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Wednesday, August 8, 2012
BROKENBACK SNAGS BIG SNOOK UNDER LOBOS BRIDGE
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DID MARCHAN JUMP OFF THE BRIDGE?
KGBT4 BEATS HERALD, KRGV5, KVEO23
As of 10:30 Thursday morning, KGBT 4 beat the Herald to the big story: local attorney Ray Marchan, who was scheduled to start his jail sentence this week for his role in the Limas scandal, jumped off the causeway early today. While Facebook was on fire with the KGBT Marchan report, the sleepy Herald, KRGV5 and KVEO23 had the Coast Guard looking for someone who reportedly jumped off the bridge while Channel 4 had it nailed early with the cab driver taking the lawyer to the bridge then sealed it with JP Bennie Ochoa confirming Marchan's identity. Way to go Channel 4's Daisy Barrera. Kick ass on-the-spot journalism!
QUE ES UN WINKY?
"Think of it this way - on opening day you can drive your pathetic little imp mobiles out to the beach - take a picture of me fishing naked or just tossing a football or something and then post it to the Internet and say - "look at Bobby's winky" another gem from the legal mind of Bobby W/C, trying to save the Winter Texan economy by creating a "clothing optional" beach somewhere on south Boca Chica, ostensibly within sight of the Rio Grande. INS is said to be okay with the concept, saying the sight of naked flaccid geezers will surely stop illegal aliens in their sandy tracks.
WHAT'S YOUR 20?
"While the Brownsville Police Department hasn’t implemented the technology, Chief Orlando C. Rodriguez said it’s on the department’s radar." Police chief responding to question about installing GPS devices to monitor cops' whereabouts. Donut joints and movidas will likely see a drop in traffic, but more than likely boar will soar on feathered wing before they're monitored.
WITNESS TAMPERING, FALSE STATEMENTS AND LIES
Opening line in a report Tuesday by KGBT4 on the trial of attorney Marc Rosenthal, the Austin-based attorney who allegedly orchestrated a "cash for court favors" scheme in crooked judge Abel Limas' courtroom. That just about covers all that so far has come out of the Limas scandal.
ODOR MITIGATION? NO HAY PEDO
UT and Cannon also wanted to know whether the Brownsville Public Utilities Board wastewater treatment plant, on East University Avenue near the bridge, could be made not to smell so bad. BPUB already has begun engineering work on odor mitigation at the plant, Martinez said. What residents couldn't persuade PUB to do, UT got it simply by asking: can you make crap smell like oak?
THANK GOD IT'S NOT KENNY G
Spokeswoman Kelly Tipton guesses the band — which describes its music as “progressive, romantic Norteño” — will be a big draw. Guesses? Looks like neither Tipton nor the Herald knows chit about Grupo Costumbre, the band featured to attract fun-loving locals to the Tipton car dealership. Ask the body shop guys; they have the pulse of el pueblo.
LIMAS STIFFS MANRRIQUE?
Limas testified that he did not offer the $10,000 to anyone, however. "It was wrong," Limas testified when asked why not. Did former state District Court Judge Abel C. Limas grow a conscience and did not want to bribe anyone, or did he swipe the $10,000 intended to grease officer Jimmy Manrrique's rise to police chief?
VELA STANDS FIRMLY ON FENCE
"One of the hottest issues in the nation today is the topic of gun control. Rep. Vela didn't shy away from his stance on the issue. The congressman says we need to look at both sides of the issue and also look at making access to mental health care simpler." Vela did not shy away from not answering whether he's for or against some form of gun/assault weapons control. Not exactly a 60 Minutes interview from KGBT.
GET RICH, THRU WRITING !
"If you enjoy small-town Texas, Toot'n Towns USA invites local correspondents to write short (250-500 words) articles to talk up the great things about the small city or town where they live, or a town they have visited... Toot'n Towns USA pays $2 per article upon publication..." Now I can start saving for that sex change operation I'd been dreaming about since the time of that old crazy Asian war.
HERALD TWITTERING ITS THUMBS
"From dithering to withering, Maggie Smith makes it look brilliantly effortless - Entertainment - MiamiHerald.com hrld.us/VuvBG6... Lookin' for love ; in Sun City Center tampabay.com/features/human… via @TB_Times #beautiful... At Disney Parks, a Bracelet Meant to Build Loyalty (and Sales) nyti.ms/TVNcHr So Creepy! ... " Herald's newest reporter Melissa Montoya still pining about Florida instead of writing and reporting or twittering about what's going on in BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS!! WTF is running The Herald?
