Wow…

Just… WOW…

The loony left in Austin is at it again…

Known as both the “father of Texas” and the namesake of the state’s capital, Stephen F. Austin carved out the early outlines of Texas among his many accomplishments.

He also opposed an attempt by Mexico to ban slavery in the province of Tejas and said if slaves were freed, they would turn into “vagabonds, a nuisance and a menace.”

For that reason, the city of Austin’s Equity Office suggested renaming the city in a report about existing Confederate monuments that was published this week.

Full article HERE, in My Statesman. It’s also been put up on the hill.com, HERE, and probably some other places I’m not finding. This is part of the same bunch that got two street names changed earlier, over the objections of the people that lived there.

I think this is probably the same bunch, or part of those that wanted to BAN BBQ inside the Austin city limits, because of the smoke and ‘smell’. It was ‘offensive’ to a certain group of people…

Sigh…

And as California continues to burn, and people die, the econazis are keeping a low profile, since they are part of the problem, since they sued for years over controlled burns in certain areas to ‘protect the environment’. Which actually did nothing more than let the underbrush get out of control, dry out, and provide plenty of combustibles…

And also doesn’t allow Lodgepole or Jack pines among others to drop their cones through a process called Serotiny, HERE.  And the Sequoias need fire to propagate too.

Comments

Wow… — 25 Comments

  1. Many of the native Australian bushland plants need fire to propagate, also.

    And, of course, we have the same brand of ninnies pushing to ban controlled burns.

    Then again, since the last several years have seen the burns started against the advice of the weather-guessers as to likely prevailing winds, maybe that’s a good thing.

    At least the city won’t be wreathed in smoke for days on end – until the day that a REAL fire starts.

  2. You forgot the part where fire knocks back the populations of tree pathogens and parasites (and their vectors) which is part of what leaves you with hillsides full of dead trees ready to burn.

    The same ecoBambi thinking that leads to deer wandering around my elderly mother’s neighborhood AT MIDDAY less than two miles as the crow flies from a park with reliable mountain lion sightings. There was a small herd of deer living in some poor family’s back yard (deep urban lot) with the expected benefit for the neighbors’ gardens.
    The City
    • refused to remove the deer, citing risk of injury to staff
    • forbade the family to hire somebody to remove the deer
    • informed them that they would be in violation of the law if they took matters into their own hands.

    • I fear that were it my back yard, the annoying deer would fall victim to gang violence through no fault of my own. Roving gangs do things like that. Sort of like the Boston Tea Party.

      • You mean roving gangs careful enough to sandbag the back fence as a backstop, use a suppressed rifle, then destroy the illegal suppressor? That kind of gang?

        • I had a friend who lived in a house, was totally peeved that the yard-rats were munching her garden to death. One day she walked out, startled one yard-rat, yard-rat turned quickly, brained itself against a tree and was dead-right-there. She called it into the local wildlife officer, who, after finishing laughing (described as braying like a mule by the lady) gave her full privileges to harvest in payment for garden destroyed.

          North Florida is still a nice place to live, outside of Gainesville.

        • Crossbows don’t make much noise. And you don’t have to worry about a backstop so much if you’re sitting on the roof.

          Just sayin’.

  3. Yup. Lunacy abounds. I got my B.S. in Rangeland Management from Chico State U. in 1981. As I was a white male over 21, .gov (well, there was no ‘dot’ then) employment opportunities with SCS, BLM, and other alphabets were just about nil. Even my veterans preference wasn’t enough. That, and the bulk of the federal budget was going to defense. Having recently served a hitch in the Cold War, I had no problem with that.

    In hind sight, it probably saved my sanity. Even then, I could see that the econazi freaks I would have been surrounded with would have driven me to drinkin’, or worse. My primary instructor was great. He was a wiry little Dutchman who had watched allied bombers fly overhead as a wee lad. I watch so much of what he said go right over the heads of my goo-goo eyed younger classmates. Their mindset was not conservation, it was preservation, as in anything initiated by the hand of man was heresy.

  4. doesn’t surprise me being the liberal hub it is, similar to the crap happening in it’s sister city to the south, another liberal hub that is trying to destroy what the Alamo means

  5. It would be interesting if they changed Austin to something more politically correct like Sharpton City, Maxine Waters City or Jessie Jackson City. They could also name it after that crazy black woman from Florida who wears the different hue’d cowboy hats. The hats make her more Texas than Maxine Waters, who just wears those ratty old wigs.

    • They could also re-name Austin, Stormy Daniels City, but being white may not make her politically correct enough.

    • How about Ciudad de Generalissimo Santa Anna? (Ducks and heads for the bunker) LOL.

    • Shelia Jackson-Lee Town after the nutty, nincompoop from Houston. But, on the other hand, Houston may want to reserve her name to rename their city since Sam Houston owned slaves.

  6. Have they considered “Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy” as the new name?

  7. No, rename it “Kick Me.” Austinites want to be weird, well, welcome back to 3rd grade. Be weird all you want, but be ready to take a whuppin’. Kick Me, TX has a nice ring to it, where everyone from the open spaces will bring their battered old work boots with the defense “well, he needed Kickin’.”

  8. Ah yes, the joys of living in the Peoples Republic of Austin.
    Maybe we should just go back to the original name of Waterloo.
    What was it Rick Perry called it? ““a blueberry in the tomato soup”

  9. Regarding eco-Nazis, here in Florida we had too many of those damned yankees move down here in the early ’80s to ’90s who successfully banned prescribed burns. So, along comes 1998, with the State caught in a drought cycle, after years of southern pine beetle (usually controlled by – burns,) and we get the great Firestorms of 1998.

    Lessons learned, right? Well, for the next 5 years or so, prescribed burns of what was left and then the yammerheads started rallying for banning the burns. Fortunately things have been mostly wet since the early 2000’s, so far.

    Jerks.

    As to renaming Austin, wouldn’t it be simpler to just ship the idiots away, to places already lost, like California or New Orleans?

  10. All- Thanks for the comments, and one that came in via email was let em change the name, then build a wall around it, and flood it…

    Posted from my iPhone.

    • I’d vote for the wall, not so much the water – too many mosquitoes would breed there, and if you let the water out, the folly that had seeped into it would kill every fish in the Gulf.

    • Flood it with all the illegal aliens that they want in Texas. Their wonderful Peoples Paradise will be a schiess loch.

  11. When BBQ is outlawed, only outlaws will have BBQ.
    You can have my pulled pork sammich when you pry it from my cold dead hands.

  12. Renaming Austin would definitely not sit well. It would be renamed back some day. We need to make sure everyone knows we’re taking names.

    It’s a good bet the ringleaders are always fine with slavery if it’s not in the west.

  13. OK, not a Texan, no Texas ties of any consequence, so no skin in the game.

    IMO, this is a tactic. Nobodies who are now being talked about. They gain status among their peers, attract outside money (Soros) and maybe get a few concessions from the powers in place.