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Krause Springs

Posted on July 14, 2010 | Comments Off on Krause Springs

krause4-9-10Beautiful pic of the springs natural bathing pool, below the camping area. Almost Certainly looks photoshopped. Made in April by Ellen Yeates.

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Heh

Posted on July 14, 2010 | Comments Off on Heh

The National Association for the Advancement of Coddled People.

Remember the Hallmark card they condemned for mocking Black Holes? Because they thought its recording said “black hos”?

These folks used to be relevant, back when I was a kid in the, ahem, “dark” ages of segregation. Somehow, along the integration/affirmative action/racial preferences trail they lost it.

UPDATE:  Topped by the loony Farrakhan. Who else? The coddled people whine together, you know.

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We eat all we can and we sell the rest

Posted on July 11, 2010 | Comments Off on We eat all we can and we sell the rest

bluebell_DSC2160This is the kind of dedicated picture-taking I wish I had but don’t. But I still like to look— especially at this Texas icon. Taken by a Texas foodie. Who lives in New Yawk. (Get a rope.) But is homesick. Course.

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Israel: The long commute

Posted on July 11, 2010 | Comments Off on Israel: The long commute

I’m already somewhat mentally agitated by the thought of the roughly twelve hours flying time (in two planes) I have to make in October to get from Austin to Israel. I can hardly imagine long-haul commuting from Tel Aviv to New York and back again every week. Yipes.

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Borders Kobo promotion flop

Posted on July 10, 2010 | Comments Off on Borders Kobo promotion flop

I downloaded the Borders ebook app for PC in order to take advantage of their free bestsellers offer. Then I gave them all the credit card and address info.

Then I tried to download the “free” book. Didn’t work. Tried several times. Still didn’t work. I should have known better. I uninstalled the app. I’ll stick with Amazon and Kindle. I know they work.

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Not Port Aransas Yet

Posted on July 5, 2010 | Comments Off on Not Port Aransas Yet

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But give it time. Fresh tar balls have already been found on Bolivar Peninsula, northeast of Galveston.

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Day 75: The Gulf Coast Held Hostage

Posted on July 4, 2010 | Comments Off on Day 75: The Gulf Coast Held Hostage

Hostage to a federal bureaucracy the executive seems unwilling to control. As fiction author and Alabaman Winston Groom puts it, they have created:

“…a perfect storm of bureaucratic and regulatory gridlock around the Deep-water Horizon disaster. Whatever is done to prevent the oil from coming ashore must be approved by the EPA, OSHA, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Coast Guard, and a host of lesser bureaucracies….It seems oil skimming or booming requires taking courses and passing tests given by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Otherwise you run the risk of being arrested.”

Whatever happened to the Hope and Change sales pitch?

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