Archive for the ‘Austin’ Category
Friday, December 27th, 2013
A lazy LinkSwarm for the last Friday of the year:
ObamaCare Will Be Repealed Well In Advance Of The 2014 Elections. Well, that would be the logical thing to do. But logic isn’t a strong point for Democrats…
Affordable Care Act isn’t.
Via Instapundit comes another New York Times piece designed to make you hate everyone in NYC.
Speaking of the New York Times, it admits its reporters are clueless about guns. (Hat tip: Dwight.)
A&E blinks. Or, to put it another way, GLAAD was just as successful boycotting Duck Dynasty as they were boycotting Chik-Fil-A.
I see this as the start of a great reality show: Piers Morgan Gets Seriously Injured:
Why are UT and A&M given their official Imprimatur to an anti-Israel boycott group?
Austin American Statesman puts 110+ year-old “Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus” letter behind their paywall.
The Weekly Standard on Ambrose Bierce.
Tags:Duck Dynasty, Instapundit, Israel, New York Times, ObamaCare, Piers Morgan, Texas A&M, University of Texas, video
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Friday, December 13th, 2013
A lot of ObamaCare, a little on guns, and a pinch of everything else, from Ace, Instapndit, and elsewhere:
Man with critically ill son gives up on ObamaCare after 50 tries to buy insurance.
Complain about your insurance being cancelled due to ObamaCare? That’s an audit. For you, your advocate, and your insurance salesman.
Finally, after furiously covering for Obama when it counted, Liberal media tool Politifact is forced to admit that “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it” is the lie of the year.
Oregon spent $300 million on its ObamaCare exchanges only to sign up a grand total of 44 people.
Here’s a chance to vote for the ObamaCare launch as top Fail of 2013.
After 2 hours of open heart surgery, Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft is losing his insurance thanks to ObamaCare.
ObamaCare is already pushing low-wage workers out of jobs.
Charles Krauthammer: The ObamaCare enrollment figures are bunk.
Kathleen Sebelius is really getting tired of answering questions on why she sucks.
Obama earns a 62% disapproval rating among independents: Quick! He better give a speech!
Every time you think the ATF has sunk as low as they possibly can, they dig further.
After months of propaganda from the Democratic Party’s media wing and millions of Nurse Bloomberg’s dollars spent, the American public is now now more opposed to gun control than when the year began.
How the EU and Obama are blowing it in Ukraine.
Time magazine thinks Pope Francis is important because of his “rejection of church dogma.” In other news, the people running Time magazine just aren’t very bright.
Georgia Tea Party opposes tax giveaways for sports franchise billionaires. As well they should.
Problem: UT regent Wallace Hall investigates corruption and inluence peddling at the university. Solution: Impeach him.
Ted Cruz makes it into a question on Jeopardy.
Update on Wiliamson County race filings. John Carter, Tony Dale and Larry Gonzalez are all running unopposed.
Reminder: Dogs are awesome.
Tags:Charles Krauthammer, Fail, John Carter, Kathleen Sebelius, Larry Gonzales, ObamaCare, Pope, Pope Francis, Time, Tony Dale, video, Wallace Hall, Welfare State
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Friday, December 6th, 2013
It’s Friday, and I’m feeling to lazy to put up a real LinkSwarm, so here’s the Mini-Me version:
“Anger among Democrats over the rollout of ObamaCare is deep.” It’s nothing compared to the anger among voters…
An example of why Rick Santorum wasn’t the Republican Presidential nominee in 2012, and won’t be in 2016.
Once again, a super-secret military plane started under Republicans is revealed by a Democratic Administration.
Austin Attorney Marc Rosenthal, who helped bankroll the Williamson County Democratic Party, including gave $58,000 in donations to (now ex-) state rep Diana Maldonado, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for “racketeering, conspiracy, bribery, extortion, tampering, and mail fraud.”
Charles Barkley rides the New York City subway: “If they never see me again, tell my family I love them.”
You know that whole “I’ll never have to buy music ever again” thing? Yeah, not so much.
