Note to self: post the Rice Hotel sometime in the future
Best Tex/Mex if you had never had Tex/Mex before.
If it was just me and him on a 100 mile stretch of road…. I am gonna get a ticket.
And they are leaving this thing up? Does not make sense.
While not a sigular Texas instituion I loved the pecan logs.
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TeePee Motel, Wharton, TX
Ever since they restored the Tee Pee I’ve wanted to spend the night there, maybe the next time I make it to Texas.
Myself/. Bucket list item
San Jacinto Inn
And I believe you have misidentified the Shamrock Hotel in the OC.
Probably.
The Rice Hotel
Niels Esperson Building
Foley’s. JFK.
SO Shannon any reports from your brother? I hope all is well. 58 here and I’ve already been messing around outside in my shorts and long sleeved shirt. But winter will be back for the weekend, lows about freezing, Brrrr.
Mornin’ Gang
I don’t even know if he’s managed to snag a doctor’s appointment yet.
Tidelands Motor Inn, where Bob Newhart recorded his debut album
Nothing makes my day quite like the thought of Liz Cheney spending a substantial portion of her wealth on blood-sucking lawyers.
Do lizards have suckable blood? Is it like Vulcan blood, not suitable for human use?
You think Kash Patel will indict her?
The process is the punishment. And I hope he processes the hell out of her.
I’m up early because sleep eluded me last night, for the most part. Even with a full muscle relaxant pill, which usually knocks me out, the constant discomfort from the sciatica kept me up almost all night. I had a way overdue insurance thing to do, so that’s done and out of the way. I have a chiropractor appointment today which may have to be rescheduled because this back tooth has a very sharp edge to it and I’m hoping the dental school can get me in today as well. “Rescheduling” Dr. Bailey may be difficult this week, since Lisa passed. I’m sure there’s funeral stuff and just bad day stuff for him this week.
But keeping busy may be his way of coping. Either way, he gets a hug from me when I see him.
And I always liked Monterrey House Mexican restaurant.
Mmmm…K I don’t know what to say about that.
Back in the olden days they were pretty good, basic TexMex.
Childhood memories, Dave.
Monterey House was family run and only a few locations back when were kids. Our divorced mother worked long hours so we used to go to the Long Point location on Tuesday nights to give her a break from cooking…and it was cheap.
BAWHAHAHA!!! At least he didn’t Pee on it. 😀
Molina’s is pretty danged good.
The earliest memory I have of eating TexMex was at Felix restaurant on Westheimer.
I think Granddaddy used to like that place and took us there. It was the original restaurant.
TT
If I may pry, what is the muscle relaxer they are prescribing these days?
cyclobenzaprine 10 mg
I usually take a half pill before settling into the dentist’s chair or to bed. When I’m really hurting, I’ll take a full pill at night.
Cyclobenzaprine is great. It’s the best muscle relaxer I’ve taken since Soma. It is the generic form of Flexeril.
Felix
Only a few blocks from our former rental property on Hawthorne Street, but Hubby had a small place on Fairview that he favored. It’s gone now. I remember seeing El Felix boarded up – after a fire?
Huntsville AL ‘pill mill’ doctor among those granted clemency.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — A disgraced Huntsville doctor is among the 1,500 people receiving presidential pardons and commutations.
Shelinder Aggarwal, now 56, was sentenced in 2017 to 15 years in prison for issuing illegal prescriptions and health care fraud. Federal prosecutors described him as “the nation’s highest Medicare prescriber of opioid painkillers.”
Last week, President Joe Biden announced clemency consisting of 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations. The latter reduces the sentence of someone who is convicted of a crime but does not clear their record.
A Madison County educator is among the pardon recipients. Aggarwal’s name is on the list of those whose sentences will be cut short.
Aggarwal pleaded guilty to one count of distributing a controlled substance outside the scope of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose and to one count of conspiring to execute a health care fraud scheme against Medicare and BCBS of Alabama.
