On February 23, 1836, during the Texas war for independence, Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna began a siege of the Alamo, which was captured after 13 days and became for Texans a symbol of heroic resistance. Mexican troops Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar, killing most of the occupants. Santa Anna’s refusal to take prisoners during the battle inspired many Texians and Tejanos to join the Texian Army.
At dawn on March 6, 1836, the 13th day of the siege, the Battle of the Alamo commenced. Fighting lasted roughly 90 minutes, and by daybreak all the Defenders had perished, including a former congressman from Tennessee, David Crockett. The loss of the garrison was felt all over Texas, and even the world. The Defenders were from many different countries, including some Defenders who were native-born Mexicans. Following the battle, Santa Anna ordered the Defenders’ remains burned.
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“Remember the Alamo” – Composed by Jane Bowers in 1955 and first recorded
By Tex Ritter
5 WAYS SINGING HELPS HUMANITY
By Professor Jane Davidson, University of Melbourne – Posted February 8, 2023
Singing is a powerful way of achieving deep personal and social meaning, as well as supporting our mental and physical wellbeing.
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/5-ways-singing-helps-humanity
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More musical tributes to Texas….
“The Yellow Rose of Texas” (1858) / “The Eyes of Texas” (Lyrics 1903)
By Elvis Presley
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You will probably think I’m nuts, but this is my favorite version:
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There’s no doubt that Nero is a very accomplished pianist. He’s still around and greatly admired by many.
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Including me! I have two of his vinyl albums from the 1960’s, and a couple of his C.D.’s.
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I hope one of them is his Gershwin album. It’s fabulous.
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Nope. Peter Nero in Person and The Colorful Peter Nero.
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Now I’m listening to the Cole Porter songbook. Good stuff!
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Check out this from Peter Nero: Fantasy and Improvisations; Gershwin: Concerto in F; “Nero Goes Pops” Album. I’ve got it playing in another tab right now.
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I don’t remember this song. I am surprised since I liked Tex Ritter so much.
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A while back I was going to send it to one of my nieces who has a music podcast, as I send her various YouTubes and articles all the time, some of which she’s used. But then I didn’t send it since her audience being Canadian likely isn’t the least bit interested in the subject matter or the lyrics. Now I’ll have to find some other but non-historical Tex Ritter songs because I think her audience would appreciate his singing.
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Elderly Arizona Rancher Held on $1 Million Bond For Fatally Shooting Illegal Alien on His Property Faces New Aggravated Assault Charges
By Cristina Laila Feb. 22, 2023 11:30 pm
But this filing like others from the government so far fails to specify how or why authorities believe Kelly is the responsible party.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/elderly-arizona-rancher-held-on-1-million-bond-for-fatally-shooting-illegal-alien-on-his-property-faces-new-aggravated-assault-charges/
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There is no way that the gov cannot know whether it was a bullet from his gun or not by now. They are using him as an example.
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Mornin’ y’all!
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Trump: Helping Palestine with his money.
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Little is talked about the Battle of San Jacinto a few weeks after the Alamo fell. Sam Houston and his men went after Santa Anna and whipped his a**. Houston got a lot of volunteers to get the Mexicans. Hence Texas was born because we remember the Alamo!
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/03/the-alamo-fell-185-years-ago-after-13-day-siege/
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A good article highlighting a post from next door!
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/02/a_great_awakening_decades_in_the_making.html
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Excellent! Thanks, Wee!
This is a fine analysis: “Truly, this has always been the most disheartening aspect of our current reality — that Americans who have given their all to their nation and would do so yet again are the very people targeted today as “extremists,” “terrorists,” spreaders of “disinformation,” and purveyors of “hate.” Well, they are none of those things. They are truth-tellers, honest historians, keepers of liberty’s flame, righteous warriors, and the generational glue still somehow preventing society from breaking in two. When a nation not only turns its back on those most critical for its survival but also denigrates their service, commitment, opinions, and personal loss as somehow contemptible and undeserving of respect, that nation will not endure many more days.”
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Mornin’ All. I is 0* here and a little breezy. Actually not too bad. The storm seemed to pass around us. The only thing I have to do outside today, besides take Loki out to pee, is to take the trash out. The trash dumpster is pretty close, but it is on the cold side of the building and the sidewalks there are pretty slick even though they have cleared them and salted them down. I just have to be careful……..and hope that the bars that hold the doors together haven’t frozen in place. That happened once. 🙄
Everybody stay safe and warm today.
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If you can make some accommodations on footwear, do it, Aus! I’m here to tell you as Montana girl born and bred, and then living in sub-zero Minnesota for 18 years a couple decades back–if your footwear doesn’t provide you safety and stability and you have to go out for little chores, it is just a matter of time before you have a hard and dangerous fall.
I had two of those in Minnesota. Either of them could have put me in the hospital.
One of them, my husband hadn’t yet come home from work. We were 15 miles out in the country. I hit the back of my head so hard there was a lemon-sized “egg” at the base of my skull. I expected him home within an hour or so, so I sat in the living room in a recliner with my head on ice, having left him a note explaining what had happened to me, so that if I was unconscious when he got there, he would know what had happened and respond appropriately.
