Umm, wow. Seriously? Really?

[Onkel Neal]

Hey hey--those kind of idiots can be found everywhere.

[Gargamel]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Hey hey--those kind of idiots can be found everywhere.

But they tend to congregate in certain southern states.

[Oberon]

Takes two to tango though, there's some left-wing nutters just as fruitloopy as the right-wingers.

[eddie]

You got that right Oberon!

[Stealhead]

Wasn't Buddy Holly from Lubbock?

I heard a little about this "judge" they asked the Sheriff if what the judge claims him to have was true the Sheriff said that the only thing they discussed was regular plans for things like storms and other natural disasters.He said that he never had a discussion with the judge about a civil war.

Sounds to me like a complete nutcase and the man is a judge.I heard some place that a judge was caught with sexual toys that he hid on himself and then
"handled" out of sight during actual trials.I am not sure which judge is more scary the civil war judge or toy judge.

Every state has its fair share of wingnuts.I try to ignore the negative aspects/people of my state and focus on the positive.

[Aramike]

Anyone here that knows me probably knows that I like to play devil's advocate, so here goes...

While I think this judge is off his rocker a wee bit, I'm curious as to why everyone is so dismissive of the idea?

I'll admit that my initial reaction to this story was the same as everyone else's, but then I recalled thousands of years of the history of human civilization. Like it or not, the odds are probably more against us NOT having another civil war than otherwise. We have always been a divided nation; this is nothing new. However, we are still a young nation, and historically ideological conflicts tend to boil over.

Indeed, I don't believe that President Obama being reelected will cause a civil war. But, I do believe that such a conflict is possible, if not probably. We'd love to believe that our union is everlasting, but history suggests otherwise.

Can we beat the odds? I hope so. Still, I can't ignore history. So maybe this judge is a moonbat. But still, history seems to suggest that SOMETHING will set us off. Why not this?

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Hey hey--those kind of idiots can be found everywhere.

But wasn't it that in Texas everything is bigger

HunterICX

While I think this judge is off his rocker a wee bit, I'm curious as to why everyone is so dismissive of the idea?

A wee bit????????
Everyone is dismissive of the idea as the judge is a raving loony.
Now some of his lunacy has been posted here before by crazy birthers NWO freaks and people who believe in Obama secret armies of nazi dentists or Fema death camps.
They get dismissed just as simply as the judge because their views make no sense

If you want to play devils advocate then deal with what the judge said and argue his position not some mythical sideline, unless of course you want to make an arguement that the vatican is going to erupt into civil war at some time in the possible future because well...civil wars do happen so it must be a possibility which means this judge isn't quite so fruity and the swiss guard had better get themselves aligned.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Hey hey--those kind of idiots can be found everywhere.

True, but I read these headlines and my first instinct is "Please be Mississippi or Florida, please be Mississippi or Florida..." and 2/3s of the time, I'm relieved. But it's that 1/3 of the time...

You try and try and convince people that this state's a pretty good place to live, all in all, but then you get some balloonhead like this guy and then all the stereotypes come back.

Originally Posted by Tribesman

If you want to play devils advocate then deal with what the judge said and argue his position not some mythical sideline, unless of course you want to make an arguement that the vatican is going to erupt into civil war at some time in the possible future because well...civil wars do happen so it must be a possibility which means this judge isn't quite so fruity and the swiss guard had better get themselves aligned.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[flatsixes]

"Please be Mississippi or Florida, please be Mississippi or Florida..."
That what they say in Alabama during hurricane season.

You Texans correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a "County Judge" in Texas more akin to a county administrator than a jurist? What I mean is, this fellow's position is more like that of a county supervisor/justice of the peace, right? He doesn't wear a black robe and sit in judgement of others, right? He doesn't interpret the law or mete out justice, right? Please tell me I'm right.
Please.

[mookiemookie]

The Texas Constitution vests broad judicial and administrative powers in the position of county judge, who presides over a five-member commissioners court, which has budgetary and administrative authority over county government operations.

