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Weekend Opens Comments

I’m a Cajun but I got here to Texas as fast as I could.  One of my favorite characters of Texas history is Sam Houston.  Huntsville maybe be famous for all the prisons but that little city is full of relics, museums and houses relating to Sam.  My favorite attraction is still Sam Houston’s statue at night.

Roadside America has this to say about Sam:

At 67 feet tall (on a 10-foot-high Texas granite base) the statue is called “Big Sam” by locals, but its official name is “A Tribute to Courage.” Sam Houston, political architect of Texas, towers in concrete above Interstate 45, with walking cane and snappy duds of a 19th century statesman (though he could also be mistaken for a statue of P.T. Barnum). In the summer humidity of east Texas, we appreciate the tensile strength of one who could dress like this and still lead.

Stupendous Sam is touted in attraction literature as the second largest freestanding statue in the U.S., bested only by the allegorical and over-promoted Statue of Liberty (And, pssst… Roadsiders know of other statues taller than Sam, such as Tulsa’s 76-foot-tall Golden Driller and Butte’s 90-foot-tall Our Lady of the Rockies).

If you have not seen Sam at night traveling north exit one exit past Sam and circle back on the feeder road and you can stop at night and admire Sam just as I have,

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  1. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Ol’ Sam was born in Virginia at the end of George Washington’s first term as President, in 1793.

  2. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sixty-one years later he put down the bottle and was baptized at Independence, Texas in Washington County in 1854.

  3. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Mornin!

    There needs to be a different name for this early in the day, morning just does not cover it. Got up to visit with the wife and help her load up to get outta town.

  4. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Tony Gullo of Gullo Haas has a home here in Magnolia, they put up a tremendous Christmas decorations a lighting every year. Santa comes the Saturday before Christmas every year and any and all are invited to come. Up until this area’s population exploded so much, the public were invited to go through the house, with snacks all laid out.

    Anyway, he has a Sam Houston bust out in the yard, about fifteenth foot tall.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It’s 36 here this morning so I’m seriously bundling up to go out and chase Bambi.

    Mornin’ Gang

  6. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Never seen the SH statue at night, at least not to walk right up to it.  Used to take our group of cub scouts by there years ago, but always in the day.  Those are great memories from before the world lost its collective mind.  I guess to be honest though, it already had and I just didn’t realize it at the time.  At any rate, I hold on to those kind of memories.

  7. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Dooood –

    We all knew we were spiraling, but we didn’t know exactly what it would look like nor the speed it was coming.

  8. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Slowly suiting up to head out for more new HEROs

    Yall enJOY!

  9. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Yeah, true GJT.  Things are going to be unpleasant for a while, but we’ll muddle through.  The pendulum will swing back the other way at some point, but as you say, we don’t know exactly when or what it will look like.

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    From Squawk’s Lady of the Rockies link.

    David Adickes, creator of the giant Sam Houston statue in Texas, told us that he met Bob O’Bill, the man who made Our Lady of the Rockies. “He was a welder. In Butte, there were no sculptors.” Bob originally planned to build a five-foot-tall Mary in his yard, fulfilling a vow he’d made when his wife recovered from cancer. But according to Adickes, the idea of building a giant Mary gradually caught on as a way to boost the town’s spirits when its copper mines were shut down. The entire project took nearly six years to complete.

    Adickes was told that Bob made the Lady’s head and hands first, for a statue 120 feet tall. “But then the FAA told them that anything taller than 90 feet would need a blinking light on its head.” So the statue was built 90 feet tall — and its head and hands are consequently way too big.

    “It’s only made of 16-gauge steel,” Adickes told us, marveling at its durability. “You can rap on it. It makes a wonderful sound.”

    The last time we checked, the statue was still being lit at night, and plans were on the drawing board for a ski-lift-style ride up the mountainside to speed visits.

    Now that is funny.

  11. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang.  Back from TOK.  I got up a little late this morning since I stayed up last night watching the DC circus clowns continue their performance.  It did ultimately turn out as I had predicted, it just took a little longer than I expected.  I do believe that the message was sent and received by McCarthy, elected by less than a majority of the Republican members, that if he strays too far out of line they will yank his chain; and it was definitely time to move on with the inevitable.  Gaetz and Boebart were beginning to look foolish and were out of policy difference to argue about, so the only ammo they had left was personal, and that never sells well to the voters.

    Today is in the 60’s with some overcast.  I was going to go pick up my glasses in Brownwood, but they told me they had already shipped out, so I’m saved making that trip.  Not sure what else may be on the agenda for today just yet.

    Here’s the WIP for your review while we wait for whatever is coming next.  https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/the-week-in-pictures-speechless-edition.php

    Have a good day you all.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    From the Short Circuit newsletter of the Institute for Justice:

    In this week’s Profile in Judicial Understatement, we bring you Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod of the Fifth Circuit, who concludes that it may indeed have been unlawful sexual discrimination to deny this Louisiana construction worker opportunities for advancement because, in the words of her general foreman, she has “t*** and an a**.” Summary judgment reversed.

    thus,

    Before Davis, Elrod, and Haynes, Circuit Judges.
    Jennifer Walker Elrod, Circuit Judge:

    Magan Wallace worked for a construction company. She sued under
    Title VII alleging sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation. The
    district court granted summary judgment to the construction company.
    Because we conclude that Wallace has raised genuine material fact issues on
    each claim, we REVERSE and REMAND.

    Understatement indeed.  It’s worse than what Judge Elrod alludes to.
    It’s pretty surprising behavior and garbage talk from a supervisor at a company like Performance Contractors, Inc.  You would think a firm this professional and of this size would have weeded out these idiots by now.

