Here we go…

Again…

This ‘battle’ has been going on for at least five years at this point, and it is getting beyond stupid.

Fighting for the Alamo means exactly that: preserving the structures that still exist, researching the history, telling its story accurately through means as varied as a museum, reconstruction, and living history, and making sure its story is remembered.

Fighting about the Alamo is about none of that. It’s about personal and group political agendas that often build their power at the Alamo’s expense, without any evident regard for the consequences to the Alamo. Such fighting has already broken one Alamo preservation project and it’s threatening the current one.

Full article, HERE.

The San Antonio Conservation Society and civic leaders seem hell bent on shooting themselves in both feet with their denigration of the Alamo and its history. If the Alamo goes down, San Antonio might as well roll up the sidewalks, because THAT is the draw that brings people to town.

And then there is this… From 2009, at a Texas Tech basketball game. Still one of the purest versions of the Star Spangled Banner I’ve ever heard. The video is lousy, but the girls range from 6 to 8 years old.

Range cards…

Does anybody else have ‘range cards’ for their homes?

And ‘anchor points’ you measured from?

Just curious. I plotted mine out right after I moved in.

North is 650 yards max, with intermediates at 300 and 100.

West is 175 and 75 as an intermediate.

South is 550, with intermediates at 300 and 150.

East is only 65, as it drops off the hill.

Anything other than the cardinals +/- 10 degrees is short range stuff…

Just curious…

By Jove, I think she got it!!!

From a friend’s wife… I can’t think of anything she missed in this rant!

“So he’s a dementia patient who is under a very public regime of elder abuse, with a brain dead wife who wants to be called doctor but thinks cardboard hearts will heal the country; followed by a clueless hooker who cackles when nervous…which is all the time because she has no clue what she’s doing; they have a doctor who is caught lying about everything, pretends it doesn’t matter, doubles down on debunked science to push experimental drugs for his own profit.

A bunch of pretend representatives who demand peons submit to national socialism while they are given free reign to spend insurmountable amounts of other peoples money; all while silently swapping national socialism for militarized dictatorship using “mostly peaceful protests” to prove the peons cannot govern themselves or the legal system. With a whole bunch of people who rigged elections, got caught, pretend it didn’t happen, then fight like it’s armageddon to keep people from seeing what is already known and when that fails start screaming about those evil, national terrorists known as white people.

Teachers are refusing to go to work until they can freely teach children that its okay for adult to groom them for sexual assault, to take life changing drugs before their bodies are fully developed, that only white people should be judged on the color of their skin and not the content of their character, that their parents should never be told what is being done and said to them, and that lowest common denominator isn’t low enough, we must aim lower because…race, 12 trillion “genders”, and more race.

Straight people are the devil. White people are the devil. Christians and Jews are the devil. Heterosexual family dynamics are the devil. Men (oh wait sorry, penis owning persons) are the devil. Americans are the devil. Capitalists are the devil. Hard workers are the devil. Free thinkers are the devil. People who know their rights are the super devil. Un-vaccinated people are the super devil murdering klan. People who believe the wrong science are the devil. People who ask questions are the devil. People who don’t want to “circle back” and demand answers now, are the devil. (I’m sure I missed a few). Devil people aren’t real people. We have no empathy for devil people.

Devil people should be locked away from real people, used for labor, for experiments. Devil people shouldn’t have rights. Devil people should be marked so real people know not to trust them, not to let them into schools, hospitals, public places, their lives. Devil people need to be removed from being a drain on society. Something quick, cheap and efficient.

All with the world’s most powerful propaganda wing proclaiming these are all good and right things. This is what America was meant to be, but those evil white men screwed it up, They even used the wrong birthday for the nation right? We’re all supposed to be okay with this, support this, bow to this, or we will be devil people.

But hey everyone, not to worry. The really mean orange guy who wrote all those mean scary tweets, and made you question how an outsider broke the establishment is gone. I mean really, how could we ever live with those mean tweets!”

Yes, this young lady is former military, yes, she is a wife and mother of a couple of young kids. She is NOT happy with the direction of the country…

Your thoughts on what (if anything) she missed???

Teh stoopid…

Is STRONG these days…

Six states, led by California’s fulltime climate alarmists, this week enacted a ban on the sales of high-end gaming computers.

Niche Gamer reports that Dell is already following the 2017 law that just went into effect. According to the gamer-focused site, Dell has “pulled the sale of seven of its eight Alienware gaming desktops” from California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington.

Full article, HERE.

The real irony of this is that you can buy the ‘offending’ card and install it yourself!

Sad news…

Dusty Hill, one of the original members of the iconic blues/rock band ZZ Top passed away yesterday.

They were one of my favorite bands from the 1970s through today, a blend of various music styles, and hilarious music videos.

The cars were also iconic, owned by Billy Gibbons the lead singer. The Eliminator was probably the most well known one.

Dusty Hill played bass, driving the beat with his guitar and writing many of the songs the group was famous for with Gibbons. He jokingly called his beard a Texas goatee…

RIP sir, your music will live on and inspire more generations in time!

How about some humor???

Tired of the usual crap so… You get humor…

A man owned a small ranch near San Antonio . The Texas labour Department got a tip that he was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an investigator out to interview him.

“I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them,” demanded
the investigator.

“Well,” replied the rancher, “there’s my ranch hand who’s been with me
for 3 years. I pay him $1200 a week plus free room and board.

“The cook has been here for 18 months, and I pay her $1000 per week plus
free room and board.

“Then there’s the half-wit. He works about 18 hours every day and does
about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board.

But, I buy him a bottle of bourbon every Saturday night, and he also sleeps
with my wife occasionally.”

