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Abbott to UN: Don’t mess with Texas voting

Posted on October 25, 2012 | Comments Off on Abbott to UN: Don’t mess with Texas voting

I have to laugh that the UN weenies are getting a warning from Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott on the plan for one of their affiliated “human rights” groups to monitor Texas voting on Nov. 6:

Says Abbott: “It may be a criminal offense for OSCE’s representatives to maintain a presence within 100 feet of a polling place’s entrance. Failure to comply with these requirements could subject the OSCE’s representatives to criminal prosecution for violating state law.”

I hope the AG follows through on this. It’s no more than the dictator’s club deserves. Let them go monitor elections in Iran, if they dare upset their cronies in the thugocracies.

UPDATE:  Full text of Abbott’s letter to the “human rights” group.

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The painter postman

Posted on October 23, 2012 | Comments Off on The painter postman

“By this point, Oliver’s work was selling for tens of thousands of dollars. One of his paintings sold for more than $70,000. And all the while, he shows up at the post office in Waco to sort mail.”

A fascinating little tale of a very interesting man just up the road from the rancho.

Via Althouse.

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Rule 5: Pin Up Girls

Posted on October 15, 2012 | Comments Off on Rule 5: Pin Up Girls

Glad to see these “girly” calendars are still around. I saw my first one when I was about fifteen and wandered into my Texas grandfather’s engineering office. It was at the Magnolia Petroleum Company‘s terminal (now Mobil Illinois Pipeline Company) just north of tiny Patoka, IL. Instant you-know-what.

Via The Fat Guy through whom you should buy your own copy if you’re so inclined. The purchase link is there. I’d like to but I have no idea where I could put it without incurring Mrs. Charm’s enduring wrath.

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Oklahoma 63, Texas 21

Posted on October 13, 2012 | Comments Off on Oklahoma 63, Texas 21

Actually, but for two touchdowns in 4th quarter “garbage time” against OU’s backup defenders, the score would be 63-8, which is more indicative of the beat down Texas suffered early this afternoon.

Possibly the biggest tragedy of the game, however, was that QB David Ash seems to have broken his left wrist. That’s my supposition based on video of what looked like a near-compound fracture, though there was no blood but only serious darkened swelling almost the size of a goose egg. He doesn’t throw left but I can’t imagine the coaches would want him to play even with a hard cast on his wrist, especially considering how often his porous offensive line is letting him be sacked.

I still enjoy watching the games (even awful ones like this was) but I tend to forget to post about them because, here lately (with back-to-back losses against West Virginia and Oklahoma) the ‘Horns seem to have reverted to their pre-2005 national championship form, i.e. problematic at best. Will this be the year Coach Mack Brown finally is replaced? I doubt it, but wait and see.

UPDATE:  Sportswriter Mark Rosner reported late Sunday that initial X-rays of Ash’s wrist found no fractures and he has not been ruled out for Saturday’s game with Baylor. Rosner said the injury was due to Ash’s wrist colliding with a defender’s helmet, which presumably explains his goose-egg bruise.

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Pflugerville blogger in squab-ble with state

Posted on October 12, 2012 | Comments Off on Pflugerville blogger in squab-ble with state

Many people (I can think of one in Israel) wouldn’t consider eating a pigeon (dirty birds that they are) but when they’re called white-winged doves and this being dove season you can bet a lot of Texas hunters are eating them right now.

Turns out, however, that you can’t legally do it without a hunting license, as Pflugerville blogger Ryan Adams found out when he posted pictures about his preparing, cooking and eating a dove that was killed when it flew into the side of his house.

Now he’s trying to get the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department off his back. Good luck, Ryan.

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Mr. B.’s Rangers cap

Posted on October 12, 2012 | Comments Off on Mr. B.’s Rangers cap

He bought the cap figuring the Rangers would get back into the World Series again and, just maybe, this time they’d win it. Third time charm and all that.

Instead, they bombed out of the playoffs, homer-hitter Josh Hamilton was booed and may not be back next year and, suddenly, the cap has sentimental value only.

Mr. B. still wears it but now it reminds me of all the years the stRangers faded after the All Star Break. Even TFG, possibly their most loyal fan within a thousand-mile radius of San Antone, isn’t talking about the meltdown of 2012.

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Oppose Affirmative Action, get accused of racism

Posted on October 10, 2012 | Comments Off on Oppose Affirmative Action, get accused of racism

By a big city daily, no less, the Houston Chronicle:

“In the fall of 2008, the University of Texas enrolled 10,335 minority students, not including Asian-Americans. As far as Abigail Fisher was concerned, that was one too many.”

Charming. I hope her lawsuit to overturn UTexas’ discriminatory admissions policy succeeds. So does at least one former newspaper colleague whose white child is now being denied admission. Affirmative Action’s sell-by date is long past.

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