Adios, California
Former member of the California state legislature and House Minority Whip, Steve Baldwin, pens an elegy for his home state. An interlude for a moment to introduce just who Baldwin is…
After a few years with the College Republicans, he was asked by William F. Buckley and a group of prominent Young Americans for Freedom alumni to take over YAF as the once revered organization was on the verge of collapse. He agreed to serve a two-year term (January 2005- December 2006) as Executive Director of this historic group and was able to bring this organization back to life.
During this time he also raised funds for the Nicaraguan freedom fighters resisting the Soviet-backed Sandinista regime there. When the Democrats in Washington decided to collaborate with the Soviet ambitions in Latin America by cutting off congressional funding to the freedom fighters, Baldwin, along with many others, raised private funds to keep their resistance alive. They were successful, and for the first time in Cold War history, the Soviet empire experienced a setback when the resistance finally pressured the Sandinistas to agree to free elections, elections the Communists ultimately lost — at a decisive point in history.
And now on to his column for American Spectator:
Sure, the liberals like to claim California socialism is working by pointing to the much heralded statistic that “California’s economy is the 6th largest in the world” as calculated by the state’s Department of Finance. Indeed, California’s $2.62 trillion economy is larger than that of France, Canada, Brazil, Russia, and Italy. However, that GDP stat does not factor in California’s cost of living, which is 36.2% higher than the national cost of living. As Carson Bruno writes in Real Clear Markets, “using the cost of living adjusted data from the International Monetary Fund and adjusting California’s GDP data provides a better snapshot of California’s economic standing in the world. Doing so shows that California is actually the 12th largest economy — a drop of 6 spots — and actually puts the state below Mexico.”
and another myth busted,
But it’s not just Silicon Valley employees fleeing California; it’s productive — and job-creating — citizens from all over the state. As Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox wrote in theMercury News last April, “the largest group of outmigrants tends to be middle-aged people making between $100,000 and $200,000 annually.”
San Diego city workers cleaning up endless streets of homeless encampments and daily pressure washing streets and sidewalks with disinfectant to try and stem a huge outbreak of hepatitis A in the city.
#79 Yeah, that is now old news. The kangaroos in the courthouse couldn’t even get a conviction in spite of all the dirty lawyer tricks, a crooked cocaine snorting DA whose law partner was the judge, withheld evidence from the defense, and numerous other things I’m not aware of. This was a “must win” for the prosecution since they have… Read more »
If ELG already posted this, lo siento.
Mistrial In Waco.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/11/12/mistrial-waco-biker-shootout-trial-leaves-154-suspects-limbo/856490001/
75
Have no fear.
I read your posts and most of the time I read the o/c articles of the day.
Can’t read it if you don’t see it.
What a prank. Even I’m not that evil.
74 GJT
Thanks, GJT.
I can always depend on you to read my posts and comments even if my own brother doesn’t pay attention.
Nobody ever reads Texpat’s posts.
You really need to go over to Ace’s and scroll down to
http://ace.mu.nu
#70 SD: My cat does that every time I get in the recliner. Every. Time.
I think I prolly mentioned Ecohub here because I had just found out about what the 1-bin system really was. A year ago, I imagined they would collect in one bin then take it somewhere to sort it. I had NEVER heard that Ecohub wanted all the trash and would pay to be able to collect it.
What we have here is one Happy Dawg,….Love that Dawg…..
#67 El Gordo
I think the consumer is expected to do that before eating it.
Within the last few weeks I seem to have mysteriously gotten on Sheila Jackson Lee’s list of constituents. Just how that happened I can’t guess, other than it’s a robo call. Tonight I got a phone invite to join in an 18th District phone confab conducted by Queen Sheila on the Republican tax bill. Previously I got invites for phone… Read more »
Well, someone has to peel those corn shucks off the tamales before they are eaten, so if that ain’t shucking, I don’t know what is. Darn. The tamale lady was supposed to deliver my order tonight, so my evil plan was to loosen the string where they are all tied together and let a couple of them escape, then bundle… Read more »
I don’t know about that. I got shucked a couple of times by some hot rock-n-roll babes in the 80s and 90s.
It was pretty darn fun.
