Category Archives: Texana

FYI: Texas Guard is not on high alert

Posted on February 24, 2009 | Comments Off on FYI: Texas Guard is not on high alert

Or any alert, at all, in contradiction to some emails and other "news" making the rounds quoting completely misquoting State Sen. Dan Patrick. (Well, it looks like he did say there is an alert of some kind, but it’s not clear to me what he means, tho it sounds like just the state emergency center’s planners in Austin.)

As far as I know, the Texas guard is NOT on high alert or any alert. If it was it would be in the papers and on the television because it would be impossible to hide. If some guardsman didn’t let the cat out, his girlfriend or wife would. So, for now, as far as I can tell the state and feds are still just planning for any future trouble on the border.

UPDATE:  But the president is considering sending the guard to the border–for what? He isn’t sure yet.

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Polar bear club

Posted on February 21, 2009 | Comments Off on Polar bear club

We made the Cub Scout topaz hunt in Mason County this afternoon out in the western Hill Country (didn’t find any but it was fun digging for them in a dry creek bed) but skipped the overnight campout. Stopped in Fredericksburg for supper then came on back to find the weather service out there pegging the temp at this hour at thirty-four degrees. Their forecast low will be twenty-three, cold enough to freeze their water bottles. The pack leader said all who stayed would be eligible for the "polar bear" belt loop. Most of them are in tents. Our den leader brought his Airstream trailer. We’re glad we’re missing it.

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Posted in Mr. Boy, Texana

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Bad Bill II

Posted on February 21, 2009 | Comments Off on Bad Bill II

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PBS’s favorite sanctimonious liberal commentator Bill Moyers wasn’t just involved in the wiretapping of MLK. He also investigated the sexual preferences of Sen. Barry Goldwater’s aides. Where will Bad Bill II strike next?

Via Ace of Spades.

UPDATE:  J. Edgar Moyers is an even better name for him. Love to see the Fairness Doctrine applied to him.

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Dr. King’s wiretapper

Posted on February 20, 2009 | Comments Off on Dr. King’s wiretapper

Used to be (and probably still is) that any appearance at the LBJ Library by PBS poohbah Bill Moyers drew an SRO crowd. Mainly aging, LBJ liberals yearning for the Great Society. They apparently never knew this side of the old Baptist hypocrite:

"His part in Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover’s bugging of Martin Luther King’s private life, the leaks to the press and diplomatic corps, the surveillance of civil rights groups at the 1964 Democratic Convention…"

That’s from CBS newsman Morley Safer’s memoir Flashbacks. Liberal fascists do make strange bedfellows. 

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Posted in Blogosphere, Library, Texana

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Big Corn’s takeover

Posted on February 17, 2009 | Comments Off on Big Corn’s takeover

The usual liberal congresspeople are always whining about Big Oil. One dingbat even suggested nationalizing the oil industry if they didn’t bring their gas prices down immediately. Funny how few complain about Big Corn. Nowadays you can’t buy gas without their additive, even if it cuts into your mpg.

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Tornado Alley active

Posted on February 10, 2009 | Comments Off on Tornado Alley active

Rain is good. We’re supposed to be getting more of it this afternoon and into tonight. But there’s also a watch out for tornadoes that could be popping out of the severe thunderstorms. Not good. Fortunately it’s mostly northeast of us.

Via the Seablogger.

UPDATE:  The thunderstorms swept through about 10 p.m., leaving behind about a half an inch of rain and some pea-size hail. Fortunately the storms, with wind gusts to sixty mph, were moving pretty fast so were gone in about fifteen minutes. Looks like Oklahoma got the tornadoes.

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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather/Climate

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Rain, at last

Posted on February 8, 2009 | Comments Off on Rain, at last

Wind’s really picking up at the rancho, gusting to twenty-five thirty-five out of the southeast whence normally cometh our rain-making Gulf moisture. Indeed, the forecast is for thunderstorms overnight. LCRA meteorologist Bob Rose thinks we may get some real rain over the next three days, possibly the most we’ve had since mid-November.

In fact, Rose, noticing that the southern Jet Stream is becoming more active (and thus capable of guiding Pacific storm fronts our way), is thinking something I was wondering about the other day: that the 2008 drought might just finally get busted later this month into March. If so, it would be by a flood, of course. Floods are the way droughts break hereabouts. But we’ll take it.

UPDATE:  By 9 a.m. Monday, according to LCRA’s hydrologic system of rain gauges, one-half to three-quarters of an inch of rain seems to be the norm over the area since midnight. Nice to see water ponding in the gutters again.

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