Archive for June 2024

Election Day is tomorrow. Go vote in the Harris Central Appraisal District (HCAD) Board of Directors runoff election, please. _____ Today is Flag Day in the USA. I wonder if Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, Jr. is flying the flag in the featured photo. _____ Well, this is kind of surprising. Not all the HISD…

Whew! The good guys just got a win today at SCOTUS on reproductive rights. Mifepristone can stay on the market. See this from USA Today: WASHINGTON − Two years after erasing the constitutional right to an abortion, the Supreme Court on Thursday (today) went the other direction and tossed out a challenge to the widely used…

Commentary is pretty good on knowing our American history. I always did well on American history courses. Extremist Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, Jr. said on the just revealed recording that he wants the country to return to godliness.  I am trying to figure out when was the godliness period of American history. During the…

Today is my sister Sylvia Lafuente’s BD. Happy Birthday, Sylvia! _____ One of the most crooked Supreme Court justices in my adult lifetime is Justice Clarence Thomas. We all know that. We have learned in the last couple of years that he has accepted gifts worth a few million dollars. He was appointed by President…

Here is from the Trib: At its biennial convention last month, the Texas GOP tried to increase its party purity by approving two major rules changes: One would close the Republican primary elections so that only voters the party identifies as Republicans can participate.  Here is the entire Trib read: Texas GOP pursues closed primaries,…

This is from ABC News today: President Joe Biden said he would not pardon his son Hunter amid an ongoing felony gun trial during a wide-ranging exclusive interview with ABC News anchor David Muir at the Normandy American Cemetery on the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Muir asked Biden on Thursday if he would accept the outcome of…

D-Day was 80 years ago today. There are around 200 American D-Day vets still around today. My Dad fought in the European Theater during World War II.  Italy, France, Germany and Belgium, including the Ardennes Offensive, better known as the Battle of the Bulge. I asked my Dad where he was stationed on D-Day, and…

In case folks forgot, the City of H-Town has the strongest mayor form of government in the country. Mayor John Whitmire knows this and wants to use part of his time as mayor to review projects. He did that with the Shepherd Durham project and folks reacted as though he pulled out a bazooka and…

The featured photo is Dr. Anthony Fauci at a U.S. House committee hearing yesterday. On Today this morning Hoda Kotb and NBC’s Halle Jackson referred to Dr. Fauci as the face of the U.S. government response to COVID-19 back in 2020 and 2021. I disagree with Hoda’s and Halle’s characterization. Let’s go back to the…

Early voting in person for the Harris Central Appraisal District (HCAD) Board of Directors runoff election begins today. The last day to vote early is Tuesday, June 11. The election is being held on Saturday, June 15. Go vote, please. _____ I sure hope H-Town Mayor John Whitmire can put some folks in place over at…