Garrett Foster was a waste of skin.

There. I said it.

That fat punk-ass AK-toting wanna-be bad boy Garrett Foster, who was shot dead two days ago in Austin, Texas when he was blocking traffic with a bunch of other rioters is being lauded today as some sort of a hero by the loon left, but all that he really was was a poser and a bully who thought that people would respect him if he carried a loaded rifle around while he caused trouble. When a regular citizen tried to drive down a road that Foster and his friends were obstructing, the mob blocked the car in and started banging on it and Garrett said "He's my change to be Rambo!" and ran up to the car,m pointing his rifle at the driver just like in one of his video games. Alas for poor Pugsley, the car driver had a concealed carry permit and a firearm, and he had the resolve to defend himself. The driver acted in response to the threat that Foster was presenting and dropped him like a dirty sock with multiple rounds to the chest. The driver then left the scene, stopped when he felt safe, and called the police. The driver is not in custody right now in large part because despite the lies told by Foster's pals, plenty of pics show Garrett pointing a deadly weapon at the man before the man defended himself.

And now we're hearing how Garrett Foster was a "veteran". I tried to look into that and all I could tell from the news stories was that ten years ago, he joined the Air Force but got discharged within a year, supposedly because his girlfriend had depression. Forgive my skepticism but I've never heard of the military giving someone an early discharge because a friend of theirs was unhappy. I suspect that Foster got tossed out because he wasn't able to hack it or was otherwise just a slug. And to compensate, he became a gun-toting anarchist who never missed a chance to carry his rifle to an anti-govbernment protest according to people who knew him.

Folks, Foster wasn't doing anything heroic or good. Foster wasn't much of a man. (I can't find any reference to his having a job.) He was just a sad little boy playing at being a man, and unfortunately he ran up against a real man--Texas has quite a few of those--and he wasn't ready for it. Foster started a gunfight and Foster lost despite having every tactical advantage. All that he was lacking was a set of balls to actually carry through with his threats and unfortunately for him, the man he threatened actually had a pair and did what he needed to.

In the immortal words of Tuco...

Texas fool shoots himself in the face while taking selfie with a gun.

Another drop of chlorine hits the gene pool in Texas

HPD: Man fatally shot while taking selfies with gun

Ah, yes...the old "We was just playing with this gun we found and it went off all by itself!" claim. According to the deceased's cousin, they just "found" the handgun that very day, and were no doubt taking pictures of it to make some posters that they could put up around the neighborhood to try and find it's rightful owner.

I believe that about as much as I believe that this guy who, at age 19, is already a baby daddy twice, was just going to start taking college classes the next day. Taking stuff from college classes maybe.

That instant karma can be a real bite in the ass sometimes, can't it?

Stand by for more local editorials about those evil guns, because it would not be PC to blame the shooter for his own demise now, would it?

Don't Mess With Texas...I Get It.

So after yesterday's post about chili, I was deluged with comments from people in America's second-largest state about how chili is supposed to be made. In those comments, one could not help but discern that Texans consider themselves to be a breed apart from the rest of us, or "special", if you will.

Well to be fair, I spent a week in Austin once, and I can attest that many of those that I met there were "special" indeed.

OK, stop the hate mail before it gets here. I know that saying Austin is representative of Texas is like saying that Anchorage is what Alaska is really like or that all of Michigan is just like Detroit. Still, how can you not poke fun at Texans every now and again? I mean, you've got a whole state where it's apparently required by law that every citizen must own a cowboy hat. Plus George W. Bush. Just saying...

To be fair, the multiple invites down to the chili cook-off were really nice, and I will definitely have to try that one of these days, although probably without the dogs, since, while Belle rides nicely and just curls up and sleeps, Murphy bounces around the vehicle like a hyperactive pinball, whining and pacing and doing his damnedest to get up in the front seat with me the whole trip. I'd sooner volunteer for an unneeded root canal at the local dental school than make a cross-country drive with him in the car. Plus, he can't really be trusted around food. There have been at least three incidents at neighborhood barbecues and local picnics where Murphy has walked up to people, looked them square in the eye, and taken their hamburgers or hotdogs right out of their hands. And for some reason, no one wants to tell a German Shepherd "no".

But I digress.

Texans got grit, and you have to admire them for that. Seriously, who else would have stood up to Mexico like they did back in 1836, basically telling Santa Ana, commander of the largest army on the continent, to go suck eggs? That was bally, right there. And that stand at the Alamo? Beautiful. I have been to the Alamo and I could only imaging what it must have felt like, trying to hold that place with just a hundred and eighty nine volunteers against the thousands of Mexicans that everyone knew were coming.

