Snoopy Happy Dance here as we actually got rain this afternoon, all 2.27 inches. And there’s a prospect for more tomorrow morning. Northerly breeze and mid 60s overnight, low humidity. We had gone 3 weeks without rain, just morning fog to give not much moisture that evaporated once the sun came up.
The “Flight 93 Election” genre of apocalyptic rhetoric is as clumsy as the Left’s climate hysteria about cities flooding by 2030.
This is the kind of sloppy bombast you get when the writer marries somebody like Meghan McCain and suddenly decides it’s his chivalrous duty to gallantly defend his bride’s dead father.
Video series from the Institute of Human Anatomy, which used cadevers to discuss the human body, is discussing muscles only men have. This begs the question “can men control their balls?”
The guy is having a little fun with this. Normally the two presenters are pleasantly serious and informative.
100 Shannon If bakers have a First Amendment right to choose which weddings they cater – and they do – Twitter should be able to choose who may post on their website. The “Flight 93 Election” genre of apocalyptic rhetoric is as clumsy as the Left’s climate hysteria about cities flooding by 2030. And American conservatives’ embrace of Hungary’s Viktor Orban as a model for governing a diverse, divided, continental republic sounds like nothing so much as Randianism for social conservatives. Why would Domenech hit the blocks with such stupid statements ? I’ll take apart this rant tomorrow. There are… Read more »
mharper42
April 25, 2022 10:19 pm
Well, the rain did stop and I was able to feed the critters. I no longer have a rain gauge, but I’m sure we got over an inch here, and it was needed.
I don’t like it anymore than you do, but I’m not willing to put a bunch of young, part-time, volunteer Guardsmen on duty to get themselves charged with assault, attempted murder or homicide right now.
That is the way the world works at the moment and unless and until the State of Texas secedes and starts that separate battle, nothing will change.
There are plenty of things to dislike about Greg Abbott, but this is not something he can seriously confront.
RE: my #95 Kurt Schlicter is a former colonel in the US Army and was involved in several domestic disturbances… After college, Kurt enlisted in the United States Army and received his commission as a second lieutenant through the Army Officer Candidate School. While stationed in West Germany, Kurt was deployed to Operation Desert Storm when he served in the conflict as a platoon leader. After leaving active duty, he joined the California Army National Guard and served in a variety of command and staff positions for over two decades. Colonel Schlichter wears the silver “jump wings” of a qualified… Read more »
The very reliably conservative Kurt Schlichter wrote a very concise, clear column within the last couple of years about the difficulties facing authorities if they tried to use state National Guard troops to enforce border enforcement. It’s very tricky and dangerous regarding where the liabilities and responsibilities land regarding the individual soldiers involved.
Unfortunately, I didn’t save it, but it was very alarming for anyone considering the ramifications.
So the fed government of the USA, via the Kenyan front loaded Wooden Dummy regime, can ignore all laws, conduct and command an invasion of its own country when it’s supposed to do just the opposite and all the border states can do is stack matchbox cars on the Rio Grande and send a few hundred illegals a week to dc on the taxpayer dime?.?