Just being willing to “be brave and deal with it” is not adequate in terms of personal safety. On that day in particular, I should never even have stepped out the back door–as I was headed out with some trash. Please be careful.
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I remember one night I was driving home, and the weather suddenly changed from rain to sleet. I had to drive on the shoulder just to get up a slight incline on the road near my apartment complex. I was wearing beautiful expensive leather boots with high heels, which were not the best footwear for the extreme icy conditions. I ended up taking them off and walking in my stocking feet into my building!
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Thanks for the advice. I am pretty careful. I do have snow boots and also some clip on cleats which I will use to go out front. I am still a little nervous, but they do seem to work pretty well.
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I’m glad you have those cleats. The extra time it may take to use them is worth the effort if you have to go out.
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I guess the funny thing is, my feet don’t like enclosed toed shoes. So I wear sandals in the house and then have to put the boots on to go out.
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You are such a Floridian!
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Aus, I have to second Sharon’s advice and give a suggestion. Once, when I was riding with my oldest son in his big tractor over the road, we got into an ice storm. Not having the option to hunker down, having to go in and out for bathroom breaks and food, he got me a pair of these rubber ice cleat thingies that stretched over my boots and were super awesome. I felt complete safe with them on. I’ll try to come back with a link for them.
Although it didn’t happen because I was on ice, I had a severe fall two and a half years ago and I consequently have a very bad permanent injury from it. I can’t walk far at all, I can barely get up a few steps. It takes me all week instead of a few hours to clean my house.
I hope to have an ankle replacement soon, and may regain some of the mobility, and reduce some of the pain.
I’m not looking to make this about me, I only want to reinforce Sharon’s point. You don’t get a do-over and one horrible injury can really change your life. Please be careful!
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Some pictures in this article. These things just slip easily on and off.
https://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-traction-cleats.html
https://cozywinters.com/ice-cleats/ice-cleats.html
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Those look so effective. Very practical and easy help.
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Those WinterGips Walkers Ice Cleats look like some I have affixed to an old pair of slip on hard sole house slippers. They are best for ice-cube ice and easy on/off.
I have Stabil-Icers strapped on both pair of Muck boots for outside use; they’re good all-rounders, but the slippers with Ice Cleats are most effective though not very warm or waterproof. Would be ideal for quick trips to the dumpster or dog walks!
ps, Menagerie, thank you for the link to an alternative to Amazon. You don’t know how much that means!!
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I think mine are like the $24 Stabilizers. They seem to work very well, but I hadn’t considered putting them on a pair of boots and leaving them. That would be the best thing for me.
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Well, I know what you are talking about. I have those rubber cleats and they work very well. And, I took a fall a few weeks ago in the bathroom, hit my head on the ceramic trash can (I guess) since the lump is almost on the top of my head. It was a near disaster. So I have been even more careful now.
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Good morning, everyone! Sleet storm over night here – everything is covered in ice! Should warm up and melt soon (I hope).
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The Portland metro area got a heavy snow drop last evening and it’s still sitting at 32 this morning….for the first two hours of the snow coming down yesterday, everybody’s excited. And then when it won’t stop when they are no longer excited, then they panic. Just like children.
It never occurs to those who’ve never lived in cold country–decisively cold country–that, in such conditions (temps hovering around freezing, sloppy snow that can’t decide if it’s old enough to be snow, or should it still be rain?)…in such conditions even the old-timers–especially the old-timers–just stay home.
So frustrating to watch. I do understand the ignorance, but I don’t understand the refusal to learn something. This happens every few years here.
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Glad I don’t have to leave the house when the weather is bad. I did put ice melt on my front steps. Don’t want the post lady to break her neck on my property.
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Morning Stella…
Just when I was getting used to nice weather the snow moved in. It snowed here Monday night and all day Tuesday and there is snow everywhere.
It’s about 10 below zero this morning and I don’t expect that we’re gonna see any snow melt until next week when our temperatures are forecast to warm up.
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We won’t be able to relax about weather conditions for some time yet. Good afternoon!
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Conner and I started seeds today!
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I’ve been watching the NOAA graphical forecast maps, and always take note of what’s happening on your head, Litenmaus. Spring is coming.
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:0) Thanks Sharon….thoughts of Spring keep me going on the really cold and nasty days..
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I was about 9 years old, I suppose, and really aware of what a beautiful spring day had happened to us. It was fantastic. The south side of our big farm house was SO warm and toasty, with the sun reflecting off the white paint. I was looked longingly at Mom’s perennial flower beds. It was sometime in late March or early April, I suppose.
I wanted SO badly to do a little weeding. But….it was Sunday! At our house, it was never a legalistic thing at all but it WAS a fact–no work on Sunday. (Partly because Monday-Saturday the work was sort of 24/7)
So I knew not to just start pulling little weeds: I went in the house to ask Mom if I could please do a little weeding because it was so nice, and that it would be like playing. She quietly said she would ask Dad if that would be ok.
