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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?

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143 responses to “Weekend Open Comments”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Hey, It’s the weekend!! I didn’t know if it was going to make it.
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    We had quite a storm here in Clear Lake, yesterday, stared about dark. We only had a little hail early on. Clear, bright and sunny this morning. I put the bedclothes in the washer and I’m hopping that I can hang them outside to dry, nothing smells like sheets dried in the sun….Oh and we got an inch and a half of rain in a couple of hours.

  3. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, Hammy et al. Coffee… Stat.

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Yup, It’s that time of year again; Dave Barry’s 2015 Year in Review.

    Sometimes we are accused — believe it or not — of being overly negative in our annual Year in Review. Critics say we ignore the many positive events in a given year and focus instead on the stupid, the tragic, the evil, the disgusting, the Kardashians.
    OK, critics: We have heard you. This year, instead of dwelling on the negatives, we’re going to start our annual review with a List of the Top 10 Good Things That Happened in 2015. Ready? Here we go:

    1. We didn’t hear that much about Honey Boo Boo.

    2.
    OK, we’ll have to get back to you on Good Things 2 through 10. We apologize, but 2015 had so many negatives that we’re having trouble seeing the positives. It’s like we’re on the Titanic, and it’s tilting at an 85-degree angle with its propellers way up in the air, and we’re dangling over the cold Atlantic trying to tell ourselves: “At least there’s no waiting for the shuffleboard courts!”
    For most Americans, however, the cold wave is not the pressing issue. The pressing issue — which will be debated for years to come — is how, exactly, did the New England Patriots’ footballs get deflated for the AFC championship game. The most fascinating theory is put forth by Patriot Head Coach Bill Belichick, a man who, at his happiest, looks like irate ferrets are gnawing their way out of his colon. He opines — these are actual quotes — that “atmospheric conditions” could be responsible, and also declares that “I’ve handled dozens of balls over the past week.” This will turn out to be the sports highlight of the year.
    Elsewhere on the political front, Hillary Clinton declares her candidacy for president and sets out to demonstrate that she is a regular human by riding to Iowa in a custom van driven by Secret Service agents.

    In Maumee, Ohio, she stops at a Chipotle for takeout, a news event that produces a spasm of political journalism. The New York Times (we are not making this journalism up) breaks the story, reporting that Clinton wore sunglasses and ordered a chicken burrito bowl. Bloomberg gets a follow-up scoop, reporting that the Clinton party’s bill was “$20 and some change” but Clinton “did not leave a tip.” Politico runs a 1,200-word story headlined (we are still not making this up) “The ‘everyday people’ who made Hillary Clinton’s burrito bowl.” Incredibly, nobody thinks to do a profile of the chicken.
    … The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that July was the hottest month globally ever recorded. With a renewed sense of urgency, the world’s industrialized nations vow to continue sending large delegations via jumbo jets to distant conferences on climate change until this darned thing has been licked.
    On the Republican side, Rick Perry and Scott Walker drop out of the presidential race after polls show them both trailing the late Warren G. Harding. Meanwhile Donald Trump continues to present his vision for America’s future in the form of a steady stream of hastily composed tweets insulting people who have offended him.
    A huge military blimp breaks loose from its moorings and rampages across Pennsylvania, wreaking havoc and knocking out power for thousands before being lured back into captivity by a Hello Kitty blimp hastily borrowed from the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade and positioned in what a Pentagon source describes as “a provocative pose.”

    Speaking of havoc, in …

  5. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning again Hamsters.

    In reply to the question Hamous posed above, native and long-time Texans would choose independence, led by Governor Abbott and a goodly hunk of elected officials.

    And maybe joined by a goodly hunk of newcomer refugees from blue states.

  6. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Statehood was the right decision at the time. My how things have changed.

  7. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Tough call. Texas territorial boundaries were much larger then, and Jones envisioned Texas stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific. Of course, the US also had the same vision. Immigration was the key to economic success as farms and settlements were created. Texas had large debts, and ultimately traded territory to the US in exchange for debt settlement. Sam Houston was the pacifistic and proponent of annexation, and his side won the political battle. Only 30 years later did the people of Texas recognize the error of their ways and attempted to resign their statehood by alignment with the Confederacy, but the US proved that, like the roach motel, this was a one way street – once you get in, you can’t get out.

