Earliest Known Photograph – circa 1849-50
Close to two hundred men died in this battle on Sunday, March 6th, defending the four day old Republic of Texas in brutal, bloody horrific combat. May God bless their souls.
There has been a great debate raging for nearly two centuries since the dust and gunpowder smoke settled in San Antonio de Bexar about exactly how many Texians and Mexican soldiers died in this famous battle.
This is the list published by TheAlamo.Org and totals 195 defenders. It is quite well done with each man’s name accompanied by his state or national flag of origin.
The great Sons of DeWitt Colony historical website has compiled 27 different sources all claiming to know “the God’s honest truth” about how many died at the Alamo. “It depends on who you ask ?”
Among those listed, I choose to believe the late, sainted columnist and historian Frank X. Tolbert who, with Wick Fowler, founded the Terlingua International Chili Championship. Frank believed there were 187 Texian heroes killed in battle and 1,600 Mexican soldiers slain. Tolbert and Fowler believed true, pure chili contained no beans and no tomatoes. A man that intellectually honest and culinarily precise could not have lied about the casualty count at the Alamo.
by Gary Zaboly and Mort Kunstler
70 El Gordo
Disregard is a good choice given that is one of the dumber things you’ve ever written here.
On to bigger and better things
BLONDES BRUNETTES OR RED HEADS?
That’s just ridiculous.
61 Bonecrusher
Oh, hell no. What are you trying to do ? Start a fight ?
#65 – Sorry about Your luck Brother! As a customer for 50+ years I found the chili 100% the same as I helped make = meaty & delicious! My ONLY gripe is they used much LESS chili sauce on the dogs – SO I learned to allllllllllways ask for ‘heavy onions & heavy chili’ on the dogs – they came… Read more »
I get blamed for everything, but that’s alright, I have big shoulders. I can take the weight.
As the waiter says, chili?
https://youtu.be/YqZYyBtMhq0
One of my earliest memories was going on the big, semi-annual family shopping trip to Downtown Houston. It was the most exciting family outing except for going to the yearly springtime trip to the Battleship Texas, San Jacinto Monument AND the San Jacinto Inn. Going downtown meant following our grandmother, aunt and mother around Joske’s, Battelsteins’, Foley’s and then Sakowitz… Read more »
I watched TuCa this evening with the videos of the capitol on the Jan 6 fiasco. Pretty damming of the lies told by out politicians. But really nothing that is not surprising except for the poor schulbs who are still rotting in jail for just having gone to DC that day. The Dallas weather man today said that his earlier… Read more »
You can even get it with beans if you uh…uh….swing that way.
I say the chili that JCI serves in a bowl hasn’t changed in over fifty years.
Texpat started it. I was more in the mood for a blonde. brunette or ginger argument.
If we can’t have fun fighting over chili, is life even worth living?
Katfish
I am confident that back in the days when you worked at JCI the quality control was much better. I kid you not, the last couple time I went to JCI (different stores too) the dogs were good but the chili and the sauce sucked.
Texpat started it.
#55 – I’m only responding to YOUR words Brother – indicating that chili w NO beans is merely soupy hot dog ‘sauce’. I used to personally help MAKE BOTH items as an employee of JCI – then as a semi continuous customer for over 50 years. The 2 items simply could not be MORE different from 50+ years ago through… Read more »
bones
Heh!!!
I make darned good chili; EVERYONE who has tasted mine will confirm same.
I make darned good pinto beans; EVERYONE who has tasted mine will confirm same.
They are both wonderful, either together or separately or side by side.
Can’t we all just get along?
Bsue just said I was such a troll.
MHarper
Huh uhhh no deal. This is about the soul of Texas. Wick Fowler has posited a lie that these poor folks have bought into.
Somebody has to stand for the truth.
CHILI WITHOUT BEANS IS NOTHING MORE THAN HOTDOG SAUCE
Why fight over food preferences? Waste of time, and nothing at stake. You eat what you like and I’ll eat what I like.
Deal???
Besides Texpat started it. I was quietly perusing Hambone, catching up with Super Dave and the early morning shift. Then i saw that Texpat posted about the Alamo. I said to myself, “Self, Texpat always has something interesting to say when he posts about the Alamo and Texas history.” I was motoring right along minding my own business until I… Read more »
It’s okay, Katfish.
Not everyone grew up enjoying the (this year) 100 year old Houston tradition that is James Coney Island.
Kinda like I think, hands down, lobster is the most overrated menu item on the planet.
Katfish What Texmo said in his #51 Why would I go to a business I do not like to try something that is not even up to your standards of Texas Chili hot dog sauce. I have seen that stuff and it ain’t even red. It is prolly Hormel Chili hot dog sauce. Stuff looks like something my daughter blessed me with… Read more »
The Southern Poverty Law Center is considered a “valuable asset” by your Federal Bureau of Investigation.
