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The Spoke – The Way I Remember It

The Sign Over the Door from the Restaurant Into the Dance Hall

The Broken Spoke in 2015

This used to be so far south in Austin, almost in the country, most didn’t dream hideous buildings would ever be built there.

The apartment buildings today are taller because the land is so much more expensive.  Many of these new apartment /condo structures are just as ugly, if not more so, as a lot of the junk built in the 1960s and 1970s.


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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    So, you cleared that up.
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    When Americans, Canadians and Europeans aren’t shipping and dumping all their garbage on Third World countries, they are using extortion as the weapon on the world’s poor farmers to keep them imprisoned and shackled, on the brink of starvation and death by forcing them to accept primitive agricultural practices.

    The fatal conceit of the Left becomes a real weapon of genocide.

    In Ethiopia, on January 9, a massive swarm nearly brought down a Boeing 737 jetliner. 

    In this era of incredible modern agricultural and insect control technologies, when American farmers get 3-5 times more crop yields per acre than 50 years ago – how is it possible that Africa remains perpetually on the brink of starvation? That Africa faces yet another locust plague of biblical pharaoh proportions? That Africans must rely on absurd “time-tested,” almost totally ineffective locust control methods?

    and,

    For years now, the FAO, UN Development Programme and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) have been working in cahoots with some of the most radical environmentalist pressure groups on Earth to devise and impose “agroecology” – a perverse combination of socialism, pseudo-ecology and primitive, anti-technology agriculture.

    and,

    Agroecology is above all political. It rejects virtually everything that has enabled modern agriculture to feed billions more people from less acreage. It rabidly opposes monoculture farming, hybrid seeds, synthetic/non-organic insecticides and fertilizers, biotechnology … and even mechanized equipment like tractors! It claims Dr. Norman Borlaug’s Green Revolution, which saved a billion people from starvation, did little more than put global food production “under the control of a few transnational corporations.”

  3. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Hosni Mubarak has assumed room temperature.Hosni Mubarak has assumed room temperature.Hosni Mubarak has assumed room temperature.

    edit: Why does the gerbil make this type of repetition? I only typed it one time.

  4. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Weinstein Cleared Of All Charges After Revealing He Was Born This Way

    Breaking news here.

  5. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #2 TP: Limbaugh said a few weeks ago that the Left has no desire whatsoever to help anybody, least of all the poor. What they really want is to own them.

    Meanwhile in Western China, the locust plague that ate Africa has moved into China. They are deploying 100,000 spy-ducks to attack the problem.

    Just east of there, the people have been confined to quarters due to the Kung Fu Flu for the last several weeks. This is a big farming/ranching region region. With no one to feed the livestock, thousands are dying and no one is dealing with the rotting corpses.
    .This story blames the massive deaths on a blizzard

    I realize TP posted about this last night, but it is worth the repost. Between the lunacy of the UN and agroeconomy and the locusts and the Kung Fu Flu, we could see the starvation of millions of people. Literally millions of people.
    This whole thing is starting to look like the 10 plagues that got Egypt in the Book of Exodus. Pestilence, locusts, frogs, what is next – hail from a clear sky that burns?

  6. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Kurt Schlichter has a great column here.

  7. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Holy cow.
    That third photo is the most depressing thing I’ve seen in a long time.

  8. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Just in case you missed this a couple of days ago.

    https://youtu.be/iruf0Qc7saw

  9. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Mharper
    See my last comment last night about the Big Wheel restaurant in Oak Hill.

  10. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    BTW, that’s a great link under the first photo.

  11. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Judge Amy Berman Jackson really should be impeached and removed from the court, and disbarred for her blatant violations of basic impartiality. That she allowed the forwhorperson to not be stricken, even though she was obviously hopelessly biased, is grounds for a dismissal of all charges.