STANDING ROOM ONLY ?
"...Because of overcast skies, Ibarra said not many people were expected to attend. But, under normal circumstances and for anniversary-type reenactments, he said attendance can exceed 500 people." As usual, the local daily puts on its chamber of commerce vest and prints how many people could have attended the Palo Alto slaughter reenactment instead of the actual number. Could it be that the locals are sick and tired of hearing that their forefathers were defeated time and again every month?
STOP THE PRESSES!!!
"A 12-year-old boy is recovering from minor injuries he received to his face and knee after being shot with a BB gun over the weekend." Front Page news on the online edition of The Herald. 200,000 souls in the Brownsville Metropolitan area and this is a lead story for the (1-8-13) day? Really? Adding insult to readers' injury: it happened over the weekend. Translation: old story.
FRED KNOWS THE ERNIE WE KNOW
"... Well , well, well, Ernie remember back in the seventies when the Wage and hour commission caught you not paying your employees , Roy, Fernando Ysassi, El Flaco and the other young man named Frank. The wage and hour people made you pay them and you had the audacity to ask the boys to sign the checks back over to you? Remember when you were also taking those same employees FICA money and putting it in your pocket? Remember the SS made you pay it back and you had to pay it back. Then you have to remember the mechanic who died while working for you and you took his good tools and replaced them with Japanese tools. The family along with the police made you give them the good tools back, stealing from the dead is ruthless..." Fred Rendon reminiscing on Facebook about Cameron County Commissioner Ernie Hernandez after the IRS slapped an $821,000 tax lien against Ernie. Shocking to learn not that Ernie took the tools but that there was a time when Japanese tools were what China-made tools are today.
NO-NONSCENTS JERRY DEAL IS BACK
"Editor returns from three week absense, ready to resume informing task... " Harlingen readers rejoiced today (1-8-13) when MyLeaderNews Editor Jerry Deal announced his return to blogging after a long holiday in Arizona. All he needs now is to turn on the spell check to calm down the picky Treasure Hills masses.
THE WAY THINGS ARE DONE DOWN HERE?
"... Cascos, who is the county’s chief administrative officer, said that he should have been advised as soon as the discrepancies had been discovered. “It seems that the bloggers hear about it before we do,” Cascos quipped.-- Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos, doing a Sgt. Schultz, moaning to The Brownsville Herald about not being informed by District Clerk Aurora de la Garza on an investigation into missing child support money. And for this, de la Garza soon may get rewarded with a pay raise? To the bloggers' disappointment, de la Garza did not provide the daily with her one-excuse-fits-all: "Hay m'ijito, we're soooo busy. The girls are working soooo hard! I need more people."
BOBBY AND HIS SNITCH
"... Jim is always reliable for compromising Yolanda Begum by providing inside information as to what is going on behind the scenes." Our Favorite Angry Disbarred Lawyer Bobby WC boasting of how he's getting inside info about Yolanda Begum from Mean Mr. Jim Barton.
THAR HE BLOWS !
"Now let's try this a way even an idiot can understand. This is what you "ANONY's" are saying - you can come on here or anywhere and post anonymous comments about any candidate and that is legal, but the second you put it on a piece of paper and give it to your neighbors as an anony it is illegal. Do you realize how stupid you sound?" After an absence from public blogs for who knows how long, our Favorite Angry Disbarred Lawyer, Bobby Wightman-Cervantes surfaces in Mean Mister Barton's blog, pitching in his expertise on first amendment rights as they pertain to political criticism on fliers as opposed to a blog. Mmmm.
VELA PLATFORM: MY DADDY WAS A JUDGE AND MY MAMA A MAYOR
Stan Raines on Herald's parade for Vela on Facebook: What about some vetting here, Ms. Herald-Emma Perez-Trevino? What is to be known about this guy besides his family connections? What's he been up to for the last, say, thirty years? He hasn't been a particularly public fellow. Folks I've talked to don't have too much to say. His Web site's not particularly informative, either. And, fascinatingly, it's all written in third person.
DIRTY SUIT AIRS BROWNSVILLE TRASH
In an unprecedented event, a small magnitude earthquake reaching the 4.6 scale was felt around the area of downtown Brownsville, shattering some windows and creating havoc for several minutes near the new Brownsville bus terminal, according to an old post at dirtysuit blog, which concluded that the tremor was "provoked by the incognito arrival of Brownsville own Mr. Erasmo Castro also known as Brownsville Cheezmeh." Apparently we were the only ones unaware of this "new" blog that pokes fun just about anything and anyone stuck to Brownsville's teats.
