There are days I miss Texas

220.5 mph on a Texas highway... Smokie approves?

You buckled up in there?

This follows up my post about the new stretch of Texas highway where you can legally haul-it at 85 mph...

High-performance tuner John Hennessey found a way to show off one of his latest projects and help the Texas Department of Public Safety test some of  some of their equipment at the same time.

“...Texas authorities let him take a full-speed blast down the state's newest

toll road outside Austin that opened today, one that features an

85-mph speed limit. It's just long enough for the 1,200-hp,

twin-turbo Cadillac CTS-V coupe to hit 220.5 mph.”

“...might have done 230 mph had he been granted another mile of tarmac.”

Man, talk about haulin' it!

Gentlemen (and ladies), it's Pedal to the Metal time!

Boogety, Boogety, Boogety! In Texas. On one highway. For 41 miles. And you've got to pay a toll fee. But, hey, it's still good. Right? (might catch on nation-wide?)

Texas opened a 41-mile stretch of State Highway 130 today with a new speed limit

of 85 miles per hour — the highest legal limit in the U.S.

The new stretch of highway, part of a toll road also called the Pickle Parkway between

Austin and San Antonio, is aimed in part at relieving congestion that is typical on

Interstate 35, the main road between the two cities.

Catch ya on tha flip side, good buddy!

Folks, they're serious about that slogan

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot sent a letter Tuesday warning United Nations-affiliated

poll watchers that they do not have jurisdiction in the state and will, therefore, be criminally

prosecuted if they attempt to interfere at Texas polling locations on Nov. 6.

The letter, addressed to Ambassador Daan Everts, came in response to the announcement that

the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will deploy scores of election monitors

to the U.S. in an effort to monitor conservative groups for voter suppression or intimidation.

And the Governor, Rick Perry, threw his 2-cents in the pot.

Should you find yourself blessed and in the Lone Star State, enjoy yourself and remember this, they love their concealed carry law. And they carry. So Do Not Mess With Them, ya heah?

Splash

That's both the title of a movie and the sound of a movie career belly-flopping.

The first time I ever heard of Daryl Hannah was 1984, when she and Tom Hanks made the movie, "Splash." Ron Howard directed the PG rated comedy. I saw it on one of the cable movie channels. It was Ok. I've never watched a movie since then just to see her. I know she's made quite a few, but nothing I can remember seeing.

Now, she seems to be just another LaLaLand doofus.She recently went and got herself involved in a protest over the Keystone pipeline project in Texas.

"It is unfortunate Ms. Hannah and other out-of-state activists have chosen to break the law by illegally trespassing on private property," David Dodson, a spokesman for TransCanada Corp., told the AP, adding they were "putting their own safety and the safety of others at risk."

She spent a little time in the local lock-up.

  

Wood County Sheriff's office mug shot.

 
Evidently this wasn't her first protest against the project. "Hannah was also arrested in August 2011 while protesting a pipeline in Washington."