Of course when I was there, I just looked around and decided that had it been me in charge, I'd have moved my forces into the US Post Office just across E. Houston Street to the north. That building has a smaller and much more defensible perimeter, the highest rooftop in the area, and air conditioning. Yeah, I'm thinking I'd have made my stand there instead. But hey--that's just me.

Yeah, I do like Texas, and if Texas ever gets around to being the first state to secede from the present-day union like some of them keep hinting at, I'll likely buy me a big cowboy hat and drive down and join them, even if it means a road trip with Murphy. (But if we do this, Sheila Jackson Lee has to go, ok?)

Yeah, Texans are pretty cool. Of course, there are those who might disagree:


And yeah, I'd probably not have dared post that if Texan Ed Rasimus was still around. Not after the ear-blistering I got when I innocently asked him how to do an aileron roll in a Cessna 172. I got the feeling after that short and mostly one-sided "discussion" that old R. Lee Ermey would have had himself some competition.

Sounds fair to me.

In Texas, a guy just got 18 months in jail for peeing on The Alamo in San Antonio.

Man who 'whizzed' on Alamo to do time

18 months, with no chance of early parole. Can you imagine what it's going to be like to be this guy when the other inmates start asking him what he's in for and how long he's gonna be there?

This is a tough one.

A drunk driver rams into a family and kills two of the children. Moments later, the drunk is shot dead, allegedly by the father.

Father ‘shot dead drunk driver moments after he crashed into truck killing his two young sons'

I'd hate to have to be one of the jurors on that case.

But I suspect that if I was, dad would be walking free at the end of the day.

What are your thoughts on this one?

RIP Chris Kyle

Chris Kyle, a former Navy SEAL officially credited with 150 confirmed kills in Iraq, was murdered in Texas, shot in the back at a gun range, apparently by a 25 year old man that Kyle was trying to help overcome PTSD issues.

Decorated Navy SEAL Killed in Double Shooting at Gun Range

Kyle leaves behind a wife and two children.

Kyle's autobiographical book about his service to our country can be found here. America has once again lost a good man too early.

Woman returns home to find three burglars in her house

Fortunately, she lives in Texas.

Dallas Homeowner Kills One, Wounds Another In Burglary

She shot two of the three, killing one, and the wounded survivor and his unwounded surviving accomplice were arrested a short distance away. Police say that no charges will be filed against this flower of Texas womanhood.

That's the way you do it.

All right! Texas Troopers call down airstrike on illegal aliens.

Now THAT is how you do it, Janet Napolitano. Take a lesson.

Texas sharpshooter in helicopter kills two illegal aliens during high-speed chase

A truck (probably stolen, like most trucks that illegals use for border crossing) runs from the police. A helicopter is called in to help, and a specially trained Department of Public Safety officer in the helicopter fires on the truck, stopping it without harm to any innocent citizens or property. Score: Two Guatemalans have assumed ambient temperature and seven more are in custody. Message sent to illegal aliens and the smugglers who plan to breach our borders: There will be a cost if you try it in Texas.

Naturally the Guatemalan government is now upset, and I'm sure that Eric Holder personally is on his way down there to try to bring some sort of charges against the DPS officers on Obama's orders, but it's a good day for the rest of America, with the possible exception of whoever that truck was stolen from, because it's going to need a bit of body work now

I'm happy.

Illegal shoots self with gun

Can we tally the violations here?

Sheriff: Drunken teen killed by own ricocheted gunshot in Little Mexico

Let's see...We have:

Underage drinking (the deceased)
Providing alcohol to a minor (the father)
Unsafe handling of a firearm/blatant violation of the safety rules (the deceased)
False information to law enforcement (the father)
Being in our country illegally (the whole family)
There mere existence of a place called "Little Mexico" within our borders (Congress and Obama)

So how about we get some prosecution and deportations going here instead of just calling for more gun control on the rest of us?

Frivolous lawsuit loserette of the day: Colleen O'Neal.

Poor Colleen. She had a rough flight in an airplane--an airplane which still managed to land safely at it's intended destination--and now she claims that she's so scared to fly that she can't apply for better jobs so she's suing several airlines.

Lubbock resident Colleen O'Neal flew from College Station to Houston on Oct. 29, 2009, when tornados and thunderstorms were reported in the region, she alleges in the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Harris County district court.

