Banjo Work

It isn't Texas music, but it's the music of my own family's roots; you'll either enjoy it or you'll hate it.  It's Frank Fairfield doing Poor Ellen Smith.

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Texas SCV

The Aggie (James "Rick" Perry) has made his decision: he will not support the adoption of  a Sons of Confederate Veterans license plate in Texas.

In an earlier blog post, I noted that the prospect looked dim.  The Motor Vehicle Board was locked in a 4-4 tie.  Now, apparently, there has been another appointee (by the Governor) to the Board and the issue may not even come up for another vote.

Jerry Patterson, the Texas Land Commissioner, is running for Lieutenant Governor (the office of which, in Texas, wields more power than that of the Governor), supports the SCV plate and has hinted that the issue may not be as dead as The Aggie would like it to be.  Patterson suggested that the whole affair may end-up in court as a First Amendment issue.

NAACP, of course, has collected 22,000 signatures against what they have named the "hate plate".   The SPLC will probably show up here sooner or later.   Meanwhile, the Texas Division of the SCV has been lending its support of the Buffalo Soldiers' sons to have their own plate.

The Aggie is on the losing end of this affair.  His opinion is, obviously, for sale.

Did you hear that a skeleton was found in an old building in College Station, Texas?  Yep, it was the Texas Aggie Hide-And-Seek champion of 1938.

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If You're A Moslem, Forget It.

This is a must listen ... (it's only a minute).  You'll be glad that you did.

The speaker is a Texan and teaches classes which lead to a Texas Concealed Handgun License (CHL).

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The Aggie Is (now) Politically Correct!

The Texas Tribune told it all.  Today, The Aggie (Texas Governor, J. Rick Perry) has proven to the Yankees that he is not the bumpkin they suspect him to be.  Barry Soetoro, Rick believes, is a natural-born citizen of the Yankee Nation.  I guess that Moslem-Yellow curtain behind Barry at his press conferences must mean that he was born in Hawaii ... right?

It looks as if The Aggie wants that job in the Yankee Nation capitol city very badly.

I guess this means that it's time, again, for another Texas commentary on Aggies in general (and maybe Rick in particular)

Q: Why does an Aggie keep a coat hanger in the backseat of his car?
A: In case he lock his keys in the car.

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Yankee Nation Debt Clock (In Real Time)

This thing is not the sort of satisfying bedtime reading most folks want.  It is, however, informative.

U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time

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Po' Folks? The Yankee Nation's Got 'Em All

Yankee Nation Senator Jeff Sessions (R), Alabama is fit to be tied.  It appears as if,by the end of this year (2011), the Yankee Nation will have spent around $80 billion Yankee Dollars on the food stamp program.

As reported in the Daily Caller -

The Alabama senator introduced an amendment to three spending bills on the Senate floor last week to end the categorical eligibility requirement. It was voted down, 41 to 58.

Seven Republicans voted against his proposal, including Maine Sen. Susan Collins, Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran, Indiana Sen. Dan Coats, Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the amendment would have saved the government $10 billion over the next ten years without changing the SNAP program’s current eligibility requirements.

Just to place some perspective on how much $80 billion dollars is (at least in Yankee Nation terms) it costs

• $24 billion and change to operate the entire Yankee Nation Justice Department - including the Bureau of Prisons and the FBI.
• Around $30 billion a year to operate the Federal's Highway Administration.
• $4 billion Yankee Nation dollars to fund the Border Patrol.
• $10.6 billion a year to run their Internal Revenue Service

Are we to believe that there are that many poor people inhabiting the Yankee Nation?  They must be more numerous that housefiles in Mexico.  Think of all the money the Yankee Nation could save if even half of the food stamp recipients were discovered to be frauds and summarily removed from the system.

$80 billion is a lot of jack, but ... hey, it's all fiat anyway; isn't it?

