Texas Stands Alone

[Onkel Neal]

And we wouldn't have no nother way :shucks:

Don’t Mess With Texas (http://www.newsweek.com/id/236592?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+newsweek%2FTopNews+%28UPDATED +-+Newsweek+Top+Stories%29)

What Gov. Rick Perry's hard-right turn says about America in the age of Obama
165 years after it joined the U.S., Texas remains forever ruggedly individualistic
http://ndn1.newsweek.com/media/34/texas-FE01-330-vertical.jpg


These days, people leave California—seemingly ungovernable, staggering under taxes and debt—and come to Texas. More people moved to Texas than any other state between 2008 and 2009, a time when Texas somehow avoided the worst of the Great Recession. "I'm willing to tell anyone that will listen that the land of opportunity still exists in America, and it's in Texas," Perry declared on the campaign trail last fall as he was on his way to crushing his opponent in the Republican primary, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Once thought to be a political powerhouse in Texas, strongly backed by the Bush dynasty, Hutchison was fatally tarnished by her ties to Washington.

But not a few Texans wish the past to be their future—if only Rick Perry can show the way. As these people see it, America is turning into a multicultural hodgepodge, sapped of moral strength, run by government bureaucrats. But Texas, they believe, is different and always has been. "We don't want to become like them," says Shuck Donnell, general manager of Coyote Lake Feedyard in Muleshoe, Texas. (By "them" he means people living in big metropolitan areas, especially on the East Coast.) "Out here, we're the kind of people where if the world fell apart, we would still eat. I would hate to be living in an apartment in New York City…People think that meat comes from a Styrofoam tray."


"Governor Goodhair" :haha:

[GoldenRivet]

THE STARS AT NIGHT, SO BIG AND BRIGHT....

:rock:

[mookiemookie]

"A lot of these conservatives don't want to change. The ground is moving underneath them, and they don't want to recognize that and don't know what to do about it. So they join a tea-party group and strap on a six-gun and strut around," McComb says. :rotfl2: Too true, too true...

[Weiss Pinguin]

:rotfl2: Too true, too true...
Six shooters are no laughing matter down here :stare:

http://barbecueandbeer.com/images/texas-six-shooter-grill_1_.jpg

[frau kaleun]

http://barbecueandbeer.com/images/texas-six-shooter-grill_1_.jpg

Overcompensate much?

[Weiss Pinguin]

I don't know what you're talking about :smug:

http://www.commercecreators.com/sites/folder483/site_images_system/user/The_Big_Gun.jpg

[GoldenRivet]

Overcompensate much?

Lol i have seen those around.

Im pretty sure its a smoker / grill (the smoke comes out the barrel) its pretty damned cool :yeah:

[CaptainHaplo]

Gives new meaning to the sayin "Lemme go smoke ya a steak!"

[krashkart]

Hell, I want one of those in my backyard. :yeah:

[nikimcbee]

I don't know what you're talking about :smug:

http://www.commercecreators.com/sites/folder483/site_images_system/user/The_Big_Gun.jpg
Jeebus that is big. Could be the arab guy from that funny gun shooting video:haha:

[Tribesman]

What Gov. Rick Perry's hard-right turn says about America in the age of Obama

Indeed
57 percent believe he is a Muslim, and almost one in four suspect he's the Antichrist.:rotfl2:

[Onkel Neal]

Six shooters are no laughing matter down here :stare:




Neither is struttin' :D

[nikimcbee]

Neither is struttin' :D

don't forget about the cheap sunglasses:|\\

[Weiss Pinguin]

Neither is struttin' :D
:rotfl2:

[krashkart]

don't forget about the cheap sunglasses:|\\

Or the scantily clad bikini womynz riding in the backseat of the ultra-customized convertible. :yep:

[nikimcbee]

Or the scantily clad bikini womynz riding in the backseat of the ultra-customized convertible. :yep:

:hmmm:

Never fear, moto-dute to the rescue!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xuir2cpNuQ


And if you liked that video, you may also like this video:
* warning, may cause your hear to race, not recomended for subsim members who have heart problems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkFeLDK6V_M&feature=related

[Onkel Neal]

Now, wrenching this thread back on topic...
http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/123051/2240279/2250154/100419_$B_longhornTN.gif
Texas' size and history of independence has enabled it to jump-start a new industry. The state has its own electricity grid, which is not connected to neighboring states. That has allowed it to move swiftly and decisively in deregulating power markets, building new transmission lines, and pursuing alternative sources. "We can build transmission lines without federal jurisdiction and without consulting other states," said Paul Sadler, executive director of the Austin-based Wind Coalition (http://www.windcoalition.org/). Ramping up wind power nationally would require connecting energy fields—the windswept, sparsely populated plains—to population centers on the coasts and in the Midwest. Texas' grid already connects the plains of West Texas with consumers in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston. Texas recently surpassed 10,000 megawatts of capacity, the most by far of any state and enough to power 3 million homes

Why Texas is doing so much better economically than the rest of the nation. (http://www.slate.com/id/2250999/)



Hell, becuz we're Texas, that's why. :shucks:


*Note: this thread may contain more braggin' than is healthy for non-Texans.

