Sandy Loam

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/05/elon-musk-america-party-democrats-trump.html The American Party.

The wife and I are trying to visit every MLB park. A couple of years ago we saw the Brewers and were going to go to a White Sox game, but it got rained out. A few years earlier, we went to a Yankes game and had tickets to a Mets game, but it got rained out.

Yeah, and those precious little girls who had gone off to a camp. The head of that camp drowned trying to save them. I'm seeing on social media the questioning of God.

I actually remember that, was in the area and checked it out. The Guadalupe usually is a beautiful, emerald-green, clear river with soaring limestone cliffs, only those cliffs were carved by millions of years of these kinds of floods, where water doesn't absorb into the ground and has no place to go but downstream.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-says-hes-formed-001743315.html Go centrists!

Going to be interesting to see how FEMA, National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center operate as we get into the meat of hurricane season, with above-average activity expected.

The concern over National Weather Service vacancies is legitimate. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/politics/texas-floods-warnings-vacancies.html

Could be like the Ross Perot campaign from 1992. He seemed like he had a chance until he focked up up, most likely intentionally.

It'll be interesting to see what kind of impact this will have on the midterms.

No one could have predicted this. This is new from a hydrology and meteorology standpoint. A flash-flood warning usually means not being a dumbass in trying to cross a road or bridge with water flowing over it.

I might be as well.

Props to the Texas governor, Trump and various state and local officials for their response to this disaster. No finger pointing here. This has been like nothing this state has ever seen.

What part of my post gives you any indication about whether I like him?

I just posted a link to a MAGA nut suggesting we feed all of this country's Latinos to the alligators. Own it.

MAGA nut suggests feeding all 65 million U.S. Latinos to alligators. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/laura-loomer-alcatraz-alligator-lives-matter-trump-b2782150.html

Rent free!

Not much of one. The topography is pretty much rock, so there is little to no absorption, so the only place for water to go is into the river, which rose up insanely fast. There was almost zero time to evacuate anyone. I saw one video of a guy telling a woman to get the hell out of her house now, and she said, "I hear people screaming." To which he replied, "Those are people who got swept into the river."

13 dead and 20 girls still missing.

Liberals!

Sure, there are lazy people on the dole who exploit the system, but Trump and his oligarch buddies, who will benefit bigly from his tax cuts, have done the same thing on a much larger and more profitable scale for decades. The vicious cycle of poverty is more complicated than the goo between your ears can comprehend. Many people are one paycheck and a broken-down car away from being jobless and homeless. Leadership programs often have a poverty exercise, and the one I did make me realize in a hurry how some people just can't get ahead. We have an obligation as Christians and Americans to help those less fortunate than ourselves, and a man's character is judged by helping others with nothing in it for himself except for the satisfaction of helping someone. Be better.

I predict that we'll see a huge spike in crime because of this bill as lower-income residents grow desperate for food, money and health care.

It's perfectly fitting for Trump and his MAGA minions to celebrate this historic occasion by spending millions of taxpayer dollars so MAGAs can watch people beat the crap out of each other at the White House. The MAGA thirst for violence has no limits.

Hopefully the expenditure of $45 million in taxpayer dollars to throw the event will draw tens of people!

I've been brush hogging the woods behind my house to create a few more yards of yard. It's kind of like a crossfit workout. I only cut up dead things and create massive burn piles that are fun to set off. These woods are mighty and humbling. I once created a trail to the creek, but The Woods said yeah, nah, and had the whole thing covered up in a matter of weeks in the spring. It's weird back there. I don't go back there after about March and don't venture back until October, and it's always changing with fallen things. I'll be content after this winter and clearing a bit more brush and dead trees, and then I'll let the rest be. I put a game cam back there and got pics of bobcats, coyotes and ... flying squirrels! I always feel like I'm being watched when I'm back there.

No one cares about the Leaderboard but you.