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Why Is Texas So Psycho?

The Governor of Texas is one bad haircut away from Blagojevichian levels of gubernatorial gooberness.
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Texas politics has long been a source of great amusement for the people of our state, but it's often a source of bafflement for people beyond our borders. So, sometimes there's a need to explain what's going on here, and this is one of those times. In this case, the explanation is simple: Our governor is a goober.

Texans have known this for some time, but Rick Perry -- whose chief claim to fame had been that he has a spectacular head of hair -- was unknown outside the state, so he was our little secret. Now, however, Perry's gooberness has gone viral. He's a YouTube phenomenon and a new darling of the GOP kingmaker, Rush Limbaugh.

He broke into national consciousness on April 15, when he spoke at one of the many "teabag" rallies that Republican operatives set up around the country to protest Barack Obama's deficit spending. Appearing in Austin before a boisterous crowd of about a thousand people who were fuming about everything from gun control to the Wall Street bailout, the governor opened with this shot: "I'm sure you're not just a bunch of right-wing extremists. But if you are, I'm with you."

Then came the thought that earned him YouTuber-of-the-Day and a favorable mention from Lord Limbaugh: Texas just, By God, might secede from the union if Washington keeps messing with us.

No doubt many people in the other 49 states burst into applause at this notion, but it caused quite a bit of consternation among home folks, who rather like being both Texans and Americans. Was he serious? Apparently so. When reporters asked afterward about the legality of such a rash move, Perry pointed out that Texas had entered the union under a unique agreement that gave us the right "to leave if we decided to do that." Good line, but utterly untrue. No such agreement ever existed.

Facts aside, what's going through Perry's perfectly coiffed head is that polls presently show him losing his re-election bid in next year's Republican primary. Thus, he's scrambling to excite the most rabid of the Texas GOP fringe by posing as a courageous defender of Texas sovereignty against meddlers from Washington. His chief target is $555 million in federal money that would come to our state under Obama's economic stimulus program. This is desperately needed money that would go straight into our nearly broke unemployment compensation fund, but he asserts that he will reject it, claiming that the federal dollars come with strings attached.

The "strings" are actually simple and sensible threads of reform that would help the hard-hit workaday people of our state. For example, the federal stimulus program requires that part-time workers also be eligible for unemployment comp. In today's harsh economy, when part-time work is all that many people can get, they ought to be covered, too. But common sense has never met Perry, much less befriended him, so he continues to posture: "We think it's time to draw the line in the sand and tell Washington that no longer are we going to accept their oppressive hand in the state of Texas," he recently spewed.

Yes, comandante, but what about that other $16 billion or so in Obama's stimulus money that you are going accept? For example, while you slap away funds to help working folks, you're eagerly reaching out with your other hand to grab $1.2 billion of those filthy federal dollars to put into your pet project of saddling Texans with a network of privatized toll roads. If it's a matter of principle, why not reject all federal money? Indeed, you used to be a cotton farmer who benefited from Washington's crop subsidy programs -- how oppressive was that for you?

OK, our governor has not quite attained the Blagojevichian level of gubernatorial gooberness, but he's a striver, and he's only one bad haircut away from getting to the top. Illinois, we feel your pain.

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Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the new book, "Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow." (Wiley, March 2008) He publishes the monthly "Hightower Lowdown," co-edited by Phillip Frazer.
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I'm not opposed to devolution per se,
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Posted by: and_abottleofrum on Apr 25, 2009 12:23 AM   
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as I think industrial society's adaptive investments in complexity have overshot and become to a large extent liabilities - the U.S. being perhaps the most complex country of them all due to its power and wealth - and therefore effective governance in this time of ecological crisis is ruined by powerful interests' and ordinary people's inability to agree on much of anything. Thus in principle Americans might be better off divided among separate polities of nation-state status (or who knows, maybe other sociopolitical formations).

But the reality is devolution would likely be a bloody affair, so this has to be weighed against its streamlining benefits, although strife alone doesn't negate it value as some naive do-gooders with no sense of the brutality of history would assume.

What really bothers me about this specific instance of discussing secession, other than its obviously grandstanding nature, is the Texas governor's prime motivation is an elitist asshole opposition to funds that would help the unemployed due to "federal strings" (that come from the opposing party).

The governor can take a flying leap right into the Rio Grande and drown for being an out of touch piece of shit who wouldn't mind throwing some of the most vulnerable people in the country, the unemployed, under a train just to win points with some voting blocs and stir controversy for attention.

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It seems to be trendy among bitter southern governors to oppose
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Posted by: and_abottleofrum on Apr 25, 2009 12:46 AM   
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federal funds that would assist the unemployed in their states on the basis of "strings." I wouldn't bet their re-election prospects are very good considering unemployment rates continue to soar.

The unemployed in these states should show up at the governor's mansion in the dead of night brandishing torches and pitchforks, then drag the governor out in his pajamas (or the bondage gear applied by his high-priced dominatrix - paid for with tax money of course) for a public lynching followed by folk music and dancing. What a beautiful gesture of community solidarity it would be.

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Texas is psycho
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Posted by: LostInAmerica on Apr 25, 2009 1:33 AM   
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I've been to Texas. I've lived in Texas. I was glad to get out. Texas is psycho. While there are many Texans I admire - Jim Hightower, Molly Ivins, and others I am baffled that they choose (chose) to live and remain in this dysfunctional state of rednecks and idiots.

The idea of Texas succeeding from the Union is a good one and I support it wholeheartedly. I want to live in a good and valorous United States of America and you Texans seem be nothing more than a sad stain upon this soil / our soul. So just go away you bastards - let your prophetic words give you the grim future you so seem to want to embrace. You will be free to find your own utopia, a place in your newly established country (we can only hope) where you are free to express fully the wisdom of your hatreds. So just go. Fuck off, and good riddance. (And take Alaska with you.)

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Jim Hightower's articles are just brilliant
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Posted by: orwellturns on Apr 25, 2009 1:41 AM   
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There are always a couple, or more places, within the article where Hightower is side-splitting, and hysterically, funny. Not to mention how he gets to the very core and point of his message. 'Why Is Texas So Psycho?" I'm still laughing, but my answer would have to include, well you had George W. Bush for Governor for six years and then you've had Rick Perry ever since who was helped into the office by the same people that got GW Bush in the office, that is a long time of mental imbalance.

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Give the stolen land of Texas back to Mexico
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Posted by: s.duplantier on Apr 25, 2009 2:04 AM   
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If the stolen parts of the territory of Texas are restored to their rightful owner, than Mexico gets to deal with all the millions of yahoos and conservatives.

Maybe they could get jobs as farm day laborers and domestics working for Mexican landlords.

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Naturally traitors
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Posted by: Perry Logan on Apr 25, 2009 2:46 AM   
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Look at it this way: you sure as hell wouldn't want to be in a military unit with a Texan.

Why? Because if you're not a Texan, you're screwed.

If you get into trouble, the Texan won't help you because you're just a Yankee. The little pr*ck will save his bullets for his fellow Texans.

