Happy St. Patrick's Day, Y'all.

Monday is St. Patrick's Day. It's the day when everyone is Irish and everyone is friends with everyone else.

St. Patrick lived in the fifth century AD. He is credited with bringing Christianity (Catholicism) to the Irish people who, at the time, were controlled by pagan beliefs, mainly worship of the Druid and Celtic gods. He was born in England, but was taken into slavery in Ireland. He escaped as a teenager and became a monk in France. Later, he returned to Ireland as a missionary. When the first Catholic Diocese was founded in Ireland, St. Patrick was named the first Bishop of Ireland. The shamrock is a well known symbol of St. Patrick's day because St. Patrick used the shamrock to illustrate the Holy Trinity to the Irish. One of his miracles was the banishing of all serpents from the island.

St. Patrick's Day is a day to celebrate the life of a great man who left a huge imprint on the world when he was here.
My favorite movies for St. Patrick's Day are "The Quiet Man", one of my favorite Duke movies, and "The Boondock Saints", my favorite movie of all time. It is the story of two Irish brothers in South Boston who decide to take on the Russian syndicate to protect their neighborhood. If you haven't yet seen it, I highly recommend it.
So, wear your green, have a beer, and think great thoughts to celebrate the life of a great man.
"May you be in Heaven an hour before the Devil knows you're dead." -old Irish toast.

DRC Editorial Board Strikes Again!

The DRC editorial board strikes again. They put in this letter from this crackpot under the guise of free speech, yet they refuse to print letters showing the true nature of their darlings, Cynthia White and Paul Johnson:

"God’s candidate speaks
I’m Speaker Gerald Polley, a candidate for the presidency of the United States at the bequest of God. I may have contacted you before, but God has requested that I contact you again.
Something strange is happening in Texas. For some reason, after the primaries the creatures of darkness have been continuing to attack the forces of light.
Jesus has set up his headquarters at the Alamo, one of Texas’ most sacred places, and is defending Texas. Horrendous spiritual battles are being fought every day!
The creatures of darkness are determined to drive him out, break his power and win control of the people of Texas. That must not happen!
God has asked me to ask the people of Texas to pray for Jesus, to empower him to defeat the creatures of darkness. I have done so.
I ask you to spread the word of this to all the people of Texas.
God asks you to do this. He asks you to encourage the people of Texas to join in the effort to empower God’s Son to destroy this evil.
This must be accomplished!
The people of Texas must be reached. The Alamo must not fall again! The forces of light must prevail!
Speaker Gerald Polley,
Bismarck, N.D."

Hey, DRC, what the @#$%& is going on over there?

Liberal Bias of the DRC Editorial Board

I just wanted to point out the the Denton Wretched-Chronicle would not print my letter pointing out how the voters were being misled in the last election, but they will print this load of mental diarrhea from Bill Trantham:
"Primary postmortem
With the close of primary election season here, a few observations are in order.
First, this is Obama country for Democrats. What energy and excitement his candidacy ignited here. It was amazing.
On the Republican side, in what is probably one of the last gasps of the Isaacks political ma­chine, a former assistant district attorney narrowly won over Com­missioner Cynthia White.
As I forecast when he an­nounced, it was a dirty campaign featuring at least two hit pieces from the Coleman campaign. He faces Phyllis Wolper, a Democrat, in the fall. And, we will probably see more hit pieces about her at that time.
I wondered if Republicans would endorse and reward another candidate who came out against the Isaacks machine point-blank.
Apparently, the Republicans found Steve Burgess’ filing against Judge Isaacks, before she gave up, to be worthy of their votes and support.
The other candidates who were afraid to file before Judge Isaacks gave up failed to garner the support level of Steve Burgess.
Finally, I noticed that Karen Guerra, Democratic candidate for the 16th District Court, got more votes than four Republican candidates for district judge combined.
It is going to be an interesting fall, politically.
William Trantham,
Denton"
OBSERVATIONS:
Do you wonder why local defense attorneys would campaign so hard against the incumbent DA? I would imagine that they get tired of having to work hard to defend their clients against tough and solid prosecution. A sensible voter would support the DA candidate that the defense bar fears the most.
This is just another illustration of the left wing slant of the DRC editorial board.
Do you need more? How about the tendency of the paper to put bad news about the Iraq war on the front page, but good news (i.e. the success of the surge or the fact that American casualties are very low or the fact that we are winning over there) gets buried in the back pages.
I will be more diligent about citing specifics to support my argument in the future.

Regular Sight at My House

I am no expert ornithologist, but I believe this is a Great Blue Heron. This big guy regularly fishes in the storm pond behind my house. Apparently, there are some pretty good sized fish there. Hopefully, I will get a good photo of him catching a fish. The pictures don't really show how amazing he is. He is a huge bird. His wingspan has to be easily over six feet. I enjoy watching him hunt. When he catches a fish, he beats it on the rocks until it is soft enough for him to swallow.

Snow Day

With Spring right around the corner, we get hit with the biggest snow storm I've seen in awhile. Is this Texas or Minnesota? This is really amazing for March 6. It took us about an hour and a half to get from Decatur to Denton. I suspect we won't be going to work tomorrow. The traffic was the worst I have ever seen in or around Denton. I am ready to settle in for a long weekend. Don't worry, I brought some work home.

By the way, daylight savings time begins this weekend! Spring forward.

Hugh Coleman Wins by 59 Votes

Finally, all of the votes are in and Hugh Coleman is New Denton County Commissioner, at least the Republican candidate for the job. It is reported that the Democrats actually have a candidate for a county post this year. We should be able to get Hugh over that hurdle. It should be a refreshing change to get a professional person on the Commissioners Court, especially as the Precinct 1 Commissioner. That is and should be treated as a full time job.

The Denton Record-Chronicle...

...did not print my letter to the editor. I guess it was a little more truth than they wanted. My opinion of that paper is now set in cement.