The plane took off and soon hit turbulence. The normally short flight took more than two hours, and the suit alleges the plane "fell repeatedly, and felt as if it had lost power and was falling out of the sky."

O'Neal believed she was going to die and has experienced post-traumatic stress disorder and fears flying, she alleges.

A Texas Department of Public Safety employee, she had hoped to work for the Federal Emergency Management Agency in a job that would require air travel. She alleges that because she no longer travels by air, she has lost out on economic benefits.

O'Neal purchased the ticket from Continental. She is also suing United Airlines, which merged with Continental last year. Colgan Air, owned by Pinnacle Airlines, operated the aircraft. She is suing all four for physical and mental anguish, medical bills and the cost of the lawsuit.

So because she now chooses not to fly, she declined to pursue a job that she was interested in, yet presumes that had she continued flying, she'd have gotten that job.

Frankly, Colleen O'Neal sounds like the kind of person best kept away from any job that requires stable, rational people with maturity and integrity. She apparently already works for Texas Department of Public Safety (God help Texas. Hopefully it's not in any sworn capacity.) and she wants federal employment with FEMA, which she claims that she can never have now because she's too scared to fly. Based on her demonstrated thought process and actions in this story, I'm not sure that I'd want her working unsupervised on the night shift at my local 7-11, much less entrusted with a government job giving her any authority over me and my fellow Americans.

And shame on the ambulance chaser who agreed to file this case in a real court on her behalf.

Texas Senator tells illegal supporter to speak English

Bravo!

During committee testimony this week in Austin, a Texas senator interrupted a Spanish speaker and telling him he should "be speaking in English" during a committee hearing.

Antolin Aguirre of the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition was testifying against Senate Bill 9 that would help crack down on illegal immigrants in Texas. Aguirre spoke through an interpreter even though he had been in the U.S. since 1988.

Two minutes into Antolin Aguirre’s testimony, Sen. Chris Harris, a Republican from Arlington, interrupted asking Aguirre’s interrupter, "Did I understand him correctly that he has been here since 1988?" Harris asked. "Why aren’t you speaking in English then?"

Through his interpreter, Aguirre said Spanish is his "first language and since it is his first time giving testimony he would rather do it in Spanish."

"It is insulting to us," Sen. Harris fired back. "It is very insulting. And if he knows English, he needs to be speaking in English."
The fiery exchange happened on Monday during a Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee hearing. Law makers were hearing testimony on the purposed Senate Bill 9 – The so-called sanctuary cities bill. The bill would allow local law enforcement officials to check a suspect’s immigration status.

Supporters of Senate Bill 9 have said it would help crack down on illegal immigrants. Opponents argue that it will do little to help border security and that it’s instead based on racism.

Despite the blow-up The Texas Senate passed the bill Wednesday. It now goes to the House with a vote expected in the next few days.

Our country, our rules. Viva Senator Harris!

Now a quick Google search on Antolin Aguirre shows that he's been protesting and demonstrating against deportation of illegals for years. This is what he does. Yet he apparently never found the time to bother to learn our language. Priorities...

The reality is, Aguirre wasn't speaking to our elected officials. He was merely using them and the committee hearing as a stump to speak to his constituency--the illegals that he was representing. He wanted them to hear and understand what he was saying to our government.

I'm thinking that there should have been an ICE agent there to check Aguirre's citizenship and arrest him if he isn't a citizen or lawful resident alien, but that's just me.

What should happen to Steven McKnight?

I've got my ideas...

Probation or prison? How much time does a home-invasion robber deserve?

The fate of 19-year-old Steven Demund McKnight will likely be in jurors’ hands later today.

The panel must decide what kind of punishment McKnight deserves for breaking into an 83-year-old man’s home, roughing him up and robbing him of $90. He faces anywhere from probation to life in prison.

McKnight, an admitted gang member with a lengthy juvenile record, has admitted his wrongs, apologized to the victim and asked the jury for mercy.

Jurors will take that into consideration.

Meanwhile, the victim, Sandy Thompson, is frail and blind in one eye. He was sharp and witty on the witness stand, but the home-invasion terrified him, he said, and changed him forever.

That also will weigh heavily on jurors’ minds.

Tarrant County District Attorney Joe Shannon, age 70, is personally trying this case, partly because he wants to see what a jury thinks about home-invasions, a fast-growing crime in Tarrant County and beyond.

How serious will they take it? How much times does a home-invasion robber deserve?