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Tracking Humans

Some time ago, I told you about drag roads and drags.  For the Old Patrol, the drag road was where sign was usually "cut".  Signcutting, however, is just the first installment of tracking.  Once you find the sign, the next job is to tell how fresh it is.

The photo to the left shows foot sign on top of a "running W" tire tread sign and parallel to a "straight line" tire sign.  If we know that the "running W" was on the drag road no more than two hours ago, then the foot sign can be no more than two hours old.

People who don't want their sign to be cut across a drag road will often attempt to brush-out their foot sign.  At the bottom part of the photo to the right, you can see a crude brush-out.  The remedy here, of course is to see what known tire sign is covered by the brush-out (to determine the sign's age) and simply follow the brush-out until it turns into foot sign you can identify.

It is helpful for a tracker to have a general familiarity with the area.  This is especially helpful when tracking Tonks: if they're headed in one particular direction, you can accurately guess where they're headed.  For example, a popular truck stop on the Interstate Highway.  Sometimes, however, the tracker may not have knowledge of the area.  That's when it's always best just to stick with the sign.

Tracking humans is not always as easy as it appears on the drag road.  Often, the tracker may not have seen actual foot sign for several hundred yards.  What then?

To the left, you can see "rock sign".  The rock to the left is in its natural position whereas the rocks to the right have been depressed into the soil.  As long as the depressed rocks are along the sign's route of travel, it's a safe bet that the sign you've been following is the same sign that made the depression.  You simply keep on the same azimuth and be on the watch for confirming footprints.

Foot sign isn't the only sort of "sign" that a tracker follows.  Sounds, odors, light, shadows and animal movement are all sign for the experienced tracker of humans.

One night, Actor was tracking a group of six Tonks through a lemon grove when his flashlight batteries gave out.  A gentle breeze was blowing from the 3 o'clock position to the last known route of travel and it was pitch black inside the grove.  Actor was impressed with the almost overpowering scent of lemon blossoms as he kept on the Tonks' last known line of travel.  Then, ever so slightly, Actor smelled the unmistakable odor of unrefrigerated hot dogs from his 3 o'clock.  The Tonks were no more than 25 feet away and were all hunkered-down under a lemon tree.  After he had made the apprehension, the Tonks told Actor that they had planned to stay under that tree until morning when the Patron would show up in the grove and (hopefully) hire them to pick lemons.

There are probably a few Agents in the New Patrol who have learned the art of tracking humans, but in the Old Patrol all of us had to learn it.

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The Imperial Barry Soetoro

Our friends at Sad Hill News have revealed that, at 1400 on 9 November, all radio and television transmissions will be summarily cut-off.

This (need you even guess?) is courtesy of the JBT's of Homeland Security.

The shut-off will be for a test of the Yankee Nation  "Emergency Alert System" and only the President of the Yankee Nation has the authority to flip the switch.  Barry The Pretender has, now, decided to seize control of civilian communications - at least for as long as the "test" lasts.

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Big Government Republicans

The three Big Government Republicans who each want to be President of the Yankee Nation have, each, their own remedy for that sad nation's sickness.  The Blow-Dried Mormon has his 59 Points, The Aggie has his oil & gas proposals and The Godfather (with apologies to James Brown) has his 9-9-9 plan.

The Dallas Morning News has a comparison of them here.

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They're Serious, Aren't They?

Yankee Apologist

The showman P.T. Barnum is said to have advised us that, "There's a sucker born every minute".  W. C. Fields, the actor, refined the message with the mandate, "Never give a sucker an even break".   Both men offered sage advice for anyone who would seek to profit from the 'easy marks' among us.

Barry The Pretender is one of the current crop of showmen who have taken these Yankees' advice to heart.  There is, however, another.  This one happens to prey upon the frustrations of Yankee Nation citizens who long for an elusive something out of the past.  This something is a state of being which the suckers can't quantify, but they feel in their guts that it, somehow, used to be present in the ethos of the New World.