Social media companies de-platforming conservative views is obnoxious, even dangerous, but it’s not censorship. If bakers have a First Amendment right to choose which weddings they cater – and they do – Twitter should be able to choose who may post on their website. The “Flight 93 Election” genre of apocalyptic rhetoric is as clumsy as the Left’s climate hysteria about cities flooding by 2030. And American conservatives’ embrace of Hungary’s Viktor Orban as a model for governing a diverse, divided, continental republic sounds like nothing so much as Randianism for social conservatives. Yet there is one argument supporting a… Read more »
I wish the governor of Texas had the plenary powers Dr phil Good believes that he does. Deploying fully armed Texas Guard and Texas National Guard troops to the international border with Mexico, without full authorization from the US Congress, exposes each of those individuals to all the state and local criminal laws regarding assault, battery, attempted murder, kidnapping and homicide that applies to any other citizen. You invite a huge constitutional train wreck here with military troops engaging in civil law enforcement. Nobody stops to consider what the real live, down and dirty, rules of engagement might be and… Read more »
Sarge LOL I do not think we are anywhere near the end. Not even close. You and I both are old enough to remember the elation of the “R” side of the aisle when the “R”s took the house after 40 years. (It was 40 years wasn’t it?). People were writing the left epitaph how the DemParty was dead or on its last legs. We have heard that a couple times over the years. As in all conflict the enemy (ideas, beliefs) is beaten back but never eradicated. Here is my fear…… be it Biden or whoever I fear another… Read more »
Me thinks you give the media too much credit including Limbaugh. Most people believe what they believe long before sitting down and watching TV or listening to the radiot. They simply seek out someone who echos their beliefs or provides information (lies or truths) that meet with their expectations. You’re not getting it. What Limbaugh did was let people know that what they were thinking wasn’t as bad as what the media was telling them. He knew they believed it long before they sat down to watch TV. He just let us know we weren’t alone or freakish in… Read more »
Sarge Me thinks you give the media too much credit including Limbaugh. Most people believe what they believe long before sitting down and watching TV or listening to the radiot. They simply seek out someone who echos their beliefs or provides information (lies or truths) that meet with their expectations. I like Michael Berry. He echos my thoughts, outside of news clips he does not shape my political beliefs, those are already there. Joe Rogan got his two million viewers/listeners because he stands out enough to be noticed. He aint shaping no one, he merely echos thought. Same phenomena occurs… Read more »
Mention of Eeyore gave me a flash-back with a hint of nostalgia to Austin when I lived and worked and went to UT back in the 70s. There was a large park somewhere along Lamar, the major north-south street on the west side of innermost Austin. Normally you could drive past that park and just see acres of greenery. But one day a year was Eeyore’s Birthday Party in Austin, and 10,000 people were in colorful costumes in that park.
The Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation and Rice University did a poll in late March which included the May 24 GOP Primary Runoff in the Texas Attorney General race. Here are the highlights discerned from the results: In the May Republican attorney general primary runoff, Ken Paxton leads George P. Bush by 42% (65% to 23%, 12% undecided) among likely voters and by 51% (71% to 20%, 9% undecided) among the most likely voters. Among white GOP primary voters, Paxton leads Bush by a 75% to 18% margin, while among Hispanic GOP primary voters Paxton leads Bush 55% to 25%. Paxton… Read more »
Limbaugh did not “gives us any knowledge saying it is okay to think”. He did offer an opposing opinion to the American voter that at least 36M listeners on 600 stations glommed onto. Let me ask you something. If the 36M listeners were so influenced by fearless leader why did we get two terms of Clinton and two terms of Obama.? So I do not hold out much hope there is some sea change now or coming to media influence. No Social Media to speak of during both of Clinton’s administration. No Twitter. No Facebook. No Tik Toc. No… Read more »
Texpat I am glad folks like you and Sarge are more optimistic than I am. It causes me to look at events in not quite so jaundiced eye. I look at the Republicans and have just about the same disdain I have for Democrats. Too often I see men running for office with great promise only to succumb to the swamp. And then there are the Crenshaws of the world that really tick me off. I pegged him when he was running as the cretin that he is. He flat out lied and voters believed him and boy did I catch… Read more »
Their arguments make no sense, and that deer-headlights look when asked to actually answer questions instead of spouting platitudes is a joy to watch. Maybe it’ll wake them up.
But I doubt it. Ripping a baby apart in the womb is so much more convenient than giving birth. And in the womb, no one can hear you scream.
Anti-Gunners Are Trying to Decide Just How Bad the Ruling in NYSRPA v. Bruen Will Be
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You wouldn’t think that you could write an article about the potential outcomes of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen without talking to at least one person on the plaintiffs’ side of the case, but the hacks at Fast Company managed to do just that.
