The Texas Capitol: Building for the Ages

The Texas capital building is the seat of government for the state of Texas, located in downtown Austin. It is a historic landmark that was built from 1882 to 1888 in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. It is one of the tallest state capitols in the nation, and it has a distinctive red granite exterior. The building houses the offices and chambers of the Texas Legislature and the Governor of Texas, as well as public art, museums, and gardens. You can learn more about the Texas capital building from these sources: Texas State Capitol - Wikipedia, SPB - Texas Capitol and Extension, Visit Texas State Capitol - Texas Capital Forum & Coalition.

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Flooding

Trump Visits

Toronadoes

By now most of the country has heard about the tornadoes, that hit the north central Texas areas on April 29th.  It was a horrible disaster, that occurred, when at least 5 tornadoes hit several different areas in a matter of 2 to 3 hours.  Heavy rains, high winds hit our areas,  but we were spared the devastation our neighbors received.
Photos coming out of the areas hit were sad and many are without homes and businesses.  4 are confirmed dead, and at least 50+ injured.  This comes within a month of the high winds that hit a neighborhood in the northern part of Rockwall, TX.  It destroyed several homes, in the housing section there.  They were worried about more devastation, should severe weather come through their area again.
Our prayers go out to the people who are suffering from the 29th's devastation.  Most are just glad to be alive and able to recover and start again.

Crimes

Yesterday, was a bad day here in the State of Texas.  Several crimes against people were committed which, left a trail of death and injuries to contend with.  A Paramedic, was shot in Dallas, Tx, when he responded to a 911 call of "self inflected wounds" at a residence.  The person, shot the Paramedic, when he arrived, and police searched house to house, for suspect.  His was found later in a house, with another victim, dead from apparent suicide.
Then a student at UT @ Austin, was stabbed by another student,  leaving the victim dead at the scene.  The attacker, was taken into custody, at the scene.
Another report of a lady being shot several times in a mall parking lot, resulted in a fatality, with the attacker, getting away. Police are still searching for this person, who is believed to be out of town.
I believe there was another incident reported at a high school campus in Ft. Worth, Tx,  The details I'm not sure of at this time.
I wonder what's going on with these people?  Are our American/Texan people, going crazy?

The Border

The People of Texas Say...........

Here are some comments I found from local citizens about the illegals......who cross our borders in search of free benefits...and citizenship of their babies!

All they want is "freebies"!!! They want EVERYTHING for nothing...rent, food, education, medical...etc. and I pay for it with my tax dollars while THEY benefit. I'm working TWO jobs and can't get ANYTHING free because I "make too much".

Ya know...they will say "this was their country to begin with". Time changes...the Alamo proved that! Borders change...respect that or u will suffer consequences! In some places, anyway.

Send them all back they don't have any rights at all they are here illegally, as well as their offspring. 

Why, should we give them benefits, that we can't get?

Texas Is Doing Something

It just keeps getting worse.........finally, our State is fighting back, even though it's against the Constitution of the USA......Our borders are releasing too many illegals on us and we are having to support them. It's not fair!

Texas Says NO!

Texas says NO!    This video from a Mexican point of view......

Here's What The People Think!

Some comments on the recent incident, where a teenager brought an object to school, which looked to be a bomb!
If you've been following the news about this incident, then you know the details.....

While it was a home made clock it was intentionally designed to look like a bomb. It was suspicious at best, and could have been an bomb. Teacher did the right thing and called police. Just because it was not a bomb, suddenly the liberals see him as a victim.

 Isn't praying on school property against the law? Oh, stupid me they're Muslims - like Killary, rules don't apply to them!

its OK, they can pray on school grounds, its the muslim cult, not christians......were they Christians the SWAT people along with the national guard would have been called out and Heraldo Riveria would be wringing his hands and taking selfies..The bigger question is where in the hell are the Athiests, the Freedom From Religion nuts, and ACLU? If this was a Christain group, they would be all over it.

 Ok kids, you are Americans and you need to start praying in or on school property since we pay taxes. Whats good for the goose is good for the gander. We love praying too our God who is a real and living God and he want's wants to hear from us as well.

what is the prayer for? Pray for our soldiers and their families ,not some kid who the president admires as a muslim.
The Muslims barbarians can pray their hatred on school grounds but Christians cannot.
 will they stand with him when he brings a bomb to school and blows up the school? No muslims and no islam in this country.

 They're praying for Idiot Americans,REMAINING, IDIOTS. They know that NO Teacher,in their right mind will ever suspect a Muslim child of having a bomb again. The NEXT time.....POOF!
Please leave our country, stop thinking you are above our laws. Someone should sue them for praying on school property, they would if it was Christians.

This President does nothing When police are murdered but when a young man makes a bomb not a clock as usual the President can not call it what the item really is not a clock. So the next time some kid comes in with a clock and no one checks it and turns out to be a bomb and kills people what will the President say at that time. This President seems to pick out things that he thinks that will make him look good and the hell with protecting the American People. God forbid if any Christians have a pray on school property everyone would be up in arms.

Hiprocits no prayer in school remember. What/s going on here . even Obama aproves this, This could have been a real bomb. don/t bring anything that resembles a gun or bomb to school period, This boy is being praised instead of repremended,

Seriously - his "parents" let him bring that "contraption in a suitcase" to school. I think this is the parents fault or were the parents just trying to start trouble. I think the latter. What are they praying for????? It looked like a bomb and since it was a "clock", I'm sure it was ticking. Wow! I stand with Irving!

Prayer vigil? I pray to God that teachers, schools, law enforcement and others will continue to make the same decision in the future that they did here. What if this had been a bomb? Would we today be mourning yet another unimagineable tragedy and trying to convince ourselves that all Muslims are not like this? Probably. I'm sorry, but we can not endanger the masses to spare someone a few hurt feelings or inconvienience. I'm still not sure what exactly made this one boy's expierience worthy of an invite to the Whitehouse. Seems like there would be countless other actual heros more deserving of that honor. But then again, considering who occupies the Whitehouse, I could see someone decling the invitation.

Rick Perry Drops Out

Once again Rick Perry, drops out of the Presidential race.  He has had a hard time getting his campaign going and this left him with no other decision to make. The longest running Texas Governor, who made waves against certain Presidential rulings, made his way back into the race this year, but not as strong as his recent bid, when Obama won.  It's too bad that he could make a go of it, because he certainly has some good ideas, that could have been lucrative to our nation's welfare.
Hats off to his gut grit and stamina, when fighting the sides of our Texas heritages.  Thanks to one that has made a difference here in our home State.  May he find a new way to enjoy going back into the local Texas life.

Oh My, Rain!

Wow, it finally happened, the rain came.  Yesterday evening as I sat here at my computer, I heard something that sounded odd.  By odd, I mean the sun was out and the clouds in the sky were white and billowy, with no indication of a chance.  I reached over and pulled the blind on the window to the side enough to look out.  Sure enough, there was rain dripping off the roof down on to the air conditioner in front of the window.  It lasted a few seconds, stopped and a few minutes later it started again.  This time it was coming down hard, knocking leaves off the trees and kicking up the dry dust on the ground when it hit.  This lasted about 10 minutes, and then it was over as fast as it came.  During the shower, I ran out on the front porch and placed my pot plants out so they could get washed and a good drink of fresh rain.  Oh, I also did not go out and roll up my car windows!  I let it rain right in, so as not to scare the nice rain away. :)  The leather seats will dry, with the heat and wind that's blowing around here.