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Texas: Secede!!

Let's check the calendar. Democrat becomes president on Jan 20. Less than 3 months later it's secession talk. Yup, right on schedule.
 
UnrepentantSinner said:
So you don't live in Kansas, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Florida, etc.

Oh wait! The C/IDers are only active in Texas according to the smug nabobs on this forum.

:rolleyes:
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No, but Texas does have a disproportionate influence on the selection of K-12 textbooks, and without Texas, the C/IDers in the other states would have a much harder time pushing their agenda onto the public education system.
 
Brainster said:
Perry claims that he's not taking the unemployment money because it contains mandates for continued future spending without federal funds. That is, his claim is that the feds are giving him a half a billion now while requiring him to spend much more in the future. I don't know whether that's true or not, but if it is it's a very valid argument against taking the money.
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I wonder whether those Texans who are currently out of work see things quite the same way. It's easy to be principled when doing so only hurts other people.
 
Euromutt said:
No, but Texas does have a disproportionate influence on the selection of K-12 textbooks, and without Texas, the C/IDers in the other states would have a much harder time pushing their agenda onto the public education system.
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Yes, this is what I was referring to.
 
Euromutt said:
No, but Texas does have a disproportionate influence on the selection of K-12 textbooks, and without Texas, the C/IDers in the other states would have a much harder time pushing their agenda onto the public education system.
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Thanks. Living in Texas for 23 years now, being heavily involved in the C/ID debate, and painfully aware of the shenannigans in Austin with the SBOE, I was totally unaware of that fact. ;)

I was trying to make the point to the haters out there that mouthbreathing, Creationist, fundamentalist reactionaries aren't limited to Texas and, I guess too subtly, that not everyone who lives here - and it proud to live here - is a mouthbreathing, Creationist, fundamentalist reactionary.
 
Drudgewire said:
If it means the :rule10ing Cowboys no longer get six nationally televised games this season I'm all for it.
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Strange, furrin' countries like Canadia could be part of the NFL, so why not Texas? :confused: Canadia shares baseball and hockey. Imagine how relieved they'd be to have a real football team instead of those minor-league farm teams they tout as domestic "entertainment", probably only viable insofar as the government pulls out guns and threatens TV to produce "domestic content", and said "football" games meet that requirement, much to the snooty delights of politicians and the ivory towerites pushing the idea, neither of whom actually watch sports to begin with.

I was listening to the radio the other day, and evidently Don Cherry's latest rant, again, has pacifist Canadians up in arms about

wait


what were we talking about again? Oooooh, little chocolate creamers I can add to my coffee! Cool! :)
 
UnrepentantSinner said:
Thanks. Living in Texas for 23 years now, being heavily involved in the C/ID debate, and painfully aware of the shenannigans in Austin with the SBOE, I was totally unaware of that fact. ;)

I was trying to make the point to the haters out there that mouthbreathing, Creationist, fundamentalist reactionaries aren't limited to Texas and, I guess too subtly, that not everyone who lives here - and it proud to live here - is a mouthbreathing, Creationist, fundamentalist reactionary.
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It wouldn't be so bad, but all the infidels elsewhere keep refusing to worship us, as is our due as mouthbreathing, Creationist, fundamentalist reactionary.
Dammit!
 
dudalb said:
Ironically, Texas nearly seceeded from the Confederacy at one point. They can't get along with anybody.
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They should give up on other people, gather their pride and go for full Republic status. Or reclaim it, more accurately:

This process is not an act of seceding from the U.S. since history shows that citizens of the republic of Texas never voted to cede their land in the first place.
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Take that, Obama!
 
While I think this talk of secession is for the purpose of getting attention, it's still dangerous. The Civil War started the same way. I remember reading Grant's Memoirs a few year back, and Grant commented many times about the religious divide between the North and the South. Like today, the North and West were more liberal, while the South was more conservative. The situation really hasn't changed much, except that in places like Florida, there has been a big infux of people moving in from the North. I think Virgina has also seen many people from the North move in, mostly to the northern areas of the state.

Historically, no country has ever lasted forever. The Romans gave it good run and managed to last about a thousand years as a political entity. In my opinion, the United States probably won't last that long. Religion generally plays a major role when a political entity breaks up, and I'm sure that it will be the same for the United States in the long run.

Fundamentalist Christian beliefs are powerful in the South. Education can help, but many churches are simply doing their own "educating" these days, by operating private schools or by trying to change public schools in their area. This is a problem that is not going away anytime soon, as the churches are into politics and education.

In my opinion, the reasons why the Civil War was fought are still with us. Unfortunately, the next sucession will see both sides loaded with nukes; and many of these religious nuts believe that Jesus will return, after a nuclear war has nearly destroyed the Earth. A self fulfiling prophecy, perhaps.
 
Cleon said:
Canada has no NFL teams. They have their own league, the CFL.
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We also had a few teams in the NFL at some point in the 1990s, I think- wasn't paying enough attention to know how long that lasted.
 
dudalb said:
Perry's strategy is going to be to smear Hutchinson as too moderate.
Sadly, because I think the Dems eventually will go crazy with the credit cards,the GOP seems intent on self destruction.
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Hopefully we can rely on the Blue-Dog Dems to provide a brake on spending.

It seems that the GOP has just decided to go all whackadoodle these days, so I'm not taking much of anything they have to say very seriously.
 
Question: Could Gov. Perry be in trouble for implying that a secession movement get started?

I am asking this in a legal & constitutional sense, because in a situation like this I'm not sure what, if any, limit there is on freedom of speech in the United States. Please, no judgments of my question - just the facts.
 
MattusMaximus said:
Question: Could Gov. Perry be in trouble for implying that a secession movement get started?

I am asking this in a legal & constitutional sense, because in a situation like this I'm not sure what, if any, limit there is on freedom of speech in the United States. Please, no judgments of my question - just the facts.
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Texans might get so fed up that they push for it, but he (Perry) doesn't think its a good idea= We should start a secession movement?
That's a pretty long reach you got there, Pard.
 
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