  13. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, y’all. Don’t know how or why it happened, but I WOKE UP this morning 30 minutes before the alarm was set for. My bed then filled up with cats — I guess they heard me talking to JoJo and came to see what the deal was. JoJo seemed to be trying to run all the others out of “her room”. With all that commotion, I just went ahead and got up.

  14. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Having extracted, in writing, all that was possible from McCarthy-Luntz, the Freedom Caucus allowed a Speaker to be selected.  Now we will see just how serious the new Speaker is about:

    Keeping his word to the FC

    Keeping his oath to protect and defend The Constitution

    Rolling back the Deep State

  15. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    We have Backstrap! Film @ 11.

    Off to string Bambi up in the tractor shed. 😉

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Finished my Five First Saturdays devotion this morning.  During my fifteen minutes of meditation on the life of Christ, two baptisms were happening at the rear of the church. So I devoted my meditation upon the Baptism of the Lord.  Got some new insights.

    So, I’ve completed that and gotten my Epiphany chalk so I put up new blessings over my door.  Then I’ll offer it to my Mt. Carmel friends, who will pass the chalk and instructions around.

    I guess it’s time to get my coffee…

  17. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #15 SD:  We need a full “blood report” of the hunt, the shot, which weapon was used and pictures.

  18. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat
     Dr phil Good says:
    fell in the John hindermoonraker kristol-meth writes another rino love fest piece.-Kentucky Swamp Turtle lovin.’

    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/clown-show-coming-to-an-end.php

    I think he’s the quintessential powerline troll.

    Phil, if it’s any consolation, there are 893 comments there and and I estimate 90% are highly critical of Hinderaker.  I’ve read and admired Hinderaker over the years until the January 6th event after which he demanded Trump resign.  I was pretty shocked by that and quit reading him after that.  What a disappointment he has been after all those years of good work.

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    A GOOD MOM ☙ Saturday, January 7, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 

    Welcome to the weekend edition, C&C! We have some great developments to review today in our roundup: the House Freedom Caucus gets everything it wanted and McCarthy gets the Speakership; Florida makes a big move toward reforming higher education and returning to “classical education”; Florida moves to centralize control of Disney’s special tax district; third journalist SADSLY dies this week, at HOME; surfer SADSLY dies riding the waves; another tragedy suddenly and unexpectedly strikes the Buffalo Bills; Australia (and the world) begin to question whether boosters make any sense; and an Ecuadorian ex-father strikes a blow for mothers’ rights.

    As far as the Speakership event, y’all have pretty much decided how y’all feel about things.  Childers has a bit of a roundup on the concessions, and the expected “wait and see” to see if McCarthy actually follows through.

    I OC’d a column by Chris Rufo the other day.  Childers has some good news involving him in Florida:

    Remember our friend Chris Rufo, the conservative activist warring against radical gender theory in education? The C&C Army multiplied him last Fall.

    /snip

    Apparently Chris has been talking to Governor DeSantis, who just appointed him to the board of trustees of Sarasota-based New College, which was built out of Charles Ringling’s beautiful waterfront mansion.

    /snip

    Along with five other new board members, Rufo’s goal will be to transform New College into a “classical education” powerhouse along the lines of Hillsdale College in Michigan:

    [here’s a link to their designs for the new atmosphere and curriculum – sounds GREAT!!]

    One of the other new trustees, Matthew Spalding, is also the dean of Hillsdale College D.C.’s Graduate School of Government.

    It’s all pretty exciting, but I was most interested in the third agenda item: “abolish diversity, equity, and inclusion and replace it with equality, merit, and colorblindness.” New College’s current woke mission statement and values, as shown on its website, includes a section on its “just, diverse, equitable and inclusive community.” Uh huh.

    /snip

    It doesn’t appear there’ll be any trouble replacing the woke professors infesting New College, if they don’t like the new plan. Rufo tweeted late yesterday that he’s already “being flooded” with applicants who want to work there:

    Of course, liberal feathers are ruffled all over, screaming that DeSantis is engaged in a “hostile takeover” of higher education.  I think there’s been enough hostility on campuses already.  From the left.

    I’m sure you’ll recall that earlier this week, DeSantis’ team sent a DEI survey to ALL Florida public universities seeking details about their “diversity” programs. DeSantis appears to be delivering on the promise from his inauguration: “Florida is where woke goes to die.”

    Die, wokeness, die!  And not a slow, lingering death.  I want it to be quick and complete.  So we can all get back to the values that work.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Remember when Florida said that Mickey Mouse was going to lose its authority of its Land of Wokeness?  Then there was hope that the decision would be reversed.  Well….not so much….

    A notice on Osceola County’s website yesterday announced Florida lawmakers will soon take up legislation “increasing state oversight, accountability, and transparency” of the Reedy Creek district, which gave Disney quasi-government control over its theme park properties in Florida.

    Woke “for the people” democrats leapt to defend the mega-corporate and media giant. State Senator Linda Stewart (D-Orlando), said she worried putting the state in charge of the district could disrupt Disney’s business operations, hurting employees, regional business interests, Disney’s bottom line, and groomers. Okay, I added the last one. “We really don’t know the direction,” Stewart fretted. “It sounds to me from that quote [DeSantis] is doubling down 100%. He is not even discussing a compromise.”

    Oh, the pearl snatching and hand to the foreheading!  Again with liberal feather ruffling.

    Democrats’ other criticism has been that, by taking back Reedy Creek, the state would also acquire a bunch of debt. But according to news sources, the Governor said the new legislation will require Disney to pay its debts first. The figure I’ve seen is about $700 million.

