My uber driver to the airport is going 30 mph over the speed limit, has a check engine light on, & is blasting Metallica.
We have now entered 30% tip territory…
4 years ago, both of my grandparents passed away, starting a court battle that's put 200 years of Texas history for sale.
The estate includes hundreds of acres near Marble Falls, TX, that have been in my family since before Texas was Texas. Stephen F. Austin himself granted this land to my ancestor, Captain Jesse Burnam, in the 1820s, one of the original "Old Three Hundred" families. There are stories of him fighting off Native Americans and fighting in wars!
That land stayed in our family for five generations. There's a state historical marker on it, placed by the Texas Historical Commission in 2014.
My family has never had money in the bank kind of wealth. But I wouldn't sell this land for millions of dollars. Some things matter more than money, and history and nature are two of them.
My aunt, the executor, has managed this estate about as badly as it's possible to manage one, burning hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees fighting my mom and uncle, to the point that land had to be sold just to cover the bill. Yes, there was a will involved, but it's complicated...
Now, more than 150 acres of it are listed for sale by my aunt. My aunt has no heirs of her own tied to this place.
And beautiful, spring fed land that survived the Texas Revolution, five generations of my family, and a war with Mexico might get bulldozed for a subdivision.
What I'm hoping for is that it doesn't end with a developer.
If you know a rancher, a conservation buyer, a family, or a land trust looking for real Texas Hill Country land with real history, let me know.
Maryland schools are now requiring school teachers to potty train kindergarteners. (Not talking about children with special needs).
Parents need to step up. This is not okay.
Now that the US is knocked out, I am formally extending an invitation to the American people to support Norway.
Why?
1: The Vikings discovered America before Columbus.
2: There are more ethnic Norwegians in the US than in Norway.
3: Next weekend we can pillage the English peasants together.
4:
We live in the greatest state in the greatest nation ever conceived. It is incumbent on us to hold onto that with everything we have. We will not surrender to the marxists and islamists. Never.
We're not protesting FIFA's rules. We're protesting the double standards. A soft penalty for Belgium, a clear push ignored for Senegal. These aren't rules — they're biased selections. Senegal deserved to reach the penalty shootout.
Grazie #SophieCunningham per aver dimostrato alla “Paola Egonu di turno” che la festa è finita.
Essere bianchi, eterosessuali e bellissimi non è un difetto.
Basta prepotenze fisiche e ideologiche da chi pensa di essere intoccabile e di vivere in una riserva protetta.
@sophaller
She's 29. A role model for young women all around the world. A pro basketball player & the left's worst nightmare!
God Bless You Ms. Sophie Cunningham!
The Pennsylvania State Senate is urging Congress to award the Medal of Honor to the late "Band of Brothers" hero Major Richard ‘Dick’ Winters. The former Easy Company commander was portrayed by Damian Lewis in the HBO miniseries. Winters was recommended for the Medal of Honor during WWII for his leadership at Brécourt Manor in Normandy on D-Day, but he instead received the Distinguished Service Cross (in part due to the Army's quota system at the time of only one Medal of Honor per division for the Normandy campaign and it was already being given to Lt. Col. Robert G. Cole). A previous attempt was made in 2007 but the bill to grant Winters the Medal died in the House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Military Personnel. #BandofBrothers #RichardWinters #ww2 #EasyCompany #WWII #ww2history