SHOCKING NEWS !
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, July 3 (UPI) -- The sister of U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, was arrested after a raid on her home in Corpus Christi, Texas, police said. Upon reading this report, we at Rrun Rrun were shocked not that Farenthold's sister was busted but that United Press International was still around.
CHARLIE IRRITATES OYSTER
"I just want people to know that the city gives the zoo over $400,000 a year and the MFA over $300,000 a year and have been for decades. . . . . Everything at the sports park goes back to the city. Why doesn't the zoo or the museum give back? It's a racket and has been and you have people on the city commission who won't address it. . . . . When do the leaches stop leaching? " Former City Commissioner Charlie Atkinson, responding in Mean Mr. Barton to criticism about the funding of Brownsville Sports Park. Defending the sports park, Atkinson said 36 million was spent on UTB's theatre arts building using tax payer dollars and 99 per cent of Brownsville will never see the inside of this building. Atkinson is the grain of sand that irritates the oyster.
GOT SHIT TO DO
Limas tells Marchan that he's been busy and that he was going to work until Dec. 19: "All my buddies, dammit, want their shit done, you know. That's why I've been busy."-- Crooked Judge Abel Limas, sounding just like a regular guy, someone who can't get away for some reindeer games with other colleagues during the holidays. As hard as it is to admit-- and the shaking down of friends and colleagues in exchange for justice notwithstanding-- Limas has shed the arrogant robe he wore in public and is sounding more and more like the likeable beat cop he used to be, a carbon copy of his gregarious dad. On a side note: we can't ever recall the Herald using the word "shit" in its reporting; the daily usually wrote: he said he "was a piece of s---" or some other %$&@ like that. Herald's Emma is now reporting in real time AND using the word "shit." Welcome to the brave new world.
I PREFER CROOKED OVER EASY
Limas said a word that he would have used instead of corrupt would be “crooked.” Another gem from Crooked Judge Abel Limas on what he would call some of his colleagues. We could write a thousand words about this, but why ruin such a rare glimpse at the gears inside Limas' head. Time for a poll.
OLD, BORING, AND FLAT
AUTHORITIES SPREAD WORD ABOUT EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL: Brain-numbing headline in The Brownsville Herald, a once serious newspaper feared by politicians and respected as a government watchdog. Lethargic like an old hound dog, the Herald today barely has the energy to wag its tail at rampant corruption a block away from its newsroom, unable to even publish NBA playoffs results the next morning because of ridiculously early deadlines. The Herald is a dinosaur looking at the heavens searching for that meteor that will put it out of its misery. Bound by old and solid ground rules (is it accurate? is it fair? will someone sue us?) the stodgy rag lags behind social media in real-time gossip, entertainment, and first-hand information; the witnesses of a shooting the newspaper would normally quote have already posted their versions on Facebook. By the time the hard-copy newspaper comes out, it's old, boring and flat. Against this backdrop, one would think our daily could at least come up with more thought-provoking articles and, for sure, much better headlines. The effects of alcohol?
NELSON SNAGGED IN LIMAS NET
“Understood, understood, understood,” Nelson responded. The continuance was granted.-- Wired conversation between crooked judge Abel Limas and state District Judge Arturo Nelson in which Limas told Nelson to “play dumb” and grant attorney Ray Marchan a continuance in a civil case. Nelson was reelected last week and sent out this message on Facebook: "I want to extend a huge thank-you to my friends and family for your steadfast support during my campaign. I vow to continue to serve with dignity, professionalism and respect."
CHAPETEANDO ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON
"... But I do see him and Tad Hasse and Melissa Zamora on a political slate of sorts. You know, like Famine, Pestilence and Chapeteando." Comment on Mean Mr. Barton's blog on an alternative for Bobby Whiteman Cervantes now that his blog has shut itself off from uninvited readership. Famine and pestilence come and go, but Chapeteando is the worse calamity of all because it is nearly incurable. Chapeteando is derived from the noun Chapete, sometimes meaning a jotingo but more often a chump/loser/dumbass, and a close cousin of cagapalo, which is a chapete with attitude. .
FLACCIDO DOMINGO
"This blog is open to invited readers only" so says the terse note left behind on his Brownsville Voice blog by our favorite Angry Lawyer, BWC, which means his already meager readership will shrink even further, like George after a dip in a cold pool.
