Sunday, September 9, 2007

Post Something of Substance

Anonymous said...
please post something of substance


That post should be directed to those who post on this blog. The interesting stuff has always been from those who post responses or completely new posts. All Trog did was banter and bullshit.

If you want a few observations from me, this is all I have from last night’s news.

KFDM is still dealing with the ongoing problems caused by its new robots. Mic clips, wrong cameras, even a split box on top of the anchor’s one shot. The rookie anchor seemed to handle it well.

KBTV’s graphics person should learn that the Battle of Sabine Pass did not happen in Beaumont as the CG implied. Here’s a hint: It’s called the Battle of Sabine Pass. By the way, sending Garza and San Juan to Mexican Heritage day seems a little like race baiting. San Juan wearing a sombrero? Isn’t he Cuban?

KBMT was a no-show. I guess a car racing preview is more important than news.

There was an accidental death this weekend that no one reported. I wonder how long it will take a newsroom today to discover it. Maybe it will make the news Monday. Does it always take a press release for area news agencies to “uncover” something?

Are we going to see a big deal made out of Monday’s “Tax Hearing” in Jefferson County? I can’t wait until Monday’s news. Will our talking heads “report” that the average person in Jefferson County actually has a voice that matters? We’ll see.

What is going to be the “big” story on Monday?

46 comments:

Anonymous said...

New Trog, what's your screen name?

Anonymous said...

New Trog Said...
"KBTV’s graphics person should learn that the Battle of Sabine Pass did not happen in Beaumont as the CG implied. Here’s a hint: It’s called the Battle of Sabine Pass. By the way, sending Garza and San Juan to Mexican Heritage day seems a little like race baiting. San Juan wearing a sombrero? Isn’t he Cuban?"

First...the story that we ran about the BATTLE OF SABINE PASS was actually a story about a re-enactment at the Spindletop Museum, which happens to be IN BEAUMONT. The purpose of a lower third graphic is to inform the viewer where the video was shot, which was Beaumont.
Second...whether or not San Juan is Cuban, he was asked to attend the Mexican Heritige Festival.

Anonymous said...

Wow amazing post,you have really broke some major insider shit.Go back to AOL..

Anonymous said...

this blog just got REAL LAME!!!!

Anonymous said...

Still boring, Trog 2.

Anonymous said...

FYI, the event was held in Beaumont for the Mexican Heritage Day. Thus, the reason for the Beaumont locator. Also, the graphics person has nothing to do with the content of lower thirds. It's all done through avid inews by the producers or reporters.

Trog said...

Some posters are acting as if the person who runs a blog actually matters. That's bullshit. Old Trog, New Trog, it's all the same. The only thing that matters is what is posted by the media people. Unlike Old Trog, I'll admit it when I make a mistake. I didn't realize the event was actually held in Beaumont. As far as it appearing to be race bating sending Garza and San Juan to a Mexican Heritage fest, that still stands. Do I suck at running the blog? Who cares? Don't tell me you want someone to make up shit about media people and act as if it is fact. If this blog sucks it is only because of the reader posts on it. The only reason I read this blog when old Trog had it was to read the responses. My original idea was to kick out old Trog and let it run itself. The only reason I'm involved at all is because some idiot started posting social security numbers. Now, let’s split hairs for a moment. The graphics person IS the producer or the reporter, who ever entered the graphics. Sorry if I don’t know the exact technical word for that person. If I don’t have my facts correct on any of my portions of this blog, and then correct me. That’s part of any public forum. Old Trog didn’t actually run a public forum because he would filter out posts that caught him in an outright lie or major screw up.

Anonymous said...

I occasionally watch these blogs but rarely post. I saw the posts about Mr. Klein's social security number. While I dont think thats appropriate, I can assure you that social security numbers are often a matter of public record. I have been in the oil and gas leasing and options business for over 20 years. It is not uncommon to find social security numbers on deeds, options and leases. They are very common in probate documents. We often use these numbers to link up heirs when running a title run sheet. Recently, a law or something was passed that ordered the clerks to remove social security numbers. I have a number of landmen friends that for several days were jobless because the county clerks did not know how to apply this new law. I am not sure what the resolution was but I can assure you that these numbers are still available to the public. I ran a sheet last week that had several social security numbers in deeds and options. Mr. Klein might want to check and see if he has executed any deeds, options or leases to see if his social security numbers on on them. Is so, the public will be able to see them.