At the time of his plea, he had already repaid $2.8 million to Medicare and $45,843 to BCBS of Alabama.
“This defendant directly contributed to the opioid epidemic that is plaguing our nation,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton said. “He also cost taxpayers millions of dollars by fraudulently claiming government reimbursement for thousands of lab tests that he never used to treat patients.”
Aggarwal surrendered his medical license in 2013, after the allegations surfaced.
Records reviewed by FOX54 show he is at a halfway house in Montgomery and is set to be released on Dec. 22.
Color me NOT surprised. I wonder who comes up with the list of possible Pardon or Clemency candidates?
I’m sure I’ll get eye-rolls when I admit that I used to LOVE El Chico’s…. but now that Ive grown up, I far prefer Carmelita’s here in Conroe – my only beef is that she’s only open for breakfast and lunch – but I just see that she is open until 3…. so maybe we’ll try a late lunch sometime soon….
About Stuckeys, I guess y’all know that they revived the two on I 10 @ Jenkins Road between Anahuac and Winnie? They bull Dozed the one on the north, westbound side of the road and put in a new fancy one. Sort of a Buc-ees wanta’ be. The other one, they just refurbished it a little. If you rememebr they often put two Stuckeys across from each other on the interstate, limited access highways.
I’m okay this morning. I tried to sleep for an hour, but I felt kind of weird. I still had an AFib reading but my BPM weren’t bizarre at the moment. I sat up and watched animal videos for an hour and then I slept pretty well. No AFib this AM. Animal videos have a real calming effect on the body and mind.
This was the third morning in a row that I discovered eggs were not going to magically appear in my refrigerator.
So, angrily, I just made an egg run to town.
I just walk down to the hen house and ask Ms Dominique, Ms Rhode Island Red or Ms White Rock for a couple. 😉
Shannon
I fixed the gross misidentification.
Dental school had a cancellation, so I don’t have to wait until Friday. Yay!
Am I weird that I look forward to dental work?
I too have fond memories of Pancho’s and Monterey House. Monterey Dinner and sopapillas!
Always looked forward to the next Stuckey’s on road trips as kids.
In the 1960s, my FFA compadres and I at Spring Branch High School used to go tank up on the free sopapillas and honey they had on every table at the Pancho’s on Long Point Road. We didn’t have any money so we’d order a few tamales and that was our meal. It was shortly after that period when Pancho’s was busted by the feds for importing donkeys and mules from Mexico and mixing their meat in with the ground beef to save money.
We talked about it before, but I worked at that Pancho’s on Long Point when I was a teenager. Sopapillas were free!
I burned down a service truck at the gas station next to the eastbound Stuckey’s on I10 back around 1979. In the early days of the oilfield boom, they sent me on my first field job in Lafayette as a kid in a spare pickup truck, tools and oxygen and acetylene rig was just loosely laying down in the bed. I had a flat, pulled into that gas station and found the spare chained down with a lock but no key, no problem I had a torch! Bottles had been rolling around and cut the acetylene hose and when I reached down to cut the chain, the gas ignited. I could have simply turned the bottle off but I panicked and soon it was soon a full out blaze. Melted the canopy over the gas pumps but fortunately did not set them off, but the Stuckey’s next door had to evacuate in case lol. This was on a Saturday, my service manager was on his first weekend off in months and got called on the golf course. I was not popular.
Damn what a great story! And you lived to tell about it. Cutting the chain with the touch showed initiative but of course you should have secured the tank before leaving. 😉
Yeah, my fault but they should never sent me out as a kid. I guess I turned out ok, worked there for the next 18 years lol.
And, you should never use acetylene with the bottle laying down.
If I was in the shop I always made sure the bottles were securely chained up. I was too scared of acetylene to move it or haul it anywhere without it standing up chained to a handtruck rig that was also strapped down. My original welding instructor demonstrated several times how dangerous it could be and scared the hell out his students.