  12. El Gordo Avatar

    Morning gang. Wow, I wake up this morning, get my coffee, come sit down on the couch, and discover that the world is coming to an end right before my very eyes. Famine, pestilence, disease – where will it end? Maybe the dinosaurs will make a come back. Meanwhile, I’m just gonna sit back out here and watch outside to see what happens next. Maybe Bernie will win the Presidential race, but more likely, hiliary will be the nominee and will fail once again. BTW, if you don’t believe that the Dems are working 24/7 to turn Texas blue, using every trick they can find, legal or not, then you are not paying attention. The level of fraudulent voting this time around will be unprecedented, and then there will be fraudulent vote counting, fraudulent vote reporting, and anything else you can think of. The Dems are calling for unity while ignoring any claims for sanity. The good news is that I’m old enough to stand my ground without fear of reprisal, so as they say, keep your powder dry. Don’t ant Texas turning into something like Houston or Dallas.

    Bright and sunny out here, and comfortably warm as well. I hear there is a change on the way, but I’ll enjoy this while I can. I’m hoping that you all have a great day, and I’ll report in later as things develop. More later.

  13. El Gordo Avatar

    #11 – everyone knew who Amy Berman Jackson was when she was nominated, yet there were plenty of eReps in the Senate who voted for her. Here at election time, it probably would not hurt to name those Senators out loud. Everyone knew that the fix was in when she randomly got assigned all the cases brought by Mueller – amazing luck of the draw there. She is a know activist judge, but you can’t impeach judges for their rulings – only for misbehavior, illegal acts, etc. The only hope really would be to try to get her peer judges to disown her, to isolate her, and to come down publically on her decisions – but the Chief Justice ways there are no Obama judges, only federal judges, so that’s not likely to happen. But there is no question about it – she’s white trash to the highest power.

    BTW, she was approved by the Senate 97-0. Cornholio and Hutchinson were both yeas.

  14. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Those shelves at Wallyworld are going to be pretty empty next Christmas without merchandise from China.

    And not just Wallyworld.

  15. Hamous Avatar

    Holy cow.
    That third photo is the most depressing thing I’ve seen in a long time.

    As the younguns say, “OK, Boomer”

  16. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #59 last night & #9 Shannon

    Yep, I think you solved my problem regarding the Big Wheel. The location fits well with my memories of a drive out into the country, on a road that was an extension of S. Lamar.  But there was an actual wooden wagon wheel near the entrance. Leaning up against a porch railing or maybe a big rock.  Inside, I remember eating in a room that was diner-like, with booths lining the walls.

  17. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Let’s see how the “recuse-o-crats” feel when the rules they apply to us are applied in like fashion to them. . . .

    HEADLINE: Trump calls for Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg to recuse themselves

    We all know that those two are about as far away from non-biased as a human can get – and they have been vocal about it. A reasonable application of their own rules would dictate that they recuse themselves. . . . . but we all know that they
    won’t.

  18. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    Stephanie Ruhle makes communist pretzels.

    Here’s a glimpse of tomorrow’s featured instructional video on MSNewspeakBC.

  19. Katfish Avatar

    Virginia Libs playing DIRTY pool!

    A Republican state senator in the Virginia General Assembly condemned state Democrats, for denying Virginia deputies a pay increase of 3 percent after some state sheriffs publicly refused to enforce Gov. Ralph Northam’s anti-gun agenda, The Epoch Times reports.

    https://amgreatness.com/2020/02/24/virginia-lawmakers-nix-sheriff-pay-raise-amid-gun-control-debate/

  20. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    20 Katfish

    That’s kinda weird…sheriffs are state employees in Virginia.

    In Texas, sheriffs are elected by County voters, are County employees, and their departments are financed by County budgets.

  21. El Gordo Avatar

    For some reason I’ve been derelict in reminding you all that the Battle of the Alamo has been underway for 3 days now, a few years ago. I don’t think there is a more inspiring story that Texas battle for independence, for freedom, and for a government trying to impose its will on others. I know today of not one single weasely politician who would be willing to back up his words with his personal honor and his life. They are only there to suck the wealth of others hard earned sweat and toil for their own ends – Trump may be an exception. Without venturing off into the woods there, he seems to be to want to do the right thing regardless of personal or political considerations. Anyway, there are a number of Texas history sites out there that feature a day by day history of the events leading up to the Texas revolution, and the significance of the Battle of the Alamo in keeping the Mexican army occupied for a couple of weeks in a situation that should have been over in a matter of hours.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ0AbehLml4&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1xfUkscTn0Xpi-o7UzxXtyYE2S5tTcKQuS1X1Ph2NS33Y8L9ztBgOctzI

    The Texas Declaration of Independence, Travis’ letter from the Alamo seeking help and declaring his intentions to hold out no matter what – these are the people we owe our existence to today. So, don’t forget about those brave mostly illiterate Texans who came before us.

