Everything in Texas is bigger, right? Well, not the magnitude of Venture Capital.
As you can see from this graphic, Texas is #5 in 2018 Venture Capital and barely above North Carolina. [Love the Tarheel State BTW. Favorite basketball team? Carolina Tarheels. Hook ’em, Heels!]
Big Red Car here with a wet top, but feeling sympathy for the Hill Country.
The Colorado River Bridge between downtown and Coopers BBQ yesterday. Water still rising.
Same bridge during normal flows.
Stop praying for rain, y’all.
Updated photo 10-18-2018.
But, hey, what the Hell do I really know anyway? I’m just a Big Red Car. Stop raining.
When you live in Austin, Texas it is impossible to be humble. I will not pretend.
Austin was named as the #1 city where Americans are flocking because of plentiful jobs, rising salaries, and booming business.
If you have been out and about, this is no surprise. [They are all driving with reckless abandon on MoPac starting every afternoon at 2:30 PM.] If not, read about it here.
There is another lesson to the story.
Big Red Car here on a gloomy Thursday morning in the ATX. Texas politics is fun in a roller derby kind of way. The race for the Texas Senate will be a barn burner though recent polling suggests Cruz is looking at a ten point victory.
For the Senate we have a faux Hispanic running against a real Hispanic who doesn’t seem Hispanic.
[At this point, please allow me to make a preemptive apology for all the offenses I have committed against good order and decency thus far and for the rest of the blog post. I am sorry.]
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Robert Francis O’Rourke, the Dem challenger, faces off with Teddy Cruz, the incumbent in three debates.
Oil, y’all? Texas tea?
Big Red Car here down in the Oil Patch of Austin By God Texas. OK, no oil wells in Austin, but I can get to some in half an hour.
So, we talked about Texas oil here:
Today, we talk about oil in the United States.
Big Red Car here talking Texas oil, y’all. One of the worst reported business phenomenon is the enormous strength of American oil production and Texas’ part in that.
Y’all know all about the enormous flows from shale oil, fracking, and horizontal drilling, right? But, you ask, “How big is it, Big Red Car?”
As you can see, it is an impressive curve with a May 2018 monthly flow of 4,243,000 barrels per day. This is larger than any Middle East country other than Saudi Arabia. Hello, America!
Big Red Car here (with a full tank of regular, y’all) telling you what’s going to happen with the price of gasoline in Texas and the rest of the country.
[Note: The country is actually divided between Texas and the “rest of the country.” Sorry. Deal with it. If y’all had better barbecue and wider acceptance of breakfast tacos, this wouldn’t be happening, but, no, you don’t. Do you? Whose fault is that?]
This is what’s going on in Texas. The people are fighting back. The Texas National Guard is there. The Colorado National Guard is there. Help is pouring in faster than the rain. This is after all, Texas. Just for the record: No KKK, white supremacists, Nazis, BLM, ACLU, SPLC, or Antifa. Texans, National Guard, serious people doing serious work. God, this makes me proud of our Nation, my State, and our people. This is who we are.
Hurricane H [we are not longer saying THAT name, son-of-a-bitch] has knocked out all of the Gulf Coast refineries. This has dampened supplies of gasoline and other products.
Sanctuary cities, Big Red Car? Pray tell?
OK, so the People’s Republic of Austin (really Travis County) has a Sheriff — Sanctuary Sally Hernandez — who took it upon herself to decide which laws and what level of cooperation with ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) she thought, in her opinion, was advisable. Criminals were being assisted in avoiding capture and deportation because she didn’t like the idea.
She got cover for this nonsense from the County Attorney, David Escamilla. He’s a good guy, but way out of his depth and lacking judgment. This decision resulted in the loss of millions of dollars of state aid for Travis County which hurt veterans programs. You know The Boss is not going to like messing with veterans, right?
County Attorney Escamilla and Sheriff Sanctuary Sally had no right to inject their vanity into veterans benefits. Shame on them.
Texas Capitol, where they make the laws in the great State of Tejas.
I know, you think a Sheriff should enforce all the laws, right? Silly goose!
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