The Port Of Galveston

posted by admin on Jan 29

Some settlers in Central Texas did not want to fight the Union, particularly those who were (1 point)German American.
Irish American.
Jewish American.
Mexican American.

2. Texas was a vital link in the Confederate chain of supplies because its (1 point)
railroads carried supplies.
farms provided food for troops.
telegraph lines carried messages.
cotton was exchanged for supplies from Europe.

3. General John B. Magruder recaptured Galveston in 1863 by attacking Union vessels in Galveston Harbor with (1 point)
troops from San Antonio.
gunboats from New Orleans.
refitted river steamers.
the Davis Guard.

4. The Battle of the Sabine Pass was an important victory for the Confederacy because (1 point)hundreds of Union troops were killed.
it ended Union plans to launch a campaign against Texas.
Sabine Pass was defended by volunteers.
Albert Sidney Johnston was killed.

1.German American.
2.telegraph lines carried messages.
3.gunboats from New Orleans. (or refitted river steamers)
4.it ended Union plans to launch a campaign against Texas.

posted by admin on Sep 29

Galveston, Brazoria and. Matagorda: THREE TEXAS COUNTIES WHERE IT WENT BAD.

Perry should learn a little history before he raises up the 1981 experiment as a model for Social Security reform. In that experiment­, three Texas counties “decided to opt out of Social Security and instead to provide their public employees with a system of privatized accounts.” But this system left participan­ts worse off than they would have been under Social Security.

A workable plan to allow states to opt out of Social Security would require draconian provisions­, such as a mandate that everyone must retire in the same state that they worked and paid taxes in. Otherwise, workers who are too young to receive Social Security benefits would move to an opt-out state to avoid paying Social Security taxes — and then promptly move to a state with Social Security benefits the moment they became eligible.

Eventually­, the entire system would collapse under the weight of too many Social Security beneficiar­ies who had not paid into the system.

The three Texas counties “decided to opt out of Social Security and instead to provide their public employees with a system of privatized accounts.” The analysis done by the Congressio­nal Research Service “compares two sets of families in three different income brackets [and] shows what happens to their retirement in 2005 under Social Security and under the Texas plan.” The conclusion­:
By examining the actual system in place in Texas, this study shows that Americans are worse off with privatized accounts — not in theory, but in reality.

even if perry got in i dont think he can do away with social security its political suicide for his whole party it wont get pass a demorcrat congeress for one with congeress only having 18 percent approval rating theyre not going to be around much longer and the senate probably will stay demorcrat regardless rick perry is an idiot so i dont think either party would let him get that passed remember when bush tried FAILURE

posted by admin on Sep 21

Galveston, Brazoria and. Matagorda: THREE TEXAS COUNTIES WHERE IT WENT BAD.

Perry should learn a little history before he raises up the 1981 experiment as a model for Social Security reform. In that experiment­, three Texas counties “decided to opt out of Social Security and instead to provide their public employees with a system of privatized accounts.” But this system left participan­ts worse off than they would have been under Social Security.

A workable plan to allow states to opt out of Social Security would require draconian provisions­, such as a mandate that everyone must retire in the same state that they worked and paid taxes in. Otherwise, workers who are too young to receive Social Security benefits would move to an opt-out state to avoid paying Social Security taxes — and then promptly move to a state with Social Security benefits the moment they became eligible.

Eventually­, the entire system would collapse under the weight of too many Social Security beneficiar­ies who had not paid into the system.

The three Texas counties “decided to opt out of Social Security and instead to provide their public employees with a system of privatized accounts.” The analysis done by the Congressio­nal Research Service “compares two sets of families in three different income brackets [and] shows what happens to their retirement in 2005 under Social Security and under the Texas plan.” The conclusion­:
By examining the actual system in place in Texas, this study shows that Americans are worse off with privatized accounts — not in theory, but in reality.

Right now there is no such thing. The closest you will find are the Union Pension Funds and the company Pension Funds.

posted by admin on Sep 9

Some details:

A retired college professor who has sailed approximately 8,000 miles to the eastern Mediterranean is expected to arrive at his destination within the next 24 hours: the exact location where Israeli forces tried to sink a US Navy ship in 1967, killing or injuring over 200 American servicemen.

Didn’t you know?
Read on then,….

Or if you are one of those who deny’s history, then call me all the usual names and be done with it already.