Like I said, I got my thoughts. And they jive these:



Take that punk out back of the courthouse and toss a rope over a tree branch. And televise it to every jail and prison in the country to send a message to the other scumbags out there: You prey on the elderly or the disabled, and we as a society will have your ass.

So Mexico is angry...

because some of their delinquents attempted to invade our country and attacked our law-enforcement officers with rocks and one of them got shot.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – A U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a 15-year-old Mexican boy after a group trying to illegally enter Texas threw rocks at officers near downtown El Paso, U.S. authorities said Tuesday.

The shooting, which happened Monday evening beneath a railroad bridge linking the two nations, drew sharp criticism from Mexico, where the government said Tuesday that "the use of firearms to repel attacks with stones represents disproportionate use of force, particularly coming from authorities who have received specialized training."

It was the second death of a Mexican at the hands of Border Patrol officers in less than two weeks, and the case threatened to swell into a full-blown international incident when U.S. and Mexican officials traded suggestions of misconduct.

Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the Chihuahua Attorney General's office, said a spent 40-mm shell was found near the body — raising the question of whether the fatal shot was fired inside Mexico, although he did not explicitly make that suggestion. That would violate the rules for Border Patrol agents, who are supposed to stay on the U.S. side of the border.

A U.S. official, meanwhile, said video shows the Border Patrol agent did not enter Mexico.

The official, who agreed to discuss the matter only if not quoted by name, said the video also shows what seem to be four Mexican law enforcement officers driving to the edge of the dry but muddy bed of the Rio Grande, walking across to the U.S. side, picking up an undetermined object and returning to Mexico near the area where the boy's body was. Like their U.S. counterparts, Mexican law officers are not authorized to cross the border without permission.

According to the FBI, Border Patrol agents were responding to a group of suspected illegal immigrants being smuggled into the U.S. near the Paso Del Norte bridge, across from Ciudad Juarez around 6:30 p.m. Monday.

One suspected illegal immigrant was detained on the levee on the U.S. side, the FBI said in a statement. Another Border Patrol agent arrived on the concrete bank where the now-dry, 33-feet (10-meter) wide Rio Grande is, and detained a second suspect. Other suspects ran back into Mexico and began throwing rocks, the FBI said.

At least one rock came from behind the agent, who was kneeling beside the suspected illegal immigrant who he had prone on the ground, FBI spokeswoman Andrea Simmons said.

The agent told the rock throwers to stop and back off, but they continued. The agent fired his weapon several times, hitting one who later died, said the FBI, which is leading the investigation because it involved an assault on a federal officer. The agent was not injured, Simmons said.

Border Patrol Special Operations Supervisor Ramiro Cordero said preliminary reports showed Border Patrol agents on bicycle patrol "were assaulted with rocks by an unknown number of people."

The article then goes on to quote outraged relatives of the dead rock-thrower who naturally accuse our Border Patrol officers of murdering the rock-thrower and wailing that they've now been "left with nothing". I guess that they meant that now there will be no one left to smuggle dope into America or sneak over and steal American cars or commit other crimes before scurrying back to sanctuary south of the border. And predictably, Mexican officials demand that American officials do their bidding.

Mexico's Foreign Relations Department said it "energetically condemns" the shooting and demanded "an expeditious and transparent investigation of the facts and, if applicable, punishment of the guilty."

"Mexico is aware of the existing risks in the region, but, according to international standards, lethal force must be used only when the lives of people are in immediate danger and not as a dissuasive measure," it said.

The department said its records indicated the number of Mexicans killed or wounded by immigration authorities rose from five in 2008 to 12 in 2009 to 17 so far this year, which is not half over.

T.J. Bonner, president of the union representing Border Patrol agents, said rock throwing aimed at Border Patrol agents are common and capable of causing serious injury.

"It is a deadly force encounter, one that justifies the use of deadly force," Bonner said.

The violence in Mexico combined with assaults on Border Patrol agents in the U.S. has increased the level of apprehension agents have about their safety, Bonner said.

As far as I'm concerned, the only guilty parties left unpunished here are the other rock-throwers who didn't get shot. Not a single Mexican has anything to be angry over, since none of this would have happened had not the deceased and his pals set out to attack American law-enforcement officers on American soil. Frankly, it's precisely because of stuff like this than most of us want our border secured--Americans want protection against this sort of thuggery from Mexico's criminals. And if Mexicans don't want to be shot by our Border Patrol Agents, all they need to do is stay away from our border unless they're coming in legally with honest intent and everyone's problem will be solved.

Oh--and a "40mm casing"? I think not. .40 caliber, perhaps, but not 40mm.

