In a recent case before the Texas Supremes, involving the police powers of the state, Mr. Spock in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Paramount Pictures, 1982) is cited in a footnote to the decision.
Oh woe. It seems even the awesome majesty of the law is not exempt from the corrupting influence of the entertainment media of the day. Or, rather, that of yesterday, as it were.
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Tagged Mr. Spock, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Texas Supreme Court
The recent NPR firing of conservative Juan Williams was just fresh icing on a stale cake. PajamasMedia has a good piece of analysis of the tax-supported elitists who pretend to speak the truth.
“Neither Beck nor a single one of his supporters appeared on the [critical-of-Beck] show, an omission that appeared to be motivated more by journalistic laziness and a lack of intellectual curiosity than anything else….Put simply, liberals constitute the one subculture in the United States that consistently and often willfully mistakes its specific and particular preferences for universal truths.”
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Posted in Blogosphere, Library, Scribbles
Tagged Juan Williams, NPR
Nice to see Colby Lewis hold the Giants to two runs while the Rangers got two homers, one of them for three runs and took Game No. 3 by 4-2. Now if they just don’t start Hunter tomorrow night. Cliff Lee would be much better.
Meanwhile, at roughly the same time, the Longhorns fell to Baylor in one of their usual (lately) clown shows of dropped or overthrown passes and spectacular fumbles. The Bears clearly outclassed ’em and deserved to shed their “Doormat of The Big 12” rep and win it. And they did, 30-22. Yay Bears!
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Posted in Scribbles, Texana, Texas Football
Tagged 2010 World Series, Baylor Bears, Texas Longhorns football, Texas Rangers baseball
I hear people in town are trying to sell their season Longhorns tickets for tomorrow’s Baylor game so they don’t have to watch another slaughter of the home team, this time by the traditional “Doormat of the Big 12.”
Also that tickets are being offered free to faculty to try to fill the stadium since the students no longer are interested. I know for sure that Mr. B.’s Cub Scout pack, for the first time, is being offered tickets at just $25 each. I got the email.
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Posted in Mr. Boy, Scribbles, Texana, Texas Football
Tagged Baylor Bears, DKR Memorial Stadium, Texas Longhorns, ticket sales and giveaways
Another historic game by the Rangers. Historically bad. Lost Game two 9-0 after loading the bases twice and walking (walking!) in two runs. It looked like a carousel out there. Bet that one makes Ripley’s.
I’m about convinced God only let the Rangers beat the New York Yankees so they could humiliate themselves in a World Series.
UPDATE: Diehard Rangers’ fans like TFG haven’t given up hope. They’ve been living on hope forever, having not much else to get excited about. The Rangers? They’re hoping to escape California alive.
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Rangers starting pitcher Cliff Lee, touted all week as Mr. Unflappable, gave up hits and runs, the alleged superior Rangers fielding supplied the errors and, five Ranger relief pitchers later, the Giants won the first game 11-7.
Sigh. For all the talk of their being loose, I think the Rangers had the jitters in their first World Series game, which is understandable. Better luck in Game 2, when C.J. Wilson will be the starter. Put the claw on ’em, guys! And the antlers!
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I have heretofore avoided joining in the liberal pile-on upon the Sons of Confederate Veterans (of which I am an inactive member) and the League of The South for their promotion of the ridiculous idea that thousands of slaves were carrying the rifled muskets of the Confederacy to fight for the freedom of their masters and mistresses.
I know where the idea comes from, i.e. the few servant/slaves who followed young Marster to the Rebel army and occasionally fired a musket at the enemy either to protect young Marster or just for the hell of it in the general excitement of battle. And I can imagine why it’s being pushed nowadays: because it has become fashionable among so-called historians to insist that the Rebels were “fighting for slavery,” primarily because Confederate politicians and some generals said (and wrote) that they were doing so.
But I’m finally joining the pile-on now that there is an elementary school textbook, no less, being issued to Virginia fourth graders that claims: “Thousands of Southern blacks fought in Confederate ranks, including two black battalions under the command of Stonewall Jackson.”
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Tagged Black Confederate Soldiers, Joy Masoff, Virginia elementary textbooks
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 