[Weiss Pinguin]

There's no such thing as unhealthy levels of bragging :smug:

[mookiemookie]

Another good one I sent out a couple weeks ago to the brokers at work:

It's one of the great mysteries of the mortgage crisis: Why did Texas -- Texas, of all places! -- escape the real estate bust? Only a dozen states have lower mortgage foreclosure and default rates, and all of them are rural places such as Montana and South Dakota, where they couldn't have a real estate boom if they tried.

...

But there is a broader secret to Texas's success, and Washington reformers ought to be paying very close attention. If there's one thing that Congress can do to help protect borrowers from the worst lending excesses that fueled the mortgage and financial crises, it's to follow the Lone Star State's lead and put the brakes on "cash-out" refinancing and home-equity lending.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/03/AR2010040304983.html

[Freiwillige]

Arizona is getting better but if it got much worse it was "Texas here we come!"

Come to think of it isn't this the modern day reversal of the Beverly hillbilly's?

Let me tell you a story of a man named Steve, The California economy collapsed so he and his family had to leave. He packed up his truck fully loaded to the gate and rode off into the sunset towards the Lone star state. TEXAS that is Oil fields and cowboy hats.

Y'all come back now ya here!

[krashkart]

Now, wrenching this thread back on topic...
http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/123051/2240279/2250154/100419_$B_longhornTN.gif


Why Texas is doing so much better economically than the rest of the nation. (http://www.slate.com/id/2250999/)



Hell, becuz we're Texas, that's why. :shucks:


*Note: this thread may contain more braggin' than is healthy for non-Texans.

Well, I'll brag about Iowa then.

:hmmm:

I got nothin'. :damn:


Okay then. So, how about them Cowboys cheerleaders?

[les green01]

my new girlfriend is from grapevine texas,i impress her when i knew so much of the history of the Alamo and the other battles:yeah: alot of people dont know this but gene autry grampa or great grampa was at the alamo, i think alot why texas is doing better now than rest of us they have more sense than the rest of the country.

[Onkel Neal]

Well, you know I have to brag every now and then, it's sort of a Lone Star requirement. :shucks: Did you hear about the flight of Texans that got caught in that Iceland volcanic dust storm?

The flight was coming into Dallas when a combination of mechanical errors and unstable weather caused the plane to start plummeting to the ground!

The pilot feverishly worked his controls, and finally, the engines roared back to life in time to prevent the plane from crashing!

As the plane landed, airport officials rushed to the disembarking gate and were stunned to see 200 midgets shakily get off the plane.

Finally the crew got off the plane and the local manager of the airline came up to congratulate him on his perseverance under extreme odds.

As the official and the pilot were talking, the official commented how unusual it was that there were so many midgets on the flight.

"Those weren't midgets," the pilot replied. Them were Texans with all the sh*t scared out of them!"

[Sailor Steve]

Oldest Texas joke I know:

Flight of UN delagates is over the ocean when and engine goes out.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the plane can't fly on three engines unless we lighten the load. I'm sorry, but we're going to have to jettison all your luggage."

A few minutes later another engine goes out.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I hate to say this, but some of us are going to have to sacrifice for the sake of others."

With that the navigator walks out of the cockpit, all the way to the rear door, opens it and loudly anounces "I have no family, so I do this that others may live!" And he jumps out the door.

While others are looking at each other, the British delegate walks to the door, shouts "God save the Queen!" and jumps out.

Not to be outdone, the French delegate runs to the door, shouts "Vive la France!" and follows him.

Then the American delegate, a big Texan, strolls to the door, shouts "Remember the Alamo!", grabs the Mexican delegate and throws him out.




Of course if bull$#!+ were white Texas would be the Ski Capital of the world!

[TLAM Strike]

Lol i have seen those around.

Im pretty sure its a smoker / grill (the smoke comes out the barrel) its pretty damned cool :yeah:

Just stumbled on a picture of one. Here is what it looks like when opened.
http://epicwinftw.com/2010/04/12/epic-win-photos-that-is-one-dangerous-b-b-q/

[OneToughHerring]

Although born in Connecticut (http://nathanielstern.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/connecticut-wecomes-you.jpeg), I consider Bush a Texan 'product'.

No you're not forgiven for him. :O: