No wonder Fox News is not allowed in Canada. I guess they still have a modicum of civility up there.
Monday, August 22, 2011
UTSA football seeks to break inaugural attendance record
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| So much for the laredo lemurs attendance setting any records |
From KENS TV.COM
By David Flores
With the opener two weeks from Saturday, UTSA officials are expressing confidence the Roadrunners have a realistic shot at breaking college football’s single-game attendance record for a modern-day start-up program.South Florida set the mark with a crowd of 49,212 on Sept. 6, 1997, when the Bulls beat Kentucky Wesleyan in their inaugural game.Based on the numbers coming out of UTSA, the Roadrunners are well on their way to eclipsing the record.“We’re close to the 45,000 mark and we’re going to do better,” UTSA athletic director Lynn Hickey said this week. “We’re going to reach out to community leaders, and see if they’ll help us.”Here’s the math: UTSA already has sold about 29,000 tickets, including 10,000 season tickets, and has reserved another 15,000 seats for students.Throw in the walk-up crowd – and San Antonio fans are noted for waiting until game day to buy their tickets – and you can see why South Florida’s record is almost certain to fall.
Boots on the ground, Boots on the ground: buzz phrase still going strong
Perhaps no one has been known the use the term "boots on the ground" as much as our very own Mayor Salinas, but it sure has a way of getting around. You would figured that by now, the media and law enforcement would have come out with a new, fresher catch phrase, but not so.
If not used carefully, the term can have some unintended amusing results. Not long ago, a local law enforcement leader was speaking about an incoming group of 49 new recruits. As he spoke to Pro8news, he said something to the effect of "we're very glad to have this new group joining us. Once they're done with their training, we'll have 49 more boots on the ground.
I remember hearing that and thinking to myself, "some one's missing a boot". Incidentally, if this sounds familiar, it's because I probably wrote about it long ago. So the rule is : before using the term boots on the ground, at least make sure you're dealing with an even number.
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| Looks like someone is missing a boot! |
Perhaps no one has been known the use the term "boots on the ground" as much as our very own Mayor Salinas, but it sure has a way of getting around. You would figured that by now, the media and law enforcement would have come out with a new, fresher catch phrase, but not so.
If not used carefully, the term can have some unintended amusing results. Not long ago, a local law enforcement leader was speaking about an incoming group of 49 new recruits. As he spoke to Pro8news, he said something to the effect of "we're very glad to have this new group joining us. Once they're done with their training, we'll have 49 more boots on the ground.
I remember hearing that and thinking to myself, "some one's missing a boot". Incidentally, if this sounds familiar, it's because I probably wrote about it long ago. So the rule is : before using the term boots on the ground, at least make sure you're dealing with an even number.
Goodnight Irene: Hurricane headed away from drought-stricken Texas
Weather experts are predicting that Hurricane Irene might hit Florda's Eastern coast if it makes it to the continental United States at all. There goes the chances of the Lone Star State getting any rain out of this particular system.
As shown in the map below, there is another tropical system further out East, Whether that one might stands any chance of quenching Texas' mighty thirst is hard to tell at the moment. What do you say Heatwave?
As shown in the map below, there is another tropical system further out East, Whether that one might stands any chance of quenching Texas' mighty thirst is hard to tell at the moment. What do you say Heatwave?
In voting to gut Clean Water Act, US House (including Henry Cuellar) votes against itself and for state's rights
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| Blue Dog Democrat or Neo-Tea Partier? Are they one and same? |
Being the only democrat in the US house from Texas to vote in favor of the recent bill to gut the Federal Clean Water Act, Henry Cuellar sure sounded a lot more like a Tea Partier and state's rights advocate than like someone who is looking out for the well-being of his constituents.
As the Republican-led Texas government continues to look the other was while the fracking industry decimates our state's natural resources, Henry figured that this trend must continue. And so, he voted in favor of HR 2018, aptly named The Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011. This is obviously a nod to the influence of the Tea
From the Constitutional Accountability Center
Known as the “Supremacy Clause,” this constitutional provision establishes that duly passed federal laws “shall be the supreme Law of the land” and any conflicting state law will be trumped or “preempted” by federal law. Advocates who disagree with health care reform—or environmental regulations or civil rights laws—are perfectly entitled to argue that these laws go beyond Congress’s enumerated powers, and even to bring lawsuits asking the courts to so hold. But when they take the extreme step of advocating for the nullification of federal law—in direct contradiction of the Supremacy Clause—they are dishonoring our Founders and the Constitution itself.And now, it's being used by the Tea Party-led Republicans with the help of our own elected US Congressman Henry Cuellar. Who would've thought?
When states attempt to nullify federal action, they pass legislation or take other official action that seeks to block implementation of federal law. Nullification has been suggested to aid noble causes—such as resisting the Alien and Sedition Acts and the Fugitive Slave Act—but the tactic was most aggressively advocated for in the 1820s and ’30s by pro-slavery politician John C. Calhoun (who started the short-lived Nullifier Party), extended by the Confederate secessionists in the 1850s and ’60s, and then reinvigorated by segregationists in the 1950s and ’60s.
Oil & Gas fracking Industry continues to buy its way throughout our area
Pictured above at left is Jose Ceballos, spokesman for ANGA; the American Natural Gas Alliance after apparently donating some computers to our local churches. It's hard to argue against that! ANGA's standard operating practices include going into communities where they'll be fracking and literally buying their way around.
What better advertising can the industry get than having the local media cover and publicize these strategically calculated donations? An example of the way they work, ANGA recently funded a film project by some students from Encinal entitled Got Gas? Predictably, the film focuses on only the positive side of the fracking boom currently engulfing Encinal and other communities in South Texas, including Webb county.
What are the chances that ANGA has been throwing money around our elected officials whether they be at the local, county, state and/or federal level?
Amid chaos, Webb County wants to raise tax revenues by a cool $2 Million
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| Lastima de edificio tan bonito: Pity,such a beautiful structure |
Webb County appears to be trying to raise some quick cash to make up for the nearly $1 million they've lost in reimbursements to the state of Texas. Due to incompetence, the county will likely not be reimbursed for over $400,000 squandered by the Community Action Agency's weatherization program nor an additional $500,000 frittered away by their fumbling of the Comprehensive Energy Assistance Program (CEAP).
The absence of these reimbursements means that the taxpayers have to pay for this waste instead. Of all the local governments, the county should be the last to be even thinking of raising any taxes on the citizens they have so poorly represented.
The first hearing on this tax increase is being held this morning at 10am at the Webb County courthouse. The second and last hearing will also be held at the shenanigans-plagued courthouse on Monday, August 29th also at 10am. It's fitting that they would hold them when most people are at work. Not surprising from the bunch of sinverguenzas!
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