Jason Wesler
Webco Land Services

Anonymous said...

KFDM News Train Wreck. Story at 10 p.m.?

Anonymous said...

There is no one in Texas-yes the whole state named Jason Wesler or Webco Services. It just just a further attempt of the Courthouse Klan to get rid of Carolyn Guidry.

Anonymous said...

Channel 4 does seem to send the "appropriate" person to cover things. Did you see that pkg about Kevin Everett monday? They sent some black dude, who I've never seen before, to cover the story. Maybe channel 4 thinks it's a language thing. Let's send the spanish speakers to cover mexican day and let's send the ebonics speaker to port arthur.

Anonymous said...

So. Would one of you brilliant media minds out there tell me why commissioner pay raises and higher taxes in Demo-hell Jefferson County is "big news"?

Although it is nice to see a few old men and the one Republican in the county brave the red tape created by Commisioners Court in a lame attempt at censorship and protest it.

You get what you elect! If you don't like it then quit putting the same idiots in office year after year and then elect their congentially stupid offspring after that.

Anonymous said...

The original blog was at least midly entertaining. This is just a watered down imitation.

Weak.

As to the mention somewhere in here about KBTV not having money in the bank on pay day?

That ain't the first, second, third, or even tenth time that's happened...

Anonymous said...

There is no one in Texas-yes the whole state named Jason Wesler or Webco Services. It just just a further attempt of the Courthouse Klan to get rid of Carolyn Guidry.

Look in Vinton, Lousisana

Dumbass

Anonymous said...

Social Security numbers are all over the courthouse. You can start in the divorce and child support records to find a persons SS number.

Anonymous said...

There is no one in Texas-yes the whole state named Jason Wesler or Webco Services. It just just a further attempt of the Courthouse Klan to get rid of Carolyn Guidry.



Go to ANY courthouse in East Texas (my personal favorite is Liberty cause they are a mess). Find the computer terminals in either the District Clerk or County Clerk's Deed Rooms. Type in your name. Well don't do that because I've never seen "DUMBASS" as a last name. Use a common name like Smith. Check, Judgments, lease agreements and particularly probate documents. You will find at least one Social Security number listed. It is a common practice of some companies to enusre that the Division Orders reflect the proper payees and the IRS is notified accordingly.

And except for oil and gas, It wouldn't bother me if they gave your whole worthless State back to Mexico.

Jason Wesler.

Anonymous said...

My money is on el' Bo Alfred to be the first Jefferson County Commissioner to make an ass out of himself on the 10 o'clock tonight...

Anonymous said...

Jason, "they" can not give our great state back to mexico, because mexico never "gave" it to the United States. Texas was an independent nation formed after the defeat of the mexican army in 1836 by a handful of Texans, comprised of members from all over the rest of the country. Texas is part of the United States because the United States, in 1845 begged Texas to join.

Please stay in Louisiana where a politicians life cycle is this:

1. Run for office
2. Get elected, steal and take as much bribe money for whatever you can as long as you can and sock that money away (perhaps in a freezer)
3. Do you prison time
4. Retire on your graft money

Anonymous said...

This is the worst fucking story I have ever read. What the fuck was Brian thinking with this. It makes no sense and is very poorly written.

9:27 a.m. Pressured Humberto had unexpected time to beef up
By: BRIAN PEARSON
09/13/2007
Updated 09/13/2007 09:27:41 AM CDT
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Like a running back scampering around a defensive line and finding some room to turn on the power and move the ball upfield, Hurricane Humberto managed to exploit a meteorological weakness en route to surprising Category 1 strength.

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Born as a tropical storm Wednesday afternoon only 80 miles offshore, Humberto stayed over water long enough to not only become a hurricane but a system that punished Southeast Texas with gusts topping 100 mph, said meteorologist Felix Navejar, who is based in Lake Charles, La.

"That was unexpected," Navejar said of Humberto's hasty bulkup. "What was unexpected was that it wasn't over land instead of water. And it was only by just a few miles."

The atmospheric steroids were a combination of high pressure to the east and nurturing low pressure to the west, Navejar said. Humberto moved along the outside of the high-pressure bubble, aided and abetted by the low, which came in the form of a wimpy, stalled cool front over Southeast Texas.

"It was like moving up a circle," Navejar said. "It rounded the ridge."

The high pressure also helped keep Humberto offshore and over nurturing warm Gulf water just long enough to rapidly build into a hurricane.