Edited to add: Seems as if this little angel was a known smuggler and on a "most wanted" list. It hardly appears likely that he was just "hanging out" as his relatives claim, or taking a short-cut to choir practice.

Texas. Gov. Rick Perry is a...

Well you fill in the blank. Words honestly fail me after reading this story.

DALLAS (AP) — More than 12,000 illegal immigrants, non-permanent residents or non-U.S. citizens paid in-state tuition or received other such financial aid at public colleges and universities across Texas during late 2009, the Dallas Morning News reported Monday.

The figures from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board show about 1 percent of all Texas college students, in the fall semester, benefited from a 2001 law granting such in-state tuition.

The law says students who are not U.S. citizens and want to seek the assistance must have attended school in the state for at least three years before they graduate from a Texas high school. Students also must file an affidavit saying they plan to seek permanent residency.

During the fall semester, 12,138 students benefited from the law. Texas awarded about $33.6 million in state and institutional financial aid to those students between fall 2004 and summer 2008, according to the newspaper.

$33.6 million that did not benefit American citizens, although they were all taxed to raise it.

Gov. Rick Perry, who earlier this month won the GOP primary, supports the law aiding illegal immigrant students. Perry, in a recent debate, said the students are on the path to citizenship.

Huh? Back the truck up, Bubba. They aren't "law-abiding". Our laws say that people need to stay OUT of America unless they apply properly and are granted permission to enter. If they are in our country in defiance of our laws, the only path that they need to be on is a path back across the border, either on their own or in an ICE bus with barred windows.

The Immigration Reform Coalition of Texas filed a challenge to the law in December.

"It's not like we're swimming in budget surpluses," said coalition attorney David Rogers, who maintains that taxpayers suffer because of the law. "It's the responsibility of the government of Mexico to educate Mexican citizens."

Wow--someone gets it. Let's hear that line again:

"It's the responsibility of the government of Mexico to educate Mexican citizens."

Fantastic! HE should be Governor of Texas.

University of Houston law professor Michael A. Olivas said federal law allows states to draft their own policies. "It is a matter for states to determine," said Olivas. "In-state status is a state issue."

Former legislator Rick Noriega, who sponsored the in-state tuition law, said that educating the students is an economic development issue.

"This is about access to higher education," said Noriega, now the president of Avance, a nonprofit organization that educates Hispanic parents on preparing children for school.

"The alternative is to slam the door on any hopes and dreams. How are they going to perform in high school if they don't even have a chance at higher education?" he said.

Again, the question isn't "how are they going to perform in [American] high schools...it's "why are they even in American high schools? Every kid there illegally and improperly dilutes the quality of education that our kids get...especially when the schools have to start repeating half of the lesson in Spanish every day. And someone please tell me why we should spend dollar one on giving Mexican or OTM kids any sort of advanced degree when they cannot even legally get jobs in America? And it's especially ludicrous when you consider that 17% of American workers today are unemployed or under employed, and here we are, trying to make outsiders competitive with those Americans in our own tight labor market!!!
Rick Perry is contemptible and a sell-out. WHY did Rick Perry's primary opponent have to be one of those nut-job 9/11 truther types?

Screw it--I'm moving to Texas and running for Governor. Then I plan to invade Mexico and set up a 100-mile wide buffer zone south of the Rio Grande which will separate my state and the rest of Mexico.

Maybe then at least, we'll have education money and classroom space sufficient for our own kids, and we won't have to put up with this or this on a continual basis.

Oh--and Mexico? Fly one more of those Mexican military helicopters over my border and see if you get it back.

It's times like this that I really miss President Eisenhower.

It took 13 years, but Justice was served in Texas

It took a while, but there's finally closure in the case of the cowardly cop-killer, Kenneth Mosley.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – In the end, Sheila Moore decided to witness the execution of her husband's killer – just in case, she said, he wanted to ask for forgiveness.

He didn't, and at 6:16 p.m. Thursday, Kenneth Mosley was pronounced dead, the first person executed in the state this year and the 448th since 1982, when Texas began using lethal injections.

Mosley was convicted of fatally shooting Garland police Officer Michael "David" Moore during a failed bank robbery on Feb. 15, 1997.

"While earthly justice was served, it does not change what happened almost 13 years ago," his widow said in a statement read by her brother about 15 minutes after Mosley died.

"There will always be an empty place in our hearts for our husband, father and friend. We pray for healing for everyone involved."

Moore had been hesitant about the death penalty since Mosley was convicted and given the punishment.