    So stop worrying. Reedy Creek wasn’t only another “just for show,” politics-as-usual move to placate the base. DeSantis meant it. Assume the position, Mickey. This will only hurt for a long time.

    I don’t see why any business should feel the need to get involved in politics, especially to the point of flat out inserting itself into the political agenda.  Mickey tried to take over Florida politics, which made it less of a theme park and more of a political force.   Their major mistake was being so arrogant as to assume that there’d be no repercussions for their behavior.

     

  21. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Here’s the Super Dave wannabe Mike Patey’s latest on his swimming pool build project.  Some kind of engineering involved I’m sure.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoFcmjVVKPc

     

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And in the SADS department, a few more journalists have dropped.  At home.  One of them touted his vaxx right up to the end:

    I don’t need to say it, but in case you were worried, to the very end young Mr. Yee DID keep his faith in the shots, which after all is the most important thing.

    RIP, all those who have died from this jab, especially those who go nameless in the media.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Fortunately, some sanity appears to be rearing its head:

    While the U.S.’s Centers for Disease Control continues to push jabs harder than a carnival barker on closing day, other countries are starting to have some second thoughts. The Australian Herald Sun ran a narrative-busting story yesterday that was originally headlined, “Burning Questions Around Covid Boosters as Deaths Rise to 108 in a Week.”

    /snip

    As it happens, for SOME reason, the Herald’s editors soon dialed back their click-grabbing headline, probably because it was making grandma “hesitate,” …

    The heretical sub-headline provided a little more context: “Nearly 110 Victorians have died of Covid in the past week — but the jury is still out on whether an extra booster shot is needed, especially for healthy, young males.”

    Director of epidemiology at Melbourne’s Doherty Institute and Aussie covid expert Jodie McVernon told the Herald it was possible that boosters will soon be offered ONLY to the most vulnerable Australians, … And get this:… some people — especially 12 to 15 year-old males — the risk of vaccine booster side effects could outweigh potential benefits.

    /snip

    … the Director seems to enjoy risk…. “Covid is very unlikely to be a severe disease in that group” and “Vaccine side effects have been observed.” Gosh. I hope her life insurance is paid up. Her words are even riskier than the jabs are.

    /snip

    Wait. She’s asking are boosters NEEDED?… And how about her asking what’s the cost-benefit? Are you kidding me? We don’t need to open THAT vial of worms. Who knows what might ooze out? …

    Maybe this sudden jab hesitancy has something to do with the baffling fact that, after all these jabs, nearly 690 Covid patients toss and turn in Victorian hospitals, with 32 gasping in intensive care, and with 108 of them planted six feet under just THIS WEEK. That’s the equivalent of over 300 weekly covid deaths in Florida.

    But over 90% of Victoria’s population over 12 is jabbed. The math isn’t adding up.

    This from the country that forcibly detained citizens and visitors in vaxx camps for weeks on end, to be visited only by hazmat suited government employees trying to get the resistant to take the jab.

    ’bout dang time.

  24. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    WIP

    Ted Cruz on the beach is very funny.

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    My comment to John Hinderaker at Powerline:

    This is the most disappointing column I have ever seen Hinderaker publish. I’ve been a Powerline reader and admirer since its inception, but this absurd diatribe is beyond the pale. McCarthy’s surrogates didn’t mind stooping to ad hominem attacks from the beginning so any criticism of the renegades falls into hypocrisy.

    Was it really necessary to invoke Sheila Jackson Lee, the Halfwit from Houston, simply because she’s standing next to Matt Gaetz ? I’m no fan of Gaetz, but who cares if he talks to Lee on the floor of the House ? John is being as petty as the Democrats whose approval he seems so deeply concerned about.

  26. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sheila was only hanging around Gaetz because she figured out that at least one camera was trained on him at all times.

  27. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Well said, TP.  If there’s one thing where I give Donald Trump all due credit it’s that he exposed a lot of supposed conservatives’ true colors; basically just by being himself.

  28. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Kristi Noem’s Bleak Horizon

    Texan, Baylor girl and excellent writer, Jordan Boyd, reveals the dark side of South Dakota politics and the curse it means for Kristi Noem’s future.

    It’s curious that in one of the reddest states in the nation, which boasts both a Republican governor and a whopping 90 percent GOP majority legislature, the child-mutilation business would be allowed not only to exist but to flourish. But thanks to Gov. Kristi Noem’s repeated failures to cut ties with radical gender ideology and its proponents, next week two of South Dakota’s government contractors will host a “Midwest Gender Identity Summit” in the Mount Rushmore State.

    and,

    Yet her government still maintains three $78,000 contracts with Sanford Health, the other co-host of the upcoming transgender summit, for the development of community health worker programs in Clear Lake, Sioux Falls, and Vermillion.

    and,

    If it weren’t for her initial buckling on the key legislation that would have protected girls’ sports, Noem might still be considered a front-runner for the 2024 presidential ticket. Instead, she has repeatedly sacrificed her voters, her conservative career, and key culture war ground by subjecting herself to the whims of corporate interests.

    The South Dakota legislature has members who work for Sanford Health, the state’s largest employer, and repeatedly vote to kill any and all legislation designed to limit transgender mutilation of children.  One Republican representative, Doug Barthel, is openly employed as a Sanford Health lobbyist, even as he serves in the South Dakota House.

    Noem is trapped in this political hellscape and if she were to take on Sanford Health in a public war, they would destroy any chance she has of reelection or getting any bills passed.  This is the danger of having a small state “owned” by one powerful corporation.  The big hammer is not so much the wealth, but Sanford provides more jobs to South Dakotans than anybody else.

  29. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Multiple sources say Donald Trump worked the phones with all the key players on both sides over night to help draw the Speaker vote to a close.