What was expected to be a tropical storm crossing over Galveston Island ultimately lumbered farther eastward along the coast and made landfall between High Island and Sabine Pass, just west of where the Category 3 Hurricane Rita came ashore in September 2005, he said.

"If a storm stays over water for a longer period of time, it has the ability to strengthen," Navejar added.

An initial National Weather Service wind analysis showed that Humberto came ashore with about 85 mph winds, just 11 mph shy of Category 2 status, he said. Gusts of up to 105 - the sustained wind speed that Rita achieved in Beaumont - were felt around 3 a.m. along the coast and as far away as Port Arthur, Hamshire and Fannett.

In Jefferson County, Beaumont saw sustained winds of 54 mph with gusts up to 84 mph. However, the southern part of the city felt 74 mph winds, according to a measurement taken at Odom Academy.

The National Hurricane Center noted that the storm, which moved at between 6 and 8 mph as it crossed from Southeast Texas into Louisiana, was "compact" and "very small," with hurricane-force winds extending only 15 miles from its center. By comparison, Rita's hurricane-force winds extended 70 miles from center, with tropical storm winds felt up to almost 200 miles away.

As for the rain, National Hurricane Center projections Wednesday of up to 15 inches of rain were not far off the mark.

Navejar said early estimates show that as much as 11 inches were recorded along the coast and near Fannett.
Beaumont netted 10 inches of rain, while Port Arthur saw about 7 inches.

By contrast, the towns of China, Sour Lake and Bevil Oaks saw only 1 to 2 inches of rain. The usually flood-prone Pinewood community between Sour Lake and Bevil Oaks had little or no standing water at daybreak.

Anonymous said...

Kuddos to KLVI for the fine hurricane coverage this morning. What happened to KOLE? Never heard them on the air????

Anonymous said...

Another stupid fucking story. This one is from your friends at Channel 12. Not only did they put the blame for their shitty signal on Time Warner, they couldn't get the name of the hurricane correct. Check it out:

Viewer Complaints Caused by Poor Cable Quality
From the office of Mike Elrod, General manage of KBMT TV.

Last night during Hurricane Umberto we received numerous calls from viewers reporting poor reception and picture quality on Channel 12.

Most calls complained of the screen going from color to black and white, sound drop out and the TV picture freezing altogether.

KBMT Channel 12 shares your frustration and Time Warner Cable and encourages you to call Time Warner Cable at 727-1515 to voice your complaints.

Anonymous said...

Jason, "they" can not give our great state back to mexico, because mexico never "gave" it to the United States. Texas was an independent nation formed after the defeat of the mexican army in 1836 by a handful of Texans, comprised of members from all over the rest of the country. Texas is part of the United States because the United States, in 1845 begged Texas to join.

The only begging that went on was from Texas when they begged the US to assume their debt and come bail their asses out.

Mexico was about to invade Texas again and take it back. The Republic of Texas had bankrupted itself in it's 9 years of independence and the only way out was to either go back to Mexico or go the U.S.

Most of the US was against the annexation. After winning independence in 1836, Texas immediately petitioned the US government for annexation, but President Jackson blew them out of the water. Even Tyler kept turning Texas down until the Southern Democrats managed to put together a coalition of support because it would add another state where slavery was legal.

After annexation, Mexico invaded anyway, but this time they were fighting the US Army. Don't know what they teach in Yankee history, but in Texas, this was called the Mexican-American war.

Apparently all of these dumbfucks moving into Texas have a hard time keeping the facts straight.

Native Texan and history teacher

Anonymous said...

"...or when Raquel Duncan honestly thought the that the body of water south of texas was named "Golf of Mexico" (she wrote it in the script three times that way!) when confrontedthe woman honestly did not know what a gulf was, no shit really. Shes dumb as a rock."

Hey KBTV4 employee... you obviously have no life. LOL! All of this information is completely false. You must get a charge out of going around making up stories. That is exactly why you work behind the scenes. I wish you luck in your boring life.

Raquel Duncan

Anonymous said...

I don't have cable and Channel 12 looked like hell sometimes early Thursday morning...

BUT!

They were the only local T.V. station on the air with a meteorologist throughout the time that the storm was passing through our area. Later that morning the lovely Ms. Kennick joined him.

The idiot Aggie meteorologist on you who what station dismissed the storm as a "rain-maker" and only "about 5 inches" and went home...

