Football is in the Air - Texans Open 2012 Training Camp

Football is in the air!

Long Snapper Jon Weeks with C-Cody Wallace and Rookie C- Ben Jones.

 Brian Cushing is a beast even when he just gets some water.

 JJ Watt runs on to the practice field.

Coaching up Case Keenum.

Kubiak coaching up Jon Grimes (Grimes did not have a good day)

Mercilus arrives onto the field.

Rookie Receiver Mario Louis.

Special Teamers right where you would expect to see them.

Wade Phillips and Vance Joseph looking over the defense.

Wade working with the defensive backs.

Wade Phillips jogged onto the practice field.

Wade Phillips working with the linebackers - he was really hands on.

Wade giving pointers to rookie Whitney Mercilus.

 A shot of the linbackers - I liked the same shot with different focus in next shot.

Arian Foster in deep thought.

Cushing and Bradie James and unknown staffer.

Defensive back drills.

More defensive backs drills.

Defensive genius Wade Phillips.

Defensive drills.

Duane Brown after elephant tug-of-war contests.

Garret Graham and rookie G- Cody White.

More defensive drills.

Keyaron Fox struggled a bit in today's practice.

Linebackers doing drills - Braman without a helmet (of course).

Live music for all of the fans.

Looking like the Predator, Derek Newton arrives at the practice field.

Tight Ends, receivers, and Swiss army knife players.

Teh Schaub runs onto the practice field.

Schaub discussing a play with back-up Beck.

Schaub giving pointers to Case Keenum.

TJ Yates apparently explaining how he pulled out that scramble out of his but in the Cincinnati game last year.

Texans fans ready for football.

Andre Johnson getting a drink as Case Keenum looks on.

Obama is an A$$

The A$$hole-in chief recently made a speech claiming that people who started their own business did not do it on their own.  This is the typical attitude of a person that has not done anything on their own their entire life.

Obama is an academic.  He has not had a real job since he was scooping ice cream at Baskin Robbins when he was 15.  I am willing to bet he didn't last at that job more that 2 months - because it was real work.

Sorry Obama - I started my own business on my own.  I received no assistance from the government.  Not from any level - the Federal, state, nor local government did not assist me in any form or fashion.  To be real - the government only made it more difficult to start a business.  They do not help people starting businesses.

As a business owner, I pay more taxes than people who do not own a business.  I have more regulations as to what I can and cannot do.

Only an IDIOT would claim that I did not do this on my own.

Mr. Obama - you have totally offended me - I expect an apology.  After all, I have created real life jobs (not government jobs that take 20-50 people to support by their taxes) .  That is something you cannot claim you have done.

Still, as pissed off as I am about the idiot-in-chief's comments,

Stay safe!

Obama May Not Make the Ohio Ballot

There has been a lawsuit filed in Ohio, claiming that Obama does not qualify for the presidential election ballot in 2012.  Before you groan and say something about birthers - his birth has nothing to do with it.  As a matter of fact, a lot of the evidence used to prove that Obama was born in Hawaii actually helps the case filed against him.

According to the complaint filed in Geauga County Ohio, Obama has been using a Social Security number that could not have possibly been legitimately issued to him.  The SSN 042-68-4425 was issued in the State of Connecticut between 1977-1979  (specifically March of 1977).  During this time Obama was never in Connecticut.  There is a mountain of evidence that shows the number was issued there during that time.  This is the same number used by Obama on his 2009 tax return.

Using this fraudulent number is enough to disqualify him from being on the ballot under Ohio Law.

I have no idea the merits of the case, or how it will be handled.  But people should be asking how a kid in Hawaii gets issued a Social Security number from Connecticut without being there.

Stay Safe!

Promises Fall Short

I remember when Obama promised my healthcare costs would be cut by $2500/year.  That didn't happen.  Personally, my health insurance is about 28% higher now than when Obama took office.  Most of it is thanks to the crap they have to do to comply with the new healthcare law.  The Federal government really has no business regulating health insurance companies, the states do that and did that just fine.  All they did was drive up costs.

