November 9th, 2005
- California is still goofy. My soap was made of oatmeal, my shampoo of green tea & ginseng, and the conditioner of camomile & lavender. And I had a sleep number bed
- Bay 101 has some loosie-goosie games.
- On-The-Road TFG is a carb eating fiend. Burritos, hash browns, English muffins. Bad news, see.
- Used to believe that DEW was the most traveler-unfriendly airport in the states. And that SJC was a very nice little casy-to-use airport. No more. SJC is hellish with all the crazy loop-di-loops and circular drives they’re installed in the time since my last visit.
- If the idiot hens behind me here in the departure lounge don’t shut up about celebrity marriages, there’s gonna be bloodshed.
Over and out.
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November 9th, 2005
The J. Patrick Buchanan Memorial Library for Failed Prophets of Doom
Imagine if you will, a library that is stocked with books that relate to one thing, the Cassandra like predictions from the past that have failed to come true. A Library entirely dedicated to the published works of blowhards, pundits, college professors, and economists everywhere who like the sound of their voice and are certain that they have seen the end times just around the corner. But for some reason never seem to be able to predict the disaster we all know is waiting for us out in the murky future. The Library should serve as a warning to all who wish to see the future darker than it really is.
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November 8th, 2005
Every now and then, the perfect gem from an overly self-regarding poli-dork falls into your lap and you just have to laugh out loud at how stupid (not to mention desperate) the Beltway buttheads can be:
While some of you may not be regular viewers of CMT, it has reach into the voter base that Kinky needs - independent Texas cowboys.
Substitute “brain-dead chuckleheads glued to the idiot box” for that last part, and you might be on to something.
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November 7th, 2005
Well, I did it. I bought an iPod. I’m officially 20° cooler than you. Next up - I begin wearing woolen watch caps, getting tattoos, and putting metal in my face.
Typical CompUSA, too — “Wanna buy AppleCare?” “No.” Wanna buy AppleCare?” “No.” Wanna buy AppleCare?” click
“Is that, like, a real gun or does it shoot pellets?” “Ask me again about that AppleCare and see.” No less than three people asked me to buy AppleCare. The comps must be out of this world for that.
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November 7th, 2005
Slampo’s Place, while parsing the explosion of Houston-living Pakistanis running for local office, snipes at the local paper:
Khan has been on the Carnival case for a while, Zen T. C. Zheng reports, having protested the club’s liquor license with the TABC back in January. Hopefully he can continue that work after Tuesday. (And by the way, why was this story relegated to the zoned weekly “community news” section of the Chronicle? It seems to have all the elements for a great story, or for a take from a local columnist, if the paper had one who actually lived in Houston: the hallowed Houston right to do what the hell you want with your property vs. less hallowed notions of greater community good, shifting demographics, changing neighborhoods, multiculturalism and diversity and blah blah, dancing and firearms and cowboy hats and blaring Latino music … oh, yeah—somebody might want to read that.)
I think Houston should be the first place awarded a Pegasus News franchise. They have all those great writers down there.
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November 6th, 2005
- It was opening weekend of deer season for rifle hunters this weekend. The roads were full of returning deerslayers. Apparently, it’s impossible to hunt deer without an ATV these days, as every single obvious hunter had one to four on a trailer. Didn’t see a single dead deer, though. Too hot, I imagine. It was almost 90° this weekend in NORTH Tejas. I hate to thing what Del Rio, Llano, Junction were like. Those boys had to be digging for their camo cargo shorts and camo sandles.
- All of you Harley riders out taking the sun and ogling the countryside in your fancy leathers and rebellious doo-rags? Don’t effing do it 10mph below the speed limit on major US highways. I know you’re cool as Frosty the Snowman for dropping 30 gees on your weekend ride, and everybody needs to get a good look at you, but confine that moseying crap to the back roads. I’m tired of dawdling behind you at 50. Unlike you, I have things to do.
- I wonder what ever happened to the Wendell Brothers. They popped up on shuffle today. They were really cool and very good musicians — all-around good peeps, except they smoked too much dope. Maybe that’s why they were good peeps, or maybe that’s why they vanished. Nowadays, their old website is a pr0n portal. I miss those boys, and I miss those days. Oh well…another musical mystery.
