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My contribution to 20th Century American Arts & Crafts

In 1969, I was Freshman at Munich American High School (Germany). I took a wood shop elective and this San Francisco Cable Car project was my “final” in the course and a gift to my mother.

Several years prior, my mother and I had taken a vacation to the California coastline with her sister and her husband, which included a couple days in San Francisco – a stunning jewel of a city at that point in history. We also saw the Great Redwoods and other spectacular and uniquely California destinations. It was a very special trip for us both.

I found the piece recently while rummaging around the mini warehouse.

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  1. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    https://restaurantguru.com/Baileys-Houston

     

    Very out of the way for most of y’all, but I think y’all would like it. No chrome to speak of, just a good, family, old-school diner.

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Shannon

    In 1969, I was Freshman at Munich American High School (Germany).

    You mentioned living in Germany before and sicne your parents weren’t in the Oil Patch or Military how did you get there?  Oh and I like your Cable Car.

    Mornin’ Gang

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Civil War Rages In Texas As Historians Peddle Leftism Instead Of History

    Leftist academics orchestrate smear of Texas history buff, paint an effort to highlight the state’s slave history as the opposite.

    A battle has broken out in Texas between academic historians and hobbyist history buffs — with the hobbyists advocating for exploring history through primary source material, and the “experts” opting to push modern far-Left politics.

    It came to a head this month after a veteran publisher of Texas history books wrote to a member of the Texas Historical Commission, a government body that runs historical sites, with a list of all the books sold at the gift shop of the Levi Jordan plantation outside of Houston. Of the 23 books sold, few had to do with the plantation, Texas history, or slavery in Texas. Instead, many were modern leftist political screeds or unrelated lamentations about black victimhood in other times and places.

    They included books about Malcolm X, an “Afro-Vegan Cookbook,” a novel about a black man in Harlem, a book about Chicago’s black slums, and book by radical black feminist author “bell hooks” tackling “racism among feminists.” They also included a book from Frantz Fanon, who posits that violence is necessary for “decolonization,” about “revolutionary struggle, and a continuing influence on movements from Black Lives Matter to decolonization.”

    The situation was similar at the nearby Varner-Hogg plantation, where “White Rage” and books by Ibram X. Kendi about diversity, equity, and inclusion were being sold.

    Michelle Haas, a veteran publisher of Texas history books who chairs a nonprofit called the Texas History Trust, sent this inventory of the books to the Texas Historical Commission. “I attach a list of the books available with the publisher’s description of each,” she wrote. “You may assess for yourselves how relevant they are to the history of Brazoria County.”

    “Why is the State of Texas selling an afro-vegan cookbook at a state historic site? Or fiction about people living in Chicago in the 1890s? What do books written and edited by Ibram X. Kendi have to do with the Varners, Pattons or Hoggs?” Haas asked in another email, referring to the plantations.

    AND;

    But on December 7, Texas Monthly magazine posted an article with Haas as its main subject. It caused an uproar by twisting the story from one about a woman advocating for more books about Texas slavery at Texas plantations, to one about a white woman who wanted books about slavery banned.

    Texas Monthly, writing based on an interview with Haas and a collection of Gravelle’s emails, said that Gravelle falsely stated that “there is no question these books are not about Texas history.” The outlet attempted to dunk on the official by saying that a whopping one of the 23 actually was: “That description wasn’t accurate: one of the 23 titles on the list, for example, was ‘Remembering the Days of Sorrow,’ which features testimony from numerous Texan slaves,” it wrote.

    The article’s crux — that Haas and conservatives wanted slavery books banned — rested on the statement that, “When asked if it was her intention that historical books about slavery be removed from sites, Haas demurred.”

    FWIW; This is about Texas Monthly trying to smear Michelle Haas of Texas History Trust.

    Oh and RTWDT

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    GJT on Christmas morning.  😀  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>SCRAAAM>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It’s 8:20 and the blog is Graveyard Dead. My work here is done. 😉
    Oh at least Dooood tried.

  6. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    You mentioned living in Germany before and since your parents weren’t in the Oil Patch or Military how did you get there?  Oh and I like your Cable Car.

    My uncle was a Flight Engineer, then Captain, for Pan American Airways. He took a gig flying in and out of Berlin to several cities in West Germany.