She came back a moment later and said, yes, I could do a little weeding, as long as I agreed that if it started feeling like work, I would stop.
That is a very fond memory to me for a lot of reasons!
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What a sweet story.
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Good article on James O’Keefe.
https://www.wnd.com/2023/02/james-okeefe-better-off-without-veritas-inc/
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That’s a good one, Weed. Interesting to get observations from Cashill.
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Excellent!
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From Professor Jacobson.
Project Veritas To Conduct “Two-Dimensional” Audit Of James O’Keefe Expenses
When I was in private practice prior to joining Cornell in 2007, almost half my practice was representing employees against stock brokerage firms (the other half was representing investors against stock brokerage firms). I was very familiar with the drill when a company wanted to get rid of someone, or defend an employment claim: Audit expense reports.
If you rounded up a $3.47 coffee to $3.50, they would turn it into the crime of the century. That could be the most expensive coffee you ever purchased. I had one matter where the company raked the employee over the coals (as a prelude to firing) because he put in for mileage from his home to a legitimate business meeting, and the company cried foul because he only was supposed to put in the mileage from the office to the meeting, which was closer.
So I always counseled people when they started new employment to account for every single penny. Every single one. Lax practices company-wide would be no defense when the company came after you.
So it comes as no surprise that Project Veritas raised issues as to the spending of James O’Keefe in various communications at the time James was removed from the company he founded. I saw where this was going, because I’ve seen this movie before.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/02/project-veritas-to-conduct-two-dimensional-audit-of-james-okeefe-expenses-looking-for-problems/
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Why wasn’t a thorough audit being conducted all the time?
The email PV sent out today seemed to imply that James O’Keefe is a liar. Oh, they were real regretful they had to say anything, blah, blah. One thing strikes me about the board and the executives who are lining up against O’Keefe…they imply that his people skills aren’t the best. What about the board’s manner of handling this whole matter? Really lousy, imo.
I remember the years when an executive had to pay everything out of his own pocket and then put through an expense report with attached receipts so he could be reimbursed. One of my bosses made a trip to Moscow in the late 70s along with a group of other company executives. He somehow lost some of his receipts and simply had to eat the cost to the tune of a couple thousand.
Expense reports to get reimbursement should be brought back. It helped keep people on their toes and perhaps more honest than today’s practices encourages.
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That is what the company I worked for did. Company-backed credit cards were issued, BUT the employee had to pay it himself, and the only way to get the money was to file an expense report with receipts.
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One of the things that James mentioned in his speech yesterday is that they accused him of spending $12,000 on his wedding. He isn’t married, and has never been married. He said that the money was spent on the company Christmas party (held in a venue that also hosted weddings.)
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I’m reminded of an old saying, source of which I do not know: “When someone’s heart is turned against a man, everything that man does becomes further cause to hate him.”
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CONFIRMED: As We Suspected All Along, New Video Proves Capital Police on January 6 Started Firing on the Innocent Crowd Without Warning and Against the Law, Injuring Numerous Individuals (SHOCKING VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft Feb. 23, 2023 8:00 am
In the hundreds of conversations we have had with January 6 attendees, political prisoners, and police abuse victims, they all say the same thing. Innocent people were attacked by police without warning.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/confirmed-as-we-suspected-all-along-new-video-proves-capital-police-on-january-6-started-firing-on-the-innocent-crowd-without-warning-injuring-numerous-individuals/
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I watched a lot of what was going on that day online and it was pretty clear then that there was a setup of some kind. However, I had no idea how bad it actually was and how many Capitol police were involved.
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The likelihood that there is even one Republican voter or Trump supporter in the Capitol police is nil. If there is one by some rare chance, then he certainly never talks about it.
We’ve all seen how the police never maltreat anti-Trump protestors who have crammed into congressional venues.
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I wonder if the compliments killed him. Actually, I agree with his assessment of President Trump’s anger. I personally think he’s really hurting himself with his attacks on DeSantis. It’s not that he shouldn’t, so much as it isn’t working. DeSantis, refusing to engage, leaves him looking like a kid throwing a fit.
What worked on Hillary and Jebbie and all those other candidates is not working. But anyhow, yesterday he was at his best and I loved it.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-tells-megyn-kelly-trump-hit-east-palestine-visit-out-of-the-park
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I agree with you 100%. Attacking DeSantis is getting him nowhere, because people who admire what DeSantis is doing are Republican voters, not lefties! Dividing the R voters isn’t a winning strategy when the target is someone that most of the voters like.
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Spring has sprung here in Southeastern Mississippi. Flowering weeds, fig tree and bald cypress in my yard.
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You have to scroll to the left to see all of them.
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Beautiful czarina. Such a vivid green.
Winter still has a strong hold here. Today, I am surrounded by a white that is so bright it hurts the eyes. Beautiful in its own right, but I do miss the springtime green…:0) I’m jealous.
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just started watching this now – Juan Brown/Blancoliro on the East Palestine derailment – first report from NTSB
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