Packers of old in the second half.
What a shame.
It’s worse than we thought.
I loaded the Google Maps streetview for Hamous’ neighborhood and this guy turned up.
Adee
Watching the Packers has been so painful lately that with the rocky start this evening I turned it off and watched a movie. Just now checked on the game…
Perhaps I should give up watching them altogether so they’ll continue to win.
Hammy, my HOA is a Civic Club, too. By name. I don’t think there is any difference, certainly not if each property owner pays a fee and gets certain services in return. Civic Clubs (at least as ours was formed 50 years ago) have no authority to collect mandatory dues. It’s all voluntary. They cannot assess fines. No foreclosures. All… Read more »
GTO
#118
Great story. My lovely wife would prolly cut me up and throw me to the buzzards if I did what you did. Great call Vince and Elkins. Spewed chinese food all over the screen with that one. too funny.
118 goat
Has to be in the top ten all time stories from this group of misfits. How selfish of you to keep it stashed away all these years.
I always knew deep down you were a weirdo. Thanks for the confirmation.
🙂
This is getting to be fun.
Hammy, my HOA is a Civic Club, too. By name. I don’t think there is any difference, certainly not if each property owner pays a fee and gets certain services in return.
Sugar Land was full of turkey vultures back when I was working down there. They would nest in the shrubbery during the spring, then rear their yuge chicks on some shaded patios, encrusting the chairs and tables with bird doo. The department I was in got reassigned to the Galleria area and a farewell party photo CD was put together.… Read more »
#118 GTO: The only guy I have ever heard of to have pet buzzards.
Green Bay 17, Washington 11 at the half. Vikings lost to the Seahawks at the last minute.
#113 Squak, I actually had something sort of like that once. While I was working in Brownsville a pair of vultures showed up at the house in Sugar Land. They went into the garage. My wife blamed me somehow. When I got back they were still hanging around. So I started tossing chicken at them. 10 lbs of dark meat… Read more »
So, I just turned on the tube and I’m guessing that at least two of us here know that Green Bay is playing. 😉
Just wondering what would happen if Trump showed up at the State of the Union diatribe this year. Wouldn’t that be something to see virtually all those politicians trying to ignore that elephant in the room – or better yet, expressing their outrage that he dared to intrude into their private domains. He could just sit there rolling his eyes… Read more »
Here it is
http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2013/02/17/texas-released-a-map-of-location-of-gun-owners/
Saw the new map indicating gun owners in Texas on FB, hilarious! Don’t know how to link it.
Hammie’s neighborhood Civic Club is pretty lenient.
That’s what I told her, while suppressing my urge to tell her she should introduce legislation to decriminalize dog abuse during the first 12 months.
#108
I’d be all ROFL but this IS an ER…thanks for tge big smile. I needed that.
No, no. I manage the Nextdoor site for our neighborhood. And we don’t have a HOA. We’ve got a kinder, gentler Civic Club. They are prohibited by law from being totalitarian like HOAs.
Well, my plans for the day changed. The xray results came in this morning and Mom broke the shoulder that she’s been working on so hard in therapy. We’re at the ER and waiting for new pics of the shoulder and neck. I’m glad they’re looking at the neck, cuz Mom couldn’t feel her arm earlier…
http://tribunist.com/technology/sr-71-blackbird-pilot-trolls-arrogant-fighter-pilot-with-ground-speed-check/?utm_content=bufferef505&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
A fun pilot story
#102 Hamous
Could tell her to call the Houston SPCA to investigate, ’cause they will. And they have clout.
#101 Shannon
Folks who loved Woody Hayes as football coach of Ohio State and his successors who make the Big 10 + 4 still think it’s a college team. 🙁
I’m almost skeered to ask… Hammy, haz you gone over to what y’all call the dark side and got yourself on an HOA board?
If she’s that concerned about the welfare of the dogs, the obvious thing for her to do would be to let them into her own house.
#102: You should call that venomous [ B WORD] and let her know how much more valuable people are than dogs.
So I get a message on Nextdoor last night from my Texas rep, the abortion dancing queen, asking me to call her. She wanted me to confront another neighbor about his dogs being outside on a freezing night. She’s a dog lover, dontcha know. Babies…not so much.
I don’t know what kind of low life Yankee scum they produce in Ohio, but Bengals fans cheered the injury and threw beer bottles at Steeler quarterback Ben Roethlisberger as he was carted off the field last night.
#87 El Gordo Aha, 100 We stumbled into the Bengals/Steelers game tuning in to 11 hoping for the 6 pm news. It was early in the 4th Q I think, and we stayed with it waiting for the news. Got the impression that it had been Thug City on the Bengals’ part most of the game before we arrived. What… Read more »
With the help of an old PCMag article I was able to place a stake in the heart of Ask dot com on my laptop.
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I’m clueless.
Bookmark it for later. 🙂
Yes!
Here ya go MHarper. Is this what you seek?
That’ll learn ya. 🙂