These people are naturally traitorous. I say we throw them out of the Union forthwith..


My new clip: Busload of Faith

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Gov. Rick Perry = Globalist Bildeberger appointment
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Posted by: TrollTreason on Apr 25, 2009 4:02 AM   
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The globalist intend to divide this country up into 5 regions ... so this should not surprise anyone that ideas like this are floated in the media

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Where ever there is arrogance
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Posted by: weathered on Apr 25, 2009 4:39 AM   
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you'll find a pathological sense of entitlement.

Texas is NO different than hollywood, Wall Street or Aspen. These are deluded little souls who think they're different.

Just because they were taught to perpetuate that myth and some are so needy they infect MSM to reinforce it, doesn't mean as a core illness, its not treatable - it absolutely is.

Humility eludes us, denial become us and trouble follows us. Study Tolle and flourish.

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Oh please ! What about rural CA and NY?
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Posted by: JenniferBedingfield on Apr 25, 2009 4:45 AM   
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They're just as bad as TX if not worse. While I am a strong fan of Hightower, I wished he would bring up the fact that Perry couldn't get past 40% of those who voted last time around so he doesn't really represent most Texans. And what about large red rural areas of "blue" states? At some point, the population densities between the coastal cities and the rural interiors in both states will even out and that could turn them swing if Orange County, CA is any indication. The Democrats aren't going to bother visiting TX unless they're losing CA or NY.

P.S.: I've visited my granduncle in Lubbock, TX countless times in my life and people there are not as unfriendly as it may appear. I've seen various areas of the state and the only part that's all that bad is the northern part that's closer to the OK border.

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Secession is what got this country started
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Posted by: rainbowstew on Apr 25, 2009 5:31 AM   
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A lot of people like to pooh-pooh the idea of secession, and act like it is something that only a bunch of nutcases would consider doing. However, every year on July 4 we celebrate the secession of the American colonies from Great Britain in 1776. We have also had other examples of secession, such as the breakup of the Russian empire, which were wholeheartedly approved of by the U.S. politicians at the time. So don't think it's something that cannot or should not happen here.

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Out of Texas came... Janis Joplin, Scott Joplin, Z Z Top, Edgar & Johnny Winter, Willie Nelson
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Posted by: blondesprite on Apr 25, 2009 5:37 AM   
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BJ Thomas,Uncle John Turner, T Bone Walker, The Big Bopper, Steve Martin, Tommy Lee Jones, Carol Burnett, Natalie Maines, James Edward Gunn, Renee Zellweger, Isaiah Washington, Kate Capshaw, Hilary Duff, Morgan Fairchild, Jamie Lee Foxx, Eva Longoria, Sissy Spacek, Bill Engvall, Ron White, Box Car Willie, Lyle Lovett, Meat Loaf, Michael Nesmith, Roy Orbision, Billy Preston, Kenny Rogers, Paul Wall, Barry White, Otis Williams, Bob Wills,Stevie Ray Vaughn, Ethan Hawk, Woodie Harrelson, Don Henley and too many more to list.
There is something (prob the angst of living here) about Texas that occasionally produces greatness.
No doubt, too much of Texas is rednecked. But, please don't count us all out! There are a few (blue collar/union) counties left who still vote completely blue. I am happy to say, I live in one of them.
Currently, Texas is enjoying comparitvely low unemployment. The Oil and Chemical companies are in a boom and begging for silled workers.
Please consider moving here and help us turn this red state blue.

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There's Nothing Wrong with Texas...
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Posted by: Carol Burns on Apr 25, 2009 6:33 AM   
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...that a good housecleaning wouldn't fix. Jim, how about running for office? Were you talking about the NAFTA highway? I wondered what happened to Bush's illegal drug and terrorist gateway.
And, just for the record, I will repeat again...THE BUSHES ARE NOT TEXANS!!! They're carpetbagging grifters.

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Don't judge all Texans by the Governor.
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Posted by: cheryljohns on Apr 25, 2009 6:59 AM   
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For those of you making comments concerning the notion that it would benefit America to lose Texas - you are being just as bad as people overseas that judged all Americans by watching the antics of George Bush (who is really from the northeast).

Harris County (Houston) went blue for Obama.

We have assholes - we also have some great people. As a Realtor, I meet a lot of people moving into this state - and they all comment on the friendliness and positiveness of the citizens here.

Don't rush to judge all of us by a few loudmouths - not unless your state is asshole-free.

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What other goofball was governor of Texas?
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Posted by: travelertoo on Apr 25, 2009 8:14 AM   
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It was Goofball Georgie of coarse.

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So if TX secedes, where do you get your crude oil from? And don't beg OK, AK, or LA to help.
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Posted by: Ranjit Kumar on Apr 25, 2009 8:18 AM   
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Be careful what you wish for.

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Answer the Question!
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Posted by: oregoncharles on Apr 25, 2009 8:24 AM   
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Why IS Texas so psycho?

You can list exceptions till you're blue in the face (or a few counties), but it doesn't change the overall pattern.

And Georgie Porgie may not have been FROM Texas, but he sure as Hell was Governor OF Texas. That's a lot to live down, Texans. Better get cracking. Hightower, last I heard, may be FROM Texas, but no longer lives there.

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Texas is Psycho Because...
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Posted by: drricklippin on Apr 25, 2009 8:35 AM   
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When you combine big oil $, with lots of guns and fundamentalist christianity you get big time -Texas sized - psychopathology

I've travelled there many times and it is indeed "a world unto itself"

Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton,Pa

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Texas...
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Posted by: frank69 on Apr 25, 2009 9:12 AM   
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I spent two assignments at Randolph AFB, Texas, a total of nearly 11 years. I met many Texans, some nice and some not so nice.
Shortly after my late wife became a US citizen in Judge Joe Brown's Federal Court in San Antonio, She received a personal letter from Senator Ralph Yarborough welcoming a new citizen - He signed it himself - not an autopen. I still have it today.

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Psycho,Texas 66666
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Posted by: dougo on Apr 25, 2009 9:15 AM   
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My one dominant thought about Texas after many trips there as a truck driver was it's a good place to be from,far away from.
I know,I know,Texas has many good,thoughtful people like Molly Ivins,Ann Richards and Jim Hightower but it also has an over-abundance of people just like George W. Bush.I heard the outlandish remarks made by Rick 'The Hair' Perry and thought it sounded like a great idea, Texans taking a vote on secession and at the same time vote to accept or reject the federal money for unemployment and whether to impeach Perry.
Would he agree to such a vote? I doubt it.

Face it Texas,you are the new Illinois or the Florida of 2000.The joke is on you and a bad joke it is.To bad such a buffoon leads your once great state down the path of ruin.The only worse representative in your recent past just came home to Houston.Good luck with that.
One of my favorite Molly Ivins quotes: It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.