I saw a safety video of a bottle leaving a shop at Mach III after the top was knocked off. The screw-on caps are important. BTW; the bottle was filled with 6000 PSI of plane old air for the demonstration.
Hubby taught me a long time ago to watch out for trucks hauling tanks with the gauges still on them. He calls them all kind of stupid. I agree.
The communist creature from the Kenyan lagoon STILL thinks he’s pResident as he slithers and slimes his communist underlings into action.
Here is your sycophant, Norman Eisen, consigliere to the Deep State.
Norm Eisen and Barack Obama were 1st year law students together at Harvard. He was also a senior counsel to the Democratic members of the Senate during both impeachment trials in the first Trump term.
This is from a large Pro-Terrorism rally in NYC Sunday. If this had been a Trump rally or Pro-Life rally, the participants would be the subject of a major DOJ and FBI investigation.
“Our rifles will be pointed at the U.S. government and the Zionist entity,” declared the speaker at a recent pro-Palestinian rally in New York, as he described American “imperialists” as the “number one terrorists,” and expressed solidarity with Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, Iran, and other members of the “Axis of Resistance.”
The pro-Palestinian Bronx Anti-War Coalition, a self-described “working-class, BIPOC-led, anti-imperialist” group, organized a rally on Sunday in New York City’s Union Square to express solidarity with the “Axis of Resistance,” which the group identified as Hezbollah, Iran, Syria, Yemen, and the Iraqi “resistance.”
Surprise, surprise ! It is ironically absurd these people get a cost-of-living-allowance to compensate for the inflation they voted to approve.
A 1,547-page spending deal was released Tuesday night will give members of Congress a raise.
The lame-duck continuing resolution (CR) unveiled just three days before a potential government shutdown strips a provision included in spending bills since 2009 to block automatic raises for Congress, effectively giving senators and House members a raise.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), the top Democrat on the powerful House Appropriations Committee, explained in 2023 that the so-called “Member Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) automatically takes effect unless it is blocked.”
😀
Staying with the Texas memories theme, ID channel is doing a show on the Texas Cheerleader Mom tonight. Supposedly the daughter is going to bring never told information on the story.
Popcorn? 😀
I wanna wish everyone a Merry Christmas….. oh and a warning. With all the Christmas and New Years parties you might misplace your keys and need a ride. There are some of us here that would rather not take an Uber or call a taxi. So we decide to buy a horse……. well…….
Arnold got fat.
I always like my tartaric acid in a nice Malbec or Cabernet.
“Previous studies on the effects of wine on cardiovascular health have produced inconsistent results. This may be in part because research often relies on people reporting how much wine they drink. Instead, in the new study, researchers measured the amount of a chemical, called tartaric acid, in participants’ urine. Researchers say this is an ‘objective and reliable measure’ of wine consumption.”
The phony preacher speaker has to be compromised.
only a loser would push this shinola.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pork-city-johnson-tries-ram-through-insane-funding-package
Boy, I sure am glad that really smart Matt Gaetz got McCarthy run out of the Speaker’s office and replaced him with the brave, strong, fearless Mike Johnson. It saved the day.
Seriously, is there anything these wimps in Congress won’t roll over for ?
The government funding bill includes a one-year extension of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), an agency that funds organizations that censor conservative media including Breitbart News.
The provision extending funding for the program is on page 139 of the 1,537-page continuing resolution, which was unveiled Tuesday night just hours before the House will vote on the short-term spending bill.
The Washington Examiner’s Gabe Kaminsky posted on Twitter that the bill “includes a one-year extension on the State Department’s Global Engagement Center — the agency me and Matt Taibbi reported has funded speech suppression efforts and is being sued by the Federalist and Daily Wire.”
Luntz-McRathy would be serving up the same sheet.
all republican house speakers serve the role of the ny Mayo Stain’s prison lover.
just like in Texas.
All totalitariancrat *itches.
