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Snow in Tyler Texas again in 2011! We love snow here in Tyler

January 9th, 2011

Tyler Texas Snowing 2011We looked outside around 2:30 to snow fall. We began to think the forecast of snow in Tyler TX wasn’t going to happen but it did.

We are hoping for a lot more and for it to get colder. Once there is a nice big thick blanket of snow we are going to go find a good steep hill to sled down.

Last year we had an amazing snow fall in March I think which was really odd for Texas and had many people saying so well for Global Warming.

Now global warming is called Climate Change but that still requires us to look at some previous claims.

Climate change people now say that more snow in the winter also proves global warming but this is not what the claim was a few years back?

tyler tx snow 2011For more information on the other side of the Climate Change/Global Warming debate please follow CFACT on twitter @CFACT and visit their website at http://www.cfact.org/

Well anyway back off of politics I am very happy to see some snow and we will be playing in it all day after my son gets up from his nap.

January 9 2011 Video of Snow Fall in Tyler TX

Jared Lee Loughner Is Neither a Liberal nor a Conservative

January 9th, 2011

jared loughnerIn the last twenty four hours or so I have found myself filled with a mix of grief and absolute frustration by the events in Arizona and the subsequent attempts to assign blame.

The events of Saturday were an indefensible tragedy! Everyone from a Federal judge to a nine year old little girl lost their lives. “May light perpetual shine upon them.” But there is no political lesson here.

I have heard commentators and guests on twenty- four hour news networks wax eloquent on how the political discourse is too loud and rancorous for the American people.

One local AZ official went so far as to call for voices on the radio to soften their tone! So let’s get a couple of things straight right now: First off this was not a political act. The assailant was not a tea party member or a ditto head. Nor was he a move on.org contributor or an acorn worker.

He was just a delusional head case who read things like Mien Kampf and the Communist Manifesto before drifting off to sleep at night. He hated this country, as well as religious faith, and his YouTube vids are full of incoherent rambling that would have confused Friedrich Nietzsche.

Secondly The American people are not the impressionable dolts that many in government and the media seem to think we are.

To listen to the self- righteous officials on television one would think that the electorate was filled with voices and individuals who are so tenuously balanced that they could simply erupt at any time. I guess I just think more of the American people than that!

We can distinguish what is often heated (and even necessary) debate, from the senseless ravings of a madman. I for one am not that easily manipulated thank you very much!

At the end of the day I reaffirm my position that Jared Lee Loughner was / is neither a liberal nor a conservative; that would require at least an ounce of humanity, something that clearly must be lacking in anyone who would deliberately kill a ten year old at point blank range.

So a parting word to all those who are waiting in the wings to assign political blame for this travesty, and believe me, they are out there: let the politics rest! Don’t try to use this terrible event as a “teachable moment!” There’s nothing to learn from this stupidity. There’s only sadness. Just let the people grieve.

Repeal the Health Care law? You Bet!

January 6th, 2011

US HealthcareAs I watch the news this morning I’m hearing a lot of noise about the U.S. House’s plan to pass a repeal of the Obama health care law. The Washington Press corps seems incredulous that the new congress to would press a bill doomed to eventual defeat, by either the Senate or presidential veto.

The latest argument is that the measure is a waste of time and that the House should get on with the people’s business. Of course the implication is that the Republican congress should get on with the business of compromising with the President’s agenda.

The hole in that logic is that there is no business that the American people are more concerned with, than the eventual repeal of this new health care mandate, whether with a single sweeping bill or piece meal, by starving it of funds!

health care repealI would pose the following question to the house Democratic caucus: If its defeat is so inevitable why oppose it? Why not even cast a vote for repeal?

Call it a change of heart. Call it listening to the people, (even though it’s about a year too late). Let the President clean up his own colossal messes for once. Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the Democratic Party suffer one of the worst political defeats in its history last November, due largely to his tunnel vision and lack of concern for its members?

Why not make him hitch his political future to supporting an unpopular pet law? Wake up Dems! Your prez doesn’t care a wit for your careers; he’s only using you as political cover!

There’s a New Speaker in Town

January 5th, 2011

john boehner speaker of the houseWell as of today we have a new congress! As of about an hour ago John Boehner, from the state of Ohio, is the new Speaker of the House of Representatives.

In an awkward and unusual departure with tradition, outgoing speaker Nancy Pelosi gave a long- winded passive aggressive defense of the last congress.

In fact when the new speaker finally took the podium his speech time ended up being shorter than his predecessor’s. It wasn’t all sour grapes.

Representative Pelosi graciously welcomed and praised her successor, and the new House speaker, in turn thanked her for her service. But he also wasted no time promising that the new house would govern according to the will of the American people.

He promised to do his part to cut federal spending, reduce the deficit, shrink the size and scope of government and to work to moderate its agenda. He also promised to enforce house rules, but maintain an open and verifiable process.

While the speaker’s party rose to its feet and cheered at number of points, the opposition largely remained seated, hinting at things to come. I hope and pray the new congress can indeed change the course of an increasingly liberal an obtrusive government.

Next week we should catch an early glimpse of how this congress will function as a bill for repeal of the President’s health care law comes up for a vote. Hopefully all this new hope and change will amount to more than just a casting change!

Ate at Pancho Panda today, they have both Mexican and Chinese cuisine and a buffet

January 5th, 2011

Mexican Chinese buffet in Tyler Texas

Pancho Panda
3841 Hwy 64 West
Tyler, TX 75704
Phone: 903-593-9200
Hours of Business:
Monday – Sunday: 11:00am to 9:00pm

I am one of those people that is  little scared of gong into a buffet and if it weren’t for others in my family that enjoy the occasional buffet I would never go.

I think of things like sick people coughing into the food that are in the buffet line and stupid things like that but isn’t that why they have a plexiglass shield guard so that doesn’t happen?

Well Pancho Panda has the plexi glass guard to protect the buffet food and under that glass are both mexican food entrees and chinese food.

Thinking of the combination of Mexican food and Chinese food never wets my appetite but my brother wanted me to try this place out so me and a few other guys went in to give it a shot.

I was surprised to find out that the restaurant wasn’t half bad. The enchiladas, crunchy tacos and quesadillas all tasted pretty good.

I also tried some Chinese food. I got the bourbon chicken, an egg roll, and some fried rice. I was pleased with the Chinese food as well.

cream cheese won tonsFor desert I had some jello squares and cream cheese fried won tons. The fried won tons were ok bu they are the seafood kind. I was hoping it would just have cream cheese in them without the seafood but that is hardly ever the case.

Well anyway this place wasn’t half bad. I am ok with this place and I think if you are a buffet person you will want to give them a try.

Will I go back here by myself? Probably not, I am just not into buffets and probably never will be. When comparing buffets in Tyler Texas though this takes on of the top spots. Take this review for what it is worth coming from someone who normally does not choose a buffet restaurant as a place to eat at.