Archive for November 2024

The lead story in the hard copy of the Chron this morning is about a bill filed in the Texas Legislature to allow armed drones to protect our public schools. It doesn’t explain how that would work. Sounds far-fetched to me. _____ I am sure the anti-DEI folks are trying to figure out a way…

There isn’t much to say on this Thanksgiving Day. This morning, I have on the flat screen the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. I never miss it. One of my favorites was there performing – Tony Award winner Idina Menzel. _____ There will be three NFL games today. You know who never plays each other on…

Christmas Day is 4 weeks from today. _____ This is a headline in today’s Texas Tribune: Donald Trump’s tariffs on Mexico could devastate border region, Texas economists warn You get what you vote for, pals, err amigos. Here is the Trib read: Tariffs on Mexican imports could devastate the Texas border | The Texas Tribune.…

Mexico has a new president and apparently, she is not f_cking around when it comes to tariffs and Donald Trump. See this AP story: MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested Tuesday that Mexico could retaliate with tariffs of its own, after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% import duties on Mexican…

On yesterday’s “What’s Your Point,” the Breitbart fella said the President Joe Biden administration “created two wars.” What a dummy. The Breitbart fella didn’t elaborate, but I am guessing he is referring to the Israel-Hamas war that Hamas started, and the Ukraine-Russia war that Russia started by first annexing the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and…

61 years ago, today was also on a Friday. I am talking about November 22, 1963. It’s four days I will always remember. At elementary school and learning about the President John F. Kennedy assassination. Going home and watching the coverage on our old black and white TV. The casket returning to Washington, D.C. and…

The Chron has an informative article on the economic impact of mass deportations here locally.  Commentary has been talking about this for a few months. I see it every weekday and most Saturdays in my own neighborhood. See this from the Chron: While the brunt of those direct costs would be born by the federal…

I said Daikan Park yesterday. It is Daikin Park. Sorry, folks. _____ I found this interesting in the Trib: The Texas General Land Office is offering President-elect Donald Trump a 1,400-acre Starr County ranch as a site to build detention centers for his promised mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, according to a letter the office sent him…

Well, that was some news yesterday from The Yard. It came as a surprise to me.  Even though Minute Maid Park is now Daikin Park, it will still be The Yard for Commentary. Minute Maid stepped up after the collapse of Enron over 20 years ago and never let us down. They were a great…

NEWS FLASH FROM THE CHRON, THIS IS CONFIRMED: The Astros scheduled a major announcement for Monday morning, but one intrepid social media user may have beaten the franchise to the punch. According to what looks to be a leaked photo of inside Minute Maid Park, shared Sunday evening on X by user @DinoLord05, the Astros home ballpark is…