Just as Barry Soetoro (The Pretender) has pandered to the secret desires of the Left, there is another dude who has done so with the Right.  Barry The Pretender has done it by peddling the sorry philosophy of one Saul Alinsky.  Barry's antithetical twin, Glenn Beck, has done it with the Right.

Beck is the Yankee Nation apologist that caters to the high school dropout.  A thorough jingoist, Beck has his believers believing that he has done massive amounts of "research" into the history of the Yankee Nation.  He has foisted his Classics Illustrated version of Yankee Nation history on those of his listeners who probably lack the opportunity (or the knowledge) of how to check the facts that he presents as gospel.  A year ago in August, he held a massive rally at the feet of the statue of A. Lincoln in the Yankee's capitol city.  The implication was that, not only did Father Abraham bless the goings-on, but that he would approve of them as well.

Would have Lincoln approved?  Most assuredly, yes.

Beck offers a phony shred of hope to those who believe that all hope has been eclipsed by Barry and by many who have gone before him.  His unique ability to convince the masses that it will all turn-out well in the end is currently rivaled only by Barry's ability to convince his followers of the same.  The fact that Beck frequently extols the supposed virtues of someone such as Lincoln (who removed Habeas Corpus rights for his enemies) is all that any thoughtful person needs to know about him. 

Now, Beck claims to have moved to Texas.  It's a great attempt at trying to authenticate himself and he might blend-in with all the other Yankee ass clowns in Dallas and Houston, but we have all the carpetbaggers we can handle right now.  We don't need anymore.

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Al Awaki the Citizen and Barry the - Whatever He Is

Barry The Pretender has managed a new first.  He is the first Yankee Nation Chief Executive to publicly admit that Federal troops explicitly targeted a natural-born YN citizen.  So much for the Constitution.

Oh, it must have slipped my mind!  Barry Soetoro and his friends believe many strange things concerning the Constitution.  Among those things is that it is a "living document".  "Living document" are code words which mean that , as the Constitution ages, it changes and morphs to accommodate new social beliefs.

One may wonder just how this "living document" has changed so much that it has completely abrogated the Bill of Rights for anyone deemed nasty enough by Barry and his gaggle clowns to be denied those rights.

Barry is not the first Yankee Nation authority figure to crow about having hunted-down enemies of their state and killing them.  He is the first, however, to acknowledge having done so against a citizen of that Nation.

Rather that deny that he was complicit in the crime, he seems to have taken some perverse joy in the affair.  After all, Al Awaki was instrumental in planning attacks against the YN.  To Soetoro's mind, that must mean that the Constitution does not apply to him.  Since when?

Even the despot A. Lincoln would never have gone that far.  Lincoln's authorization to murder Jefferson Davis was a plan to murder a leader of a nation foreign to the Yankee Nation (of which Davis was not a citizen).  Barry The Pretender has truly taken a step farther than any of his predecessors in that office.

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Circle The Wagons

For Barry The Pretender, the "Good Old Days" were those when even his worshipers still believed what he said.  Now, those who still claim a deep and abiding love for him must dangle that love from the anchor point of Barry's skin color.

If transparency was to be one of Barry's chief goals, the dude has failed - miserably.

In order to obscure truthful answers from the mounting chorus of questions people have over Yankee Nation Obama Care, Barry's people have had to issue new disclosure guidelines to his trusted employees in the Department of Health and Human Services.

Now, all inquiries are to be directed to Barry's spin doctors:

"The News Division of the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA) is the principal point of contact, at the national level, for news media and general public inquiries about the Department of Health and Human Services and its agencies. "

Managers of whatever level are no longer permitted to discuss Soetoro Care as it appears as if the Yankee Supreme Court is actually going to entertain one of the numerous lawsuits brought by the States.

Now that Barry Soetoro The Pretender is officially over his head with competency issues, it's time for him to circle the wagons and to muzzle the mules.

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