Moving day!
Where will we end up now?
Posted on 02/01/2012 3:44:24 PM PST by chrismac
the anniversary of the fall of the alamo will be on march 6. we remember the alamo for a number of reasons, not the least of which are walt disney's 'davy crockett at the alamo,' from our youth and disney's 'wonderful world of color,' john wayne playing crockett in the movie, and the fact that the alamo chapel still stands.
most people don't remember goliad as well if at all.
on march 27, 1836, 303 texan prisoners of war were separated into three groups and marched into a field at goliad. a few of the men had been taken prisoner as much as a month earlier. the overwhelming majority had surrendered a week earlier after being assured that they would be held a few weeks and then released back to texas. instead, on palm sunday, march 27, 1836, the three groups were marched into a field at goliad and then texans were shot point-blank. those who survived the shooting were knifed and clubbed to death.
at the battle of san jacinto on april 21, 1836, i imagine the texans yelled 'remember goliad' with some vigor.
The books say so. I've been to Goliad - there wasn't much there, in the mid-80s, but a memorial pillar in a cow pasture. However, nearby was the nicely rebuilt Mission Refugio, and it was a pleasant drive from San Antonio and back.
“If you shoot it, you eat it.”
Well, what about that guy who just broke in?
“No exceptions.”
*Groan*
“If you shoot it, you eat it.”
Well, what about that guy who just broke in?
“No exceptions.”
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With a bottle of relish! Or was it two?
Mayo-Dijon sauce and garlic.
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I like him with hair, too. :)
We may have to alter our thread move day.
Since the trolls are on to us, they don’t do their old “First of the month flood” posts like they used to.
Original title:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Obama Birth Certificate Obsession Is Comically Insane
Yes, just noticed it.
That’s a much better one than the one I pinged you to. Should I start packing my boxes?
Hellodere.
I haven’t been on much because it’s so frustrating with these old glasses. I can’t see anything clear unless it’s eight inches away from me, and without glasses, it’s four inches, so it’s not much improvement.
My eye exam is rescheduled for Monday at 0900, and I am SO looking forward to it. (GAHHH!)
The Stig is coming out of his molt just fine, and I’m so glad for that! I have truly missed his singing.
I’m glad you’re okay and The Stig is singing. Jake is using his dog-bed again, after a put a different blanket in.
And now off we go to the library for Tom’s Experimental Design practice.
Boxes packed and standing by, Darks....
I like ALL tax-chickadees better with hair =:o)
Without hair, they look like thugs, especially Frank and James with their pugnacious expressions and cinder-block-like heads. Pat and Vlad look deranged, with their giant, crazy eyes. (Want to know what’s really going in their heads? They’ll tell you!)
I just got my “Family Foundations” magazine from CCL, and I’m mad enough to spit. There’s Greg Popcak telling couples that perimenopause is a “problem” to be “fought” and that they should share their frustrations about having to avoid pregnancy and go on a couples’ retreat, presumably leaving all their children in the freezer or something.
I think he must be chanelling Kathleen Sibelius, because it’s the same mindset as the HHS’s: there’s something wrong with the normal functioning of a woman’s body, God screwed up when he made women, pregnancy is a disease, consequence-free sex is a legitimate ideal, everyone has limited their family so they have time to themselves in middle age, etc., etc. Basement Cat is *everywhere*, saying, “If only you were sterile like you’re supposed to be ...”
And I gave up wine for Lent. Honestly, I don’t think I really deserve this much penance ... I didn’t kill anyone or commit adultery or apostasize recently.
(/rant)
I'm :o) but I'm suppressing a >:o/ directed toward Mr. Popcak.
Wish'ta God Catholics would be Catholic.
May God have mercy on me, a rotund moralist who wants to eat CONSTANTLT on fast-and-abstinence daze. Talking to myself again. Where are those graham crackers?
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