BUT THEY ARE
"...Everyone needs to get over this idea that people are always trying to screw or take advantage of another." Brownsville real estate salesman Craig Grove talking about locals and their suspicions that somehow this proposed launch site for Space X near Boca Chica beach will wind up not only damaging the beach ecosystem but burdening taxpayers millions considering how BEDC, a late but eager to please playah, is bending over without knowing the full scope and impact of the project.
SALINAS PUTS 'DEDO' ON PARENTS
“I don’t blame the school districts or the teachers or the universities or the local workforce commissions. Parents I blame. Parents of Brownsville, it’s up to you..." BEDC's Gilberto Salinas, using The Brownsville Herald pulpit for his Sunday sermon to blame parents for not producing a better educated student which, in turn, makes it harder for Salinas and the BEDC to attract high paying jobs. "I can't do my job if they can't do their job," Salinas is probably trying to say in so many words.
TILL AN INDICTMENT DO US PART ?
"... I'm with you through thick and thin, Mando. You know that. I mean brothers just don't do that."-- Maclovio O'Malley, in Mean Mister Barton, interviewing Cameron County D.A. Armando Villalobos in January, shortly after El Rrun Rrun published an article that the D.A. had been indicted. Villalobos told Maclovio: "They're just trying to derail my congressional bid. They did this in 2007. We expected it. There's no telling what they will come up with next. But I don't read them."
TOUCHDOWN BROWNSVILLE ?
SpaceX displayed their Dragon spacecraft model at the first annual Spacecraft Technology Expo, May 8-10. SpaceX is the company that wants to build a rocket launch site, and Brownsville is one of three sites under consideration. SpaceX is preparing to launch an unmanned version of the Dragon capsule to the International Space Station on May 19. The spacecraft will ride into orbit atop the company's own Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
SHOW ME THE MANNA
"The state of Texas ought to be on it like a duck on a June bug," former NASA space station program director Tom Moser, quoted in chron.com, about the absence of cheerleading from Gov. Rick Perry on a proposal by Space X to build a rocket launch site near Brownsville. Perry's "baffling" silence is in sharp contrast to Gilbert Salinas, BEDC's lackey who's been leading the local lemmings' parade, lauding the launch site's proposal "money from the heavens" without explaining our town's financial commitment, if any, to the plan.
SOUNDS TOUGHER IN SPANISH
When I asked him what he was doing parked outside my house and that he was scaring my kids he said " I was looking at the empty lots next to your house, I might be your neighbor.-- Zeke Silva, rabid supporter of Cameron County D.A. candidate Luis Saenz, describing in FB an encounter he said he had with Saenz' opponent, Carlos Masso, who Silva said was parked outside his house at night in the pitch dark. Silva said he was told to watch out, vale mas que te cuides, in Spanish.
NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LAUNCH
"This is money from the heavens," BEDC's Gilbert Salinas told the City Commission at its meeting earlier this week, The Herald reported, referring to X Space's proposal to build a space exploration launch site near Brownsville. What the BEDC has not made clear so far is: How much money will the already overburdened taxpayers in Brownsville have to pay to trust the fiasco-ridden BEDC once again?
BROWNSVILLE 'ARM PIT' OF THE U.S.
The couple from Calgary, Alberta, crossed the border in Montana on their way to a birding adventure in Brownsville, Texas. The U.S. border guard told them they were foolish to go to Brownsville, calling it the "arm pit" of the United States.-- George Smith, writing in the Waterville, Maine, Morning Sentinel, about birdwatching in the Rio Grande Valley. He continues: Luckily, they didn't turn back, arriving to find Brownsville a great city with a thriving economy and exceptional bird-watching opportunities.
KGBT4 BEATS HERALD, KRGV5, KVEO23
As of 10:30 Thursday morning, KGBT 4 beat the Herald to the big story: local attorney Ray Marchan, who was scheduled to start his jail sentence this week for his role in the Limas scandal, jumped off the causeway early today. While Facebook was on fire with the KGBT Marchan report, the sleepy Herald, KRGV5 and KVEO23 had the Coast Guard looking for someone who reportedly jumped off the bridge while Channel 4 had it nailed early with the cab driver taking the lawyer to the bridge then sealed it with JP Bennie Ochoa confirming Marchan's identity. Way to go Channel 4's Daisy Barrera. Kick ass on-the-spot journalism!