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    For Ms GJT; Happy Birthday Elvis…..I know, a day late and a dollar short.

  9. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    A tear has done been brought to my eye

    El Gordo says:
    JANUARY 8, 2016 AT 9:27 PM

    #50– I’m about to decide that Cruz and Trump are the RINO’s now – the rest of the Republicans are no longer conservative or provide a voice of reason in opposing the liberal direction this once great nation is headed.

  10. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #7 El Gordo, well said, I agree.

  11. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #9, 10: What they said.

  12. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    9 SQK
    Discretion being the better part of valor, I chose not to point out you’ve been singing that song for five years.
    😉

  13. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I remain truly amazed and astounded that y’all consider Trump to be a conservative despite the preponderance of evidence (accumulated over the last five decades) to the contrary. It reinforces my contention that voting in any election in modern day America is an exercise in futility that can only lead to disappointment. Reaching that conclusion has ironically made it more enjoyable to watch the circus since I have no monkeys performing.

    Party on!

  14. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Shannon
    #12

    Moi? I said that stuff? Whodduh thunk it? 🙂
    /SNARK OFF

  15. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Hambone

    just to punctuate the point…………. I will vote if and only if Cruz is the nominee. I do not think even he can be the savior of the Union, but for him I am willing to do my civic duty so I will have some people who do not understand free speech permission to complain. 🙂

    BTW I am still looking for where it says in the Constitution that if one does not vote one does not have the right to complain. I am teachable on this subject.

  16. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    My only duty is to vote for a candidate I feel will further the principles this country was founded on. If no such candidate exists, and all the candidates presented are committed to destroying those principles (just at different rates), it is my duty NOT to vote. Furthermore, I (and others who don’t vote) will be the only ones who DO have a right to complain. Can’t blame me, I didn’t vote for the SOB 😉

  17. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I haven’t noticed anyone around here using the words conservative and Trump in the same breath.

  18. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    You’re not paying attention.

  19. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    In trying to find something for this patient who is refusing all food except the occasional bite of peaches, I went to a Smoothie King around the corner and suffered a bit of sticker shock. Eight bucks for a 20oz High Protein smoothie.
    Ouch.

  20. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Her eating problem dates back to the initial fight with the grill two years ago. A head injury in that fall stole her normal sense of taste and smell. She has only been able to force a few bites meal per since then – even of her own cooking (which she has been doing from memory).
    Following this most recent incident almost everything tastes repulsive to her.

    /although the chocolate smoothie seems to be going down real well.

  21. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Now this is just neat!! Mini Mauser 98,.. and it actually fires the tiny rounds.

  22. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #21: Linky plinky?

  23. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #21: Linky plinky? Fixed! 😀

  24. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    very cool indeed. The mind reels with possibilities. . . .

  25. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Virtual Reality (VR) pr0n is so real it is freaky – according to the author.

  26. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    re my #25: From a social health perspective, I think VR pr0n will make crack cocaine look healthy by comparison.

  27. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This is the banner article on Drudge. If 20% of Ds defect from Pantsuit to T, the Ds are burnt toast. Add to that, there are a sizeable number of blacks that are pro-T.
    I don’t think that Pantsuit will survive if/when the recommendation for indictment comes, regardless of whether or not the Dept of Justice (chortle) chooses to indict and prosecute.

  28. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Trump does not equal conservative. One thing I have noticed is that some of the most vehement anti-Trump people out there have, in the past, publicly said they would vote for anyone just to keep Hillary out. And funnier still is Trump is saying all the things they have wanted to hear.

    They are the same people that have called me and people like me communist basitges for not voting and how important it was 8 years ago to keep Hillary out. This has been the best year of political entertainment I have ever seen. The house of cards is about to fall.

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mom feel again. Slipped off the edge of her bed and feel on her left shoulder…just when she was really beginning to see progress. Her left hand is really cold so I’m waiting until we hear something from the doctor. The nurse thought we’d wait until tomorrow, but Mom could lose her arm by then. It’s really swollen.

    But she’s letting me watch the game who like we’re waiting for the xray people and call back from the doctor.

  30. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Pantsuit clearly says ‘do as I say and not as I do’ with regards to State Dept emails on private servers.
    Leona Helmsley aspires to be this vile.

  31. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I can top that:

    Amid terrorist threats and NK nuke tests, Marine Corps ordered to… ensure gender neutral job titles

    Drop the word man, man

  32. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    And meanwhile out at NRG with 2 minutes until halftime, it is my humble opinion that Mr. Weeden might do a better job at QB.

  33. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    3 Picks and a fumble in 6 possessions, my Aunt could do a better job at QB. . . .

    My only question is whether Hoyer is deliberately trying to throw the game or is he just that inept.

  34. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Since I just purchased the winning powerball ticket I was wondering if y’all thought Squawk could be enticed out of moderator retirement for say, a hundred million dollars?

  35. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    squawkbox says:
    JANUARY 8, 2016 AT 9:24 PM EDIT

    Texpat

    The Belgians are a blackhearted, murderous bunch.

    Is there any euro country’s people you like?

    Well, I like Italians. The Finns are alright as are some Spaniards. I like the Poles and Czechs quite a bit. At the height of the British Empire, the English and Scottish Christian missionaries did some great things with their focus on education and institutions in the Third World and really tried to bring “the Best of the West” to these peoples. The Spanish and Portuguese Catholic priests and missionaries started out well, but over time often became co-opted by which ever local totalitarian despot happened to be in power. It seemed to be a hangover from the medieval dynasties Rome had to appease in Europe.

    During the Colonial Period, the Belgians murdered the citizens of their colonies on a wholesale scale and continued doing so after WWII until they lost control in the 1960s after which they enabled a long line of local thugs to continue their rape of the country.

    The French were most concerned with stealing the local assets, having a drink, a good meal and getting laid by the native girls. They left a trail of disaster and persistent cultural decay wherever they went. See: Haiti, Vietnam, Cote d’ Ivoire, French West Indies, New Orleans, (Montreal gets an Honorable Mention for stellar stupidity).

    Nowadays, Belgians sit around in grand, plush offices in Brussels plundering their fellow Euros and regulating their civilization out of existence. One day, like the Bastille, the Mohammedan mobs will drag the Belgian princes and princesses into the street from their EU castle and their blood will run in the gutters of Brussels.

    Note: I don’t doubt for a minute there is a remnant of fine, upstanding human beings in every nation, in every corner of the earth. My own international experiences certainly confirm this. I am also not surprised many are found in the military institutions of foreign nations that often serve as refuge for selected best and brightest.

  36. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    We older people sure seem fragile. Hubs had some malady, possibly flu, last year and would not eat for about 2 weeks. I was buying all kinds of odd things to try to get some fluid and nutrition in him. He liked banana pudding and toasted cinnamon bread, can’t remember now what I finally got him to drink. He had previously liked those little cans of “fruit nectar” when he was sick, but they didn’t cut it this time. The Food Town a couple of miles from us has somewhat of a hispanic leaning, and they had all sorts of “nectar” flavors that I had never heard of. I tried everything on him. If that popular camel urine drink from Syria had been available, woulda tried that.

    Tedtam, I hope your mother’s arm isn’t badly damaged. Are the employees at her nursing home just aides, no real nurses?

  37. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #34 Shannon
    I’d say YES.

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    When Griffin isn’t dropping passes he’s usually committing a stupid penalty.

  39. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Letting Owen Daniels get away was just one of the really dumb things this management has done.

  40. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    gtotracker says:

    JANUARY 8, 2016 AT 8:37 PM EDIT

    Texpat, if you have not read it you might like Tip & Run by Edward Paice. No excuse for what came after but a great history on how and who the colonial powers were and where they were after WWI.

    Thanks for the book tip. The best WWII history I’ve read in years is Rick Atkinson’s An Army at Dawn. Incredible detailed account of the lead up to the battle for North Africa against Rommel and friends. You get to some passages and wonder how we ever won that war.

  41. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    The Belgians are just Dutch who fancy themselves French.

