Saw a news clip of the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco.  Lord it was as vacant as a downtown store in Pecos.  When those folks pull a franchise they pull a franchise.  There is a rumor that they bulldozed two small hills on the southwest side of Waco that had the possibility of becoming peaks sometimes in the future.  I think that incident will slowly and quietly go away and we wont  ever hear about the trial of any of those bikers.

I dare say we are going to be hearing about the Clintons until we are all sick of them, if we aren’t already.  I try not to be too political because I think they epitomize what I think all politicians are about.

The floods in Texas are terrible.  When the rains stop and the newly grown flora turns brown and wildfires begin, let’s think back to when we had too much rain.  As I have said, in Texas when a mans roof gets blown off by a tornado, the first thing he does is check his rain gauge to see how much rain he got.

Noticed in the paper today that “campus carry” had passed.  I shudder to think how many of our lives would have been altered if Irene and Emma had been armed with a snub nose 38.  You wouldn’t have known whether Irene was tugging at her girdle or slapping leather and when Emma sneezed half the school would have been on the floor.  Mental pictures are scary as hell.  I can envision a situation in the future where some foreign student, in native costume, shows up for psych class and the professor just whips out a gun, hollering USA and pops a cap in the guy.  You know, jihad can work both ways.

NSA.  Wonder what they think they are gonna hear when they record my conversations?  Why yes, Mr. Jones, your debits and credits do equal.  Yes, you have gone bankrupt and didn’t even know it.  I guess the Maserati you bought kinda put a damper on your finances.  Yes, you do have to answer inquiries from the IRS.  Dear, do you need anything from the grocery store?  When are you going to Lake Charles?  Oh, i forgot.  Pretty boring stuff.  I hope they used up a whole hard drive listening to me chat.  I am not too scared because if “Hill” gets elected she is gonna have them erase everything they ever recorded to protect her and Bill.  I think the NSA should sell an app so we could all listen to each other.????

I am boiling a brisket for corned beef.  Gonna have some pan fried cabbage and some corn cakes.  I have some fresh beets in the fridge that need to be pickled so best get to that .  Although I am not jewish, I am an accountant, so you have to cover all your bases.  If I can’t go to the wailing wall in Jerusalem then I can at least eat their food.

Chuy

I am sitting here this Memorial Day evening awaiting the start of a TV miniseries about the birth of Texas.  It has been a nice day, weatherwise, and hopes to be more of the same tomorrow.  All is pretty much well with the world except for those folks up in the hill country who may have lost their homes to flooding.  That is a shame, for sure.

I have been reading a lot about gun control since the motorcycle gangs decided to have a re-enactment of the OK corral up in Waco.  All because of a parking spot?  I dont think so.  Let me be up front.  I am a licensed concealed firearm carrier.  That doesnt mean that I wear one to church. or to the grocery store, or even to the hamburger joint, it simply means that I am licensed to have one on my person as long as it cant be seen.  There is always one within reach in my car.  Why?  Because I go places that are sometimes scary and dark and inhabited by bad people.  I never start out the day thinking I will use my gun.  In fact, I hardly ever think about it at all.  It is just there.  I doubt that I will change my attitude about guns when Texas becomes an open carry state.  I wont ever walk down the street with a gun on my hip.  They are weighty and uncomfortable to carry, even in a shoulder holster.

I am not one of those folks who is afraid that the feds will come in and confiscate my guns.  I have registered guns that they could track without much trouble.  If they ask for them I would probably not put up too much fuss about giving the licensed guns to them.  I am not a person who thinks the feds are stupid.  I feel sure they are smart enough to understand that a confiscated gun could be replaced in a matter of hours with an unregistered gun.  There is just not much reason to try and disarm a nation that has as many guns as our country owns.  I feel sure that they understand that there are many millions of Americans who will own guns no matter what laws are passed to the contrary.  Outlawing firearms would be about as useless as outlawing sex.  It aint gonna happen.

What we need to outlaw is stupidity.  It was stupid for the owner of the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco to welcome two opposing motorcycle gangs into his town and into  his restaurant, to not expect some type of trouble.  His last name is Patel.  I am gonna go out on a limb and guess that he is from India or is descended from Indian people.  He may not know about motorcycle gangs or guns being from a different culture but surely the man could figure out that if 10 people come into your restaurant, carrying chains, with guns in their belts and tats up and down their arms that trouble may ensue.  And that was just the female gang members, those setting up the meetings.

I have lived almost 72 years, going places I wanted to go, not being afraid of where I am at, and I plan on finishing out my tour of duty in the same manner.  I am not going to cry wolf, hide my guns in a bucket in the back yard, or do much of anything else controlled by paranoia.  I am going to buy an adequate amount of ammo, maybe a case or two of spam and just have a good time.  I am going to try and stay loose.  Well maybe not that loose.

Chuy

Tom, I am behind you all the way, buddy.  Do not under any circumstances confess to anything.  Here are the reasons why.

If you have ever owned a Nissan Murano you know that every time there is a 5 degree fluctuation in temperature the tire air pressure light goes on.  One or more of the tires will have lost air pressure due to change in outside temperature (cold weather phenom). Tell me that a company as big as Nissan isn’t more qualified to work with air pressure than a football ref with an AutoZone tire pressure gauge.  Did he check Andrew’s ball’s PSI or just yours?  If both, then did he use the same aforementioned tire gauge on both sets of balls.  Did he lick the needle before insertion into each ball( question of cold air on spit) or did he just initially lick it and use it on all balls or did he check more than one ball between licks.  I can definitely see some problems here.  When the balls were checked initially were they in an indoor facility?  When they were subsequently checked had they been outside in the cold weather for any length of time?  Possibly 2 quarters of a football game.

Now I can see where you might have insisted on the equipment guys keeping your game balls at the low end of the spectrum.  No problem, no foul.  Who in the wide world of professional sports could hold you responsible for the weather lowering the PSI during the game.  What were you to  do? Sit on them like a hen hatching her eggs.

Do not let them look at your Iphone.  They are only trying to find some selfies of you and your gorgeous wife.  Do not give them that pleasure.  They need to buy the magazines just like the rest of us guys.  By the way, Buddy, Congratulation on scoring that little draft choice.

As far as the asterisk is concerned, well with your millions, your record, your apparent life then I would go down and have an asterisk tattooed on my forehead.  Wear a toboggan when you out fancy, actually you do that anyway, and when going casual, then just flaunt it.  No one looking at your record is going to take the time to look up what an asterisk means.

Dont be too concerned about what you read in the papers.  They have to sell those things.  Lowering air pressure in your balls is a minor thing.  If they lined up all the guys in the NFL who have done something shady you would be so far down the line that no one could find you with a telescope.  Keep chunking those passes downfield.  Keep that gal of yours happy cause you wont ever get another one that good looking.

Chuy the fan