    They offered to have me live with them for a while, simply for the grand experience. He worked 2 weeks on/2 weeks off. We traveled Europe on his off weeks and I did school work by correspondence.

  7. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    My uncle loved that gig. Those were short hops in and out of Berlin. Never a dull moment, constantly landing and taking off. Required to fly in specific corridors or risk being shot down by the Russians.

    He never was a big fan of long transcontinental flying, but he ended up doing a lot of that, too.

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Those were short hops in and out of Berlin.

    Yup and flying all over Europe is like flying within the state of Texas.

    Also, Shannon what a great experience that was. You were really lucky to have that chance.

  9. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Proof you don’t have to be smart to be a cop.   😀

  10. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Seems like it has been awhile since GJT checked in.

  11. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Awhile vs. a while

    At this point in my life I’m not sure I care anymore.

    🙂

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Michelle Haas is one hell of a Texas hero.

    One incredible woman.

    Everyone must read the Daily Wire story about the defamation of her by Texas Monthly.  It is criminal.

    Super Dave’s #3 Link.

  13. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Seems like it has been awhile since GJT checked in.

    You know, I was thinking that as I posted my #4, I hope he’s OK.

     

  14. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Air France F-BELI

    F-BELI, a Douglas C-54 of Air France, was shot at by 2 Russian MiG-15 on April 29, 1952, near Berlin. The aircraft was hit 89 times, wounding 3 passengers and forcing engines no. 3 and 4 to be shut down. The plane made a safe landing at Berlin-Tempelhof and was later repaired. Russians claimed the C-54 had strayed out of the international air corridor.[37]

  15. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Today’s Coffee and Chrome

    The world famous Empire Diner

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Super Dave

    When the Potsdam Conference in the waning days of WWII agreed to divide Germany into four quadrants, the American, British and French sectors comprised what became West Germany.  The Soviets were already occupying East Germany.  After the Nazi surrender, the Russians cut off East Germany and allowed only a single narrow highway and aviation corridor to West Berlin.

    The Soviets refused to allow Allied commercial airlines access to the Berlin airport.  The resolution was a separate airline owned 51% by the new West German government and 49% by Pan American.  The flight crews were employed by Pan Am and contracted to operate the planes.  The US government passed laws to give special income tax exemptions to those employees and Pan Am paid them very well.

    In order for people to get in and out of Berlin, they had to fly into West Germany and then change planes to this special airline.  It was pretty much symbolic, but that’s what it took to get an agreement from Stalin.

    The history of Pan American Airways in supporting America, often without compensation, is pretty remarkable.  They performed heroic service in the Vietnam War.

  17. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The Americans, British and French responded with the Berlin Airlift, a months-long air campaign to drop food and fuel into West Berlin that ultimately broke the Soviet blockade in 1949.

    Later that same year, France officially merged its occupied territory with Bizonia, creating the Federal Republic of Germany, or what became known as West Germany. In October of 1949, the Soviet Union responded with the establishment of the German Democratic Republic, a Communist state known as East Germany.

    In 1952, East Germany began policing its Western border to stop the flight of engineers, scientists and doctors to West Germany. Interestingly, the border within Berlin wasn’t as tightly controlled.

    “For eight years, there was that loophole,” says Boghardt, “when it was very easy for anybody who wanted to flee East Germany to do so. All you had to do was hop on a subway in East Berlin and exit in West Berlin.”

    On the night of August 12 to August 13, 1961, East German soldiers in Berlin laid out miles of barbed wire that would become the Berlin Wall, sealing the border with West Germany for the next 28 years. 

    I had just turned 9 years old and this was all over the news.  I was horrified then by the communists and it was fundamental in forming my lifelong hatred of socialist/communist ideology.  I wanted the new President Kennedy to unleash our military on them, but he didn’t live up to my 9 year old expectations.

  18. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    10 Squawk

    I’ve driven by the Empire Diner on 22nd Street at 10th Avenue.  I have never gone in to eat.  Parking in that area is very difficult.  If you have to use a parking garage, you’ll end up spending more parking than eating.  It’s a foot traffic local joint.