  42. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    A little “pick me up” story.
    http://conservativetribune.com/uppity-woman-soldier-line/

  43. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Mark Steyn, who is always a good read, has some observations on Trump’s recent appearance in Vermont.
    http://www.steynonline.com/7408/notes-on-a-phenomenon

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    41
    Now that’s funny

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    There’s nothing wrong with Europeans that a bunch of cross breeding and moving to a New World can’t fix.

  46. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Case Keenum is a free agent. I wonder if we can get him to NRG by the Fourth Quarter?

  47. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’m just wondering how long it’s going to be before the USA begins to see a serious influx of illegal European immigrants trying to escape the rotting regimes of their continent.

    When are we going to see pathetic news images of louche, exquisitely coutured, elegantly dissipated eurotrash begging to become refugees to America, to be saved from the Moslem Horde…

    …“Give me your tired, your poor,
    Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
    The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

    You saw it here first.

  48. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    I am afraid all the wheels have come off the Texans since JJ got hurt, and apparently is still trying to play.

  49. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Last we heard about Case was he was in concussion protocol.

  50. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    This just in. I have it on good authority that the advertisers are complaining that the game is getting out of hand and the viewership is dwindling. The message has been sent down to the benches, so look for the Texans to pick up a couple of quick TD’s and get back it in. Then a long drive at the end of the game with the outcome to be decided by a couple of referee calls at the end.

  51. phil Avatar
    phil

    It’s time to….

  52. phil Avatar
    phil

    Instead of calling them RINOs I think the establishment Rs should be called Cornholelicans.

    As in the Badger State Weasel and the Cornholeicans voted to pass the Omnibust bill by assuming their usual position of taking it up the Cornhole again.

  53. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I’m just wondering how long it’s going to be before the USA begins to see a serious influx of illegal European immigrants trying to escape the rotting regimes of their continent.

    Anecdotally, I’ve been seeing it for the last 15 years with my company. Many Dutch and English moving here.

  54. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Lots of Dutchholes in the shipping business.

  55. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    This is getting to be a habit, Doc. 🙂

    http://youtu.be/gmQuIpM4h6A

  56. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    WB
    I’m smoothing down a couple of fingers of Fay’s 15 year old Macallen.
    I don’t want it to go bad before someone can enjoy it.

  57. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #43
    EG, I was just about to post that Mark Steyn column, but ya beat me to it.

    Sure gives the flavor of what those Trump rallies are all about.

  58. phil Avatar
    phil

    The Tom Jones of drummers.

    One cool cat.

  59. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Just read Mark Steyn’s column. Hysterical and riveting simultaneously, and very deep on insight. No wonder the GOPe’s have serious cases of the vapors at the mere mention of his name. Anybody who gives them serious dyspepsia to boot by deftly throwing political correctness and the politically correct on its/their rear ends with a smile warms my heart. And obviously lotsa other folks who just might be encouraged to do the same. Try it, you’ll like it. 😉

  60. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Bonecrusher says:
    JANUARY 9, 2016 AT 3:02 PM
    This is the banner article on Drudge. If 20% of Ds defect from Pantsuit to T, the Ds are burnt toast. Add to that, there are a sizeable number of blacks that are pro-T.
    I don’t think that Pantsuit will survive if/when the recommendation for indictment comes, regardless of whether or not the Dept of Justice (chortle) chooses to indict and prosecute.

    US Snooze lost whatever credibility it had a long time ago. Its always been the poor man’s Newsweek, and still is—and that’s not any kind of compliment, especially these days.

    There will be a number of Dems peeled off at any rate. The Yellow dogs will always vote for whatever curroptocrat the Party runs, but a whole bunch of Bernie’s supporters are new to the game and have noticed that the DNC is stacking the deck against their candidate—whom they think has a legitimate shot. Operationally, they’re not much different than we conservatives were about 8 years ago. The Dems have thier Establishment, and the Republicans have theirs (and there ain’t a dimes worth of difference between the two. Their Liberal wing is beginning to discover that, and I do beleive many of them will stay home if Hillsy is the Candidate.

