Category Archives: Texana

Queen of Benghazi greets her fans

Posted on June 21, 2014 | 2 comments

The Queen’s book promotion visit is front page “news” in the paper-version of the daily this morning. Yesterday’s news today. If you can call her news.

Although I guess the reported “endless stream of fans” qualifies. (I’d provide a link to the obviously hyperbolic claim but it comes with an annoying and unstoppable video mostly in Spanish.) Ambassador Chris Stevens was not among them, however.

Well, she is a Democrat and she has a uterus. The daily’s prime qualifications for significance. Or, I guess she still has a uterus. Do lizards have uteri?

She probably had more security with her than Stevens did in Benghazi, but I don’t see that reported. What a surprise. On both counts.

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Rick’s border surge

Posted on June 19, 2014 | 9 comments

Gov. Perry to Department of Public Safety, i.e. the state police:  “…you are directed to plan and execute a surge operation of increased law enforcement in Texas border counties” to handle the growing numbers of illegals crossing the Rio Grande and the drugs and other lawlessness appending.

AG Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dewhurst have chimed in with their own directives.

I guess we won’t be seeing the usual number of state troopers on the highways for a while. They’ll all be down in the Valley, doing the job the feds and their Democrat overseers refuse to do—hoping for a surge in new voters this fall, no doubt. If they can quash voter i.d. in the meantime.

UPDATE:  Our tax dollars at work. Flying some of them to Massachusetts, yeah. Now that I can get behind.

MORE: DPS boss explains what the surge is up: “Since October more than 52,000 unaccompanied children have crossed the border illegally. McCraw says the feds are not doing their job of securing the border. It’s a situation the Mexican cartels are leveraging.”

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It was a dark and stormy night

Posted on June 13, 2014 | Comments Off on It was a dark and stormy night

Happy to awaken this morning to find the electricity back on. It was knocked out last night about 10:30 as big storms swept through with winds up to 60 mph. and a dramatic show of lightning, most of it east of us in Bastrop County.

Also reports of funnel clouds in the air and at least one touching the ground to become a tornado west of us in Burnet County. Some debris shown in this rather shakey quadcopter drone video from a few damaged houses but no one was killed.

We didn’t get a lot of rain, unfortunately. Most of it seemed to be falling south of the rancho. But we also didn’t get a lot of tree damage as some places did. Just enough to knock out the power, leaving us to move about the house with flashlights until we got tired of it and went to bed.

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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather

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Rule 5: Texas Tan Line

Posted on June 12, 2014 | 3 comments

TexasTanLine

Via MyOldRV

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Ride-share in Austin? You could lose your car

Posted on June 10, 2014 | 1 comment

The regulators and the regulated are at it again, the former protecting the latter from competition, instead of, you know, helping the consumer. Ha, ha. Regulation is never about the consumer. That’s just political window dressing.

Try to offer ride-sharing service here in Austin via the Lyft or Uber apps? You could lose your car. Simple as that. No consumer protection here, fella, just competition protection.

As the Instapundit says, when the market rules, the opportunities for graft decline. And the regulators can’t have that. Not even in Texas. No sirree.

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This Dragon ain’t draggin’

Posted on June 2, 2014 | 2 comments

SpaceX has rolled out it’s new 7-crew Dragon V2 capsule with smoke and lights but apparently no mirrors. It looks like an old Apollo capsule but it’s designed to land upright on the ground instead of splash down into the ocean.

Then, if all goes well, Dragon V2 would be refueled, reloaded and launched back into near Earth orbit—the dream of cost-efficient, reusable space hardware realized, as it never was with the space shuttle.

Meanwhile, a Gulf of Mexico launch site near Brownsville on the southeastern tip of Texas has finished jumping through one of the critical federal regulatory hoops in the way of any commercial flight op. Especially one that (gadzooks) potentially harms already endangered plants and animals.

Still to be heard from, however: the almighty Environmental Protection Agency, boy toy of the anti-capitalist Greens. So there’s still time to bring all this science and engineering dreaming to a screeching and demoralizing halt.

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Fish story

Posted on May 30, 2014 | 2 comments

If the Californicators coming here in droves seem to prefer our drought to the California one, maybe it’s because we’re not helping the feds ship water to fish that could go for people and crops.

The next time you hear a Democrat complain about how climate change (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democrat party) is adding to the California drought, remember this fish story.

It will remind you you’re not hearing genuine concern, only the usual political humbug.

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Posted in Obamalot, Texana, The Culture, Weather/Climate