Many musicians struggled during the pandemic. Lil Wayne wasn’t one of them. He sold master recordings from his record label’s artists for more than $100 million. He was pardoned for felony gun possession in a last-minute action by then-President Donald Trump. He purchased a $15.4 million mansion in the mountains of Los Angeles.
And, as a Business Insider investigation found, he received an $8.9 million grant from a little-known pandemic-relief program that he used to cover more than two years’ worth of spending on luxury hotel stays, designer clothes, and travel to and from nightclub appearances around the country.
Most of this money was doled out during the first half of the Biden Administration, but the Trump White House backed it. The road to hell and good intentions…
The money came from a program called the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant. Signed into law by Trump in 2020 and championed by lawmakers including Sen. Chuck Schumer, it was established as a lifeline for struggling independent venues and arts groups during the pandemic.
But pop stars used the program as a piggy bank to keep the party going, reporting by Business Insider shows.
Powell is a deep state swamp critter too tanking the market on purpose.
end the fed reserve.
all he needs to do now is trot out dr faucistein to give a speech on Covid 1984.
and just for grins let dr brix de la scarfs speak too.
The current Christmas Crapulous Continuing Money Spewing bill has been pulled.
There was strong push-back from the grass roots and from the incoming administration. It is possible that the squishy Rs are learning that THEY WILL BE PRIMARIED IF THEY CONTINUE IN THE OLD WAYS.
Be ready for the phrase from the Ds: harsh, draconian cuts.
Well, let’s see, these are rodents and in all my experience and knowledge, they are omnivores that will eat any thing if they get hungry enough.
Why is this some kind of surprising revelation ? I’m convinced there has to be something in the water to make people in California so stupid. They’re going to elect Kamala as governor. Enough said.
DAVIS, Calif. — Evolution works in mysterious ways. Sometimes, it creates specialized carnivores with sharp teeth and claws; other times, it turns seemingly peaceful plant-eaters into opportunistic hunters. Scientists have just documented the latter in action, discovering that California ground squirrels – those supposedly harmless seed-gatherers – have developed a taste for meat and the skills to obtain it.
There isn’t a rodent on earth that isn’t omnivorous. They will eat whatever they need to stay alive. They will choose the easy food when it is abundant, but any rodent will eat anything if they are hungry enough. Watch the rats in New York City carrying around hot dogs and hamburgers.
I remember being surprised to learn that chimpanzees will eat their own. I thought that since they such social creatures, at least their own tribal members would be safe, but no.
The most harrowing story I ever heard was about a chimpanzee that had been abused and taken to a sanctuary had to be locked up because he hated humans. We’ll call him “Hugo”. He and some of his cohorts escaped, and there was one survivor of an attack on a car near the sanctuary. The man who was looking for Hugo to bring him back to the sanctuary was pulled from the car (which was trashed) and literally ripped into pieces. He may have been eaten. I can’t remember if Hugo and his human hating buddies were ever caught.
Finally settling in. I got into the dentist’s chair a little after ten this morning. The new dentist assessed the problematic waaaay back molar and agreed that the razor sharp edge should be ground down as well as replace the missing filling. She had to grind out some more tooth to provide a better surface for the composite to grip. There may not be much left of that thing soon, and if there’s a next round – or even if not, it may end up being needed – it may get its own crown. /sigh/ It never ends.
So, here I am, multiple injections of novocain later, the new filling in place, and I’m watching the clock on the wall. I figgered that at the pace we were going, I’d make it to Dr. Bailey’s office for the back jerking pretty much on time.
On the last bite check, I heard a loud “crack!” The new filling had broken. We had to take it all out (probably with a little more of the tooth). A new filling was put in place and this time she ground the bottom tooth a little low and took another sharp edge off the top. I can close my mouth now and the teeth don’t meet, but they are close enough that I can chew food, but I suggested that I skip the harder foods, like steaks, and stick to a softer alternative, like ground beef, until I get the other crowns in place and they can share the chewing load. That poor little molar is taking about 90% of the chewing load.
