Category Archives: Texana

Perry for President

Posted on August 15, 2011 | Comments Off on Perry for President

I’ve always liked Rick Perry. I like the idea of the governor being an Aggie, a farmer and a former C-130 pilot. And I like the idea of Anita being the First Lady of Texas. What a babe.

As for Rick’s chances of becoming president, well, he’s already being outed for what looks like a potential kickback scandal, whether it actually is or not. His contributor cronies are getting millions in state tax money which, whatever the legality and good intentions of it, smells rotten.

Meanwhile, I still think no white man is going to beat Obamalot, pathetic as he is, in these times of cultural decline. The first black president, and all that. It will take a woman or a minority to do it. So far, there is no strong GOP minority candidate. Michele Bachmann is the only viable woman. I’m still hoping Sarah decides to run.

Via Instapundit.

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Those Hutto hippos

Posted on August 12, 2011 | Comments Off on Those Hutto hippos

Hutto used to be a one stop-light town northeast of Austin that I’d usually drive through on the way back from somewhere else. A railroad track ran through it. The concrete hippo on the high school lawn was amusing, but that was about it.

Nowadays, Hutto is an Austin bedroom, its 840-odd folks ballooned to almost 15,000, according to the daily. Good for them, I suppose, though I miss the old version. And it’s said there are more than a hundred hippos of various sizes and compositions scattered around town. Nice to see them keep up one tradition.

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The badge gang

Posted on August 9, 2011 | Comments Off on The badge gang

Years ago, I was summarily excluded from corporate-sponsored encounters with the public after I responded to a question from one in a group of schoolchildren about who/what in society we should all be most concerned about with two words: “The police.”

Because, I added for the shocked young people, who were no doubt raised to believe that police officers were their friends, that we know the police don’t always tell the truth but judges and juries nevertheless usually take their word as Gospel.

Well, things are more complicated nowadays, thanks to some recent police killings murders (at least one a year here in Austin, for instance), the ubiquity of SWAT teams in full military regalia including automatic rifles  sent out to confront ordinary people, rather than hardened criminals, and incredible disclosures such as this Houston PD statement about an officer’s running down a pedestrian that Houston police are not required to use lights or sirens when speeding. (One more reason to stay out of Houston.)

Vox Day, the blogger-author of the timely The Return of the Great Depression, who calls police “the badge gang,” recently summed it up this way:

“If the police do not wish to be condemned and held in contempt by the American public, they had better reject militarization, respect the Constitution, and deal justly with the criminals among them. If they cannot or will not do those three things, they will discover that without the tacit cooperation of the American public, they possess far less power and authority than they appear to presently believe.”

I think that’s exactly right, and they can start by  staying away from people who photograph them at work with cell-phone cameras instead of getting all huffy about it and demanding they stop or they’ll be arrested. Or do they think that the First Amendment only applies to them and their cronies?

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The 14-century crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict

Posted on August 2, 2011 | Comments Off on The 14-century crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict

Middle East wisdom from Yoram Ettinger, Israel’s onetime consul general in Houston:

“…..the crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict does not depend on Israel or on the Americans. It is a derivative of the Middle East as it has been for 14 centuries. One shouldn’t ignore the fact that for 1,400 years, since the appearance of Islam, there has not been intra-Arab/Moslem peace, intra-Arab/Moslem compliance with intra- Arab/Moslem agreements, intra-Arab/Moslem ratification of all borders and not a single Arab/Moslem democracy.

“Terror has been an integral key element of intra-Arab/Moslem policy. In defiance of such an entrenched reality, some of us wish that the Arabs would bestow upon the Jewish State that which they have yet to accord to one another. I wish that it would be a logical expectation, but it is not.”

Via Seraphic Secret and Israel Matzav

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Doug Godbey, RIP

Posted on July 27, 2011 | Comments Off on Doug Godbey, RIP

It’s bad enough to learn that a friend has died, but even worse to find that he died six years ago and you didn’t know it.

Douglas S. Godbey Douglas S. Godbey, age 55, passed away Saturday, December 17, 2005. Doug was born in Dallas to JJ and Louise, where he was raised with his two younger sisters, Lynda and Anita. When Doug was in his early twenties he moved to Austin where he began work as a sheetrocker. With his talent, creativity, and ingenuity he quickly started his own business and was self-employed as a building and design contractor for the duration of his life. His first child, Jessica, was born in 1979 from his first marriage; he later married Raquelle Smalley in 1992, and they had a son Nikolas, in 1993. Doug will always be remembered by his family and many friends for his warm heart, vibrant spirit, nonstop sense of humor, hearty laugh, unconditional devotion to spirituality and his family, and amazing love for life and all the people in it. He is survived by his wife, Raquelle Smalley Godbey; son, Nikolas Godbey; daughter, Jessica Godbey; sisters, Lynda Chambers and Anita Gideon. A memorial service will be held at Cook-Walden Funeral Home on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 at 3:30 pm.
Via Austin American-Statesman.

I met Doug in 1993 when I hired him to help “frost” a window in the bathroom of our new house so we could take showers in privacy. He found a cheaper, easier way to “fog” it with chemicals. Later he replaced a wood floor in our next house and, subsequently, the illegal cedar shingles of the roof, installing a skylight gratis as a gift for the birth of Mr. B. We’ll miss Doug.

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More Betty Brosmer: Rule 5

Posted on July 25, 2011 | Comments Off on More Betty Brosmer: Rule 5

Can’t get enough of this gal? Me neither. Fortunately, that’s what Rule 5’s for.

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Cartels we can live with

Posted on July 12, 2011 | Comments Off on Cartels we can live with

Texans already beat the feds by buying gallons-per flush toilets in Mexico. Can a post-2014, D.C.-defying, black-market trade in incandescent light bulbs be far behind? I think not.

Meanwhile, the pols debate repealing the incandescent-deletion (bye bye 100 watt bulbs in January, 60 watt ones in 2014) which, while supported by Obamalot, actually was signed into law by Bush Jr. in 2007. With the, ahem, support of Big Light, i.e. GE, Phillips, et al, which will make a lot more money on the switch. And they, or something, have quashed repeal so far.

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