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Texas governor...
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Posted by: frank69 on Apr 25, 2009 9:19 AM   
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Governor Perry has never carried his home county in any election. He won last time with about 40% of the vote because the Democrats had three candiates running. If the D's had run only one, "Good Hair" Perry would have lost. By the way, Molly Ivins coined that "Good Hair" moniker. Gosh, how I miss Molly!

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Sorry about Good Hair Perry
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Posted by: JSquercia on Apr 25, 2009 11:05 AM   
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I am sorry about "Good Hair" Perry but in my mind Balgo has it all over him though no LONGER a Governor

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A new nation
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Posted by: wint on Apr 25, 2009 11:56 AM   
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Speaking of a new nation does that guy have any idea the amount of money he will need to raise to start his new country? Do the people who listen to him have a clue how expensive it is to run a country? You have to have treaties so you have to have a Secretary of State. you have to have your ownb military so you have to have a Department of Defense. You get the picture but do the residents of the state of Texas get it. I am constantly amazed at the way people cheer on things they have not given a thought to and do not think of the end results that will come their way if they act upon their urges. Go ahead folks and start your own country and you think your taxes are high now just you wait. But you will have very neat license plates though "The Great Country of Texas" I'm glad it's your money and not mine.

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Leaving The Union
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Posted by: melpol on Apr 25, 2009 12:27 PM   
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Change is not welcome by the majority of Texans who fear affirmative action programs and racial integration. The Obama administration is sure to change the status quo in Texas and redistribute the wealth. It is no wonder that the conservative minded governor is talking about leaving the union.

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Interesting, no interior state has had a leader talk about seceding the state.
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Posted by: superfeduphoosier on Apr 25, 2009 12:50 PM   
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I can't imagine Daniels ranting on about wanting IN to secede but if he weren't as unpopular and if the state were not interior, I could see him yapping on like Perry about the idea.

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"Don't Mess With Texas"
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Posted by: mtnman on Apr 25, 2009 1:15 PM   
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Statistically, nationwide, Texas takes it all--almost.
1st in Lethal injections.
1st is white lynchings.
1st in number of Federal/State prisoners.
1st in State Prisoner deaths.
1st in State Prison homocides.
2nd in burglary.
2nd in forcible rape.
2nd in Homicide Gun violence.
2nd in Larceny.
2nd in Motor Vehicle thefts.
2nd in both Property crime and robbery.
3rd in overall violent crime. Aw, come on Texas you can do better that that.
Seems the Yellow Rose of Texas should be Blood Red.

Oh, wait, it's in the tradition of the Wild West.

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Rick Perry is Dubya’s Sarah Palin
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Posted by: logansafi on Apr 25, 2009 2:23 PM   
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The actual title Hightower gave to his commentary was 'What’s Up With the Governor of Texas?' Unfortunately usually alternet puts some juvenile title of their own on their reprints of commentaries. Here's mine for the State of New York....

Why is New York so whorish?

What do yuh think?

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Running from Mexico
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Posted by: MOTELCALIFORNIA on Apr 25, 2009 3:46 PM   
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Governor Perry thinks everyone is stupid. Texas declared independence from Mexico. Joining the United States was the only way they could have protected themselves from the usual massacre that would have followed had they not returned to Mexico. It worked. Congrats.

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A guy from Colorado, a guy from New Mexico and a Texan
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Posted by: abusedbypenguins on Apr 25, 2009 5:47 PM   
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are walking along a beach when a lantern washes up. They rub it and a genie appears. The genie says "I'll grant each of you 1 wish". The guy from New Mexico says "I want to be the don juan of New Mexico". The genie says "Ok" and he disappears. The Texan says "I want a wall 100 feet high and 100 feet thick all around Texas to keep out the undesirables". The genie says "Ok" and the Texan disappears. The guy from Colorado says "Let me get this straight, there's a wall 100 feet high and 100 feet thick surrounding Texas?". The genie says "Yes, that's correct". The guy from Colorado says "Fill it full of shit and give me a beer".

What's the difference between Colorado cowboy boots and Texas cowboy boots?
Colorado cowboy boots have the bullshit on the outside.

A 6' 6", 300 pound Texan died in Leadville, CO in January in the middle of the worst blizzard and the mortician didn't know what he was going to do. Not enough explosives to make a hole big enough to bury the Texan. So, he thought and thought.
The mortician gave the Texan an enema and buried him in a shoe box.

You know what a Texan is, don't you?
A Mexican that stopped on the way to Oklahoma.

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Posted by: Archie1954 on Apr 25, 2009 5:50 PM   
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You may have your answer in the first article on this page dealing with the difference in moral priorities between liberals (Washington) and conservatives (Texas). to Texans what matters is the process not the result. To Washington the result is all important and getting there secondary. Another example would be the prosecutor that wanted to execute a man found guilty of murder even though new evidence showed that he was innocent. The reason the prosecutor used was that guilt or innocence was not important the fact was he had a fair trial and that was that.. Interesting but let's just say if Texas leaves, the rest of the country would indeed applaud.

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Posted by: pursah on Apr 25, 2009 5:50 PM   
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This dildo of a governor and his sign-posting right wing extrmists are committing treason with their calls to leave the union. Under the Patriot Act, which their darling boy Bush passed, the current President can declare all these people as terrorists and ship them all off to secret prisons in Poland.

Good riddance.

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If you think Texas is bad enough, check out Louisiana.
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Posted by: Benn_Miller on Apr 25, 2009 8:58 PM   
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There's even more corruption, hick mentality, urges to secede, and you name all the foolishness. Like TX, LA gets more in federal aid than it pays in taxes.

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Posted by: kelly.nickell on Apr 26, 2009 2:24 AM   
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Thought I would throw out some more factoids for Tejas bashers;

OPEC is actually modeled after the Texas Railroad Commission - they control mineral resources in the state among other things. In the great state, anyone that loses land to the state via property tax liens, and buys it back at some point, loses the mineral rights to the state forever.

The guvner of the state also has less power over state affairs than the collection of representatives sent each year to fight over how the state will raise enough money to survive without instituting a state income tax - ad nausea-um.

A primary reason for a state state of psycho relates the power center of the world: as long as oil is king, Texas believes it produces the worlds supply and knows it better than the rest of the world. Haliburton began as a venture in the Burkburnet oil fields, and we all know how that goes.

Texas oil bidness primaries hate it when the power center of the world is CA, and technology rules.

It's what made a lot of rational people put their support behind a loser that couldn't find oil in Kuwait on a bet, named George W Bush – a guy that never did anything right until Karl Rove set up shop in Austin in a building owned by Harry Whittington.

Whittington took over the Texas Funeral Commission when some Bush cronies decided that a black woman was not capable of regulating the Texas Funeral Bidness (Funeral-Gate – 1999). The same cronies that ran a black woman out of office in Texas, managed to get first crack at gathering up bodies and storing them in temporary morgues (refrigerated semi trailers) in New Orleans just after Katrina.

The state also brought us such greats (tongue in cheek) as Phil Gramm, instrumental in repealing Glass-Steagall, and signed into law by Bill Clinton. LBJ (Uvalde) the man that could strong-arm anyone on either side of the aisle into supporting his cause and a minor pre-cursor to the sort of shit going on in the DC today.