  22. El Gordo Avatar

    And Marty Robbins covered the event pretty well – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbX1JKknS04

  23. Tedtam Avatar

    “I am Patrick” comes out March 17 and 18; tickets through Fathom Events, the same folks I got my tickets for “The Reliant”. About the life of St. Patrick. The trailer looks pretty good. Seriously considering parting with some of my hard earned cash to support this film.

  24. Hamous Avatar

    Needed a quick lunch so I stopped at Wendy’s. My burger had two bun tops and no bottom. Is that a new thing?

  25. Tedtam Avatar

    Dyslexic burger maker.

  26. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’ve been derelict

    Me, too.

    As they say, No Time:

    https://youtu.be/NPX48NpSRvo

  27. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Matching buns are nice.

  28. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    My burger had two bun tops and no bottom. Is that a new thing?

    I think it’s in recognition of National Man-Bun Day.

  29. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I am washing my washable My Pillows today.  Had to figure out how to set the “new” GE washer to do an extra Spin cycle to swirl out more water.  Both are in the dryer now.  My timing/planning was a bit wonky so chances are today’s nap will have to be taken on other pillows.

  30. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    So we supposedly had only a few people quarantined with corona now the CDC says expect it to spread wildly across the country while the Newspeak Media says the corona outbreak will help the naked communist Burnie get elected as our totalitarian and benevolent dictator.

    I smell a Deep State Psyops Rat and it ain’t WiLLaRd the Mitt dEfecTiVe.

    If it’s so bad why are all the illegal aliens including illegal Chinese aliens being allowed to come waltz right in?

    Lying sacks of shinola in government from the local dog catcher to aDaM the Schiffty Schitter.

     

  31. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Wow, the dryer is just about to enter the “Cool Down” sequence, so if I can keep my eyes open another few minutes, I may get a better nap. The pillows are SOOOO poofy now. ( N.B. That’s poofy, not poofty.)

     

  32. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Ding! Ding! Ding! Naptime…

     

  33. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    Not a suicide Like Philip Haney?

  34. Sarge Avatar

    Go, right now, without hesitation, to Hot Air and read the article titled “Excuse me, what?”

    Not enough popcorn in the world…..

  35. Hamous Avatar

    More monkeyshines from 35

    Herpes-riddled monkeys rampage as humans infected by ‘out of control’ macaques.

    Rhesus macaques are on the rampage on the banks of the Silver River in Florida and are constantly breeding and expanding their range – bringing them into conflict with people.

  36. Hamous Avatar

    Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d ever see such a ruling from the 9th. Thanks, Harry Reid, wherever you are.

  37. Hamous Avatar

    Apparently, Jolting Joe is running for Senate. He was also arrested trying to visit Mandela in jail in 1989. He later convinced Deng Xiaoping (who retired in 92 and died in 97) to join the climate change fight. He’s the Forest Gump of presidential candidates.

  38. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    Deep State psyops confirmed.

    Ir’s not all about the O  it’s all about the power and control.

  39. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    Never let a good crisis go to waste so says the Rat’s best friend.

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Weird Tom Steyer is polling 3rd in SC.

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    36 Sarge

    Going all in on taking down Bernard.

  42. Hamous Avatar

    …but he [Sanders] qualified that criticism by praising the literacy program implemented by Castro, asking, “Is that a bad thing?”

    Ok, Tio Bernie. Hitler and the Nazis “had one of the largest public welfare programs in history, based on the philosophy that all Germans should share a standard of living.”

    Is that a bad thing?

  43. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #42: If I recall correctly, didn’t the state Dept overrule the CDC about repatriating the US citizens that were on the quarantined cruise ship and were infected with COVID-19? When Trump heard about it he was furious.
    What a great reason, (#175,000) to clean out the State department as they clearly do not have the best interests of THE USA as a priority, in fact they are consistently promoting things that weaken us.

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Call me what you wish, but I’m in favor of helping Americans get home, if they need the help. And providing quarantine for them, too.

