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Posted by 2% 2004-08-23 10:46:38 AM|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 texas has no spam (the food) producer

texas has no sewer manhole cover producer

texas has no manufacturer of chuch pews

where does texas get its coffee
Posted by mhw 2004-08-23 2:03:01 PM||   2004-08-23 2:03:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Thank you from the bottom of my Don't Mess with Texas shotglass. :)
Posted by eLarson 2004-08-23 2:04:26 PM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2004-08-23 2:04:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I LOVE IT!!!
Thank you!
Posted by GreatestJeneration  2004-08-23 2:07:21 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com]  2004-08-23 2:07:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah, Right... but what will they do in the fall?
Have the Cowboys play the Texans every Sunday?
Like that would work!
Posted by Capsu78 2004-08-23 2:08:04 PM||   2004-08-23 2:08:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Texas has no Ted Kennedy, no Clinton(s), no Carter...

Damn that sounds good! If Kerry wins I think I'll move to the Republic of Texas :).
Posted by CrazyFool  2004-08-23 2:10:34 PM||   2004-08-23 2:10:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Texas is like a whole 'nuther country. Every word in the post is true. The also have the right to split into 5 states - req's a 2/3 vote in Senate, IIRC. Texas owns it's public lands (NO Fed Land except Armed Forces / Def Dept facilities) and all natural resources -- including offshore. Unique deal in many ways.

I have it on *no* authority that there is a *secret* plan for the Texas Nat'l Guards to mount an expedition to liberate NM, AZ, NV, and CA. They need access to the avocado groves - or no guacamole. There was some loose talk about turning East and liberating LA, too, but it was quickly dismissed. It turned out to be some guy who loves blackened redfish and dirty rice. Everyone agreed the Cajuns would just be too much trouble - no one can understand more 'n half of what they say and they eat shit most folks can't even identify and, besides, they'll deliver that redfish and bread pudding -- and they promised to teach us how to make roux.
Posted by Anonymous6153 2004-08-23 2:15:46 PM||   2004-08-23 2:15:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Capsu - College football (say it internally like Keith Jackson) and high school football are good, too. 'specially in Texas.
Posted by eLarson 2004-08-23 2:27:40 PM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2004-08-23 2:27:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 My Dad's from San Antonio. All the immediate family's dead, but I'm sure I could find some cousins to put me up until I could find a place when I move down from Virginia.

Which I will as soon as Texas becomes a sovereign nation again. :-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-08-23 2:51:03 PM||   2004-08-23 2:51:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Actually this got settled in that 1861-1865 thang...

But... Texas can subdivide into 5 states adding 8 (R) Senators and a few (R) House reps... think about it

Posted by DANEgerus  2004-08-23 2:53:56 PM|| [http://www.danegerus.com/weblog]  2004-08-23 2:53:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 lol! some of my coworker were talk about doing same thing if bush is win the election. but you are have to remeber ima in austin. :)
Posted by muck4doo 2004-08-23 3:07:38 PM|| [http://www.meatismurder.blogspot.com/]  2004-08-23 3:07:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 If Texas splits, I am applying for a political asylum there from the asylum I am residing at the moment: Canada.

Thus spake Zarathustra
Posted by Zarathustra  2004-08-23 4:23:09 PM||   2004-08-23 4:23:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I heard the same thing about Bavaria in case Schröder wins a 3rd term...
Posted by True German Ally 2004-08-23 4:27:27 PM||   2004-08-23 4:27:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Z - They'd welcome you - all ya gotta do is say yall (not the dreaded you-all) and awl (aka oil) and not honk at people with filled gunracks. Lol! Oh, and you hafta swag a few longnecks... and if you already know what I'm talking about - you're there, bubba!

TGA - What sort of provisions are in the German Constitution regards secession? Anything? I wonder if anyone has ever thought such a thing there - if not, there might not be any provision against it, lol!
Posted by .com 2004-08-23 4:33:56 PM||   2004-08-23 4:33:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 "The People of Texas" is really Daniel Da Cruz, isn't it? C'mon, fess up...
Posted by mojo  2004-08-23 4:43:34 PM||   2004-08-23 4:43:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 But... Texas can subdivide into 5 states adding 8 (R) Senators and a few (R) House reps... think about it

LOL! Florida is allowed by Spanished Common Law to divided into 11teen prefectures each one having a wholesome mayor, we also get Cuba and the Isles Atlantic.