  30. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    From my #28

    One Republican representative, Doug Barthel, is openly employed as a Sanford Health lobbyist, even as he serves in the South Dakota House.

    How is this even legal in this day and age ?  What the hell is wrong with South Dakota ?

  31. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    In 21’ we begged Governor Abbott through three Special Sessions to Prioritize this sick, criminal, child mutilation crap.

    Deaf ears.

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    31 Shannon

    Dan Patrick and Dade Phelan deserve more blame than even Abbott.  They actually run the legislature, for crying out loud.  This is a dark stain on their reputations and unforgivable.

    Enough is enough.

    The father of that boy whose mother kidnapped him to California said AG Ken Paxton was the only Texas official who ever tried to help him over the years.

    Sick and disgusting.

  33. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    929 comments at Powerline on Hinderaker’s column about the Speaker vote.

    About 850 of them are wailing on Hinderaker.  If he were a dead horse, there wouldn’t be anything left but a mane and tail.

  34. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Had a little nap and a cup of soup and am now feeling better today.  It’s still dreary outside although it is in the mid 60’s temp wise.  Nothing to watch on TV.  I normally save my evening viewing for what is now Three Pines, but maybe I’ll go watch an afternoon segment of it.  I suppose I could make up some more ethernet cables, but I need to wait for more equipment to arrive before I can get proper lengths.

  35. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mel Gibson has finally come out to say they’ll start filming for the sequel to “The Passion of the Christ” this year.  This has been rumored for years.  Gibson says this will focus on the 24 hours of His passion and the three days to His resurrection.

    Mel said he’s been taking his time, trying to get the script right.  This should be interesting, since he’s Catholic.  Will he wiss off any Protestants?  Either way, the “Passion” was an important movie, and this on on the Resurrection I hope does as well.

  36. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I guess the $20/month jump in our water bill wasn’t just a fluke.

  37. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    America’s favorite engineer is back and ready to take his final revenge on San Francisco’s plethora of package thieves with a new and improved GlitterBomb.

    Armed with mini autonomous glitter-carrying drones, a 360 camera, and 50 times more fart spray than in previous years, Mark Rober’s GlitterBomb 5.0 is intricately designed to teach California’s thieves a lesson about stealing from porches and parked vehicles.

    and,

    Women, men, and even children involved in stealing the special parcel are met with an assault of the world’s finest glitter from sky-bound drones and a stinky spray that Rober confirmed takes days to air out of fabric such as carpet and chairs. A loud beeping, countdown, and soundbites from police radio recordings further confuse the criminals who frantically try to dispose of the obnoxious-smelling, noisy device by any means necessary.

    Video here.  It’s worth the 18 minutes.  Mark Rober has turned his “bomb” hobby into an engineering educational tool business that is pretty cool.  See it at the end.

  38. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Here is the Mark Rober educational toy company I mentioned in #37.  It’s very clever.

    Crunch Labs

  39. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I don’t know if it was him or someone else that loaded a package with doggie doo and an explosive opening device set to go off after…40 seconds?

    The car with the package that had been pirated was almost out of camera range.  But not quite.  There is certainly some pleasure felt when the porch bandits practically fell out of their car at the stop sign down the street.

  40. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    39 Tedtam

    Mark Rober’s devices were very sophisticated and ingenious.  He’s the king of porch thief bombs.

    He and his buddies also identified and package bombed 3 different Indian call centers running call scams on gullible Americans.  They also got the American feds involved and the Indian LEOs raided and shut down the centers over there.

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Dan Patrick and Dade Phelan deserve more blame than even Abbott.  They actually run the legislature, for crying out loud.  This is a dark stain on their reputations and unforgivable.

    That is simply not true.

    The Texas Constitution grants the Governor the power to call Special Sessions. The Governor  –  and only the Governor – decides what issues will be addressed during the thirty days of a Special Session.

    During the ‘21 regular session, pseudo-Republican House Speaker Dave Phelan and his Republican lieutenants intentionally bottled up and killed legislation on sex-change laws concerning minors which were strongly backed by Lt. Governor Patrick and the Senate.

     

  42. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Abbott then called three Special Sessions in ‘21 and refused to put the issue on the agenda every time.

  43. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #28 – It’s nothing new when you put a female into a position of responsibility.  No matter how good they may sound on the stump, they always fold, or more likely, make decisions based on emotion rather than logic.  Happens virtually every time.

    #42 – That’s why you can never rely on government to take care of a problem. If you think government is there top take care of and fix your problems, then you will forever be disappointed. People always seem surprised when a politician promises something and then fails to deliver. Truth is they would rather have the issue unsolved to run a campaign on rather than actually do something about it.

  44. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    #25 texpat

    rich Lowry hindermoonfaker has gone Drudge.

  45. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    RIP HAMOUS.ORG

    The good news is our home and couch here is secure for another year

  46. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    I like Matt Gaetz because he stood up to the GoopeeCon sans-a-belt slacks gang and basically gelded Kevin McCarthy-Mc-Cons-all.

  47. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    41 & 42 Shannon

    I remember that and I was ranting about it then.

    But what happened in the 2019 session when there were similar bills attempted to be passed ?  As I recall, they kept getting stalled in the Calendar Committee and it seemed no one was doing anything about it.

    Have the leadership taken the bully pulpit in the off years to rail on about this crisis ?  Is anybody saying anything ?  It seems to me it’s awfully quiet.  If I were the Lt. Governor or Governor I would be trying to raise as much hell as possible and put every bit of public pressure on Phelan possible before the 2023 session even starts.

    Is it because I’m up here in NJ that I don’t hear or see the serious campaign to stop this evil s**t in Texas ?  Is anybody doing anything about it in Texas politics ?  Is Dude Phelan so powerful he has Abbott and Patrick scared to say anything ?

