THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

It’s pathetic the way these black politicians apparently figure that their personal and racial grievances entitle them to steal from the system when they get the opportunity. “Unknowingly,” the Dallas Democrat claims. Yeah, I’ll just bet. Sort of like the First Lady’s extravagant vacation in Spain, also on the taxpayers’ dime, only on a smaller [...]

You could say that Glenn Beck did it, brought the 300,000 to 500,000 folks to the mall in D.C. today. But who wants to look at him? Must have been Sarah.
Meanwhile, the Obamalot court media just happens to have fallen in line with the same two-word assessment of the crowd i.e. “overwhelmingly white.” Yeah, let’s [...]

I knew rabbit meat was tasty. You can even find it in some groceries, if you ask discreetly or know where to look. But leave it to the Danes to not only make pets of bunnies, but to train them in a sort of miniature steeplechase. Ta-da!

The best reason of all to vote the bums out in November. They whined about Bush’s deficit spending on Iraq and Afghanistan, then look what happened to the deficit when they took over the budget process in 2008. Va-va-voom!
Via Instapundit.

Speaking of plastic (see below), I once built a really pretty plastic model (probably fifty years ago) of Olympia, a Spanish-American War battleship. I had no idea the real thing was in the Delaware River docked at Philadelphia.
And now that I know, I learn it’s to be closed in November. No more visits. Maybe even [...]

You’ve heard of the Confederacy’s prototype submarine CSS Hunley. But did you know that the Union had a similar one called USS Alligator?
“Consider their Civil War service:
The Confederate Hunley was credited with sinking a Union ship.
The Union Alligator aborted its first mission because it couldn’t dive in shallow river water.
“The Hunley was believed to [...]

We ride these things every summer when we go to Port Aransas but I never remember to photograph them. Fortunately, Barry of Barry’s Photo Blog does. He also has many other good shots, some of them intriguing composites. Explore them here.

Not likely, says LCRA’s Bob Rose:
“For most locations, [Monday] appears to be the hottest day so far this summer with the temperature climbing well above 100 degrees [to 105 F by the end of the day]. Of course, the big question is when is the scorching heat wave going to break? The short answer is, [...]

Speaking of the Civil War…
Just in time for a new movie on Richard Rowland Kirkland (the “Angel of Marye’s Heights”) comes a blogger’s debunking that, quite reasonably, thoroughly, and without rancor, burns the Angel’s wings to ashes.
I suppose it’s not surprising that Confederate Gen. J.B. Kershaw apparently created the whole thing, as the debunker suggests, [...]

“Mr. President, should they or should they not build a mosque steps away from where radical Islamists killed 3,000 people? Please tell us your position. We all know that they have the right to do it, but should they? And, no, this is not above your pay grade.”
Heh.
Via Althouse.