Category Archives: South of the Border

Sugey Abrego: Rule 5

Posted on May 26, 2012 | Comments Off on Sugey Abrego: Rule 5

Noticieros Televisa’s weather presenter Sugey Abrego. Mexican weather forecasting is something else. Might be hard to concentrate on the temps, trends and fronts with her in your face.

Via Planck’s Constant. And Sugey is not alone.

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Glimpses of greatness

Posted on May 19, 2012 | Comments Off on Glimpses of greatness

Victor Davis Hanson on the promise of November, specifically about high-debt California but also about the rest of us:

“Give Obama some credit. He has framed the 2012 election as a conflict of visions unlike any of our time. It’s our choice now, no excuses, no one left to blame. Change is coming, and with it, hope. This week I saw a ray of sunshine amid the clouds.”

Or, we can let the obvious lies of welfare-state multiculturalism and diversity endure and re-elect the author of this government-induced depression for more of the same. In which case we will deserve every bit of suffering we get.

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Moms United

Posted on May 13, 2012 | Comments Off on Moms United

Finally…. After forty-one years of President Nixon’s War On Drugs, a group of mothers has organized—just as women did to help end Prohibition.

Their children have been imprisoned (or legally murdered) for nonviolent drug offenses and these California women want the political, social and law enforcement madness to finally stop.

MomsUnited: To End The War On Drugs

“It hasn’t saved anybody, it hasn’t changed anything, it’s created chaos in neighborhoods and shootings, it’s stupid….”

Amen. Happy Mother’s Day.

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The latest edict from our federal overlords

Posted on March 15, 2012 | Comments Off on The latest edict from our federal overlords

Texas has long required presentation of a driver’s license, or other photo i.d., in order to vote. Prove you’re a citizen with a right to the privilege. What could be more sensible?

Not to Obamalot’s “justice” department. You know, the guys who shipped automatic rifles and hand grenades to Mexican drug lords and are still lying about it? They claim voter i.d. discriminates—presumably against felons and illegal immigrants.

Texas pols will complain and threaten not to comply, but the feds will threaten to take away highway construction money from the second largest state and that will be that. Land of the fee, home of the slave.

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Another good book

Posted on March 12, 2012 | Comments Off on Another good book

It was a pleasure to meet the real Rough Rider and Bull Moose in his most difficult moments, in The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey. Although it was very disquieting to learn the harsh fate of his sons.

This is quite a good book, which deftly shows the value of civic virtues we have long since left behind, for better or worse. It also keeps the advertised suspense going all the way, though I felt at times the author was padding the story. Still, it’s primarily an intensely interesting bit of little-remembered history that’s well worth your time and money.

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Then, I call on you in the name of liberty

Posted on March 2, 2012 | Comments Off on Then, I call on you in the name of liberty

It’s traditional here to read this aloud on the 2nd of March, which is Texas Independence Day. Even big-Lib Gov. Ann Richards did it when she was in office.

Commandancy of the Alamo

Bexar, Feby. 24th, 1836

To the People of Texas & all Americans in the World– Fellow
Citizens and Compatriots–

I am besieged by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna–I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man–The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken–I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls–I shall never surrender or retreat.

Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid with all despatch–The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily & will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country–Victory or Death.

William Barret Travis, Lt. Col. comdt.

Much more detail at this classic site. And a contemporary view via the Alamocam. After 176 years you can still “hear” some of the Alamo in this Deguello bugle call of No Quarter. The dictator’s troops played it before their final, successful dawn assault on March 6, 1836.

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Democrat paid protestors

Posted on October 9, 2011 | Comments Off on Democrat paid protestors

You know, the liberals protesting against the evil bankers on Obamalot’s behalf. (While Obamalot’s re-election campaign rakes in the bankers’ dough?)

Well, some of them are pure Astroturf, i.e. Hispanics paid to do it in D.C. And some of them don’t even speak English. Your tax dollars (probably) at work.

UPDATE:  More Astroturf at $22 an hour on Wall Street. Pricey. Where the Anti-Semites also are out in force.

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