I think if you can imagine historically corrupt politics at any level you can trace it to Texas, New York, California, and Illinois, for good reason – we started with oil and commodities as the money makers, and they think it should stay that way – particularly when you consider the dollar bill being backed not by gold, but by oil, even if the first oil well was in PA, WV or OH, didn't really matter because Texas had more dinosaur squeezings than anybody, at least until AK reveled itself (domestically). Our largest supplier of Oil is Canada, followed by Mexico, then Saudi Arabia, then Venezuela, as of Feb 09.

Oil, cotton, milk, and great cantaloupes, those are Texas contributions; I personally prefer Pecos Cantaloupes to any.

And last but not least, the Vietnam Archives are based at Texas Tech in Lubbock.

Hopefully, Tejas will come to understand that secession is a treasonable act as defined by our countries constitution – neither patriotic nor well thought out as a solution to being “psycho” or at the very least being held accountable for being stupid.

Go Raiders.

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Mi'er Calls you TX'ans Whining Two faced Pussies!
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Posted by: Purple Girl on Apr 26, 2009 5:32 AM   
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Poor TX now that they don't ahve their own Bitch in the WH, they are going to 'take their toys and go home' Boo Whooooo.
Come to MI you whining sniveling Pussy boys! We've been Hung out to dry for about 30 yrs!Funny I can't think of a new title for your region, say like our long standing 'Rust Belt' Nickname.
When TX's Oil Production equipement and Towns begin to decay like our Factories, they can start whining. Until then I suggest they sit down and shut the Fuck up before someone rams a Long Horn up their asses.How about this TX, We get off Oil and Go Vegan!!! Then what are you going to offer the rest of US- Those Illegals you bitch about in the front office,but house out back?Funny how you Claim they are stealing our Jobs in front of the camera- but not while they're grooming your horses at QH Congress. How many Ag School Grads have you pushed out of the industry, hiring 9 low wage immigrants to do the Job of 1 well educated American Worker?
TX had better figure out it's true allegience- or we may just not be there to save their asses again like at the Alamo.Then who will be Whoms minority Bitch (Punta?)?

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I'm Felling the Snakryness and it proves how Dumb you people can be
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Posted by: SeattlePackedSnowandCollidedCars on Apr 26, 2009 9:05 AM   
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Texas has a #1 economic outlook and we are a nation (as of today) of Capitalist. If you wanted to open a bike shop, veggy market, anit-Christ bookstore, coffee shop with sugarless muffins Texas is your best bet.

Really are you going to be able to start a business in SoHo, The Village, Brookline, Georgetown with out some very major capital and not be house poor? You blue staters just done your taxes and do you wonder were dose your money go to?

At the end of the day, how is your state doing?

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Posted by: bluebama II on Apr 26, 2009 10:10 AM   
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honestly, I think the bovines are eating the magic shrooms and releasing carbon dioxide clouds enveloping the cerebral corteces of unsuspecting oil thieves.

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Posted by: rtmyth on Apr 26, 2009 10:15 AM   
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Religious kooks run Texas education and much else. Look no further.

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Give Texas Back to Mexico
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Posted by: bbandz on Apr 26, 2009 12:22 PM   
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There is one thing wrong with Gov. Perry's call for Texas to secede from the U.S. The plan just might fail to win the approval of a majority of Texas voters. [It would, no doubt, be close, but it just might fail.] A better plan might be to begin a campaign to have Congress give Texas back to Mexico. OK, I admit that plan has a possible flaw as well - Mexico might refuse to accept it. A condtion of the cession would need be be included allowing Jim Hightower and, perhaps, a few other sane Texans to retain their U.S. citizenship and relocate if they chose to.

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Posted by: mindtrvlr on Apr 26, 2009 4:25 PM   
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THATS WHY THEY SAY, DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS. THEY ARE ALL A BUNCH OF WINGNUTS LIVING THERE.

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Let's replace Granholm of MI with a Republican and let Canada take us. LOL !
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Posted by: FLYING DOOFUS on Apr 26, 2009 6:59 PM   
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That way we can enjoy more single payer healthcare. Well, gotta eat another sausage pizza ! LOL !

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Rick Perry saved poor black Katrina victims
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Posted by: drp on Apr 27, 2009 5:53 AM   
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Ironically, part of the reason for Rick Perry's unpopularity is because he acted with competence when nobody else was. After Katrina, The feds and the local governments floundered dealing with the poor black folks stuck in New Orleans.

At that moment, Rick Perry initiated an ad hoc effort to move and house them in Texas. This is how many Katrina victims ended up in the Houston Astrodome.

Perry's quick humanitarian action saved many lives and likely averted a major castatrophe. However, accepting Katrina refugees has caused problems for the Texas cities that house them in terms of crime and cost of social services.

So Perry has completely downplayed his central role in this humanitarian effort. In fact, it has likely caused him significant votes with his base, which, unlike the Katrina people, is largely neither poor nor black.

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"One bad HAIRCUT?!"
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Posted by: Walks-in-Storms on Apr 27, 2009 6:35 AM   
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Chr---! How effeminate can you get? Definitely, this guy should be out of office - just look at his hair!

Talk about "gay marriage" - how about the reasoning in this piece and any kind of gravitas?

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US constitution on "treason"
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Posted by: drp on Apr 27, 2009 7:01 AM   
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Article 3, Section 3. "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort."

No mention of secession. Also note the plural "United States", "against them", and "their enemies". Likewise, no mention of the federal government, the state's representative.


"The treason clause is a product of the awareness of the Framers of the “numerous and dangerous excrescences” which had disfigured the English law of treason and was therefore intended to put it beyond the power of Congress to “extend the crime and punishment of treason.” The debate in the Convention, remarks in the ratifying conventions, and contemporaneous public comment make clear that a restrictive concept of the crime was imposed and that ordinary partisan divisions within political society were not to be escalated by the stronger into capital charges of treason, as so often had happened in England.1284 "

http://www.law.cornell.edu

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Texas is really a "Left-Neck" state
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Posted by: drp on Apr 27, 2009 7:54 AM   
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In the early 1970's, I worked with Billy Carr, the doyen of Texas liberals. Historically, Texas generally elected moderate to liberal democrats to public office. The classic example is Jim Hightower himself.

Even early Republicans such as Bush sr showed progressive tendencies. E.g., Bush sr voted for civil rights bills. And nobody can accuse either Bush senior or junior of being racists.

Similarly, Tom Hank's congressman Charlie Wilson character in the movie "Charle Wilson's War" states flat-out "I'm a liberal". But he also notes that his liberal-voting electorate are mainly interested in two things-- "Their Guns and Low Taxes"

All this changed in '94 when the Democrats threw away the House and Senate and later the presidency because of the Brady Bill and the assault weapons ban. Flatly stated, a lot of liberal Texas politicians lost their elections over that one. This includes governor Ann Richards. She lost to George Bush jr, setting him up for the presidency.