“That’s the guy I want to talk to … the half-wit,” says the investigator.

“That would be me,” replied the rancher.

And since we’re talking about Texas/ranchers…

An Old Farmer’s/Rancher’s/Chuck Wagon Cook’s Advice:

* Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight And bull-strong.

*Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.

*Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

* A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor .

* Words that soak into your ears are whispered…not yelled.

* Meanness don’t jes’ happen overnight.

* Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.

* Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.

* It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.

* You cannot unsay a cruel word.

* Every path has a few puddles.

* When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

* The best sermons are lived, not preached.

* Most of the stuff people worry about ain’t never gonna happen anyway.

* Don’t judge folks by their relatives.

* Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

* Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get Older and think back, you’ll enjoy it a second time.

* Don’t interfere with somethin’ that ain’t bothering you none.

* Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

* If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin’.

* Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

* The biggest troublemaker you’ll probably ever Have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin’.

* Always drink upstream from the herd.

* Good judgment comes from experience, and a Lotta that comes from bad judgment.

* Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot Easier than puttin’ it back in.

* If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some Influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around.

*Never fight with a woman.  You’ll lose.

* Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply.Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

  • Don’t pick a fight with an old man, if he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.

Hypocrisy much???

Sigh…

Several radical leftists who are members of the Squad in the U.S. House of Representatives — including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Cori Bush — are well-known for their rhetoric pushing for American cities to defund their police departments. And while it’s their right to advocate for what has already proven to cause a dystopian reality in American cities, they are not immune to criticism for being hypocrites. 

Full article, HERE.

And then there was this from Xiden…

The reporter asks Biden if any Democrats support defunding the police, after he insisted that none do. Which is an obvious lie, since Democrats did defund police in many cities and many Democrats in Congress continue to support defunding the police.

His answer???

“Are there people…who think we’re sucking the blood out of kids?”

WTH was that answer for or too??? Full article, HERE.

I want to see his handlers explain this one away…

And this ‘toon nails it… Polling is down on Voter ID racism, so…

Oh hell yes!!!

Oddly, it seems that ONLY political or posts that might ‘offend’ seem to miss schedule… WTH WordPress???

This happened last year, but it’s still worth a repeat…

Luke Duncan is the chairman of the Ute Indian Tribe Business Committee, the governing body of the Ute Indian Tribe. The tribe is made up of three bands: the Uintah, the Whiteriver and the Uncompahgre; two representatives from each band are elected to serve four-year terms on the Business Committee.
The tribe’s Uintah and Ouray Reservation is located in northeastern Utah, approximately 150 miles east of Salt Lake City. It’s the second-largest Indian reservation in the United States, covering more than 4.5 million acres.
Last year, the Salt Lake Tribune ran a commentary titled, “Time for the U. to Give up its Native American Nickname.” The author, a University of Utah employee named Christopher Mead, argued that the University of Utah needs to stop using the name “Running Utes.”
The tribe responded-
Our business committee, the elected governing body of the Ute Indian Tribe, was incensed and deeply troubled when we read the piece. Mead’s approach in raising this issue on behalf of our tribe, and the implicit attitude of saving the Ute people from themselves, lacks common sense. It undermines tribal rights, it causes conflict between native and non-native communities, and it negates our ability as a sovereign nation to make appropriate decisions for our people.
The full article is HERE!
This response, and the one by the Seminoles in Florida over the Florida State mascot both got a good bit of press on the conservative side as they slapped down rather effectively the wokesters that wanted to ‘complain’ for them.
But…
Apparently this week the Cleveland Indians will now be known as the Cleveland Guardians… Whatever that is… 106 years of history, gone.
And the Washington Redskins are now just known as Washington… Can’t even come up with something acceptable… Interesting…
At least the Atlanta Braves are standing up to the wokesters and telling them to go pound sand!

Which is more important???

Bread and circuses (AKA the intarwebz)? Or???

Apparently some ‘wag’ on cable yesterday afternoon said after the internet ‘outage’ yesterday, that the administration needs to take all the money away from roads, bridges, and ACTUAL infrastructure and put it into ‘ensuring that the intarwebz stays up, because THAT is more important than roads and bridges…

Of note, the web was partially impacted for around an hour…

People today don’t seem to understand that shelter, food, and clean water aren’t guaranteed. Or gasoline, for that matter…

We did pretty good without the intarwebz… invented a few things, cars, airplanes, trains, a few life saving drugs here and there, steam power, gasoline engines among others. Created the atomic bomb, went to the moon, you know, little things like that…

What is the benefit of the intarwebz? You can shop in your underwear from your couch. But THAT is more important than the roads, bridges, rails, etc. that bring those things to you?

And those other ‘little niceties’… Food from fields to manufacturers, to stores; oil from the ground to refineries, to those gas stations you use.

I…gah… I just do not understand how short sighted, conceited, and egotistical these people are that believe crap like the above…

Have a good weekend, and go enjoy yourselves! Get outside, away from the computers and phones and enjoy nature!

 

TBT…

Sometimes chains are a ‘good’ thing…

This plane captain is waiting for his bird to be spotted on the flight deck so he can chain it down.

The ONLY times a bird isn’t chained down on the deck or in the hangar is when they are being towed, or on deck if the pilot is in the jet and it’s getting ready to taxi or in the launch sequence.

Supposedly there is non-skid on the carrier decks, but by mid-cruise, it’s usually worn off to the point that the deck is getting slick. Add spilled oil, hydraulic fluid, etc. and it gets REALLY slick!

And with the noise on the flight deck during launch/recovery, you can’t hear anything. It’s even more ‘fun’ at night, when the only lights are red lights around the edges of the deck.

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