Category Archives: Texana

Viva Cinco de Mayo

Posted on May 5, 2009 | Comments Off on Viva Cinco de Mayo

Any holiday that celebrates a French defeat (for which we must, in part, remember Gen. Ulysses Grant) can’t be bad–even if our alleged intellectual president uses it to demonstrate his abysmal grasp of the Spanish language. If he was W., we’d never hear the end of it, and the Hispanic caucus would be demanding an apology. Not now, of course. That sort of media hurrah is reserved for Republicans.

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Posted in Obamalot, Rancho Roly Poly, South of the Border, Texana

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Peach cropper

Posted on May 4, 2009 | Comments Off on Peach cropper

It’s always hard to tell with the Hill Country Fruit Council’s guide to finding peaches, whether the "closed for season" remarks for some growers are for this year or refer to last year and just haven’t been updated yet. But the April 7 freeze appears to have zapped more than a few of them, including the Marburger Orchard in Fredericksburg. They say "No Peaches" straight out on their site. So I expect we will see a slimmer supply at the H.E.B. than usual this year. Alas.

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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Scribbles, Texana, Weather/Climate

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Secession fantasies

Posted on April 18, 2009 | Comments Off on Secession fantasies

The usual media idiots and their sycophant pols are frothing over Gov. Perry’s secession talk. But it makes a certain sense, from a fantasy perspective. They forget (but some of us don’t) that we have a lot of nuclear weapons sitting in white, concrete igloos a few miles north of Amarillo. A little forethought, this time, and we could make sure the feds didn’t try to blockade and invade again. If nothing else, we could threaten to sell the nukes on e-bay.

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Yankee’s version of Texas secession isn’t funny

Posted on April 18, 2009 | Comments Off on Yankee’s version of Texas secession isn’t funny

Quite frankly, it’s hard to take seriously anyone named Aloysius. Especially when his idea of white Texans is "idiotic right-wing rednecks." A pox on your house, Aloysius. You need name as well as brain surgery. You might want to work on that scraggly chin beard of yours, too. Viagra might help. Maybe.

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Red meat: secession!

Posted on April 15, 2009 | Comments Off on Red meat: secession!

It’s understandable, what with the whopping deficit that Barry & the Dems are running up, that Texas Gov. Rick Perry would want to run for re-election against the federal government. Especially when his likely primary opponent is U.S. Senator Kay Baily Hutchinson.

So, on the occasion of the Tax Day Tea Party protest, Perry decided to throw Big Media and its liberal pals a little red meat about potential secession. Not that Texas would or could. Can’t keep our sales and property taxes relatively low (not to mention no income tax at all) without all those federal dollars. But it’s nice to see a independent action now and then from the Repubs.

UPDATE:  The Seablogger gives Rick more credit than I think he deserves, but he makes other, better points. Rick Perry for president in 2012? That would be interesting. I expect he’ll concentrate on getting re-elected governor, first.

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Posted in Civil War, Obamalot, Texana

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Hobby-Eberly 9.2 meter

Posted on April 13, 2009 | Comments Off on Hobby-Eberly 9.2 meter

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The HET at McDonald Observatory in West Texas didn’t make this Top Ten list, but it should have.

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Posted in Science/Engineering, Space, Texana

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Elissa beating into the wind

Posted on April 11, 2009 | Comments Off on Elissa beating into the wind

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As close as the little "barky" can get to the wind, anyhow. You can expect to see more of these, as I have always been a sucker for sailing, even though I don’t do it anymore meself.

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Posted in Sailing, Texana

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