Essentially, the swing vote in Texas is "Left-necks". That is, liberals to moderates who respond to any threat to their second amendment rights by voting for the opposition. And yes, the consequence of this has occasionally been unfortunate. But the Democrats brought it on themselves.

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Posted by: Juven on Apr 27, 2009 8:57 AM   
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to say that Texas is any crazier than any other state-- think of Indiana and its eugenic laws, Illinois and its mafia connections, Nevada--a state that would not exist without legalized gambling and prostitution (not that I am against either per se, but what kind of basis is that for any economy).

Texas is the 15th largest economy in the world and the second in the U.S. I really don't think it would be a good idea for Texas to break off from the U.S. regardless of the desires of the "leftists" on this page--

Also Perry is a POS who supported Bush when Bush was passing the patriot act etc. Same with the teabag crowd--where were they when Bush was destroying the country? For that matter where were people when he was governor of Texas and turned Texas into the number one polluted state in the union?

Perry wanted to make that new vaccine for girls mandatory and it turned out that he was connected to the pharmie company that was making the stuff. Perry also supports the Texas highway corridor and has asked for federal troops to watch the border. Now with this big scare about the swine flu he is asking for vaccines from the federal government.

Perry was simply grandstanding for these so called patriots who only get mad when there are more taxes but who could not care less about more war, or the decimation of the constitition. He thought it would garner him some followers.

Not all Texans are crazy or redneck--Ever been to Austin? A far cry from redneck.

I have lived in Texas for a good portion of my life, but I also have lived in New Mexico, California, Oregon, and Illinois. Places a bit different in some ways, but all share a commonality; they are inhabited by Americans.

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I'm not opposed to devolution per se,
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as I think industrial society's adaptive investments in complexity have overshot and become to a large extent liabilities - the U.S. being perhaps the most complex country of them all due to its power and wealth - and therefore effective governance in this time of ecological crisis is ruined by powerful interests' and ordinary people's inability to agree on much of anything. Thus in principle Americans might be better off divided among separate polities of nation-state status (or who knows, maybe other sociopolitical formations).

But the reality is devolution would likely be a bloody affair, so this has to be weighed against its streamlining benefits, although strife alone doesn't negate it value as some naive do-gooders with no sense of the brutality of history would assume.

What really bothers me about this specific instance of discussing secession, other than its obviously grandstanding nature, is the Texas governor's prime motivation is an elitist asshole opposition to funds that would help the unemployed due to "federal strings" (that come from the opposing party).

The governor can take a flying leap right into the Rio Grande and drown for being an out of touch piece of shit who wouldn't mind throwing some of the most vulnerable people in the country, the unemployed, under a train just to win points with some voting blocs and stir controversy for attention.

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Posted by: and_abottleofrum on Apr 25, 2009 12:46 AM   
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federal funds that would assist the unemployed in their states on the basis of "strings." I wouldn't bet their re-election prospects are very good considering unemployment rates continue to soar.

The unemployed in these states should show up at the governor's mansion in the dead of night brandishing torches and pitchforks, then drag the governor out in his pajamas (or the bondage gear applied by his high-priced dominatrix - paid for with tax money of course) for a public lynching followed by folk music and dancing. What a beautiful gesture of community solidarity it would be.

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Texas is psycho
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Posted by: LostInAmerica on Apr 25, 2009 1:33 AM   
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I've been to Texas. I've lived in Texas. I was glad to get out. Texas is psycho. While there are many Texans I admire - Jim Hightower, Molly Ivins, and others I am baffled that they choose (chose) to live and remain in this dysfunctional state of rednecks and idiots.

The idea of Texas succeeding from the Union is a good one and I support it wholeheartedly. I want to live in a good and valorous United States of America and you Texans seem be nothing more than a sad stain upon this soil / our soul. So just go away you bastards - let your prophetic words give you the grim future you so seem to want to embrace. You will be free to find your own utopia, a place in your newly established country (we can only hope) where you are free to express fully the wisdom of your hatreds. So just go. Fuck off, and good riddance. (And take Alaska with you.)

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Jim Hightower's articles are just brilliant
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There are always a couple, or more places, within the article where Hightower is side-splitting, and hysterically, funny. Not to mention how he gets to the very core and point of his message. 'Why Is Texas So Psycho?" I'm still laughing, but my answer would have to include, well you had George W. Bush for Governor for six years and then you've had Rick Perry ever since who was helped into the office by the same people that got GW Bush in the office, that is a long time of mental imbalance.

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Give the stolen land of Texas back to Mexico
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Posted by: s.duplantier on Apr 25, 2009 2:04 AM   
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If the stolen parts of the territory of Texas are restored to their rightful owner, than Mexico gets to deal with all the millions of yahoos and conservatives.

Maybe they could get jobs as farm day laborers and domestics working for Mexican landlords.

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Naturally traitors
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Posted by: Perry Logan on Apr 25, 2009 2:46 AM   
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Look at it this way: you sure as hell wouldn't want to be in a military unit with a Texan.

Why? Because if you're not a Texan, you're screwed.

If you get into trouble, the Texan won't help you because you're just a Yankee. The little pr*ck will save his bullets for his fellow Texans.

These people are naturally traitorous. I say we throw them out of the Union forthwith..


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Gov. Rick Perry = Globalist Bildeberger appointment
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Posted by: TrollTreason on Apr 25, 2009 4:02 AM   
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The globalist intend to divide this country up into 5 regions ... so this should not surprise anyone that ideas like this are floated in the media

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Where ever there is arrogance
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Posted by: weathered on Apr 25, 2009 4:39 AM   
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you'll find a pathological sense of entitlement.

Texas is NO different than hollywood, Wall Street or Aspen. These are deluded little souls who think they're different.

Just because they were taught to perpetuate that myth and some are so needy they infect MSM to reinforce it, doesn't mean as a core illness, its not treatable - it absolutely is.

Humility eludes us, denial become us and trouble follows us. Study Tolle and flourish.

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Oh please ! What about rural CA and NY?
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Posted by: JenniferBedingfield on Apr 25, 2009 4:45 AM   
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They're just as bad as TX if not worse. While I am a strong fan of Hightower, I wished he would bring up the fact that Perry couldn't get past 40% of those who voted last time around so he doesn't really represent most Texans. And what about large red rural areas of "blue" states? At some point, the population densities between the coastal cities and the rural interiors in both states will even out and that could turn them swing if Orange County, CA is any indication. The Democrats aren't going to bother visiting TX unless they're losing CA or NY.

P.S.: I've visited my granduncle in Lubbock, TX countless times in my life and people there are not as unfriendly as it may appear. I've seen various areas of the state and the only part that's all that bad is the northern part that's closer to the OK border.