Yet, when the time came, she stood silently behind Garland Capt. Bill Cortez and watched as the state executed the 51-year-old Mesquite man.

When Mosley was asked if he wanted to make a statement to the people gathered to witness his death, he shook his head and mouthed the word, "No."

He never looked at the dozen or so people standing behind a transparent screen, a few feet from his face.

Wearing black-framed glasses and with his arms and chest strapped to a gurney, Mosley remained silent and kept his eyes mostly closed as he seemed to wait for the drugs to take effect. It took less than 15 minutes.

Moore's three children also made the trip but did not witness the execution.

The youngest, Zachary, was 9 months old when his father died at the age of 32. Moore wanted her son, now 13, to be part of the police vigil outside the prison walls so he would have a memory related to his father.

"At least he'll have that," she said before the family traveled to Huntsville.

The last time Mosley confronted the Moore family was at his trial in November 1997. He had lashed out at them in an expletive-filled rant during the punishment phase of his trial.

From the witness stand, he also chastised the jury for finding him guilty of capital murder.

Mosley, who shot Moore five times, said that the shooting was accidental and that he was simply trying to hand over his gun to the officer. "I never knew that gun had went off," he testified.

"The Moore family, all they wanted is somebody they think slaughtered their loved one to die. All they wanted was a conviction."

Mosley's legal team spent nearly 13 years going through the appeals process. His execution was postponed twice last year.

Shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday, his appeals were declared exhausted, allowing the execution to proceed.

Mosley's last meal, served at 4 p.m., was an assortment of fried foods, including three pieces of chicken, two pork chops, a cheeseburger, 10 pieces of bacon, French fries, okra, green tomatoes and apple cobbler.

He was placed on "death watch" Tuesday, a 72-hour period during which he was monitored every 15 minutes by prison guards.

Prison officials offered a snapshot of Mosley's activities during that period, which included sleeping, reading, pacing his cell and showering.

He saw his last visitor, who was not identified, on Tuesday for a five-hour visit that included lunch.

Cortez said he was surprised that the execution occurred so quietly and with no expression of pain from Mosley.

"It seemed just too easy, too easy of a punishment," the Garland officer said.

Matt Leigeber said his sister, Sheila Moore, and her children have gone through "an emotional roller coaster" waiting for the execution.

They were too emotional to talk Thursday, he said.

"It's been a rough 13 years for everybody involved," Leigeber said.

"We lost a husband, a father and a friend, but also a policeman and a Marine."

When the lowest of the low in our society murders one of our finest, there really can be only one response from society. It's good to see that the courts in Texas understand this concept. It's also good to see the law-enforcement community standing together with the family of Officer Moore throughout this long and traumatizing saga. That says a lot about the law enforcement culture and the concept of the police "family". Kudos also to the Dallas News for not giving us a sob story about this cretin like these losers from Scotland who set up a pro-Mosley website and a fund to make Mosley's prison stay more comfortable. I've enjoyed e-mailing them and rubbing their noses in the fact that their little pet caged monster has finally been put down. Feel free to join me. :-)

You may all go to hell...

Yes. You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.

This phrase was first uttered by Davy Crockett of Tennessee after he lost a Congressional election in 1835, but it works for me too now that Chuck Norris is considering running for President in a post-secession Texas.

Martial-arts master Chuck Norris has his sights set on becoming more than a Texas Ranger - he has volunteered to run as the state's first president.

Norris, who played TV hardman Cordell Walker in hit series Walker, Texas Ranger, has put himself up for the job of running the region after discussing the possibility of the state seceding from U.S. control during a rant on CNN.com's political blog.

The actor, who is a staunch Republican, insists Texans want an independent state after being let down by the American government - and thinks he'd be the ideal candidate to lead the Lone Star state's revolution.

He says, "I may run for president of Texas. That need may be a reality sooner than we think. If not me, someone someday may again be running for president of the Lone Star state, if the state of the union continues to turn into the enemy of the state.

"Anyone who has been around Texas for any length of time knows exactly what we'd do if the going got rough in America."

Lagniappe and I talked it over and we decided that we're long overdue for a good fight. So if Texas does secede, me and my ammo-bearing German Shepherd will be heading south to support President Norris. and he'll need it, what with a corrupt socialist government to the north and Mexico to the south.

Hail to the Chief...or else he'll kick you into the middle of next week.

Bride-zilla goes to jail

I wonder if the wedding band played "Here comes the bride" on a banjo?