In a span of 6 weeks, my health insurance company mailed me 7 different "notices" that they were required to send to me, even though only 3 applied to me and my policy.  They had to send them out, because idiot bureaucrats say so.

I do have a question.  What exactly is healthcare coverage.  I have read the law as it was passed, 3 times.  I never saw how coverage was defined.  Oh, there are bits and pieces about annual checkups and whatnot (which there is no empirical evidence that annual checkups reduce health care costs), but there is no definition of what being "covered" by health insurance means.  I suppose this mystery panel of bureaucrats makes that decision. Which brings a second question: how can they make me pay a penalty for not having something that is not defined by law?

I will admit that my policy is pretty crappy, but I cannot afford more - as a matter of fact, maybe I should just pay the fine, because that is a lot less than insurance coverage.

Oh well, more questions than answers - but stay safe!

Capitol of Texas Park

I have set out to get a photo of every Historical Marker in Brazoria County.  This may take a while, but my job takes me all over the county.  While doing so, sometimes I come across some real gems.  In honor of San Jacinto Day, I post the pictures here today.

Take a walk through the Capitol of Texas Park in West Columbia, Texas.  You can browse through these photos and get a quick history lesson on the beginnings of Texas,

The Trayvon Martin Case - Why Are People Protesting?

I ask the question above in all honesty.  Why are people protesting/demonstrating in this case.  First of all, I do not believe that the criminal justice system should ever be influenced by protests, political pressure or anything similar.  People should be prosecuted and judged by the law.  Secondly, Zimmerman was arrested.  I do not care what "statements" were made by the police, if you are handcuffed and transported to the police department, then you have been arrested.  He was not free to go at any time, which equals arrest.

Zimmerman has not been charged yet with the killing of Trayvon Martin.  This is a tragedy if Martin indeed was not doing anything wrong.  I say if, because the facts are not known to most of us, only those that witnessed the incident. There are many out there that are playing the race card.  This includes our president who for the second time, has jumped the gun in a criminal justice incident and has played the race card concerning something.  Maybe later he will attempt to fix this one over a beer also.

I have no idea if Zimmerman is guilty or not, neither do you. What we do know, is that the media has intentionally blown this incident out of proportion and has attempted to make it a racial incident.  NBC can deny it all they want, but the facts are, that the edited 911 tapes are very misleading, and one would only edit them that way if they were trying to race bait the public.  It was no accident.

Another thing is that even when articles are titled "Sorting out truth from fiction in the Trayvon Martin case" [sic] like from the Detroit Free Press, they still use a photo of 12 year old Trayvon Martin, attempting to show the poor innocent victim, and a mug shot of Zimmerman.  There is no way those are the only 2 photos of each individual in the case.  The use of these photos in this manner are also intended to stir up trouble.

So what do the protesters want?  They want Zimmerman arrested?  He already has been.  This is just like the old Western movie where the Sheriff has the suspect in custody, and the angry mob wants to hang him.  The Sheriff stands his ground and says he deserves a fair trial.  The mob wants "justice" and they want it now.

The people who have been involved in stirring up people will not admit they are wrong.  They should though.  They should apologize to everyone.  They won't though, and they will not take responsibility for inciting people to doing dumb things.

Use your head.  Don't fall for all the nonsense.  and stay safe!

Riots, Deaths, and Apologies - and All Were Wrong

Why is it that it does not surprise me that in third world Afghanistan that the masses riot and they do not even  know why.  They may think they know why, but they are likely wrong.  I mean, maybe those rioting really do hate America (though for no good reason I am sure).  They hate the country that free them from a regime that had one of the worst human rights violations records in modern history.  They hate the economic infusion and all of the free training.  They hate progress, freedom, and human rights.  You get the picture.