Only the Stupid Party could figure out a way to blow the deal even after they have won big. Ruinous Rinos don’t want to win much less lead and that’s their comfort zone. 35 years of ruinous rinos has laid waste to the once great republic. Their lust for blood money and power outpaces anything else in their lives. They love the deal the way it is now and that’s why they conspired with the totalitariancrat party to steal the election and get rid of Trump. Ukraine is their blood money laundering scheme on steroids. The Kentucky Swamp Turtle and… Read more »
#70 Starting off by electing that McCarthy person as Speaker will be the first sign that the Reps are willing to give it all back. With the Turtle remaining in charge of the Senate, that continues China’s control of the congress. How much further do you need to go. Those things will happen on day one, and it will be all downhill from there. Our leftward drift will continue right along, only maybe at a somewhat slower pace. I’ll never vote for another Dem, or another John Cornholio either. But I will keep trying.
Also, I’m very worried about all the different ways the GOP can screw up a tsunami victory after November 2022. Only the Stupid Party could figure out a way to blow the deal even after they have won big.
AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaMEN (and pass the amunition!)
I’m somewhere between Squawk and Sarge on the optimism/pessimism scale.
One thing for sure is – public life in the USA has gotten a whole lot more interesting in the last few weeks.
Also, I’m very worried about all the different ways the GOP can screw up a tsunami victory after November 2022. Only the Stupid Party could figure out a way to blow the deal even after they have won big.
Musk said from the beginning he wouldn’t negotiate. His $54.20 offer was final. All the smart people on Wall Street said Twitter would beat him up for a lot more money before they accept.
Le Pen lost in France Freedom can’t dance Voting is the illusion A glandular contusion Was there ever any doubt On a foregone conclusion The game has been rigged Marsupial confusion Pancakes and fritters Klaus Schwab likes to dither Abbott’s on a string a WEF puppet thing Borders wide open Buses are bloated Goopeecons and totalitariancrats Just a sidewalk’s big splat Spoons and scissors Quacks they wither Floods and tides Orangutans hide The monkey’s the man The sputum it spans Sharks and ladders In seasons much tattered Monday’s a drag A constant sea hag In a Popeye cartoon And a… Read more »
Bonecrusher If we were run by the Constitution the military would be the only item taxed for at the fed level. Return the powers to the state level and they can tax for roads bridges etc. By moving the taxing authority closer to the electorate there is much better control of taxes. As always, I blame the voter. We have gone so far from the ideas of personal property ownership rights that now it really makes no difference to me who steals my money. You do realize that we no longer own our homes. Don’t pay your property taxes or… Read more »
mharper42
April 25, 2022 3:01 pm
Took The Beautiful Travis to the new vet today. In his opinion, the only improvement was the much shorter drive involved. Otherwise he really hated it.
#61 Squawk: and that taxes are theft. Taxes are theft when they are collected for one purpose and then spent on another. In the real world it would be called misappropriation of funds. While I will stipulate that some taxes are legitimate for things like funding: the military, roads, bridges, harbors, securing the borders, and other such Constitutionally mandated items; paying for NGOs to go to A-Stan to teach the peasants that an urinal is an art form, or that someone can change their gender back and forth merely by an act of will, or calling the BLM/Antifa burning riots… Read more »
I’d love to go three weeks without rain since we get it about every fourth of fifth day around here.
Snoopy Happy Dance here as we actually got rain this afternoon, all 2.27 inches. And there’s a prospect for more tomorrow morning. Northerly breeze and mid 60s overnight, low humidity. We had gone 3 weeks without rain, just morning fog to give not much moisture that evaporated once the sun came up.
Thank you Lord.
RE: #100 & Ben Domenech
This is the kind of sloppy bombast you get when the writer marries somebody like Meghan McCain and suddenly decides it’s his chivalrous duty to gallantly defend his bride’s dead father.
Sheesh.