Texans fire head coach Gary Kubiak. It was time. Thy also fired Special Teams coach Joe Marciano, which was many, many years overdue…
Man survives two days in air pocket in overturned ship:
Tags:Austin, Charles Barkley, Democrats, Diana Maldonado, Marc Rosenthal, Military, New York City, Rick Santorum, RQ-180, Texas, Williamson County
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Wednesday, December 4th, 2013
Even though this happened in my neck of the woods, I missed this call from a welfare recipient bragging about how much money she got from the government, and have no intention of working:
This is what the welfare state has wrought on the American underclass.
This is what the Democratic Party stands for.
Tags:fraud, welfare, Welfare State
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Thursday, November 28th, 2013
Over on my other blog, I have a warning from William Shatner not to set yourself on fire frying a turkey.
Now, thanks to Dwight, we have a more local warning from The Round Rock Fire Department. Take it away, boys!
The turkey frying warning video is indeed a rich genre…
Tags:PSA, video, Williamson County
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Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
We interrupt our continuing series on the failures of ObamaCare to bring you a dollop of gun- and crime-related news:
It takes a special kind of super-genius to threaten to shoot gun-rights activists.
Though that does give me a chance to bring up the Recall Hudak Too campaign, to recall another gun-grabbing Colorado state senator.
San Francisco magazine ban challanged in court. (Hat tip: Alphecca.)
Requiring liability insurance for gun owners appears to be dead for now.
World’s first 3D printed metal gun. And they’re in Austin!
Meet Monticello, NY Mayor Gordon Jenkins. He’s a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns. He’s also been arrested for DWI and hitting a cop. Funny how so many people in favor of “gun control” can’t seem to practice self-control.
Another dead goblin.
Speaking of dead goblins: Armed homeowner gets the drop on intruder by pretending to be deaf and blind. Only problem with the story is that some details don’t match up: “The intruder lowered his weapon for a moment — long enough for Carlson to grab his own loaded Glock 9mm handgun.” Then: “‘I’ve never had my revolver out of my pocket in 50-some odd years,’ Carlson said by phone Friday evening.” To the best of my knowledge, Glock doesn’t make any revolvers, much less a 9mm. (There are 9mm revolvers, but they’re not particularly common.) Possibly the owner was speaking with colloquial inaccuracy, or was misquoted.
In Pierce County, Washington, an armed homeowner killed an intruder who drove his car through a metal gate, then broke into his house. Not exactly the perfect stealthy crime…
“Drunk Florida Man Tries to Use Taco as ID After His Car Catches Fire.”
Uh…noted without comment:
Tags:Austin, Crime, Guns, self-defense, video
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Friday, November 1st, 2013
A small LinkSwarm this time out, as I was busy with Halloween and other stuff this week:
How many Americans will lose their coverage under ObamaCare? Would you believe 93 Millions? And those are Obama Administration estimates.
30-something figures out he’ll be screwed by ObamaCare.
Awesome (real) image via David Freddoso on Twitter:
Obama Administration insists that inflation you see is just imaginary.
“New Poll Shows Democratic Incumbents in Big Trouble.”
We have a winner for Worst Bath Salts Freakout Not Involving Face-Eating:
Not sure if this needs a language warning or not, since I don’t Crazy High Redneck.
I was out of town, so I missed this tiny race riot at Highland Mall. (Hat tip: UrbanGrounds)
Cool story of World War II bomber heroism.
Links to annual Fark Scary Story Threads for this and previous years.
Day of the Dead Memes.
Happy Diwali! I’m not Hindu, but I’m always in favor of holidays where you blow things up.
Tags:Austin, Democrats, Fark, inflation, ObamaCare, pic, video
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Saturday, October 19th, 2013
Busy weekend, with lots of non-political stuff, so here’s last week’s LinkSwarm this week:
The Tea Party helped launch the shutdown because the GOP establishment failed so utterly to limit bloated government.
Well, that’s a scary chart. (Via Instapundit.)
Is ObamaCare increasing premiums in all 50 states? Nonsense! Only in 45.