Larry Toenjes, 74 years old, is planning to hold a memorial service for those killed on board the ship, the USS Liberty. Israel shelled and torpedoed the ship, an electronics surveillance ship, in an attack that lasted as long as the attack on Pearl Harbor.

While Israel and its partisans have tried to claim that the attack was “a mistake,” a 2003 inquiry by an INDEPENDENT COMMISSION led by a retired FOUR STAR NAVY ADMIRAL, a Rear Admiral, and the highest ranking Medal of Honor recipient in the U.S., a Marine General, announced on Capitol Hill that ALL THE EVIDENCE indicated that the attack had been INTENTIONAL, had consisted of an ACT OF WAR against the United States by ISRAEL, and that a COVER UP had been ORDERED by the White House.

In addition, the commission found that rescue flights had been recalled by President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. While almost no media covered the Capitol Hill briefing, a full record of its findings are in the Congressional Record and Stars and Stripes military newspaper.

Mr Toenjes, A TRUE PATRIOT…. who departed from Galveston, Texas, almost four months ago, is accompanied by a Marine veteran who joined him in Malta.

Toenjes will remain 12 miles offshore, in international waters, where the attack took place.

In a column published by the Galveston News, Toenjes explained that he was undertaking the voyage for two primary purposes: to honor the men who died in service to their country and to try to draw attention to attempts by their surviving families and crew mates to obtain the full government investigation that is legally required but that has been blocked by the powerful Israel Lobby.

Toenjes’ trip is being tracked on the website of the Council for the National Interest (CNI). When he arrives at his destination, the CNI website will stream live his memorial service, which will be carried by satellite phone to a radio program hosted by a Liberty survivor, Phil Tourney.

OF COURSE,…the national media have IGNORED this voyage (I wonder why eh?), Toenjes and Liberty survivors hope that the American public will learn about his undertaking by word of mouth, blogs, and social media like Yahoo Answers etc.

http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/costs/attackontheussliberty.html

http://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-commfindings.html

http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/costs/attackontheussliberty/item/652-boston-declaration.html

Is what this PATRIOT is doing "good"?

Shouldn’t ALL AMERICANS be supporting him in his efforts to remember Americans who were killed in INTERNATIONAL WATERS,…By Israel?

All thoughts welcome.
bev.

I know more about IFF systems than you will ever know dear.

Oh yes I do.

I have used such systems many times IN BATTLE and in exercises.
Probably before you were born.

Go and try to wake up,..please.

The "Liberty Incident" was the product of gross incompetence by BOTH SIDES. Here is as detailed an account as YA allows space for regarding what really happened and why:

In June 1967 the NSA without notifying Israel or even U.S. 6th Fleet redirected the signals intelligence ship USS Liberty to operate just 12 instead of 100 miles off the coast of Sinai, in a war zone, in a lane not used by commercial shipping & declared off-limits by Egypt (i.e. only Egyptian warships were likely to be found there). At 6:00am on 6/8/67 an IDF patrol aircraft spotted the Liberty and reported her hull number GTR-5 to IDF Naval HQ where an hour later she was identified as American and marked as a neutral ship on the manual plotting (map) table with a wooden model. The problem with these old (pre-computer) manual plots is that they quickly become clogged with outdated and erroneous information and need to be cleared frequently. At 11:00am the watch changed at IDF Naval HQ and the new shift followed procedure by CLEARING THE BOARD, but did so without bothering to check if the neutral ship was still present. They simply assumed it had moved on! While just one of the many mistakes made that morning by both sides this typically appalling lack of basic professionalism is what ultimately sealed Liberty’s fate. So yes, while the accusation that the IDF knew what and where the USS Liberty was is true, it is also meaningless as after 11:00am everyone in Israel who knew gone home to bed. For all practical purposes the Liberty had ceased to exist.

