“Old Red”
(The Ashbel Smith Building)
In an 1881 statewide referendum, the voters of Texas chose Galveston as the location of the first state-supported university medical school.
Ten years later, the “Medical College Building” opened its doors to 23 students and 13 faculty members.
“Old Red” now sits surrounded by the UTMB complex which includes three hospitals and 70 other buildings.
The magnificent structure survived the 1900 Storm and Hurricane Ike delivered six feet of water inside.
A nascent Medical Museum is in the works on one of the floors.
/ It’s just crazy – In all of my years of poking around Galveston, I have never seen this building.
Happy to see Tedtam’s report that our illustrious President can’t use money set aside by Congress to build that border wall on something else he wants to spend it on. Not that the finding will sink into his brain for more than a minute. Now that it is made public, attempts to hide that finding ain’t gonna work. Governor Abbott… Read more »
I heard Tucker say on his state of disunion rebuttal that Jr Boehner Johnson is going allow some type of procedural move to allow the totalitariancrats a vote to send 60 more billion to Ukraine. in the clip you can see Jr Boehner Johnson nodding like one of those toy dogs people used to put in their cars when the… Read more »
We’re getting a pretty good rain now, already about a quarter inch. I do hope we get a decent rain out of this.
Oh and I fixed Bambi Backstraps, wrapped in poblano peppers and bacon, cooked in my dutch oven. I made gravy and rice and popped a Green Giant veggi pack in the microwave, warmed up some rolls and we had a fine supper.
Brian from Capital Tractor showed up about 11:00 AM to pick up my Kubota and I didn’t have my boots on so by the time I got down to the tractor shed I heard the Kubota fire up. When he saw me he raised his hands and said don’t shoot. This was the first time I met him and when… Read more »
Paxton and friends win on the border wall, but I’m sure the libs will fight it tooth and nail.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/03/federal-court-biden-must-spend-border-wall-construction-funds-on-border-wall-construction/
Perhaps my definition of interesting content has narrowed considerably over the years.
Or simply changed.
I really do worry about folks who can’t find decent content in this day and age in America.
Maybe they’ve been staring into a tiny iPhone screen for so long, they just can’t see anymore.
The Georgia Train Wreck gets worse: “fruit of the poisonous tree” could derail the whole Trump trial. Democrat Fani Willis’ legal troubles extend beyond recent revelations… A new book from Mike Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman admits that a widely misunderstood phone call, on which Willis’ political prosecution rests, was illegally recorded. That means the entire prosecution could crumble with defendants having… Read more »
At least Texpat saw my post this time!
The knee is acting up. I have to be up late doing some bookkeeping, it looks like. Then I need to start packing for the road trip. I’m running some cheese w/cajun seasoning through Elsa, so I can have a keto snack for the trip. BTW – most of this evening’s salad greens came from my back yard. Can’t get… Read more »
I tried. I really did. For two damn hours I couldn’t find any decent content to share.
And then I had to get back to doing my taxes. It is tax season for some of us.
Thanks to Tedtam for posting the Weekend OC because I am exhausted.
I’ve been out making the world a better place while all these layabouts around here aren’t doing anything at all about keeping the comment momentum going.
I have been outside on the back porch for the last couple of hours just enjoying the day. And a glass o Honeyshine.
Oh PLEASE don’t make him make me carry on the conversation from our comfy couch HERE on THIS comfy couch – but even that would be better than the speedo pix EEEEEEEWWWWW
If y’all don’t start commenting more I am gonna bring back the fat guy speedo pictures.
1:14-5:11PM. Sheesh
Some medical hope for the spiked (and aged) folks:
A tamer of the cytokine storm, the Five Flavor Fruit offers a cornucopia of therapeutic benefits beyond just Acute COVID.
How about an Australian made GM engine? A mid 60’s Holden FR, OHV 6, 186 CID 135 HP. Look at the clean engine bay and the tiny master cylinder on the RH side of the firewall.
Agenda 47 Trump’s plan for when he is re-elected.
The gender confused spokes-hole was trying to make a negative of the plan. . .I think that most if it is a great plan and we need it to happen.
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1766062378095894546
Oh brother, I had a hard time rolling out of bed this morning. The cats were doing their best to wake me up, but as soon as they had devoured some chow, they all conked out.
