Happy birthday Richard "Arvin" Overton

Arvin lives in Austin Texas. Having served the US Army in the Pacific during WWII, he is both the oldest living US Combat Veteran and oldest living male in the United States.  (via i.redd.it)

La Vita Bella nursing home in Dickinson Texas

Link to source

Southern hospitality

That time a woman in Galveston gave a FOX News reporter beer while covering a hurricane. #TexasHospitality #Harvey pic.twitter.com/2WOluNXy3p

— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) August 25, 2017

"Just six people greet Hillary in Texas — and she ignores them!"

Is somebody sabotaging Hillary? Whoever told the secretary that she would be enthusiastically welcomed in Texas? Never mind that apparently she believed it. 

Connect the dots: The release of the information, saying some of country's most sensitive secrets went through her personal server, coming on the heels of devastating poll numbers in NH, tells me the Democrats may be carefully orchestrating the abandon of the secretary.

"Texas 'affluenza' teen taken into custody in Mexico"

Reuters: A Texas teen from a wealthy family, a fugitive after breaking his probation sentence for killing four people while driving drunk, has been taken into custody in Mexico, a law enforcement official said on Monday.

Ethan Couch, 18, nicknamed the "affluenza" teen, was serving 10 years probation for intoxication manslaughter in the 2013 incident.

He and his mother, Tonya Couch, 48, disappeared this month...

At age 16, Couch was speeding and had a blood-alcohol level of nearly three times the legal limit when he lost control of his pickup truck and fatally struck a stranded motorist on the side of the road and three Good Samaritans who had stopped to help.

Several passengers riding in Couch's vehicle were hurt, including one friend who was permanently brain damaged.

More University disruption and abuse disguised as discourse

"University of Texas law student and cohorts disrupt Israeli professor’s talk"

Legal Insurrection has the details:
The ringleader of the group has been identified as a UT law student named Mohammed Nabulsi. Despite being asked repeatedly to either leave or sit down and listen to the lecture, Nabulsi kept insisting that he was going to give a speech, and as an argument ensued between Prof. Pedahzur and Nabulsi, the other protesters began chanting “Free Free Palestine” and other slogans.

The PSC, ironically, is circulating an (edited) video of the disruption, (see below) somehow believing that the end result is that Pedahzur should be punished (they misidentify him in the video). Give them points for chutzpah, at least. But in fact, the video, even in its edited version, should be enough for University of Texas to suspend the lot of protesters, Nabulsi in particular. Is the university going to tolerate preplanned disruption of campus events? Legal Insurrection has additional video.

"Texas deputy killed 'execution-style' while fueling patrol car"

"Authorities have a man in custody who is "believed to be the alleged gunman" in the killing of a uniformed sheriff's deputy, Sgt. William Kennard of the Texas Department of Public Safety told CNN."

Link to video

"We're going to be watching what they do in the public"

"Texans organize 'Operation Counter Jade Helm' to keep an eye on the federal troops"

...the organizers insist the radically conspiracy-minded have been filtered from the surveillance volunteers, and no one among their group fears the imminent opening of concentration camps. Lanteri said he struggles to keep that bloc off his Facebook page.

"Once I saw the freaking nut-jobs coming out of the woodwork I was spending half my day discrediting what they were posting," he said. "No nut-jobs will be put in the field."

"High court upholds Texas ban on Confederate flag plates"

"In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court determined the license plate design falls under government speech. Government is not bound by the First Amendment’s free speech clause when it comes to limiting the content of its own speech, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the majority. Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas joined liberal Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan in the majority.... The Supreme Court ruling said the First Amendment does not limit the content of what governments can say when promoting programs, policies and positions.
“Were the free speech clause interpreted otherwise, government would not work,” Breyer wrote."

I'll Drink To That!

Don't mess with Texas

Coalition of 17 states file federal suit over Obama's overreach

Many top Republicans have denounced President Barak Obama's unilateral move designed to spare as many as 5 million people living illegally in the United States from deportation.

But not hard enough, not loud enough not persistently enough and not annoyingly enough. As always, reverse parties and imagine the endless ear-splitting screaming all saying the exact same thing; "THIS IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY !!!11!1111eleventy million1111!111."

But they don't. Why? It's in the name: conservatives.

Greg Abbot, Texas Governor elect, leads a seventeen-state coalition in filing a lawsuit in the Southern District of Texas that includes sixteen mostly southern and Midwestern states, arguing Obama's actions trample the Constitution.

How quaint. Trampling compared with shredding. Let's see how far it goes. While they're doing that law suit filing, the next assault against them is already being planned.

We all know that already. We also know that all we ever heard prior to Obama was Bush "shredding" the constitution. All voices saying the exact same thing using the exact same language, the precisely identical vocabulary. Like Borg hive mind.

These states are doing the work that federal level establishment big bodacious government Republicans refuse to do. The lawsuit raises three objections: 1) Obama's action violates the "take care" clause of U.S. Constitution intended to limit presidential power. Ha! Clauses in the U.S. Constitution mean nothing to so-called visiting Constitutional professors. 2) The federal government violated rule making procedures. Ha! Ha! How else is there to discover what one can get away with? It's all your money fighting on both sides. 3) The order exacerbates humanitarian crisis along the southern border causing increased state expenditures in law enforcement, health-care and education. Ha! Ha! Ha! "Reward your friends and punish your enemies." Obama told you that up front. That is the guiding principle of this president. The Chicago way. Isn't this what his supporters wanted? But Bush Bush Bush ruined the country. It cannot possibly be any worse than that. Everyone agrees, same voice, same language, same vocabulary, "Everyone hates us now."

And what? No mention of Article 1, §8 enumeration of powers?

The article on APNews.MyWay notes this is the 31st time Texas has brought action against the federal government since Obama took office. He describes Texas as "fiercely conservative", they with Democrat capital, leaving the suggestion the federal government is behaving ordinarily and without provocation.

Try fiercely constitutional. And how far did those 31 law suits go, what did all that achieve?

The author notes further that majority leader, John Boehner told lawmakers the GOP house may MAY MAY MAY, vote to undo Obamas's action, mostly symbolic, and Obama is expected to veto it anyway.

Current Texas Governor, Rick Perry who has deployed up to 1,000 National Guard troops to the border, said,

"In effect, his action placed a neon sign on our border, assuring people that they could ignore the law of the United States," 

Restrained understatement again. And what border? The border that Mexico keeps with us? Are you kidding? Borders are a state of mind.

 ...it could trigger a new flood of people pouring across the Texas-Mexico border and will promote a culture of lawlessness. 

Has promoted a culture of lawlessness.

Delaying the deportation of children brought into the U.S. illegally by their parents triggered an unprecedented wave of unaccompanied minors and families, mostly from Central America.

Think of the children, always the children and suitable for children ages 5-80.

Texas and border states, you are the enemy to the Democrat party and you must be punished. It is how things are done here in the United States. For now on.

Matthew McConaughey gives the talk

"Jury Acquits Texas Father Of Killing Drunken Driver Who Crashed Into His Kids"

"A jury on Wednesday acquitted a southeast Texas man of murder in the fatal shooting of a drunken driver who had just caused an accident that killed the man's two sons."

"Prosecutors alleged that Barajas killed 20-year-old Jose Banda in a fit of rage after Banda plowed into Barajas and his sons in December of 2012 while they were pushing a truck on a road near their home because it had run out of gas. Twelve-year-old David Jr. and 11-year-old Caleb were killed."