Mom, Avis (her sister) and myself took a trip out to Goliad, Texas today and it turned out to be a nice little jaunt. First, we headed over to the Presidio La Bahia, the mission where nearly 400 Texan captives were gunned down in cold blood by the invading Mexican army. This, along with the [...]
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A nice trip through Texas history in Goliad
June 5th, 2009 
Chris Doelle 
Posted in Entertainment, History, Travel & Entertainment 
Tags: courthouse, day trip, goliad, hanging tree, History, mission, presidio la bahia, texas, travel 
No Comments »The good and bad of blogging – “Oh yeah, this is real life here”
March 7th, 2009 Chris Doelle As many of you know, from time to time, I post entries from my journal back in college. It covers a lot of what happened in the area of dating, sports, some world affairs – just general stuff of interest to a dude making his way in college. (ie mostly girls) Something interesting happened tonight [...]
Are they both really our Prez and Vice?
January 20th, 2009 Chris Doelle Was it more or did the oaths of office for both the President and Vice-President not seem very official? Biden, rather than saying “the duties of the office of Vice-President of the United States” said “the duties of the office on which I am about to enter” And the way Judge Roberts butchered Obama’s oath, [...]
Posted in History, Politics Tags: biden, flub, oath of office, obama, president, vice president No Comments »Happy Nyquil!!!
December 31st, 2008 Chris Doelle A quick video before the end of the year The title of this post was stolen from Jake Cordova who posted that as a comment when I uploaded this video to Facebook
Posted in History, Travel & Entertainment, Video Tags: cold, cough, Happy New Year, new year, nyquil, Video No Comments »The end of an era at Texas Stadium
December 20th, 2008 Chris Doelle It was a joyous game for the fans of the Carthage Bulldogs as their team defeated the legendary Celina Bobcats in the final high school football game to ever be played at Texas Stadium. For the staff, fans of the stadium, and the media folks who grew up with the stadium, it was sad – [...]
Posted in Business & Money, Football, History, Video Tags: high school football, lone star gridiron, texas stadium No Comments »Carl’s Jr. comes to San Marcos
November 26th, 2008 Chris Doelle I used to be a big fan of Carl’s Jr. hamburgers – we are talking from way back in the day (like the 80′s.) Although I had never actually eaten one until much later, they advertised on all the LA Lakers games. Being a Laker fan since I started watching basketball, and being the the [...]
Posted in Business & Money, History, junk food Tags: Carl's Jr, Lakers, Paris Hilton, san marcos, SFA, texas 7 Comments »Freedom Through Education – IX
November 9th, 2008 Chris Doelle “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed; those who are cold and are not clothed.” – Dwight D.Eisenhower
Posted in Business & Money, Health & Fitness, History, Politics, Quotes Tags: dwight d. eisenhower, quote, war No Comments »Freedom Through Information – VIII
November 6th, 2008 Chris Doelle “To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day hero … assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an un-winnable urban guerilla war. It could only plunge [...]
Posted in History, Politics, Quotes Tags: bush, george hw bush, iraq war, Politics, quote No Comments »Ch-ch-ch-changes
November 5th, 2008 Chris Doelle Sure, we have a new leader – sure, America is filled with either fear or hope of the changes to come… but I want to talk about real changes. That’s right – personal changes. First off, the beard is gone. Funny thing about wearing a beard or goatee for the better part of a decade [...]
Man, that felt good!
October 26th, 2008 Chris Doelle As you have seen in the previous post, I just returned from a bike ride. I ended up doing a short little 15-mile jaunt through some of countryside surrounding San Marcos and it was great. Multimedia snafus aside, it was great to be out there spinning down the road. I went against the wind on [...]
Posted in Cycling, Entertainment, Environment, Health & Fitness, History Tags: bicycle, bike ride, Cycling, health fresh air, mileage, san marcos 2 Comments »