QUE ES UN WINKY?
"Think of it this way - on opening day you can drive your pathetic little imp mobiles out to the beach - take a picture of me fishing naked or just tossing a football or something and then post it to the Internet and say - "look at Bobby's winky" another gem from the legal mind of Bobby W/C, trying to save the Winter Texan economy by creating a "clothing optional" beach somewhere on south Boca Chica, ostensibly within sight of the Rio Grande. INS is said to be okay with the concept, saying the sight of naked flaccid geezers will surely stop illegal aliens in their sandy tracks.
WHAT'S YOUR 20?
"While the Brownsville Police Department hasn’t implemented the technology, Chief Orlando C. Rodriguez said it’s on the department’s radar." Police chief responding to question about installing GPS devices to monitor cops' whereabouts. Donut joints and movidas will likely see a drop in traffic, but more than likely boar will soar on feathered wing before they're monitored.
WITNESS TAMPERING, FALSE STATEMENTS AND LIES
Opening line in a report Tuesday by KGBT4 on the trial of attorney Marc Rosenthal, the Austin-based attorney who allegedly orchestrated a "cash for court favors" scheme in crooked judge Abel Limas' courtroom. That just about covers all that so far has come out of the Limas scandal.
ODOR MITIGATION? NO HAY PEDO
UT and Cannon also wanted to know whether the Brownsville Public Utilities Board wastewater treatment plant, on East University Avenue near the bridge, could be made not to smell so bad. BPUB already has begun engineering work on odor mitigation at the plant, Martinez said. What residents couldn't persuade PUB to do, UT got it simply by asking: can you make crap smell like oak?
THANK GOD IT'S NOT KENNY G
Spokeswoman Kelly Tipton guesses the band — which describes its music as “progressive, romantic Norteño” — will be a big draw. Guesses? Looks like neither Tipton nor the Herald knows chit about Grupo Costumbre, the band featured to attract fun-loving locals to the Tipton car dealership. Ask the body shop guys; they have the pulse of el pueblo.
LIMAS STIFFS MANRRIQUE?
Limas testified that he did not offer the $10,000 to anyone, however. "It was wrong," Limas testified when asked why not. Did former state District Court Judge Abel C. Limas grow a conscience and did not want to bribe anyone, or did he swipe the $10,000 intended to grease officer Jimmy Manrrique's rise to police chief?
VELA STANDS FIRMLY ON FENCE
"One of the hottest issues in the nation today is the topic of gun control. Rep. Vela didn't shy away from his stance on the issue. The congressman says we need to look at both sides of the issue and also look at making access to mental health care simpler." Vela did not shy away from not answering whether he's for or against some form of gun/assault weapons control. Not exactly a 60 Minutes interview from KGBT.
GET RICH, THRU WRITING !
"If you enjoy small-town Texas, Toot'n Towns USA invites local correspondents to write short (250-500 words) articles to talk up the great things about the small city or town where they live, or a town they have visited... Toot'n Towns USA pays $2 per article upon publication..." Now I can start saving for that sex change operation I'd been dreaming about since the time of that old crazy Asian war.
HERALD TWITTERING ITS THUMBS
"From dithering to withering, Maggie Smith makes it look brilliantly effortless - Entertainment - MiamiHerald.com hrld.us/VuvBG6... Lookin' for love ; in Sun City Center tampabay.com/features/human… via @TB_Times #beautiful... At Disney Parks, a Bracelet Meant to Build Loyalty (and Sales) nyti.ms/TVNcHr So Creepy! ... " Herald's newest reporter Melissa Montoya still pining about Florida instead of writing and reporting or twittering about what's going on in BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS!! WTF is running The Herald?
STANDING ROOM ONLY ?
"...Because of overcast skies, Ibarra said not many people were expected to attend. But, under normal circumstances and for anniversary-type reenactments, he said attendance can exceed 500 people." As usual, the local daily puts on its chamber of commerce vest and prints how many people could have attended the Palo Alto slaughter reenactment instead of the actual number. Could it be that the locals are sick and tired of hearing that their forefathers were defeated time and again every month?
STOP THE PRESSES!!!
"A 12-year-old boy is recovering from minor injuries he received to his face and knee after being shot with a BB gun over the weekend." Front Page news on the online edition of The Herald. 200,000 souls in the Brownsville Metropolitan area and this is a lead story for the (1-8-13) day? Really? Adding insult to readers' injury: it happened over the weekend. Translation: old story.
