The Goliad massacre

Posted on March 27, 2018 | 2 comments

Today marks the 182nd anniversary of the mass execution of 342 Texan revolutionary army prisoners at Goliad. On the order of Santa Anna which “damaged [his] international reputation and deepened sympathy for the revolution in the United States,” according to the Texas State Historical Association.

We’ve been to the old fort that was near the site of the massacre many times enroute to a vaca in Port Aransas, It’s walls are still standing–as is the chapel where the prisoners were held, so crowded that they had to stand–and they shelter a nice little museum if you’re ever down that way.

Via Texas State Historical Association

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Let the border wall begin

Posted on March 27, 2018 | 2 comments

Hey, but it wasn’t in that omnibus budget the Congress just passed and The Donald signed. No? Guess again.

It was buried under Defense Appropriations. All $1.6 billion of it. What is a border wall if not Defense and National Security? The Dems had to pass the bill to find out what was in it. Now they have.

Via Thomas Wictor at American Digest.

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Vicious McCabe

Posted on March 26, 2018 | 2 comments

He looks like a bespectacled ferret, or better yet a weasel, but now we know he’s a truly vicious little bastard who deserves all that’s coming to him. Not including his pension which isn’t.

Reminds me of an editor I once knew who dabbled in adultery who got what was coming to him when he hit on a reporter who was, probably unbeknownst to him, a lesbian.

When she rebuffed him, his viciousness came out: he gave her a bad evaluation. She complained to his female boss, with the hint that a lawsuit might be forthcoming, and he got fired. Not sure what happened to his pension, but he probably got it anyway.

Via The American Spectator.

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Rule 5: Lindsey Vonn

Posted on March 25, 2018 | Comments Off on Rule 5: Lindsey Vonn

Those arms and that ass qualify her as a big girl if not a plus-sized model. But we’ll let her squeak by. But even Tiger Woods couldn’t take her stupidity.

Via Planck’s Constant

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Mr. B the Aggie

Posted on March 23, 2018 | 2 comments

Despite wanting to be a Longhorn since grade school, he’s decided to take the bird in the hand and go to Texas A&M. He’s excited about it. Wonder how much the fact that A&M is only two hours away had to do with it.

Tyler is 4-5 hours distance and is a gamble on getting into UT-Austin.

But then he may try to transfer to Austin from Aggieland if his freshman grades are good enough. They’ve slotted him to be a veterinarian which he doesn’t want. I expect he can transfer to another major if his grades are good.

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The (fortunately) dumb bomber

Posted on March 22, 2018 | Comments Off on The (fortunately) dumb bomber

The late Mark Anthony Conditt started out scaring people in Austin and the rest of Texas for almost three weeks with his sometimes deadly, always crippling, porch and roadside bombs. He even picked up the pace the last few days of his life. Fortunately.

For instead of being patient and taking his time, he stupidly sent two bomb packages through FedEx. Thus he cooked his own goose. Fortunately for us he and most of the rest of these killers are usually pretty dumb despite their seeming expertise.

Via Austin American Statesman

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Reprise: Then and now

Posted on March 21, 2018 | Comments Off on Reprise: Then and now

From 2013 but just as valid five years later.

The UT Tower sniping has pretty much faded from local memory, but one aspect of it should be remembered for how things worked in 1966.

“After the first fifteen minutes, the sniper was pinned down by students and other civilians who’d spontaneously flocked to the university area with deer rifles.”

People were trusted, then, to do the right thing. Some didn’t, of course, but many did. Nowadays we’re all lumped in with the creeps who don’t. And we “shelter in place” like cowards while waiting for the police to arrive. Only to find out that their first priority is to go home safe at the end of their shift.

A similar Austin incident now would probably have a bigger toll than 1966’s seventeen dead and thirty-two wounded, all in those first fifteen minutes before the deer rifles spoke.

UPDATE:  The cowardly Broward County Florida sheriff’s deputies who congregated outside the Parkland high school last month while the massacre went on inside are a case on point: You can’t trust the government to do its job.

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