  45. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    CDC is also for open borders.
    Confucius say beware of those who chew on both sides of their cheeks.

  46. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    47 shannon
    commie

  47. Hamous Avatar

    Nothing to worry about now with the covid. This genius is now on the case.

  48. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’m drunk blogging the debate for y’all.

    I just don’t have anything to say yet.

  49. Katfish Avatar

    #51 – Lord HELP us!!

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’m going to suggest that y’all go watch the debate.

    It is highly entertaining.

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Unca Joe takes credit for the 25 year extension of the Voting Right Act.

    Excuse me, Joe, George W. Bush is wholly responsible for the renewal of the Voting Rights Act.

    I may not live long enough to figure out how to forgive that one.

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Breaking:

    Bernie reports that the US has more people incarcerated than China.

  53. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    All you weed enthusiasts can rest easy.

  54. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Tonight’s debate is Save Warren Night, apparently.

    Nora refuses to rein her in and enforce her clock.

  55. Hamous Avatar

    Bernie reports that the US has more people incarcerated than China.

    All those Chinese aren’t incarcerated. They’re in reeducation camps.

  56. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Shocking:

    Bernie is stupid enough to defend his defense of Communist and socialist regimes.

  57. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Lina Hidalgo proposes county-funded immigrant defense program

    Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo has proposed the creation of a county-funded legal services program for immigrants, including those in the county illegally and facing deportation.

    Boo. Hiss.

  58. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Token black on the panel finally gets to ask a question.

    He serves up a meringue softball to Unca Joe about Russian cyber interference in our elections and our potential retaliation.

    I’m embarrassed for the guy.

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    62 mharper

    Yes, I caught that.

    And the day before, the Mayor announces a policing initiative. (Which he admits will need to be financed by donations.)

    The Houston area is in good hands.

  60. Hamous Avatar

    Reeducation camps – is that a bad thing?

    Bread lines – is that a bad thing?

  61. Tedtam Avatar

    I had plans to create a rosary or two while watching Satan’s minions on TV. I couldn’t find my special thread, though.

    Dangit.

    Oh, and Bootyjudge just brought up his homowife. He just had to get that in there.

    Because….RAINBOW!

  62. Tedtam Avatar

    Just saw that there’s an “Epstein didn’t kill himself” float at Mardi Gras.

    And yes, Hillary is right behind Epstein.

    heh heh heh

  63. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I have Bootywedge by a nose at the finish line.

  64. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    Just let me know if a giant hole opens and swallows up the Devil’s debating brigade into the depths of Hades along with the Newspeak Phlegmigators.

  65. Hamous Avatar

    And here I thought that Bootyjudge was the one who decided the winner at the Miss Bumbum contest.

  66. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    Lina Hidalgo proposes county-funded immigrant defense program

    Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo has proposed the creation of a county-funded legal services program for immigrants illegal aliens, including those in the county illegally and facing deportation.

    100% illegal.

  67. Tedtam Avatar

    Oh, and I voted earlier today. Busy, but no line. Most of the machines were full when I got there – only a few were open. No waiting.

    Super Tuesday is gonna be hell.

  68. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Just let me know if a giant hole opens and swallows up the Devil’s debating brigade into the depths of Hades along with the Newspeak Phlegmigators.

    https://youtu.be/sCll2d2k5tM

  69. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    73
    You don’t believe in miracles unca annyShay or are you just trying to Mr Potter on my parade?

  70. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    74 phillipee

    Nice

  71. El Gordo Avatar

    Biden did say that 150 million people had died in gun violence. Everyone sort of let that pass by, so I didn’t get the exact time frame or geographic reference, but I assume that most people here on the couch realize that 150 million people is about half the population of the United States.

    I heard they paid the shrews over at The View to choreograph tonight’s debate. I think they did a good job overall, but they really do need to do something about Pokehauntas and her constant screeching. She can screech hiliary under the table I think. I don’t understand the first thing about how Dems feel (I know they do not think) about various candidates, so I have no idea if anyone was moved one direction or the other by tonight’s clusterfark.

    OK, you all have a great evening, and more later.

  72. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Philippe

    Running down a dream

    https://youtu.be/dXYl5NrHPb4

  73. pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns Avatar
    pRogRessiVes-R-toTaLiTaRiAns

    👍

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