  61. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #56 –

    I’m smoothing down a couple of fingers of Fay’s 15 year old Macallen

    Lawdy you even sound like a scotch snob Brother! 🙂

  62. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    Texpat or anyone else. This is one of the most interesting and well presented histories I have ever read.

    http://www.amazon.com/Let-Sea-Make-Noise-MacArthur/dp/0060578203

  63. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Wow, the Texans must be so bad that even the refs couldn’t bail them out.

  64. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I was listening to 8 pm radio news while I loaded the dishwasher, and I think I heard that the Texas team was beat something like 112 to zip, zero, nada. Not good.

  65. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Gonna be cold tonight. The wind is howling and has big teeth. It’s 43 on the front porch that faces directly into the blast, so the wind chill must be in the mid 30s by now. Not a night fit for man nor beast outside.

  66. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I don’t always listen to Heart, but when I do they are covering Led Zeppelin

  67. phil Avatar
    phil

    Tonight’s dedication goes out to all the teary-eyed Texan fans.

  68. phil Avatar
    phil

    The refs only help the Ste(a)elers.–Just ask Mike Renfro.

  69. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Anybody watching that game will tell you that the only reason the Bengals got all those last second penalties is because the NFL is just racist. No other reason at all. Those players were just standing around minding their own business, probably even on the bench, when the refs dropped flags all around and started making accusations. I’m certain there will be lawsuits over this miscarriage of justice; probably some refs fired, the Commissioner will apologize and kiss Reverend Al’s butt, the Steelers will pay to refund all the tickets sold to Bengal fans, safe places will be established for those victims of microaggressions, a few new committees will be established to investigate racism in the NFL, and whatever else they can dream up. Count on Obama to call the refs “stupid” if he hasn’t already, and Congress must take a look as well. That ought to teach them.

  70. phil Avatar
    phil

    And then, just at the last minute, the Cornholeicans will step in to pass the Nomorestupidflagsnimus bill to avoid an NFL shutdown and what would surely be a catastrophic cancellation of the Super Bowl.

    Camelot!!
    Camelot!!
    G-d be praised!!

  71. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I grew up watching the series Combat! with Vic Morrow and Rick Jason.
    I’m watching the reruns on the new free TV channel H&I. It is an extraordinarily well done show.

    Just look at the list of guest stars from the Wiki entry on the show:

    In the first season, the then little-known Ted Knight and Frank Gorshin made appearances. Other notable guest stars included Lee Marvin, Robert Duvall, James Coburn, Bill Bixby, Dwayne Hickman, Telly Savalas, Luise Rainer, Charles Bronson, Richard Basehart, Eddie Albert, James Caan, Jeffrey Hunter, Leonard Nimoy, Terry Carter, Ben Cooper, Frankie Avalon, Dan Duryea, Sal Mineo, Neville Brand, Brandon De Wilde, Tab Hunter, Beau Bridges, John Cassavetes, Roddy McDowell, Walter Maslow, Mickey Rooney, Claudine Longet, James Whitmore, Dennis Hopper, Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton, Dennis Weaver, Keenan Wynn, Richard Jaeckel, Fernando Lamas, Ricardo Montalban, Claude Akins, Paul Burke, Warren Oates, Nick Adams, William Smithers, Joan Hackett, Jack Lord, Dean Stockwell, Jack Carter, and Chad Everett.

  72. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Brisk 38 and windy here on the Texas Gulf coast.
    I watched the shellacking in the NRG last night,….. it was just painful.
    Mornin’ Gang

  73. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I cannot believe they allowed THAT chant in OUR freaking building.

  74. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    71 Shannon

    I completely forgot about that show. What a list of actors that is.

  75. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Happy Sunday Hamoustonians!

    I’ll tell ya the BEST place to discover a bike has a rear FLAT tire is the mechanic’s shop!

    the 2nd BEST place to discover a flat is in one’s own garage!!!!!! (and that is where Gracie & I are!)

  76. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is kind of interesting. Verdant Labs is a data research company and they crunched the numbers from the FEC to come up with the Democrat/Republican ratios for everything from flight attendants to neurosurgeons to welders.

    Note the much higher Blue/lower Red factors for every profession dependent on taxpayer dollars for their livelihood. The arts, of course, rate very Blue, but they depend on academia, government grants and, frequently, taxpayer funded programs and facilities for their projects.

