Category Archives: Texana

Piano lessons…

Posted on February 21, 2010 | Comments Off on Piano lessons…

…have been canceled until further notice down on the Brazos. Easier to do than with a recorder.

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Posted in Blogosphere, Mr. Boy, Rancho Roly Poly, Texana

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Vernon Hunter, RIP

Posted on February 20, 2010 | Comments Off on Vernon Hunter, RIP

Mr. Hunter, 68, a retired Army careerist, Vietnam veteran and IRS manager, is presumed to have been killed in the suicide terrorism incident in Northwest Austin Thursday.

UPDATE:  More from Hunter’s family, both related and friends. And this.

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Posted in Obituaries, Texana, Viet Nam

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Spring is just around the corner

Posted on February 20, 2010 | Comments Off on Spring is just around the corner

But, as the weather warriors at Accuweather dot com say: It could be a long walk to the end of the block.

Indeed, the Central Texas winter has already been twice as long as I’m used to. I bet the snow birds in the Valley and at Port A. are shaking their heads, too. Anyhow, our man Joe Bastardi says it’s going to be frigid for a while yet and Dallas may even see some more snow next week and again in March. Six to nine degrees below normal. Come on Spring. You can do it.

Global warming you say? Balderdash.

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Posted in Scribbles, Texana, Weather/Climate

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Austin plane crash

Posted on February 18, 2010 | Comments Off on Austin plane crash

Well, this is certainly weird. A little freelance suicide terrorism by air, though apparently not of the Islamic variety. That’s a change. The pilot even left an online manifesto (praising communism and calling capitalism “greedy”) re his target: an IRS audit office.

Caused a heckuva fire, but that figures, if the plane (one similar to this) was full of gas. About two miles north of the rancho, as it happens. This seems to be the guy’s (second) wife and daughter step-daughter. My condolences to them.

UPDATE:  Late Thursday, the daily was calling the plane a Cherokee Piper 140 four-seater, similar to this one, and saying there’s at least one dead besides the pilot, tentatively identified as the plane’s owner Andrew Joseph Stack III. Also at least one man burned and several with minor injuries. A WaPo columnist, among others, is blaming the Tea Partiers. Figures.

MORE:  Some people think the suicide terrorist was a “hero,” and it’s not who you might think.

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Molly-the-Barn-Owl

Posted on February 18, 2010 | Comments Off on Molly-the-Barn-Owl

The Owl Box on Ustream. Live feed of a wild mother Barn Owl sitting her eggs, courtesy of Den 6, Pack 2, Capitol of Texas District, Cub Scouts of America. Yep, Mr. B.’s outfit.

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Posted in Library, Mr. Boy, Rancho Roly Poly, Texana

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Sweet Elissa

Posted on February 17, 2010 | Comments Off on Sweet Elissa

573px-Elissa-shipAnytime’s the right time for another good snap of the Tall Ship Elissa.

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Texas suit against EPA

Posted on February 17, 2010 | Comments Off on Texas suit against EPA

I’m glad Gov. Perry and AG Abbott are  suing to stop Obamalot’s EPA from damaging the Texas and U.S. economies in pursuit of resolving, at best, speculative man-made global warming. Hanging the suit on the credibility of EPA’s reliance on the IPCC report looks smart.

But it seems that whether the agency’s planned intervention survives will depend largely on a 2007 supreme court decision allowing it to claim carbon dioxide is a health-damaging pollutant. To reverse that would take another suit entirely, though it might be done on appeal if the Texas suit is turned back for that or some allied reason.

MORE:  Whatever the legacy media thinks about it, Texas has done everybody a favor in trying to stop the EPA’s runaway regulation train.

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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, Science/Engineering, Texana, Weather/Climate

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