Category Archives: Texana

Thank Big Oil

Posted on July 10, 2014 | 2 comments

Still able to buy gas for the vehicle and put groceries on your table in the continuing Democrat Depression? Thank Big Oil.

“The U.S. will remain the world’s biggest oil producer this year after overtaking Saudi Arabia and Russia as extraction of energy from shale rock spurs the nation’s economic recovery, Bank of America Corp. said….

“’The U.S. increase in supply is a very meaningful chunk of oil,’ Francisco Blanch, the bank’s head of commodities research, said…. ‘The shale boom is playing a key role in the U.S. recovery. If the U.S. didn’t have this energy supply, prices at the pump would be completely unaffordable.’”

The “nation’s economic recovery,” is a little economist’s joke, based on the statistical lies the feds tell. Ninety-two million Americans out of work is not a recovery.

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Remembering the Rebbe

Posted on July 2, 2014 | 2 comments

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Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh and last Lubavitcher Rebbe, still watches over a busy highway into Tel Aviv today, twenty years after his July 1 death at age 92.

Several new biographies and articles attempt with varying success to encapsulate the man who was “the most famous rabbi since Maimonides.” In part because he remade Chabad Orthodoxy into a worldwide movement. From Kathmandu to Killeen, Texas, Chabad meeting places offer Jews and interested non-Jews traditional but non-judgmental Jewish answers in a skeptical world.

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Sunscreen too “toxic” for San Antonio

Posted on July 2, 2014 | 2 comments

I’ve always thought it rather silly the way Texas mothers slathered on the sunscreen whenever their little darlings ventured into the sun, noonday or otherwise, all in the name of preventing skin cancer. Going the pioneers one better: they only wore long woolen trousers and shirts and broad-brimmed hats to keep their skin pristine.

But troglodyte that I am, I grew used to sunscreen as Mrs. Charm joined the crowd with young Mr. B, starting in pre-school and continuing to the present and his status as a rising high school freshman. Little did she know. The second-largest public school district in San Antonio has now banned sunscreen as “dangerous.”

“Sunscreen is a toxic substance, and we can’t allow toxic substances to be in our school[s],” said North East Independent District spokesperson Aubrey Chancellor. “They could possibly have an allergic reaction [or] they could ingest it. It’s really a dangerous situation.”

Which suggests to me that either the threat of skin cancer was overblown all along or the school district really does deserve its Nanny-of-the-Month award from Reason Magazine.

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Curmudgeonly, yes, but also true

Posted on June 26, 2014 | 3 comments

“…I tire of our early 21st century world which is dubiously the rudest and crudest society in history, having jubilantly swept most of the etiquette of speech, table, dress, hospitality, regard for fairness, deference to authority, and the relations of male and female and child and elder under the fraying and filthy carpet of politically convenient illusions.”

Ain’t it the truth, with a criminal president and a news media that aids and abets him.

(Hey, you kids, get off my lawn!)

Via MyOldRV.

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Why you must not move to Texas

Posted on June 25, 2014 | 4 comments

First, because we have too many immigrants already and only a small fraction of them have come from South of the border. Second, because every story you’ve ever heard about how great it is here was a lie. Plain and simple. We have fire ants in every back yard, scorpions, rattlesnakes and tarantulas all over the place, and cockroaches as big as your hand. And there’s more:

As TexasDoubleDoc, a commenter at Instapundit, says: “The grocery stores only stock potato chips and coke, the roads are full of potholes, and gunfights break out every twenty minutes. The schools are in shambles, there are regular book-burnings, and everyone is forced to attend [a Baptist church] every weekend.

“Women have zero rights here, gays are stoned in the town square, and minorities must apply skin whiteners to blend in and avoid violent mobs. There is no true ‘nighttime’ here, as Texans frequently burn large open swaths of oil for fun. And EVERYONE rides a horse, so it stinks to high heaven from all the manure on the disintegrating roads.”

Plus which, there are no more jobs left anymore. None at all. Zip. All taken. So do us all a big favor and stay the hell away. Pretty please.

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Posted in Blogosphere, Rancho Roly Poly, South of the Border, Texana, The Culture, The Economy

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Cool June’s portents

Posted on June 23, 2014 | Comments Off on Cool June’s portents

It’s been a cool June so far, with just a week to run. Normally we’d have been in the upper 90s day-after-day by now and, at least judging from the past few years, had a 100-degree day or two. Not this year. Nada.

All of which could have been anticipated by anyone (like me) relying on WeatherBell Analytics and especially my fav Pennsylvania forecaster Joe Bastardi (formerly of Texas A&M) who called all this way back in April.

Relatively cool and relatively wet summer, JB said, and he’s been right so far.

He and his partner Joe D’Aleo also forecast last winter’s extreme cold and they were outliers against the federal forecast of a warmer winter than usual. Of course the feds are locked into their political global-warming hogwash and always see the future through those fractured glasses. How do they walk and chew gum at the same time, I wonder?

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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Science/Engineering, Texana, Weather/Climate

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Give me spicy ketchup or give me death

Posted on June 22, 2014 | 4 comments

I didn’t think it was really possible to find 24 things I’d miss about Texas if I left. But there is. Mostly. Read it and weep.

No Whataburger (the spicy ketchup) would be bad enough. No Blue Bell would be intolerable. And where else in the country could I legally drive 100 plus mph—besides I-10 west of San Antone?

So forget it. I ain’t leavin’.

Via Althouse (not that her Yankee commenters care, but what do they know).

UPDATE:  Do like this comment, however: “Oy. I do think, however, that “Texas” should be taught as one of the basic geometric shapes, along with the circle, rectangle, triangle, and square.”

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