Category Archives: Texana

Ma Barker campaigns for election fraud

Ma Barker speechified at historically-black Texas Southern U. in Houston: “I call on Republicans at all levels of government, with all manner of ambition to stop fear-mongering about a phantom epidemic of election fraud and start explaining why they are so scared of letting citizens have their say.”

I.E., by quashing voter i.d. laws, a hindrance not to citizens, but to illegal immigrants voting.

Liberal Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens (now retired and replaced by Elena Kagan) wrote in a recent opinion: “[F]lagrant examples of such fraud …have been documented throughout this Nation’s history by respected historians and journalists…not only is the risk of voter fraud real but that it could affect the outcome of a close election.”

No wonder Ma’s not taking snooze media questions. They might not all be reliable Democrat lapdogs, eh Ma? She knows the truth about voter fraud, to the extent that she deals in truth. She just figures her probable voters aren’t educated enough to know. And she’s not going to enlighten them, are you Ma?

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE: Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican considering a presidential run, accused Clinton on Friday of ‘demagoguery.’ “Don’t be running around the country dividing Americans,” he told Fox News.

Ah, but that’s what Ma does. That’s how she and her Democrat cronies do it. Divide and conquer. It’s worked for them more often than not.

Why we can’t win wars anymore

Mr. B. goes for an interview this morning with some city bureaucrat for a lifeguarding job at a public pool this summer. While I deal with the fence guy (who allegedly will be coming around 8 a.m. after failing again to show yesterday) Mrs. C. must go along with No. 1 son.

Can’t just drop him off, then come back for him. A parent “must be with him at all times,” sayeth the city. If the city can’t trust their own office personnel not to abuse a 15-year-old boy, how can they trust him to lifeguard by himself? Or is a parent expected to sit in the vicinity during his pool shift? Apparently not. Apparently they do trust the supervisor of lifeguards. Can’t imagine why.

What a chicken-shit society we live in. No wonder we can’t win wars anymore.

Adios Sometimes Islands

sometimes

The runoff from the recent 27 days of rain has slowed to a trickle on Lake Travis. But it was enough in the last few days to cover the Sometimes Islands at 667.63 feet above mean sea level. Say goodbye to the drought, all you global warming believers. Bye, bye.

The fence guy’s late again

The worst thing about dealing with contractors is clearing the decks and planning to see them when they say they will arrive. Then, as in the case of Handy Man Connection’s fence guy, they call and put you off a day. Oh, but they’ll be there between 8:30 and 9 a.m. for sure.

Then, around the appointed time, they call again and say something has come up and the fence guy won’t be there, after all, until, oh, round about 3 p.m. As if none of this could have been foreseen. In fact it’s always like this so it must be foreseen by someone.

What can you do? In the Texas economy, it’s a seller’s market. And the damn privacy fence is falling down. So you wait. And just hope they don’t reschedule again.

UPDATE:  They did. For tomorrow morning. Allegedly.

MORE: He finally showed up, worked through the weekend and did an excellent job. On to the next problem: the dying grass, which means the trees need pruning to let more sunlight in.

New storms adding insult to injury

Raining hard at the Rancho [Thursday night] and the radar at 2:30 a.m. suggests much more to come, if the Balcones Escarpment doesn’t break up the big yellow patch moving east as it sometimes does.

I’ve got the watch, as Mr. B. has school and Mrs. C. has work in the morning. The sandbags and towels are in place and I have a cup of sugar-free apple cider to keep me alert.

The situation already went pear-shaped out on Lake Travis not long ago, where the water has risen 25 feet in the past week as of tonight. This El Nino is a bitch.

UPDATE:  The escarpment broke up most of the storms and by mid-morning Friday the sun was out for the first time in a while. More rain expected on Saturday, however, as El Nino continues strong.

MORE:  By Sunday, the 31st, hardly any more rain had fallen and we were forecast to get a clear week ahead of us for the first time in 27 days.

Never mind El Nino, floods are global warming

Bill Nye, the funny-looking dude with outlandish bow ties plays a nerd on television. And he likes to link his global warming shuck to every disaster. Hence it not only caused the Texas drought. It’s now the cause of the Texas floods.

Never mind the widely-acknowledged culprit, by Accuweather & others called El Nino.

“Nye thinks his alarmism that blames every, single weather event on manmade global warming is just what’s needed to convince more people that the alarmist camp knows what it is talking about,” —Twitchy.

Pity there’s been no global warming recorded for seventeen years now. But that doesn’t stop Nye, Our Little Barry and their warmist cronies, including Texas Tech’s climate “expert” Katherine Hayhoe. Their shuck goes on and on and on.

UPDATE:  And never forget OLB’s best pal and fellow race baiter, Al Sharpton, who also brings God’s wrath into the equation. How convenient. MIA with all of them is the old saw well known to Texas natives that our droughts always end in floods.

Our record-breaking rain thus far

“…rainfall at Austin Camp Mabry [National Weather Service’s official rain gauge in the city] through May 25th has totaled 16.72 inches, 13.11 inches above normal.  This breaks the previous record May of 14.10 inches set in May 1895.”

—Meteorologist Bob Rose at the Lower Colorado River Authority.