Even with all of the delays – replacing the new filling, having to stop to stretch my back, etc. – I was only a few minutes late to the chiropractor and I didn’t even have time to put my stuff down in the waiting room. Dr. Bailey took care of me and I went to my bead shops, since they are only a few miles from Dr. B’s office.
I’m glad I took my crutches. I had to use them from the parking garage into the UT Dental building, and again while I was bead shopping. I’m hoping that tomorrow is a better day. Or at least that I sleep better tonight. Last night was practically a write-off.
Oh, and both of the dentists working on me (one was assisting, it’s holiday season and they are shorthanded). They both selected rosaries from my purse stash. The instructor, Dr. Salto, is an Aggie and happy to see my ring. He told he ladies to take good care of me because I was an Aggie. We laughed when he pointed out that the one with the drill was from LSU.
He was going to get a rosary before I left, but he was nowhere to be found. Maybe next time.
It’s never too late for delightful snark:
Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! It’s time to start getting your shopping done, stat. In today’s roundup: NeverTrumpers join progressives trying to get off the sinking SS Woke and throws élites under the boat; Pelosi’s unexpected tumble produces other unexpected results in House committee elections and the end of an era; Ukraine’s terrorists assassinate Russian general who investigated Biden’s connections to illegal US biolabs; and another forgettable drone story update as useless feds conscript the sundowner-in-chief.
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Rats and sinking ships:
As progressives scurry down the bow lines and line up nose-to-tail to leap off the sinking aft railing to the safety of the dock, the New York Times’ pet NeverTrumper and sometimes bedbug Bret Stephens ran a tearful, apologetic op-ed yesterday headlined, unsurprisingly, “Done With Never Trump.”
Please take me back. I leave it to the good graces of my esteemed readers to reckon whether Brett is sincere this time, or whether he’s opportunistically evacuating a doomed planet. For purposes of this comment, I will presume Stephens means it, this time.
The Dems won’t be buttering his bread any time soon, so time to bend the knee and kiss the ring. Delightful. Mr. C. points out that they really don’t have anywhere else to go. The Donald’s shadow has cast a pall over every leftist outlet and power base.
Mr. C. points out that Pelosi was absent during this important time. Because of her fall in Luxembourg, she was unable to swing the mallet on her underlings.
… But this time, the aging, day-drinking former Speaker, 106, was sidelined in Germany for hip replacement surgery (“hüftgelenkersatzoperation,” and I am not making that up).
/snuffle snort/
I’m sure they were happy about it.
But the surgery was definitely bad timing what with Democrat committee elections this week, and the result was chaotic. Without her withered hand guiding the tiller, Pelosi’s preferred picks plunged into obscurity.
Progressive darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 35, lost to less photogenic but more moderate Representative Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), 74, for Oversight Committee ranking member. Pelosi pick and California Representative Jim Costa, 72, lost to Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig, 52, to lead the Agriculture Committee. Remarkably egg-shaped Representative Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), 77, stepped down to avoid losing to Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), 61, for ranking member on the critical Judiciary Committee.
And so it went, on down the line. Just as Pelosi’s fractured hip was replaced with a new and improved hip, House democrats replaced their fractured, aging party leadership with new blood, across the board. With Pelosi’s haggard shadow laying across Europe instead of falling on House Democrats, with one exception (AOC), House Democrats preferred younger candidates….
/snip
The overextended, superannuated Pelosi era is over.
We can dream.
Next story from the C&C:
Talk is cheap, which is why I almost skipped this non-story, but social media was buzzing about it all day yesterday. NBC’s article was headlined, “Biden says he supports a congressional stock trading ban.” You have got to be kidding me. You could cut the irony with a knife.
Indeed.
Anyway, Joe said, “I think we should be changing the law that we have to abide by at the federal level—that nobody, nobody in the Congress should be able to make money in the stock market while they’re in the Congress. Not a joke.”