FRED KNOWS THE ERNIE WE KNOW
"... Well , well, well, Ernie remember back in the seventies when the Wage and hour commission caught you not paying your employees , Roy, Fernando Ysassi, El Flaco and the other young man named Frank. The wage and hour people made you pay them and you had the audacity to ask the boys to sign the checks back over to you? Remember when you were also taking those same employees FICA money and putting it in your pocket? Remember the SS made you pay it back and you had to pay it back. Then you have to remember the mechanic who died while working for you and you took his good tools and replaced them with Japanese tools. The family along with the police made you give them the good tools back, stealing from the dead is ruthless..." Fred Rendon reminiscing on Facebook about Cameron County Commissioner Ernie Hernandez after the IRS slapped an $821,000 tax lien against Ernie. Shocking to learn not that Ernie took the tools but that there was a time when Japanese tools were what China-made tools are today.
NO-NONSCENTS JERRY DEAL IS BACK
"Editor returns from three week absense, ready to resume informing task... " Harlingen readers rejoiced today (1-8-13) when MyLeaderNews Editor Jerry Deal announced his return to blogging after a long holiday in Arizona. All he needs now is to turn on the spell check to calm down the picky Treasure Hills masses.
THE WAY THINGS ARE DONE DOWN HERE?
"... The facilities would cost SpaceX about $80 million to build, Mr. Salinas said, though SpaceX did not confirm that figure. He estimates that developing the site would inject $50 million in annual salaries into Brownsville’s economy and add $20 million to $30 million per year in related costs." Overpaid windbag Gilberto Salinas, the executive vice president of the Brownsville Economic Development Council, quoted in (gasp!) The New York Times on the projected impact of Space X on the local economy. “It would just totally change the way things are done down here.” Mmmm. How are things done down here now?
"... Cascos, who is the county’s chief administrative officer, said that he should have been advised as soon as the discrepancies had been discovered. “It seems that the bloggers hear about it before we do,” Cascos quipped.-- Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos, doing a Sgt. Schultz, moaning to The Brownsville Herald about not being informed by District Clerk Aurora de la Garza on an investigation into missing child support money. And for this, de la Garza soon may get rewarded with a pay raise? To the bloggers' disappointment, de la Garza did not provide the daily with her one-excuse-fits-all: "Hay m'ijito, we're soooo busy. The girls are working soooo hard! I need more people."
BOBBY AND HIS SNITCH
"... Jim is always reliable for compromising Yolanda Begum by providing inside information as to what is going on behind the scenes." Our Favorite Angry Disbarred Lawyer Bobby WC boasting of how he's getting inside info about Yolanda Begum from Mean Mr. Jim Barton.
THAR HE BLOWS !
"Now let's try this a way even an idiot can understand. This is what you "ANONY's" are saying - you can come on here or anywhere and post anonymous comments about any candidate and that is legal, but the second you put it on a piece of paper and give it to your neighbors as an anony it is illegal. Do you realize how stupid you sound?" After an absence from public blogs for who knows how long, our Favorite Angry Disbarred Lawyer, Bobby Wightman-Cervantes surfaces in Mean Mister Barton's blog, pitching in his expertise on first amendment rights as they pertain to political criticism on fliers as opposed to a blog. Mmmm.
VELA PLATFORM: MY DADDY WAS A JUDGE AND MY MAMA A MAYOR
Stan Raines on Herald's parade for Vela on Facebook: What about some vetting here, Ms. Herald-Emma Perez-Trevino? What is to be known about this guy besides his family connections? What's he been up to for the last, say, thirty years? He hasn't been a particularly public fellow. Folks I've talked to don't have too much to say. His Web site's not particularly informative, either. And, fascinatingly, it's all written in third person.
DIRTY SUIT AIRS BROWNSVILLE TRASH
In an unprecedented event, a small magnitude earthquake reaching the 4.6 scale was felt around the area of downtown Brownsville, shattering some windows and creating havoc for several minutes near the new Brownsville bus terminal, according to an old post at dirtysuit blog, which concluded that the tremor was "provoked by the incognito arrival of Brownsville own Mr. Erasmo Castro also known as Brownsville Cheezmeh." Apparently we were the only ones unaware of this "new" blog that pokes fun just about anything and anyone stuck to Brownsville's teats.
SHOCKING NEWS !
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, July 3 (UPI) -- The sister of U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, was arrested after a raid on her home in Corpus Christi, Texas, police said. Upon reading this report, we at Rrun Rrun were shocked not that Farenthold's sister was busted but that United Press International was still around.
