Dude, Being Tough On Crime Has A Price

Republican lawmakers who ran on a "tough on crime" platform are now trying to find ways to pay for it. I have a one solution, legalize cannabis. They have another, let offenders out early.

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Dude, Where Are The Job Creation Bills?

Right now there are 28 bills in Congress to repeal the Patient Protection Act and not one to help create jobs........

Dude, Do We Really Have To Drill EVERYWHERE?

I support oil and gas exploration but there has to be a limit. We also need to think about the environment God has provided.

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Dude, We Have Guests Coming, Don't Act Like A Bunch Of Pansies.

So here comes another cold front to North Texas and with it a 100% chance of precipitation. At least that is what WFAA's Steve McCauley said last night. You see, most of the time they are wrong or the "horror" of the event is why over done. So Tuesday night we could have a weather event that paralyzes the area......or not.

Now coming with the cold weather are Green Bay and Pittsburgh fans to see their teams in the stadium Jerry Jones built. To them this type of weather is nothing. Heck, I bet  the "Cheese Heads" even bitch that the outdoor swimming pools in the area hotels are not open. They wear shorts in this stuff! So we have to "buck up" and not whine and cry about it. We are supposed to be tough Texans. Remember J.R.? Remember the Alamo? OK, we lost the Alamo but my point is I don't want to hear these Yankees laughing at us about a little ice. It's embarrassing, especially when I see these dorks in big cowboy hats and big pickup trucks going down I-30 sideways crying, "I coming to play on your team in heaven Coach Landry!!"

Please, I have live here too. We are Texans, lets act like it.

Dude, Some Sunday Gospel For Ya From The 5th Beatle

Dude, In 1925 A Black Man Was Lynched In Price, Utah

As a lot of you know I grew up in Utah, a small community called Carbon County. I was born in Price (that's where the hospital was) and my home was in Helper. Carbon County was full of coal mines and the Rio Grand Railroad. The coal mined there and the Rio Grand that transported it to Geneva Steel 70 miles north in Vineyard, Utah helped the war effort in the Pacific during WWII. I am very proud of that fact and that my ancestors were a part of it.

But there is one thing I am not proud of.

In 1925 the last known Black man to be lynched in the Western United States was done so in Price. Witnesses at the time said that Robert Marshall shot a guard five times and others said he didn't. Either way he never got a fair trial. The 11 suspects arrested for the lynching were released because no one would identify them even though over 1,000 people showed up, some with picnic lunches.

Today there are those in Carbon County who get pissed off when this is brought up. Even back in 1998 when the New York Times did a story on the event Sun Advocate publisher Kevin Ashby called the reconciliation ceremony planned that year a slap in the face to the community by making Marshall a "a martyr out of a murderer.''  Wow, 73 years later and people were still lynching him.

Look, there are some things that you can't cover up and forget. This is just one of them.

(Thanks to my sister Brenda for the New York Times link that you can view by clicking RED.)

Dude, I Can Predict The Future!!! Or Is It Already Happening?

The Republicans will try to give credit to George W. Bush for the uprisings in the Middle East because he invaded Iraq and supposedly spread Democracy.