The county judge handles such widely varying matters as hearings for beer and wine license applications, hearing on admittance to state hospitals for the mentally ill and mentally retarded, juvenile work permits and temporary guardianships for special purposes. The judge is also responsible for calling elections, posting election notices and for receiving and canvassing the election returns. The county judge may perform marriages.

A county judge in Texas may have judicial responsibility for certain criminal, civil and probate matters - responsibility for these functions vary from county to county. In those counties in which the judge has judicial responsibilities, the judge has appellate jurisdiction over matters arising from the justice courts. The county judge is also head of civil defense and disaster relief, county welfare and in counties under 225,000 population, the judge prepares the county budget along with the county auditor or county clerk.

http://www.county.org/counties/desc_office/judge.asp

[flatsixes]

Oy. Well, at least he can admit himself into a psychiatric hospital.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

But they tend to congregate in certain southern states.

Show me some factual evidence.

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

True, but I read these headlines and my first instinct is "Please be Mississippi or Florida, please be Mississippi or Florida..." and 2/3s of the time, I'm relieved. But it's that 1/3 of the time...

You try and try and convince people that this state's a pretty good place to live, all in all, but then you get some balloonhead like this guy and then all the stereotypes come back.

Well, no one put a gun to your head and said you had to live here.
At least, now we know that stereotypes are always true.
I don't try to convince that Texas is a good place to live for anyone, except myself.

[flatsixes]

I'm what Virginians call a "come here:" which is a polite way of saying I'm a Yankee transplant. Been here 30 years, but as soon as I ask for "a cuppa cawfee" that big red "NY" appears on my forehead again. Being a product of these two cultures, I can't but help notice how the South is portrayed in the predominantly northern-centric media as being populated by quaint eccentrics, frequently charming, occasionally disturbing, and (seemingly) wholly baffling. The material for any national story seems ready-made to appeal to a northern audience: Just listen to the difference in their accents! See what they cook for dinner! Get a load of their attitudes towards guns and religion! They'll even say 'Yes M'am!' right on TV! How quaint!"

Well... they have a point. There ain't nothing "quaint" about New York City. But so much the worse for them. But when some bozo pops up in the South (and I will include Texas in that fold) and starts shooting his mouth off about the end of times, it's "newsworthy" to the North, not so much because of what's being said, but because who's saying it. How many stories have you read about Charles Barron, a former Black Panther and Brooklyn City Councilman? The guy is shot from guns - spouts off the most ridiculous nonsense - but his is just a local story. He isn't "quaint" enough to ridicule.

Eh, what do I know. I'm sure I carry my own biases around, and I dearly love my old home town. But I grow weary of the ignorance so gleefully displayed by the folks wielding the national megaphone. All my children are Virginians. And God bless them.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Aramike

Anyone here that knows me probably knows that I like to play devil's advocate, so here goes...

While I think this judge is off his rocker a wee bit, I'm curious as to why everyone is so dismissive of the idea?

I'll admit that my initial reaction to this story was the same as everyone else's, but then I recalled thousands of years of the history of human civilization. Like it or not, the odds are probably more against us NOT having another civil war than otherwise. We have always been a divided nation; this is nothing new. However, we are still a young nation, and historically ideological conflicts tend to boil over.

Indeed, I don't believe that President Obama being reelected will cause a civil war. But, I do believe that such a conflict is possible, if not probably. We'd love to believe that our union is everlasting, but history suggests otherwise.

Can we beat the odds? I hope so. Still, I can't ignore history. So maybe this judge is a moonbat. But still, history seems to suggest that SOMETHING will set us off. Why not this?

I agree with that. We have this quaint, as the word was thrown around, notion that our modern nation states are somehow things of permanence. People point to the nations like the 1000 year old Britian and the 3000 year old China as examples. The truth is that each of those nations existed in a multitude of different governances and styles of government and were wroght with various civil wars and wars of succession. They blew themselves apart and reformed themselves into something different; much like nature's cycle of death and new life. Sometimes they didn't reform themselves at all, or were absorbed into another state. The likelyhood that something of that sort will occur again in the United States is so high as to almost be a certainty.