WRONG!

Apparently, as the storm was skirting past Winnie he realized we had a hurricane on our hands and headed back to Beaumont to get to the station. They were on the air for a short time after that and then Humberto pulled the plug on grand ole Channel 6. Guess Mr. Aggie should have realized he missed the boat and just saved the gas...

I later heard that Mr. Aggie tried to blame it on the forecasting models...

TROPICAL STORM HUMBERTO
DISCUSSION NUMBER 3
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL092007
1100 PM EDT WED SEP 12 2007 (that's 10:00 pm our time)


RADAR REFLECTIVITY DATA INDICATE THE FORMATION OF A PARTIAL EYEWALL. SOME ADDITIONAL
STRENGTHENING COULD OCCUR BEFORE THE CENTER MAKES LANDFALL EARLY ON
THURSDAY...AND WINDS COULD BE APPROACHING HURRICANE FORCE OVER A
SMALL AREA NEAR HUMBERTO'S CENTER WHEN IT REACHES THE COAST.

Maybe next time he'll just read the NHC's website...

I don't know what happened to Channel, but then, who the hell cares?

Anonymous said...

Raquel you put it in the script that way and they proceeded to read it that way on air and when confronted didn't have a clue,it was not just me laughing at you sister.

Is this like the time you claimed your previous station didn't use IFBs. when you clearly had no idea how the most basic of t.v. equipment worked. Your previous "station" had a drive up window and served hamburgers get over it or just keep lying.

Don't worry they don't check resumes for the under 8 buck an hour throwaway reporters anyway.

also good luck with the exciting life, working for kbtv with that air of superiority and your rock hard stupidity I am quite shur it will be.

Anonymous said...

Hey Paul Bergen...you want your ratings to go up? I heard you have Chip Fields working for you, why not promote him to co-anchor. I bet Jim and Chip would have great chemistry on the desk.

Anonymous said...

KOLE will close its doors this Friday. Everyone will be out of work. Story at 10.

s.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Just letting the people of Jefferson County know the Klan will be having a display and giving a speech in Vidor here next month.We look forward to being an active force in the area once again.So to all the local media come report one of the largest rallies in the area in years.Currently we have over 200 Hammerskins coming from FL and a few prominent leaders of the White Power Movement. 88

Anonymous said...

[i]Racquel said... Hey KBTV4 employee... you obviously have no life. LOL! All of this information is completely false. You must get a charge out of going around making up stories. That is exactly why you work behind the scenes. I wish you luck in your boring life.[/i]

Those of us who work behind scenes know a lot more about what's going on that you obviously do. Such as the FACT that most of the software used at KBTV is, in fact, pirated.

Just because you don't want to associate with a PA does not make them inconsequential or stupid. Just because you don't treat them with any respect, those behind-the-scenes people see and hear things you hope and pray your parents would never find out about.

Freakin' prima donnas...

Anonymous said...

I fear that it is time to put this blog to bed. Face it, it is dead.
RIP Trog.

Anonymous said...

hey paul,

get rid of your goon or ill get rid of him for you. he keeps the grass nicer than your chick tho

Anonymous said...

Just letting the people of Jefferson County know the Klan will be having a display and giving a speech in Vidor here next month.We look forward to being an active force in the area once again.So to all the local media come report one of the largest rallies in the area in years.Currently we have over 200 Hammerskins coming from FL and a few prominent leaders of the White Power Movement. 88

Are you kidding?
Actually, I'm a minority journalist here in Beaumont. Despite what you may think, I'm a very open-minded person. I read The Fame of a Dead Man's Deeds, the book about the white nationalist Dr. William Pierce. I thought it was very interesting. He was a very smart man and made some compelling arguments. However, there will never be another racialist as intelligent and eloquent as Pierce. Despite any little display you people do in Vidor or anywhere else, the white power movement died with Pierce. Face it my little storm trooper friend The Future is Mestizo, which, by the way, is another very good book.

P.S. I hope I get to cover that rally.

Anonymous said...

'Raquel you put it in the script that way and they proceeded to read it that way on air and when confronted didn't have a clue,it was not just me laughing at you sister.

Is this like the time you claimed your previous station didn't use IFBs. when you clearly had no idea how the most basic of t.v. equipment worked. Your previous "station" had a drive up window and served hamburgers get over it or just keep lying.

