"Save Texas. It's the last." Words of warning.

Vanity | 01/10/2013 | houndofthebaskervilles

[lentulusgracchus]

Running away isn’t the answer. Better to lance the infected areas.

Speaking of Lancers, don't we have a couple of squadrons of them parked at Dyess AFB?

They'd be damn good at cauterizing the proud flesh of the gangrenous parts of the country. Or you could administer the "hands-off" naturopathic remedy my great-great^x-uncle got during the Civil War: Stand back and let the maggots do their thing until either the patient recovers or it's all over.

[Jane Long]

The family stories from his time in Russia I could recount would fry your hair.

History books in school don’t go far enough. Speaking with people under former rule most certainly does.

That's what's needed, desperately, today! Kids need to hear these stories and realize what is happening...and, that it can happen, again.

From reading comments of other posters, the sharing of your stories would be well timed and most appreciated.

[cripplecreek]

I keep trying to convince urban liberals that there's only one way to protect themselves from the "flyover country violence" that infects their utopian cities.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I guess that leaves me out of being invited to the big scrum.

[basil]

Good suggestions-—I’d vote for ‘em!

[NFHale]

“...Now if the California people will keep their kooky ideas to themselves we can all get along.....”

They won’t, and you can’t.

They don’t understand “Live and let Live”. A simple, non-complicated principle that escapes comprehension to the liberal brain.

You’ll have to put a boot in their collective ass and send them back.

[Theodore R.]

Straus-Dewhurst is fully establishment. Cruz is the odd man out in TX.

[Theodore R.]

"Don't Californicate Colorado!"

They did, they have, and they will continue to do so. It's now a reliably liberal bastion, really no different from MN.

[Windflier]

very conspicuously DO NOT invite the six "Boston States"

It would be nice if it were that easy. Unfortunately, we'll probably have to 'party' with those very states before it's all said and done.

[Windflier]

Running away isn’t the answer.

As if we had another place to run to. I'm not willing to abandon my country, so Texas is where I'll make my final stand.

[Windflier]

I guess that leaves me out of being invited to the big scrum.

Nonsense. We Texans fully expect our Okie cousins to join us when we snip the umbilical cord to DC.

[Marcella]

“One thing I can obviously show you is how to face reality because you aren’t even willing to do that.”

Your knocking Texas from the state of Michigan is easy to fix - you stay in Michigan and I’ll stay in Texas - there, fixed it. People who come here are looking for the good life in Texas, not to change it. Conservatives from California come here but I doubt many liberals come here due to their hatred of the state.

[Marcella]

“...the crazies from CA and other states moving there does worry me though.”

California has a Republican Party and there are conservatives there and they are coming here. Don't worry about stories you hear of liberals coming here. They hate this state. They can't change the fact that Texas is a right to work state so unions can't take it over. They can't change our constitution and take out the part that says every Texas budget must be balanced - we cannot go into the red.

They can't take away our jobs and can't take away the new oil/gas fields that provide gobs of jobs and mega money the state will have due to those fields/jobs/people purchasing goods. We have no state income tax and they can't change that.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Maybe I’ll learn me some Texas Speak so I can fill out the application real good.

[Windflier]

Maybe I’ll learn me some Texas Speak so I can fill out the application real good.

You sure you're an Okie? All true Okies speak fluent Texan.

[erod]

Thanks for the reply. You have a valid point some people fleeing states like CA can be conservatives. Hell I’m a hardcore conservative in one of the nation’s bluest cities! I will tell you this - I love Texas, I know it’s not my home yet, but one day it will be, and I intend on bringing people there that will be an conservative asset to her.

[Marcella]

My husband was in Walmart over a year ago, and he struck up a conversation with a male Walmart employee. The man said he left Detroit, practically gave his house away there, and came to Texas to find work. Said he walked in Walmart and got a job as asst. manager and would work there until he found a job more in his line of work (don't know what that was). The man was educated and seemed to be a fine person. He was thankful he could come here and immediately get a job. He said the people in Texas were very nice to him. I'm sure Texas will be his home from now on.

[berdie]

You sound very much like my dearly departed and his “from the beginning of time” family, lol. And, I do understand. I have chastised my parents repeatedly for not containing their lust for one lousy year and birthing me here. Oh well, one can’t change the past.

I do see a deal in the making for the wild plum jelly..I ain’t too proud to beg.:)

[The Bat Lady]

Talk about goosebumps of that kind, I GREW UP that way. My father was born into a Czarist family in Moscow in 1907 and he lived through the Russian Revolution, leaving for New York via ship before the country fell. He passed in 1980. I was an NRA member before I was even born. The family stories from his time in Russia I could recount would fry your hair.

Would you please write them for us? Here or better yet start a new thread and ping me please?