I have to start out this writing going back to my last article on the “Wokeness of Nascar,” because of great readers and friends who will let me know when I miss something or leave something Important out. Well that is what happened after last publication. When I mentioned that even though NASCAR is starting to go WOKE, I did say it was still the only Patriotic sport remaining, and that made me an unthinking bad Texan for a brief moment as I forgot Rodeo, My good friend and musician Doc Williams from Bandera brought this to my attention in a direct message. Also I recieved an email from a reader that I never met, Here is a copy of the email:

   My wife and l just returned from Bandera for 4 days of visiting friends. Picked up your Aug/Sept ‘23 issue and found it very agreeable. Your ‘Letter from the Editor’ by Rick caught my attention. Woke is everywhere and sad to see it in our favorite sport of all venues. I have stoped watching all sports except ‘one’, good old Western Rodeo. Prayer, flag bearing, National Anthem and an arena full of patriot’s you will find there.

Bill Strickler
Mason, TX

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   So, while still on the subject I have another itch to scratch about NASCAR and its administative rule changes. This was experienced in the last few months leading up to the playoffs, mostly on road courses when they bring in these open wheel “Ringers” from Indy car and allow them to take the win away from a full time cup driver and in the case of Shane Van Gisbergen at the Chicago street race and keep a cup driver from locking in to the playoffs just weeks before. It’s atrocious and shouldn’t happen, The same thing happened although they didn’t win, at COTA and Watkins Glen. These guys even though they are qualified professionals need to stay in their own divisions or they need to come over to NASCAR full time in the normal owner hiring process and Not just come in to a race here and there as Ringers and Spoilers. This whole thing is about the money and because of NASCAR’s desire to be world wide. This and everything else (and I am not even mentioning “Bubbles”) will be the total downfall of the Greatest Redneck activity.

   So now we move on to the Border Crisis, Oh have the Democrats recently called it a “crisis,” I’m shocked because I thought it was a “challenge.” So for over two and a half years Texas has seen literally thousands of “Illegal Aliens” coming over the border into our cities, towns and backyards Every Day! The official number being touted is 7 million, That’s BullShit. The actual number of Illegals coming into this country in the last few years is actually topping 16 million non american speaking asylum seeking criminals. This is outrageous and never should have happened, Governor Abbott should have stepped up in calling an “invasion of state” long ago instead of just talking about it.

   But, back to Biden and the Obama cronies actually running this administration. So Sanctuary cities like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, are now complaining and speaking out because they have a few thousand illegal aliens sleeping on their streets, not to mention the ones in high end hotels and in apartments and rooms that were meant for homeless veterans who are now again homeless and left on the street while their states local taxpayers flip the bill. They are screaming at the top of their lungs to Joe Biden to NOW do something because it is in their front yard. I’m even hearing New York City Mayor Eric Adams yelling to close the border, What a profound idea. They should have been listening to all of us in Texas and Me and Lincoln as we have been stating the “captain obvious” for years. New York is the sanctuary city that welcomed the first couple of buses with 55 people on them with open arms, ham sandwiches with chips, XBoxes and big screen tv’s. Now reality has set in when they see what Texas has seen for three years on a daily basis. Now they want federal help, you know what that means, federal taxpayers all across the country are going to pay for the comfort of illegal criminals and ungrateful aliens
who didn’t come here to work as immigrants happily did years ago like my grandparents, No they just want free health care, loaded debit cards, clothes, food, a place to live, drivers licenses, welfare checks and Yes to eventually VOTE, WTF and all on the middle class’ dime.

   Then, don’t get me talking about “GoBrandon,” OK you talked me into it. Joe Biden is so corrupt and treasonist to this republic and the fact that the Obama administration started the deep state as we know it today and the DOJ, FBI and CIA are able to collapse the scales of justice, remember the blindfold, there is a hole in it.