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Secession is what got this country started
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Posted by: rainbowstew on Apr 25, 2009 5:31 AM   
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A lot of people like to pooh-pooh the idea of secession, and act like it is something that only a bunch of nutcases would consider doing. However, every year on July 4 we celebrate the secession of the American colonies from Great Britain in 1776. We have also had other examples of secession, such as the breakup of the Russian empire, which were wholeheartedly approved of by the U.S. politicians at the time. So don't think it's something that cannot or should not happen here.

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Out of Texas came... Janis Joplin, Scott Joplin, Z Z Top, Edgar & Johnny Winter, Willie Nelson
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Posted by: blondesprite on Apr 25, 2009 5:37 AM   
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BJ Thomas,Uncle John Turner, T Bone Walker, The Big Bopper, Steve Martin, Tommy Lee Jones, Carol Burnett, Natalie Maines, James Edward Gunn, Renee Zellweger, Isaiah Washington, Kate Capshaw, Hilary Duff, Morgan Fairchild, Jamie Lee Foxx, Eva Longoria, Sissy Spacek, Bill Engvall, Ron White, Box Car Willie, Lyle Lovett, Meat Loaf, Michael Nesmith, Roy Orbision, Billy Preston, Kenny Rogers, Paul Wall, Barry White, Otis Williams, Bob Wills,Stevie Ray Vaughn, Ethan Hawk, Woodie Harrelson, Don Henley and too many more to list.
There is something (prob the angst of living here) about Texas that occasionally produces greatness.
No doubt, too much of Texas is rednecked. But, please don't count us all out! There are a few (blue collar/union) counties left who still vote completely blue. I am happy to say, I live in one of them.
Currently, Texas is enjoying comparitvely low unemployment. The Oil and Chemical companies are in a boom and begging for silled workers.
Please consider moving here and help us turn this red state blue.

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There's Nothing Wrong with Texas...
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Posted by: Carol Burns on Apr 25, 2009 6:33 AM   
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...that a good housecleaning wouldn't fix. Jim, how about running for office? Were you talking about the NAFTA highway? I wondered what happened to Bush's illegal drug and terrorist gateway.
And, just for the record, I will repeat again...THE BUSHES ARE NOT TEXANS!!! They're carpetbagging grifters.

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Don't judge all Texans by the Governor.
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Posted by: cheryljohns on Apr 25, 2009 6:59 AM   
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For those of you making comments concerning the notion that it would benefit America to lose Texas - you are being just as bad as people overseas that judged all Americans by watching the antics of George Bush (who is really from the northeast).

Harris County (Houston) went blue for Obama.

We have assholes - we also have some great people. As a Realtor, I meet a lot of people moving into this state - and they all comment on the friendliness and positiveness of the citizens here.

Don't rush to judge all of us by a few loudmouths - not unless your state is asshole-free.

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What other goofball was governor of Texas?
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Posted by: travelertoo on Apr 25, 2009 8:14 AM   
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It was Goofball Georgie of coarse.

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So if TX secedes, where do you get your crude oil from? And don't beg OK, AK, or LA to help.
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Posted by: Ranjit Kumar on Apr 25, 2009 8:18 AM   
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Be careful what you wish for.

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Answer the Question!
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Posted by: oregoncharles on Apr 25, 2009 8:24 AM   
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Why IS Texas so psycho?

You can list exceptions till you're blue in the face (or a few counties), but it doesn't change the overall pattern.

And Georgie Porgie may not have been FROM Texas, but he sure as Hell was Governor OF Texas. That's a lot to live down, Texans. Better get cracking. Hightower, last I heard, may be FROM Texas, but no longer lives there.

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Texas is Psycho Because...
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Posted by: drricklippin on Apr 25, 2009 8:35 AM   
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When you combine big oil $, with lots of guns and fundamentalist christianity you get big time -Texas sized - psychopathology

I've travelled there many times and it is indeed "a world unto itself"

Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton,Pa

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Texas...
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Posted by: frank69 on Apr 25, 2009 9:12 AM   
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I spent two assignments at Randolph AFB, Texas, a total of nearly 11 years. I met many Texans, some nice and some not so nice.
Shortly after my late wife became a US citizen in Judge Joe Brown's Federal Court in San Antonio, She received a personal letter from Senator Ralph Yarborough welcoming a new citizen - He signed it himself - not an autopen. I still have it today.

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Psycho,Texas 66666
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Posted by: dougo on Apr 25, 2009 9:15 AM   
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My one dominant thought about Texas after many trips there as a truck driver was it's a good place to be from,far away from.
I know,I know,Texas has many good,thoughtful people like Molly Ivins,Ann Richards and Jim Hightower but it also has an over-abundance of people just like George W. Bush.I heard the outlandish remarks made by Rick 'The Hair' Perry and thought it sounded like a great idea, Texans taking a vote on secession and at the same time vote to accept or reject the federal money for unemployment and whether to impeach Perry.
Would he agree to such a vote? I doubt it.

Face it Texas,you are the new Illinois or the Florida of 2000.The joke is on you and a bad joke it is.To bad such a buffoon leads your once great state down the path of ruin.The only worse representative in your recent past just came home to Houston.Good luck with that.
One of my favorite Molly Ivins quotes: It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.

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Texas governor...
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Posted by: frank69 on Apr 25, 2009 9:19 AM   
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Governor Perry has never carried his home county in any election. He won last time with about 40% of the vote because the Democrats had three candiates running. If the D's had run only one, "Good Hair" Perry would have lost. By the way, Molly Ivins coined that "Good Hair" moniker. Gosh, how I miss Molly!

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Sorry about Good Hair Perry
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Posted by: JSquercia on Apr 25, 2009 11:05 AM   
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I am sorry about "Good Hair" Perry but in my mind Balgo has it all over him though no LONGER a Governor

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A new nation
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Posted by: wint on Apr 25, 2009 11:56 AM   
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Speaking of a new nation does that guy have any idea the amount of money he will need to raise to start his new country? Do the people who listen to him have a clue how expensive it is to run a country? You have to have treaties so you have to have a Secretary of State. you have to have your ownb military so you have to have a Department of Defense. You get the picture but do the residents of the state of Texas get it. I am constantly amazed at the way people cheer on things they have not given a thought to and do not think of the end results that will come their way if they act upon their urges. Go ahead folks and start your own country and you think your taxes are high now just you wait. But you will have very neat license plates though "The Great Country of Texas" I'm glad it's your money and not mine.

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Leaving The Union
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Posted by: melpol on Apr 25, 2009 12:27 PM   
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Change is not welcome by the majority of Texans who fear affirmative action programs and racial integration. The Obama administration is sure to change the status quo in Texas and redistribute the wealth. It is no wonder that the conservative minded governor is talking about leaving the union.

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Interesting, no interior state has had a leader talk about seceding the state.
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Posted by: superfeduphoosier on Apr 25, 2009 12:50 PM   
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I can't imagine Daniels ranting on about wanting IN to secede but if he weren't as unpopular and if the state were not interior, I could see him yapping on like Perry about the idea.