Don't worry they don't check resumes for the under 8 buck an hour throwaway reporters anyway.

also good luck with the exciting life, working for kbtv with that air of superiority and your rock hard stupidity I am quite shur it will be.'


I'm glad to see you know more about something I've never done. Sounds strange to me. Again you keep thinking whatever you want to think KBTV4 employee. Speaking of KBTV4 employee... good luck with YOUR exciting life at the station. If you don't like it there take your behind (trying to hold myself together) somewhere else. Take your lies also and flush them down the toilet because they're getting old. I'm sorry that I'm obviously on your mind. I must mean a lot to you. Well, I don't want to mean a lot to you. Whoever you are... I'm sure you would disgust me. As a matter of fact why don't you introduce your disgusting self to me... so I'll know what idiot doesn't know what they're talking about.

Raquel Duncan

Anonymous said...

Looks like somebody hit a nerve with Klein. Whats up with all that?

Anonymous said...

Trog II, time to bury this blog in a PCP landfill in Arkansas.

Anonymous said...

Oh Jeezy Creezy... no wonder Public School education sucks...

Mexico was about to invade Texas again and take it back. The Republic of Texas had bankrupted itself in it's 9 years of independence and the only way out was to either go back to Mexico or go the U.S.

Sam Houston "leveraged" the US into taking Texas, yes to give added support against the impending Mexican attack, but he (Sam Houston)knew the US was on a savage land grab imperialistic splurge (La Purchase, purchase of Alaska, etc.) and used that fact to manipulate the US into backing Texas. Texas joined the Union with the proviso that it could legally back out and become indepent again at any time with no repercussions. Texas was the 7th state to leave the Union at the outset of the Civil War and legally the US could not do anything about it. When Texas became the 11th state to rejoin the US afer the war, the same proviso remained, that Texas could at any time leave the US.

Texas initial entry into the Union was purely a political ploy and never, did Texas "beg" or want to become part of the U.S. You may read, or even teach (horror) Texas history, but I dare say you don't have a grip on the personalities or the times involved.

Anonymous said...

Isnt the chick from 4 dating the media guy from the Wildcrappers front office media guy?

Conflict of interest?

Anonymous said...

You may read, or even teach (horror) Texas history, but I dare say you don't have a grip on the personalities or the times involved.

You have no idea what you're talking about:

Sam Houston "leveraged" the US into taking Texas, yes to give added support against the impending Mexican attack,

Sam Houston wasn't President of the Republic of Texas during annexation, you dolt.

Houston's one and only attempt was turned down flat by the US shortly after he was elected to his first term in 1836. By the time the U.S. finally annexed Texas under President Polk, Anson Jones was President of the Republic of Texas. And that took a long period of negotiation between Texas and the US, before Congress finally approved the annexation in 1845.

While Houston was on the final negotiation team, Texas had to meet the demands of the US, not the other way around as you claim.

About the only concession that Texas managed to wrangle was keeping its public lands. That's why there are only three National Forests in the whole state - the land for those forests had to be bought by the Feds from the state of Texas. The rest of the public infrastructure went to the US. That's ALL of its public infrastructure.

Texas either squandered the rest of its public lands, or they were given to local school districts to derive an income for public education. Most of those, but not all, have long been sold, as well.

The reason that Texas squandered the rest is because the US refused to assume any of the debts incurred by the Republic of Texas.

Or is this what they call "leveraging" north of the Mason-Dixon?

he (Sam Houston)knew the US was on a savage land grab imperialistic splurge (La Purchase, purchase of Alaska, etc.) and used that fact to manipulate the US into backing Texas.

Alaska wasn't purchased until after the Civil War and the 1803 Louisiana Purchase was the first major acquistion of territory by the US. The Texas Annexation was next, so one acquistion of territory is not a "savage land grab imperialistic splurge."

You're confused about the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, first proposed by the Southern/Jacksonian Democrats (during the Polk campaign in 1844) in support of the annexation of Texas. This doctrine attracted enough support from moderate Whigs that Polk was able to push the annexation through Congress. You should have paid attention to my first message.

Texas joined the Union with the proviso that it could legally back out and become indepent again at any time with no repercussions.

You're full of shit.

This is not found in the US Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas or the Texas Ordinance of Annexation, so did you make this up or dream this during a drug-induced hallucination?

What both of those documents actually say is that Texas could split up into a total of five states. Land from the Republic of Texas later became major parts of New Mexico and Colorado, with smaller portions going to Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming, but no complete contiguous states were ever carved from Texas.

