Category Archives: Texana

The Democrat economy still sucks

Posted on June 23, 2015 | Comments Off on The Democrat economy still sucks

That’s over all, country-wide. Some states, such as Texas, are enjoying a much better one. Which is no surprise, according to the Wall Street Journal.

“Employment, state GDP, labor-law and tax data from 2000 to the present yield two strong lessons. First, a business-friendly climate—market-oriented labor policies and lower taxes—is effective in raising the growth in a state’s gross domestic product and employment. Second, states that suffered the worst employment shocks in the 2007-09 recession had the most rapid post recession employment growth. This suggests that the weak national recovery cannot be explained by the depth of the recession.”

More likely, as we’ve said before, the weak recovery is due to higher federal taxes and particularly the kind of constant uncertainty that comes from Our Little Barry Hussein and his Democrat Party’s bashing big business and promising ever-higher minimum wages, both sure ways to keep employment stagnant. Except in those states where other advantages balance them out.

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Posted in Obamalot, Texana, The Economy

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One more reason for Whataburger

Posted on June 20, 2015 | 2 comments

“McDonald’s [which will test a kale replacement for its lettuce and] also says its milk will soon be without artificial growth hormones, and chicken (McDonald’s sells more of it than of beef) will be free of human antibiotics. All these might be good business decisions and as socially responsible as can be.

“They certainly pertain to McDonald’s new mantra about being a ‘modern, progressive burger company,’ whatever that means. The meaning will perhaps be explained by the progressive burger company’s new spokesman, Robert Gibbs, formerly Barack Obama’s spokesman and MSNBC contributor…”

Probably McDonald’s sales being down 15 percent has something to do with it. Meanwhile, if you just want the very best hamburger & etc. money can by, there’s the more than 700 Whataburger locations across Texas. Yee-haw.

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The segregation generation

Posted on June 18, 2015 | 4 comments

I realize that most of the so-called greatest generation didn’t pick that moniker for themselves. Not that they were any too humble, mind you, but it was only one of their own, an overpaid talking head, no less, who came up with it.

A far more precise term would be the segregation generation, because theirs was the last American generation to promote and enforce heterosexual white people, particularly heterosexual white males, over everyone else.

Particularly blacks, but also Hispanics, Asians, homosexuals, the disabled and women of all colors. Segregation was the law in every state, supported by custom, politicians and the courts and there was no way around it. Until Dr. King decided to kill it. And did.

And, oh, how the segregation generation fought to try and keep it. And lost. Perhaps the greatest generation is their consolation prize. But it’s absurd.

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Flood watching again

Posted on June 15, 2015 | 2 comments

This time it’s from storms out of the Gulf and, we are promised, a tropical depression if not a tropical storm by mid-week, arriving on the coast between Corpus and Houston and pushing inland to us with another 4-6 inches of rain.

Meanwhile, TS Hurricane Carlos, off the west coast of Mexico, could be sending even more rain our way before, after or during the arrival of the Gulf one. The west coast ones often do, if they go far enough northwest before curving back east.

All of which means more rising rivers, creeks and streams, flooded low-lying areas, etc. The good part, if we escape any serious repeat damage, is that the wet ground will insure a cooler-than-normal summer. No one around here will miss the hundred-degree days.

UPDATE:  Tropical Storm Bill due to come ashore Tuesday morning between Corpus Christi and Houston and push inland. We’re bound to get at least some of its rain. Hopefully not a lot.

MORE:  Indeed, we wound up on the dry side of Bill as its remnants pushed northwest and then swung to the north. Got some rain at the rancho, maybe an inch. Good result.

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Thank your lucky stars you’re not in Austin, Texas

Posted on June 7, 2015 | 6 comments

I paraphrase. Of course the caller at the contra dances where our little pickup band plays every week likes to punctuate his palaver with the positive version of the headline. Not the negative as I am using it.

But, really, he’s beating a dead horse. A horse who suffocated from overcrowding long ago. Some of us locals on the West side of town call it Mopocalypse, as in the apocalyptic state of Mopac Boulevard, bumper-to-bumper traffic all day and most of the night.

Which is what you will  face if you make the mistake of moving here. The good times done rolled and gone. Gone about ten years now. Completely out of sight in the last five. Unless you like loong commutes with uncertain arrival times. California drivers weaving in and out, etc. Beggers—refugees from the Democrat economy elsewhere—with their hands out on every street corner.

Getting the picture? It’s crowded enough without you. Just stay away. Please.

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Rule 5: Nancy Upton

Posted on June 6, 2015 | 1 comment

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Speaking of irony, Dallas native Nancy Upton knows her some.

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Screw you, We’re from Texas

Posted on June 5, 2015 | 2 comments

Always did like Ray Wylie Hubbard, even if his unwashed, scraggly appearance takes a bit of getting used to. As for the post title number here don’t let him fool you.

Irony hell, Ray. And notice how close he clips his mustache, belying the unshaven look. More to this character than meets the eye and ear, obviously.

Via MyOldRV.

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