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 [...]

While it’s unlikely that forever-politician and Texas Liberal Lloyd Doggett finally can be unseated in November, it’s interesting that his challenger, working mom Donna Campbell, is wisely running against Queen Nancy:
“A vote for any Democrat in [the] U.S. Congress is a vote to keep Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House. This is the same Nancy Pelosi [...]

On this day in 1847, the first of several courts martial for desertion and treason commenced in Tacubaya, Mexico. On trial were Irish Catholic deserters from the U.S. Army whom Mexican Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna had formed the year before as the San Patricio Battalion.
All but two of the seventy-two deserters were sentenced [...]

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 [...]

On our route to and from Port Aransas every summer, we pass the forbidding walls of the old precidio. With its chapel in the background. As for those flags, let’s see now:  Spain, France, First (1812) Republic of Texas, Mexico, Second (1821) Republic of Texas, Dimmitt’s (1835) Goliad Flag, Third (1836) Republic of Texas, Confederate [...]

Hey, Rog. When you get invited to the politicians’ big dog-and-pony-show, you better not lie. Career liars, themselves, they love catching others at it. Makes them look sooo righteous. Bye-bye Hall of Fame? Should UT un-retire his number? The daily’s Cedric Golden and Kirk Bohls agree on the first one. But not [...]

His fifth grade class, which meets for the first time on Monday, will have thirty pupils. That’s eight more than his fourth grade class had. Seems the public school system has no maximum size requirements for fifth grade. Getting them ready for the crowded classrooms of middle school, I’d bet.
The school principal says she’s working [...]

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.

It was the usual long haul back this afternoon. Coming back from Port A always seems harder than going down there. Anticipation is over, I suppose. We did stop for lunch in Cuero, for a change, at one of the town’s mainstay eateries, a 50-year-old burger joint called K&N Root Beer.
And we took pictures in [...]