Seriously folks, it not often that someone who lives in West Virginia gets to laugh at anyone else for looking like an ignorant hillbilly hick, but Billy and Jade Puckett have just made that possible.

You see, this couple got married last week-end down in Texas. It is not known how many head of livestock were in attendance but it is known that after the reception, Billy Puckett was stopped by a DUI task force, allegedly because his passenger (that would be the newly-minted Jade Puckett) was opening and closing the car's door as they drove down the highway. Billy was subsequently arrested for DUI.

Now it could have--and should have--ended here, but Jade apparently wanted to get into the act too. She apparently "exited the vehicle" (cop-speak for "got out of the car") and proceeded to tell the arresting officers something along the lines of "take yer hands off'n my man!"

No actual idea what transpired, but Jade was apparently so obnoxious and belligerent that she was eventually arrested herself for being drunk in public. And since arresting officers aren't in the habit of driving prisoners home to change clothes, Mrs. Puckett wound up going off to the pokey in her wedding whites.

She pled guilty the next morning when she was presented before a judge--still wearing her wedding gown--and received a sentence of "time served".

Well there was a time when any citizen would have just died of embarrassment had such a thing happened, and most people would have just hushed up about it and let it blow over. But that was before all of these reality TV shows came along and totally de-stigmatized looking like trailer trash. Jade claims that she was so embarrassed about being jailed in her wedding dress that she...called press conferences--and even posed for new pictures in that wedding dress!

I guess she figured that if a welfare-cheat like Nadya "Octomom" Sulyman could cash in on 15 minutes of shame, a drunken redneck in a wedding dress might just be able to sell a few interviews or otherwise make some cash too.

Rumor has it that Jade and her new husband as so upset that they're fixin' to up and move right on out of Harris County, just as soon as they can arrange for a truck to pull their trailer away.

And here's a few tips for your next weddings, Billy and Jade:

1. Next time spring for a limo, or at least find some sober guy to drive you home.
2. If/when you encounter the police, be polite and respectful and do what they tell you, especially when they tell you to stay in the car. (JADE!)
3. If you both need to be drunk in order to marry each other and/or take care of traditional honeymoon business, it's probably not a good match. I'm just saying...
4. Oh, and Jade...sit up straight. Slouching in court is so un-ladylike.

Don't mess with Texas...especially if you're a murderous illegal alien gang member.

In June of 1993, two young girls--16-year-old Elizabeth Pena and 14-year-old Jennifer Ertman--were walking home when they stumbled into a gang initiation. Members of the gang--Mexican citizens illegally in our country--raped the girls for over two hours and then beat and kicked them to death. STORY HERE
Tomorrow, the State of Texas is going to execute Jose Medellin for his role in that unspeakable crime.

This has of course sparked outrage from the usual sob-sister "save-the-criminal-and-screw-the-victim" groups like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other groups made up of elitist liberals who think that it's chic and fashionable to bawl crocodile tears for the worst of the worst and who will almost certainly vote for Obama when they get a chance. It's also caused the United States to be criticized--and sued before the World Court--by the government of Mexico.

Mexico, you see, doesn't believe that we here in the United States should prohibit any of their citizens from crossing over into our country at will, nor do they believe that we should discriminate between Mexicans here in violation of our laws and American citizens...unless, of course, that Mexican illegally in our country commits a heinous crime that would result in a death sentence for an American. In that case, Mexico demands that we discriminate and not execute their citizens. Jose Medellin is one of 51 Mexican murders currently under sentence of death in this country. And Mexico has taken it's fight for him to the United Nations and the World Court, which ruled that Texas could not execute him.

Admirably, Texas told the World Court to pound sand. Medellin committed these murders in Texas, not in Mexico or any part of the world that the World Court has jurisdiction over. Texas only recognizes one court higher than it's own state courts, and that's the United States Supreme Court, which has already given Medellin's execution the go-ahead.

President Bush--ever the friend of Mexico--has also urged Texas to call the execution off. Texas respectfully declined, citing their right to enforce their own laws irregardless of race, creed or national origin. Medellin's going to die tomorrow and that's nothing more than Justice and deserved partial closure for the families of those two girls. (Several of Medellin's illegal alien co-conspirators received lesser sentences due to their age at the time. Another one is also on death row.) There may be protests in Mexico tomorrow, but they won't hold a candle to the protests that we in America have staged in response to the uncountable depredations against American citizens in our own country committed by Mexicans who have illegally entered our land and who all too often have not been removed by our government and who have even been sheltered by cities such as San Francisco.