Texas Ordinance of Annexation: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/annexation/4july1845.html

Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas: http://www.lsjunction.com/docs/annex.htm

When Texas became the 11th state to rejoin the US afer the war, the same proviso remained, that Texas could at any time leave the US.

Since that "proviso" never existed in the first place, then it certainly didn't exist under Presidential Reconstruction or any provisions of the three Congressional Reconstruction acts.

Congressional Reconstruction acts: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/secession/reconstruction.html

Have any documents to back up your bullshit, or are you just a troll looking for a reaction from us stupid rednecks?

For more information, you can take my class,the History of Texas (HIS 2301), in the Spring Semester. I'll look for the dumbass with the yankee accent.

Anonymous said...

Steffanie Denman really sucks, she slouches and looks like a little boy with her new dew....

Anonymous said...

Someone read this and then tell Jessica to take writing lessons.

Crockett Street's Violent Side
Jessica Holloway
September 20, 2007 - 5:21PM

Looking For Justice
A man who says he was attacked by a bouncer working at the Dixie Dance Hall on Crockett Street is looking for justice.
A man who says he was attacked by a bouncer working at the Dixie Dance Hall on Crockett Street is looking for justice.

The case went before a grand jury Thursday, but no action was taken.

The family is now seeking a civil lawsuit, and wants to warn others of the violent danger they say goes on at Crockett Street after hours.

The advertisements are everywhere in town. They read “Crockett Street in Beaumont is the place to be.”

Laci Landry, who works on in district, said, "A lot of us don't leave work until late. We have to have a bouncer walk us out. I've never had a problem out here."

It can be a great place for casual dinner and drinks, and even dance lessons.

However, when the sun goes down some say the people who are charged with keeping order sometimes lose control.

Meredith Bell said she ran to get help from police as a group of Dixie bouncers held down 21-year-old, punching and kicking him.

"We were going down the stairs they were pushing us and cursing. Then I saw them beating a guy out of control. Out of control," said Bell.

Chase Gentile says he was attacked that night. "I was a patron being thrown down on ground," said Gentile.

Both sides went before a grand jury, but it took no action. Gentile said he's afraid this sort of thing happens all the time, but people are afraid to come forward.

"It goes on. Some people are afraid to say it happened to me or I saw it happen to someone else. but it will just keep going on and on,” said Bell.

The bouncers didn't want to comment on camera, but people who work on Crockett Street say they feel safer with the bouncers there.

Daniel Vincent is one of those people.

"They're more personal. Here it's more laid back,” said Vincent.

Gentile said, "It's something that needs to stop because if no one pursues it it's never going to stop."

"I've worked places that have been bad but here it's not bad at all,” said Landry.

Bell added by saying, "If other people have see it now's the time to come forward. You need to say something you can't just let it slip."

The manager of Dixie Dance Hall declined an on camera interview. He said he's pursuing a civil lawsuit.

Anonymous said...

paul, i like watching your girl online at 6 and 4. give me lot to like. her hat makes me want more.

Anonymous said...

The "dumbass yankee" who is supposedly a teacher ( I hope he doesn't use that kind of language in class) is typical of the problem that infests teaching/schools today. They rely too much on written history (penned perhaps by those with an agenda) and don't understand the personalities and the ideas of the days in which the events took place.

It's been interesting to watch this squabble between a history book totin' yankee teacher, and someone who is a 5th generation Texan and understands the people and their motivations in the context of the times they were happening.

I'd never sit in your class, as it would be "memorize-this-you-zombie- this-is-how-the-book-says-it-went down" with no literal discussion or allotment of the early 19th century political climate and the people involved.

People, make history - not long later written versions by those not connected.

Try to be a little perceptive and read what's between the lines, see them as people, not just names and dates in a book. Take the weekend, or a month and look at the whole period and the people, then respond. Your students will benefit in the long run.

Anonymous said...

I wish you stupid, ignorant West-End idiots wouldn't put you damn debris piles so close to the road that it turns a two-way street into a one-way street...

Even West-Enders have brains, they just don't know how to use them.

Anonymous said...

Stay out of our neighborhoods and off of our streets, damn vidorians.

Anonymous said...

Nexstar fires employees that post on the internet. One down, more to go. Keep it up you guys and you'll be on the street. If you newsguys would sign your names to your post, Nexstar would find it difficult replacing the whole newsroom.