It's not often that we find ourselves out at Port Isabel.
We're not exactly avid fishermen or sailors, but sometimes we find ourselves out toward South Padre Island and we stop by and chat it up with some folks.
This happened Wednesday and since it was still before 10 a.m. we stopped at El Papa's Restaurant on Garcia Street to have a coffee and a taco.Perchance we ran into Justice of the Peace Benny Ochoa and some of the city commissioners who made Papa's their coffee stop each morning. Benny, normally and affable, wisecracking sort, looked alittle tired and we told him.
"I was up late last night, or rather this morning before dawn at the scene of an auto accident," he said.
We didn't pry for the gory details and got to talking about any number of sundry subjects: the annexation dispute with Brownsville, the new majority non the city commission, whether the fish were biting, etc.
The folks at Port Isabel (or are they pirates?) say the annexation dispute with Brownville could be easily solved if the big city would just limit their annexation plans to stop at the Los Lobos boat ramp (AKA as Jaime Zapata Boat Ramp) and everyone could call it quits as far as they were concerned.
The other lingering dispute with the Browntown flatlanders is their continuing dispute over the territorial limits of the school district that takes in the major industry at the Brownsville Navigation District (Amfels, the shipbreakers, TransMontaigne, etc.,) and collects the taxes for the Port Isabel schools instead of the Brownsville Independent School District. BISD supporters often say that except for a few homes on the south side of the ship channel towards Boca Chica, there are no other students that would justify the Port Isabel distict collecting the taxes on these major industries.
"Well," countered Ochoa, "we contribute about $17 million to the state's Robin Hood plan that distributes that money to property-poor districts like the BISD, so you're getting your share."There's no argument there, we guess. And anyway, it will probably snow in the sun before either State Rep. Rene Oliveira or Senator Eddie Lucio would want to handle that hor potato and realing the jurisdictions.
We had brought a copy of the Brownsville daily and the guys were leaving through its meager offerings when a small article on a nilgai (Texas antelope, actually Nepal) being struck by a motorist on Highway 100 caught their eye.
Nilgais are large elk-like animals (without the rack) that were imported by the Yturria Ranch a few years back and have proliferated near the wildlife refuges (like Laguna Atascosa) to the point that large helicopter hunts are carried out periodically, ostensibly to check them for fever ticks. A full-grown nilgais male can weigh as much as 600-plus pounds. We commented on that and the guys at the table told us it was the second time that someone had run into one with devastating results to both the car and the animal.
"Thats' why I'm a little sleepy today," yawned Benny. "They called me out near dawn so I could pronounce the nilgai dead."
And with that, the meeting broke up and we headed back to safer digs.
7 comments:
These illegal aliens obviously don't respect our laws, or they wouldn't be openly defying them and mocking the few of us Americans that are trying to enforce them. They obviously don't plan to integrate, or there wouldn't be entire regions in America where signs, businesses, and conversations are all in Spanish. And why do they send billions of dollars back to Mexico annually? Why do they wave Mexican flags, have Mexican flag bumper stickers, and show up in force at to promote the interests of a foreign country(Mexico) in broad daylight? No, the only ones upset about Trump are the White Anti-White Ruling Elite who run their games and the other Anti-Whites whose goal it is to see Our once great country turned into a browned out third world hell hole. And since the White working class are not allowed to intelligently discuss this issue publicly because of being attacked verbally and physically by the Anti-White/Anti-American left then we will be forced to address this problem by other means.
Dags
A nalga is dead. Poor gal. Was the driver under the influence?
Why are all the anti LNG letters to the editor from Port Isabel residents? Who's stirring things up out there? Since they are against jobs for Brownsville, Lucio and Olivera should take away all the port industries that their school district, one of the richest in Texas, survives on. They won't go broke. They also collect property taxes on all of SPI.
Ungrateful free loading pirates.
The Nilgai were released on the King Ranch 85 years ago (1930) not the Yturria Ranch a few year ago.
Was that the Port's Eddie Campirano buying a 24-pack of Bohemia at HEB last night? Musta been a hard week at doing nothing. Aha ha ha
Hello Dag: if you check your brown rounded rear axle's DNA you will note that our roots "brotaron" from Hispanic America; that includes Mexico obiously.
Shut up trailer park trash? Know what I's Saying? Go Fuck yourself wearing your kilt and square dancing at weddings wearing bolo ties.
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