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Krackpots in Kyle

Posted on October 15, 2015 | 3 comments

Kyle, just down the road from the rancho, used to be a fairly sensible little Texas town. Nowadays, of course, it’s a bedroom community of Austin. And with its growth have come the leftist crackpots of public education.

Hence, at Lehman high school, which once might have been the scene of pickup trucks of youthful hunters in the parking lot with rifle racks in the back window, is now a haven for delicate little buttercups from California and elsewhere

So when one of them mistakes the word “gum” for “gun” the professional educators swing into action. “Because we are conducting the PSAT, we were able to hold students in their extended class periods to investigate the concern with little to no disruption to their schedule,” said principal Michelle Chae in a letter to parents.

On the other hand, why send a letter home if there was no problem? Why, to make sure the parents of those little buttercups don’t get the idea that they’re expected to act like real, independent, rational Texans.

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Jewish Day At The Range

Posted on October 14, 2015 | 5 comments

The growing anti-Semitism in the world, particularly in Europe and on American college campuses, has helped spawn a new interest among some Texas Jews in the care and use of firearms. Hence The Jewish Rifle & Pistol Club of Central Texas.

The club is sponsoring the first annual Jewish Day At The Range on the 25th at the Best of The West shooting range in Liberty Hill, up the road from the rancho. I plan to attend to see how many times I can put a .22 bullet from my new Ruger SR22 in the center of a paper target.

Some laugh at the little .22, but, as one SR22 user has commented, properly aimed, a .22 will kill you just as dead as a .45 ACP cartridge banger. And .22s are a whole lot easier to shoot (with almost no recoil) and the cartridges are much cheaper.

As Dr. Carson wisely said not long ago (to the inevitable chorus of denials by the usual leftist news media suspects) there would never have been a Holocaust if more Jews had been armed and competent in the use of firearms. I don’t think that’s going to be a problem from now on.

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Texas Fight

Posted on October 10, 2015 | 2 comments

“Strong’s team played physical. It ran the ball 58 times and in such dominating fashion, Texas had not one but two 100-yard rushers, and quarterback Jerrod Heard had to pass only 11 times to avoid complete boredom. His defensive line wore out the Sooners and put OU quarterback Baker Mayfield on his back six times. When he was upright, Texas harassed him into short gains on scrambles. For much of the day, the quarterback was running for his life.”

Sort of like what TCU did to Heard. Anyhow. It was quite a game. Not a loss and not boring. Running is not what most Big 12 teams do but if you have a dominating, blitzing defense like UT did you can limit their passing, eh, Chuck?

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Carly the Texan

Posted on October 4, 2015 | 8 comments

Try as they might, Yankeeland just can’t escape Texans running for president: Cruz, Jeb, Rand. But none of these three have the deep roots Carly boasts, even if she left her hometown of Austin at age two and eventually became a Californian.

Cara Carleton “Carly” Sneed Fiorina is a fifth-generation Texan, with a father who was a teenage cowboy in the Panhandle before he became a distinguished law professor and conservative federal judge, and at least a cousin who was also a judge in the 1860s and a Confederate provost marshal in Austin during the Civil War.

You won’t find that last reference in this revealing portrait of her roots by Austin’s daily, which is much nicer than you might expect from a Democrat newspaper in a Democrat town. I picked up that little detail on my own, when I got to know the Sneed family of the 19th century via their crumbling old home which, in the 1980s, still overlooked I-35 in South Austin. This good article explains.

Carly’s still my favorite of all the candidates. The only one I like as well is Dr. Carson.

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Those hapless Horns

Posted on October 4, 2015 | Comments Off on Those hapless Horns

The terrible thing about Longhorns football these days is not just that they lose so often, but that they do it so boringly. Every time they get the football you just know they’re not going to do anything spectacular with it.

A Texas Tech team can almost beat TCU one week, then fall spectacularly to Baylor the next. The Horns almost beat Cal and the Little Okies and then roll over and play dead for TCU. They were scary bad.

Now all the fair-weather Horns fans want Charlie Strong’s head on a platter. But we know he’ll get another season to keep trying to turn things around. And he should. Just making their play less boring would help, Chuck. A few trick plays, maybe?

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Ahmed’s “clock” looks a lot like a bomb

Posted on September 21, 2015 | Comments Off on Ahmed’s “clock” looks a lot like a bomb

Moreover, despite his multiple, continuous claims, he didn’t invent it at all. He took apart an existing, antique digital clock and rebuilt it in a pencil case that looks a lot like a miniature Hollywood movie bomb suitcase. As explained here.

So the Irving, Texas, high schooler’s arrest was easily explainable without resorting to the usual Islamophobic, racist b.s. Not to mention his father’s probable hand in the whole thing—daddy being a Sharia law “activist.” Plus, according to Mark Steyn, “a perennial Sudanese presidential candidate whose brother runs a trucking company amusingly called Twin Towers Transportation.” Subtle.

Ever hear of an “activist” who didn’t like publicity? Ahmed got plenty of it, once the Democrat snooze media’s weekly outrage bus got gassed up and rolling—plus a nice note from the Hildabeast (who else) a White House invite from our own Barry Hussein (he of the Muslim father and middle name), a new Surface tablet and an Xbox from Microsoft. Plus daddy is planning to sue. Of course he is. Not bad for a little time in handcuffs, eh Ahmed?

Meanwhile, a white kid in Dallas got suspended for wearing an American flag tee-shirt under his hoodie. Under it, mind you. His suspension was later canceled but the kid and his mother are still waiting for the outrage bus and his White House invite to arrive.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  How Ahmed made Barry his dupe. Not to mention the Hildabeast, Microsoft, etc. Meanwhile the mayor of Irving notes that Barry made his invite and praise of the clock “maker” before pix of the device were publicly available. Makes you wonder if he and Ahmed’s “activist” father were in cahoots from the beginning. Staged the whole thing, as it were. Wouldn’t put it past Barry. Certainly not the Hildabeast.

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Kicker Nick Rose lost it

Posted on September 19, 2015 | Comments Off on Kicker Nick Rose lost it

He missed the PAT that would have tied the game. After QB Jerrod Heard’s heroic rushing touchdown with under two minutes to play. What a shame.

Cal 45, Texas 44.

Still, the best game I’ve seen Texas play in years. Good on ya, Horns!

“Cool under pressure, Heard’s legs and precision passing were a huge positive for a team that never gave up despite struggling mightily during the third quarter.”—Wescott Eberts, SB Nation.

Coach Charlie Strong: “Our team grew up tonight.” Indeed they did.

(As usual, a great many of the fair-weather Texas fans left when the Horns were down 21 points—before they got all but Rose’s one of them back. It’s an old story that has nothing to do with fired AD Patterson. Shame on you all.)

UPDATE:  Heard broke Vince Young’s rushing 2005 showcase record (527 vs 506) and played a lot like Colt McCoy used to. Could these Longhorns run the table on the Big 12? Dreamin’ big.

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