- I’m gonna go play some poker. I had to make a serious, dramatic, last-possession, come-from-behind finish last night at the Rainbow Room to finish down $40. No Cowboy game today, and Herself was up till dawn hanging out with modern-day disaffected youths, so she’s spending an(other) afternoon in bed with her lover.
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November 6th, 2005
It looks like I’m headed to San Jose next week, and fortunately for the Silicon Valley sharks, I’m going to have a little bit of unstructured time on my hands. Initial plans are to mosey over to Bay 101 as time allows. Does anyone out there have any tips on the games, or the room itself? It looks like Limit is all they spread there, and I’ll likely sit the 2/4 or 3/6. I’ve been in there a couple of times, but it’s been years and everything has probably changed. Or maybe another card room that you’d like to recommend, perhaps one that spreads NLHE?
Or should I just stay in my hotel room and play Full Tilt in my boxers? OK, sorry for the visual…
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November 5th, 2005
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November 5th, 2005
Isn’t this pretty?

That’s the Springfield Armory Loaded Standard M1A.
Air gauged medium weight national match barrel in either stainless or chrome moly. National match components such as national match trigger assembly, national match front sight and non-hooded rear sight assembly, and national match flash suppressor.
Goes for a frosty $1,830.
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November 5th, 2005
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November 5th, 2005
I’ve seriously had it with you bozos.
Country Music Television will air a preview of a proposed reality show based on Kinky Friedman’s independent run for Texas governor.
The music network will show two half-hour pilot episodes of “Go Kinky” on Wednesday. The episodes are set to premiere in early 2006 and could lead to a TV series.
Read it and weep, people. Everything is a damn teevee show, and teevee is everything.
Sent to me by faithful reader, Kevin.
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November 4th, 2005
Oh, wait…that’s Paris.
Let me just point out for those who might need some pointing out - America has an immigration problem with foreigners who come here to work at unskilled labor for low wages, just like the currently-rioting Muslims in France. They are not terribly interested in assimilating into the greater American culture. American immigration policies make it damn difficult to deal with them in any positive way. America, too, is infected with the Politically Correct virus that adores equality of cultures (ours is a lower-grade virus than France’s, but it’s there, anyway, and it could easily ramp up to full strength as we make decisions on immigration based on emotion.)
To be sure, we have immigration laws that could check illegal immigration if that were desired. It apparently isn’t, very much, in the halls of power that decide where $$$ get spent and how. We also have a far stronger culture of acceptance of immigrants (we are a pretty damned mongrel country as it stands today, and thank God for that), especially when it is apparent those immigrants are willing to pitch in and make America strong. To date, we have not officially segregated Mexican immigrants into squalid housing projects designed by a maniac po-mo architect out in the hinters, and it’s doubtful that we ever will do that.
But that’s just one mistake we won’t make. If you read the stories and blog posts about the riots in Paris, though, you’ll see quite a few eerie parallels to the immigration problems we’re looking at in America today. If we think about it hard enough, it’s a pretty sure thing that we can avoid the fate of the Frogs entirely. But we do have to start thinking about, and then talking about it, from a rational point of view.
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November 3rd, 2005
Senate’s ‘Gang of 14′ Fractures Over Alito
Well, kiss my ass, and call me Annie. I never would have thought such a thing were possible.
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November 2nd, 2005
I might be able to help out this dude:
So I’m turning to any long-time country fans to help me out here
Numero uno, quit listening to music from the Nashville shite factory
1 that is designed to sell tampons
2. Especially when it comes from 99.9% of the radio.
Numero two-o, read Jack Sparks.
Numero tres, tune into Boot Liquor Radio to get a solid base of non-Nashville.
Lastly, you very likely can’t go wrong with just about anything billed as Texas music by the fans.
Oh, and destroy Big & Rich, the worst example of Nashville cut-n-paste extant.
1 Kevin Whited
2 Alex Whitlock
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November 2nd, 2005
“Party Trumps Race”
So sayeth your friendly, local, on-the-record, for-attribution Democrats.
Such attacks against the first black man to win a statewide election in Maryland include pelting him with Oreo cookies during a campaign appearance, calling him an “Uncle Tom” and depicting him as a black-faced minstrel on a liberal Web log.
Really gives you a warm feeling deep in your heart, doesn’t it?
Anybody care to stand up and defend that kind of bullshit?
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