     

  48. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Raining like there’s no tomorrow, out here.

  49. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #46 – Texas is a majority Rep state, but for some series of complex issues, they have to select a Speaker of the House that is satisfactory to the Dems.  So while the Speaker may be a Rep in name, he is actually a Dems or so close to it that it’s hard to tell the difference.  The Texas legislature only meets every other year, which is a good thing, and it is very difficult to get anything on the agenda to begin with and also very easy to stall in the assorted committees and other political entanglements,.  The Federal Government should operate the same way – meet two weeks in DC in August every other year with no AC and then go on vacation the rest of the time.  Do nothing government is good government.  Sadly, once the government starts telling parents what they can and cannot do with/to their children, there is no limit.  If they can force them to do this, why not force them to do that…..Leave the government out of as much as possible.  If you don’t like your representative, do something about it.  Not a one of them is interested in your welfare, why should you be interested in theirs?  And I include the judiciary in this as well.

  50. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #47 Shannon

    That rain is headed my way, and I would like to have some. I just hope my HouChron puzzle doesn’t get washed down the curb in the morning… like before my alarm even goes off…

  51. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Squawk, thank you.  For everything.

    /wiping away a tear

  52. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    yo unck

    unck yo

  53. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    yo Bruddah Squawk

    bruddah squawk yo

  54. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    yo texpat

    texpat yo

    mb says you know the score.

  55. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    The rain just started here – with a bang…

  56. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Could use some of that rain out here if you all could spare a little bit.

    OK, I’m going back to watch another episode of Three Pines.

  57. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    yo all the rest of you fellow hosers

    all the rest of you fellow hosers yo

    two thousand twenty three party over oops out of time.

  58. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/robbery-suspect-shot-dead-armed-customer-houston-taqueria-video/

  59. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #57

    I’d seen that story and the photos of the robber earlier today, but it wasn’t included that the hold-old genius was robbing them with a BB gun.

  60. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Just finished watching the Bernie Madoff documentary series. What a mess.

  61. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Bedtime out here.  A little later than usual for some reason.  Three Pines turns out to be quite a downer at the end, but overall it’s a pretty good series.  Nite all.

  62. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Please See the Front Page Before You Come Back Here Today.

    Thanks, Texpat

  63. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    So what did I miss yesterday? I’ll have to scroll up and check it out. I was thinking I’d be back yesterday afternoon but I got side tracked and stayed busy until after dark so after supper I crashed and burned. I was in the sack before 9.

    Mornin’ Gang

  64. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Bones, you asked about the Safari to the west forty by the great white hunter. It wasn’t a big deal, just a 67 Lb spike and yes kinda’ small. As a general rule I’d have let him slide but deer hunting here is a challenge since the deer are very nocturnal, best time to hunt is about 2 AM and the Game warden frowns on that, no sense of humor at all. It’s best to stalk hunt deep in the woods but that is really a challenge. I’m pretty good at it since I have a lot of experience but that puts you on his terms and he generally knows you’re there before you see him or her. That said; I’ve done a lot of stalk hunting since I retired in 2019 but haven’t bagged a deer that way yet. I have had a few, almost got him but no cigar.

    But back to the spike, I was in my big 2 seater stand and a caught a movement back to my right. He came easing through pines toward the Oat patch and when I tried to get into position he bolted, (he was only about 30 yards away) and ran down past the field, jumped a terrace and was in the small patch on the other side of a line of trees and bushes. I figured that he kept on trucking but I watched for 10-15 minutes until I spotted him through some thick brush. He was looking right at me but I could only see his head and huge ears so I aimed at what should have been his chest and let one go. Since it was so thick I couldn’t tell if he dropped right away or ran. I sat for a few minutes to see if there was any movement and then walked down to where he was. I spotted a patch of hair on the tree line and saw a little blood but no deer. I followed the few drops of blood to the trail that goes to the pond but it was real spotty and hard to trace. By the time I made it about half way I decided he likely went to the south so I just zig-zaged back up through the pines thinking he couldn’t be very far but no luck so I did what I should have done in the first place, I went back to the last place I saw a drop of blood searched for the next along the trail. It took a while but I trailed him all the way around the back of the pond, up through the pines and toward the dirt road. I found him just past the old horse barn not 10 yards from the dirt road. He was hit good, in the vitals but he still made it about 130 yards in a big circle. I’ll add that this is unusual, 95% of the time they drop where they stand or only a few feet away but when they do run they can cover some territory before collapsing. I think the last deer that ran any distance was back in 2012 and remember, I was getting 1 often 2 deer every year from about 2000 until I retired in 2019.

  65. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    The Dr phil Good & Texpat’s take on John Hinderaker’s piece is worth a look if nothing else for the comments, I liked this one;

    “Far-leftist Sheila Jackson Lee is on camera, schmoozing her ally Matt Gaetz, ” I don’t see how you could confuse Gaetz with Dan Crenshaw.

    BTW; I did see Texpat’s comment on there.

    Oh and Shannon got it right; Sheila was only hanging around Gaetz because she figured out that at least one camera was trained on him at all times. 😀

    Never, ever get between a camera and She Jack.

  66. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    RE: Shooting

    My thoughts:

    Make stupid decisions, get stupid rewards.

    I hate thieves and bullies.

    The customer made dang sure the dude was dead.  Especially with that last bullet.

    The cops “haven’t charged him (the customer with a gun) with a crime”.  I think they’re one word short: “yet”.