Nancy Pelosi, one of the House’s biggest traders, who helped overthrow Joe for Kamala, was unavailable for comment. Something about her hip.
I saw a montage of Nancy and her net worth growth over the years. She’s been shameless. And probably criminal.
One thing about Trump: he has enough money that he doesn’t have to resort to insider trading.
In 2011, Congress passed the STOCK Act, designed to prevent insider trading in Congress, and requires “timely” disclosures of trades. So we already have a law, as Biden well knows, since he was Vice-President when Obama signed the Stock Act into law. The problem is that nobody enforces the Act, except through insignificant fines ($200).
In truth, the Act is a little murky on enforcement.
But, just like immigration, enforcement of the law is ignored due to inconvenience.
Obviously, that failed. This summer some good people tried again, filing a tougher, bipartisan bill titled ‘Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks,’ or the ETHICS Act. The ETHICS Act would ban stock trading altogether by lawmakers and some family members. But the bill remains stalled, locked in a committee dog cage, where it is slowly starving to death.
/snip
The problem is that there is zero incentive in Washington, DC, to change the current system, apart from humility and morality, which are both in short supply. Congressmen are clearly conflicted; voting for ETHICS means voting against their own self-interest and against the most financially lucrative perk that federal public service can offer.
The President also has a conflict; Congressional trades and the prospect of DOJ enforcement is very useful, as blackmail, as the cyclical every-few-years “insider trading” “breaking” media event shows. If the President ever signed an ETHICS law with teeth, he (and the executive-branch deep state) would lose a lot of leverage over Congress.
It will take a miracle to end this incredibly destructive practice. Fortunately, God has been delivering miracles lately. So who knows?
And I’m part of this story:
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving fellow. I, and millions of other Catholics, have stopped donating to pachapapa’s various slush funds and mismanaged pet projects.
The Vatican, which is the global headquarters of the Catholic Church, may be on the brink of bankruptcy, according to the Daily Express. A combination of factors brought about the crisis, but many blame the management of Pope Francis, who became the 266th pope in 2013.
A decade later, in 2023, the Vatican reported an operating deficit of $87 million. The number had increased by $5.3 million in the span of a year. This is one of the largest debts the Vatican has ever accumulated, and it jeopardizes the livelihoods of retired clergy and staff.
/snip
Despite these factors, many are placing the blame on Pope Francis, as his progressive policies are causing a rift with more conservative Catholics, in turn causing a decrease in donations. Pope Francis has expressed his contemporary stance on issues like climate change, immigration, transgender rights, and the redefinition of family values. Traditionalists have expressed frustration with this, alienating them from the Church as an institution.
One thing that’s wissed us off is his penchant for defrocking and sidelining good, faithful priests because he doesn’t like their attitude. Screw the priest shortage! We’ll ordain women (against 2,000 years of faith and doctrine) and find some more active and “outed” homosexuals to run our parishes.
I despise this Pope. I have to remember the Ark isn’t the same thing as the Captain. I am obedient to Christ and His Word, not the failed human beings who are running the Ark into the beach.
I may have to confess my secret delight in seeing the worm squirm, though.
I’d love to see Vigano or Strickland as Pope. Vigano may not be eligible, but Strickland is. Heck, a grilled cheese sammich would be better than what we got. At least a GCS wouldn’t make things worse.
My outrage and fury over this “bill” Mike Johnson is pushing is not doing my AFib any good. Her Highness insists on watching Jesse Watters while we are eating pizza. The long list of manure in this legislation is enough to make anyone physically ill.
Gear down big fella.
we need you around here.
Hang in there, dear sir. We need you strong in coping with the AFib and getting it fixed so life can go on normally. I have been there and done that almost 2 years ago. Once recovery gets going, things work back to normal as you regain strength, and the world looks and is much better. 🙂
Good stuff.
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