    The military doesn’t follow that rule, of course.

    USAF – 79 Republicans / 21 Democrats
    USMC – ” ” ” ”
    US Army – 56 Republicans / 44 Democrats
    US Navy – 54 Republicans / 46 Democrats

    Veterinarians – 51 Rs / 49 Ds
    Exterminators – 85 Rs / 15 Ds
    Union Organizer – 01 R / 99 Ds
    Chemists – 30 Rs / 70 Ds

    Of the 24 job titles listed under Science and Math, only Petroleum Geologists and Geologists show a majority of Republicans.

    Remember, this data is taken from federal election databases so it is limited to people who actually vote. I looked for a category for Cranky Old Retired Website Moderators, but all I got was a big error message.

  77. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Here’s what “constitutional scholar” Obama really taught at law school.

    Among the lies about himself Obama consistently repeats is that he was a constitutional law professor.

    Lie one: Obama was never a professor; he was a lecturer. He did not have the qualifications to be a professor. Obama never published a single law paper. He was hired by the University of Chicago when they learned he had been given a book contract on race and law directly after graduating from Harvard. There was no book – just the contract, which he later reneged on. This is not the normal level of accomplishment for a University of Chicago professor or even lecturer.

    Obama was not capable of writing, and eventually, after failing to deliver, he changed it to a memoir, which he also struggled with. Finally, he asked Bill Ayers to write his memoir for him, using tapes that Michelle dropped off at the Ayerses’.

    Lie two: Obama did not specialize in the Constitution. Obama cared about and taught only one subject: race. One course was about race in the Constitution. It is on this flimsy basis that he attempts to pawn himself off as a constitutional scholar.

  78. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #76 –

    I looked for a category for Cranky Old Retired Website Moderators, but all I got was a big error message.

    ROFLMAO 🙂

  79. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good chilly, breezy morning Hamsters. Sunny and bright 35 at 7, nippy of course but not roaring wind chill with fangs like last night.

    Have not opened the Chron yet other than to separate all the ads. First priority is the comics in the real comics section along with breakfast. After that and a cup of hot chocolate comes just about the rest of the paper that is riddled with comic pieces not so labeled of course and definitely not humorous. Sports section will be the most painful to read. God bless JJ and heal him fast. And while He is at it, pour some common sense into the heads Texans’ management.

  80. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I looked for a category for Cranky Old Retired Website Moderators, but all I got was a big error message.

    I submitted a request for the addition to the categories but my request was denied. Urinated me off.

  81. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #77 – He said “reneged”……..

  82. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    As we speak, Channel 11 is running a 20 min, (so far) political ad for Hiltlery, masquerading as an interview,…..asking tough questions and following up, after a BS answer,…………NOT!!! SPITS~

  83. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #77 Super Dave

    Another smashing article exposing the Fraud Obama in detail. Listeners/viewers of Sean Hannity got a good look into who Baracky was in 2007, including Rev. Wright’s Black Liberation Theology church, buddying up with Calypso Louie’s Nation of Islam, Bill Ayers (domestic terrorist) as ghost author, the fake constitutional law professor as exposed by a real law prof at the University of Chicago who ended his comments by saying Baracky was “not tenure track material”. The greatest understatement and slight the prof could get away with, IMHO. And to start with an expose of his communist family, mentors, lack of college records and supposed classmates who never saw him, pictures of him doing drugs at Occidental, etc, etc, etc.

    Anybody who was paying attention would have spotted him as a dangerous ringer.

  84. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    OK, so who’s fault is that I have Scotch ads popping up on my page.

  85. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #81 EG

    Yes, that “unfortunate” word appeared in the article. Will the author be hounded as a racist for using that word, or is it less obvious and hurtful than “niggardly”? Perhaps the race baiters are too ignorant to ever have heard of it and don’t know how to look it up to see if it is a real word. Or don’t want to find out it is and doesn’t mean what they want it to.

  86. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #83 Yes, but the Lame Stream Media made sure that it wasn’t brought out. It is a shame that 90% of the media is just an extension of the Democrat Party. We no longer have the most important voice in a Republic a “Free Press” They’re more like Pravda.

