Ancient Texan

  Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant, lived in Maryland with his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, and their three children with special needs for nearly 15 years. Having fled gang violence in El Salvador around 2011, he entered the U.S. without legal status. In 2019, an immigration judge granted him "withholding of removal," prohibiting deportation to El Salvador due to credible threats from a gang targeting him over his family’s pupusa business. Despite allegations from a police informant that he was an MS-13 gang member—claims his attorneys called fabricated—Kilmar had no criminal record and checked in annually with immigration officials, living quietly as a husband and father. On March 15, 2025, Kilmar’s life unraveled. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested him without a warrant, held him in multiple detention centers, and deported him to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a mega-prison known for human rights abuse...

We went to the Ucalali party at UUFN. "Because You're Mine, I'll Walk the Line" is the latest song we sang along to the band The Ukesters. Some others included "Leaving on a Jet Plane," Country Road, and two songs by Johnny Cash.  Country road, WV mountain momma..I hear her voice in the morning.   I am hoarse now, singing too loudly and an octave higher than my voice tolerated. On YouTube, most of the talk is about Trump and his tariffs. Videos from China were the most depressing. They overproduce everything and do not allow destructive creation. Full employment, not profitability, drives their business.  But the people there are losing jobs and hurting.   Prominent leaders plan and play power games with people's lives and futures.  They do what makes them feel good, not what this country needs.  Our debt is sinking our boat, and yet our leaders promise tax cuts while they increase spending.  Now one wants to face the truth and do what we nee...

 Obscurity in the Open It is incredible how hard it is to keep some things private. At the same time, one can publish a blog and hang out the shingle, and no one sees it. Irony. I will post my innermost thoughts here and see how long they are invisible.  What are the essential things going on now? Trump is destroying TRUST on more fronts than I care to mention now. I am on X.com and frequently act like an old fool, as my wife has graciously pointed out recently after one of my worst moments. On a personal front, I am going to a UUFN party tonight. Let's stop and get some beer on the way. I would like to better get to know several women, including Elizabeth Kay. My lady is cool with it. We are, in theory, polyamorous, but there is not much demand for old dudes like me and little energy to get in much actual trouble. Grok just made this photo of me.  A lot better than the real me.  

Everyone knows Trump needs money for his new York judgements. And as you know Congress is in the process of banning Tic TOC from being distributed in the U. S. Tic TOC simply pays Trump's legal bills and Trump gets Republicans to back off on banning  Tic TOC. It's a Win/Win for all the elites that matter.  That's the deal that's going down over the next ten days is it not?  That's the deal that's going down over the next ten days is it not? 

Life moves along at its own speed and direction.  It maybe too slow for you and not going the way you want it to go. Tough.  Often we are just along for the ride. Lots of people feel like Trump is the end of the world.  But it won't be. I'm pretty sure it can't be as bad as I imagine it's going to be.  And I suspect America will survive and come out stronger. Yea, just like people when things go south and you survive then you're usually stronger. Although perhaps it didn't get bad enough on his first term since I do not think things got bad enough they had to get better in that phrase "things may have to get worse before they can get better." Global warming. It's not even close to being an existential threat. The earth and almost all of its inhabitants will still be here in a hundred years. We've way over rated the coming disaster but we have also way over estimated our ability to alter the status quo. The status quo is how it is because their ...