Video series from the Institute of Human Anatomy, which used cadevers to discuss the human body, is discussing muscles only men have. This begs the question “can men control their balls?”
The guy is having a little fun with this. Normally the two presenters are pleasantly serious and informative.
100 Shannon If bakers have a First Amendment right to choose which weddings they cater – and they do – Twitter should be able to choose who may post on their website. The “Flight 93 Election” genre of apocalyptic rhetoric is as clumsy as the Left’s climate hysteria about cities flooding by 2030. And American conservatives’ embrace of Hungary’s Viktor Orban as a model for governing a diverse, divided, continental republic sounds like nothing so much as Randianism for social conservatives. Why would Domenech hit the blocks with such stupid statements ? I’ll take apart this rant tomorrow. There are… Read more »
Well, the rain did stop and I was able to feed the critters. I no longer have a rain gauge, but I’m sure we got over an inch here, and it was needed.
Nite all. You all sleep tight.
101 phil
I don’t like it anymore than you do, but I’m not willing to put a bunch of young, part-time, volunteer Guardsmen on duty to get themselves charged with assault, attempted murder or homicide right now.
That is the way the world works at the moment and unless and until the State of Texas secedes and starts that separate battle, nothing will change.
There are plenty of things to dislike about Greg Abbott, but this is not something he can seriously confront.
RE: my #95 Kurt Schlicter is a former colonel in the US Army and was involved in several domestic disturbances… After college, Kurt enlisted in the United States Army and received his commission as a second lieutenant through the Army Officer Candidate School. While stationed in West Germany, Kurt was deployed to Operation Desert Storm when he served in the conflict as a platoon leader. After leaving active duty, he joined the California Army National Guard and served in a variety of command and staff positions for over two decades. Colonel Schlichter wears the silver “jump wings” of a qualified… Read more »
Tedtam & Dr phil Good
The very reliably conservative Kurt Schlichter wrote a very concise, clear column within the last couple of years about the difficulties facing authorities if they tried to use state National Guard troops to enforce border enforcement. It’s very tricky and dangerous regarding where the liabilities and responsibilities land regarding the individual soldiers involved.
Unfortunately, I didn’t save it, but it was very alarming for anyone considering the ramifications.
So the fed government of the USA, via the Kenyan front loaded Wooden Dummy regime, can ignore all laws, conduct and command an invasion of its own country when it’s supposed to do just the opposite and all the border states can do is stack matchbox cars on the Rio Grande and send a few hundred illegals a week to dc on the taxpayer dime?.?
Ok then.
We lose.
Social media companies de-platforming conservative views is obnoxious, even dangerous, but it’s not censorship. If bakers have a First Amendment right to choose which weddings they cater – and they do – Twitter should be able to choose who may post on their website. The “Flight 93 Election” genre of apocalyptic rhetoric is as clumsy as the Left’s climate hysteria about cities flooding by 2030. And American conservatives’ embrace of Hungary’s Viktor Orban as a model for governing a diverse, divided, continental republic sounds like nothing so much as Randianism for social conservatives. Yet there is one argument supporting a… Read more »
ohoh
#96
Black
95
Thank you
GJT
What color is that ribbon you are wearing.? LOL
I wish the governor of Texas had the plenary powers Dr phil Good believes that he does. Deploying fully armed Texas Guard and Texas National Guard troops to the international border with Mexico, without full authorization from the US Congress, exposes each of those individuals to all the state and local criminal laws regarding assault, battery, attempted murder, kidnapping and homicide that applies to any other citizen. You invite a huge constitutional train wreck here with military troops engaging in civil law enforcement. Nobody stops to consider what the real live, down and dirty, rules of engagement might be and… Read more »
Sarge LOL I do not think we are anywhere near the end. Not even close. You and I both are old enough to remember the elation of the “R” side of the aisle when the “R”s took the house after 40 years. (It was 40 years wasn’t it?). People were writing the left epitaph how the DemParty was dead or on its last legs. We have heard that a couple times over the years. As in all conflict the enemy (ideas, beliefs) is beaten back but never eradicated. Here is my fear…… be it Biden or whoever I fear another… Read more »
Give optimism a chance!