  67. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Today’s Hamousonian

    That band who will not be named edition:

    I loved Richie Havens from the first time I heard him and I did get to see him live once. He was as unique as an artist can be and never deviated from who he was. Scott Johnson at Powerline has a tribute to Havens in honor of what would have been his 78th birthday tomorrow.

    Mr. Havens played many songs written by Mr. Dylan, and he spent three days learning his epic “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.” A man who heard him practicing it stopped him on the stairs as he headed for the dressing room of a nightclub, and told him it was the best he’d ever heard the song sung.

    “That’s how I first met Bob Dylan,” Mr. Havens said

    I think you can hear what Dylan heard in his version of “Just Like a Woman.”

    88 TexpatOur musical tastes generally coincide. I think we’ve found an exception to possibly rival the Squawk/Hamous MTB divergence. I have always found Richie Havens to be a no-singing, talentless hack. His Woodstock performance has to be one of the most celebrated displays of cacophonous claptrap ever witnessed. My ears are aching just thinking about it.

  68. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    65 Tedtam

    Somehow I believe HPD isn’t looking too hard for the taqueria shooter.  It would seem to me they have real bad guys to catch.

  69. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Today’s Hamousonian @8:16 AM

    88 Texpat Our musical tastes generally coincide. I think we’ve found an exception to possibly rival the Squawk/Hamous MTB divergence.

    And that’s why I loved the man.

  70. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I never gave him a hard time about it, but Hamous always favored these high-pitched tenor artists whose voices often didn’t appeal to me.  We both liked and appreciated singer/songwriters but some of them should just stick to writing rather than singing and find somebody else to record their work.

  71. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    There is an art to the two sentence horror story.

  72. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I may have Hubby drop me off to church this morning.  The sciatica is bad today, though not as bad as it has been before.  If I take a pain pill, I prolly shouldn’t drive.

  73. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I got a lot of bookkeeping backlog cleared yesterday, much to my surprise.

    That means today I can focus on the Lord’s day.  Maybe try out the new Latin program and start on a shawl for a friend at church.  Make a rosary or count out beads.

    I can do all that while wearing my sexy BGS.

  74. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Texpat

    Somehow I believe HPD isn’t looking too hard for the taqueria shooter.  It would seem to me they have real bad guys to catch.

    You forget that we have liberals running this city.  Once they get their hands on the protector, they’ll call him racist and scream about gun control.  Just wait.

  75. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Good morning gang.  I slept in this morning and awoke to another bright and sunny day.  A little chilly this morning but warming up rapidly with the sunshine.  I’ll probably get outside here in a bit and take care of minor chores like filling the  bird feeder and the water trough.  But first, another cup of coffee and peruse the internet for a while and see what’s being reported as going on.  Have a great day you all.

    PS – I like the deer story.

  76. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Defund the police and hire useless, leftwing prosecutors and you get vigilante sentences like this.

    Detroit family members administer street justice.

  77. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tucker ran out of patience with Ben Domenech.

    “This is what democracy looks like when you get up close,” Carlson said. “I want one thing, you want another thing. We schedule a vote to see who gets it, or in this case 11 votes, but whatever. But how is that disaster? Well, it’s not a disaster. It’s how the system is supposed to work. But don’t tell the moron community that.”

    Carlson, impatient with those who wanted a more streamlined vote, shredded Fox News contributor, and Meghan McCain’s husband, Ben Domenech for his opinion on the contest for Speaker of the House. He went on to show a montage of members of the media, including the Fox News contributor, commenting on the contest.

    “The way that they’ve gone about trying to achieve these demands has resulted in essentially this terrorist standoff between them and the overwhelming majority of people in their conference,” the contributor said during an appearance on another show. “They’re so excitable,” the host said before responding to what Domenech said. “Then another one of the buffoons in the clip you just saw went further and called the whole thing terrorism, which is the remorseless use of violence against a civilian population to effect a political goal,” he said.

  78. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #74 – Good story.  I had trouble following  who was who when the reporters kept referring to the victim – hard to tell if they were talking about the rapist who got turned up or the girl who was assaulted.   The end result is that is how justice will be administered on a regular basis with all these liberap “turn ’em loose” politicians and prosecutors.  Just stomp their head in and harvest those body parts and pretty soon people might start thinking about the consequences of their actions.

  79. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    You were worried about spy ducks ?

    Think again, people, the Jews have Spy Cows, trained-attack Spy Boars and Spy Rats !

    “These are recruited and trained cattle, Palestinian villager Rushd Morrar reportedly told the daily. “On the neck of each cow, they hang a medallion with an eavesdropping and recording device on it and sometimes cameras, in order to monitor every detail in Khirbet Yanun large and small.”

    “On the neck of each cow, they hang a medallion with an eavesdropping and recording device on it and sometimes cameras, in order to monitor every detail in Khirbet Yanun large and small.”Rushd Morrar, the Palestinian villager

    He also reportedly claimed that “the settlers release herds of wild boars” as a way to destroy any and all Palestinian crops. “The settlers’ crimes are diversifying and becoming sophisticated and the means they employ in their war are unlimited,” he alleged. “Starting with direct acts of murder and ending with incidents of car ramming on the roads; starting with burning agricultural crops, uprooting trees and stripping lands and ending with releasing boars towards the farmer’s lands.”

  80. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    And here I thought javelinas destroying property were the devil, who knew it was the Jews!

  81. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Texpat IMHO Ben Domenech  has been a jackass for some time and he is a rabid Anti-Trumper.

  82. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is an excellent article by Kathleen Brush on the distortion and lies about the history of slavery in human history, particularly in America.

    America is the only nation where people politick to make its long-dead slave past the center of its history. As a historical matter, it makes little sense when compared to the slave sins of other nations.