CHARLIE IRRITATES OYSTER
"I just want people to know that the city gives the zoo over $400,000 a year and the MFA over $300,000 a year and have been for decades. . . . . Everything at the sports park goes back to the city. Why doesn't the zoo or the museum give back? It's a racket and has been and you have people on the city commission who won't address it. . . . . When do the leaches stop leaching? " Former City Commissioner Charlie Atkinson, responding in Mean Mr. Barton to criticism about the funding of Brownsville Sports Park. Defending the sports park, Atkinson said 36 million was spent on UTB's theatre arts building using tax payer dollars and 99 per cent of Brownsville will never see the inside of this building. Atkinson is the grain of sand that irritates the oyster.
GOT SHIT TO DO
Limas tells Marchan that he's been busy and that he was going to work until Dec. 19: "All my buddies, dammit, want their shit done, you know. That's why I've been busy."-- Crooked Judge Abel Limas, sounding just like a regular guy, someone who can't get away for some reindeer games with other colleagues during the holidays. As hard as it is to admit-- and the shaking down of friends and colleagues in exchange for justice notwithstanding-- Limas has shed the arrogant robe he wore in public and is sounding more and more like the likeable beat cop he used to be, a carbon copy of his gregarious dad. On a side note: we can't ever recall the Herald using the word "shit" in its reporting; the daily usually wrote: he said he "was a piece of s---" or some other %$&@ like that. Herald's Emma is now reporting in real time AND using the word "shit." Welcome to the brave new world.
I PREFER CROOKED OVER EASY
Limas said a word that he would have used instead of corrupt would be “crooked.” Another gem from Crooked Judge Abel Limas on what he would call some of his colleagues. We could write a thousand words about this, but why ruin such a rare glimpse at the gears inside Limas' head. Time for a poll.
OLD, BORING, AND FLAT
AUTHORITIES SPREAD WORD ABOUT EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL: Brain-numbing headline in The Brownsville Herald, a once serious newspaper feared by politicians and respected as a government watchdog. Lethargic like an old hound dog, the Herald today barely has the energy to wag its tail at rampant corruption a block away from its newsroom, unable to even publish NBA playoffs results the next morning because of ridiculously early deadlines. The Herald is a dinosaur looking at the heavens searching for that meteor that will put it out of its misery. Bound by old and solid ground rules (is it accurate? is it fair? will someone sue us?) the stodgy rag lags behind social media in real-time gossip, entertainment, and first-hand information; the witnesses of a shooting the newspaper would normally quote have already posted their versions on Facebook. By the time the hard-copy newspaper comes out, it's old, boring and flat. Against this backdrop, one would think our daily could at least come up with more thought-provoking articles and, for sure, much better headlines. The effects of alcohol?
NELSON SNAGGED IN LIMAS NET
“Understood, understood, understood,” Nelson responded. The continuance was granted.-- Wired conversation between crooked judge Abel Limas and state District Judge Arturo Nelson in which Limas told Nelson to “play dumb” and grant attorney Ray Marchan a continuance in a civil case. Nelson was reelected last week and sent out this message on Facebook: "I want to extend a huge thank-you to my friends and family for your steadfast support during my campaign. I vow to continue to serve with dignity, professionalism and respect."
CHAPETEANDO ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON
"... But I do see him and Tad Hasse and Melissa Zamora on a political slate of sorts. You know, like Famine, Pestilence and Chapeteando." Comment on Mean Mr. Barton's blog on an alternative for Bobby Whiteman Cervantes now that his blog has shut itself off from uninvited readership. Famine and pestilence come and go, but Chapeteando is the worse calamity of all because it is nearly incurable. Chapeteando is derived from the noun Chapete, sometimes meaning a jotingo but more often a chump/loser/dumbass, and a close cousin of cagapalo, which is a chapete with attitude. .
FLACCIDO DOMINGO
"This blog is open to invited readers only" so says the terse note left behind on his Brownsville Voice blog by our favorite Angry Lawyer, BWC, which means his already meager readership will shrink even further, like George after a dip in a cold pool.
BUT THEY ARE
"...Everyone needs to get over this idea that people are always trying to screw or take advantage of another." Brownsville real estate salesman Craig Grove talking about locals and their suspicions that somehow this proposed launch site for Space X near Boca Chica beach will wind up not only damaging the beach ecosystem but burdening taxpayers millions considering how BEDC, a late but eager to please playah, is bending over without knowing the full scope and impact of the project.