I’m certain the feeling is mutual between the two entities.
I usually take my chili with just the beans.
You may not know that, over the weekend, Antifa-affiliated Leftist Terrorists in Atlanta attacked a law enforcement training facility that was under construction. First responders, including police, were attacked with bricks and Molotov cocktails.
One of the Antifa members arrested is Tom Jurgens, a staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
https://thelibertydaily.com/antifa-domestic-terrorist-arrested-in-atlanta-attack-is-a-staff-attorney-for-the-fbis-beloved-splc/
Half the James Coney Islands shut down during the plandemic. I would literally need to drive half way across town to find one that is still open.
We have self-fulfilling prophecies to fulfill.
#41 –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq-be7Y_yyY
Dude – the 2x items are not even SIMILAR – you that fearful of being wrong?
Don’t make me ask BSue! 🙂
Introducing a new character here today in the aviation field named Dan Gryder. Dan is somewhat controversial since he’s an in your face kinda guy and strongly promotes general aviation safety. He’s going a little bit off the reservation and talking about the nominee to head the FAA. He’s generally critical of both FAA and NTSB, and this guy does… Read more »
I thought it might be because they were having to let go of the money…
#43 TT
It took so long because there was no one there today who had ever done it before.
We inherited two pieces of desert in El Paso when MIL died. One is a standard residential lot, and the other is 5 acres closer to the industrial area. Y’all may remember my trek out there and the looongg trek back, including the God forsaken patch of land 30 miles west or Orla. Every now and then a land speculator… Read more »
Malone ends with this: The nuclear and the extended family must become the center of our spiritual communities again. We must celebrate marriage and the family. Marriage and the union of two people is sacred. Love making is the expression of the bond of marriage. This is part of the joy of being an adult, of choosing to commit to… Read more »
Mharper at the bank for 1 1/2 hours today – without a cat!
I’m sure she needed purr therapy by the time she got home.
Robert Malone’s substack is an interesting look at human relationships in our coming dystopian future. https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/heaven-on-earth-workers-paradise?r=pn3fy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email The idea of metaporn replacing real relationships I see happening already. I remember talking about “porn creep” to my high schoolers – how ingesting porn affects the ability to have normal emotional and sexual relationships. And THAT was dealing with printed materials and video. … Read more »
Katfish
I would not touch James Coney Island with a ten foot pole. The last time I wasted my money in that place the hotdog sauce was so thin it could have been classified as soup. I shudder to think of what I would get with their
chili“bowl version of hotdog sauce”.Lawzamercy, I was at David’s bank for 1 1/2 hours today, getting that cashier’s check done to transfer his former IRA to a NJ outfit where it will be blended in with my IRA.
Texpat
Thanks for the email.
SMH
When do the hummers show up? Getting about time I think.
Hubby and I were discussing house stuff a few days ago, and he mentioned that we should replace all of our service lines to the sinks and toilets. Washing machine, too. He’s seen too many of them fail. In our apartments and in his mother’s house, too. While she was out of town on an Easter weekend to visit her… Read more »
Texpat at 11:56 – It wasn’t a “he.” A DEI. And the other airplane was a commercial jet that was able to land short to prevent an accident.
I just opened our water bill. I had to show it to Hubby. He was busy hooking up our rainwater tank to the pump but he’ll probably have to finish all the fittings tomorrow. He’s built a nice little doghouse to put over the pump. I’ll have rainwater for watering my garden and washing my car. Mostly watering the garden.… Read more »
Mom’s in my thoughts today. Today would have been her birthday. Hubby and I had a conversation recently where her death date was discussed, and I swear it was just yesterday that I could walk into her nursing home and sit on her bed to talk with her.
Nope, it was years ago.
Squawk, you have mail.
25 Bonecrusher It’s all about the money. First, there has been this almost ridiculous deluge of apartment/condo construction in this area. As usually happens with real estate developers, one or two start projects and then the other banks and developers jump in until it becomes a frenzy. One day, everybody wakes up and realizes they can’t make their interest payments,… Read more »
#24 – At the risk of repeating myself: 1. go to your nearest James Coney Island 2. order a bowl of chili w NO beans (you can get a side of beans to dump into the bowl after this test) 3. ask for a shot glass / sample of their hot dog chili sauce .4 HONESTLY COMPARE the 2… *mic… Read more »
Tucker is supposed to do an expose on J6:
In a March 3 follow-up post on Twitter, Carlson wrote that “the results of our investigation will air Monday and Tuesday night at 8 p.m. ET on the Fox News Channel,” referring to his timeslot. Carlson did not provide further details about what has been “hidden from the public.”
31 EG
I don’t understand why the UAL pilot kept advancing across the runway when he was told to “hold”.
Thank God the other aircraft was smaller general aviation and able to stop in time.