  87. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #83 – I’m afraid the same is true with Hillary. Her supporters will stick with her if they have video of her eating babies. I guess some people are just that way.

    Long ago, I stopped watching NFL football (and all other pro sports except baseball). But, last night I turned on the Bengals/Steelers game since I could get it on the computer, and it didn’t take me long to remember why I stopped watching. I kept the game on while doing other chores and sat back down with a couple of minutes left in the game – Berngals leading by 1 point and driving the ball down the field to run out the clock. Then a fumble, Steelers get it on their own 9, very little time left. Bengals started acting like a bunch of chimps at the zoo, and next thing they knew, their season was over. The main perps in their demise were strutting around like bantam roosters when they should have been run out of the stadium. I remember an old movie called “Rollerball” where the game gets more and more vicious to statisfy and motivate crowd behavior until they are literally killing players. Almost back to the gladiator days where the battle was to the death. NFL, all the while promoting more player safety and political correctness everywhere, seems to be headed that way. Refs control the outcome of the game, players are rewarded if they get by with a rule violation, and outlandish behavior is the rule rather than the exception. The good news is that most of the players wind up in jail sooner or later anyway. I seem to remember the Commissioner celebrating one week when no NFL player was arrested the previous week.

  88. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well my Perdido Vineyards wine made it back from Alabama, Sweet Muscadine, Ecor Rouge, (dry red) and Satsuma Balsamic vinegar. I usually don’t like sweet wine, but this wine always takes me back to the old scuppernong vine back home in Alabama. One glass after supper is pretty good.

  89. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #76 Texpat
    I suspect the reason IT is so BLUE is it has been overwhelmed by people of foreign origin. Of course, brand spanking new H1-Bs can’t vote, but many foreigners who started out on student visas eventually got citizenship. Example: Schlumberger IT is heavily non-native, mostly Asian. Also lots of Europeans transferred to Houston by SLB ended up as US citizens, and they are all sickeningly liberal.

    Oddly, several that I knew had planned to retire back to their home countries eventually — that applies even to Canadians! — but I wonder if those plans have gone sour for Brits and Frenchies.

  90. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Super Dave

    OK, so who’s fault is that I have Scotch ads popping up on my page.

    Well heck here let me help you out 🙂

    TOILET

    Homedepot

    Lowes

    DIY

    ROTOROOTER

    Hair Removal

  91. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I looked for a category for Cranky Old Retired Website Moderators, but all I got was a big error message.

    Was this the error message?

  92. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Mitch McDonnell just told a whopper of a lie.

    George Steppingoffinus asked Mitch what he thought about the attacks from the residential candidates concerning his leadership he said:

    I think we should let the presidential race play out and we will continue to do the job the people elected us to do.

    and with that I will leave you with this good read

    Neo-conservatives make the argument that Donald Trump will destroy the Republican Party.

    Cool.

    Many people in the Republican Party would consider destroying the party to be icing on the cake. A two-fer, really. Trump builds a wall and destroys the Republican Party at the same time.

    Voters have a legitimate beef. In 2010, the Tea Party flipped the House Republican in a historic fashion. The net gain of 63 seats meant nearly a quarter of the party’s House membership drank tea, not Kool-Aid. Things went OK for a while. Boehner and company actually shut down the government to force concessions from our socialist president. But then in 2012, Obama played the race card, through a posthumous adoption of Trayvon Martin. Elected to a second term, Obama played hardball, and the Republicans shut down the government again. Things were working well. In 2014, the Tea Party gave Republicans the Senate. And what happened?

    Nothing.

  93. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Aw, rats, I thought any invalid URL would show Squawks trying on hats. 🙁

  94. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    That’ll learn ya. 🙂

  95. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Here ya go MHarper. Is this what you seek?

  96. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Yes!

  97. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Bookmark it for later. 🙂

  98. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    84
    I’m clueless.

  99. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    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.

  100. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #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 we saw was quite enough thuggery to have several players kicked out of the game, with great expectations for big fines and suspensions from the league. Just because the Steelers won does not and should not negate fines and suspensions effective for the 2016 season.

