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Wow. BRUTAL words for her fellow liberals from Democratic strategist @JulieRoginsky on CNN: “I’m going to speak some hard truths...We are not be party of common sense, which is the message the voters sent to us...When we address Latino voters...as Latinx, for instance, b/c that’s the politically correct thing to do, it makes them think we don’t even live in the same planet as they do. When we are too afraid to say that, hey, college kids, if you're trashing the campus of Columbia University b/c you’re unhappy about some sort of policy and you’re taking over a university and you’re trashing it and preventing other students from learning, that is unacceptable. But we’re so worried about alienating one or another cohort in our coalition that we do not know what to say when normal people look at that and say, wait a second. I send my kids to college so they can learn, not so they can burn buildings and trash lawns, right? And so on and so forth. When we put pronouns after names and say she/her as opposed to saying, you know what, if I call you by the wrong pronoun, call me out. I am sorry. I won't do it again. But stop with the virtue signaling and speak to people like they’re normal. There is nothing that I'm going to say to Shermichael that I’m not going to say to your or I’m not going to say to somebody else. I speak the same language to everybody. But that’s not what Democrats do. We constantly try to parse out different ways of speaking because our focus groups or polling shows that so-and-so appeals to such and such. That’s not how normal people think. It is not common sense and we need to start being the part of common sense again. Joe Biden is not responsible for that, neither is Kamala Harris. That is a problem that Democrats have had for years. I’ve been banging the drum on this for I don’t know how — probably ten years on this. We need to get back to being the party of common sense that people look at us and say we understand you. We appreciate what you say because you speak our language. And, until we do that, we should stop blaming other people for our own mistakes.”

Everybody has heard of the Llano Estacado, commonly known as the Staked Plains but perhaps more accurately interpreted as the "palisaded" plains in geological terms. It is the southern extension of the High Plains of North America into Texas. But can you say exactly where it lies in Texas and New Mexico? This handy map shows its boundaries. The Texas Quote of the Day is a description of the Llano Estacado as written by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado in a letter to the king of Spain on October 20, 1541: "I reached some plains so vast, that I did not find their limit anywhere I went, although I traveled over them for more than 300 leagues . . . with no more land marks than if we had been swallowed up by the sea . . . . there was not a stone, nor bit of rising ground, nor a tree, nor a shrub, nor anything to go by." 311 years later, United States Army captain Randolph B. Marcy, who led an expedition to explore the headwaters of the Canadian and Red Rivers in 1852, echoed Coronado's impressions of the region: "It is much elevated . . . very smooth and level . . . without a tree, shrub, or any other herbage to intercept the vision . . . the almost total absence of water causes all animals to shun it: even the Indians do not venture to cross it except at two or three places."

The Texas Quote of the Day should be enjoyed like a cup of good coffee on a clear, sunny Texas morning ... "Going west, through Texas, you leave Fort Worth and come out suddenly onto a rolling, bare-hilled country that stretches away on every side. Without warning you have been set adrift on a billowy ocean of land. Behind you have been pine forests and tangly river bottoms and blackland farms that crowded the highway. But here the plow has never been. This is ranching country. You notice windmills lonely in the long, sweeping pastures, and cattle, grazing on the far slopes, are like tiny figures set there to give some comprehensive scale to the landscape. There are no houses, no people, few roads, and scarcely any trees. The overwhelming sense is solitude, and you may begin to feel naked and defenseless, moving across so much openness. But there is beauty here, the beauty of space and of freedom, and the beauty of the wind feeling its way along the brown, grassy swells and ruffling the yellow ridges. It is a strong, stark beauty, having so few ornaments that each plane, each shadow and broken feature of the land, must play an intense part in the composition, subtly forcing the eye out to the horizon and up to the sky. This stretch is the farthest eastern finger of another, broader, higher place; a place called West Texas. Its barren grandeur, which gives way within a half dozen miles to woods and creeks again, is a suitable preview of what lies west. The way you feel here, released by the openness or oppressed by so much space, is a premonition of the emotion that will overtake you when you reach that larger land. It seems to me that this bit of West Texas Rolling Prairie (to give it is geological name) is thrown out as a hint or a warning to the traveler that he is approaching another kind of Texas from where he has been, a sub-Texas, unlike the rest of the state in landscape, in people, and in philosophy. It is a land for which the stranger best not be unprepared. My spirit rises at the site of this isolated prairie, as I know I am going home, even though this very piece of terrain once cost me an intended bride who, taking one bewildered look around her at the endless waves of land, fled back to New Jersey, promptly and forever. It was a test, and she failed, through no fault of hers. But I am thankful that something so detached as a landscape could take an adequate measurement for me of so intimate a situation. People who do not like West Texas frequently do not like West Texas. The land is too powerful in them and it is an excessive land." ----- A.C. Greene, "A Personal Country," 1979