8:21 texpat Even though Colorado has somewhat limited qualified immunity, police departments continue to indemnify officers who are found liable for damages in civil suits like this. Raiding someone’s home as if they were some sort of cartel kingpin based on the Find My app over a stolen van is way beyond reasonable, even if a warrant was obtained without… Read more »
Since it’s Friday…
Coffee & Covid covered the event last night thusly: Last night, Joe Biden yelled at Congress for an hour straight. In a sort of furious, manic reverie, Joe Biden ‘delivered’ his divisive, angry, overcooked State of the Union speech on fast mode. It wasn’t so much a coherent speech, per se, as it was a long litany of loud one-liners. Joe… Read more »
I’m in the middle of discussions over a payment issue with T-mobile. We’ve stuck with them because Hubby really appreciates/needs the personal touch by going into a store when he has phone problems. If this isn’t resolved, I’d like to consider other options for phone service. I’ve been thinking about this for some time. Do y’all have any recommendations?
A Revere of Our Own
Young Katy Jennings raced bareback to alert her fellow Texians about the advancing Mexican army
G’morning, all! No gardening today, because of the weather. I’ve made my rosary and am listening to Salcedo rant about last night. Sounds like I made a good choice to go listen to the speaker at my church, though he spent all of his allotted time discussing the fights between sciencers and theologians about the beginnings of man instead of… Read more »
A corporate media journalist, who controversially demanded that unvaccinated members of the public be taken away to concentration camps, has died at just 33 years old.Ian Vandaelle died after being hospitalized and “declared neurologically dead,” his family revealed.Vandaelle was a Canadian business journalist who worked as a reporter and editor at the Financial Post.He was also previously a producer at… Read more »
Good. Punch back hard when necessary. Colorado grandmother has been awarded $3.76 million in damages after a SWAT team tore apart the Denver home where she raised her three children in search of a missing iPhone.State jurors ruled last week that Denver Police Det. Gary Staab and his supervisor Sgt. Gregory Buschy violated Ruby Johnson’s civil rights when they used… Read more »
Got my tractor washed and shined up yesterday so the guys can come this morning and take her in for service. Oh and they have a half price special on the 200 hour service, $395 + $95 transportation, less than $500 bucks! Such a deal! Oh and she has 242 hours on her, I’m a little late. 😉
I managed to make it through the entire SOTU Angry Old Man Speech and I wasn’t surprised except for the fact that he did a better job than I’d have though and like Shannon says, they must have some fine drugs they shoot him up with. But I’d bet money that they have had him on a sleep in the… Read more »
This is not satire. On Wednesday, CBS Morningsfeatured KYNE Santos, a Drag Queen who teaches about mathematics on TikTok. Hosts fawned over “Math Queen” and encouraged viewers to check out Santos’ new book, “Math in Drag,” which talks about the intersection between “mathematical mysteries” and “the art of drag.”“Yeah. You know, people think that these are two such separate worlds,” Santos told… Read more »
Watch this short clip of Biden being led out of the building after his SOTU speech.
It’s pathetic this is our president.
About my post @ 5:22 AM and my/our travels in Texas, my wife and I finished watching Lonesome Dove the other night, it was 4, 2 hour episodes and in the first one they came upon a river and I said “that looks like the Pecos, I wonder if it is ” and my wife said that even the territory… Read more »
Deaf Jewish students at Gallaudet University in DC are threatened and forced to hide from Jew-hating fellow students.
From The Persian Jewess
It is so comforting we are being led by “experts”. Led down the path to Perdition. Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country, leaving utilities and regulators grasping for credible plans to expand the nation’s creaking power grid….The soaring demand is touching… Read more »
The reason y’all have never seen the Ashbel-Smith Building is because it has been surrounded by tall buildings and buried back in the UTMB campus. Unless you drive deep into the campus and get out and start walking around the crowded buildings, you will never see it out there on the east end of island. Even when you drive down… Read more »
I tried to watch the SOTU last night and I finally had to turn it off just b4 9 when Joe “The Dip$#!t” started to get heckled a bit. I can only take being lied to just so many times before my lizard brain takes over and I want to do bad things to bad people. It took me almost… Read more »
I really like the arches over the upper floor windows and it looks like there aren’t too many hard corners – almost roundish in shape of the footprint of the building.
Definitely a hit on my architectural taste-o-meter
Ditto here as well. I’ve never ventured into the UTMB area though other than drive-by.
Ditto that, I missed it also but I’ll try to stop by there in one of my future Texas trips. Well we made it to Friday and it’s March 8 man time flies.
Mornin’ Gang