Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

Only in America

Drink the booze, buy the gun and rob the bank.....it's all too easy. A strip mall outside Austin. Click anywhere on the picture to view a larger image. Read more →

Austin Ramblings#3

This comes from the "News of the Weird" page in the Austin Chronicle, "I KNOW MY RIGHTS" The North Carolina Court of Appeals overturned the cocaine-possession conviction of Timothy Stone in September, ruling that a search of his person was... Read more →

Austin Ramblings #2

Dr. Birthday seems to visit me earlier each year. Yesterday was his 58th visit! As a celebration, I wanted to sample some of Texas' finest food. Having spent half an hour looking here I decided to forgo the French restaurants... Read more →

Austin Ramblings#1

A few months ago Dubya told his fellow Americans that they had to become less dependent of foreign oil. I could tell him how to save many tankers full of the stuff. In Texas where the winter temperature rarely seems... Read more →

Rambler's Christmas

Mr and Mrs Rambler are spending this Christmas and New Year in the United States. At the moment we are with in-laws in Austin TX. Austin is an oasis of liberals- an expression not to be confused with any definition... Read more →

More Lies

What really gets my goat when I hear Blair and his ministers talk about the mess in Iraq is this: They tell us that we should forget about the initial illegal occupation, and now all join hands and support those... Read more →

The Snake Man

This is a guy called Jack of Bibbi and here he is setting the world record for holding rattlesnakes in his bare teeth. Any idea why he wears the hat? I can't count these, but here suggests 10? Read more →

McTeeth's Revenge.

When I was a kid, I was told never the take the mick out of other people's misfortune. I should have known when I wrote this about that McKeith woman I would suffer! Sure enough, within two or three days... Read more →

"Pearly" Gates

I understand the US Defence Secretary nominee, Robert Gates gave up his job as the president of a Texas University to step into Rumsfeld's shoes. There must have been a large faculty there in stating the bleedin' obvious. During his... Read more →