Me thinks you give the media too much credit including Limbaugh. Most people believe what they believe long before sitting down and watching TV or listening to the radiot. They simply seek out someone who echos their beliefs or provides information (lies or truths) that meet with their expectations. You’re not getting it. What Limbaugh did was let people know that what they were thinking wasn’t as bad as what the media was telling them. He knew they believed it long before they sat down to watch TV. He just let us know we weren’t alone or freakish in… Read more »
88 unckola
You see.
Even on the inspections he was a pretender.
Those agreements he signed with the Mexican governors is just more smoke and mirrors.
The BPU’s begging him to use his power and he won’t.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/border-patrol-union-abbott-should-absolutely-use-constitutional-invasion-powers-on-border_4411999.html
He won’t call it what it is, an invasion.
WEF loves open borders.
Sarge Me thinks you give the media too much credit including Limbaugh. Most people believe what they believe long before sitting down and watching TV or listening to the radiot. They simply seek out someone who echos their beliefs or provides information (lies or truths) that meet with their expectations. I like Michael Berry. He echos my thoughts, outside of news clips he does not shape my political beliefs, those are already there. Joe Rogan got his two million viewers/listeners because he stands out enough to be noticed. He aint shaping no one, he merely echos thought. Same phenomena occurs… Read more »
83
Still held at Pease Park on Lamar.
85
The truck inspections were stupid, anyway. Standard DOT Mechanical inspection only.
No load inspections allowed.
We are really getting a lot of rain! Dunno if my outdoor critters will be able to get any food tonight or not.
The reality of Eeyore.
WEF Abbott folded like a cheap sans a belt slack suit on the truck inspections.
Mention of Eeyore gave me a flash-back with a hint of nostalgia to Austin when I lived and worked and went to UT back in the 70s. There was a large park somewhere along Lamar, the major north-south street on the west side of innermost Austin. Normally you could drive past that park and just see acres of greenery. But one day a year was Eeyore’s Birthday Party in Austin, and 10,000 people were in colorful costumes in that park.
My brain is Eeyore.
My heart is Paul Revere.
I’m half Eeyore, half Paul Revere.
77
The Eeyore Brigade.
Aaaahahahahaha. 🙂
Is it possible we are driving a stake through the heart of the Bush political dynasty? Finally?
Link for #78:
https://www.txhpf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/txhpf-report-2022runoffgeneralelection.pdf
The Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation and Rice University did a poll in late March which included the May 24 GOP Primary Runoff in the Texas Attorney General race. Here are the highlights discerned from the results: In the May Republican attorney general primary runoff, Ken Paxton leads George P. Bush by 42% (65% to 23%, 12% undecided) among likely voters and by 51% (71% to 20%, 9% undecided) among the most likely voters. Among white GOP primary voters, Paxton leads Bush by a 75% to 18% margin, while among Hispanic GOP primary voters Paxton leads Bush 55% to 25%. Paxton… Read more »
Limbaugh did not “gives us any knowledge saying it is okay to think”. He did offer an opposing opinion to the American voter that at least 36M listeners on 600 stations glommed onto. Let me ask you something. If the 36M listeners were so influenced by fearless leader why did we get two terms of Clinton and two terms of Obama.? So I do not hold out much hope there is some sea change now or coming to media influence. No Social Media to speak of during both of Clinton’s administration. No Twitter. No Facebook. No Tik Toc. No… Read more »
Texpat I am glad folks like you and Sarge are more optimistic than I am. It causes me to look at events in not quite so jaundiced eye. I look at the Republicans and have just about the same disdain I have for Democrats. Too often I see men running for office with great promise only to succumb to the swamp. And then there are the Crenshaws of the world that really tick me off. I pegged him when he was running as the cretin that he is. He flat out lied and voters believed him and boy did I catch… Read more »
I loved watching the smug slide off this clueless baby killer’s face.