    The geniuses who run NYC have decided, against almost total public and political opposition, to charge “Congestion Pricing” for every vehicle traveling in Manhattan below, I think, 60th street.  It’s something like $12 or $14.  The cost of the GW Bridge toll is now $16 and it will cost at least $40 to park.

    It could cost me $70 plus gas to just to get to the Empire Diner from my house before I get to order anything to eat.

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Finally checking in. I had another one of “those” nights which I think ended around 4:00 a.m.  I’ve been busy getting some trash gathered up and out to the street before the truck comes by.  It’s gonna be a long day, but I have my coffee in hand, though it might be better injected…

    DEEP DIVES ☙ Friday, December 29, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

    Good morning, C&C family, it’s Friday! Wow, that was a short week. All the covid panic stories lately required us to focus for a moment and dismantle the gathering Narrative. In today’s roundup: we look at the firestorm of media headlines predicting a return of mask mandates and find very little substance, but a whole lot to mock; you aren’t going to believe the latest Covidian obsession that is trying to emerge from the sewers as a new Narrative; now Maine yanks Trump off the ballot and we examine how likely to stick any of it will be; Argentina’s Trump cleans house surprising critics and black pill-ers; and a story even grosser than the gross story I slipped in on you, above.

    NEWS:

    Debunking new mask mandates via media shenanigans, and the Covidian’s interest in your bowel habits in an attempt to gin up fear again.  Because libs are easily herded by fear.  Like sheep.  I’m just skipping all of that.

    You’re welcome.

    But, Trump!

    Despite online hysteria, to be abundantly clear, President Trump remains on Colorado’s primary ballot, since the state’s Supreme Court stayed its own order pending appeal. Nothing will change until the appeal is resolved, one way or the other. If the primary happens first, then the whole case will be mooted, and I would not be surprised if that is what happens.

    But yesterday the process started all over again in Maine. The New York Times ran a non-paywalled story misleadingly-headlined, “Maine Joins Colorado in Finding Trump Ineligible for Primary Ballot.” That headline is misleading because, unlike Colorado, there was no court decision in Maine; just the unilateral action of its Trump-deranged democrat Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows.

    Ms. Bellows, who before she took office used to run Maine’s ACLU, reviewed a citizen complaint and “ruled” that Trump lied on his application form, because he checked a box that says he is “qualified” to run for President but he was not actually qualified, because January 6th:

    “I am mindful that no secretary of state has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. I am also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection,” Ms. Bellows, a Democrat, wrote.

    Trump’s team will, of course, file an appeal to stop this ridiculousness.  Colorado has already crawdadded on the issue.  Maybe that’s what instigated the Maine move.  Trump has won in two other courts against these same charges.

    Ironically, the Times’ story ended quoting Gavin Newsom, who tellingly does not seem very enthusiastic about the prospects for any legal challenges against Trump:

    Gov. Gavin Newsom of California indicated last week that he did not believe officials in his state should remove Mr. Trump from the ballot. “There is no doubt that Donald Trump is a threat to our liberties and even to our democracy, but in California we defeat candidates we don’t like at the polls,” he said in a statement. “Everything else is a political distraction.”

    It may be a first but I agree with Gavin. These lawsuits and orders are just distractions. Trump will almost certainly be on the ballots in all fifty states.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Now, on to Argentina and the pulling of the swamp’s drain plug:

    It’s been 18 days since “Argentina’s Trump”, economist Javier Milei, was inaugurated. It is difficult to find reliable information in corporate media, but it looks like he’s been working overtime to drain his swamp.

    From social media and local media reports, so far President Melei has:
    • Eliminated 12 out of 21 cabinet posts, including the much-hated Ministry for Women, Gender, and Diversity.
    • Fired 5,000 government employees.
    • Ended 380,000 government regulations.
    • Banned woke language in the military.
    • Submitted a bill to affirm the right to self-defense.
    • Submitted a bill to legalize homeschooling.
    • Proposed punishment for riot organizers.
    • Proposed welfare cuts for road-blockers.
    • Legalized paying contracts in Bitcoin.
    • Privatized several state-run companies.
    • Opened Argentina’s oil industry to the second largest oil deposit in the world.

    Maybe the best evidence of how things are going down there is that leftists are losing their ever-lovin’ minds….