Americans deserve justice when murderers prey on our kids, and that justice should be equally applied no matter if the killers are Americans or foreign nationals. And if Mexico objects to us executing their murdering citizens, perhaps they'd do well to stop protesting our border walls and start building their own walls designed to keep their criminal offenders from entering our country in the first place. After all, we can't execute them if they never come here and murder our citizens in the first place, can we?

Oh--and World Court? Screw you. This is OUR country and the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court hold sway here, not you. And besides, if it weren't for America and the sacrifice of over 400,000 Americans, you'd be conducting court business in German and/or Japanese today.


8-5-08 UPDATE It's ON!

Sweet day! Two less illegals in the country

Deported basically for skipping school and disrespecting an American magistrate. I love this.

Skipping School Gets 2 Sisters Deported

WINONA - Skipping school is usually met with fines and the threat of jail time; but, for two sisters, the punishment was much worse - they were deported.

Smith County Justice of the Peace Mitch Shamburger said he presided over truancy court last month when Brisa and Lluva Amante, both 17, snickered in his courtroom.

The John Tyler High School students were before him for skipping school and Shamburger said he fined them each for the action and told them to go to school every day and not to come back to his courtroom.

"I thought they would take it seriously and I wouldn't see them again," he said Friday.

However, the twins and a younger sister were brought before him on Feb. 14 for another charge of truancy.

"I asked them if they didn't understand and they just kind of snickered," he said.

Shamburger said he instructed the bailiff to handcuff the two sisters and hoped that would sober up their mood.

"It cut down on the giggling, but they stood against the wall and still kind of laughed," he said.

Shamburger said he called the two teens in front of his bench and told them they were both adults in the eyes of the law and he was sending them to the Smith County Jail to do time for skipping school.

"I told the deputy constable that if the twins had a come to Jesus meeting then he could turn around, but they didn't so he proceeded to the jail to book them in," he said.

What happened next took Shamburger by surprise.

"The officer called me and said I wouldn't have to worry about them skipping school anymore because ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) placed a hold on them and was deporting them back to El Salvador," he said.

Shamburger said he hoped the girls would learn a lesson from visiting the jail, but was not prepared for the news.

"In all of my years on the bench I have never had someone deported for truancy," he said.

So many things here.
First we had these two girls in our country illegally, probably with their mother and/or other relatives. In fact the story mentions another relative who also wound up in court for truancy. This brings me to point two--it's bad enough that these illegal aliens were in our country sucking up space in our schools at our expense, but they weren't even treating it like the privilege and opportunity that it was. They skipped enough classes to wind up in truancy court repeatedly. Clearly they weren't at all interested in making anything of themselves.
So they wind up in court, and rather than being fearful of any consequences--including deportation--they smirked and snickered and acted like a couple of punks, basically disrespecting our magistrate and our court and demonstrating the same sort of contempt for our legal system that every other illegal alien shows our laws, our border and our national sovereignty.

Well with any luck, they'll be back in El Salvador quicker than you can say "anchor baby" and the government won't cave to protestations from the illegal alien community and release them with an apology and compensation as if they're actually entitled to either one.

Two down, 19,999,998 to go!

Stupid is as stupid does

So according to this story out of Houston, Texas, a man shot and killed himself when the loaded gun that he was twirling on his finger discharged and blew his brains out.

Police say a man who co-owned a southwest Houston recording studio was found dead in that studio after playing with a handgun.

The 30-year-old man, who Houston police has yet to identify, was twirling his gun while in the studio and the firearm discharged leaving him shot in the head.

The studio, located on the 12,700 block of Medfield near Dairy Ashford, was used primarily to record local hip-hop music.

So he was a "rapper" Why am I not surprised. For whatever reason, the "culture" that springs up around these knuckleheads always seems to involve guns even though many of them are convicted felons, and I've yet to meet or even read about a rapper who had enough brains to come in out of the rain. Yes, it's all very well and fine to make up rhymes about raping women, selling drugs and killing police officers, but it doesn't take a lot of smarts to sit around all day doing it. I guess they get bored after a bit and move on to dumber stuff, like playing with loaded guns. My eight year old nephew knows better than that. But I guess that my eight year old nephew is (was) smarter than the late Michael Francis.

Someone on a message board I was perusing said that he hopes that this sort of thing doesn't continue--we might run out of rappers. But running out of rappers would be like running out of diarrhea--virtually impossible but if it ever did happen, I doubt that anyone who mattered would mind.