Their arguments make no sense, and that deer-headlights look when asked to actually answer questions instead of spouting platitudes is a joy to watch. Maybe it’ll wake them up.
But I doubt it. Ripping a baby apart in the womb is so much more convenient than giving birth. And in the womb, no one can hear you scream.
Via Instapundit:
Only the Stupid Party could figure out a way to blow the deal even after they have won big. Ruinous Rinos don’t want to win much less lead and that’s their comfort zone. 35 years of ruinous rinos has laid waste to the once great republic. Their lust for blood money and power outpaces anything else in their lives. They love the deal the way it is now and that’s why they conspired with the totalitariancrat party to steal the election and get rid of Trump. Ukraine is their blood money laundering scheme on steroids. The Kentucky Swamp Turtle and… Read more »
#70 Starting off by electing that McCarthy person as Speaker will be the first sign that the Reps are willing to give it all back. With the Turtle remaining in charge of the Senate, that continues China’s control of the congress. How much further do you need to go. Those things will happen on day one, and it will be all downhill from there. Our leftward drift will continue right along, only maybe at a somewhat slower pace. I’ll never vote for another Dem, or another John Cornholio either. But I will keep trying.
#70 –
AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaMEN (and pass the amunition!)
I’m somewhere between Squawk and Sarge on the optimism/pessimism scale.
One thing for sure is – public life in the USA has gotten a whole lot more interesting in the last few weeks.
Also, I’m very worried about all the different ways the GOP can screw up a tsunami victory after November 2022. Only the Stupid Party could figure out a way to blow the deal even after they have won big.
Musk said from the beginning he wouldn’t negotiate. His $54.20 offer was final. All the smart people on Wall Street said Twitter would beat him up for a lot more money before they accept.
Twitter accepts offer at $54.20. Enough said.
The dude is a real stud. No doubt about it.
But mostly he watched with eager search
The belfry tower of the Old North Church,
As it rose above the graves on the hill,
Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.
And lo! as he looks, on the belfry’s height
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!
He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns,
But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight
A second lamp in the belfry burns.
– Longfellow
Le Pen lost in France Freedom can’t dance Voting is the illusion A glandular contusion Was there ever any doubt On a foregone conclusion The game has been rigged Marsupial confusion Pancakes and fritters Klaus Schwab likes to dither Abbott’s on a string a WEF puppet thing Borders wide open Buses are bloated Goopeecons and totalitariancrats Just a sidewalk’s big splat Spoons and scissors Quacks they wither Floods and tides Orangutans hide The monkey’s the man The sputum it spans Sharks and ladders In seasons much tattered Monday’s a drag A constant sea hag In a Popeye cartoon And a… Read more »
Bonecrusher If we were run by the Constitution the military would be the only item taxed for at the fed level. Return the powers to the state level and they can tax for roads bridges etc. By moving the taxing authority closer to the electorate there is much better control of taxes. As always, I blame the voter. We have gone so far from the ideas of personal property ownership rights that now it really makes no difference to me who steals my money. You do realize that we no longer own our homes. Don’t pay your property taxes or… Read more »
Took The Beautiful Travis to the new vet today. In his opinion, the only improvement was the much shorter drive involved. Otherwise he really hated it.
#61 Squawk: and that taxes are theft. Taxes are theft when they are collected for one purpose and then spent on another. In the real world it would be called misappropriation of funds. While I will stipulate that some taxes are legitimate for things like funding: the military, roads, bridges, harbors, securing the borders, and other such Constitutionally mandated items; paying for NGOs to go to A-Stan to teach the peasants that an urinal is an art form, or that someone can change their gender back and forth merely by an act of will, or calling the BLM/Antifa burning riots… Read more »
Spandex? Speedo? Speedo? Spandex?
SPANDEX
Yoga pants, etc. need an application process