1/2 hour later panicky inexperienced IDF reservists at El Arish reported an explosion which they blamed erroneously on naval gunfire. The plotting board at IDF naval HQ was clear, showing no neutral or friendly ships so it was naturally assumed ANY ship in the area was hostile and the likely cause of this reported shelling. This set in motion a series of badly coordinated, virtually unplanned and haphazard attacks using resources wholly unsuited to the task. First a flotilla of 3 small Motor Torpedo Boats were dispatched (with considerable difficulty and delay) to intercept the phantom Egyptian warship, approaching the Liberty just as she was at the end of her "racetrack" patrol pattern and turning about back towards Egypt. The MTB commander interpreted this course change as an Egyptian warship turning to run for home so he pursued. Unable to catch the "fleeing enemy vessel" air support was called in and 2 flights of fighters on ground-attack missions were diverted to this effort. None of the pilots had any training in ship recognition or attack and were not armed for the job, having only guns and Napalm, not the AP rockets and delayed-action bombs one would use when planning to attack a ship. The jets arrived to look for the fleeing Egyptian warship, made a couple of passes at 3,000 feet altitude, saw no Israeli markings on the ship and therefore identified it as Egyptian – a Hunt or Z class destroyer. The ID was wrong but this was not their fault. They were not looking to see what ship this was but rather what Egyptian ship this was and for what little they knew about ships they had one. Remember, there was no other traffic on the plot so they were not expecting to find anything else but an Egyptian warship. At 1:58pm the aircraft were cleared to attack, which lasted 14 minutes until one of the pilots recognized Latin, not Arabic markings on the now burning ship, radioed the information to IDF Air Force HQ and broke off. This information was then passed to IDF Naval HQ but this was 1967, there was a war going on and the WW2 surplus IDF communications system was clogged with a massive backlog of messages. It would take another 2 hours before the Navy knew what the Air Force already knew – that USS Liberty was not an enemy ship.

25 minutes after the end of the air attack the MTB’s finally caught-up the burning Liberty from astern and flashed a recognition signal. USS Liberty gave a vague reply and an (unauthorized) burst of machine gun fire. The MTB commander naturally interpreted this as an Egyptian ship fighting back so he attacked at 2:45pm with his elderly array of light guns & WW2 surplus torpedoes. 15 minutes later while circling the Liberty one of the boats made out the hull number GTR-5 in Latin, immediately ordered a cease-fire and offered assistance. Hardly the actions of someone intent on sinking a ship he knew all along was American. Subsequently the Israeli government paid compensation to the families of the 34 men killed in the attack and to the wounded as well as settlement for the for damage to the ship.

It is a curious thing the 1987 attack by our then-ally Iraq on the USS Stark, which killed more American’s than the attack on USS Liberty is virtually forgotten today. In 4 years I have never seen anyone ask "Why did Iraq attack the Stark" on YA. But the Liberty comes up here at least weekly. Why is that?

posted by admin on Aug 29

Latinos are just 40% of the state of Texas, but over 70% of everyone in this state under 18 is Mexican.

PASADENA, Texas — Meet the face of the new Texas: Jose Villagran, 39, first-generation Mexican American, four kids, suburbanite.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2011-02-17-texas-census_N.htm

Along with thousands of others like him, Villagran was born in Houston to Mexican parents and still works in the city, but he moved his family to this safer, cheaper suburb 14 miles south of Houston.

Census data released Thursday show a robust statewide population spurt the past decade — adding more than 4.2 million residents, or 20.6% — attributed primarily to Hispanics such as Villagran, minorities born in urban centers but quickly spreading to suburbs and rural areas across the state.

TEXAS: County, city population and change
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"There are more Mexicans here than ever before," Villagran, a buyer for a scrap metal company, says of Pasadena. "We’ve kind of taken over."

And then some. Overall, Texas’ population grew to more than 25 million, awarding the nation’s second most populous state four more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Hispanics accounted for 65% of the state’s growth since 2000, while non-Hispanic whites experienced the smallest increase of any group, just 4.2%. The black population grew by 22%.

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"We’re seeing the development of two populations groups in Texas: aging Anglos and young minorities," says Steve Murdock, a former Census Bureau director and now a Rice University sociology professor. "We’re seeing Hispanic growth not just deepen but become pervasive throughout the state."

A healthy state economy during the recent recession and Mexican nationals fleeing drug cartel violence in Mexico also contributed to Texas’ population boom, he says. Border towns saw sharp increases: Brownsville’s population rose 25% and Laredo’s by 33%.

But natural Latino population increases — more Latinos born in the state than dying — were the main engine, he says. For the first time in recent history, Texas is less than half non-Hispanic white, dipping to 45%, the data shows. Hispanics make up about 38% of the total population.

The state’s burgeoning Hispanic population mirrors what’s happening across the USA, Murdock says. "The Texas of today is the U.S. of tomorrow," he says.

Another telling statistic: Texas added nearly 1 million children under 18 — 95% of them Hispanic, says William Frey, a demographer for the Brookings Institution. "That’s the future of the state," he says. "It’s a diverse one."

