Category Archives: Texana

Cowardly spirited away in the dark of night

Posted on August 21, 2017 | Comments Off on Cowardly spirited away in the dark of night

Statues of Lee, Johnston, Reagan and Hogg were removed around midnight Sunday from the University of Texas campus. So the pathetic snowflakes wouldn’t melt with indignation.

General Robert E. Lee, of course, led the Army of Northern Virginia; Albert Sidney Johnston was a Texas general killed at Shiloh; Texan John Reagan was the Confederacy’s treasurer; and first native-born governor James Stephen Hogg’s only apparent “crime” seems to have been being the son of a Confederate general.

Via the Daily.

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Renaming Robert E. Lee Road

Posted on August 18, 2017 | Comments Off on Renaming Robert E. Lee Road

When Austinites named the road after Marse Robert, it ran through an Hispanic neighborhood. Was a little bit of a poke in the eye.

Nowadays the neighborhood is gentrified and white liberal as all get out. Adios, General Lee.

Via Instapundit

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Impeachment begins

Posted on July 12, 2017 | Comments Off on Impeachment begins

“Today, Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), joined by Congressman Al Green (D-TX), introduced an Article of Impeachment (H. Res. 438) against President Donald J. Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors.  The Article is based on Article 1, dealing with “Obstruction of Justice,” which was passed by the Judiciary Committee on a bipartisan vote on July 27, 1974, regarding Richard M. Nixon.  Sherman circulated a draft Article on June 12, 2017, and has been conferring with colleagues and legal experts from around the country since then.”

Despite a month in the planning, Sherman was only able to get one co-sponsor, Alexander “Al” Green, D-Houston, a former NAACP leader, who has been accused of sexual assault and (oh, so forgetful) failing to report $300,000 in campaign contributions.

Or, Trump could fire himself, due to his son’s interest in colluding with the Kremlin. Or something.

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Key to longevity: Tobacco & whiskey

Posted on June 9, 2017 | Comments Off on Key to longevity: Tobacco & whiskey

Austin’s Richard Overton enjoys “any day spent on this porch smoking cigars” That’s “a pretty good day for the 111-year-old.

“This is where you’ll find the nation’s oldest veteran for 10 hours every day when the weather is nice. His friends call it his ‘stage.’ It’s where Overton sits and thinks about life, his starting in 1906, the same year as the first wireless radio broadcast and a year before the paper towel was invented.”

I interviewed him many years ago, back when he was, oh, in his 80s. He was pitched as a civil rights veteran then. His family sure loves them some ink & air time. And, now, some pixels.

Via Dallas Morning News

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Coyotes moving in

Posted on June 7, 2017 | 1 comment

“Henry, a three-year-old miniature poodle, was in a fenced-in backyard when the coyote jumped the fence and grabbed him.” And ate him.

This was near MoPac earlier today, about a block south of Enfield Rd., in West Austin. Which underlines that coyotes aren’t afraid of heavy traffic. S/he would have had to traverse miles of residential streets to get to that location, assuming origination in the relative wild of the Hill Country.

I suppose the city won’t do anything until the coyotes start taking down some of their precious white-tailed deer that roam West and Northwest Austin neighborhoods. The pols love the deer which they refuse to do anything about.

Via Fox7News

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Gunfight at the Nissan corral

Posted on June 1, 2017 | 4 comments

A Minnesota fugitive managed to shoot dead two Corpus Christi bounty hunters as they killed him at a Greenville Nissan dealership Tuesday evening, according to FoxNews.

It was the most excitement in Greenville, about 50 miles northeast of Dallas, in many a year. The Texas Association of Licensed Investigators will now have some explaining to do as one of the dead bounty hunters, Fidel Garcia, was a board member. Like, why wasn’t he a better shot?

Via FoxNews and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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If you try to get me, I will shoot you

Posted on May 29, 2017 | Comments Off on If you try to get me, I will shoot you

Sanctuary cities defenders, including some illegals, pounced on the Texas House of Representatives on Monday’s last day of the session.

“That’s when the fun began.  Apparently, state Representative Matt Rinaldi (R-Irving) announced that he had called Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on the protesters.  The Democrats apparently took this badly.”

Rinaldi tweeted that one Democrat rep had threatened to “get me on the way to my car,” to which he replied that if he attempted it “I would shoot him in self defense.”

Good on ya, Matt, for carrying. And for calling ICE on the protesters, too.

Via PJMedia

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