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"Don't Mess With Texas"
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Posted by: mtnman on Apr 25, 2009 1:15 PM   
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Statistically, nationwide, Texas takes it all--almost.
1st in Lethal injections.
1st is white lynchings.
1st in number of Federal/State prisoners.
1st in State Prisoner deaths.
1st in State Prison homocides.
2nd in burglary.
2nd in forcible rape.
2nd in Homicide Gun violence.
2nd in Larceny.
2nd in Motor Vehicle thefts.
2nd in both Property crime and robbery.
3rd in overall violent crime. Aw, come on Texas you can do better that that.
Seems the Yellow Rose of Texas should be Blood Red.

Oh, wait, it's in the tradition of the Wild West.

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Rick Perry is Dubya’s Sarah Palin
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Posted by: logansafi on Apr 25, 2009 2:23 PM   
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The actual title Hightower gave to his commentary was 'What’s Up With the Governor of Texas?' Unfortunately usually alternet puts some juvenile title of their own on their reprints of commentaries. Here's mine for the State of New York....

Why is New York so whorish?

What do yuh think?

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Running from Mexico
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Posted by: MOTELCALIFORNIA on Apr 25, 2009 3:46 PM   
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Governor Perry thinks everyone is stupid. Texas declared independence from Mexico. Joining the United States was the only way they could have protected themselves from the usual massacre that would have followed had they not returned to Mexico. It worked. Congrats.

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A guy from Colorado, a guy from New Mexico and a Texan
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Posted by: abusedbypenguins on Apr 25, 2009 5:47 PM   
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are walking along a beach when a lantern washes up. They rub it and a genie appears. The genie says "I'll grant each of you 1 wish". The guy from New Mexico says "I want to be the don juan of New Mexico". The genie says "Ok" and he disappears. The Texan says "I want a wall 100 feet high and 100 feet thick all around Texas to keep out the undesirables". The genie says "Ok" and the Texan disappears. The guy from Colorado says "Let me get this straight, there's a wall 100 feet high and 100 feet thick surrounding Texas?". The genie says "Yes, that's correct". The guy from Colorado says "Fill it full of shit and give me a beer".

What's the difference between Colorado cowboy boots and Texas cowboy boots?
Colorado cowboy boots have the bullshit on the outside.

A 6' 6", 300 pound Texan died in Leadville, CO in January in the middle of the worst blizzard and the mortician didn't know what he was going to do. Not enough explosives to make a hole big enough to bury the Texan. So, he thought and thought.
The mortician gave the Texan an enema and buried him in a shoe box.

You know what a Texan is, don't you?
A Mexican that stopped on the way to Oklahoma.

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Texans
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Posted by: Archie1954 on Apr 25, 2009 5:50 PM   
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You may have your answer in the first article on this page dealing with the difference in moral priorities between liberals (Washington) and conservatives (Texas). to Texans what matters is the process not the result. To Washington the result is all important and getting there secondary. Another example would be the prosecutor that wanted to execute a man found guilty of murder even though new evidence showed that he was innocent. The reason the prosecutor used was that guilt or innocence was not important the fact was he had a fair trial and that was that.. Interesting but let's just say if Texas leaves, the rest of the country would indeed applaud.

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Posted by: pursah on Apr 25, 2009 5:50 PM   
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This dildo of a governor and his sign-posting right wing extrmists are committing treason with their calls to leave the union. Under the Patriot Act, which their darling boy Bush passed, the current President can declare all these people as terrorists and ship them all off to secret prisons in Poland.

Good riddance.

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If you think Texas is bad enough, check out Louisiana.
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Posted by: Benn_Miller on Apr 25, 2009 8:58 PM   
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There's even more corruption, hick mentality, urges to secede, and you name all the foolishness. Like TX, LA gets more in federal aid than it pays in taxes.

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More fodder...
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Posted by: kelly.nickell on Apr 26, 2009 2:24 AM   
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Thought I would throw out some more factoids for Tejas bashers;

OPEC is actually modeled after the Texas Railroad Commission - they control mineral resources in the state among other things. In the great state, anyone that loses land to the state via property tax liens, and buys it back at some point, loses the mineral rights to the state forever.

The guvner of the state also has less power over state affairs than the collection of representatives sent each year to fight over how the state will raise enough money to survive without instituting a state income tax - ad nausea-um.

A primary reason for a state state of psycho relates the power center of the world: as long as oil is king, Texas believes it produces the worlds supply and knows it better than the rest of the world. Haliburton began as a venture in the Burkburnet oil fields, and we all know how that goes.

Texas oil bidness primaries hate it when the power center of the world is CA, and technology rules.

It's what made a lot of rational people put their support behind a loser that couldn't find oil in Kuwait on a bet, named George W Bush – a guy that never did anything right until Karl Rove set up shop in Austin in a building owned by Harry Whittington.

Whittington took over the Texas Funeral Commission when some Bush cronies decided that a black woman was not capable of regulating the Texas Funeral Bidness (Funeral-Gate – 1999). The same cronies that ran a black woman out of office in Texas, managed to get first crack at gathering up bodies and storing them in temporary morgues (refrigerated semi trailers) in New Orleans just after Katrina.

The state also brought us such greats (tongue in cheek) as Phil Gramm, instrumental in repealing Glass-Steagall, and signed into law by Bill Clinton. LBJ (Uvalde) the man that could strong-arm anyone on either side of the aisle into supporting his cause and a minor pre-cursor to the sort of shit going on in the DC today.

I think if you can imagine historically corrupt politics at any level you can trace it to Texas, New York, California, and Illinois, for good reason – we started with oil and commodities as the money makers, and they think it should stay that way – particularly when you consider the dollar bill being backed not by gold, but by oil, even if the first oil well was in PA, WV or OH, didn't really matter because Texas had more dinosaur squeezings than anybody, at least until AK reveled itself (domestically). Our largest supplier of Oil is Canada, followed by Mexico, then Saudi Arabia, then Venezuela, as of Feb 09.

Oil, cotton, milk, and great cantaloupes, those are Texas contributions; I personally prefer Pecos Cantaloupes to any.

And last but not least, the Vietnam Archives are based at Texas Tech in Lubbock.

Hopefully, Tejas will come to understand that secession is a treasonable act as defined by our countries constitution – neither patriotic nor well thought out as a solution to being “psycho” or at the very least being held accountable for being stupid.

Go Raiders.

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Mi'er Calls you TX'ans Whining Two faced Pussies!
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Posted by: Purple Girl on Apr 26, 2009 5:32 AM   
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Poor TX now that they don't ahve their own Bitch in the WH, they are going to 'take their toys and go home' Boo Whooooo.
Come to MI you whining sniveling Pussy boys! We've been Hung out to dry for about 30 yrs!Funny I can't think of a new title for your region, say like our long standing 'Rust Belt' Nickname.
When TX's Oil Production equipement and Towns begin to decay like our Factories, they can start whining. Until then I suggest they sit down and shut the Fuck up before someone rams a Long Horn up their asses.How about this TX, We get off Oil and Go Vegan!!! Then what are you going to offer the rest of US- Those Illegals you bitch about in the front office,but house out back?Funny how you Claim they are stealing our Jobs in front of the camera- but not while they're grooming your horses at QH Congress. How many Ag School Grads have you pushed out of the industry, hiring 9 low wage immigrants to do the Job of 1 well educated American Worker?
TX had better figure out it's true allegience- or we may just not be there to save their asses again like at the Alamo.Then who will be Whoms minority Bitch (Punta?)?