“If you like your health insurance, you can keep it suck it when it’s cancelled due to ObamaCare.”
They’re tracking a huge amount of ObamaCare enrollment data over at http://www.enrollmaven.com/.
Number of people who have bought private insurance through ObamaCare in Oregon: 0. You’d think there would be more than that, what with the widespread dysentery and all…
Add New York doctors to those experiencing the Obamacare fail.
And the ObamaCare situation is worse than you thought.
Who won the shutdown? Ted Cruz.
Cruz wins Values Summit Presidential straw poll.
Also receives a warm welcome coming home to Texas. “After two months in Washington, it’s great to be back in America.”
Young people in Japan just can’t be bothered to have relationships or children. I wonder if any Guardian readers noticed that the declining birth rates in such a society must inevitably doom their European-style cradle-to-grave welfare states…
Missed this earlier: Australian University bans entire run of student newspaper for cartoon critical of Islam. (Indirectly via Popehat.)
Tea Party members have a better than average grasp on science. And of course, we all know liberals don’t understand debt…
Jews start leaving France.
Dilbert creator Scott Adams on success: “Goals are for losers.”
Heard a grapevine report that “the Austin American-Statesman has offered early retirement to 34 reporters and editors.” No linkable source yet.
The man who stole Christmas sentenced to prison.
Remembering the dark years of the Jennifer Plague.
A look at the strange goings-on of the Grambling football team. Honestly, unless the university is completely and utterly broke, it sounds like someone in the administration was embezzling funds and is now trying to cover their tracks…
U.S. does Mexico a solid in that game where you kick that round ball.
Tags:2016 Election, 2016 Presidential Race, Austin, Christmas Bureau, Elections, Japan, ObamaCare, Republicans, Tea Party, Ted Cruz
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Friday, September 20th, 2013
An appeals court has not only overturned former House Majority leader Tom DeLay’s money-laundering conviction, it actually rendered judgments of acquittal.
This is not a surprising decision for anyone who watched the case, which was always based on unconstitutional ex post facto prosecution and former Travis County DA Ronnie Earle’s vindictiveness. Also remember that the DoJ spent six years investigating DeLay and found nothing.
Which is not to say that DeLay is free of sin. Indeed, DeLay’s leadership was one of the reasons the Republican House majority went from backing Newt Gingrich’s Contract With America to succumbing to Washington’s usual big-spending, horse-trading, “campaign dollars for access” in less than a decade. It’s just that none of those were crimes in the eyes of Democratic prosecutors. As far as they were concerned, DeLay’s real crime was helping unseat Democratic incumbents, and for that they had to find something, anything to nail him on.
I do wonder what happens to DeLay’s co-defendants who plead guilty to lesser charges to avoid prosecution (one of whom I used to know back in my college days)…
Tags:Republicans, Ronnie Earle, Texas, Tom DeLay, Travis County
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Monday, September 16th, 2013
Austin police chief assaulted by member of Dragworm American community (for values of assault that include just getting pushed).
In an amazing coincidence, the local media suddenly realizes that aggressive panhandlers are assaulting people. “Downtown APD Commander Jason Dusterhoft tells KVUE News they received more than 900 calls last year — regarding three homeless individuals alone.”
Thanks to KrimeLabb (which I should really add to the local/Texas links section), we have a pretty good idea of exactly who these people are:
Jonathon Glen Richard, 174 Arrests
William Eugene Perry, Jr., 128 Arrests
Donald Ray Windrom, 114 Arrests
Bonus: David Glenn Roach, 111 Arrests
Sadly, this is not a new problem, and it’s getting worse. “For the first seven months of FY 2013, there have been more homeless-related downtown community court cases than in all of FY 2012.” And it’s not just limited to downtown.
Putting aside the fact that the legalization of drugs would eliminate some (not all) of public nuisance arrests, this is not a problem that will have any easy solutions; nor, indeed, any solution at all as long as liberals on the Austin City Council consider Homelessness next to Godliness.
Tags:Austin, Crime, homeless, transients
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