Unca Darrell

DECEMBER 31 / Thank you for reading "Unca D" . . .

. . . and best to you and yours in 2012.

 

DECEMBER 24 / Christmas Eve, a perfect time to . . .

. . . give to those in need. Let's write a check to Salvation Army, Star of Hope, or another worthy charity. (You can find them on the Web.) Then hug your kids and celebrate the birth . . .  

DECEMBER 19 / What glorious fall leaves we have had

DECEMBER 15 / The childish calculation present in . . .

. . . Lisa Falkenberg's "human equation."

Metro has apparently decided to cancel a bus route, the No. 48, that the agency says is losing $147,917 a year.

Ms. Falkenberg rushed to Pleasantville, a "quiet, aging, historically black hamlet known for its active civic club and voting precinct" -- and found that No. 48 serves an 85-year-old widow, cancer survivor, and "former River Oaks housekeeper" who really needs the bus.

Not to mention a fellow Pleasantville resident, 75; "a worker at a Heights funeral home, a clerk for HISD, a contractor on his way to a job in Missouri City, and two home health providers who . . . care for patients in Pleasantville"; and "a minister and retired bricklayer in a plaid flannel jacket." (Lisa Falkenberg, "Human equation absent from this calculation," Houston Chronicle, December 15, 2011)

This is an interesting and legitimate story. Good for Ms. Falkenberg in doing the legwork. Government actions have real human consequences that should not be ignored. 

But . . .  

DECEMBER 14 / Toljaso

FOR AT-LARGE CITY COUNCIL runoffs, the Houston Chronicle -- no real suprise -- endorsed a nasty-spirited shouter (Jolanda Jones) and a former ACORN employee (Kristi Thibaut), both reliable tax-and-spend progressives. Unca D endorsed . . .

DECEMBER 13 / The sky is falling. Let's . . .

. . . think really, really hard about it.

The Houston Chronicle supports Obama, Occupy, virtually every proposal from the left to take more dollars from taxpayers (or borrow it from our grandchildren) and spend it on God knows what, and, of course, most all proposed new state and federal regulations. But once a month or so, the most conservative guy . . .

DECEMBER 12 / Herman Cain's biggest sin . . .

. . . as revealed by the Wall Street Journal:  

DECEMBER 10 / Tebow on giving

While at Florida, Mr. Tebow became well known for spending his summers helping . . .

DECEMBER 9 / Stratfor on Afghanistan

SOME IN AFGHANISTAN have claimed that the United States has been defeated, but that is not the case. The United States may have failed to win the war, but it has not been defeated in the sense . . .

DECEMBER 8 / Deconstructing PKH

COLUMNIST Patricia Kilday Hart came out Wednesday against democratic, small-d, control of public money. Elected Texas authorities have decided to channel some federal taxpayer dollars to Texas community colleges rather than to an Alinskyite . . .