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I'm Felling the Snakryness and it proves how Dumb you people can be
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Posted by: SeattlePackedSnowandCollidedCars on Apr 26, 2009 9:05 AM   
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Texas has a #1 economic outlook and we are a nation (as of today) of Capitalist. If you wanted to open a bike shop, veggy market, anit-Christ bookstore, coffee shop with sugarless muffins Texas is your best bet.

Really are you going to be able to start a business in SoHo, The Village, Brookline, Georgetown with out some very major capital and not be house poor? You blue staters just done your taxes and do you wonder were dose your money go to?

At the end of the day, how is your state doing?

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Texas has its own navy
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Posted by: bluebama II on Apr 26, 2009 10:10 AM   
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honestly, I think the bovines are eating the magic shrooms and releasing carbon dioxide clouds enveloping the cerebral corteces of unsuspecting oil thieves.

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dick
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Posted by: rtmyth on Apr 26, 2009 10:15 AM   
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Religious kooks run Texas education and much else. Look no further.

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Give Texas Back to Mexico
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Posted by: bbandz on Apr 26, 2009 12:22 PM   
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There is one thing wrong with Gov. Perry's call for Texas to secede from the U.S. The plan just might fail to win the approval of a majority of Texas voters. [It would, no doubt, be close, but it just might fail.] A better plan might be to begin a campaign to have Congress give Texas back to Mexico. OK, I admit that plan has a possible flaw as well - Mexico might refuse to accept it. A condtion of the cession would need be be included allowing Jim Hightower and, perhaps, a few other sane Texans to retain their U.S. citizenship and relocate if they chose to.

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TEXAS
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Posted by: mindtrvlr on Apr 26, 2009 4:25 PM   
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THATS WHY THEY SAY, DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS. THEY ARE ALL A BUNCH OF WINGNUTS LIVING THERE.

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Let's replace Granholm of MI with a Republican and let Canada take us. LOL !
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Posted by: FLYING DOOFUS on Apr 26, 2009 6:59 PM   
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That way we can enjoy more single payer healthcare. Well, gotta eat another sausage pizza ! LOL !

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Rick Perry saved poor black Katrina victims
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Posted by: drp on Apr 27, 2009 5:53 AM   
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Ironically, part of the reason for Rick Perry's unpopularity is because he acted with competence when nobody else was. After Katrina, The feds and the local governments floundered dealing with the poor black folks stuck in New Orleans.

At that moment, Rick Perry initiated an ad hoc effort to move and house them in Texas. This is how many Katrina victims ended up in the Houston Astrodome.

Perry's quick humanitarian action saved many lives and likely averted a major castatrophe. However, accepting Katrina refugees has caused problems for the Texas cities that house them in terms of crime and cost of social services.

So Perry has completely downplayed his central role in this humanitarian effort. In fact, it has likely caused him significant votes with his base, which, unlike the Katrina people, is largely neither poor nor black.

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"One bad HAIRCUT?!"
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Posted by: Walks-in-Storms on Apr 27, 2009 6:35 AM   
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Chr---! How effeminate can you get? Definitely, this guy should be out of office - just look at his hair!

Talk about "gay marriage" - how about the reasoning in this piece and any kind of gravitas?

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US constitution on "treason"
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Posted by: drp on Apr 27, 2009 7:01 AM   
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Article 3, Section 3. "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort."

No mention of secession. Also note the plural "United States", "against them", and "their enemies". Likewise, no mention of the federal government, the state's representative.


"The treason clause is a product of the awareness of the Framers of the “numerous and dangerous excrescences” which had disfigured the English law of treason and was therefore intended to put it beyond the power of Congress to “extend the crime and punishment of treason.” The debate in the Convention, remarks in the ratifying conventions, and contemporaneous public comment make clear that a restrictive concept of the crime was imposed and that ordinary partisan divisions within political society were not to be escalated by the stronger into capital charges of treason, as so often had happened in England.1284 "

http://www.law.cornell.edu

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Texas is really a "Left-Neck" state
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Posted by: drp on Apr 27, 2009 7:54 AM   
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In the early 1970's, I worked with Billy Carr, the doyen of Texas liberals. Historically, Texas generally elected moderate to liberal democrats to public office. The classic example is Jim Hightower himself.

Even early Republicans such as Bush sr showed progressive tendencies. E.g., Bush sr voted for civil rights bills. And nobody can accuse either Bush senior or junior of being racists.

Similarly, Tom Hank's congressman Charlie Wilson character in the movie "Charle Wilson's War" states flat-out "I'm a liberal". But he also notes that his liberal-voting electorate are mainly interested in two things-- "Their Guns and Low Taxes"

All this changed in '94 when the Democrats threw away the House and Senate and later the presidency because of the Brady Bill and the assault weapons ban. Flatly stated, a lot of liberal Texas politicians lost their elections over that one. This includes governor Ann Richards. She lost to George Bush jr, setting him up for the presidency.

Essentially, the swing vote in Texas is "Left-necks". That is, liberals to moderates who respond to any threat to their second amendment rights by voting for the opposition. And yes, the consequence of this has occasionally been unfortunate. But the Democrats brought it on themselves.

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It is stupid
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Posted by: Juven on Apr 27, 2009 8:57 AM   
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to say that Texas is any crazier than any other state-- think of Indiana and its eugenic laws, Illinois and its mafia connections, Nevada--a state that would not exist without legalized gambling and prostitution (not that I am against either per se, but what kind of basis is that for any economy).

Texas is the 15th largest economy in the world and the second in the U.S. I really don't think it would be a good idea for Texas to break off from the U.S. regardless of the desires of the "leftists" on this page--

Also Perry is a POS who supported Bush when Bush was passing the patriot act etc. Same with the teabag crowd--where were they when Bush was destroying the country? For that matter where were people when he was governor of Texas and turned Texas into the number one polluted state in the union?

Perry wanted to make that new vaccine for girls mandatory and it turned out that he was connected to the pharmie company that was making the stuff. Perry also supports the Texas highway corridor and has asked for federal troops to watch the border. Now with this big scare about the swine flu he is asking for vaccines from the federal government.

Perry was simply grandstanding for these so called patriots who only get mad when there are more taxes but who could not care less about more war, or the decimation of the constitition. He thought it would garner him some followers.

Not all Texans are crazy or redneck--Ever been to Austin? A far cry from redneck.

I have lived in Texas for a good portion of my life, but I also have lived in New Mexico, California, Oregon, and Illinois. Places a bit different in some ways, but all share a commonality; they are inhabited by Americans.

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general
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Posted by: bachan1 on May 1, 2009 7:02 PM   
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