The increased Hispanic numbers are expected to spark heated debate in the months ahead over how to redraw districts to accommodate the four new congressional seats and include more minority voters, says Ross Ramsey, managing editor of the Texas Tribune, an online political site. "That’s the beginning of a political dogfight," he says.

Texas’ population surge came in four main areas: Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston-Galveston, San Antonio-Austin and the Rio Grande Valley, all areas with high numbers of Latinos. Those four areas account for 84% of the statewide gain.

Houston remains Texas’ largest city with 2.1 million residents. San Antonio moved up during the decade to the second slot with 1.3 million, trailed by Dallas with 1.2 million, the data show.

In the Houston area, Latinos no longer are confined to the East End neighborhood, their historical enclave, says Deacon Joe Rubio, an administrator for Catholic Charities Houston. Historically white suburbs such as Katy, Dickinson and Pasadena are swelling with Latinos, he says.

In Harris County, where Houston is located, the Latino population grew nearly 50% to 1.7 million and Asian Texans grew by 44% to 250,000, while the number of whites dropped from 1.4 million to 1.35 million — a 6% decline.

"There is a significant spread from traditional barrios or neighborhoods to suburban areas and other areas where you wouldn’t find them before," Rubio says.

Once home to the Ku Klux Klan and the setting for the 1980 hit movie Urban Cowboy, Pasadena today is dotted with carnicerias (meat markets), washaterias (laundromats) and taquerias. The former Elks Lodge is now the El Palacio Real, hosti

A: They have larger younger families that the other races in Texas.
B. Illegals coming across are usually pretty young themselves, they start families with lots more youngsters.

posted by admin on Jun 14

just wondering even the Galveston historical society couldn’t tell me, now hows that for history teachers

Not sure who you spoke with at the Galveston Historical "Society", but I work for the Galveston Historical Foundation. There have been many causeways over the years and before then, a ferry boat operated between Virginia Point on the mainland to get people to and from the island.

posted by admin on May 6

see?

I live in a small city in Texas which is only famous for its history (and production)

But im about to graduate from college, and I need a vacation if i can.

Id love to go to: Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, and Galveston.

Id go to El Paso but with all the border trouble i dont think i want to go that way.

I probably cant afford a game, but who knows.

You can get a free travel guide that will give you a lot of things to see and do.

http://www.traveltex.com/plan-your-trip/travel-guide/order-travel-guide

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posted by admin on May 9

just a sentence or two on…
Paris, Texas
and
Galveston, Texas.

thanks xx

I have a friend named Paris who lives in Texas.

posted by admin on May 2

I am inquiring to see how mainland Houstonians traveled to Galveston prior to the Causeway being built. What were the routes to get to the island and the locations of the routes.
Also, if the causeway cannot be used, how would people get to Houston? Are there any other routes to get off or on the island other than the causeway.
The current ferry is at Port Boliver and it takes you to the area of Boliver Peninsula which then takes you to I10 and to go back to Houston, its and additional 90miles out of your way.
I need to know coming from Houston all routes in the past and current you can take to get to the island from Houston by not crossing the causeway bridge which is I45s

The next best way to get to Houston is over the toll bridge at the west end of galveston island and then to Freeport Texas, and up 288 into Houston. This is a longer drive than the causeway, but shorter than using the Bolivar Ferry.

There has been a causeway since about the 1850′s except for a few years when it was damaged by Hurricanes. The original causeway was just a wooden railroad trestle, The railroad was the way people and freight traveled to Houston in the early days. Prior to that people just used ferries, Ferries were also used if the railroad was damaged.

posted by admin on Jan 24

Coming down the coastal prairie from Houston on Interstate 45, you can smell the ghosts before you can see or hear them. They smell sweet and moldy, like the unfocused memory of some lost sensation jarred unexpectedly to mind . — from chapter oneGalveston — a small, flat island off the Texas Gulf coast — has seen some of the state s most amazing history and fascinating people. First settled by the Karankawa Indians, long suspected of cannibalism, it was where the stranded Cabeza de Vaca came ashore in the 16th century. Pirate Jean Lafitte used it as a hideout in the early 1800s and both General Sam Houston and General James Long (with his wife, Jane, the Mother of Texas ) stayed on its shores. More modern notable names on the island include Robert Kleberg and the Moody, Sealy and Kempner families who dominated commerce and society well into the twentieth century.Captured by both sides during the Civil War and the scene of a devastating sea battle, the city flourished during Reconstruction and became a lead

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