    Watching the media head-spinning is such a popcorn worthy event.  Here’s hoping this motivates some right leaning folks here in the States.  /not holding breath
  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Childers closes out with the news that lines at the Disney parks are so long that the lines are getting San Francisco’d.  The park workers now have special alerts for human feces cleanup needed.

    Another reason not to go.  Can you imagine standing in line and the person in front of you drops trou and takes a dump in front of your kids?

  22. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    I would have to win an all expenses paid vacay to New York city to eat at the Empire.

  23. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    In Japan, radiation makes giant monsters like Godzilla but in America, radiation creates superheroes.

  24. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, chicks and chickadees. I’m ready for some Spring weather.

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I emailed Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit a few minutes ago pleading with him to post the Michelle Haas/Texas Monthly story at Daily Wire.

    We’ll see.  It would give the story even more massive exposure.

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    It is 54º here in balmy Bergen County, New Jersey with blue skies and sunshine.

    If this global warming keeps up, everything is going to start blooming again.

  27. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #18 Squawk:  That must be because here, we radiate people and in Japan they radiate worms and such. . . .

  28. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Sorry guys, I’ve been keeping up but didn’t realize I had not checked in. Sick ward over here since Monday, five of us came down with a stomach bug from our quick family Christmas Saturday night, rough going required carrying around a trash can and terlet for two days. Wife was feeling flu-ish Sunday and Monday and got Tamiflu from teledoc, that, I think, morphed into the bug I had, she’s not been out of bed since Tuesday. She finally wanted some oatmeal this morning so maybe she’s on the back end.

  29. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Did not know there was such a thing as a Waffle House hater, yet here I am living amongst them. Love me some Waffle House – yes, large please.

    I’ll have to keep an eye out, but I’m not sure Cracker Barrel does much advertising. Not a huge fan but they do have very good chicken-n-dumplings and fried chicken is great.

    Agree on IHOP and Denny’s. Sure miss the Rodeway Inn on I10 in Spring Branch.

    Oh, BTW, Grumpy’s came up in conversations this weekend, little Flatonia is well known. Brother said someplace there has great burgers but I can’t recall the name.

  30. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    A short, excellent piece on the Pope, Same-Sex Blessings, and Protestants. 

  31. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    GJT confesses to Lurking.

    Board of Governors meeting called to assess penalty.

     

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I usually choose to do a front page story here about subjects I think are important or sometimes I try to be humorous to give people a break from the miseries of politics and the vile wickedness of the world.

    Professor Bill Jacobson has a comprehensive roundup of reports on the Hamas savagery and features the new New York Times report on all the evidence of the Hamas crimes against humanity.

    I would normally headline a story this important, but I can’t do it.  It is so brutal, so incredibly sadistic, I won’t subject everyone to it all day long.

    But please, by all means, go there and understand the depth of depravity.  The eminent legal scholar, Eugene Kontorovich, wrote this on October 12, one week after the massacre and kidnappings.

    Perhaps the greatest mercy Israel is showing to Gaza is not releasing to the public the full details of what was done by the invaders to their victims. Ostensibly for the sensitivities of the families, but also I think because what populace would be able to restrain themselves?

    God Bless Israel.

     

  33. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #25 TP:  THanks for posting.  I’m glad I didn’t click on any of the links because I’m trying to eat lunch.  The descriptions were bad enough.

    ELOHIM:  Please give Israel the strength to finish the job and eradicate the scourge of hamas from the Earth.  Please also punish those who defend hamas and their savagery.

  34. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The most horrific story I heard – and they were all horrific, don’t get me wrong – was the one of a mother being repeatedly raped on her kitchen floor while her baby screamed from inside the oven where it was being roasted alive.  Then she was shot.

    S-tan rejoiced in Hell.

  35. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    27 Tedtam

    There are worse stories from October 7th.

    Raping women while stabbing them at the same time.  Raping women and then burning their faces off with propane torches while they are still alive.  Raping women and then decapitating them and kicking their heads around on the ground like soccer balls.

    Repeatedly shooting a rape victim in the genitals and thighs with a nail gun before killing her in her own home.

  36. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I was standing in my neighbor’s driveway when the Amazon truck pulled up.  I told the driver the delivery was for me…but his tablet device wouldn’t allow him to deliver to me across the street.  So I walked into my driveway as he sat in his truck, but still couldn’t deliver there.  We walked up the driveway towards my house and halfway up the driveway he finally said “Here ya’ go” and handed me the package.