Supposedly these riots broke out because the US Military burned some Korans.  The fact is that they did indeed burn the Korans.  The trouble making people who were stirring up the riots knew that the US Military was doing nothing wrong.  There are many in the Muslim community that say the proper thing to do with damaged Korans is to burn them.  Worst case scenario - it was an inadvertent act.  So apparently, the proper response is senseless killings and riots.

The only thing that makes this situation worse, is the response from President Obama and all in his administration:  apologizing.  There simply should have been a press release that it was a mistake.  Making an apology only throws gasoline on the proverbial fire that are the riots.  Some news organizations call these "protests".  Protests become riots when violence breaks out - they are no long protests.

Allegedly some high ranking official in the Afghan Police Force shot and killed two high ranking US military officials.  All US advsiors have been pulled back.

My opinion is that all aid, training and help to Afghanistan should be pulled right away.  If they do not want the US there - pull out as soon as possible. This is not something that can be fixed.  The program was and is a failed one from reports coming from the inside of Afghanistan.

Whatever you do - stay safe!

Again - More Civil Liberty Infringement by The Obama Administration

I do not know of anyone I have met in person that does not think Obama went over board against the freedom of religion with the recent actions concerning the health care law. We knew from the beginning it (the health care law) would be a total infringement against civil liberties. Now with the "contraception" parts to be enforce - it is becoming obvious. When they imposed this horrible piece of legislation on the American people, they were using 1984 style "doublespeak". They used phrases like denying insurance based on pre-existing conditions. That in and of itself is not insurance.

Insurance is the act, system, or business of insuring property, life, one's person, etc., against loss or harm arising in specified contingencies, as fire, accident, death, disablement, or the like, in consideration of a payment proportionate to the risk involved.

(stolen from dictionary.com) Insuring a person for a pre-existing condition is exactly the same as insuring a car after a traffic accident. It is NOT insurance. It is some sort of support from other people for your own condition. I have no idea what the real term would be, but in reality it is nonsense. The health care reform was done by people who have no idea what insurance is or how it works or should work. Why this administration feels that people who work and pay taxes should support those that don't, I have no idea. This provision of the health care law is a slam dunk loser when it comes to constitutionality.

Which President has Taken Away Your Liberties?

A lot of folks out there are saying that the George Bush administration trampled Americans’ civil liberties. OK, for the sake of arguments, I will not even argue this. However, no administration has signed off on the most anti-civil liberty legislation ever, NDAA other than the Obama administration. The Obama administration has continued every single “violation f civil rights” that the Bush administration did. There has been no major deviation from policies concerning gathering information by the FBI and other federal agencies. Yet, that isn’t enough. Through the forcing down the American people throats of the “affordable care act” or “Obamacare” the administration has directly fought and is fighting against our religious liberties. Of course, Nancy “you have to pass it to see what is in it” Pelosi is just as responsible for this attack against religious freedom. The reality is, whenever “liberals” argue about religious freedoms, it is only about such freedoms that seem to affect them negatively. Remember the voting rights violations by the Black Panthers?

“Two New Black Panther Party members stood outside a Philadelphia polling place during the 2008 presidential election and shouted racial slurs at potential voters and poll workers, such as "You are about to be ruled by a black man, cracker." The thugs were in paramilitary garb and one brandished a nightstick. Since this was a clear violation of the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in December 2008 initiated a civil suit against the party, its chairman, and the two men at the polling place. In legal terms, this was as a simple matter, a slam-dunk.”

A slam dunk – yet the case was never pursued by the justice department. Another Obama administration violation of basic human and civil rights. If you recall, there was a default jusdgement in the case. Done and over, yet, the Obama administration felt that there needed to be some more violations of citizens’ rights. So, when Eric Holder became the head of the Justice Department, somehow this case was “re-worked” and now – there is no judgment against the thugs with nightsticks who bullied voters. The examples go on and on… it cannot be denied, Obama is the worst president ever when it comes to civil liberties, religious liberties, and human rights.