61 GJT Gerald Ford was running for a second term in 1976 against Jimmy Carter after attaining America’s highest office in the wake of Richard Nixon’s resignation. At a campaign stop in San Antonio, Texas to visit the Alamo, Ford was offered a plate of tamales. This is where things took a dark turn. He picked one up, and, without… Read more »
60 Shannon The only thing that gets shucked is an oyster. Tamales are eaten and shrimp are peeled before they are consumed. I used to have a couple of Latina ladies come by my office on 34th Street every Wednesday selling unbelievably good all beef tamales out of the trunk of their car. I would buy several dozen and tell… Read more »
18 Squawk
Ahem…
Bill Whittle and I (and,yes I do presume to speak for him) don’t disagree with a single thing you have said.
However, Bill’s video essay was about public popular cultural tactics, not first principles. You are absolutely correct in everything you’ve said, but so is Bill.
We had a couple who brought shrimp to Bellville for at least twenty years. In time they got telephone numbers of their customers and would call ahead for any special orders.
They could bring grouper, snapper, etc.
Likewise, the same tamale lady for years.
What do you do with a tamale …. peel it, strip it?
I’ve never heard of shucking shrimp or tamales but if a nekkid girl wants to do it for me I’m game.
#48 – I agree about the tamales. But the best place to buy shrimp (or trade for a 6 pack of beer) is in the bay while you are out fishing, or waiting on the bank in Kemah when the boat comes in. Those people selling on the side of the road are there (in Kemah) every morning loading their… Read more »
I found the story on Houston Press anyway.
Ah, a new site.
I’d rather have them shucked by a white gloved waiter and served to me by a hot naked native girl on silver license plates.
I didn’t see any research on tamales. Tamales are not seafaring animals.
Tamales and shrimp should be purchased off the back of a pickup truck from some Mexican lady. One summer during my college years, I worked at the Texas A&M Seafood Technology Department. I was responsible for teaching the computer-fearing secretary how to use the word processor/computer, and to type up research papers for publication. One of the surprising things that… Read more »
And the Ecohub story is there.
https://bigjolly.com
I don’t see anything on the site. Do you see other stories?
Yep, I don’t see it on the site any more.
re #44: Went to go look at the Ecohub story someone mentioned last week and I just see the the root of an empty server.
I’m pretty sure it is against Texas law to buy tamales online.
Or should be.
Tamales and shrimp should be purchased off the back of a pickup truck from some Mexican lady.
HEB or Fiesta has some pretty fair tamales. Oh wait, you live in the desert where even horny toads don’t go. Never mind
#43 – Seriously. From Amazon with a $17.00 shipping fee. They need to be hand delivered hot, shucked by a naked native girl, and served by a white gloved waiter on silver plates for $17.00 And get this, from the Amazon site: No Lard No MSG Gluten-Free Boil-in Bag I don’t know what those are, but they are most certainly… Read more »
Whut?
Did LBGJF peese off the wrong people?
For el gordo:
Yummy! https://www.amazon.com/Gourmet-Pork-Tamales-One-Dozen/dp/B01MDRG9EE/ref=sr_1_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1510782094&sr=8-3&keywords=Tamales
For good reading: https://www.amazon.com/Too-Many-Tamales-Gary-Soto/dp/0698114124/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1510782094&sr=8-2&keywords=Tamales
SEE YA!!
SAN ANTONIO — As plans ramp up for a controversial “Reimagined“ Alamo, the fund-raising machinery is controlled by 10 boardroom insiders who are expected to bring cash to the table. Ray Myers, a retired high school principal with a lifelong love for the Alamo, figured he could bring a “grassroots” sensibility to the Texas General Land Office’s $400 million vision… Read more »
#38 Darren: The only poll that counts is in December by Alabamians.
These are the Daves I know
¡Ai caramba!
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/15/roy-moore-doug-jones-poll-244937
Another Walt of the world.
Shannon, good grief, a stem thief in the night? Ask Max if he’s seen any strangers around tampering with your watch.
I put my watch on this morning and the stem is missing.
WTH?
#31 – Actually, my BFF fambily in Rosenburg has Thanksgiving this coming weekend, so I will start traveling tomorrow to Big D, then off to R’burg. My order is only for 2 dozen, so she already has orders from others for the rest of them. BTW, does UT have a formula that converts those tamales into BTU’s produced from the… Read more »
All those “Walts of the world” making a difference. You go Walt!
https://blog.gofundme.com/meet-walt-9434085da9b8
/evil smile as I contemplate hooking up an air horn to a dryer timer.
When do you plan to eat your Thanksgiving tamales? Well, I guess if you are getting 22 dozen — UT math says that is 264 tamales — you will be eating them for a week. 🙂