    I did not know they were tracked so closely.

  37. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I guess that as a mother the anguish of listening to my baby die such a tortuous death while being violently violated by giggling demonic individuals is worse than having my face burned off.

    To not be able to save my baby is unfathomable.

  38. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Either way, there’s an annex being built in that hot place.

  39. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #31 – Tedtam – and it has MANY rooms!!!!!

  40. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I saw in the NY Post today the Houston River Oaks story about two old white women in a high-rise trying to beat up a 25 year old black girl delivering an Amazon package.  They linked to Channel 11 so I figured you folks have already seen it.

    These two old biddies should be thrown out of the building and forced into a nursing home.  One of the women was grabbing and hitting the black girl while screaming it was she who was being attacked.  You can see the lie from the video.

  41. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Published about 90 minutes ago in the New York Post:

    The walls may be closing in on Colony Ridge, the controversial “colonia” north of Houston, Texas, that’s been labeled a “magnet” for crime and illegal immigration.

    Now two federal agencies — the Justice Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — have filed a lawsuit against the companies behind the 40-square-mile sprawl of homes, trailers and even tents, which is home to as many as 75,000 people in an area at least 50 percent bigger than Manhattan.

    The agencies accuse the companies, all ultimately owned by multimillionaire brothers John and William “Trey” Harris, of predatory lending and misleading advertising.

    The Harris brothers offer mortgages without Social Security numbers and told Texas Monthly they believe the majority of Colony Ridge’s population is undocumented immigrants from Latin America.

    And, The Post is told, other federal and state agencies are also investigating the development, including the IRS, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

    The Biden clown car could not have cared less about Colony Ridge’s illegal immigrants until LULAC and probably others started raising hell about the poor illegals getting ripped off by the Harris brothers.

    One woman said she put a downpayment on a lot and apparently decided to check and see what it would take to get a clear title before she started to build a home.  She found out her lot was part of a larger parcel with with a $7.6 million lien against it.

  42. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    You asked why Biden is allowing Yemen to bully us…… I have an answer but you may find this a big part why we are holding our guns quiet. (Including against Iran)

    US allies reluctant on Red Sea task force

    The story says Biden remains a staunch ally of Israel.  Nothoing can be further from the truth.  And it is crap like this why I think NATO should be disbanded.

  43. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #25 Texpat

    I don’t have to read the details of what Hamas or any other gang of muslims have done in order to understand how sub-human those creeps are. The summary of their atrocities that has gone public is quite enough for me. But thanks for the warning.

     

  44. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    You do not even want to see the videos I have seen of the Hamas atrocities and no I am not going to point anyone towards them.  They live streamed the acts as they were doing them.  There is not a hell hot enough for those animals.

  45. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Texpat

    The Biden clown car could not have cared less about Colony Ridge’s illegal immigrants until LULAC and probably others started raising hell about the poor illegals getting ripped off by the Harris brothers.

    Well… I guess whatever it takes. Go LULAC!

  46. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    You can see on the map in the NY Post article, Plum Grove is right at the tip off Colony Ridge. My wife has shown houses in there not knowing the situation, third world in there. Bad.

  47. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    35 Squawk

    If I were worth billions, or just one or two, I would buy Reuters, AP and Agence France Press and fire about 87% of the employees. 

    Anyway, I’ll let CDR Salamander explain my analysis because why should I rewrite when he already did the work ?

    The closing of his post, yes, we’re going backwards,

    We are only in the opening chapters of this story, but I’m not sure it will get worse.

    Even if we don’t change our response to these attacks, through persistence we can endure through what one would suspect is a limited Houthi inventory of useful weapons, especially if we can stop resupply from Iran. With a large dose of luck, we may get through with only an impact on economics and our own magazine depth.

    There are two downsides even with this optimistic possible outcome.

    1. We’ve burned through an already thin inventory.
    2. We’ve established a precedence that anyone can take pot-shots at American warships without response.

    The second worries me the most.

    You might think the ChiComs are behind the Houthis too.  The US Navy and its aviators are burning through our 2024 arsenal in the Red Sea pretty quickly and it is still 2023 because…

    There’s your math problem, but I have a larger issue with our OPERATION ROPE-A-DOPE – what are we actually trying to accomplish?

