MrsA/texas

Okay Texans, hone your history skills. Non-Texans, read up!

My college aged kid had a class or two with this kid. My son is a bright boy, but this kid is AMAZINGLY bright.

Snow is SUCH a novelty in the Bayou City! We really are not equipped to handle it!

DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS!!!!

If you torture, gang rape, then kill two innocent children, you are human debris. Jose Ernesto Medellin,with the help of some of his FINE AND UPSTANDING friends, did just that. Every action renders a reaction. Last night, Medellin received the reaction to his demonic, murderous rage against Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena who were 14 and 16 years old, respectively. Medellin's action took place on June 24, 1993. The resulting AND FRANKLY JUSTIFIED reaction took place just before 10 pm on August 5, 2008 in Huntsville, Texas where he was executed. Make note that although the corrective reaction took over a decade to happen, it did indeed happen. THANK GOODNESS, my beloved Texas is willing to take the trash out.

I will repeat: DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS!!!!!

Every spot on the face of Earth has some sort of potential for natural disaster. In my own nation (US): if you live along the coast in the Bo-Wash (Richmond, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, up to Southern Maine), you risk nor'easters which bring dangerous ice storms; if you live in Great Lakes region (in or around cities like Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago or Milwaukee) you get massive amounts of snow; if you live in the Heartland (Witchita Falls, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Witchita, Topeka, or Kansas City), you risk deadly tornadic activity every spring; if you live in parts of the Intermountain West (Phoenix, Las Vegas, Tuscon, Death Valley), you risk lengthy stretches on the calendar with consecutive days of deadly highs above the century mark (F--or above 38C); if you live along the Pacific Coast (San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle), you risk earthquakes; if you live in Southern California--as if earthquakes were not enough--you also risk mudslides.

Then there is Houston.

We rarely get freezing temperatures. It is even rarer that we get snow or ice. The tornadoes we DO get are tempered by the nearby Gulf. The same proximity to the Gulf leaves us with relatively lower highs in the hottest part of summer than other places further inland. By some estimation, we are in the part of the US least likely to have earthquakes.

The natural disaster this area suffers is massive amounts of rainfall producing widespread flooding. Sometimes, a local deluge is due to the stalling of transitional season fronts going from the Rockies to the Gulf of Mexico. Sometimes, they are due to tropical weather. Sometimes they do a little damage to real estate and other property, but other times they do a whole lot of damage to real estate and other property. Sadly, they are sometimes deadly. This is a history of my metro area and her brush with natural disaster. This is Houston's History Through Floods.

Pioneering Houston Heart Surgeon, Michael DeBakey Dead at 99.


1908-2008
RIP

Thumbs up to Joe Horn and the Harris County Grand Jury.

Stuff like this makes me as pleased as punch to be a Texan. We have the Castle Domain law here which means a person has the right to defend himself and those around him with any means necessary when in danger of being harmed on your property by someone who doesn't belong there. When Joe Horn of the Houston area watched his neighbor's house being robbed, one of the two thieves made a threat to him in action. Under our state law, he had every right to defend himself. When he shot and killed those two thugs as they tried to run away with loot, he was well within his rights as the Grand Jury of Harris County has indicated.

God Bless Texas.