Light or Dark

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.…

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The Tariff Thing

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…

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Thanksgiving Week

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…

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Wicked

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…

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Dollars for Deportees

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…

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Ale Time

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…

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Daikin Park

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…

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Hello, Daikin

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…

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Deportees

I have always thought these are haunting lyrics: Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria; You won’t have your names when you ride the big airplane, All they will call you will be “deportees” The lyrics are from the Woody Guthrie tune “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee).” Here is…

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Astrodome Response

Thanksgiving Day is two weeks from today. _____ As I speculated a few weeks ago, this morning, Craig Melvin was named Co-Host of “Today” following the departure of Hoda Kotb.  Craig will officially take his seat by Savannah Guthrie on January 13, 2025. Congratulations to Craig. _____ I mentioned a few days ago about the…

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