    If our mission is to intercept as many outbound weapons from Houthi controlled Yemen – sent to everyone from Israel, to shipping, to USN DDGs – with the hope to avoid anything that might escalate the Gaza conflict, then perhaps we’re doing OK in the short run.

    If our mission is to deter the Houthis from attacking Israel or shipping, then I’m not sure we are doing all that well. To paraphrase something I said last night SEPCOR; if you are in a bar and some jerk starts taking swings at you and you dodge every punch he throws, side step every kick he makes without touching him – why should he feel deterred from continuing his attacks? If all his friends and big brother are cheering him on while he talks smack to you, insults your mom, sister, the scooter you drove in on – the whole shebang – why should he stop as long as he has the energy to continue? In reality, this will just lead him to grab an empty bottle, a bar stool, or a pool cue and try to bash your brain in with that instead.

    Nothing we’re doing is deterring the Houthis. We have done absolutely nothing but encourage their behavior. As we are not taking out their launch sites or magazines, really we’re just in a competition to see if they run out of missiles before we run out of fresh VLS cells east of Rota.

    The humorously named Operation Prosperity Guardian is, if anything, signaling a lack of resolve and division in the international community.

    The EU nations, the NATO members and players like India DO NOT TRUST Joe Biden to not f*ck everything up on earth and start a World War.

    They think Biden, Antony Blinken, Lloyd Austin and Jake Sullivan are unserious, weak weasels and they don’t want to be in the same foxhole or trench with them.

    As much contempt I have for all of them, I can hardly blame them either.

     

  48. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    This just came into my mailbox.  If you know of anyone who wants to work with a “young feeling” office environment in the mortgage and lending field, let me know.  These are the folks that we’ve invested our money with.

    ***

    We’re excited to announce a paid internship opportunity at Blink Lending and Investments, located at 615 Heights Blvd in Houston, Texas. We’re on the lookout for passionate interns who are ready to dive into the world of mortgage loans and real estate investments.

    Their Role:

    As intern, they’ll get hands-on experience in various parts of our business:

     Assist with the execution of development and construction projects
     Participate in planning and permitting processes
     Contribute to payoff and extension preparation
     Oversee property tax monitoring and pre-scrub draws
     Manage insurance follow-ups and prepare for Reconveyance of Liens (ROL)
     Support with Transfers and Assignment of Liens (TAL) and Loan Purchase Agreements (LPA)
     Handle administrative tasks such as filing and mail management
     Facilitate engagement with realtor offices, schedule meetings, and follow up with loan officers
     Provide assistance in file processing and conduct competitor analysis
     Collaborate with the New Approval Department and liaise with Private Lenders
     Be the first point of contact, answering incoming calls and creating documentation folders
     Support with document follow-ups and record county documents
     Audit Encompass loans and organize team-building events
     Manage social media engagement
     Oversee office supply orders

    What’s in it for Them?

    •A chance to learn from industry veterans in a supportive atmosphere
    •An opportunity to work across diverse business areas
    •Guidance and mentorship from experienced professionals in the field

  49. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I cannot even attempt to describe to Her Highness or show her any video or testimony from Israel about all of the victims and hostages.

    What little she has seen and heard has already sent her into depression and high anxiety.

  50. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    They think Biden, Antony Blinken, Lloyd Austin and Jake Sullivan are unserious, weak weasels and they don’t want to be in the same foxhole or trench with them.

    As much contempt I have for all of them, I can hardly blame them either.

    Amen!

     

  51. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    CDR Salamander is real close to nailing why, but there is much more that comes into play when you consider what Biden wants to do with Iran.  Plumb treasonous.  Biden is picking up or rather has picked up from where Obama left off.  Obama believed it was time for us to turn our backs on our traditional friends (Israel) and start dealing with the Muslim countries.  Afghanistan was more about ceasing battle with Muslims than it was about pulling out in general.  Frankly the reason our navy is where it is is to block Israel.  Just watch.

  52. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    #42

    Dude you do not even want that lovely lady to see even sanitized videos of what those bastiges did.    Horrific.

  53. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    45 Squawk

    I know, I know, believe me.

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