And since we have the space port Texas will be sucking earth air for eons!

Posted by Shipman 2004-08-23 4:55:12 PM||   2004-08-23 4:55:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Not to say that Six Flags sucks.... but geebus.... Texas League. Get a grip.
Posted by Shipman 2004-08-23 4:56:29 PM||   2004-08-23 4:56:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Phickin' Gaters. Shit, son, you be soup where I come from, heh.
Posted by .com 2004-08-23 5:00:14 PM||   2004-08-23 5:00:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 This is all sounding like a Pogo comic strip, but it COULD happen. So what happens to Alaska? Do we seceed from the US, go back to Mother Russia (ha!) or join with the Yukon Territory and go it alone? We had some independent bear kickers, but we are suffering a LLL infestation in Anchorage, which has weakened the body politic.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-08-23 5:24:30 PM||   2004-08-23 5:24:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 LOL .com.... I'm Apalachee not Alachua.
Posted by Shipman 2004-08-23 5:28:52 PM||   2004-08-23 5:28:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Alaska Paul-I'll come up there and keep ya company. I am one of the few souls on Earth that likes cool weather. (Not counting this week-ARRGHH!)
Posted by jules 187 2004-08-23 5:35:47 PM||   2004-08-23 5:35:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Ship - You'll hafta edumacate me - does that mean you're a Cane? Lol! If it's a tribal thing, well, I only know there weren't enough of my boyz left alive to get a reservation. Might've had something to do with the "no survivors" policy that was generally applied in the Quashadi faction's warfare, but I can't be certain, heh.
Posted by .com 2004-08-23 5:37:01 PM||   2004-08-23 5:37:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Me waves hand and says "See ya." Being in the middle of an oil patch I have all the texans I can handle thank you.

Texas why does it hate us?
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-08-23 5:43:02 PM||   2004-08-23 5:43:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 PLEEEEEASE, The Feds will change the rules on ya ask what happened to the the 10th amendment, the States Have No More Rights
the war for Southern Independence decided that one. wish i could Decide what my state thought was important.....
Posted by SCpatriot 2004-08-23 8:41:38 PM||   2004-08-23 8:41:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 SCp, that's why Texas has Pantex.
Posted by ed 2004-08-23 8:56:30 PM||   2004-08-23 8:56:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 ROFL, ed!
Posted by .com 2004-08-23 8:59:52 PM||   2004-08-23 8:59:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 .com, secession of Bavaria is technically possible but a 2/3 majority in both houses of German Parliament need to ratify this.

So it won't happen.

The CSU government of Bavaria once did a semi-secret study whether Bavaria could survive on its own. It could, of course. But it would probably join Texas :-)
Posted by True German Ally 2004-08-23 9:05:35 PM||   2004-08-23 9:05:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 well im happy ur fore fathers had the forethought to keep your future safe but im afraid that each state has no more legitimy in raising its own defenses againt the onslaught of islam .The fed will always counteract any decision not in alighn with their own. Btw GWB is a man who stands for what he says and never wavers... cuch a man reminds me of a patriot....
Posted by SCpatriot 2004-08-23 9:08:10 PM|| [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37876]  2004-08-23 9:08:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 TGA - I see a loose confederation of non-idiotarian states emerging from the fog of PC lunacy, lol! May Bavaria and Texas be the beginning of a brighter future!

As for that pesky detail of 2/3 - who could stop them? That's not an insignificant population or area - and they're not know for passivity! Aren't they outdoorsmen, hunters, self-reliant people? Shit, the Texans would love 'em!
Posted by .com 2004-08-23 9:14:32 PM||   2004-08-23 9:14:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 Whoopsie.... I went and forgot about that North Texas operation Ed.... let's negotiate.
Posted by Shipman 2004-08-23 10:03:49 PM||   2004-08-23 10:03:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 Do we seceed from the US, go back to Mother Russia (ha!) or join with the Yukon Territory and go it alone?