    America received 3-5% of the slaves sold in the Atlantic trade. Over 90% were sold in the Caribbean and South America.

    The first collective protest against slavery occurred in the Thirteen Colonies in 1688. In 1860, just over 1% of Americans owned slaves, although it was legal to do so. Most states never had slavery. American ships legally participated in the Atlantic slave trade from 1783 to 1794, at which point it became illegal for American ships to transport slaves.

    and,

    Abolishing slavery in the African and Arab trades was very challenging. The Arabs strongly resisted British anti-slavery demands in their African colonies and settlements because those economies and societies relied on slavery. The trade was fully banned only at the behest of U.S. President Kennedy in 1962. The intra-African trade endured even longer. While westerners were abolishing slavery, Africans were increasing it. In the 19th century, African elites and non-elites alike owned slaves. Slave labor drove the economy and households. European colonizers negotiating with tribal chieftains often conceded the continuance of slavery because the alternative was social collapse and war.

    This is Kathleen Brush’s website.

  83. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If Texans were as smart as the Israelis, they would train all the feral hogs in Texas to march down to the Rio Grande and stand guard shoulder to shoulder to keep the illegals from coming across.

  84. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I used to like Ben Domenech, but I began to seriously wonder him when I found out he married Meghan McCain.  That is really weird in my book.

  85. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    RE: My #75

    This is not the first time Carlson has criticized Domenech on air.  I can’t remember the subject, but it was in the past year and I believe it was in a live interview.

  86. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    A therapist in Nashville posted a video to TikTok where she bragged about a time she emotionally blackmailed the mother of one of her clients, claiming the parent’s choices were let their child transition genders or deal with their child’s suicide.

    Bailey Jo Carter, described as a “queer therapist” by her place of employment, the Nashville Collaborative Counselling Center , posted the eight-second clip to the Chinese-owned video sharing service where she makes light of a time when she “looked at a client’s mom and said, ‘Do you want a transgender kid or a dead kid?’”

    How long is this society going to put up with this kind of evil crap ?

  87. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    At least seven people were injured when a roof over a pool at a hot springs in Idaho collapsed, police said.

    but,

    Police said that the cause of the roof collapse is not known, however, it “appears to be structural,” as there was no snow in the area at the time.

    Roof collapsed on geothermal pool in IdahoRoof collapsed on geothermal pool in Idaho

    Appears to be structural ?  Who speaks like this ?

    Wood rot, advanced mold/mildew and corroded non-code metal brackets, anybody ?   This should have never been built this way using any of these materials.  You can see from the photos this place is eaten up with mold and mildew.

    There is no excuse for this.  I hope the owners have very good insurance.

     

  88. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Appears to be structural ?!?! Really? Texpat, of course got it right. ~SIGH~

  89. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Wellllllllllllll I had a good post about ready to go and hit an errant button and *poofski* gone forever.

    Suffice to say I can honestly testify that ALL of the gullies from La Grange to Katy got THOROUGHLY WASHED last night!

    That was my longest run of having my flashers on and keeping slow at 50 mph (and less) in the slow lane from Columbus to Katy. I timed it pretty well after waiting about an hour in Columbus for that one pesky RED radar blob to get south of I-10 near Sealy.

    But the last 5 miles from Katy Mills Mall to home was close to armageddon gauge rain!!

  90. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Covering a hot springs pool with a wooden structure. Lordy, Lordy.

  91. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I apparently lost a post into the ether out there too this morning.

  92. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Although I no longer have a rain gauge, I know we got a great rain last night from the eye-opening lightning flashes and the thunder that followed. After the storm moved on, I got a great night’s sleep!

  93. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Was undercover spyduck Ray Epps leading the charge?

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bolsonaro-supporters-storm-brazil-national-congress-breach-presidential-palace-top-court

  94. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oh for Pete’s sake. Another “must have “ from Copano Bay Press.

    The original Batteship Texas.

  95. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Eye Patch McCain speaks.  https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/01/08/crenshaw-apologizes-calling-some-gop-colleagues-terrorists-was-turn-of-phrase-during-tough-negotiations/

  96. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The hapless Houston Texans just handed the #1 draft pick to the Chicago Bears by beating the Indy Colts with 50 seconds left in the last game of the year.

    How appropriate.

  97. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Here are some pictures from the incident at the Tacoria wherein a good samitarian recovered stolen money and phones, returned it to customers and left.  Wow, 9 shots and all connected – not bad.  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11611751/Customer-fatally-shoots-robber-held-Houston-restaurant-fake-gun.html

    A perfect example of when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

  98. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    92 Shannon

    Michelle and Mark have got to stop coming up with things I want to buy.  I don’t have a square inch of space left to hang anything on a wall.

  99. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Man, the tinnitis in my right has ratcheted up this afternoon.  Real loud.

  100. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Here’s Ted Cruz on some crap that Obummer has his skunk Biden whipping up behind closed doors.
    Never mind, I couldn’t get the link to print out here…
     

  101. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    95 EG

    It doesn’t make any difference to me, but I figured the shooter wasted 7 rounds.  I’m pretty sure the bandito was down for the count after two.  I can understand maybe the third round, but nine ?

    Public outcry now will guarantee they hunt this guy down and charge him with manslaughter.  The shooter’s bad luck is the video and the internet.

     

  102. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mayors Adams and Lightfoot demand Colorado stop sending migrants

    From  the letter from the mayors:

    It is apparent that the influx of asylum seekers has provoked consternation amongst states. Although we share the concerns of accommodating the flood of asylum seekers, overburdening other cities is not the solution. We respectfully demand that you cease and desist sending migrants to New York City and Chicago. Since December of 2022, Chicago and New York City have received hundreds of individuals from Colorado.  Before the first bus arrived in either of our cities, we informed a Colorado official directly that neither city had any additional room to accommodate any more migrants because of the thousands of migrants that had already been inhumanely bused to our respective cities from Texas since spring of 2022.

