This is the month the Oklahoma tombstone makers forecast they’d have OCS chum Russell Wheat’s marker up in Higgins, Texas. That was back in May when they had a granite shortage thanks to the Wuhan Virus and various lockdowns. Sure hope they don’t have to extend it to a later month.
Seems increasingly obvious that the virus should be called the Wuhan Virus and not some obscuring name like Covid 19 or the Coronavirus (which you presumably can get if you drink Corona beer).
Via Instapundit
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Bar’s idea is to take our two adult children and go spend a few days at a Texas vacation spot. I’m for either the beach at Port Aransas, or McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains of West Texas. I’m figuring the “kids” will opt for the beach around Labor Day. Make it a two-fer year, 2022, with a March train trip to Sedona for just us. Or take them to Sedona on the train. We’ll see.
Give back the one-third of their budget the progressive Dimocrat (and one self-proclaimed communist) Austin city council took away? Well, it’s on the ballot anyway. Enough alarm about rising violent crimes got it there by petition. Whether it will pass is anybody’s guess.
There’s no question that the Austin police had a reputation for killing while arresting. So if they get their money back, we’ll have to see if they’ve learned anything. If it’s back to shoot-first policing, the defunders will be back in business. Just sayin’
UPDATE: Fortunately, Antifa and BLM never got a foothold here and, so far, they haven’t turned Austin into shithole Portland.
MORE: The restoration failed, big time.
“The irony is that Texas leads the nation on Wind power penetration into its grid. Texas has over 25 GW nameplate of installed wind turbine farms, next closest is Iowa with 8.5 GW nameplate, followed closely by Oklahoma.
https://www.power-technology.com/features/us-wind-energy-by-state/
“The February grid crisis fiasco was direct result of those dumb unreliable wind energy policies and not enough investment in reliable electricity from natural gas and nuclear.”
Lots of us are fearful of the windmills freezing up again this winter and plunging us into the dark. Again. Without heat or light. Idiots.
Via commenter Joel O’Bryan at Watt’s Up With That
Another scorpion last night, seemingly transfixed by the always-on LED cannister light in the hallway. Three whacks with a fly swatter and the inch-and-a-half carried on it to the toilet and flushed. Have to call back Aztec exterminators for a re-treat. Black ones said not to be venomous, but who would take the chance?
My first hypnotic regression by Cindi took me back to the 1800s and life as a widower, orphan and solo hunter-trapper on the Llano Estacado (the Staked [High] Plains of Texas). Comanche and Kiowa indians figured prominently, killing my Mexican wife, my Anglo parents and brother, and finally, at age 65 about 1885, murdering me. I had no children and was alone most of the time. Strange story, strange life.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 