SALINAS PUTS 'DEDO' ON PARENTS
“I don’t blame the school districts or the teachers or the universities or the local workforce commissions. Parents I blame. Parents of Brownsville, it’s up to you..." BEDC's Gilberto Salinas, using The Brownsville Herald pulpit for his Sunday sermon to blame parents for not producing a better educated student which, in turn, makes it harder for Salinas and the BEDC to attract high paying jobs. "I can't do my job if they can't do their job," Salinas is probably trying to say in so many words.
TILL AN INDICTMENT DO US PART ?
"... I'm with you through thick and thin, Mando. You know that. I mean brothers just don't do that."-- Maclovio O'Malley, in Mean Mister Barton, interviewing Cameron County D.A. Armando Villalobos in January, shortly after El Rrun Rrun published an article that the D.A. had been indicted. Villalobos told Maclovio: "They're just trying to derail my congressional bid. They did this in 2007. We expected it. There's no telling what they will come up with next. But I don't read them."
TOUCHDOWN BROWNSVILLE ?
SpaceX displayed their Dragon spacecraft model at the first annual Spacecraft Technology Expo, May 8-10. SpaceX is the company that wants to build a rocket launch site, and Brownsville is one of three sites under consideration. SpaceX is preparing to launch an unmanned version of the Dragon capsule to the International Space Station on May 19. The spacecraft will ride into orbit atop the company's own Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
SHOW ME THE MANNA
"The state of Texas ought to be on it like a duck on a June bug," former NASA space station program director Tom Moser, quoted in chron.com, about the absence of cheerleading from Gov. Rick Perry on a proposal by Space X to build a rocket launch site near Brownsville. Perry's "baffling" silence is in sharp contrast to Gilbert Salinas, BEDC's lackey who's been leading the local lemmings' parade, lauding the launch site's proposal "money from the heavens" without explaining our town's financial commitment, if any, to the plan.
SOUNDS TOUGHER IN SPANISH
When I asked him what he was doing parked outside my house and that he was scaring my kids he said " I was looking at the empty lots next to your house, I might be your neighbor.-- Zeke Silva, rabid supporter of Cameron County D.A. candidate Luis Saenz, describing in FB an encounter he said he had with Saenz' opponent, Carlos Masso, who Silva said was parked outside his house at night in the pitch dark. Silva said he was told to watch out, vale mas que te cuides, in Spanish.
NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LAUNCH
"This is money from the heavens," BEDC's Gilbert Salinas told the City Commission at its meeting earlier this week, The Herald reported, referring to X Space's proposal to build a space exploration launch site near Brownsville. What the BEDC has not made clear so far is: How much money will the already overburdened taxpayers in Brownsville have to pay to trust the fiasco-ridden BEDC once again?
BROWNSVILLE 'ARM PIT' OF THE U.S.
The couple from Calgary, Alberta, crossed the border in Montana on their way to a birding adventure in Brownsville, Texas. The U.S. border guard told them they were foolish to go to Brownsville, calling it the "arm pit" of the United States.-- George Smith, writing in the Waterville, Maine, Morning Sentinel, about birdwatching in the Rio Grande Valley. He continues: Luckily, they didn't turn back, arriving to find Brownsville a great city with a thriving economy and exceptional bird-watching opportunities.
RRun ARRound BRowntown
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9 comments:
WHY YOU THROW IT BACK PINCHE RAY?????? MOCHATE CABRON!!!!!!
WHY YOU THROW IT BACK PINCHE RAY?????? MOCHATE CABRON!!!!!!
PESCATE ESTA RAY!!!!!! UUYYYYYY
MACLOVIO O'MALLEY
It looks oversized, that's probably why. Beautiful fish!
Maclvio se pesco y le gusto jajaja viejo joto
ooooh Raymond, comparing you with brokeback...whats up with that vato?
broke back? the fish looks perfectly fine.... no broken back :), but meat is not white, since its over sized, meat is red and when its red, its no good. (it doesnt taste the same)
Rey, where are you finding broken backs? I've looked for them but can only find diving ones.
Biggest inshore fish I have ever caught was a Snook in the Ship Channel and yes I caught on a Black Broken-Back topwater lure. When a big snook hits a topwater lure it sounds like a firecracker going off, it's one of the most exciting fishing experiances you can have.
Nice Pike Rey.
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