    /snip

    To reiterate, you must stop busing migrants to Chicago and New York City. In the case of family reunification, let us work together to ensure that people are reconnected with their loved ones, however sending migrants to our cities whose systems are over capacity, where they may struggle to find shelter and other services is wrong and further victimizes these most vulnerable individuals.

    Cry me a freakin’ river.  /spits

  103. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #95 – Yeah, they’ll be claiming that he shot the guy too dead.  Just a couple of shots would have left him dead enough.

  104. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    That shooter, they have a full frontal photo, and that POS truck of his should not be too difficult to locate either.  Surely he’s a local around there and someone knows who he is.  Yeah right, the police just want to talk to him – no charges pending, etc.  He knows better than that, and so does everyone else.  Hopefully his lawyer will tell him to STFU and say nothing to no body.

  105. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    May be an image of text that says 'YOUR CHANCES OF BEING KILLED BY A GANG OF FROGS IS LOW, BUT NEVER ZERO'

  106. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Should MHarper42 move to Iowa to save the raccoons ?

    The coon population has tripled or quadrupled and the damage to crops, equipment and property is out of control.  They had about a 2-1/2 month hunting and trapping season, but Iowa has opened it up year round.  It’s worse than wild hogs in Texas according to a Wall Street Journal article that I suddenly can’t link to anymore.

    Here’s another source…

    State Rep. Dean Fisher, a Tama County Republican representing House District 72, knows the devastation of losing sweet corn to raccoons. After years of losing sweet corn just before harvest, he started hearing from constituents suffering high-dollar damage.

    One farmer, he said, suffered $10,000 in damage to a combine when he started it after a raccoon climbed inside. Another found dozens of raccoons in a cattle feeder.

    He hopes stalled legislation, which he intends to file again in the next session, will help farmers who believe the Iowa DNR’s current allowances for killing nuisance animals aren’t enough.

    “You can’t be out there 24 hours to see when one of these critters would get into your field,” he said. “You have to eradicate them in your area beforehand, get preventive steps to thin the population before damage even starts.”

    Here’s a different story…

    “Those depredation staff are already dealing with nuisance raccoons and crops. And all wildlife staff and law enforcement staff are dealing with raccoons and attics, raccoons and barns, raccoons and farm equipment, and things like that,” he says. Evelsizer says having a continuous raccoon season will provide some help with the issues.

    “What we’re proposing here won’t fix the problem, what we’re proposing is to make adjustments that are within our means to give folks a little more freedom to deal with a population of raccoons that has increased and is high,” he says. Evelsizer says they’ve also seen an increase in distemper outbreaks around the state — which he says is typically indicative of a high density of raccoons.

    “And when a raccoon gets distemper — it’s not it’s not a pretty thing — they carry it, they can spread it to others, then they will die from that usually, and it’s not a quick death either,” according to Evelsizer. “So that’s not a thing we’d like to see out there on the landscape either.”

  107. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It’s going to get very ugly.

    Climate change has coons and hogs taking over the planet.

  108. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    One positive note is that we’ll have bacon throughout Armageddon.

  109. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The shooter’s friends will stay mum.

    Unfortunately, some Karen that lives two doors down from him will turn him in.

  110. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    And coonskin headwear.

  111. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I thought she’d never leave,…naw just kidding, sister came over and I put 3 T-Bones on the grill, the wimmins made salad and baked taters so we had a fine supper. Then we had to watch the last 3 episodes of 1923, (we watched the first one a couple of weeks ago) and I’m about done. But it was a nice visit as usual and it’s always entertaining watching anything with those two second guessing everything.

  112. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Go Horny Toads!!!!!

  113. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’m at least two episodes behind on Yellowstone.

    I may wait a couple more episodes.

    I really get off bingeing that show for several hours.

  114. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #92 Shannon, I saw that also and dang, I can afford it and I’ll find the wall space BUT I can’t afford the dang framing job! I’m beginning to think the frame shops are worse than the furniture stores and undertakers combined!

  115. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #111, Let me show you my $6700 Keepsake Booklet,…oh and don’t forget the baked ham,…baked ham WTF?!!?  Yes the Banks Funeral Home gave us a cooked ham!? As tight as these bastards are I’m guessing they cooked it while cremating old man Winslow. 😉

  116. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I just stopped by but if the cops ever find the dude that killed the bad guy, they will arrest him for manslaughter or something. Can’t have justice that isn’t administered by some Government agency.    ~SIGH~

  117. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Getting about bedtime out here in the country.  I’ll go settle in for a few minutes and find something on TV to kill a little time, then it’s off to bed for me.   You all have a good night now.  More later.

  118. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Shannon, no need to get in a big hurry with Yellowstone. Second half of this season doesn’t resume until summer. Terds.

    Im two shows behind in 1923, I’m digging it.

  119. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    We did a free trial on Showtime to watch George and Tammy, last episode ended like another was coming but that was it. No idea if it will resume later or what, just poof, over.

  120. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Framing.

    No kidding.

    I still want a mesquite frame for the first one.

    Not sure about this new one.

    I have a friend that can make the mesquite frame. I may have to buy him router bits and saw blades for the project.

    🙂

  121. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Dang. I thought George and Tammy was a movie.

  122. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #103 Texpat

    I know that raccoons can be a nuisance, but I hate to think about them being exterminated.

  123. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Sadly, the Green Bay Packers’ season is over. They lost out tonight for the last slot in the playoffs.

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