    And when it looked like the Bengals had won with only a few seconds left, a bunch of them headed for the locker room, which is forbidden until the game is actually over. About then we wondered if the coaching staff had any control at all over this bunch of thugs.

  101. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    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.

  102. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    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.

  103. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #102: You should call that venomous [ B WORD] and let her know how much more valuable people are than dogs.

  104. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    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.

  105. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    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?

  106. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #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. 🙁

  107. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #102 Hamous

    Could tell her to call the Houston SPCA to investigate, ’cause they will. And they have clout.

  108. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    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

  109. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    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…

  110. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    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?

    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.

  111. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #108

    I’d be all ROFL but this IS an ER…thanks for tge big smile. I needed that.

  112. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Could tell her to call the Houston SPCA to investigate, ’cause they will. And they have clout.

    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.

  113. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Hammie’s neighborhood Civic Club is pretty lenient.

  114. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Saw the new map indicating gun owners in Texas on FB, hilarious! Don’t know how to link it.

  115. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Here it is

    http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2013/02/17/texas-released-a-map-of-location-of-gun-owners/

  116. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    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 and making noxious body noises as Zero tried to tell everyone what a great President he has been and how he’s going to be even greater in his last year, etc.

  117. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    So, I just turned on the tube and I’m guessing that at least two of us here know that Green Bay is playing. 😉

  118. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    #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 HEB chicken was $3 at the time. Named ’em Vince and Elkins. Vince, the male, would follow me into the garage and wait for me to open the fridge. Once I was working under the dash of my truck. When I came out to get something Vince was sitting on the side mirror looking down at me. Some mornings he was sitting on the truck mirror when I went jogging. I’d walk by him and say ‘get a job’ or something. I thought the whole thing hilarious. The wife, not so much. I had to stop feeding them and they eventually moved on.

  119. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Green Bay 17, Washington 11 at the half. Vikings lost to the Seahawks at the last minute.

  120. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #118 GTO: The only guy I have ever heard of to have pet buzzards.

  121. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    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. A vulture chick was the department mascot on the label.

  122. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    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.

  123. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This is getting to be fun.

    HEADLINE: Bernie Sanders’ Popularity Making Hillary Clinton Campaign ‘Nervous’

  124. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    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.

    🙂

  125. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    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.

  126. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    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 they can do is appeal to the city to enforce existing ordinances. We went through a board a few years ago that tried to sneak in a change to our by-laws making it an HOA and all the gestapo tactics that provides. There was a severe backlash and they were all thrown out. The by-laws can be amended during a short window once every 10 years so I expect them to try again now that all the hipster douchebags have moved in.

  127. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    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.

  128. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    What a shame.

    It’s worse than we thought.

    I loaded the Google Maps streetview for Hamous’ neighborhood and this guy turned up.

  129. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Packers live to play next week, 35-18 over the Redskins. They looked like the Packers of old in the second half.

  130. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #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.

  131. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    It’s worse than we thought.

    Grow the mustache out and twist it on the ends and you’ve got about 25% of the population of my neighborhood.

  132. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    New Dim mascot/symbol.

  133. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    That’s how Hammy’s neighborhood is labeled on the Judgemental Map of Houston.

    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.

  134. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    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

  135. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    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 is that one cleaning up and washing dishes could not avoid seeing what happened a lot in that line of view. Vultures are pretty horny lot and have a lot of sex. Each bird has a way of enticing the other to ‘let’s get it on’ dance. I’ll never forget my wife’s face when she looked out the window and the birds were going at it.

  136. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Voyeur.

  137. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #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.

  138. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    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.

  139. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    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.

    Saw a piece on the 10 pm news last night that Ted Cruz will not be attending Obama’s State of the Union show. Good for him. Reportedly the other senators running for the GOP nomination will be attending.

    Spouse is telecommuting today, so I shall be absent until later this afternoon. Carry on. 🙂

  140. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    RIP David Bowie. He was definitely one of a kind and an extremely talented individual.

  141. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    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.

  142. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    New OC Thread is up y’all.

  143. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Oh Tedtam, here lately your plate runneth over. And you are the tentpole holding your mother up. What hospital is she in?

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