We can't trust San Antonians to decide what's best for San Antonio

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I'd like to say the latest power grab surprises me, but it doesn't.

The mayor has grand plans for Hemisfair Park, which I will admit is nearly useless as it sits, but for the whole park thing (the claim that there's no park there now is baffling; there's not much of one, but there is a playground and several green spaces).  These plans are rumored to include a grocery store, which makes about as much sense as do the whispers about putting an Ikea where Joske's once was.  He's a Democrat; he knows best.

Right now, residents would have to vote to approve the mixed-use development.  Honestly, given that we happily approved the Pre-K for SA boondoggle, I don't have any doubt they could sweet talk voters into giving them whatever they want as far as that goes.

So why the perceived need for a law allowing San Antonio to bypass state law?

I have a feeling something more sinister is going on here.  There are a handful of historical structures within the park.  They are mostly pretty run-down, having remained essentially untouched since 1968.  I have to wonder whether, under this "narrowly-tailored" law, the city would write itself free to demolish them, especially given the bit in the article about the park gaining green space.


That doesn't exactly scream "mixed-use development", does it?

Now, I could be wrong.  And I do hope I am.  But I have not been doing very well at that whole 'failure at political prognostication' thing lately.  And given the fiasco with the City Council ignoring its own bylaws to change Durango's name, it honestly wouldn't surprise me to see them ignore state law either.  City government hasn't been smacked down by the courts in a while.

Oh, also.  About that newspaper article.  Look at this:

At the top of the list is a proposal that would allow HemisFair Park's master plan to be realized. The plan calls for overhauling the urban park into a sprawling mixed-use area that would be a beacon for all San Antonians.

Way to obviously plagiarize the city's press release there, Mr. Baugh.  (It could be mere journalistically unacceptable editorializing, yes, but I really doubt it.) 

I think this may be what's wrong with government schools in a nutshell.

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One of my Facebook friends just posted this picture:


Now, my first thought was Geez, she should send that over to the "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks. (Note that the quotation marks in that name are wrong on purpose.)

The person who posted this, presumably on her daughter's behalf, is herself a school teacher.  She apparently found nothing wrong with this.  My nine-year-old, on the other hand, took about 20 seconds to figure it out. (I'll admit that the horrible graphic design drew her attention first.)

I've been having a raucous internal debate over whether to point it out to her.

But then, a couple of days ago, she also posted this:

So...Yeah.

Phil Vassar - "Don't Miss Your Life"

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Jared and I were watching the Country Music channel the other day and this song came on. It is so great. I said to Jared, "He is a great song writer." Well that is how he started. Enjoy this video and don't miss your life!
 
Phil Vassar  is an American country music artist. Vassar made his debut on the country music scene in the late 1990s, co-writing singles for several country artists, including Tim McGraw ("For a Little While", "My Next Thirty Years"), Jo Dee Messina ("Bye, Bye", "I'm Alright"), Collin Raye ("Little Red Rodeo"), and Alan Jackson ("Right on the Money"). In 1999, he was named by American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) as Country Songwriter of the Year. (Source)

Hank Williams Jr & Sr - There's A Tear In My Beer

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This Western Wednesday post takes us all the way back to 1950. "There's a Tear in My Beer" is a country song written and recorded by Hank Williams, and later re-recorded by his son in 1988. The original version was written and recorded by Hank Williams during one of his Nashville sessions in 1950-51, but he decided against releasing it. It was not until many years later, in 1989, that the original song would get its first official release. (Source)
 

Hank Williams, Jr.'s version is a duet with his father created using electronic merging technology. As the song had been previously recorded with Hank Williams playing the guitar as the sole instrument, his son and his band simply "filled in the blanks" and recorded additional vocals. The music video for the song combined television footage that had existed of Hank Williams performing, onto which electronic merging technology impressed the recordings of Hank Jr., which then made it appear as if he were actually playing with his father. The video was both a critical and commercial success, and was named Video Of The Year by both the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country music. Hank Williams, Sr. & Jr., would go on to "share" a Grammy award win in 1990 for Best Country Vocal Collaboration. (Source)

My Life's Been a Country Song by Chris Cagle

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My Life's Been a Country Song is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Chris Cagle. It was released in February 2008 on Capitol Records Nashville. The album's lead-off single was "What Kinda Gone", which peaked at No. 3 on the country music charts in April 2008, the second single, "No Love Songs", peaked at No. 53, while the third single, "Never Ever Gone", failed to chart. (Source)
 

The album debuted at number eight on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling about 37,000 copies in its first week. It also debuted at number one on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart. [3] It is also Cagle's final album for Capitol.The song "I Don't Wanna Live" was also recorded by Josh Gracin on his 2008 album We Weren't Crazy as "I Don't Want to Live". "Keep Me From Loving You" was also recorded by Clay Walker on his 2010 album, She Won't Be Lonely Long. (Source)

I thought this song was much newer than it is. I hope you all like it. Leave a comment if your life has been a country song including what song. Happy Thursday.

*facepalm*

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One of my dumber liberal Facebook friends just posted this:


I'm guessing she's never been on a military base.  I have been on quite a few, more times than I can count, and so the lies are obvious to me.  (And yes, I pointed them out.)

Even without that experience though, the fact that this is--to put it nicely--inaccurate as fuck should be obvious to anyone who remembers how to breathe.  I realize it happened over three years ago, and maybe Progressives have memories that are just that short, but damn.  Hasan shot up a room full of unarmed people, and as always was stopped by someone with a gun.

This is what we're up against.  Willful ignorance and stupidity, coupled with an utter lack of critical thinking skills.  I'm not certain if the chick who shared this (who is, for the record, the gal who started blathering about Obamacare when I pointed out the fallacy of Obama's purported support of gay marriage) is really so stupid that she thinks Hasan shot at armed people and they all stood around picking their asses or she just doesn't think, but neither reflects well upon her.

Just because I can

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This is one of my favorite Waylon Jennings songs (as I told my husband back when he was barely my boyfriend, my favorite-favorite Waylon song is "whichever one is currently playing"):



This is one of those songs I always liked as a child but never really knew the name of.

Hearing this song and looking for a video of it on YouTube reminded me of a post I made earlier this year.  The photo in this post certainly did its job ("And yet, there is so much ambient testosterone in that picture that just looking at it while typing this post up practically guarantees that my unborn child will be male.")

So, if you're aiming to have a son, apparently looking at Waylon & Johnny Cash together is a great idea.