Alaska Paul, I have a mostly true story about your home state for you. After the USSR dissolved, the new Russian Federation economy tanked and they ran into a serious cash crunch. So they brainstormed some solutions, and sent a message to the U.S. Gov't that Alaska had been improperly acquired fraudulently annexed stolen from them, and would we please hand over the title and the keys forthwith? The US said "Sure, no problem, we just need to go check our records." They went off to the National Archives, pulled out the shoebox marked "A", called the Russkies back, and said, "Looky here, we got us a original bill-of-sale, duly signed by the head honcho. No dice!"
Posted by Seafarious  2004-08-23 10:29:54 PM||   2004-08-23 10:29:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#31 Can you Texans get Colorado to go along, and split Oklahoma between the two of ya in order to connect the 2? Give the tribes their land, just be sure to get an easement.
Posted by OldSpook 2004-08-23 11:00:16 PM||   2004-08-23 11:00:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#32 OS - Ever hear of the Colo - Texas green tomato war? From what I've heard, they meet somewhere in NM and have a game of "dodge ball", divided by a creek, and use hard green tomatoes, heh. The guy that told me isn't exactly what I'd call 100% reliable, but he swore they do this. He said that the year Roger Clemens was a Sr at Univ Texas that he was the last man standing. I'd sure hate to get creamed with a hard green tomato by a 22 yr old Clemens! If this story is true, I don't forsee a Colo-Tex cooperation!
Posted by .com 2004-08-23 11:32:56 PM||   2004-08-23 11:32:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#33 Ummm .com, that's two third of the GERMAN parliament, and they are not THAT dumb to let their richest state go.

OK since Stoiber is on excellent terms with Bush... ummm... ya know... I mean....
Posted by True German Ally 2004-08-23 11:48:17 PM||   2004-08-23 11:48:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#34 Lol! Was that last bit a reconsideration of the merits or chances?

You could still pull strings from behind the curtain, y'know!

Oh, found another link for you, heh. Prolly recognize these frauleins... (SFW)
Posted by .com 2004-08-23 11:58:29 PM||   2004-08-23 11:58:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#35 Well, don't wish for it too much..lol... Historically when Bavaria was still independent, it had a tendency to side with the French... losing with them all the way of course :-)
Posted by True German Ally 2004-08-24 12:06:28 AM||   2004-08-24 12:06:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#36 Oh. Shit!
Posted by .com 2004-08-24 12:15:24 AM||   2004-08-24 12:15:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#37 We can still elect Stoiber chancellor though and everybody is happy.

Except for the LLL of course who will think that this is the end of Germany :-)
Posted by True German Ally 2004-08-24 12:29:10 AM||   2004-08-24 12:29:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#38 So the screeching is the same there, I guess?

Picture Stoiber, Howard, and Bush all losing. Chirac will be in office through 2007. I think Berlesconi might be vulnerable, too, though I'm not sure.

Where are we then?
Posted by .com 2004-08-24 12:32:53 AM||   2004-08-24 12:32:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#39 You know, we have LOTS of people here in Texas of German descent and towns like Fredericksburg (that even had goose-stepping Nazis during WWII) and New Braunfels in the Hill Country that were settled by Germans.
TGA would feel right at home--and the Octoberfest in New Braunfels is pretty great!
Side story: When my dad, who was tall and blonde, went with the U.S. Army to Germany in the war, the Germans he met wanted to claim him as a fellow German, although his Texas drawl must have driven them crazy!
Posted by GreatestJeneration  2004-08-24 12:35:41 AM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com]  2004-08-24 12:35:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#40 Jen I'd probably start an import company for Augustiner Beer there..lol

.com, I don't see Bush losing. Kerry had his moment, but I think it's downhill for him now. The Republican Convention will give Bush a big boost (a chance he must not blow like Kerry who was lame), and Kerry will spend his time explaining why he was such a great Vietnam hero while his fellows massacred Vietnamese children.

It won't be a landslide but he'll win.
Posted by True German Ally 2004-08-24 12:48:14 AM||   2004-08-24 12:48:14 AM|| Front Page Top

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